114A - John Gordillo (2 of 2)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the second part of this conversation, we look in detail at John's principles for directing standup. Not so much a list of rules as a whole approach to helping a comic achieve their own goals, and not those of the director...
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| 1:05.0 | This is a podcast from, Comedian Podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast. Hello and welcome to the show. podcast. |
| 1:18.8 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is part two of my interview with John Gordillo. You can start here if you like, but if you've not heard the first part I strongly recommend that |
| 1:24.0 | you download that I think it will still make sense but you know I mean you |
| 1:27.8 | hey you're all crazy creative people start backwards and play the whole thing |
| 1:32.0 | backwards if you like that's fine that's |
| 1:33.8 | a chilling thought imagine starting this episode and then listening to them all |
| 1:37.4 | backwards you gradually see me getting well I mean I was about to say you'd see me, you'd hear me getting more and more hopeful. |
| 1:46.4 | But that's not true of course, because this podcast is a good thing and it's making me happy. |
| 1:51.0 | So this is part two of John Gordillo and let's get stuck straight in. |
| 1:54.7 | So what was the first stand-up show that you directed for someone else? |
| 2:03.0 | Uh, |
| 2:04.0 | Reg Hunter's show White Woman. |
| 2:08.0 | When was that was 2003 at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 2:12.7 | And what was your relationship with Reg prior to that? |
| 2:15.6 | I'd met him he was a friend of my girlfriends at that time and he'd come over here for |
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