118 - The Midnight Beast

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Unknown, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Teenbait rap comics The Midnight Beast have generated tens of millions of YouTube hits and two TV series by spoofing boybands, whilst secretly being basically a real one. They combine exceptional talent in audio/video production with a zest for melodic dick-jokes you'll want to play again and again. We talk viral strategy, production values, the evolution of their act in the run-up to their new Comedy Central show, and how to be your own cigar-chomping exec...See Nina Conti on ComComPod live at Soho Theatre on 5th May - quote FAFF at www.sohotheatre.com for 25% off.Support the podcast at www.comedianscomedian.com.The Mighty Boosh, YouTube, Channel 4, The Midnight Beast, E4, Comedy Central, Parody, Comedy Music, Music Videos, Hadouken!, Joe Lycett, Family Guy, South Park, The Office, Ke$ha

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0:18.0	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.
0:42.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
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1:13.0	This is a podcast from comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith.
1:16.0	And today I'm extremely pleased to have with me in what we'll laughingly refer to as the studio.
1:21.0	When the boys were on the way around to me earlier on today
1:24.2	they, Stephen texted me and said, is there anywhere to park outside the studio? I was
1:28.6	like, guys, it's not the studio, it's my flat. But very pleased to have round to, we'll call it the studio from now on,
1:35.8	very pleased to have the midnight beast. These are, I mean, I don't know how many of you will be familiar with the Midnight Beast.
1:43.2	Their catchment, their demographic if you like, is probably slightly younger than the average
1:47.7	listening age of this podcast.
1:49.4	They are massive, massive YouTube sensations. I hope you've done your homework by at the very
1:54.8	least listening to Tik-Tok. We're going to discuss we're going to talk about that one in
1:58.7	detail on the show and which was their parody of Keshia Keshesh's Tik-Tok in 2009 which by now has got something
2:06.0	like 15 and a half million hits.
2:08.3	That will give you some idea of how they started.
2:11.3	They've had a couple of series of their own show, The Midnight Beast on E4,
2:14.7	and as we'll hear, they're about to go to Comedy Central US as well. So, you know, I think we'll
2:19.9	describe on the show the sort of thing that they are. I really am so pleased to
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