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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

119 - Nina Conti (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The complex relationship between a ventriloquist and her puppets is brought to life in mind-expanding detail in this live episode, as comedian, clown and filmmaker Nina Conti lays her creative process bare! Startlingly innovative and imaginative, Nina traces her development via mentor Ken Campbell (and criticism from Daniel Kitson), and why she feels she's "more Monkey than Nina"...Support the podcast at www.comedianscomedian.comLive At The Apollo, Touring Comedian, Nina Conti, Jeff Dunham, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Family Tree, Improv, Ventriloquism, Dr Brown, Phil Burgers, Her Master's Voice, Gaulier, Ken Campbell, Clowning Around

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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. I can never get that right. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:39.1

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:46.0

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:53.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast.

1:18.0

Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and this is the brilliant Nina Conte, recorded live at Soho Theatre.

1:20.0

Nina's on tour at the moment, with a cum, I I mean very, very unusually for a ventriloquist.

1:26.1

She is doing a completely improvised tour called In Your Face and you can get details for that at

1:30.6

Nina conti.net.

1:32.1

forward slash live.

1:33.0

She's also going to be at the Pleasant's one

1:35.0

every night at 730 at the Edinburgh Festival.

1:37.0

So jump on that, Nina Conti.

1:39.0

net forward slash live to get tickets for in your face,

1:42.0

either at Edinburgh or on her massive

1:44.0

national tour and just before we go in I just want to say right off the top that I have

1:48.6

recently confirmed the next live guest for the Soho Theatre which will be on the second of June and that is

1:55.4

Will Anderson. Now some of you will know Will Anderson if you're listening in the

1:58.9

Southern Hemisphere, he's massively famous over there. He's an Australian comedian. I actually saw him do some

2:04.3

ridiculous live monstrosity. Some improvised nonsense with him and a similarly

2:10.3

inebriated Lindsay Webb who who you will remember from earlier episode of this show.

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