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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

12 - Noel Britten

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

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2012

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Noel is retiring from comedy, after more than 15 years as a highly sought-after one-liner and prop comic. Straddling the worlds of stand-up, magic and street-performing, he offers a unique perspective on the lost art of honing the same act over an entire career, as well as some fascinating theories on fame, happiness and finding one's niche.


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Transcript

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0:14.4

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 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in

0:39.4

Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:47.0

Trains, now on Uber.

0:49.0

Tees and C's apply.

0:50.0

Check the Uber app.

0:52.0

This is a podcast from Comedians. Check the Uber app.

1:24.1

This is a podcastians comedian podcast. pod... comedian who is either on the verge of retirement or has already retired. We'll be talking about that in the show.

1:25.8

Lots to talk about today, I say that every time, but it's true.

1:29.8

No more so than in this one, which was such a long and fascinating conversation

1:34.1

that we've got about 40 minutes worth of extras hang around till the very end and I'll

1:38.0

tell you where you can pick up the extra material but for now here's Noel Britain.

1:42.8

And we were talking about the difficulty of starting without going,

1:50.8

so how did you get into it?

1:52.0

Now, I know how you got into it,

1:53.7

because you're a street performer.

1:55.2

So let me Chuck, or you were a street performer

1:57.4

and still perform the walk,

1:59.0

with our walk, we'll go into that in a little while.

2:02.3

I once heard it said and I know that the

2:08.0

Covent Garden rumour mill, the street-forming rumour, is can sometimes be simply that.

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