121 - Mitch Benn (Live)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

With a staggering sixteen year back-catalogue of weekly topical songs under his belt, musical comedian Mitch Benn is a firm fixture of "The Now Show" on Radio 4. We talk about circuit snobbery regarding "the cheating stick", the joy of creating music as well as comedy, and the perils of being so good at what you do that people have a hard time imagining you as anything else...Support the podcast by donating via Paypal at www.comedianscomedian.comMock The Week, Daniel Kitson, Festival, Radio 4, Eddie Izzard, Alternative Comedy Experience, Charlie Brooker, Ross Noble, Mark Thomas, Edinburgh, Fringe, Parody, Comedy Music, Mitch Benn, The Now Show, Spinal Tap, Harry Shearer, Nick Wilty, Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Imran Yusuf, Tallinn Comedy Festival, Marcus Brigstocke, Bill Hicks, Harry Hill, Shlomo, The Beatles, John Maloney, Jess Robinson, Jon Holmes, Jay Foreman, Jenny Eclair

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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 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
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0:53.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgots.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to the show. podcast.
1:22.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today a very special episode coming to you direct from the Tallinn Comedy Festival. I was going to say the Tallinn International Comedy Festival. I don't think that's technically its name
1:25.7	although obviously from my point of view it's international it's in Estonia it was the
1:29.7	second ever won this year and I was very pleased to do a podcast there with the very funny
1:33.7	Mitch Ben. What if I'm very publicly unhappy? How does that work?
1:47.0	That's fine too. We could get into that much faster.
1:49.0	What if my unhappiness is a matter of record?
1:51.0	And I should point out for the benefit of the people in the audience, if not the listeners at home,
1:55.4	that or in the bath or wherever they are, that Mitch and I will be speaking into these very
2:00.8	fancy-looking shotgun microphones, which as you will have noticed are not
2:04.1	connected to any PA system here these are just for the recording so if you're thinking
2:08.2	that's awfully quiet it's just our voices that's this so let's get stuck in Mitch you've been here at the Tallinn Comedy Festival
2:16.0	since yesterday you've done a gig last night the gala opening the oh
2:21.8	how do we pronounce it what's what's it's the the
2:25.2	consurdi mire is that that what's concerni mia
2:29.4	concerti mia there you go can you can the three of you do that again please? It's at the...
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