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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

122 - Zoe Lyons

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

🗓️ 29 May 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

One of those acts floating around at the very top of the circuit, completely ready to outgrow it, Zoe Lyons is an expert at wringing every drop of funny out of a subject. We talk about the tough school environment that forged her, as well as the legacy of resilience it invoked, and ask why she still feels like an impostor.Support the podcast by donating via Paypal at www.comedianscomedian.comTouring Comedian, Festival Comedian, Radio 4, Jo Brand, Standup, Russell Kane, Edinburgh, Fringe, Tallinn Comedy Festival, Zoe Lyons, James Acaster, Ben Elton, Robin Williams, The Stand, Jo Caulfield, Kerry Godliman, The John Bishop Show, John Bishop, Russ Peers, Katherine Ryan, Bent Double

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0:18.0

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0:21.2

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0:24.7

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0:42.0

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0:46.0

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0:51.0

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1:03.0

This is a podcast from comedian podgos. Hello and welcome to the show, my name is. podcast.

1:19.0

Hello and welcome to the show, my name is Stuart Goldsmith, and today I'm recording from a rainy street, having completely forgotten to sort the blurs out for this week.

1:21.0

It's all been held for leather so

1:23.0

thanks very much to my editor Nathan Wood for putting this all together for me and

1:27.4

for making the show sound as nice as I'm sure it does. So this week we have the

1:31.8

brilliant Zoe Lyons who as you'll hear she's one of those comics in in whose orbit

1:36.8

I have recently found myself we did that thing of not kicking together for I mean years and years and then suddenly hitting all the same gigs for a period of about six weeks or so.

1:45.0

And we I saw her do some fantastic work in Estonia and at the stand where this this podcast is recorded it.

1:52.0

Stan Towers the flat over the road

1:53.7

so thanks very much to the stand for having us and here is Zoe she's a phenomenal comic

1:59.5

and I think I think this is a really fun interview.

2:03.0

It was a fairly meandering one,

2:05.0

but I think that was the mood we were both in.

2:07.0

So without further ado, this is Zoe Lyons.

2:10.0

So we were in, we have done that thing recently that is a lovely treat as

2:19.2

comedians whereby you don't gig with each other for years and then we do literally five gigs in the space of a month

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