125 - Dara Ó Briain

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Host of Mock The Week for 14 series, as well as a superlatively talented touring comic, Dara Ó Briain is uniquely placed to reveal the secrets of mainstream success. In this unmissable episode he goes into detail on the structure of his tour shows and gives us his manual for crowd work. We also explore his fusion of technique and natural comic ability, and hear his own take on how he broke away from the pack...

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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.
0:46.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.
0:51.0	This is a podcast from Comedian. Check the Uber app.
1:13.0	This is a podcast fromians comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and I'm incredibly pleased and proud to bring to you today.
1:19.0	That's a terrible way to start a sentence, but we're just going to go with it.
1:22.0	I'm very, very
1:23.7	proud to bring this conversation to you. This is with Dara O'Brien, who will be
1:28.1	known I think to almost every single one of you. He's been the host of Mock the Week
1:31.8	for 20 seasons or more and he's a
1:34.7	fantastic live performer in his own right. He does huge tours of massive solo
1:40.2	shows. He's one of those guys that's just like right this is the show no
1:43.0	support this is the whole thing I'm doing 45 minutes and then I'm doing an hour and
1:46.4	he's just brilliant he's well known as as a brain as well as a comic but someone who manages to make all of the myriad clever things inside his head
1:57.4	Very, very funny and accessible if you haven't seen any of his work. I suggest familiarizing yourself with some of his stuff on either
2:03.2	computer games or homeopathy you can YouTube either of those bits or get them from
2:08.4	other sources like Vibio can you I don't know I should refer to YouTube as Google, but it's not the same thing, is it?
2:15.0	Already, you see, this is the sort of ludicrous offshoot conversational digression that Darra himself would not bother with such as his enormous
2:25.4	memory palace and mental control and so forth.
2:28.8	It's just really, really kind of him.
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