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🗓️ 10 October 2012
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Twinkling anecdotalist Fred was the first Scot to MC the Comedy Store, and now presents his own show on BBC Radio Scotland, as well as touring his stand-up. He explains his preference for finding the funny in a live context instead of at a laptop, and reflects on when "funny isn't good enough". NB - This episode has a sound recording problem which doesn't reflect the quality of usual episodes. Apologies to Fred, and to you the listener.
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1:15.0 | This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Hello there, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is another one of the live recordings that I made up at the Edinburgh Festival this August. |
1:21.0 | This is Mr. Fred Macaulay. night's gig. Yes. Tell us what you told me about last night. Okay. This last |
1:35.7 | night's gig was the first of a run of 22 that I'm doing here and I like a lot of |
1:41.8 | comedians I don't have a great opportunity to do preview shows. |
1:46.0 | So I did it twice in Falkirk about a fortnight ago and in the first night at the morning great, the audience laughed at the right bits, but some of the material I wasn't happy about and nor was one of the people who chose to email me through my website just to tell me how disappointed they were in me. |
2:06.0 | Oh, and I said, it was. And they'd said, look, we've seen you before, loved your stuff, couldn't wait to see this |
2:14.7 | your show. |
2:15.7 | Frankly, Fred, we think you're better than that. |
2:18.3 | I'm very disappointed. |
2:21.0 | And I took the trouble to write back to say, |
2:24.0 | sorry for you, you've only got to see you once. |
2:28.0 | I have to do every night for three weeks. |
2:30.0 | Imagine how disappointed I am. |
2:32.0 | So I do get on board and you know what it's like when you're working up a show. |
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