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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

134 - Andy Kindler

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

🗓️ 2 August 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the nearest the USA has to a true "comedian's comedian", Andy Kindler has been railing at audiences (and his own supposed lack of performance ability) for nearly 30 years. A regular at the "Just For Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he annually gives his scathing "State of the Industry Address", Andy occupies a unique and hilarious position as the industry's conscience. We discuss identifying and overcoming the many formulae of comedy detailed in his "Hack's Handbook", why he's mad at Jerry Seinfeld; as well as exploring the lingering fear of abandonment that drives a comic to be "always on"...Support the podcast by pressing "donate" at www.comedianscomedian.com, and see the show live at Edinburgh 2015. NY Times, Zach Galifianakis, Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg, Leno, Letterman, James Adomian, Richard Gere, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, Brian Posehn, Billy Crystal

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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. 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.

1:14.0

This is a podcast from comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith,

1:16.0

and this is the final podcast that I recorded live at the Montreal Just for Last Comedy Festival in the week just gone.

1:22.0

This is Andy Kindler, an absolute

1:25.0

force to be record with in American comedy. He is in the unique position of

1:29.5

being almost the voice of the comedy industry's conscience. He gets to be the comedian in the room full of comedians

1:35.4

I don't know if there's anyone who's ever been more appropriate to the title of this show

1:40.0

We're going to refer in the show to the HACS hand Handbook and I'll give you a web address you can find that someone that is kindly hosting that online

1:46.5

So I'll give you that in the in the body of the show that is really something to be enjoyed so we'll get to that in just a moment

1:52.4

But this the very last

1:53.6

episode from the the four that I've released in one great big week weekly chunk

1:57.9

from Montreal this is the brilliant Andy Kinder. Let's get stuck in Andy,

2:07.0

thank you so much.

2:08.0

We're here in Montreal Just for Last Festival

2:10.0

where yesterday you performed your annual state of the industry address.

2:13.6

And I'm on Cloud 9 now.

2:15.7

I don't know why.

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