138 - John Lloyd (Live at the Edinburgh Fringe)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sage-like producer of QI, Blackadder, Not The Nine O'Clock News and forty years' worth of some of Britain's finest comedy TV and radio, John Lloyd could be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels. Instead he's brought his third standup show to the fringe, and talks here about process, legacy and how he philosophised himself out of a deep depression...
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| 0:53.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian pod- |
| 1:07.0 | This is the Comedians comedian pod- Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is an episode recorded |
| 1:18.1 | live at the Black Medicine Cafe in Edinburgh as part of PBH's free fringe during the Edinburgh Festival this year. |
| 1:25.2 | This is, I mean, this was someone that I was probably one of the most nervous I get. |
| 1:29.7 | I know I say that from time to time. |
| 1:31.3 | But in terms of the prep that I try and do to time. But in terms of the |
| 1:34.7 | research so that I know what I'm talking about so that I've got intelligent things |
| 1:38.6 | to ask my guest, how do you possibly research John Lloyd? He's been a producer for over 40 years or nearly 40 years. |
| 1:48.0 | He's been responsible at least in part for spitting image and not the 9 o'clock news, Blackadder, all of those different Blackadder seasons. |
| 1:55.5 | He co-wrote the meaning of Liff with Douglas Adams, which is, as you'll hear during this interview, |
| 1:59.6 | was a huge influence on me when I was a teenager. |
| 2:01.6 | And so I probably went into it slightly |
| 2:04.6 | juttering but he was he was an absolute gent as Richard sadly is fond of saying |
| 2:08.9 | and this is the result we not all of these episodes are quite as long as I'd like them to be. |
| 2:15.0 | We were sometimes a little bit pushed for time. |
| 2:17.0 | And so if apologies if it's very slightly truncated. |
| 2:20.0 | But I think we got some really good stuff here. |
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