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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

140 - Mae Martin (Live at the Edinburgh Fringe)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Canadian comic Mae Martin combines sparkling punchlines and disarming candour in her deeply personal standup. We talk about her startling origin as an audience volunteer, gender politics, and we investigate her responsibility or otherwise to her audience.


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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. I can never get that right. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:39.1

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:46.0

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:53.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgos.

1:07.0

This is the Comedians comedian podcast.

1:12.0

Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today this is the charming

1:17.3

and very funny May Martin who was one of the later recordings of the show at

1:21.9

the Edinburgh Festival this year

1:23.2

recorded live at Black Medicine on Nicholson Street lovely little coffee shop.

1:28.0

So this one I was going to release later I know I promised you Matt Lucas this week

1:32.1

but I've bussed him a week back

1:33.2

and brought the May Martin episode a week forward because she has got a run at the

1:37.1

invisible dot in Kings Cross in London which begins on September the 21st and I'm very

1:42.0

keen for as many of you as possible to see it.

1:43.9

I absolutely loved her show as you'll hear I saw her doing a work in progress show at

1:48.9

Edinburgh in 2014 and she took a lot of that material on and then brought it back.

1:53.8

Is it a really interesting way to do it?

1:55.4

I mean, maybe we should all be doing it that way round and that might take the

1:58.8

pressure off, give us two years to write a show, we spend a bit of time on it and make it as good as May made hers.

2:04.0

So you can Google up the information, you know I'm not very good with giving you the correct

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