141 - Matt Lucas
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2015
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
One of the most recognisable faces in UK comedy, Matt Lucas charts his journey from Shooting Stars' improvising baby-grow nutcase George Dawes, to the double-act with David Walliams that made him a household name, to his most recent foray into purely physical comedy Pompidou.
We explore his writing and creative process, and as well as unpacking the controversy surrounding Little Britain and Come Fly With Me, we learn what drives Matt, and whether his success has brought him happiness.
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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 now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
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| 0:53.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgos. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is a very special |
| 1:17.0 | episode recorded long ago now I think I recorded this about two months ago shortly |
| 1:21.8 | after recording an episode of Alan Davies as yes |
| 1:26.2 | untitled for the Dave television channel here in the UK with John Thompson and Matt Lucas and Sarah Kendall and of course Alan Davies and |
| 1:35.8 | myself I basically tapped up the the cast members and and blank them for the |
| 1:41.8 | podcast. Matt Lucas was kind enough to come around to my actual flat. |
| 1:45.4 | For those of you that don't know, Matt, he is one half of Lucas and Williams, |
| 1:50.8 | a double, but not that they were ever referred to as that, but as a double act, they were pretty much a powerhouse of British sketch comedy. |
| 1:58.0 | Some of you will know him from the role of George Dawes on Shooting Stars, and we talk about that at sort of embarrassingly nerdy length. |
| 2:05.9 | I really pressed about that because I absolutely love George Dawes. |
| 2:09.4 | We also talk about Little Britain which became huge in the UK and in the States as well and we talk |
| 2:15.2 | about come fly with me Matt's own solo project Pompeo do recently and the |
| 2:20.0 | critical reception to that and how he dealt with it and lots of other stuff |
| 2:24.7 | besides it's a it's a cracking episode I'm sorry I've held on to it for so long I |
| 2:29.3 | think I was saving it for a special occasion but what more special occasion could there be than playing |
| 2:34.3 | it into your ears my lovely little com people. |
| 2:37.3 | There's bundles of other things to say I've just come back from LA clang but I'll tell you |
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