149 - Will Durst (Live at the Edinburgh Fringe)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
An extraordinary education in stand-up from someone who's been doing it since the seventies! San Francisco-based Will Durst mixes observations about life in one's sixties, as well as political fire-brandery that swirls from column to stage. We talk about: the backbeat of jokes; escaping the responsibilities of adult life; "running twice as fast just to stay in the same place" and getting kicked out of the White House...
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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 pod- |
| 1:07.0 | This is the Comedians comedian pod- Hello, welcome to the show. I'm... podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello, welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the brilliant Will Durst, a comedian with many, many years of experience under his belt. You are going to find out just what he's up to at the moment what he's been |
| 1:24.7 | up to over the last 30 plus years I think and this is an episode recorded at |
| 1:30.1 | the Edinburgh Festival earlier this year and this was one recorded at the fabulous |
| 1:34.8 | Black Medicine coffee shop under the auspices, whatever that means of the PBH free fringe. |
| 1:40.3 | This is a a So that's a very good introduction. Well done. Lovely. Hi. Hello, I know it's late. |
| 1:57.0 | Hello. You're not. I know it's late. |
| 2:04.0 | Yeah, it is late. |
| 2:05.0 | Sorry about that everyone, but we're trying to build this as the thinking person's late night alternative. |
| 2:10.0 | Because most shows on around now are about people getting hammered and screaming |
| 2:14.1 | shit at comedians. |
| 2:15.1 | Someone in the audience nodding because you go, yeah I was planning to go to one in them. |
| 2:19.4 | So Will, tell us, for those of us who don't know you you people will be listening to this all over the place but for those of us not familiar with your work |
| 2:28.1 | Could you just briefly describe who you are and where you come from? Oh, geez, I have no idea. |
| 2:34.0 | I'm a stand-up, always wanted to be a stand-up. |
| 2:37.0 | My mom says, when I was six years old, I asked her |
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