156 - Matt Kirshen

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Wise beyond his years, the innocent-seeming Matt Kirshen has an extraordinary breadth of experience in UK comedy, even before "Last Comic Standing" introduced him to an American audience. As well as some very vigorous technical analysis, the perky polymath gives us a uniquely transatlantic perspective on how it all works, and goes hog-wild for tagging jokes...

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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 and welcome to the show my name is Stuart Goldsmith and as of two or three days ago I am a dad. I have a lovely little boy and he is lying in a weird little white thing.
1:27.2	There's a thing called a poddle-pod and I know it isn't one of them but I like saying
1:30.9	poddle-pod that's some excellent marketing. Not a sponsored ad that one, just like the words
1:35.8	Poddle-Podd. Anyway, it's not one of them, but it's something similar and a cheaper own-brand alternative. And he's lying in it in sort of well in the room so
1:46.2	that's why I'm being quiet but I didn't want to I didn't want you guys to
1:51.4	miss out on an episode when I have so many cunningly pre-recorded in the can.
1:56.0	So welcome to the show and hooray.
2:00.0	Hooray we have a healthy little boy so thank you for everyone that's been sending some very
2:04.2	kind messages regarding that.
2:07.7	And this is another lovely little boy.
2:11.4	It's Matt Kirshin. Now that you're here and we're on, we can do the catch-up chat we should have done when you
2:20.1	arrived 10 minutes ago, fantastically late.
2:23.3	Yeah, I am very, I, I, this is the second podcast today
2:27.4	that I've been late for.
2:28.6	And I'm going to the second one as a result.
2:30.2	I've got to say, when you said to me, oh yeah, I'm coming,
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