158 - Hari Kondabolu
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
With appearances on "Conan", "Letterman" and "Totally Biased", comic firebrand Hari Kondabolu has a lot to say, and the research to back it up. We discuss the New Yorker's politicisation post-9/11; a comic's license to simplify a political argument; and what happens when a healthy social life requires a bit of discretion. Hari also argues passionately against UK comedy's fixation with producing a new fringe-ready hour every year, and we uncover that rarest of problems: when the crowd goes too wild...
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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 |
| 0:39.4 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this |
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| 0:53.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgos. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and before we hear from Hari |
| 1:17.1 | Condobolu two quick things to advertise one is Dave's Lester comedy festival |
| 1:21.1 | this Sunday I'm going to be interviewing Spencer Jones |
| 1:23.6 | aka The Herbert at 4 p.m. in Bob's Blunderbus. So come along to that it's pay what you |
| 1:28.6 | want. You can get there come in free and pay at the end if you'd like. And then at |
| 1:32.2 | 8 o'clock that night |
| 1:33.2 | oh in fact 815 I'm going to be at the venue called Heroes it's a pub I believe sorry it's a pub |
| 1:37.8 | called the Criterion under Heroes of Fringe which is Bob Slayer again and I'm going to be doing a work in progress of my new show, |
| 1:45.4 | provisionally entitled, this is actually my sixth rodeo. |
| 1:48.1 | It's going to be a lot of fun, this is going to contain a lot of the bits you've heard me talking |
| 1:51.2 | about in the endwaffly sections of the |
| 1:53.3 | last few episodes. I've definitely got the bones of a strong half hour |
| 1:58.1 | and I'll just smile at you for the raining 25 minutes. |
| 2:01.6 | And so those are both happening this Sunday the 21st of February at Dave's |
| 2:06.0 | Lester Comedy Festival. And also there are tickets still available for Dave Gorman on the 7th of March |
| 2:12.0 | and Romish Ranga Nathan on the 4th of March and Romish Rangon Nathan on the 4th of April. |
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