16 - Alan Davies (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Alan Davies is best known in the UK as a panellist on QI and as the star of Jonathan Creek, but he's recently returned to his roots as a superb observational stand up. In this live show from the Gilded Balloon, he describes in detail his process for turning notes into jokes, and how he goes about structuring a tour show. He also reads from some of his old comedy notebooks, and explores why theatre people have it easy...

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0:14.4	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 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Blooms 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
0:45.1	Christmas. Trains, now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app.
0:53.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. Hello there. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Welcome to the show. It's another live edition
1:18.4	recorded at the Gilded Balloon at this year's Edinburgh Festival and I'm
1:21.4	talking to a wonderful comedian and a thoroughly nice man
1:24.1	Mr Alan Davies.
1:27.1	Hi Stuart.
1:31.8	Hey man, thanks for coming.
1:33.0	It's a pleasure.
1:34.0	Thank you very much.
1:35.0	So far.
1:36.0	Yeah, I was just briefing Alan before we started on exactly what we're after.
1:40.0	And I'm very pleased to see you brought with you bundles of notes.
1:42.0	All my notes of my jokes. Excellent. I'm very pleased to see you've brought with you bundles of notes.
1:42.6	All my notes of my jokes.
1:44.3	Excellent.
1:45.3	We're going to be talking, I think probably to begin with, we're going to be talking about
1:48.9	the show that you've just done.
1:51.0	Last night was your first night?
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