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🗓️ 17 May 2016
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Darkly silly stand-up and clown Seymour Mace channels his anger and bitterness through a lens of pure sunshine. He talks candidly about the challenges of living with depression in comedy; hating people who you know to be nice, the fear of returning to counselling, and letting yourself be happy. We also blow the lid off Cake Club...
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| 1:27.2 | Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today I'm talking to Seymour Mace, who has been described variously as a purveyor of dark whimsy as a clown a definitely a comic a former street performer I was actually recommended I interview him seeing as he |
| 1:30.9 | seemed to fall into the theenn diagram of things that I like |
| 1:34.3 | and of course he also was nominated this year or the year just gone for a comedy |
| 1:41.5 | award at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 1:43.0 | Seymour is an absolutely fascinating man. |
| 1:46.0 | He's a very, very funny performer |
| 1:48.0 | and I think a lot of people on the British comedy circuit |
| 1:51.0 | were so proud and happy to see him finally get the |
| 1:53.8 | recognition that we all felt he deserved and this is a very candid interview |
| 1:59.3 | we talk a lot about Seymour's depression and some of my own mental health issues as well. |
| 2:05.6 | I think there's lots of really interesting and vibrant creativity-based stuff |
| 2:10.9 | in here as well. So I'll let see more get straight into it. I was actually |
| 2:16.1 | I was told by Emily Crosby who kindly logged this episode for me when she |
| 2:22.0 | sent me the log she included in the email something on the logged this was |
| 2:23.0 | she included in the email something on the lines of |
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