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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

168 - Joe Lycett (Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, How To, Society & Culture, Writing, Burr, Carr, Comedy, Interview, Cope, Arts, Acaster, In-depth, Performing Arts, Widdicombe, Learn, Persona

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Urbane, charming and totally in touch with what makes him funny, Joe Lycett is the figurehead for a new generation of British comics. We talk technique in detail, digging into "Pomodoro" and renting an office in which to work. We also cover Joe's bisexuality, the nature of camp and what it means today, and the exact degree of truth involved in his absurdist catfishing of public institutions...


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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

0:45.1

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0:53.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast.

1:07.0

Hello and welcome to the show. podcast.

1:24.0

Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today I'm talking to Joe Lice it live at the secret Welsh comedy festival, which is not so secret anymore, but I'm going to persist in calling it that. This was a really, really entertaining conversation, very thoughtful, which often I think a lot of you

1:29.3

get in touch to say things along these lines, but sometimes the live shows can become a little bit more

1:34.9

performative than the more reflective shows that we have when there's no live

1:40.3

audience there and I think we navigated that path really well I

1:43.4

think we got lots of great stuff from Joe some really good technique stuff and

1:47.1

and he gave some very thoughtful answers so I hope you'll enjoy this very much just before we go into it. I would like to announce officially.

1:56.1

I'll tell you more about this later on. But for those of you who have been waiting for the

1:59.6

compilation Break Glass in case of emergency, I'm very pleased to say that it is now available

2:04.6

for free you have to join the mailing list but it is completely free and

2:08.5

subscribers to the mailing list will tell you I don't email you very often, so there's almost no bother on your part, largely through

2:16.5

to administrative failures than anything else.

2:19.2

So the compilation, Brake Glass, in case of emergency, this is designed to be an uplifting feel-good

2:24.9

compilation from all of the well from the last few years that certainly by no means

2:29.0

all it's about 45 minutes long it's just a compilation of 40 or so acts over about 45 minutes worth set to original

2:37.4

music by Steve Dunn from the Comedy Score podcast and it's just some really uplifting thoughts on creativity, dealing with it when gigs go wrong,

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