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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

169 - Liam Williams

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

🗓️ 4 June 2016

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Rigorously intellectual and brilliantly poetic, Liam Williams approaches comedy like writing a novel, but does he even enjoy standup? We talk about his experience of Cambridge Footlights, and examine a magpie approach to high culture; we also explore the lessons learnt from punching walls and falling out of windows...


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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

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.

1:07.0

Hello and welcome to the show. podcast. performer, very, very good writer. That sounded wrong way around, didn't it? A fascinating

1:25.1

performer sounds like when you don't laugh at. Nothing could be further from the truth.

1:28.1

Certainly he has a fascinating approach towards entry or exit from buildings, as we will hear very early on in this

1:34.9

episode. He's just fantastic. I'm sure you'll have heard his stuff before online or

1:39.6

seen him at festivals, but he is really someone who is making waves in comedy in a way that you go

1:47.2

oh I go do you remember like early Tim Key do you remember the first Tim Key show you saw

1:51.6

when you were like oh what's he to be doing in five or ten years?

1:55.2

I've got a very similar feeling about Liam. I hope that doesn't sound too patronising.

1:58.4

I am slightly in awe of him. This is the brilliant Liam Williams. How are you healing?

2:07.0

Yeah, pretty well I think. I'm going to hospital today to physio for a checkup you're referring to the fact that

2:15.5

I had two broken heels still have two broken heels one of which is almost

2:20.4

entirely healed now the right, but the left one remains slightly broken.

2:25.7

I've got 10 pins and a metal plate in my heel and I'm now at the rehab phase, trying to build up strength again because obviously it was out of use for so long so the muscles atrophy and the ligaments and whatever else were all damaged and sort of spoiled and so now I'm doing lots of

2:46.0

heel raises and kind of twisting my ankle around and swimming and stuff trying to build it up so but I'm still walking with a bit of a

2:54.8

limp and how did you do you mind telling us how you know I'm I'm doing this I've now

3:00.6

turned it into a bit of stand-up so I'm gonna to be careful to I don't want to sound like I'm

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