172 - Funmbi Omotayo
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2016
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Brilliant British-Nigerian comic Funmbi shares a fascinating take on his transition from the urban circuit to the mainstream, and his reasoning behind the move. We also explore the dynamic between hype, substance and longevity, and get schooled on the inner mechanisms of the cussing battles which he mastered as a child...
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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 |
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| 1:07.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgues. Hello and |
| 1:13.0 | welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to a very funny comedian |
| 1:18.0 | a lovely man and a new friend as as you as you won't necessarily be aware I had to cut 10 or 15 minutes from the |
| 1:25.7 | beginning of this podcast because it's just us talking about comic books. So nonetheless |
| 1:30.8 | there's some really excellent stuff here and a voyage of discovery as we delve into the secret history of Mr Fumbi Ometio. |
| 1:38.0 | So tell me about your Soho show. You've added extra dates because you sold out your |
| 1:46.9 | Soho run. Yes so I'm excited to give me more dates which was really cool |
| 1:51.1 | because you know when you come up from |
| 1:52.9 | Edinburgh and you're like thank God I survived yes and then they tell you got a |
| 1:56.9 | so horror and you're like oh it's gonna be Edinburgh all over again but then |
| 1:59.6 | everyone was like no no no no no these people have paid to come and see you you're gonna love |
| 2:04.0 | the soo's theatre experience however much stuff there is going on in London there is not |
| 2:07.7 | as much stuff as there is in Edinburgh so these people have made a decision to come and |
| 2:11.5 | so theatre is an amazing like establishment on its own you know it's a good |
| 2:15.8 | place to put on any show and people come in their numbers you know looking for shows to |
| 2:20.2 | watch which is cool as well but it's a a great experience. I mean, it was the best, doing |
| 2:24.6 | the show again and realizing that, oh my God, it was for me. You know, and everyone was lying |
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