175 - Todd Barry

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

There's dry, and then there's Todd Barry. On his "Crowdwork" tour, Todd's skill in low-energy one-liners allows him to spin unexpected angles into truly original audience interaction. We discuss writing habits, beating ideas to death onstage, and how it feels to play two different fictionalised versions of himself simultaneously...

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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.
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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. pod.
1:16.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today we're hearing from Todd Barry, absolutely wonderful, dry, whispering, slow-paced.
1:26.2	What other things can we say about Todd
1:27.6	that aren't beaten to death by people
1:30.2	trying to describe his stuff?
1:32.0	Todd is a very low energy high precision
1:35.5	performer and we're going to be talking a lot about his most recent tour, his
1:39.3	crowd work tour where he goes on stage with no prepared material and just plays with the crowd but in a way in which you are unlikely, very unlikely, I would say, to have seen it done before.
1:49.0	This, without further ado, is the brilliant Todd Barry.
1:52.6	How was last night you're doing crowd work at the Soho Theatre?
1:59.4	I'm doing the crowd work tour, yeah.
2:02.1	It's gone three, I think each night it's gotten better okay I've done three
2:07.3	and the first night was good then the second I was I would say really good and
2:10.7	and last night was really good also so maybe all three good okay but yeah
2:16.4	because I didn't know what to expect if I if they were gonna this is the first time you
2:20.3	done crowd work in the UK it's first time I've done a crowd work show yeah in the
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