178 - Lewis Black (Live at Just For Laughs, Montreal)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Is Lewis Black the angriest man in America? We discuss Lewis' origins in theatre, his turnover of topical material, particularly in an election cycle, and the trigger points from which he derives his explosive creativity. We also find out why silence is where you hear the joke...

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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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1:16.6	This is a podcast from comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm speaking with Lewis Black this episode was recorded live at the Just for Last Festival in
1:20.6	Montreal Canada shortly before when was it August, end of July, something like that.
1:26.3	And I was so pleased to have Lewis as my guest.
1:29.4	He is, as you will hear, a powerful Arator, orator, I I believe they pronounce it in America and probably
1:35.2	over here as well I've not done the research and but he's a really he's one of those
1:38.8	force of nature performers and and human beings as well you'll hear about some of the extraordinary things he's done with his life.
1:45.0	And this was a live recording as part of the comedy pro strand just for laughs.
1:50.0	So thank you very much to Zoe and Robbie and everyone there for having me. Without further ado this is the wonderful
1:56.8	the incandescent Louis Black.
1:59.3	It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome an absolute giant of comedy.
2:06.8	Would you please welcome with warm appreciation the wonderful Louis Black. Lewis. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us.
2:21.6	My pleasure.
2:22.2	I think we should start with, I'm going to assume a certain amount of knowledge of your career amongst listeners to this show and people in the room there's some people nodding in very vigorous fashion.
2:32.0	You produce an incredible amount of, I always hate to use the word
2:37.6	content, but we've just been chatting to Ben, who looks after your online stuff.
2:41.8	You tore ceaselessly, you have released numerous DVDs, comedy albums,
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