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

Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart. podcast.

Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I'm very pleased to be bringing you this episode recorded live at the LA Podcast Festival 2016.

With a very funny man indeed a very creative man the creator of several

tours including one with an entire symphony orchestra backing him and also of course the writer of the songs the lyricist and

composer for the musicals Matilda and more recently Groundhog Day and now as

you're about to find out residing in an office in Dreamworks itself.

This is the brilliant Tim Minchin.

Give it up for the wonderful Mr. Tim Minchin. Thank you're a Tim, thank you for coming.

Tim, thank you for coming.

Sure.

Thanks for having me.

We've brought a gift.

You bought me a coffee because you're a nice guide, but I'd already had one.

I bought a spare coffee. So there's a spare. So we were going to, we were thinking we would have a series of wrestling matches.

A surround Robin.

Soft dividing the audience one against each other until only one person survives.

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