181 - John Robins
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Erudite stand-up, amazingly elastic improviser, and Goldsmith facial-resembler, John Robins is hitting his stride. We talk about the difficulties of changing gear mid-career, treating writing shows like writing essays, and being driven by shame.
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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 never get that right. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:39.1 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:46.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:51.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show I'm |
| 1:13.0 | welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I'm talking to John Robbins in this episode |
| 1:18.0 | I've been sitting on this one for a while so apologies to John and for those of you who've been waiting a long time to hear it. |
| 1:23.3 | We recorded this just before summer and as a result some of the introductory chat is about the fact that |
| 1:27.6 | John isn't doing Edinburgh this year. Obviously that refers to the Edinburgh Festival just gone. |
| 1:31.8 | John's a brilliant act. |
| 1:34.0 | If you've not caught his stuff before, you can find out you can listen to lots of his stuff |
| 1:38.0 | on Bandcamp, uh, John Robbins dot Bandcamp.com, I guess, or some version of that, possibly Bandcamp.com I guess or some version of that possibly band camp |
| 1:44.6 | dot John Robbins dot com and also you'll have heard me frequently on this show |
| 1:48.3 | recommend his podcast with Ellis James who I'm also in the process of booking for an interview, and then hopefully we might even |
| 1:55.5 | do a sort of triple up where I interview them as a podcast double up. |
| 1:59.2 | But they've got a show on Radio X, which I highly recommend and you can find their podcast online in all the usual |
| 2:05.1 | podcast places. |
| 2:06.1 | They're on tour at the moment. I think sort of any minute now you can go to Ellis and John |
| 2:10.6 | dot com to find out more about that. we'll get stuck into that in the middle |
| 2:14.1 | bit and but for this it's we talked for so long it's not a two-parter it's going to be a |
| 2:18.8 | big chunk and then some extra material I'll find out I'll find out you'll find out where to download that from during the episode |
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