184 - Barry Crimmins

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Legendary comic Barry Crimmins kickstarted Boston's comedy scene in the 1980s, testified to the Senate against AOL.com profiteering from child pornography, and is to this day both a political firebrand and an intensely kind man. We talk about his new special "Whatever Threatens You", released this week by Louis CK; political comedy and being your own trusted source; and Barry also acknowledges the personal cost of a life of activism.

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0:14.4	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 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Blooms 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
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0:51.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, comedian pod
1:16.6	Hello and welcome to the show. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I'm very pleased and proud to be bringing you this conversation with Barry Crimmins recorded a few
1:20.5	weeks ago when he was performing at the Leicester Square Theatre.
1:23.2	Thank you to the Leicester Square Theatre for giving us a little bit of space in which to
1:27.0	record during the day.
1:29.3	If you haven't seen the Bobcat Goldthwaite directed Netflix documentary call me lucky about
1:36.9	Barry's life I cannot recommend it enough not only is it an incredibly painful story about an aspect of Barry's life which we'll
1:46.1	talk more about in this interview. It's also a fascinating historical document.
1:51.8	Historical is probably the wrong word,
1:53.8	but to see people, the clips of Barry stand up
1:57.2	from the 80s is really astonishing
2:00.6	and to follow the journey of this man through an extraordinary life.
2:04.4	I think it's a wonderful piece of filmmaking.
2:06.6	I highly recommend it.
2:08.0	And I'm also pleased to tell you that Barry's Special, which he refers to at the end of this episode is called
2:13.7	whatever threatens you and it has just last week been released by Louis CK
2:17.8	so I'll include a link in the download notes for this show or you can go to
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