185: EP 185 - SIMON BRODKIN

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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After a quick catch-up on a mad week I speak to Simon Brodkin about his amazing career. From pranking Donald Trump and Kanye to starting out all over again as a straight stand-up, Simon has some unique tales to tell about the comedy industry.

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0:00.0	What most people feel?
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to episode 185 of what most people think.
0:19.4	And we got, it's another great guest week.
0:21.6	We got, we got Simon Rodkin.
0:23.8	We had Phil Wang last week, Philly Wang,
0:26.2	loads of great feedback about that.
0:28.6	And this week we'll be speaking to Simon Brodkin.
0:31.0	It's just a great chat with Simon.
0:33.3	He starts off straight with the ADHD thing.
0:35.9	He talks about being one of these comedians that's been
0:38.7	diagnosed with that and the legal speed that you can get. I don't know if you knew about this,
0:43.3	but he breaks it down very interestingly and then we talk about the famous stunts that he's done
0:48.3	and, you know, the time he got on stage with Kanye West. It's a really great chat. And of course,
0:53.6	I speak to as my tour, basic bloke, is on sale and I. And of course, I speak to you as my tour. Basic
0:55.2	bloke is on sale. And I just want to say, I'm going to do a proper thank you on this. But it's on sale. People are buying tickets. Thank fuck for that. Because you just don't know, do you? You just don't know. You do all this stuff. And then you put it on sale. And then right at the last minute it goes to you, well, if no one buys any tickets, like not a single ticket. I've been
0:54.6	having these weird anxiety dreams where I keep turning up in places, but people say, oh, we don't want you here. I've got to say fair play to my dreams for not being in any way symbolic and just being fairly literal. What's that, Jeff? You're worried that you're not going to sell any tickets, and then in your dreams you go to a place where no one wants to see you. Yeah, I'm a complicated guy, hence the name,
1:31.4	basic bloke. I had a great weekend last weekend. I did gigs in France and Amsterdam. And the
1:39.0	French gig was really interesting, which it was like it was built as an english speaking gig and um so
1:46.4	i don't know if there's some anglophiles over there or some expats who who want to come along but um
1:51.1	there were plenty of people at the gig who didn't speak english um so that made it you sort of end up
1:56.4	feeling like the arrogant englishman abroad but then you kind of go and as i started to make a joke
2:00.7	of it saying look english start to make a joke out of it,
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