185 - Jonny And The Baptists
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers are political musical comics with real jokes, real music and real politics. Regulars on R4's The Now Show, and creators of iTunes chart-topping "The Farage Song", they discuss the creative dynamic behind their work, and profess a disgusting amount of love and respect for one another.
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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. Wearing the same festive jumper again this year? |
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| 0:57.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian pod- |
| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart pod... |
| 1:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today I'm talking to Johnny and the Baptist, that's Johnny Donahoe and Paddy Jervas. And in fact, I'm assuming it's J Jervas I never stop to ask him and I've never heard him pronounce it it could be Gervas but I think that's unlikely and Johnny and the Bapt's an absolutely incredible musical |
| 1:43.0 | double act very political very very funny and as you'll hear I know some people are |
| 1:48.0 | a bit turned off by the idea of musical acts so are they and and as you'll hear |
| 1:52.3 | very early on in this episode they talk about how they insist |
| 1:57.0 | that their music that their songs all work as songs in their own right. |
| 2:01.0 | They're actually well written, well sung, properly made, like |
| 2:04.4 | rigorously made songs rather than just excuses for jokes set to music. So I'm a |
| 2:09.0 | huge fan of these guys. I saw their show Eat the Richard Edinburgh just gone |
| 2:12.1 | and it really genuinely blew me away. |
| 2:16.0 | It was very funny throughout, it had a proper political point and as you'll hear it also suggested |
| 2:20.8 | a solution to a very specific problem. |
| 2:23.4 | I should point out early doors, that solution is not simply eating the rich. |
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