188 - Andy Askins

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

One of comedy's happiest and most humble men, Andy Askins reduces audiences to tears with his beautifully subtle and innocent-seeming punchlines. We discover the extraordinary backstory to his career, and find out about the decisions behind his whispered powerhouse performance.

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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 now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:39.4	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this
0:45.1	Christmas. Trains, now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app.
0:53.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian podcom. Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart. podcast.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. And if you haven't subscribed to this show on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts,
1:21.0	you can always hit subscribe so this show appears magically, automatically in your
1:26.2	podcast folder.
1:27.7	Please do so because during the month of December I'm going to give you a very special treat
1:32.0	but I'm only going to pop it on the
1:33.4	RSS feed I don't want to blind you with science but there's a thing called an RSS
1:37.1	feed I don't know what it is I'm going to put a special treat on there for
1:40.2	podcast listeners and then I'm going to take it away again. So make sure
1:43.6	you're subscribed if you'd like a little Christmas present from me,
1:46.2	something that has genuine cash value. Make sure you're subscribed to this show and
1:50.4	throughout the whole month of December at one point I will be dropping for a week or so a little treat so make sure you are
1:56.8	Subscribed now a tiny giant of UK comedy. I've been after this man for a long time and I mean he's he's not the first
2:06.2	person to appear on this show who had to be convinced but I think he's the first
2:10.2	person on the show who declined and then was told off and then agreed. It's Andy Askins.
2:17.0	To begin on a slightly interesting tone, when you agreed to do the show it was very sweet you said me I invited you via Facebook and you said
2:28.3	Are you very very politely bowed out and said actually I'm not very comfortable talking about myself and then 20
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