196 - Rachel Parris
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Comedian, singer, musician and key member of improvisational powerhouse "Austentatious", Rachel Parris revels in undercutting her nice girl image with some tough material. We talk about how audiences listen differently to talking and singing; how to survive the sinking feeling of a tough festival; and her experience spinning a chat with the Samaritans into comedy gold...
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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. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello there, before we get stuck into the show, I would like to dedicate this episode of the Comedians Comedian Podcast to the memory of Stuart Hudson, a wonderful man, an artistic spirit, a very funny comedian and someone who sadly passed |
| 1:06.3 | away a couple of days ago. |
| 1:08.7 | I gagged with him several times. |
| 1:10.2 | We had some very funny car journeys together and there's a lovely thing on |
| 1:14.0 | Facebook where someone broke the news of his passing to many of us in the comedy |
| 1:18.8 | community and he was a brilliant one-liner comedian very dark-liners, but with a real twinkle in his eye. |
| 1:24.4 | And people have started quoting on this Facebook thread all the different jokes, all their favorite jokes that they sort of say to each other |
| 1:30.3 | to remember him. My particular favorite was, I've taken up masturbating. Well, it gets me out the house. |
| 1:35.8 | What a lovely man. He'll be very greatly missed and my thoughts and feelings go out to all of those of us that were close to him. |
| 1:45.2 | So this episode is dedicated to Stu Hudson. |
| 1:47.6 | Thanks on with the show. |
| 1:49.6 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com.com. This is the Comedians, comedian podcat. |
| 2:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. Today I'm talking to Rachel Paris, who's an absolutely fantastic comic |
| 2:14.5 | improviser, a very funny stand-up comedian and writer of comedy songs, and also |
| 2:19.6 | improvisers with the group ostentatious with whom you'll be familiar. |
| 2:23.0 | If not now, then you will by the end of this interview. |
| 2:26.0 | Before we go into it, just a reminder, |
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