219 - Sugar Sammy

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Montreal's biggest comedy export, Sugar Sammy is a textbook example of a comic who made it happen all by himself. We discuss the cultural currents involved with his ability to headline a show in four different languages; his focus on quality control, from pruning his online presence to interviewing audience-members post-show; and find out why he wants to get better at holding his nerve...

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0:00.0	Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?
0:04.6	Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,
0:09.7	including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of
0:14.6	November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart goalsmith.com.
0:18.0	This is a podcast, comedian pod
0:36.2	Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today I'm talking to
0:41.0	Sugar Sami, Montreal's biggest comedy export and the only guy in town during the Montreal Comedy Festival some weeks ago
0:47.3	who was doing two gala shows. That's kind of unheard of and is a testament to just how big an act Sammy is. He is able to headline, I think, in four or five different languages.
0:58.0	And we're about to have a really fascinating conversation with a really lovely, very warm guy who has a lot to
1:04.9	teach us about quality control and about pruning ones online presence and
1:11.6	interviewing the audience and he's basically one of those
1:14.2	self-made DIY comedians who's just been putting a lot of work in in terms of
1:20.1	quality control and improving and constantly refining the act.
1:24.8	He's been doing that for a long time and he is rightly reaping the benefits of doing so.
1:30.1	So this without further ado is a very lovely sugar Sammy.
1:37.2	I saw the gala last night fantastic.
1:39.4	Oh you saw it?
1:40.2	Yes.
1:41.2	Thanks man. It was huge.
1:42.2	Yeah it was great. It was huge it's a man. It was huge. It was huge. It's a huge room, me and a Venezuelan comic called Ivan Aristigator. We're both big comedy analysis, nerds.
1:50.0	Oh, wow. We were sat there going the size of this room that DJ beforehand, the t-shirt guy?
1:55.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he like, is he your guy? No, he's the festival guy. The DJ's mine.
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