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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

22 - Abandoman (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2012

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Rapper and comedian Rob Broderick AKA Abandoman is a force of nature, whose invincible positivity is matched only by his breathtaking performance skill. He talks in depth about his origins in rap and comedy, and how he combines the two today. We also cover why "Hulk hands" can be a substitute for jokes, and what happens when two nice men attempt to battle-rap...


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0:14.4

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 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

0:42.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:46.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:53.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. Pod

1:17.0

Hello there, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Welcome to the show. This is another live recording from the Gilded Balloon at this year's Edinburgh Festival

1:21.0

in which I'll be talking to the wonderful Rob Broderick aka

1:24.3

abandonment.

1:29.3

Hello, Steve, how are you, man?

1:30.7

Hello, I'm really well, I'm really well. It's a huge pleasure to have you on the show. I've had some lovely guests here

1:36.8

I've had some sort of big high profile people some cult heiress and festival favorites and my

1:40.8

favorite ones do tend to be when I have old friends on the show. We go back. We do go back.

1:45.2

Which, okay, we have to deal with this immediately. You're a rapper. You're a comedy rapper.

1:49.2

Yeah, I kind of started off as a comedian and a rapper separately. Like I did rap and it was very much my kind of secret passion.

1:55.0

In university everything I did was rap-based, like genuinely.

1:59.0

All my essays were like hip-hop based.

2:01.0

Were they supposed to be or was that you?

2:04.0

It was there.

2:05.0

I did communications at the university and we get things like kind of studies of maybe,

2:10.5

it was like kind of social groups.

2:11.9

So I study hip-hop or like semiotics.

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