227 - Sarah Kendall

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

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

A superb comedian story-teller, Sarah Kendall's work is suffused with genuine meaning. She talks vividly here about controlling her anxiety and the aftermath of a nervous breakdown. We also delve into some specifics, including the financial imperative of turning over new work annually, and how she had to re-discover her audience after time away from the fringe... Sarah's latest tour show: https://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2017/sarah_kendall/ Support the podcast with a recurring donation! www.comedianscomedian.com Stu's spring tour now on sale! www.comedianscomedian.com/tour

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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.
0:28.0	Are you new to the podcast? Go to comedians comedian.com to learn all about the show get hold of some exciting extra free stuff including my stand-up show from 2015 and a list of the top 10 episodes of the podcast as voted for by the listeners. It's a really good place to start if you have just
0:44.0	discovered the show. Now on with the show.
0:47.0	This is a podcast's comedian podcast. This is the Comedians, comedian, podgots.
1:04.0	Welcome to the Comedians, comedian.
1:08.0	I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today I am thrilled to be talking to Sarah Kendall,
1:12.0	a fabulous Australian actor who has lived in the UK for a long time and who is the sort of comic who, well one of the things we'll talk about is the fact that she no longer really works the clubs, she creates shows for festivals and tours them, and she's just someone that I aspire to be more like, I guess.
1:30.0	I mean, she's got a phenomenal presence on stage she's got a really interrogative
1:36.9	analytical approach to comedy and it's also really really heartfelt so she is
1:42.1	just someone who I think is an absolutely
1:44.0	fantastic comic, a brilliant artist and I hope you get a lot from this episode. With
1:48.7	thanks to the Assembly Venues in Edinburgh who very kindly let us record in her venue before the rest of the
1:55.9	show started that day. This is Sarah Kendall. Thanks for
2:04.0	coming on the show. I really want it. My pleasure. I'm so happy.
2:07.0	You are someone who I feel like I identified a long time ago
2:11.0	as just a craft person.
2:12.8	Oh wow.
2:13.8	You know what you're doing.
2:15.3	Yeah, well, I mean, most of the time, it improves.
2:19.6	Like I certainly, I feel, you know, I've been doing this for 17 years now so I hope that I kind of have some level of craft.
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