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🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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I've never seen such an immediate standing ovation as the one we gave Zoe Coombs-Marr at the end of her show "Trigger Warning" this year. Her multiple award-winning creation "Dave" is a troubled hack comic and the centre of an awesomely meta-textual subversion and dismantling of the craft of comedy. We talk about the range and limits of character work, learn about feminist super-group show "Wild Bore", and find out why she'd be happy to fail if it meant the world changed.
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0:18.0 | This is a podcast, comedian podmon. |
0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the show which was recorded at The Place Hotel in York Place in Edinburgh. |
0:43.4 | They're very kindly agreed to give me some recording space to do this interview, so please |
0:47.8 | return the favour and patronise them with your patronage if you find yourself in Edinburgh |
0:52.2 | and have a bit of cash to splash on an |
0:53.9 | extremely nice hotel. So welcome to the Comedians comedian podcast, the show |
0:58.6 | that likes to pick the brains of your favorite comedians and find out how they do their jobs, how they live their lives |
1:05.8 | and how they cope with all of the above and more. So today my guest is Zoe Coombs Ma' |
1:11.6 | I've been meaning to get Zoe on the show for a very long time because she has |
1:17.2 | such an incredibly fresh take on comedy and what's going on in comedy at the moment and what's going on in the world. |
1:24.0 | She's an incredibly engaging and very, very vivid political performer and she is also an incredibly gifted performer. |
1:33.7 | Honestly, I said so in the program notes and I will reiterate it here. |
1:37.3 | I saw her show Trigger Warning at the festival just gone this year in Edinburgh and I have never seen I that show has been |
1:45.8 | she's taken that around the festival circuit a good few times and it hinges on |
1:50.1 | her creation Dave about whom we will we'll find out a lot more Dave is a hack straight white |
1:55.6 | male comic character that she performs. After the at the end of her show I have never |
2:02.0 | seen a faster and more confident standing evasion |
2:06.6 | from everyone there the room erupted so funny was she and so just note perfect performance which managed to be so flexible and funny and kind of virtuoso as well. |
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