23 - Dr Brown (Phil Burgers)

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

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2012

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are stand-up comedians simply repressed clowns? That's the question posed by Phil Burgers, iconoclastic creator of the deliriously funny “Dr Brown”. He passionately explores the the importance of receiving an audience not transmitting to them, searching for the pleasure in being an idiot, and why “need” kills comedy. He also explains how he has created work by improvising a completely new show, every night of a festival. This podcast could change your performing life.

Get ad-free new episodes, bonus content from interviews and much more by joining the Insiders Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders

Get tickets for Stu Goldsmith's stand-up tour at www.comedianscomedian.com/tour

@comcompod | www.comedianscomedian.com

And don't forget to join the Comcom Facebook group, which you can do here.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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. 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.
0:51.0	This is a podcast from Comedians Check the Uber app.
1:24.5	This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and before we go into this conversation, a very quick apology, we're actually recording this interview next to an open window that looks out onto a train station, so there's occasional noise from trains.
1:26.5	But as you'll hear during the conversation, we only just managed to fit this meeting in at the very last minute
1:31.5	before Phil was leaving the UK. So we had to make do and I think what I got, I think
1:36.7	what we got out of this is just an absolute load of intense, passionate, fascinating conversation about comedy.
1:46.6	This is Phil Burgers, aka Dr. Brown.
1:50.6	So we're in a fairly Samuel Beckett style surroundings at the moment as we sit in this
2:00.5	just to paint the picture for the listener we We're in a warehouse room in Hackney overlooking a train station
2:07.1	with no furniture.
2:08.0	There is a box, a cardboard box in front of us
2:11.3	on which you're about to roll a cigarette.
2:12.8	Yeah.
2:13.4	As we see it in the light of one bit of bulb.
2:16.4	Yeah, seriously.
2:17.8	Ah, okay.
2:19.4	You have just clearly hurried from somewhere.
2:21.3	Yeah, man, yeah. Sorry brother. That's cool. Are you all right? What have you been else? I'm just a bit
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stuart Goldsmith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stuart Goldsmith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.