231 - Jess Robinson

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Jess "Mighty Voice" Robinson is a phenomenal vocalist and impressionist, who has her audiences in tears of bliss as well as laughter. We talk about her experience on "Britain's Got Talent" when she was "outed" by press as a seasoned professional, and learn how to survive stage school. Finally Jess overcomes her desire to please, and very honestly and painfully reveals why a standing ovation never seems "enough"...

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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 November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com.
0:21.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:27.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all. Light and breezy. Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing
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0:49.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian podpos.
1:10.0	Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to
1:15.9	Jess Robinson an incredibly talented and accomplished singer and impressionist
1:21.1	and someone who's able to combine those skills to caricature and
1:24.2	characterize your favorite singers in incredible ways and get her voice to have such elasticity
1:31.2	that she can brilliantly mimic and kind of point up the elements in other
1:36.2	singer's voices. She's so funny and she is such an incredible live performer and seeing her is an incredible live experience so do
1:44.9	Look forward to this and do try and get to see her live whenever you can I'm just gonna say at the beginning of this episode that
1:51.8	We had a certain we had a certain level of depth to the
1:56.0	to the conversation and I felt Jess was holding back and I called her on it and then
2:01.9	we achieved a bit more depth to it so that's just
2:05.1	something to bear in mind I suppose I was a little bit concerned afterwards as to
2:08.4	whether I'd been tough on her but she's a friend and I felt she trusted me to do that.
2:13.3	Jess, I know you'll be listening to this now.
2:15.1	Don't worry, I think you come out of this great.
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