232 - James Acaster: Returns (part one)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
About to drop four interlinked standup specials on Netflix, James Acaster is also the only comedian ever to have been nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award five years in a row. One of the defining comic voices of his generation, he returns to the show to share his writing process and how he sneaked out an autobiography by stealth...
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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. Welcome to the show I'm on my honeymoon at the moment but as soon as I get back at the beginning of February I go on tour |
| 0:23.2 | with my award-winning stand-up show like I mean it all the tour details are at |
| 0:27.3 | comedians comedian.com forward slash tour and I will remind you of all the dates later in |
| 0:32.2 | the show. |
| 0:33.0 | This is a podcast from, comedian podgos. |
| 0:47.0 | So welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and welcome to this very special |
| 0:57.1 | episode with James Acaster making a return appearance on the show this is is a two-hour two-parter, so you've got an hour |
| 1:05.8 | and ten here I think you've got an hour coming out in the next few days and then for |
| 1:09.2 | the super hyper-nirds among you there's a further 45 minutes of extra material available for the mailing list. |
| 1:15.8 | For those of you that don't know him, James is a record holding Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, |
| 1:20.9 | the only person to be nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival, a staggering five years |
| 1:25.5 | running. He's just about to release four totally different and interlinked shows on Netflix any day now, |
| 1:31.5 | and he's also one of the funniest comic voices of his |
| 1:34.4 | generation. In the first hour here we're going to talk about his Netflix |
| 1:37.2 | special, specials, his book of classic scrapes which is available now and genuinely |
| 1:42.2 | excellent and we'll talk about what |
| 1:44.0 | point in the writing of his very densely layered comedy shows he realizes what they're |
| 1:48.1 | actually all about so that is all I need to tell you at this stage. This hour is coming right up. We've got another |
| 1:54.8 | hour coming out soon and then 45 minutes of extras for the absolute obsessives among you. |
| 1:59.4 | Here's James A. Acaster. Let's just tease the Netflix special because that's like a UK first, right? |
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