232A - James Acaster: Returns (part two)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the second part of our conversation, comedy craftsman James Acaster examines his relationship to his audience, and how that changes under a variety of different pressures, and also reveals why he never sits down to write.
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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. |
| 0:18.0 | Before we get into the show, I'm on my honeymoon at the moment, but as soon as I get back at the beginning of February I'm going |
| 0:23.2 | on tour with my award-winning stand-up show this is the show that got a load of I |
| 0:27.4 | mean like three five-star reviews in Edinburgh and won the best new show at Leicester |
| 0:32.3 | it's a good show it It's called Like I Mean It and all of the details of the tour are at comedians comedian.com forward slash tour. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm going to remind you of all of the dates later in the show, but in a slightly faster way than I did last time. |
| 0:44.0 | Let's get on with it. Let's play the music. |
| 0:47.0 | This is a podcast's comedian podgrass. |
| 1:08.0 | So welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith |
| 1:10.0 | and this is the second part of my conversation with the brilliant James Acaster and for those of you who don't know him I mean presumably you listen to the first part already but if you've skipped ahead thinking well let's let's get the preamble out the way and get straight to the nitty gritty |
| 1:23.2 | then if you're not aware of James he's an Edinburgh Comedy Award record holder |
| 1:27.4 | He is the only person to be nominated for Best Show a staggering five years in a row |
| 1:31.7 | But imagine that. Like up for literally being one of the best |
| 1:36.0 | comedy shows at Edinburgh. For five years in a row with five different shows. Four of those shows, |
| 1:40.7 | he is, well no, three of them and then another one and he's about to release |
| 1:44.4 | uh on Netflix in one go bang four shows on Netflix I don't know if anyone's done that before |
| 1:48.9 | and he is one of the most original and hardest working comedians ever to grace a stage. |
| 1:53.8 | Now in the first hour we talked about his Netflix special and his autography of |
| 1:56.6 | classic scrapes which is available now and we did some nerdy technical stuff about writing. |
| 2:01.4 | Now we're going to talk about the clarity of his comic voice, |
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