Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

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 goalsmith.com.

This is a podcast from's comedian podg. This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm very proud to be speaking to Arabella Weir who was lucky enough to let me go

around her beautiful and very colourful house Arabella as many of you will know came to

prominence as one of the female members of the Fast Show. To all intents and purposes, the only

full-time female cast member and responsible for some brilliant sketch comedy.

For those of you listening outside the UK, for those in the UK, the Far Show will need no introduction, but for those of you

listening outside it was one of the most influential and one of the funniest sketch shows that the British

public have enjoyed in recent years.

I mean 20 years ago now I think but they really

popularized an extremely fast and punchline filled

and catchphrase driven type of comedy and we're going to talk a lot about Arabella's

experiences there. We're going to talk about the Me Too movement. We're going to talk

about Arabella's experiences as very often the only female performer in the room during some of the making of the

fast show and the creative friction and the tension involved in in that

situation so we're going to go into depth on a lot of those things and also possibly

some of her plans for the future and some of my suggestions for her plans for the future.

We might I basically try to bully her into going to any. for her

for the future. We might, I basically try to bully her into going to Edinburgh.

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