235 - Colin Hoult
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Colin's sublime creation "Anna Mann" is a faded actress (little ripple of recognition?) on a mission to fight the fascists! But she is only the tip of phenomenally creative and hilarious iceberg of talent. We shine a light on the darkness of his "Carnival of Monsters", and discuss surviving depression, moving on from a double-act, and get some unbelievable detail on how he "invites Anna in"...
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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. |
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| 0:31.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
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| 0:42.0 | Hello darlings this is Anna Mann here. You're listening to the Comedians |
| 0:45.6 | Comedian Podcast. podgots. This is the Comedians comedian pod |
| 1:06.2 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I am on tour. You can find out all of your information about my stand-up tour at comedians comedian |
| 1:13.8 | dot com forward slash tour. We kicked off last week in Maidenhead, Leicester and |
| 1:18.6 | Crawley and I've been having a fantastic time so I hope you'll come along and see me |
| 1:22.3 | at some of the dates and venues that you will find at comedians comedian.com forward slash tour |
| 1:27.6 | Now let's get straight to business. This is an absolute belter which I've been sitting on since just before Christmas. This is Colin Holt. |
| 1:35.4 | And he's one of those people that I probably planned to interview five years ago and every time I saw |
| 1:41.7 | him do something it just got better and richer and deeper and more complex and so I'm I just |
| 1:49.7 | waited and waited and waited and then I couldn't wait any longer. |
| 1:52.6 | He's been doing brilliantly recently with his character Anna Mann. |
| 1:56.0 | Some of you will have seen her in a variety of shows. |
| 1:58.9 | How we Fight the Fascists was a big hit at last year's Edinburgh Festival and we're going to talk in some depth |
| 2:04.7 | about Anna and the lengths that Colin goes to to keep the experience of being Anna special. |
| 2:14.0 | That's all I'm going to say on it in the moment. |
| 2:15.0 | I don't want to preempt any of the genuinely fascinating and slightly alarming things that Colin says. |
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