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 podcastians, Comedian Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and before we enjoy this conversation with Maeve Higgins, just time for me to tell you about my tour.

I'm into the second quarter of the tour now, and I'm going to be visiting the following places very soon.

Redding, Corsham, McCuncliff, Bristol, Bath, Norwich, Northampton, Warwick, Shrewsbury, Swindon, Farnham, Aldershot, Sheffield York, Newcastle, Leeds, Southampton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Brighton, London,

Tring and Cardiff.

We just threw in Tring as the penultimate one there as a bit of a dafty.

So if you fancy coming along and seeing my stand-up show, like I mean it, one of the 20 best-reviewed comedy shows at last year's Edinburgh Festival,

get yourself to comedians comedian.com forward slash tour.

Now, a conversation with Maeve Higgins that I recorded at South by Southwest, the incredible interdisciplinary

tech music art comedy festival that takes place in Austin, Texas every year.

I was enormously excited to be invited to go along there

and check out some of the incredible stuff that they have on offer.

There was an awful lot of robot arms.

I'll tell you about that later.

But there was also fabulous comedian

Maeve Higgins, formerly of Ireland now relocated to New York. And I can't

wait for you to hear what she has to say. This is the brilliant and very funny, Maeve Higgins.

I've never been to Texas before. This is your first Southwest, Southwest as well.

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