241 - Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Celebrating the release of hilarious and terrifying new movie "Ghost Stories", co-creators and childhood friends Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson talk to Stu about the myriad connections between comedy and horror... Best known as the invisible fourth member of British comedy legends The League of Gentlemen, Jeremy Dyson is expert at making the familiar unfamiliar. We talk here about the elegantly simple process that he and Andy used to develop "Ghost Stories" from page to West End stage to screen, and discover a jaw-dropping fact about the forthcoming League live tour!
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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 |
| 0:14.6 | November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart goalsmith.com. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a podcast's comedian podcast. This is the Comedians, comedian podcat. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I am thrilled to be talking to Jeremy Dyson, the fourth member of the League of Gentlemen, |
| 0:46.4 | the one who was very rarely in the show apart from the odd cameo and who in the meantime, |
| 0:51.8 | since then has been working on among other things |
| 0:54.7 | co-creating a successful very successful West End show which has now become a movie |
| 0:59.8 | which is called Ghost Stories and it's released this weekend so I hope you get along to see it |
| 1:04.0 | having listened to this conversation with its co-creator along with the accompanying episode of this |
| 1:09.8 | podcast with Mr Andy Nyman. This is Jeremy Dyson. |
| 1:14.0 | Let's start by talking about ghost stories |
| 1:21.0 | and the collaborative nature of it. Let's talk about working with Andy |
| 1:26.3 | Nyman, with the great Andy Nyman who's just walked out with this room. |
| 1:29.2 | Indeed, the great Andy. You've been, I didn't realize that you were childhood friends. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah and that's the curious thing is you know we absolutely we grew up together we were best friends |
| 1:38.8 | from sort of age 15 onwards where we when we first met and but then we have these independent careers and |
| 1:46.7 | it never really occurred to us to work together at all until I mean I think idly we might have had conversations you know |
| 1:58.9 | around nine about 20 years ago like wouldn't it be nice? |
| 2:05.0 | But nothing more than like one or two idle conversations, |
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