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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

252 - John Luke Roberts

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Widdicombe, Burr, Arts, Society & Culture, Persona, Learn, Carr, Cope, Comedy, Interview, Performing Arts, In-depth, Acaster, Writing, Jokes, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Splicing together physical absurdity with beautifully cerebral joke-writing, John Luke Roberts is responsible for some genuinely ground-breaking comedy. We discuss how he was vice-president of Cambridge Footlights while not feeling part of it, how he battles his ego and why he was drawn to Ecole Phillipe Gaulier.  We also explore what it feels like to perform as a terrifying clown of your own dead father... Extras available by joining the Insiders Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders include the inside story on ACMS and his "mutually-assured" relationship with co-host Thom Tuck, and his thoughts on why even though the highs of improv and musical comedy are high indeed, the entry level is pretty low...

 

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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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it's easy to set up it's even even easy to cancel, and if you have any difficulties you can email me directly and I personally walk you through it.

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So you can listen to all the extra content in a very simple way. Once it's set up up all the extras just ping onto your device

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without needing you to do anything else you know like a private podcast so this is a

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1:25.4

This is a podcastians comedian podcast.

1:45.0

Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the only podcast about comedy and today we are talking to John Luke Roberts who was responsible

1:55.9

for one of the best and most compelling pieces of comedy I think I've ever seen in 25 years of going to the Edinburgh Festival.

2:06.1

We will talk about it at length, but he always does very quirky, interesting work that

2:11.4

marries a sort of absurdist sensibility and a very silly

2:15.4

physical clowning element with some very very technical and cerebral joke

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