254 - Paul Foot
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Paul Foot has one of the most refreshingly original comic voices in the world. We delve deep into the 13 years he spent being brilliant but unreliable, and the psychological toll imposed by the heroic deaths necessary to achieve genuine excellence. We talk about his writing partnership, his "guild of connoisseurs", and the Australian run of shows that changed everything...
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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. |
| 0:18.0 | I always compare it a bit to the Segal World War, you know like when you talk to people, I know my oldest friend is 99, and when I talk to her, I say, |
| 0:27.0 | it wasn't an awful in the war because we now know it was 1939 to 1945, but it didn't know that |
| 0:32.1 | 1942. |
| 0:33.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.4 | And she said, yes, it was sort of, she said it was terrible because you didn't know how long |
| 0:39.5 | it was going to go on for, but at the same time you just sort of adapted to it and just realized I were in the war. |
| 0:45.0 | So in the same way I didn't know how long it was going to go on for, but I sort of adapted to, |
| 0:50.0 | oh well I'm in this situation really, and really it took really 13 years really I suppose, |
| 0:58.9 | before things started to turn a bit. |
| 1:01.3 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, comedian pod |
| 1:18.0 | podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is Paul Foote. |
| 1:25.0 | He is one of the most strikingly original |
| 1:28.0 | absolutely hilarious and fascinating comedians |
| 1:32.0 | that there is in the world. |
| 1:33.3 | I can honestly say if you've not seen him before, |
| 1:35.7 | you have never seen anything quite like what Paul does. |
| 1:38.8 | I'm an enormous fan of his work from the very beginning of my own career 13 years ago I was doing |
| 1:44.8 | open spots in rooms that he was destroying and also in rooms that he was failing in in a |
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