257 - Myq Kaplan
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Myq Kaplan just bubbles over with jokes; every punchline has a topper and every topper has a tag in his absurdly punchline-dense cascade of comedy. We talk about structure, rhythm and where it all comes from, and enjoy a superb counter to the question "are you happy?"
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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 |
| 0:13.1 | theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart |
| 0:16.8 | Goldsmith.com. They're like you must love words and I'm like I love fun. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah. Words for me are a tool for fun. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a podcastians, comedian podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the only podcast about comedy and today I'm at the Eddumbr festival and I am bringing you one of I mean 10 so far but |
| 0:55.2 | maybe as many as 14 by the time we're done one interview with an incredible American comic this guy is |
| 1:00.8 | called Mike Kaplan and he is I think he's like an Adam |
| 1:04.6 | Bloom type joke genius guy so if you enjoy the Adam Bloom one if you're up for some |
| 1:09.0 | really hyper nerdy comedy chat then you are going to find a lot to enjoy in this episode. |
| 1:15.3 | Forgive me as I'm slightly all over the place recording this because there is |
| 1:18.9 | literally not a minute in my day. I'm having a whale of a time here with the two and a half year old |
| 1:23.0 | bootross and a heavily pregnant wife. So there is I mean I'll tell you all about this in the |
| 1:27.8 | post amble should you choose to listen. And there is some extra material from this |
| 1:31.6 | episode at the insiders club as ever |
| 1:34.0 | comedians comedian dot com slash insiders so if you want to donate to the show with a |
| 1:38.3 | subscribing recurring subscription payment of two pounds plus but everyone gets the same stuff then by |
| 1:44.3 | all means hop along to the insiders club and you can also hear a special sort of an |
| 1:49.3 | advance copy if you like of the Alice Fraser interview that we did live as part of the |
| 1:53.1 | Com meetup if you want to find out more about stuff like that as it happens you can |
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