258 - Nick Thune
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Whipsmart hipster Nick Thune combines hilarious club chops with genuine insight. In a hotel room at SXSW we discuss how he has fashioned a beautiful cage of a career, the difference between "open" and "closed" jokes, and deserving happiness. We also hear the incredible tale of the time he got to sift through the old notebooks of comedy legend Mitch Hedberg...
Nick's latest special 'Good Guy' on Amazon Prime
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
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| 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. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:31.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
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| 0:40.0 | I like to sell, you know, like I want to be a salesman I love sales and I'm up there |
| 0:48.3 | selling you know I'm I want you to buy my fucking product. This is a podcastians, comedian pod Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is the only |
| 1:15.5 | podcast about comedy now if the Edinburgh Fringe coverage and mentions of the |
| 1:20.1 | fringe have been turning you off over the last couple of weeks or months because you're |
| 1:23.0 | unable to visit here. Yes here I am still here for the final week. I thought I'd throw you a little |
| 1:29.1 | curveball maybe something to take your mind off all of the Edinburgh Festival doings if you're unable |
| 1:34.4 | to get here. So this is an episode recorded with a fantastic American comedian |
| 1:38.6 | called Nick Thune, which I recorded in his tiny but very well appointed hotel room at the |
| 1:44.4 | South by Southwest Festival in Texas earlier this year. Nick is just a |
| 1:49.1 | sensational comedian as you'll hear he started off as a kind of one liner guy pretty quickly grew to |
| 1:54.4 | understand how jokes work from the inside out and then has decided to use that |
| 1:58.7 | understanding and that skill to take himself into a very different sphere of comedy. |
| 2:03.5 | I highly recommend his latest Netflix special. |
| 2:06.0 | I'm recording this on the fly in Edinburgh and I can't remember off the top of my head what it's called. |
| 2:10.0 | It's got a name where you go, oh, he's thought about this. |
| 2:13.0 | And it's one of those, did I say Netflix? |
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