26 - Stephen Grant

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2013

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Grant is one of the hardest-working comedians in Britain, with an unshakeable belief in the meritocracy of comedy. We go into depth on how we writes for himself and with other higher-profile comics including Seann Walsh and Russell Kane. He also shares with us some very perceptive analysis of the comedy circuit and proves mathematically that one can never run out of funny.

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0:14.4	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
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1:14.0	This is a podcast from comedian podcast. Hello there, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and in this episode I'm talking to comedian,
1:18.0	MC writer and promoter, Stephen Grant.
1:30.0	I started out in comedy like I said in night seven and and the whole thing was that I my approach to it was fascination in this in this black art you know and trying to
1:37.3	work out what it is that made something stick one thing's didn't and like all enthusiastic but ultimately non-natural comics and I'm not a natural comic
1:48.4	and I'm again that's another subject I'm very I'm very interested in is the difference between the whole idea
1:55.3	behind Bald Comics and people who learn the job.
1:57.2	I learned through mistakes.
1:59.2	I just I understood there were lots of different ways of doing comedy and I probably tried all of them and I just dismissed them one at a time
2:06.5	When they didn't work. I mean if I was a police detective looking for a murderer, I'd accuse everybody and then one by one wheel them down until I found
2:14.1	someone who did it.
2:15.1	Right.
2:16.1	And that's, and that's, that was my approach.
2:18.7	My approach was, I don't understand how this works, but I'm going to find out by trying everything and dismissing
2:23.6	everything that does okay okay so that I mean that's fascinating that you that I mean
2:27.6	that's a really I've never heard anyone say that before I'm not a
2:30.0	natural comic I sometimes feel that about myself I feel like the only way I'm doing
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