266 - Ismo Leikola

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Crowned "Funniest Person In The World" at the Hollywood Laugh Factory, Finnish Ismo is often described as a Scandinavian Mitch Hedberg. We discuss his intertwined logic and absurdity, learn how his fascination with jokes annoys even other comics, and analyse "Are you happy?" as a trick question... Extra material for members of the Insiders Club includes Ismo on the perfect joke, what not to assume of your audience, and an example of a joke in Finnish translated into English, all on the private podcast at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders

Stu’s 2019 tour of “End Of” has just gone on sale!

“A comedy masterclass… Endlessly inventive” (The List)

Tickets for the first half of the tour at these links:

07/10/2018 Aberystwyth Comedy Festival – The Coliseum

22/02/2019 Maidenhead – Norden Farm

01/03/2019 Falmouth – The Poly

13/03/2019 Salisbury Art Centre

29/03/2019 Crawley – The Hawth

05/04/2019 Reading – South Street Arts

12/04/2019 Leamington Spa - Royal Spa Centre

17/04/2019 Oxford Old Fire Station

19/04/2019 Bromsgrove – The Artix

27/04/2019 Plymouth Barbican

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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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0:39.4	Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show this is Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm talking to
1:02.0	Ismo Lycola he's a stand-up comedian from Finland. He absolutely
1:07.2	rinsed a garlic performance I saw, a global, I can't remember what they called it, it was at the Montreal Just for Last
1:14.1	Comedy Festival a couple of years ago and there was a very strong lineup of
1:18.4	international acts and Ismo absolutely burnt the place down.
1:23.2	He was so, so good in just a sort of tiny seven minute
1:27.6	gala spot.
1:28.8	And he's got an incredible and a really unusual attitude on stage and unusual sense of humor and I think what he really
1:38.0	excels in and certainly did that night and when I saw him more recently at the Edinburgh Festival he's really expert at
1:45.9	winning over an audience to his very strange sense of humour.
1:49.2	Yeah I think that's it I wasn't sure what I was going to say there and I think it's exactly that he's
1:53.2	very very funny and has a really pleasing accent to listen to and so I hope you
2:00.3	you enjoy this interview with one of not the we established not the biggest
2:05.0	comic in Finland but maybe the second biggest what does he say the
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