267 - Elf Lyons
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Elf Lyons is a comic phenomenon; a sexy clown with weaponised vulnerability, who loves tackling impossible theatrical challenges. Recorded before some complex health issues took her out of action, this conversation goes into depth on Elf's process, including how dealing with a horrible experience via bouffon clown allowed her to access a funnier self. We discuss what a rare bird is the audience, what parental pressure means to her, why you can't force meaning, and how to style out your weirdness.
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| 1:14.1 | Today we're going to be hearing from Elf Lyons. |
| 1:16.4 | Now this interview was recorded during the Edinburgh Festival this year at the Place Hotel, |
| 1:20.8 | thanks to the Place Hotel on York Place in Edinburgh for your kind |
| 1:24.8 | offer of rehearsal space. But since this episode was recorded, Elf is currently out |
| 1:30.9 | of action. I'm going to read a statement from Elf which will tell us exactly what's going on. |
| 1:36.1 | A mixture of Cordo equina and degenerative disc disease caused her to cancel a few gigs which has annoyed her after suffering a health |
| 1:44.0 | scare post-Medusa that's a show of hers where she lost all feeling in her |
| 1:47.8 | genitals and mobility in her lower half she is currently repairing at home after |
| 1:52.3 | time in hospital before going back to |
| 1:54.1 | hospital to fix her spine and thus protect her legs and her genitals which she |
| 1:58.3 | loves so dearly. So we wish her all the best I'm using the Royal We There I and I'm sure everyone else involved with the podcast and listening to it |
| 2:06.0 | wish Elf all the best. She's a phenomenal a phenomenally accomplished comedian. |
| 2:11.0 | She's a brilliant comic. She's a very funny clown. |
| 2:14.0 | Her stuff is part of, I suppose, the new wave of clowning, |
| 2:18.0 | which is... I don't even know if clowning is the right title for what she does, |
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