268 - Imran Yusuf
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Swaggering and slick yet positive and passionate, Imran Yusuf talks fast and funny, and dances around accusations of arrogance. The first free fringe act to be nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Festival, appearing shortly afterwards on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, it looked as if the world was at his feet. But he is the first to admit he didn't capitalise on his success, and now takes a forensic approach to the business decisions and alliances he regrets. We talk about how his previous job in the video-games industry affects his quality control; uncover the dynamic between his work ethic and an "internal unworthiness", and discover his voracious attitude to personal development...
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| 1:04.0 | intro and the middle bits for this episode and just let you get on and enjoy the show itself. |
| 1:09.8 | This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast in which I take a lens, a magnifying lens of some sort |
| 1:16.9 | to the brain processes of your favorite comedians and work out crucially if they're happy and how they write and perform their material. |
| 1:25.6 | And today I'm very excited to be talking to Imran Yussuf, who I caught up with at the Edinburgh |
| 1:30.0 | Festival, just gone. |
| 1:31.3 | Imran is a really interesting character. He's a voraciously, I'm not |
| 1:36.3 | going to say obsessed, but he has a voracious appetite for personal development. |
| 1:39.9 | He talks extraordinarily quickly and has a real lust for life. |
| 1:44.6 | He's a very happy self-made kind of a comic and has a very interesting backstory. |
| 1:50.6 | Notably he kind of blew up quite early in the end of, where was it, kind of around |
| 1:56.1 | 2010. |
| 1:57.1 | He was the first free fringe act ever to be nominated for the newcomer award, the best |
| 2:01.4 | newcomer comic at the Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 2:04.0 | And then a few months later he was on Michael McIntyre's comedy road show |
| 2:08.0 | which I think predated live at the Apollo for being one of like the |
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