27 - Rob Rouse

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

One of the nicest men in comedy, with an effervescent wit and fantastic jokes, Rob Rouse is also better placed than most to observe the ups and downs of a career in TV. He talks here candidly about the effect his changing fortunes have had on his outlook, and how his family life has helped him grow as a comic as well as a man.

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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
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can never get that right. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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1:13.0	This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Pod Here's Rob Rouse. Let's talk about getting better because you are someone who I have known for a long time, I've known your work for a long time and the last time I saw you in Sheffield doing this story about your wife giving birth.
1:39.3	Yeah. Was I found you were comparing and I was doing I think I was just doing a set
1:44.3	that was about a year ago was it? Yeah yeah that I found you I've found you almost
1:48.6	unfollowably good and you were comparing that story that stuff that you were doing there was so good
1:56.5	I thought bloody L what's what have you been taking?
2:00.0	Do you know what I mean?
2:02.0	Have you like the stuff of yours I was most familiar with before was stuff like your duck, you know, your pet duck kind of stuff.
2:09.6	And I'm funny enough, I saw some of that online earlier in the week and I was like I remember
2:14.4	yeah it was stuff with like the kids having a go at you go what is that and the rest of it
2:18.3	it's lovely and but the stuff I saw about your wife giving birth was straight ahead of that stuff.
2:24.8	Oh, geez.
2:25.8	Yeah, I mean, not to insult the original stuff, which I thought was great.
2:28.8	So do you feel that you've, like I'm aware that I haven't seen you along that process and it's always like
2:35.1	when you see a kid and then you see a couple years later, oh you've grown, you know, that's sort of thing.
2:38.7	That can be because you're, because one is observing it from sort of too far away but I suppose
2:45.2	what I'm asking is it looks from the outside like something has happened to you
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