272 - John Robertson
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Creator of The Dark Room, one of the most exciting, imaginative, maddening and hilariously cruel live experiences Stu has ever been a part of, John Robertson is also a stand-up, tending towards lunatic clown. We talk about weaponising outsider status to survive school, and the dynamic between outlandish persona and the "over-indulged child" within. But how to you nurture joy when you get paid to scream abuse at people?
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:31.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm very pleased to be talking to John Robertson, creator of the Dark Room, which is the most baffling, cruel, hilarious and exciting show slash experience that I've ever seen and been a part of. |
| 1:16.6 | I think I've seen it five or six times now all over the world. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a live action video game where no good deed goes unpunished. |
| 1:24.6 | We're going to talk about it in some detail later in this interview, but John is also an excellent |
| 1:28.4 | clown, a storyteller, a lunatic stand-up and also someone untroubled by a large persona. |
| 1:37.5 | So we're going to get stuck into John and talk about his background and how he weaponized |
| 1:42.0 | his outsider status to cope with being bullied and also to cope with kind of |
| 1:47.4 | being over-indulged in middle class. |
| 1:50.2 | So all of that about to happen right now. |
| 1:53.5 | Just before we launch into that, just a quick reminder, the t-shirt pre-sale for the new incredible |
| 1:58.1 | fuckam t-shirts designed by Lease Richardson is available to comedians comedian.com |
| 2:02.8 | slash merch and all of my tour stuff is at comedians comedian |
| 2:06.0 | dot com slash tour that's all of that we'll chat to you more about bits and |
| 2:09.7 | Bob's in the middle you won't need to pin back your ears because he will blast them back this is |
| 2:14.4 | John Robertson. |
| 2:17.0 | What is the difference between you and your stand-up persona? |
| 2:25.0 | Well, the difference is that occasionally I sleep and my stand-up persona most certainly doesn't. |
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