273 - Laura Davis
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Incredibly insightful and darkly funny, Laura Davis is a truly gifted artist who holds aspects of herself up to the light and says "you too?" We discuss the iron resolve that took her from an "extremely shy and extremely loud" girlhood, to performing jokes without victims, inside a duvet cover. If you've ever thought of jokes as "ideas refracted through a prism of other people's experience", you're going to love this one...
*Content Warning*: This episode contains a discussion of suicidal feelings.
Extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include:
- Some tips on wielding status for naturally shy comedians
- A defence of the right of artists to make shitty work
- A reflection on an early piece of Laura's work in which she deliberately entrapped the audience in an abusive relationship...
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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 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:28.2 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:38.0 | Tees and seas apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Welcome to the show. Today I'm talking to Laura Davis. This is one of the last |
| 1:04.0 | episodes recorded at the Edinburgh Festival just been and I have saved among the best for last. This is a really |
| 1:11.9 | enthralling conversation. |
| 1:13.7 | I was so excited to speak to Laura. |
| 1:15.8 | I loved her show Cake in the Rain a few years ago, |
| 1:19.0 | and I saw Ghost Machine, which she performs entirely, |
| 1:21.8 | almost entirely from within a duvet cover full of fairy lights, which is, I mean, even describing that, you can't really sum up what a beautiful thing that is to see on stage, and you're about to hear some of the motives behind it and some of the really frustrating origins of those motives. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm going to let Laura tell you lots more. She's got a lot to say |
| 1:45.1 | there's some great extra material from this episode available at the insiders club at |
| 1:49.3 | comedians comedian.com slash insiders. A content warning for you before we start we will in a |
| 1:54.8 | later part of the conversation discuss Laura's show Cake in the rain which was |
| 1:59.9 | in part about suicidal feelings. So just to warn you that's going to be coming up |
| 2:04.6 | later on in this conversation. For now I am going to let this phenomenally |
| 2:10.2 | accomplished and very very exciting comic artist speak for herself. This is Laura Davis. |
| 2:17.0 | There is a thing you wrote about comedy and about audiences that I would like to ask you if you |
| 2:26.1 | and you feel free to refuse. I'd like you to, when we're finished, the last thing we do, |
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