Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

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. So, Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm speaking to Doc Brown

someone I've been anxious to get on the show for some time we We started gigging around about the same time. I was

fractionally before him I think and he is a really fascinating and incredibly productive person.

He is not only an excellent stand-up comedian

with a fine line in comedy rap,

but he's also a very real and professional and influential rapper.

He's got a bunch of albums which you can check out under the name Doc Brown.

And we will go on to talk about the pitfalls of having a comedy name that is the same as your rap name.

Probably not something that's going to crop up in the practice of many of you,

but really interesting to hear how someone as just industrially confident and phenomenally, he's the sort of guy that's got

his own production company, you know, one of those guys, he goes, I can do this, I can do this,

I'm doing that, he acts, he writes, he produces, he he wraps he does comedy and yet despite that

incredibly kind of productive and unshakably kind of self-believing, self-believing, is that a phrase?

Despite that exterior, he is someone who by his own admission, and we'll talk about this in the episode,

is a patchwork of anxiety and depression. So it looks like we're

in for some absolutely classic com com. It's a joy talking to Ben. He is articulate and passionate and oh I remember there's I've

we started now with this might the beginning of this might be a bit truncated we

started with a half hour chat which I've put on the insiders club at

comedians comedian.com slash insiders all about how he hosted the LA

BAFTA a year or two ago and had to host and write his own jokes, prepare his own material

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