277 - Jessica Fostekew
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Character-filled comedian and actress, Jessica Fostekew is also the presenter of her own podcast "Hoovering", and guest co-host of The Guilty Feminist. We talk about how noticing her own faked confidence led to a sea-change in her creative process, the "crime" of mixing stand-up and acting, the joys of fabricating the truth, and when to drink the champagne...
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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 |
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| 0:20.6 | We don't just do Christmas at Curries. We do it properly by giving you just that little bit more. |
| 0:26.0 | How about a two in one convertible Lenovo Chromebook plus Flex5i? |
| 0:31.0 | It starts fast and has built in virus protection so you can do more of what you love, now only |
| 0:36.2 | three-four-nine, a 150-pound saving. And it's free delivery. Going beyond expectations this Christmas at Curries. Was 499 from 1st to 21st of November |
| 0:47.4 | subject to availability in most areas. You're Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm talking to the brilliant Jess Fostacue. and baby on my tummy in one of those carrier type things so I am talking but you might |
| 1:26.7 | hear me being a slightly lower register the usual and also you might hear some snuffily |
| 1:31.4 | breathing can you hear that? There she is that's the girl very |
| 1:36.2 | asleep so before we go into this conversation thank you to the angel |
| 1:40.3 | comedy club angel comedy.co. UK who allowed us to record this in their fabulous |
| 1:44.8 | venue, the Bill Murray, which remains a really interesting experiment in a bunch of comedians |
| 1:50.5 | and comedy-related people getting together, getting a lease on a building and |
| 1:54.1 | actually putting their hearts and souls into making it work as an everyday comedy club |
| 1:58.7 | with a load of additional space. |
| 2:00.5 | It's a hub of courses and networking. |
| 2:03.0 | Networking is completely the wrong word, but you could learn loads of stuff there about comedy |
| 2:06.8 | and they're just really good people and people who are very passionate about the art as I know you are. So Angel Comedy. |
| 2:13.7 | co. UK I've got to admit I'm guessing that web address but I feel like I've written it down on email |
| 2:17.9 | addresses before so I think that's the one. Loads of great stuff going on there |
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