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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

279 - POLICE COPS (Live at Vault Festival)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Acaster, Persona, Arts, Carr, Jokes, Writing, Cope, In-depth, Learn, Comedy, Widdicombe, Burr, Society & Culture, Interview, Performing Arts, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

If I told you "Police Cops" met at drama school, mucked about to make their fellow students laugh and now tour an action movie spoof comedy show, you might turn up your nose. But you'd be a fool to ignore their hyper-speed joke rate, astonishing innovation and innate physical clowning. They are laugh-til-you-cry, standing-ovation funny, and they're converting crowds into baying fans wherever they go. We talk live in a dank cellar about their favourite gags, their gag-grinding process, and the providence of brown stains...


SEE POLICE COPS ON TOUR


@PoliceCops_ | www.policecops.co.uk



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22/02/2019 Maidenhead – Norden Farm

01/03/2019 Falmouth – The Poly

13/03/2019 Salisbury Art Centre

20/03/2019 Cheltenham Playhouse

29/03/2019 Crawley -The Hawth

05/04/2019 Reading – South Street Arts

12/04/2019 Leamington Spa - Royal Spa Centre

17/04/2019 Oxford Old Fire Station

19/04/2019 Bromsgrove – The Artix

27/04/2019 Plymouth Barbican

9-11/05/2019 Soho Theatre, London


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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 and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today I am bringing you this

1:02.2

podcast live recorded live at the Volt Comedy Festival.

1:06.0

It's a theatre festival as well actually, all sorts of things there, which takes place in the

1:10.0

vaults beneath Waterloo. It goes on for weeks and weeks and it's one of those

1:14.1

environments that if I'd walked into it when I was 22 it would have changed my life

1:17.6

absolutely it's like an undercity it's like a sort of I don't, it's fringy as hell and if you don't hear this in time to visit it this time,

1:26.9

definitely put it in your diary for next time. Really, really exciting kind of catacombs and secret rooms, seven or eight venues maybe, really

1:35.2

exciting bars and it's all tucked away on down Leak Street in Central London

1:40.5

which is entertainingly graffitiffited sort of an area, feels really special and futuristic

1:46.5

and kind of made of pallets.

1:49.8

You know, proper fringy.

1:50.9

Anyway, that's where we recorded this episode in a cellar in which

1:56.2

Certainly someone has been murdered and it's with police cops now they used to be called the Pretend Men and the police cops is their most successful show.

2:05.5

They've taken the name police cops. So look out for them really. They've only done two shows. They're very, very green

2:12.4

certainly in terms of in the context of this

2:16.0

podcast usual guests. They've only done the two shows, as far as I'm aware, police cops and

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