280 - Jeff Innocent
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
A diamond-hard joke writer and phenomenally deft performer, there is no aspect of Jeff Innocent's act that hasn't been honed to perfection.
A purist about several aspects of comedy, some of them surprising, his hard man aesthetic conceals a deadly sophistication. We talk about the poetry of comedy, the pursuit of the rolling laugh, and find out why never to say "hello"...
Around 30mins of extra material available only to members of the insiders club includes Jeff on martial arts, misdirection, feeling vulnerable for the first time, and dropping bombs... Join now at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders
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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. |
| 0:21.0 | Attention all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:31.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this |
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| 0:38.0 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:39.4 | Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith. At long last I am speaking to Jeff Innocent. |
| 1:05.1 | Jeff is someone who has been going for as long as I've been a comic when I started. |
| 1:09.5 | He was already a very, very capable and very well respected headliner and he is, he's the sort of comic |
| 1:18.4 | who's, I mean he's like a real pro, he's a real class act of the sort that I don't know they're making them anymore. |
| 1:26.4 | You know those people? |
| 1:28.0 | This is too sort of personal now, I suppose, but when I started there were people who were diamond hard jokes myths where every minute |
| 1:38.8 | every moment was accounted for and crafted. And these days I suppose the comics that we think of |
| 1:46.6 | as successful comics they have a similar quality but the turnover is so high and |
| 1:51.7 | maybe they're doing huge |
| 1:52.6 | towards huge venues and they're turning over lots of material for TV |
| 1:56.0 | that you don't as often see people with routines which are 100% every breath thought about and every texture developed and I mean I can't say enough good things about Jeff |
| 2:10.4 | is I urge you to seek him out please try and see him live he's got |
| 2:13.2 | bits and Bob's online on YouTube and he's someone I think none of that stuff does |
| 2:17.8 | justice to just how good he is and as we get to talking, Jeff has got, it turns out, post interview, I realize now that a good way to find out what Jeff thinks is to ask him what he doesn't like seeing. |
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