288 - Chris Addison
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Star of "The Thick Of It" and "In The Loop", and award-winning director of "Veep", comedian Chris Addison is the director of new feature film "The Hustle", starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway. We talk about his apprenticeship under Armando Iannucci, how he handles the very first day on set, and the difference between a perfect version and a useful vision...
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| 1:12.2 | Chris Addison who many of you in this country will know as a brilliant stand-up comedian and actor. |
| 1:18.0 | He's most known, I guess, before now this is, for his work as Ollie in the thick of it, the political drama which was created |
| 1:26.6 | by Armando Junucci and which went on to enormous success representing as faithfully |
| 1:32.3 | and accurately as it did the horrific |
| 1:34.2 | state of the kind of eternal middle person nurse of British politics and he was |
| 1:40.9 | in the thick of it he was all and he went on to direct an episode or two of it as we shall discover |
| 1:45.3 | And then he was in the movie in the loop and then he started directing VEP which many of you will be huge fans of |
| 1:52.4 | Chris has a movie coming out he's now a proper Hollywood Beep, which many of you will be huge fans of. |
| 1:52.5 | Chris has a movie coming out. |
| 1:54.0 | He's now a proper Hollywood director. |
| 1:56.3 | His movie The Hustle is released in the next few weeks, |
| 1:58.5 | and it stars Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway. |
| 2:01.4 | I caught up with him at the Avalon offices. Very, very exciting. and So I think you've got about an hour and 20 here and there's a further half an hour available exclusively to members of the insiders club at comedians comedian.com |
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