4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Six years after his first appearance, Josh returns for a textbook ComCom conversation about his creative development since then! We get even further into the minutiae of his writing and structuring process and what makes a perfect observation, plus some spicy celebrity gossip about Taskmaster and the secret of his rebooking success on the Graham Norton Show!
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0:39.4 | Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Gold. Today we are welcoming back to the podcast, |
1:03.7 | Josh Widdicham, live from the Secret Welsh Comedy Festival |
1:07.0 | in Machuncliff. |
1:08.0 | So if you are a fan of Josh or a fan of, |
1:10.9 | and I've got to say this is a really fun live one, the first half is some really meaty process stuff. |
1:17.0 | He's a very conscientious writer and listener of this show as well, and we get into some very detailed nitty gritty of the writing process. |
1:25.2 | The second half there's some juicy celebrity anecdotes and we talk a little bit |
1:29.0 | about Taskmaster and Josh's appearance and victories therein and we also talk about exactly why he is so good at appearing as a guest on the |
1:39.6 | Graham Norton show and other high-foluting chat chat shows is an excellent guest and very frequently invited back. |
1:46.5 | And we find out exactly why. It's a really fascinating bit of detail coming up on that. |
1:50.9 | No insiders club extras today. We just had the hour, shall we bash straight |
1:54.4 | through and that's all there is to say, I think. I'll chat to you a bit in the middle for now. |
2:00.3 | No, I'll chat to you at the end. Let's just run this one all the way through, |
2:03.1 | and I will have a quick word with you at the end |
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