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🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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In the hands of a lesser comic, Ahir Shah's ambitions towards political discourse might seem lofty, but this agile act has the punchlines to back them up.
We explore how he sees one-liners as ".zip" files, using punchy gags into which he's compressed huge ideas, and learn how he attempts to safeguard his precarious mental health, particularly with regard to the loneliness of the job.
20 mins of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club includes Ahir on his survival tips for small scale touring, the strategy behind his switch from the free to the paid fringe this year, and the thought he'll keep in mind when appearing shortly on "Have I Got News For You". Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders to access the private podcast with all extra content plus "Comedy Critique", in which the Insiders collaborate on feedback to newer comics!
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0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
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0:35.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
0:38.0 | T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and if you can hear some background noise you might be able to faintly |
1:04.3 | hear some barely recognizable R&B I think in the background. |
1:09.6 | That's because I am backstage at the Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool where I've been enjoying a fantastic |
1:14.1 | weekend of gigs here and I'm very pleased to say that whilst I was here I managed to |
1:18.4 | snag not only brilliant comic Marcus Birdman but also the phenomenon that is Paul Smith. |
1:24.8 | So we've got two cracking episodes in the camera, those guys racked up ready to come out in the |
1:29.5 | next few weeks. |
1:31.3 | I am taking advantage of this, you you know you know in the way that we're all |
1:35.8 | trying to do 10 things at once these days so when I'm away from home I'm like right |
1:38.6 | I'm going to do all me I've been going to get a load of podcast going to do a |
1:40.6 | bunch of gigs and also record some blurbs. Well here we are. |
1:44.0 | Ladies and gentlemen I'm thrilled today to be bringing you an episode with Ahir Shah, |
1:48.0 | someone I've been aware of for a long time. I've not gagged with him quite as often as many of my contemporaries. I guess I'm |
1:56.7 | at a stage now when someone like I hear I think of him as a newer comic which is preposterous |
2:01.4 | because he's done as you'll hear what seven |
2:03.8 | eight hours at Edinburgh he's been he's been cracking on in no uncertain terms |
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