296 - Markus Birdman
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
A multi-media artist, fascinated with language, rhythm, and combining jokes with drawing, Markus Birdman also isn't above a dick joke. Aiming for “high octane and no gaps”, with routines composed like a drum solo, we uncover his volatile relationship with his father and his father's God, the stroke that he almost mistook for a hangover, and wanting to be angry as a means of self-definition.
30 mins of extras from this episode are available at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders, including Markus on survivor's guilt, the shot at the top that he might have missed, whether you can fake greatness in comedy, and a short sharp strategy for overcoming writer's block...
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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. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm talking to |
| 0:37.6 | Marcus Birdman a brilliant comic I describe him as a a multimedia artist I think in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:45.0 | He combines, I mean recently he's been combining his very good, very solid club comedy. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, this is really someone who could |
| 0:53.3 | confidently headline any room in the world but he's he's been combining that with |
| 0:58.7 | drawing he's a he's a proper drawing artist when you we don't often talk about artists on this |
| 1:03.7 | program at least as people being those who can actually draw and but he can and |
| 1:07.8 | also he has other kind of artistic concerns within stand-up itself we We get on to we stumble upon something which |
| 1:15.2 | I'm very glad we did about how he uses rhythm and meter and language in his |
| 1:20.6 | jokes. He's someone who the jokes themselves become very scripted because he has to nail the same rhythm every time because he wants to because that's part of the the architecture of the joke. |
| 1:29.7 | So there's a really fascinating chat to be had about that and we talk about his volatile |
| 1:33.7 | relationship with his father who was a priest and with his father's God who is God so |
| 1:39.2 | or isn't God depending on your point of view so So we're going to get stuck right into that in just a moment. |
| 1:44.8 | Quick reminder, both Marcus and myself will be at the Edinburgh Festival, |
| 1:48.1 | so listen out or check the show notes for details of those shows. |
| 1:52.1 | And if you would like to join the insiders club |
| 1:54.4 | at comedians comedian.com slash insiders like so many before you then not only do you get |
| 1:59.7 | access to the the Slack workspace app that we can all chat to each other and gossip on but you |
| 2:06.3 | also get the private podcast which has got episodes of a show where we critique other |
| 2:11.9 | comics work, |
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