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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

297 - Paul Smith

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Almost certainly the comedian with the most online content in the world, Paul Smith has uploaded over 1000 short clips of his crowdwork at Liverpool's Hot Water Comedy Club, and caught a wave of success he could never have imagined. We talk about the moment he nearly lost control of his 8000-strong hometown arena show, why he doesn't want or need TV exposure, and how he feels about the prospect of being credited as the originator of certain stock material and structures...


30mins of extras available by joining the Insiders Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders including Paul's advice for comics aiming to follow in his footsteps, his very early TV work in a standup competition, and how he manages to retain his resistance to pressure.


Paul's Youtube clips | @paulisthejoker | Paul's upcoming Hot Water gigs


Tickets for my show Primer at this year's Edinburgh Fringe 


@ComComPod | www.comedianscomedian.com



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Transcript

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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

0:14.6

November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com.

0:20.3

It doesn't matter how neatly you pack them away.

0:23.1

Christmas lights will always be tangled.

0:26.1

And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle.

0:28.9

It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled

0:31.2

the more you attempt to untangle it.

0:33.0

So, to the loft I go.

0:35.0

With just my Christmasy coffee for company.

0:38.0

And if I'm not backed by New Year, Merry Christmas.

0:41.0

Our gingerbread latte is now at Costa.

0:44.0

That's Christmas.

0:45.0

But Costa coffee made a little better. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today on the comedians comedian I am talking to

1:14.4

Paul Smith a man who do you remember the episode with Sindhu V a couple of weeks ago

1:19.7

now where we were talking about her astonishingly stratospheric rise from not quite

1:26.4

open spot but you know in in the space of about five years I would guess she's gone

1:30.6

from just starting to massive UK TV appearances.

1:35.0

And Paul Smith has managed to sort of do that cubed.

1:42.0

He started, I'll let him tell his own story, but effectively if you don't

1:46.1

recognize his name, it's a very ordinary name that he has, but you might know him as, you know, that ginger scouse guy who's on all the internets.

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