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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

3 - Dan Antopolski

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2012

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It's Episode 3, and Stu interviews Dan Antopolski in his writing-cellar.  Dan explores how to wrong-foot an audience's assumptions, and argues comedy is an art not simply a craft.Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Purple Turtle, Jigsaw, The Dinks, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live, Saturday Night Live, Fry and Laurie, We Are Klang, Rich Hall, Stewart Lee, Harry Hill, Eddie Izzard, Sean Lock, Simon Munnery, David “Kid” Jensen, Tom Craine, Nat Luurtsema, Craig Campbell, Tony Law, The Mighty Boosh, Tom Basden, Rob Deering, The Comedy Store Players, Alexei Sayle, Micky Flanagan, Mark Watson, Ross Noble, Louis CK, Christopher Hitchens

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0:14.4

Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

0:42.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:46.0

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

1:16.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. Hello there and welcome to the comedians comedian podcast. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is episode number three in which I'll be talking to Mr Dan and Topolsky

1:24.0

and this is very different to either the ones we've had so far. I mean of course every

1:27.6

comedian is a beautiful unique snowflake and none more so than the comedy

1:32.3

wizard Dan. I think I think of him as a

1:36.0

wizard because he's kind of peculiar and arcane in his comedy in a very

1:40.7

exciting frothy sort of a way.

1:43.0

But at the same time he's very like a magician,

1:45.0

like a stage magician,

1:46.0

in that we're going to be talking a lot about,

1:49.0

not using these terms, but we're going to be talking

1:51.0

about misdirection and how you can lead an audience up the garden path

1:54.7

and get them to look one way while you're secretly changing the meaning of something somewhere else.

1:59.2

So it's a really fascinating chat. I hope you're going to get a lot out of it.

2:02.3

Dan's a lovely man and

2:05.1

will be mentioning the various things. He's up to Edinburgh this year during the show. So I hope

2:10.6

you enjoy the chat. The show is another long one. I've had some great feedback from people and a lot of you have said you don't mind it being long and someone said that it slays train journeys so that's fine that's exactly what we're after. It's another one of about an hour, I think.

2:24.0

Thanks for your feedback in general.

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