308 - Ellie Taylor
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Host of Live at the Apollo, and with her own Netflix special under her belt, not to mention The Mash Report and appearances on QI and Mock The Week, Ellie Taylor is a born comedian who revels in the dynamic between glamour and grotesque. We discuss her unique introduction to comedy via reality show, how her happy life outside of comedy protects her, the weird science of writing and why she "can't do clever topics"...
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:31.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show Stue Goldsmith here today I'm talking to |
| 1:02.4 | Ellie Taylor. We recorded |
| 1:03.8 | this one a little bit before the Edinburgh Festival, so we're taking a time out from our |
| 1:07.4 | fringe release schedule, our post-fringe release schedule, in order to bring you this |
| 1:12.3 | interview. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm very excited about it. |
| 1:14.4 | Ellie and I started doing stand-up. |
| 1:16.3 | Oh no, we didn't start together, |
| 1:18.0 | but we started doing stand-up on TV kind of together |
| 1:21.3 | when we both took part in a show called Show Me the Funny, which arguably didn't. |
| 1:26.7 | But we'll be talking about that a little bit and our experiences on it. |
| 1:30.8 | It was very, very successful for Ellie and really made the world aware of her |
| 1:37.3 | at exactly the right time. Or was it? We shall hear. We shall hear, who is he? |
| 1:42.4 | Giles Brandreth. Anyway, the point is that this episode is coming out now because |
| 1:48.0 | although I didn't prioritize it throughout Edinburgh, I wanted to kind of push and promo people who are on at the Edinburgh Festival |
| 1:54.1 | Ellie is going on tour from the 26th of September she's going to be appearing at the |
| 1:58.5 | Epsom somewhere in Epsom I don't know where it is, I assume. Is it the playhouse, the theatre? |
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