31 - Heath "Chopper" Franklin
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2013
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Heath Franklin performs stand-up as his alter-ego “Chopper”, a caricature of Australia's infamous career criminal and self-promoter. We explore the careful path Heath treads to avoid encouraging fans of the real thing, and instead make the character a victim of his own rage. We also uncover the challenges faced by a talented comic phasing out a successful character, in the search for richer pickings from his own identity...
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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. I can never get that right. |
| 0:31.2 | May I have your attention, please. you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:48.0 | Check the Uber app. |
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| 0:54.0 | This is the Comedians, Comedian Pod-Pog. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome to the show. This is the first episode that I've |
| 1:14.7 | recorded here at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Here is Heath Franklin. |
| 1:21.1 | Heath Cholm. Heath Chopper Franklin as you're going by these days or as I noticed on the board |
| 1:28.2 | outside the Vagabond theatre last night's just Chopper. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah you're sort of known as Chopper I mean I've seen you you took |
| 1:34.8 | shows to Edinburgh over the last few years yeah I did last year and 2007 and |
| 1:44.3 | We were when I first started I |
| 1:48.0 | We're basically really lucky. I went from being a uni student doing |
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