320 - Flo & Joan

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Flo and Joan are a uniquely funny musical duo, with deadpan front-cloth patter rooted in their actual siblinghood. We talk about going from open mics to a special on Amazon Prime in just four years, get the inside story on their recent gig at the Royal Variety Performance, and learn why going viral makes you turn your phone off. We also discover what they learnt from the Canadian improv scene that underpins the whole shebang, and find out why shaking an egg is harder than it looks...

Thirty minutes of extras exclusive to the Insiders Club include a directorial tip that helped them trend on twitter on their first opening weekend; the backstage story on the Nationwide telly adverts that blew up and resulted in death threats; a look at the devilishly cunning improv-style narrative structure that forms the backbone of their special; plus the girls' analysis of each other's strengths and weaknesses!

And some burps.

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Soho Theatre run starts 13th Jan

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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. Hello and
0:35.0	welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to
0:38.0	Flo and Joan not their real names but they are real sisters.
0:42.0	This is a musical double act who have gone from
0:45.2	zero to hero alarmingly quickly. They started out doing Edinburgh I think before
0:50.4	they'd even done any circuit gigs in 2014 and they have just done the Royal Variety
0:56.4	performance and have also got a fantastic special on Amazon Prime. In a terrifying, I mean what is that?
1:02.1	2014? It might even be 15. It's something absolutely disgusting
1:06.3	and we talk about the ridiculousness of that. They are really funny. They're really funny.
1:11.2	You might know them from the nationwide adverts. There was some controversy there. They were not really controversy, but basically a load of Bellen sent them a load of hate mail. But we'll talk about that a little bit as well. And although that is their kind of probably their biggest thing,
1:26.3	they have some viral videos on YouTube as well, it would be easy to feel as a comedy professional, who are these upstarts who've suddenly turned up and are doing incredibly well.
1:36.4	Well, I really want you to meet them because they are really funny. The Amazon special is excellent and I think you're really going to get along with them.
1:45.0	With thanks as ever to Angel comedy for use of their recording space,
1:49.0	this is Flo and Joe. Thanks for coming on the show.
1:57.0	I very recently saw your Amazon Prime special,
2:02.0	which is like a Netflix special but on a different platform.
2:04.7	Same but different. It's so great. Thank you. It's so great. I suppose I was kind of
2:11.6	peripherally aware of you probably firstly from the nationwide
2:16.6	advert and probably specifically the concept of backlash to and and first.
2:23.4	That was probably the first bit of marketing,
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