322 - Tom Basden
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Returning to stand-up this month with a run at Soho Theatre, after many years working on other projects including his sitcom Plebs, Tom Basden is inventive and prolific, also handsome. We talk about the parallels between the superb musical comedy that won him Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh fringe and his new stand-up, discover Tom's English middle-class-ness and why he's very suited to telling some "guys" to "calm down", and explore whether his work ethic is pathological...
Extras exclusively available to the Insiders Club include some really specific insight into the structuring and writing of Tom's sitcom "Plebs", and the dangers of mining real life events for comedy, and Stu railing at the injustice of how the TV sketch show "Cowards" didn't become better known. Join the Insiders Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders
Find details and tickets for Tom's imminent Soho Theatre run:
04/12/19
Aldershot – The West End Centre
25/01/20
Corsham – The Pound Arts Centre
01/02/20
Newcastle Stand (early show – 5pm)
02/02/20
07/02/20
11/02/20
12/02/20
28/02/20
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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. |
| 0:21.0 | Attention all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:31.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this |
| 0:34.2 | this Christmas. |
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| 0:38.0 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:39.4 | Check the Uber app. up. Hello, welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedians comedian podcast and happy new year if this is the first time you're hearing from me |
| 1:06.1 | I was considering doing a little mini episode with a debrief of all the fun I had in America |
| 1:12.2 | appearing on Conan because I had an awful lot of fun and I don't |
| 1:15.8 | want to sort of bore you senseless with it at the end of this episode. |
| 1:18.8 | So I might do a little debrief in the next couple of days and just tell you all about how it went down because I think there |
| 1:25.0 | was I'll do it as there we go I've made my mind up I'll do it as a special episode because that |
| 1:29.7 | way if it doesn't interest you to hear the minuoshai of the decisions I made about, the set and all the other stuff that happened, you can simply skip the episode. |
| 1:36.5 | But suffice to say, I am so proud of it. I think it's the best thing I've done on Teley and thank you to all of you and I mean this I really I think I said this last episode as well |
| 1:47.5 | the amount of you who got in touch the day before and on the day to say that I was kind of doing it for all of us and that you all |
| 1:54.4 | had my back and all the rest of it. I was so touched. I was genuinely really |
| 1:58.8 | touched. So thank you everyone that got in touch and thank you everyone that has |
| 2:02.2 | watched it on YouTube on the Conan the Team |
| 2:05.4 | Koko channel T-A-M-C-O-C-O-O-C-O-O-O-O-C-O and see me amalgamating jokes |
| 2:11.7 | over the last three or four years into an incredibly tight four and a half minute set |
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