325 - Ninia Benjamin
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
A juggernaut of charisma and filth, Ninia Benjamin has a supernatural connection to her audience and a mind like a firework display. We discuss why she won’t ever explain her race or size, only her point of view, and how she moved beyond the onstage anger that used to motivate her. We also dig deep into her career rebirth after an ‘annus horribilis’ brought about by professional struggles and her own impostor syndrome. This far into her career, can she finally accept herself as a “proper comedian”?
Extras include Ninia on writing for Aladdin and what she sang to Will Smith, a deep-dive into why she identifies writing comedy with “homework”, and a full on pep-talk from Stu about exactly how she should attack the Edinburgh festival… Access them, and all other extra content, by singing up the Insiders Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders
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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. |
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| 0:39.4 | Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith this is the the comedian's comedian. It's a sort of lifetime project. |
| 1:05.2 | It's taken eight years of my life and I'm never intending to stop. It's a project in which I try to |
| 1:10.4 | get inside the creative processes of your favorite comedian, certainly my favorite |
| 1:15.4 | comedian, so do scan the back catalogue and see if we've had. I'm forever getting tweets from |
| 1:19.2 | people going, oh you should do Barry Cryer and I'm like done him three years ago look it up. |
| 1:23.0 | Today I am talking to Ninnier Benjamin who is a phenomenal presence on stage, a very |
| 1:29.2 | very funny comedian and I'm stressing that particularly because quite quickly in this conversation |
| 1:33.8 | we're going to get into the murky depths of Ninnia's self-doubt. |
| 1:37.8 | She's almost an archetypal thing about an archetyful thing. What a sentence that started so high brown they got very low |
| 1:45.4 | brow. My apologies. What I'm trying to say is that Ninnia is a perfect example of how the |
| 1:52.2 | phenomenal floor-filling roof-raising confidence of the expert comedian |
| 1:57.7 | can co-exist with the sense that one doesn't have anything to offer, anything to teach that, and particularly |
| 2:05.7 | as Ninnia will express in her case, that she feels she is not a proper comedian, which I cannot disagree with enough and I'm going to spend over the next hour |
| 2:16.0 | and a half and there's a good 25 minutes or so of extra content on this show as well. |
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