327 - Matt Winning
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
A man on a mission, comedian and academic Dr Matt Winning is an expert on climate change and on making the apocalypse funny. We explore how to make a show educational without being worthy, finding purpose in struggle, and how to survive as a comic when you’re not motivated to quit your day job. We also dig into the maintenance of optimism when your crises are about something a little more meaningful than comedy, and gloss over the difference between polar bears and pall-bearers…
25 mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Matt on “coming out” as a scientist in comedy, how his love of the surreal clashes with the mainstream direction of his mission, and we get a morsel of the inside story on the infamous “Bearpit Podcast Podcast”. Join now 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. |
| 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 there and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm talking to Matt winning or to give him his full scientific title Dr Matthew winning who lives an incredible double life |
| 1:09.9 | He is not only a very funny brilliant stand-up comedian whose last show at the Edinburgh Festival reduced me to tears in two different ways. |
| 1:17.5 | He's also a proper climate change scientist. He's a professional climate change researcher and we're going to talk about maintaining |
| 1:25.3 | optimism not just about the climate itself but maintaining optimism as an artist when your crises are about something |
| 1:32.0 | a little bit more meaningful in comedy. |
| 1:34.0 | We're going to talk about how to make a show educational without being worthy |
| 1:38.0 | and how to survive as a comic when you're not motivated to quit your day job. There's loads of |
| 1:44.0 | fascinating stuff to dig into here. You might remember when I saw at Matt's show, I |
| 1:48.3 | think I did a post-ambul all about it last, whenever it was, September that probably came out because I was so profoundly |
| 1:55.4 | affected by the science of climate change as brought to life in a really |
| 2:01.0 | evocative and pretty terrifying way by Matt and I also just want to |
| 2:05.9 | caveat this. It's not a, it's the opposite of a caveat. Can't do it fast enough in my head, |
| 2:11.2 | but it's not a warning about bleakness. |
| 2:14.8 | It is a... a... what's the opposite of a warning? |
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