Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

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. I'm going to Hello and

welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith.

Today I'm talking to Sean Walsh.

This episode is an hour or so and you can find another 45 minutes of extra material with

Sean Walsh available exclusively to members of the insiders club. We'll talk

about how Sean is unsettled by the aggressive environment on panel shows.

We'll talk about him getting kicked out of

college and the coziness of melancholy that he found as a young person and

we'll cover a genuinely startling and I think unique DIY technique for ridding oneself of nervous energy pre-show.

All of that available at comedians comedian.com slash insiders.

Now we're going to get stuck into this episode. I'm not going to intervene in the middle to talk to you about anything because of I think the sensitive nature of some of what we're going to talk about.

You may know Sean is just an extraordinary observational comic. He has a phenomenal

talent for finding the funny, for really zapping into a subject and knowing what to talk about

and how to ring out of it every possible ounce of funny.

He's a phenomenal physical performer, his act outs are second to none.

You can learn a lot from him.

And also, as many of you will know, he was about to break big in 2018, appearing on Strictly Come Dancing,

which is a sort of celebrity dancing show on the BBC, absolutely enormous profile,

and pictures surfaced of him kissing his dance partner.

We will discuss to a certain extent the tabloid uproar and the accusations that followed and

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