329 - Eshaan Akbar
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Eshaan Akbar has an extremely diverse comic portfolio. This former wealth manager and government policy maker is now a successful TV comedian with a significant career in the making. We talk about his very precise ambitions and his fascination with the absolute freedom of the stage, as well as his disappointment in finding out that comedy is no longer anti-establishment and that comedians are “a precious bunch”. We also touch on Eshaan’s suicide attempt, and get stuck into the tremendous difficulty of exploring a serious emotional topic using comedy.
*Content warning: mention of suicide*
In 30 mins of extras available only to the Insiders Club, Eshaan outlines some fascinating and unique parallels with comedy from his former careers. He portrays different types of jokes by comparing them to bitcoin, treasury bonds and investments (which if you already know about jokes works neatly as a primer in finance) and explores links between policy making and comedy, via analysis of two very different ideas about “audience”. Quintessential ComCom, available 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. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and a couple of things |
| 0:37.8 | before we get into this episode today first my thanks to Angel comedy for |
| 0:41.9 | once again providing me space to record and being brilliant and |
| 0:45.5 | benevolent in the world of comedy. If you're in London and you're a new or wannabe comic and you are not hooked up |
| 0:51.3 | with everything that Angel Comedy has to offer, |
| 0:53.2 | their writing, gym and all sorts of opportunities to see brilliant comics and to perform yourself, |
| 0:58.4 | then you should find out more about them. |
| 1:00.4 | So thank you to them, as ever. |
| 1:02.0 | A quick final push for Cambridge which as |
| 1:05.3 | you hear this will be happening either tomorrow or at some point in the distant past |
| 1:09.1 | you can go to comedians comedian.com slash tour to see the very final outing of my show End of on |
| 1:15.2 | tour it's the end of end of and I cannot wait and I'm really hoping it doesn't |
| 1:19.2 | snow because it's a it's a really big thing I've been looking forward to it for ages and the |
| 1:24.1 | weather forecast is horrific and I need to get from Bristol to Cambridge and |
| 1:28.0 | back if you can believe that. So come along to that if you are able it'd be |
| 1:31.9 | lovely to see you there. Now today I am talking to |
| 1:35.2 | Ishan Akbar. He is a brilliant comic, a lovely man. I regard him as one of mine. I think he's |
| 1:41.0 | a student of this podcast to some extent and we are going to |
| 1:45.1 | be talking about his fascinating previous careers not just in wealth |
| 1:49.7 | management but also in government policymaking as well as his disappointment in finding out |
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