333 - Steve McNeil
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The co-host and co-creator of Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit, Steve McNeil started his career in sketch comedy, and has enjoyed an invigoratingly twisty journey through multiple genres, currently specialising as a twitch gamer and host, with new project #WiFiWars gathering momentum online as we speak. We talk about his pivot away from TV, the single most agonising factor that led to the demise of "Go 8 Bit", his new special "Hey Listen!" and his recent battles with his mental health.
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#WiFiWars
Steve's special on GFS https://gofasterstripe.com/heylisten
https://twitter.com/stevemcneil
https://www.twitch.tv/stevefromgo8bit
https://www.twitch.tv/team/thestreamcreamdreamteam
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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. Hello and |
| 0:35.0 | welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm |
| 0:38.0 | talking to Steve McNeil. |
| 0:39.0 | Many of you will know Steve from his work with the sketch group |
| 0:42.0 | McNeil and Pamphelon from McNeil and Pamphelon, from McNeil and |
| 0:44.4 | Pamphelons go 8-bit. Probably more of you will know him from Dar O'Brian's go 8-bit. |
| 0:48.6 | And we're going to talk about that whole journey. He's had an extremely exciting and |
| 0:54.1 | interesting and painful journey through dreaming up an idea, making it successful |
| 0:59.3 | at Edinburgh, finally getting to make it as a TV show, having to accept that he was not going to be the lead of that TV show, and then watching the whole thing. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm not going to say fall apart, but let's say slip through his fingers. |
| 1:12.0 | There is going to be some really candid conversation in here |
| 1:16.0 | and also Steve is now a Twitch gamer and a Twitch host so he twitched this conversation live. |
| 1:22.8 | If you'd like to watch it, you can do that |
| 1:25.1 | over at twitch.tv slash Steve from Go8bit. |
| 1:28.7 | You can also follow him Steve McNeil on Twitter |
| 1:31.3 | and you can download his latest special which we talk about in a |
| 1:33.5 | bit of detail it's called Hey Listen I do remember that now because it's written in |
| 1:36.8 | front of me and you can get that from go faster stripe go faster stripe dot com |
| 1:40.5 | slash hey listen that is a load of stuff before we get into the interview that's a load of stuff great works to you |
| 1:46.4 | Before we get into the interview I'm gonna thank the following people these wonderful people have recently joined the insiders club. |
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