334 - Robby Collins
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
*This episode was recorded before the pandemic if you’re looking for a breath of fresh air*
A tub-thumping powerhouse of a comedian basking in a laidback rhythm, Robby Collins is a devoted student of comedy. We talk about how he made his obsession into his art, from renting and re-renting DVDs of the greats as a youth, to opening for Trevor Noah on world tours. We also cover re-learning how to socialise outside the industry, and the long road to making comedy out of the suicide attempt of a family member…
25 mins worth of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Robby going into detail on the lessons he learnt from opening for Trevor Noah and Dave Chapelle, how to make an audience come to you, and how to cut out all the waiting time between thought and performance.
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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 am talking to Robbie Collins |
| 0:40.0 | this episode is a breath of fresh air for you |
| 0:42.0 | recorded as it was before the pandemic |
| 0:44.5 | hit so there will be no pandemic chat on the episode itself and I will try to |
| 0:48.5 | keep any reference to it besides this sentence to a bare minimum. We're going to |
| 0:52.2 | start before we get into talking to |
| 0:54.0 | Robbie who is just a phenomenal comedian. I was completely blown away by him |
| 0:58.0 | when I saw his work in the Danger Zone at the recent Cape Town comedy festival. |
| 1:02.1 | Robbie was born in Durban, based in South Africa. |
| 1:05.0 | He supported Trevor Noah for seven years. |
| 1:07.0 | He's been around the world with him. |
| 1:08.0 | He's open for Dave Chappelle, |
| 1:09.0 | and we get into some of the lessons he learned |
| 1:11.0 | from those experiences in the Insiders Club. |
| 1:13.9 | 25 minutes of extras available to anyone that signs up at comedians comedian.com |
| 1:18.4 | slash insiders. But we will be talking a lot to Robbie about depression, about life, about writing, about |
| 1:26.4 | relearning how to socialize with people outside of the industry. |
| 1:30.4 | That's a thing that we should probably talk about rather more often than we do. |
| 1:33.0 | And we're going to talk about, do you remember the Ivan Aristogator episode, wonderful Ivan from Venezuela, based in Melbourne now, |
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