335 - Scott Bennett
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The hardest-working man in UK comedy, Scott Bennett is tipped for imminent breakthrough to the mainstream, so you won’t be surprised to hear that he grasped the pandemic nettle and started performing online stand-up shows from his shed pretty much on day one. We talk about sacrificing a proper career to become a comic in his thirties, and how he processes the guilt he feels at following his dream, the “elastic limit” he has with his audience, doubling down on your best bits, and that old enemy, too much polish…
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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 Stue Goldsmith today I'm talking to the |
| 0:38.1 | hardest working man in British comedy it's none other than Scott Bennett |
| 0:41.6 | who on pretty much day one or possibly day two of the |
| 0:44.5 | pandemic realized that his live diary had exploded like there very many of us and |
| 0:49.2 | immediately took action and started performing stand-up shows from his shed in his back garden |
| 0:54.8 | to an audience of a webcam and his wife who was a fantastic laugh it must be said |
| 0:59.1 | we're going to be talking about Scott's attempts to deal with the, I mean we're going to mention the |
| 1:03.7 | pandemic at least in passing in this episode, to be warned on that, and we're |
| 1:07.8 | going to talk about Scott's efforts to recreate his live work, his work ethic. |
| 1:15.1 | We're going to talk about his unusual journey into comedy. |
| 1:17.5 | Started late, didn't set foot on a stage till he was 30. |
| 1:20.5 | And we're going to talk as well about how he processes the guilt he feels at having given up a proper stable job in order to follow his dreams. |
| 1:30.0 | A lovely interview this. We did this one live on twitch as well and so if you are |
| 1:34.5 | following twitch dot TV slash stew goldsmith and don't be scared by the term |
| 1:38.6 | twitch I know it feels very 12 year old computer gamey but you don't have to use |
| 1:41.7 | it for that it's just a platform |
| 1:43.0 | so have a look at twitch. TV slash stew goldsmith if you would like to see my face and |
| 1:49.8 | Scott's face in it has to be said Scott's face is in potato quality on that particular thing because of |
| 1:55.1 | Wi-Fi problems but I'm going to be doing more live ones there so get on that |
| 1:59.1 | if you're a twitch person feel free to in the show notes of this episode for a little thing that you can do at no cost to yourself whereby you link your |
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