337 - Alonzo Bodden
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Shut up and listen to Alonzo Bodden, a towering comic who wields an absolute authority onstage! In the final pre-pandemic recording, we discover Alonzo's struggles to connect with black audiences, find out why alternative comedy doesn’t exist, and learn whether he’d accept a cure for depression if it meant giving up comedy…
30 mins of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include Alonzo’s extraordinary “missed break” after he won season three of Last Comic Standing just as cancellation of the show meant the final was never aired, how Terry Crews beat him to the punch in a big movie role, and how to go up next after a superstar… Join the Insiders Club now at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for all this and much much more.
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| 1:03.4 | comedians comedian podcast bringing you a pre-pandemic |
| 1:07.4 | special episode. I mean it wasn't special I mean it was no more than usually |
| 1:11.0 | special when I recorded it. |
| 1:12.8 | But now it remains the last pre-pandemic bit of audio I have. |
| 1:16.8 | So if you don't want to hear any more about the Paddy D, |
| 1:19.8 | as my wife has called it, and I've tried to popularise that and then feast your |
| 1:23.8 | lungholes on this. Lugholes to American listeners is an old English word |
| 1:27.7 | promoted by the Queen. Get stuck in this is a wonderful episode recorded at the Cape Town Comedy Festival in South Africa with Alonzo Bowden who is a force of nature. |
| 1:39.6 | He's what he's strikingly tall and muscular and has an innate authority and you think I bet he rides a |
| 1:45.9 | motor bike and he does so he's one of those guys I saw him hosting the show a |
| 1:51.5 | couple of times the the late night, the dirty show, and the danger zone it was called. |
| 1:58.0 | And we talk a little bit about hosting and what that means to someone who's used to being an act and the way in which he does it. |
| 2:06.0 | And I think the reason I mention that is to give you some sense of the just unshakable authority that |
| 2:12.1 | Alonso has over a room. |
| 2:13.6 | He's been doing comedy for a good while and learning the whole time |
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