338 - Helen Zaltzman

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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*New episodes are now streamed live at www.twitch.tv/stugoldsmith on 1pm BST every Wednesday, for release the following week*

Is this a regular episode or a NonComPod? It matters not as we meet Helen Zaltzman; podcasting matriarch, mentor of Stu’s, co-host with Olly Mann of “Answer Me This”, host of the brilliant “Allusionist” podcast on the Radiotopia network, and very funny lady indeed.

We talk about her comedy origins as Josie Long’s embroiderer, her childhood and the positives of knowing she was an unplanned baby, and setting one’s own parameters for success. We also talk about language as a means of understanding the world, overcoming her own pedantry and forgiving it in others, how she wrote a successful tour show in less than a day, and why you’re Namaste-ing all wrong…

25 mins of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include a dive into the origins of Helen and Olly Mann’s “Answer Me This” podcast; how they cultivated the community now 14 years deep into their show (and passing it on to their own children), and how they broke new ground with the sorts of creative and marketing tactics that these days would make up a TED Talk.

Join the Insiders Club now at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for all this and much much more.

helenzaltzman.com | instagram.com/helenzaltzman |twitter.com/helenzaltzman

Allusionist: theallusionist.org, twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow

Veronica Mars Investigations: VMIpod.com, twitter.com/VMIpod, instagram.com/VMIpod, facebook.com/VMIpod

Answer Me This: answermethispodcast.com, twitter.com/HelenAndOlly, facebook.com/answermethis

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0:51.4	Subscription required, see audible.co. UK for terms. So, Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is the
1:18.8	comedians comedian podcast today it may or may not be a non-com pod rather than a com-com pod my guest is not technically a comedian
1:26.3	And besides I'm trying to sort of play with a bit of a strand I'm playing with the strand guys
1:35.3	That's just the kind of online pseudo marketing babble I'm doing and what I've been considering as some of you may know what a
1:39.6	lovely glottal stop that was what I've been considering back to Coventry in the mid 90s for me.
1:46.5	I am considering doing these podcasts basically tweaking slightly what I do in order that I can do less research and
1:56.8	have more fun think about it less get less kind of what's the word friction friction, mental friction. If you want to listen to the insiders extras
2:06.6	from this episode, you'll hear me and Helen talking about my kind of pre-interview research trauma and how it sometimes stops me from
2:16.2	getting guests who have done an enormous volume of work. So what I thought was
2:21.8	the during the Paddy D or the Pando, as I believe Mark Watson is calling it, that's catching on in our household too.
2:27.0	During the Paddy D, I thought that rather than chase down comedian guests watch them live do loads of
2:34.7	comedy research I will instead focus on people whose output I know some people who
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