34 - Clarke MacFarlane
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2013
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Variety superstar Clarke MacFarlane blends elements of stand-up, clowning and skills to create the show-stopping, crowd-surfing "Mario, Queen of the Circus". Touring with La Clique and La Soiree has allowed him to hone his act to perfection over years, but he still "pays his dues" with regular streetshows. We discuss his work rate and workaholism, his respect for standups, and his bizarre pre-performance habits, not to mention the dark voices that plague even a top level act such as himself.
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| 0:14.4 | Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon. |
| 0:21.2 | So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not |
| 0:24.7 | being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can never get that right. |
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| 0:49.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. |
| 0:51.0 | com. comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, Comedian Podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Many of you will have seen |
| 1:14.0 | Clark McFarland's alter ego Mario Queen of the Circus at the Edinburgh Festival |
| 1:18.3 | or at festivals all over the world in the smash-hit shows Leclique or LeSouire. |
| 1:22.3 | He's a top-level variety slash in the smash-hit shows Leclique or Le Swire. |
| 1:22.8 | He's a top-level variety slash comedy act, |
| 1:25.7 | and he's absolutely standing-of-a-a-shan, brilliant. |
| 1:29.0 | So here is Clark McFarling. So Clark, thank you for coming on to the show. |
| 1:38.0 | Thanks for asking me, Stu. |
| 1:39.5 | You are better known as Mario Queen of the Circus. |
| 1:42.0 | That's true. |
| 1:43.0 | And I was just saying you're other than the famous Phil Burgers, |
| 1:46.0 | you are one of the first non-stand-up stand-ups that I've had on the show. |
| 1:49.0 | So I think a lot of people who've been to Edinburgh can't have missed you I think a lot of people |
| 1:53.5 | will go who is this Clark Mefalin and then they'll go oh it's that guy so tell us in your own words what |
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