342 - Catherine Cohen
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Cohen took home “Best Newcomer” at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, with a jaw-dropping show bursting with wit, originality and layer upon layer of irony. Her angle of attack, mocking the audience for being so pathetically in love with her, allows her to take huge risks on stage, in a character that was grown through vast quantities of just the right sort of stage time.
We talk about why she loves the occasional “stone-faced” audience-member, about playing to win and succeeding, surviving burn-out, and why she can’t stop “freaking out about absolutely everything”…
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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. |
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| 0:59.0 | welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to |
| 1:02.0 | Catherine Cohen in a conversation recorded a couple of weeks ago |
| 1:05.4 | so we're in lockdown as you hear she's going a bit crazy in lockdown but |
| 1:09.6 | within within her own parameters I think it's fair to say. |
| 1:13.0 | And she is a phenomenal comic. |
| 1:15.8 | She waltzed off with the best newcomer comedy award |
| 1:18.9 | at the Edinburgh Festival last year, |
| 1:20.6 | with a show that was. |
| 1:22.3 | One of those shows in the first two minutes you've settled |
| 1:24.5 | out in your seat and think oh my god this is going to be amazing and she managed to |
| 1:28.0 | keep that pace up incredibly I mean bursting with ideas really funny an amazing singing voice and also as we will |
| 1:36.2 | discuss a propensity for getting into a song smashing out loads of punchlines not |
| 1:41.4 | repeating herself and then getting out not repeating |
| 1:43.4 | punchlines and then getting out I urge you to check out her stuff she has got some |
| 1:47.2 | bits and bobs online of course you should go and see her live when live gigs are a |
| 1:51.1 | thing again but follow her socials at cat coen on Twitter at cat c coen |
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