344 - Archie Maddocks
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Stand-up comic and award-nominated playwright Archie Maddocks loves stitching together routines about kebab shops and his "rough-arse" schooling, with pathos and evocative prose. We talk about writing for the comedy club and the stage, why he's the straight-man to his highly-strung family of actors, and how his play "A Place For We" has been put on hiatus by Covid-19. We also talk about how his show "Matchstick" concluded with a heartfelt examination of the Grenfell Tower fire, and why he feels that "we're not people that ever cry".
You can donate to support survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire here www.grenfellfoundation.org.uk/
20 minutes of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include Archie's thoughts on why white audiences don't accept surrealism from Black comics, and how his opening line takes back control of people's preconceptions. Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much much more.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:31.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm talking to Archie Maddox not only a stand-up |
| 1:04.8 | comic it also an award-nominated playwright. Archie Maddox has a real talent for |
| 1:09.5 | stitching together pretty daft stand-up comedy routines with really arresting |
| 1:14.6 | thought-provoking sentiment and genuine pathos. We talk about his play, a |
| 1:19.3 | place for we and how the the initial performance of that has been put on hiatus thanks to COVID-19. |
| 1:26.2 | We talk about how he turns out to be from a dynasty of actors of sorts. |
| 1:30.6 | We'll also talk about Black Lives Matter and we'll talk about how white audiences |
| 1:36.1 | respond to black acts. We will cover writing for the comedy club and for the stage |
| 1:41.6 | and also his show Matchstick which concluded |
| 1:44.4 | with a very heartfelt examination of the Grenfell Tower Fire. You can donate to |
| 1:48.7 | support survivors of the Grenfell Fire at Grenfell Foundation. |
| 1:52.5 | org. |
| 1:53.3 | UK. |
| 1:54.3 | There is also 20 minutes of extra content available |
| 1:56.4 | if you are a member of the insiders club, |
| 1:58.0 | including Archie's thoughts on why white audiences don't accept |
| 2:00.7 | surrealism from black comics, |
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