345 - Larry Dean
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Larry Dean is a phenomenal comic who doesn’t coast on his brilliant physicality, but writes hard and really gets to the kernel of what’s funny about his life.
We talk about being manipulated into working hard by people who understand you, deliberately mining opportunities for embodying the jokes, and how gay audiences sometimes confuse his self-deprecation for self-hatred. We also unearth the thrill of writing for revenge…
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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. Hello. Hello and welcome to the show welcome back. I'm still Stuart Goldsmith. This |
| 0:38.7 | remains the comedians comedian podcast in which I interview creative comedian people to help comedian |
| 0:44.0 | people to help creative comedian people to help creative people like you understand and |
| 0:47.0 | cultivate their own. I can't say the word creative a third time. |
| 0:50.0 | I've got really got to boil this down. |
| 0:51.0 | It's been a lovely break. It's been a lovely break. It hasn't been, it's been a break from releasing episodes. I've still been recording like a fury. I think I had about three weeks where I just didn't think about it which |
| 1:04.2 | was very nice indeed and now we have some absolute scorches in the can this is |
| 1:08.8 | Larry Dean who I've been meaning to get on the pod for some time and I think actually |
| 1:12.3 | slightly embarrassed myself by booking up who I've been meaning to get on the pod for some time and I think actually |
| 1:12.9 | slightly embarrassed myself by booking him up for the last day of Edinburgh last year |
| 1:17.1 | and then realizing I just didn't have anything left but |
| 1:20.1 | it's not my first rodeo is my 26 rodeo I should have should have known that I would be in that state. So apologies to Larry for making him wait and I'm so grateful that we were able to have a |
| 1:31.6 | I've been listening to lots of American podcasts recently so I'm going to say a do-over we had a do-over and this is it. |
| 1:39.2 | I will tell you a bit more about the break and the plans for the future and everything else that's going on in the middle bit. |
| 1:45.0 | But for now, let's get stuck in to Larry Dean, who is just a wonderful, wonderful comic, |
| 1:51.0 | and I think one of the most exciting things about him is that he is he's so |
| 1:55.7 | talented and he's not kind of resting on the laurels of any one particular talent he's |
| 2:00.5 | working really hard he's writing really hard and as you will hear he is |
| 2:04.6 | doing a fascinating thing I don't have preempt it but do you remember how Ellis James |
| 2:08.6 | would get his script as it were and then comb through it with a forsaurus for words that could be made more interesting |
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