346 - Gary Gulman
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
“Hello babies, welcome to Gary Gulman…” A comedian’s comedian in the truest sense, we discuss the making of Gary’s stand-up special/documentary “The Great Depresh”, charting a mental health journey via electroconvulsive therapy and medical ketamine, through recovery to genuine brilliance. We learn the origin of the world’s most humble opening joke and why we should crowds credit for their vocabulary; and also cover the writing tip that’s visible if you freeze-frame a single shot of the movie, and his love of Kurt Vonnegut.
45 minutes of exquisite extra content, available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club, includes Gary on his extensive writing tips for comics and why it’s impossible to use up creativity, and some behind the scenes secrets on his experiences doing spots on Conan.
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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 and welcome back to the show Gary Goldman today a genuine comics comic a |
| 0:39.3 | comedians comedian in the true sense he is someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for and not |
| 0:45.9 | only is his art vivid and real and resonant and and meaningful as well as light and silly and funny and daft. |
| 0:56.1 | Not only all of that, but he is extraordinarily generous. |
| 1:00.3 | You might be familiar online with Gary Goldman's writing tips if you search that phrase into your chosen search engine |
| 1:06.3 | You will almost certainly find some sort of aggregation or look in the comedians comedian Facebook group. |
| 1:11.2 | I think someone posted a link there. For some time, Gary was |
| 1:14.9 | tweeting out one tweet a day with another writing tip on it. So, and they're really real. |
| 1:20.8 | Listen, if you're listening to this podcast you know to the comedians |
| 1:24.4 | comedian podcast let alone this episode because you are particularly wanting to |
| 1:29.3 | improve your writing it's not all craft it started off eight years ago being all craft and |
| 1:33.8 | then became craft and mental health and meaning and all those other things. But if you |
| 1:37.6 | are one of the people who has always looked to this podcast for genuine craft. |
| 1:45.0 | What would be the word? |
| 1:48.0 | It'll be, it'll turn out to be something like vocabulary or articulate, |
| 1:52.0 | something I failed spectacularly to do. |
| 1:54.4 | But listen, if you're a writer of comedy or of anything, then this is the guy for you. |
| 2:00.1 | He's just, and such a warm presence as well. It's all about giving everything away. |
| 2:05.4 | So myself and Gary are going to discuss Gary's stand-up special slash documentary The Great |
| 2:11.1 | Depression and the mental health Journey which it charts via |
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