348 - Erin Foley
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Heavy-hitter Erin Foley is a sensational comic with a way of making even the gentlest observations into flint-hard punchlines. We discuss her “terrifying but wonderful” start in standup, and how she was 8 years into her career before she began discussing her sexuality onstage. We talk about questioning and defining success, the epic ness of performing honestly, her refusal to be a joke-pony, and the best place for the Big Gay Reveal…
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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 |
| 0:14.6 | November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. |
| 0:20.3 | It doesn't matter how neatly you pack them away. |
| 0:23.1 | Christmas lights will always be tangled. |
| 0:26.1 | And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle. |
| 0:28.9 | It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled |
| 0:31.2 | the more you attempt to untangle it. |
| 0:33.0 | So, to the loft I go. |
| 0:35.0 | With just my Christmasy coffee for company. |
| 0:38.0 | And if I'm not back by New Year, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:41.0 | Our roasted hazel latte is now at Costa. |
| 0:44.0 | That's Christmas. |
| 0:45.0 | A Costa coffee a little better. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today I'm talking to |
| 1:12.4 | Erin Foley now if you're |
| 1:14.6 | listening in the UK you may not know Erin she is I don't know how big her |
| 1:18.9 | profile is in the US but she was someone who I saw at South by Southwest in wonderful Austin, Texas a couple of years ago and was just absolutely struck by how just the sort of the ferocity of the comedy she's so gentle and warm and |
| 1:36.8 | flinty as we will discuss whether or not she hadn't heard the term flinty and as |
| 1:41.0 | soon as I mentioned it I started to panic about whether it was gendered in an unfair way |
| 1:45.3 | but she is just I just absolutely loved her act so go and find out her act if you're not |
| 1:51.5 | familiar with it and you can afford the time to pause this, |
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