349 - Kim Noble
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Artist, comedian, provocateur and cleaner, Kim Noble is far more concerned with pursuing his artistic instinct than the trappings of success. From sneaking into B&Q dressed as staff (engaging with the customers and sometimes not even recording it), to his brilliant new podcast “Futile Attempts”, we find a man relentless in his integrity and experimentation, but sometimes adrift from the comedy community and the wider world.
We learn the sometimes devastating effect of his constant recording on his personal life; find out how his mum felt about his possible exploitation of his dementia-suffering father; and talk about innocence, terror, and overstepping the line.
30 minutes of extra content, available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club, includes Kim on his most recent “meltdown”; a meta chat about the pros and cons of his notion to record his appearance on the podcast and take control of the audio; the story behind “Noble and Silver” and why they split… and dread.
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Find out more about Kim:
www.mrkimnoble.com/futile-attempts-podcast/
Watch the “Noble and Silver: Get Off Me” episode filmed in one take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGixWJOetY
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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 |
| 0:35.0 | welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith. I'm so pleased to bring you this one. This is an interview with Kim Noble, |
| 0:40.0 | artist, comedian, provocateur and currently cleaner. |
| 0:44.0 | Kim Noble is, I mean artist doesn't really do it justice. |
| 0:48.0 | Well it does, I mean artist is a big term and it does completely do it justice. |
| 0:51.0 | Is it live art? Is it comedy? Is it |
| 0:54.4 | performance art? Is it just dressing as a member of B&Q? A member, a |
| 0:59.8 | staff member of B&Q, going into B&Q and engaging with customers and then |
| 1:04.5 | taping it and using it in a show and then sometimes going into B&Q but not |
| 1:09.6 | taping it. Oh, there is so much to enjoy here. I'm a big fan of Kim's work and I find it also challenging and provocative and often difficult and it's excellent, but a really good starting place is his futile attempts |
| 1:24.0 | podcast which you can find wherever the hell you found this |
| 1:27.0 | and get stuck in that this little cameo appearances from people I had a Buxton and |
| 1:31.4 | Julian Barrett but the meat of the show is his extraordinary brain getting to grips with |
| 1:39.0 | different aspects of life, I suppose, and kind of applying himself to things and getting things wrong |
| 1:45.3 | sometimes torturously so it's it's its own thing it's not really like anything else |
| 1:51.9 | and I recommend if you were new to Kim's work |
| 1:54.7 | start with the episode on running because I think it is his is the most accessible of the |
| 2:01.3 | ones I've heard so far and once you're |
| 2:05.6 | hooked on that go back to the beginning is that fair to say I don't like to |
| 2:09.0 | mediate your experience I'm familiar with Kim so I started at the top and went oof I think if you're less |
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