Hello, Stue here. Just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special I Need You Alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith.com.

There's a link there where you can watch it on a breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month, including the 800 pound

guerrilla website, Amazon Prime in the UK and US, Xbox, God knows how they do that, as

well as loads of other links to catch it on audio.

Go to Stuart Goldsmith.com and watch this

show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's

very pretty. So, Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith this is the

comedians comedian in which we take your favorite comedians and try to shuck open their heads in a sort of oyster-like way

and get into the goodies therein, whether those goodies are to do with creativity, process,

resilience, adaptability, development of material, development of persona,

or, and increasingly my preoccupation, just how people bloody cope with things now.

Today we're talking to Martin Moore, also known in former years as Martin Big Pig,

I think I first met him as Martin Big Pig,

who is the quintessential adventure comic.

If there is a country in the world that Martin hasn't squatted in,

hitch-hiked across, juggled or done stand up in,

then I should like to hear about it.

Martin is a tremendously warm and engaging person as you are just about to find out

and we are going to talk about his

very, very, and we are going to talk about his background growing up in Northern Ireland, how he established a circus school there, how his very unusual path,

even by circus standards, I should say,

led him all over the world via street performing to stand-up

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