36 - David Quirk

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Unknown, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Known for his hyper-personal material about death, infidelity and suicide, David Quirk is happy to be an outsider, to the comedy community as well as his audience. We discuss the tropes of contemporary standup and David's decision to move away from them; the need to watch other people's shows or not; and what it feels like to release oneself from the compulsion to be funny. We also touch on negative-sounding noises that mean people hate you.

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0:14.4	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:39.4	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:47.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:49.0	Tees and C's apply.
0:50.0	Check the Uber app.
0:52.0	This is a podcast from Comedians. Check the Uber app.
1:15.0	This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Pod Hello there and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith
1:18.0	listeners outside of Australia might not have heard of David Quirk
1:21.0	so you'll have to take it on trust that he's excellent
1:24.0	or you can look him up on YouTube first search for his bits about Mother's Day or suicide or one particular
1:30.0	video called Live Vibe Bar. You can do that before or after really. It's up to you. Of course it is. Here's David Quirk.
1:38.0	How's the run going?
1:43.2	It's excellent. We started.
1:44.6	Yeah, we started.
1:45.6	Yeah, we started. Fuck.
1:46.6	I've done six of these festivals.
1:48.6	Yeah, and I reckon that this is the best one.
1:51.6	Okay. I have to say hands down. Okay. Yes and why is that? Do you mean in terms of in terms of
1:56.4	audiences or in terms of how much fun you're having or have good your show is or all of those
1:59.8	things? I think I'm having a bit of a luckier season than maybe some and there's people doing far better than me of course
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