360 - Jordan Brookes
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Winner and still holder of the 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award, Jordan Brookes’ marriage of stand-up and clowning is an absolutely extraordinary experience. He deftly walks a tightrope between frankness and insincerity, observing the observers, and mining material from the problem of self-reflection. And if you think that sounds pretentious you’re going to love the rest…
We talk about calling bullshit on emotional manipulation, his slow climb back to normality after a youth inflected with OCD and depression, as well as the seductive narrative of victimhood…. Also seducing your mum.
35 minutes of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club includes Jordan on the arduous process of making his hit show “Bleed”, which did something incredibly new at imaginative, at some cost; the cultural race to expose more and more weakness and suffering over which comedy seems to obsess, and his mixed feelings about the award win.
Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&A with James Acaster.
Follow Jordan Brookes:
On his excellent website, on which you can watch tonnes of clips, plus digitally download "Bleed" and "I've Got Nothing": www.jordanbrookescomedy.com
On Twitter: @jordbrookes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedian's comedian podcast and |
| 0:51.1 | incomprehensibly it is now |
| 0:53.5 | 2021 I think that might even be the first time I've said that out loud |
| 0:57.9 | No, I think I would normally say 2021, which is why it seems strange to my mouth |
| 1:02.1 | I'm a little bit rusty forgive me we've had several weeks off |
| 1:04.8 | But we've got some cracking content coming up and just later this week. I'm speaking to Russell Kane |
| 1:09.5 | We have a fantastic interview with Tom Neenan in the can and this is the fabulous Jordan Brooks |
| 1:14.6 | So what can I tell you about Jordan? He is the winner and current holder three years later of the Edinburgh Comedy award |
| 1:22.9 | Due to the fact that there have been no further ed in professionals and we will talk |
| 1:26.4 | Oh, I tell you what in the insider's stuff will find out about Jordan's feelings about that because for someone who is as kind of |
| 1:34.3 | Let's not say I kind of classic |
| 1:36.3 | But what he really excels at is he really observes the observers and what you'll find out throughout this interview is that he has an incredible |
| 1:43.4 | knack for not just willful contrarianism |
| 1:46.4 | But for stepping back and seeing what's actually going on lots of us observe what's going on in our lives |
| 1:52.4 | He kind of observes himself observing the what you see what I mean |
| 1:57.2 | Oh, I've already tripped myself up listen |
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