363 - Bethany Black
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Bethany Black makes a powerfully funny connection with her fanbase, and has been wielding it to great effect over the course of her heavily-shielded pandemic experience.
We explore the effect on her work of her concurrent diagnoses with autism, ADHD and agoraphobia, and discuss how her fanbase consists of people just like her, rather than the cool kids she was trying to impress.
We also cover painting her herself into a corner with stand-up; how some promoters book to their own taste without realising; not being famous enough for The Chase; and what she’s already anticipating tolerating in her sixties…
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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 to the show Stuart Goldsmith here. Thank you so much. Those of you who got in touch about last week's episode with Russell Kane |
| 0:52.0 | It was a bang and wasn't it and remember you can get the extra content from that one at comedians comedian dot com slash |
| 0:58.3 | Insiders as well as all the extra content from every episode that has it this one doesn't it's an hour and a half |
| 1:04.1 | Banger of an episode with the fabulous Bethany black and Bethany had so much to say and articulated |
| 1:09.1 | It's so well that I just couldn't make decisions as to what to put on the insiders feed |
| 1:12.9 | So here it is in all its glory for everyone and on the subject of all its glory |
| 1:17.9 | We're going to be talking about the price of being a social justice warrior |
| 1:22.6 | We're going to talk about Bethany's diagnoses with ADHD autism and agrophobia concurrently as they came |
| 1:30.1 | We're going to talk about her disappointment that her fans. This is lovely |
| 1:34.8 | I don't want to spoiler it |
| 1:35.7 | But honestly there's a lovely conversation about the recognition that her fans are not necessarily the people she wanted to impress at school |
| 1:42.5 | Their people like her that is such an insight. I really enjoyed that and we'll talk about the hard-gigging years |
| 1:50.6 | And we'll talk about the fact that at the moment because Bethany and her partner I believe I immunocompromised |
| 1:56.7 | She has only left the house three times in the last year. We'll get into that |
| 2:01.6 | As well as some difficult stuff which requires a content warning |
| 2:05.8 | We're going to talk about some stuff that Bethany's talked a lot about on stage |
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