364 - Olga Koch
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Russian-born and raised in Surrey at an American school, Olga Koch is a fiercely funny act with unique perspectives that aren’t simply confined to her unusual backstory. We talk about her background in computer science and find some parallels between jokes and code; talk about the difference in-between her comic voice onstage and on Twitter; and learn how she deals with conditional anxiety, exceptionalism, and the fear that comedy won’t return.
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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 there. My name is Stuart Goldsmith. Welcome to the show today. I'm talking to Olga Koch who as well as being an exceptional |
| 0:51.9 | comedian has a background in computer programming computer science and we're gonna talk about the parallels between |
| 0:59.2 | comedy and computer code and |
| 1:02.7 | We're gonna get pretty deeper nerdy into it straight away quick little warning at the just at the off about five or ten minutes in |
| 1:09.2 | Olga uses an example a joke which refers to Marilyn Manson. It's not a joke about Marilyn Manson |
| 1:14.7 | Nor ending the awful awful things that Marilyn Manson has been accused of doing |
| 1:19.2 | I'm just flagging it because it's a shame. We both agree at the time |
| 1:22.3 | It's a shame that that it had to be about that particular person. We're looking at the amoral components of a joke and not |
| 1:29.0 | Anything to do with the the terrible and serious accusations levied at Marilyn Manson nonetheless |
| 1:35.6 | Let's not let that overtake. What is completely apart from that a very upbeat conversation about some really |
| 1:43.9 | Interesting things not only her ruthless pragmatism and the fact that you cannot eat hope for dinner |
| 1:50.1 | But other lighter and frothy are things than that so without further ado. Oh, well, no exercise. Sorry |
| 1:55.4 | Here's some ado. No extras on this one the whole episode coming at you and |
| 1:59.2 | If you haven't yet heard the Bethany black one which similarly had no extras. It's all there for you |
| 2:04.7 | That was last week's episode |
| 2:06.2 | This is this week's episode |
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