366 - Loyiso Gola Returns
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On the eve of his first solo Netflix special, one of South Africa’s finest comedy exports returns to the show to discuss the challenges of filming a show in Covid times, and the influence of his movie-grown director in planning the shoot. We talk with double Emmy-nominated Loyiso about compromising decisions on and off TV; his aim to improve rather than earn; the value and price of stubbornness; and why “clarity is freedom”…
Loyiso Gola: Unlearning is available now on Netflix.
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15 minutes of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club includes Loyiso in detail on his filming technique, why crowdwork is a dangerous drug, and his conscious effort not to exploit trauma for material…
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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 |
| 0:30.7 | Oh |
| 0:45.3 | Hello and welcome to the show Stu Goldsmith here today on the comedians comedian |
| 0:49.2 | I am welcoming back a fabulous guest a brilliant comic |
| 0:52.2 | Lois O'Gola who is a huge deal in South Africa and increasingly a |
| 0:57.0 | burgeoningly huge deal in the rest of the world |
| 0:59.6 | He is about to or by the time you hear this will already have dropped his new Netflix special |
| 1:05.5 | It's his first to get arguably his debut Netflix special |
| 1:08.6 | He did a smaller one as part of the comedians of the world strand a little while ago |
| 1:11.9 | But this is his first one. It's called unlearning and we're going to talk about it |
| 1:15.5 | It was filmed during covid times and I'm going to grill Lois O'Gola on exactly |
| 1:20.5 | The reasons behind that how they did it and there is some fabulous insight into the |
| 1:25.9 | workings of the director of that show who's a movie director and we'll learn a little bit about the |
| 1:30.7 | difference that made to the special loads of great stuff coming up. We'll talk about his aim to improve |
| 1:35.7 | rather than earn the value and the price of stubbornness and we will find out why clarity is |
| 1:40.9 | freedom loads to enjoy here and an extra 15 minutes if you're in the insider's club including |
| 1:45.7 | Lois O'Gola on his filming technique why crowd work is a dangerous drug and on his conscious |
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