370 - Stuart Laws
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Is Stuart Laws an absurdist rambler who froths up a load of increasingly hilarious nonsense whilst honking in a gilet? Or is he an astute and quite private man who started a production company when he was 18, and went on to produce his own sitcom Grave new World (Amazon Prime) as well as directing James Acaster’s “Repertoire” (Netflix) and countless other standup specials? It’d be great if the answer was “neither” wouldn’t it? But it’s clearly both.
We talk about “The Prestige” as it pertains to stand-up shows; what it means to be both producer and director of one’s own work; and what makes other comics attractive assets to his company Turtle Canyon. We also cover openness, privacy and what shocks him about other comedians…
25 mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club includes Stuart on the different ways he directs comics, with reference to James Acaster and Joel Dommett; how to direct without imposing; his social media and TikTok sketch strategies, and some insights on the only show ever made about Wario. Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, Alfie Brown and your invite to the forthcoming one with Fern Brady!
Stuart Laws is up to the following things:
Stuart’s series Grave New World is on Prime Video and Vimeo on Demand, links at www.stuartlaws.com.
He has two stand up specials on NextUp and his podcast with Matt Winning, Up Your Footfall, is at https://www.podfollow.com/1559039647.
Everything else is here: https://linktr.ee/stuartlawscomedy
Everything Stu's up to:
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Stu also offers remote talks to business on what the distilled wisdom of over 350 comics can teach you about resilience, especially in times of pandemic.
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Find out more at www.stuartgoldsmith.co.uk
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Transcript
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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. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to Stuart Laws |
| 0:50.2 | one of the |
| 0:51.5 | Senior Stuart's in comedy and a man of many hats |
| 0:56.1 | Stuart is not simply a sort of absurdist lunatic of a comedian who appears to be a normal person |
| 1:04.5 | And then very slowly draws you in to a really frothy and daft world full of |
| 1:10.7 | Kind of microscopic connections and all sorts of stuff. So he's not only that and indeed |
| 1:17.3 | He's also not only the person behind grave new world currently available on Amazon Prime a |
| 1:22.8 | Covid themed or indeed recovery post Covid themed |
| 1:28.4 | sitcom slash sketch show and so not only we're still on not only |
| 1:32.8 | But also a man who created co-created turtle canyon production company when he was only 18 a slip of a lad |
| 1:39.8 | And who now has gone on to direct. I mean absurdly enormous and impressive catalog of shows for other comedians including James A cast |
| 1:48.8 | As rapper to our on Netflix. He's directed Joel Domit will talk about those a little bit in the inside as club extras |
| 1:55.3 | But also |
| 1:57.3 | I mean, he's just he's so busy getting things done. I'm very pleased to have had time to talk to him |
| 2:01.8 | I also highly recommend following him on tiktok. You can find that in the show notes over his link tree |
| 2:06.5 | And because he does wonderful wonderful little daft micro sketches. He's basically |
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