Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special

I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com

There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month

Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box

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

Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty

Hello and welcome to the show Stu Goldsmith here

This is the comedians comedian podcast in which I talk to the great and good of the world of comedy and

Find out from my colleagues and fellow comedians and in this case specifically today comedy magicians

Exactly what makes them tick how their creative process is flow most effectively and efficiently and

Of course the key question whether or not they are satisfied with where they are today

We are talking to John van der putt aka piff the magic dragon who you will probably have seen

I think he's done enough of those GT shows America's got talent Britain's got talent that kind of thing

He has a phenomenal act. It is a genuinely laugh out loud funny act

And he's got a special on the way as well, which I was very lucky to see a preview copy of and as you will hear in the early part of this show

I am a recent convert not to say that I haven't converted putting it too strongly, but I really liked what he did

When I saw a little bit here and there so I'm doing spots and stuff in Edinburgh

I wasn't aware of just how honed it is now just how imaginative and also he's managed to kind of

Managed makes it sound cynical. I don't mean that and he has earned his place at the top

Table with some of my comedy heroes including pen and teller as he now works and lives in Vegas and

Is absolutely banging out 400 shows a year and consulting to people at pen and teller and and what have you

We are going to find out so much stuff. We're going to find out how he flicked the switch from sackable corporate table guy to the deadpan bulletproof

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