376 - Josh Johnson
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Josh Johnson doesn't put a foot wrong. This masterful young US comic never stops working and is reaping the benefits with a place in the Daily Show writers' room, and two brand new releases: his own music/comedy collaboration "Mixtape", and his debut special "# (Hashtag)".
We encounter a really thoughtful approach to his art, and talk about his possibly unique combination of comedy and non-comic original music; explore embellishment; and how "playing to his weakness" serves his material...
20ish minutes of extra content available exclusively to Insiders as Josh ruminates on vulnerabilities, approach, and how not even the most vexatious of Uber drivers can knock back the offer of free fried chicken.
Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Alfie Brown, and your invite to the forthcoming ones with Fern Brady and a “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet (MClinPsych)
Connect with Josh Johnson:
https://www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com/
https://www.instagram.com/joshjohnsoncomedy/
https://twitter.com/joshjohnson
https://www.facebook.com/JoshJComedy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLuYADJ6hESLHX87JnsGbjA
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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 | Stuart Goldsmith here. Welcome to the show today. I'm talking to Josh Johnson who is all over the place at the moment now unusually for me |
| 0:53.3 | This is an American comic who doesn't have much of a toehold in the UK at present huge on YouTube |
| 0:58.9 | Of course, we can all access that but he's someone that I am really excited to bring to you |
| 1:02.9 | I get lots of speculative emails from PR people of comics in the US and |
| 1:08.8 | a lie I kind of try and look at all of them if I have the time but |
| 1:12.7 | This one in particular stood out because just a cup not only is |
| 1:16.8 | Is Josh doing something very conceptual and interesting with his new release his mix tape |
| 1:23.2 | which is a combination of |
| 1:26.2 | original non-comic music and bits of his stand-up we'll talk a lot about that and they're thinking behind it and the creation of collaboration involved and |
| 1:35.0 | Not only is he doing that, but just you just got to listen to just give him two minutes on Spotify or YouTube and he is just one of those comics |
| 1:42.9 | Who as we'll talk about has like all of the air is pressed out of his material? |
| 1:47.8 | There is nothing in there that isn't an original premise brilliantly delivered that speaks volumes about who he is as a person |
| 1:54.6 | It's just great. So this is Josh Johnson. I wasn't familiar with him before and this is quite an unusual interview for me |
| 2:01.5 | I've never seen him live and that almost never happens when I have people on the show |
| 2:05.4 | But I think it turned into something really lovely very insightful very thoughtful. This is Josh Johnson |
| 2:15.6 | Welcome to the show Josh. This is quite an unusual one for me because I've never seen you live |
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