377 - Paul Zerdin
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Irrepressibly optimistic, utterly in love with his craft and very mentally robust, Paul Zerdin is the British ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent.
We talk about his lengthy career working across different circuits -- from variety, cruises and holiday camps to mainstream comedy -- and discuss how he navigates the suspicions of the alternative comedy industry. Paul outlines in detail his pandemic pivot, the relentless energy devoted to TV pitches, how he planned his AGT set to build and build, as well as deception, illusion, and the modular nature of magic...
~15 minutes of extra Insider content available, including Paul's drive to create a fourth-wall-breaking ventriloquist animation, world domination, and Vegas, baby!
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)
Find Paul here:
IG: @paulzerdin
TW: @paulzerdin
FB: Paul Zerdin
YT: Paul Zerdin
@paulzerdin
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| 0:39.4 | Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show Stue Goldsmith here on the comedians comedian the |
| 1:02.0 | podcast that gets inside the minds of |
| 1:03.7 | your favorite comedy performers and finds out how they create how they process how they develop |
| 1:08.4 | and how they cope today I'm very pleased to be speaking to Paul Zurdin who has a career much broader than many people |
| 1:15.7 | that have been on this show despite him specializing in one thing to a really fine art. |
| 1:21.6 | He is a ventriloquist. He won America's Got Talent in 2017 despite being British. I've no idea how that works. |
| 1:27.6 | But he is absolutely incredible and is capable of just reducing people to fits. |
| 1:35.0 | He's got one of those old school approaches, which is not surprising. |
| 1:38.0 | He's been in the business for a long time and has done everything from Panto to Light Entertainment, Holiday Camps, cruise ships and as well has a foot |
| 1:46.4 | firmly placed in the alternative slash mainstream comedy circuit. We're going to hear more about that |
| 1:52.0 | from Paul himself and a shout out there is loads of |
| 1:54.6 | extra stuff from this interview in the insiders club so go to comedians comedian |
| 1:59.0 | dot com slash insiders to hear all of the extras from this and every episode that has them which is tons now |
| 2:04.9 | also some exclusive insiders only recordings of Zoom events featuring Fern Brady Alfie Brown Nish James Acaster, and the How Comedians Cope Self Help Special |
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