379 - Fin Taylor
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In an industry awash with “edgelord” comedians, Fin Taylor is the real deal. Erudite, thunderously funny, and provocative having done the reading first, he manages to annoy absolutely everybody.
We talk about how his unusual schooling instilled in him an apparent license to infuriate; how his need to row back from the furthest possible point makes his new material gigs so painful; how he went turbo after an agent-shedding Edinburgh decision; and why he finds self-worth in his material not the audience’s approval…
AND:
35 mins of extra content from this interview is available exclusively to the Insiders Club!
We discover an underground route for UK comics hoping to break America; how to bring a knife to a roast battle; Fin’s new focus on writing prose; and he continues to chip away at the omertà code of silence of the Bearpit Podcast Podcast…
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| 1:20.1 | Hello and welcome to the show Stu Goldsmith here. This is the comedians comedian today |
| 1:24.1 | I am talking to Fin Taylor |
| 1:26.4 | He is such a funny act. I think in the show notes. I called him thunderously funny, which seems absolutely fair |
| 1:32.7 | He is so good and he's so good at annoying everybody. He is fearlessly provocative |
| 1:39.2 | He has crucially done the reading on the subjects that he's talking about so I think he's earned himself the right to say |
| 1:46.7 | Some fairly outrageous things and we will talk a little bit about how he makes |
| 1:52.2 | New material nights a misery for himself by seeing |
| 1:55.7 | What's the most extreme thing he can say and then attempting to walk it back? |
| 1:59.2 | And I think that compared to a lot of comics who cover similar territory |
| 2:06.1 | Fin is really worthy of your attention because he I mean not to say that there are that many |
| 2:12.5 | Comics who covered a sort of territory in the depth that he does he really applies himself to |
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