38 - Tom Allen
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2013
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The quintessential comic raconteur, Tom Allen's work sizzles with wit, candour and warmth. We discuss his rhythm, musicality and sociable methods of generating material, as well as investigating the self-criticism and loneliness with which he sometimes struggles. This delightful man also makes a convincing case for recognising comedians as "artists who are entitled to support"...
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| 0:14.4 | Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon. |
| 0:21.2 | So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not |
| 0:24.7 | being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber. |
| 0:42.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:46.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:53.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This interview was recorded during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
| 1:22.0 | whilst I was on tour with Jimmy McGee and the wonderful Tom Allen. |
| 1:30.0 | We've started together years ago in the famous 2005 Milliken Bridges Alan Wilkinson |
| 1:40.7 | Goldsmith and others. |
| 1:44.0 | Josh Thomas of course, Jesus. |
| 1:46.6 | So I've seen you develop all over the place. |
| 1:49.1 | I've seen your work fairly regularly. |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.0 | This is always a problem, |
| 1:55.0 | but okay, scrapp all that. |
| 1:57.0 | Which one of them? |
| 1:58.0 | No, the problem I have is that whenever I do it with people who I know well, |
| 2:01.0 | I never know where to start. I just kind of go, |
| 2:03.2 | Oh, don't worry. Yeah, so yes, you know me for a long time. |
| 2:08.0 | I was just enjoying that. I was just bathing in that feeling of like yes to you. |
| 2:12.4 | What else? What else else let's start with |
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