380 - CK (Caimh) McDonnell
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Crime fiction powerhouse and former circuit comedian, CK McDonnell is on the cusp of levelling further up, with a TV adaptation of his half a million selling “Dublin Trilogy” in the works.
We talk about how to write fast, being calibrated for tough criticism, solving problems in the shower, and how to let characters evolve - especially Bunny McGarry who went from villain to his best loved creation.
25 mins of extra content from this interview is available exclusively to the Insiders Club!
We discover Caimh’s secrets of self-publication, learn about how he cultivates the fanbase that now flock around him, and learn why he won’t record his own audiobooks!
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| 0:45.2 | Hello, and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is the comedians comedian podcast the show that gets inside the |
| 0:51.5 | Heds of all your favorite comedians and discovers their creativity their process their development and in this case |
| 0:58.3 | How they left comedy and had a wonderful final gig completed comedy got the hell out of dodge and then created an incredible |
| 1:06.5 | Successful career for themselves as a writer because today I'm very pleased to have on the show |
| 1:10.6 | Quieve McDonald Quieve to your eye that's C.A.I.M.H. Quieve. It's as it's spelled and but these days more recently C.K. |
| 1:18.7 | McDonald and we might learn the reasons behind that name change later on |
| 1:22.6 | We're gonna talk about Quieve's incredible writing career |
| 1:26.1 | He's the author of the Dublin trilogy and I think 10 books in total all of which have been optioned for one thing or another |
| 1:33.1 | But the the Dublin trilogy has sold over half a million copies and is currently I think has just been optioned by |
| 1:40.5 | Avalon just been I think this sign sums we'll talk about this |
| 1:44.2 | I don't know the ins and outs of whether you whether it's an option or a development deal or something |
| 1:48.2 | But it's got Chris Addison attached friend of the Paul and fabulous man |
| 1:51.1 | And I'm very much looking forward to seeing it because in the research for this |
| 1:55.8 | I have started to fall as in love with his characters as everyone seems to so we're gonna talk about how to write fast |
| 2:02.4 | We're gonna talk about how his comedy career |
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