382 - Harriet Kemsley
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Superbly funny and effortlessly real on stage, Harriet Kemsley grew up scared of saying the wrong thing and making mistakes, but after trying stand-up at the suggestion of her parents, found in it the ability to embrace both her failures and her self. We talk about coping with having your debut show critically mauled; the self-control beneath the dizziness that people often assume of her; and crying at failing at clowning.
20 mins of extra content from this interview is available exclusively to the Insiders Club! We discover Harriet’s process for the roast of her husband, fellow comedian Bobby Mair, and her appearance on Live at the Apollo; discover why men often assume she needs help; and how she’s ageing into her persona. Plus, we finally get to the bottom of what she really thought of New York…
Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Fern Brady and the incredible “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet.
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
| 0:09.7 | including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. Hello and welcome to the show Stue Goldsmith here this is the comedians |
| 0:36.8 | comedian podcast and today I'm very pleased to be speaking to Harriet |
| 0:40.0 | Kemsley who is not a clown despite how clowny her show is. She has a |
| 0:45.3 | wonderful wonderful sense of herself and she's one of those people that you just |
| 0:49.2 | she walks on and you think, ah we're gonna fine. She's got funny bones. She has this incredibly |
| 0:54.1 | infectious kind of giggler herself. I put it like that, it sounds annoying. It's very far from annoying. |
| 0:58.9 | It's absolutely, it's really, it kind of welcomes you into what she's doing. I'm a huge fan of hers and this is a cracking conversation. |
| 1:07.0 | There are 15 or 20 minutes extra on this conversation if you would care to take yourself to the insiders club at comedians comedian |
| 1:13.4 | dot com slash insiders and if you do that you will find out a bit about Harriet's |
| 1:18.0 | process for the roast of her husband fellow comedian Bobby Mayor and her |
| 1:21.6 | appearance on live at the Apollo and will discover how she's |
| 1:24.5 | aging into her persona and why men often assume she needs some sort of help from them. |
| 1:29.4 | All of that in the extras but for now let's get stuck into this really excellent and |
| 1:35.0 | uplifting conversation with the wonderful Harriet Kemsley. |
| 1:41.6 | Welcome to the podcast Harriet Kensley. Hello. |
| 1:45.0 | Great to have you. You're in Cardiff in a hotel room. Are you in Cardiff for giggings? |
| 1:50.0 | Yes, I'm at Cardiff Glee this weekend. |
| 1:52.0 | So I'm staying actually the hotel is not as bad as I remember it |
| 1:57.3 | so yeah that's a very telling sentence about comedy |
| 2:07.0 | Kaleu, Kaleh, the hotel's not as bad as I remember. And you are, I've only just this second remembered, heavily pregnant. |
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