384 - Adam Rowe
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
CW: Discussion of transphobia by people who aren’t affected by it.
Adam Rowe is a killer. Huge punchlines, banging material that draws screams and whoops from his crowd, and a laser-like focus on achieving his ambitions. But what does his urge to defend controversial opinions for fun cost him, or indeed his audience?
We talk at length about whether or not his “Victoria’s Secret” routine is transphobic, and whether getting the laugh is more important than a moral or ethical stance. We also cover whether aiming to be the best is enough to stay happy, the origins of his very shrewd “Club Comic” special, and where his drive comes from.
30 mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club features Adam on the smash hit success of his and Dan Nightingale’s “Have A Word” podcast; some great insights into his writing process; and why he assumes he has ADHD.
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.
Catch up with Adam Rowe:
Have a word podcast - https://haveaword.page/
TW @adamrowecomedy
IG @adamrowecomedian
“Club Comic” www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9E5NYKOBdk
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
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| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedians comedian the podcast that gets under the skin into the minds and into the guts |
| 0:52.1 | Occasionally of your favorite comedians and today I'm talking to Adam Rowe now |
| 0:57.5 | This is a really interesting conversation Adam. I have previously described as comedies most ambitious man |
| 1:04.8 | And we'll be talking a bit about ambition. He is a very accomplished stand-up |
| 1:09.5 | He is capable of excellent things and as we'll talk I saw him at the young the the comedy stores |
| 1:16.0 | 40th birthday gig following an astonishing lineup of comics and holding his own very very admirably |
| 1:22.8 | Now we are going to get stuck into some tricky stuff in quite early on in this because there is a bit of material that Adam |
| 1:30.1 | I think occasionally finds himself having to defend |
| 1:32.8 | nowhere more so than in this episode |
| 1:36.4 | it's about |
| 1:38.4 | Transwomen and so you are about to hear two cis men having a conversation about a thing about |
| 1:45.7 | Transphobia which is not a thing that affects either of us. I hope |
| 1:50.1 | people will be |
| 1:51.8 | Pleased to hear this conversation. I don't know that we ended up seeing eye to eye |
| 1:56.5 | I am pleased that Adam was prepared to have the conversation with me and we do so in a pretty calm manner |
| 2:02.6 | It's not a sort of baiting type |
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