385 - Aaron Chen
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
A quite brilliant stand-up, with gloriously unique and surprising one-liners, Aaron Chen started comedy incredibly young, and was already working to shed every ounce of hackery while still in his teens. As well as his deeply alt roots and proclivity to experiment with comedy forms, he is also a master of the internally collapsing vox pop, pushing through the soul-crushing rejections to a place of genuine brilliance.
We talk about his early experiments with ultra-awkwardness, his astounding YouTube figures, why he searches for the one-line joke in every story, and discover why he never performs in Chinese, despite his huge Chinese audience.
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| 0:30.5 | Oh |
| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today |
| 0:47.7 | I'm quite thrilled to be talking to a quite brilliant stand-up comedian who is disgustingly young |
| 0:53.6 | Talented inventive original unique all of those things |
| 0:57.0 | I first saw Aaron Chen at the Melbourne comedy festival in I think something approaching |
| 1:01.8 | 2015 or 16 and it was one of those shows where I just felt I think I described it to people at the time |
| 1:07.0 | I then I think this was the first time I've used this description, which I may have gone on to use another |
| 1:11.6 | With reference to other things that I just sat there feeling my brain melt out of my head |
| 1:17.2 | It was so good so inventive so original and so unlike anything I'd seen before |
| 1:23.5 | And I think I may have been his debut show. I think we talk about this in the episode a little bit |
| 1:28.5 | And I just thought it was absolutely fantastic. I was completely blown away |
| 1:31.8 | And so it was an enormous pleasure to discover sometime over the last 18 months |
| 1:36.5 | That Aaron is not only this sort of weird quirky guy. I remember from from the Melbourne comedy festival |
| 1:43.8 | But he's also extremely successful now and has done a solo project on adult swim that you can find on YouTube |
| 1:50.5 | The link is in the show notes to this episode |
| 1:52.8 | And also has just got hundreds and hundreds of thousands of downloads on his hundreds of thousands |
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