387 - Pierre Novellie
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Bear-like in stature and authority and nimble of wit, Pierre Novellie is a fantastic comedian and writer who wrings every punchline out of his routines. We talk about how his origins in Johannesburg and the Isle Of Man make him an “outsider expert” on the English, and discover why he deliberately obscured his vice-presidency of Cambridge Footlights. We talk about his early assumptions that he was somehow low status on stage; explore his body of work, and attitudes to risk and certainty; and discover the perils of “getting your bum out too early”…
A belting 40 mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club features Pierre and Stu sharing their tips on how to survive corporate gigs, with advice on material selection, mindset and how to think about the money in the right way. Also Stu reads some of Pierre’s reviews back to him - the monster! - and we learn about authenticity, and how to wring all of the topics out of a joke…
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 Pierre Novellie:
TW/IG: @pierrenovellie
Pierre is co-host of @TheBudPod with Mr Phil Wang
Watch Pierre’s sketch show CUTS here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ZMCN60lVA
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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 |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 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, and welcome to the show today. I'm talking to Pierre Navelli, but before we do that, this is an apology in this interview |
| 0:52.5 | I use the term fatnecked gammon and it's not very |
| 0:56.9 | To describe people would you believe it's not very like me to describe people as fatnecked gammon and I later in the interview |
| 1:04.2 | Some five minutes later I retracted it, but it occurs to me now that the retraction is actually on the extras that are only available |
| 1:11.3 | The insiders club, so if you are offended by the term fatnecked gammon and would like to hear me genuinely apologize for it |
| 1:18.1 | I'm sort of laughing about it now, but it's not you know, let's let's treat people more kindly than that |
| 1:23.8 | And if you would like to hear that apology then you can sign up to the insiders club at comedian's comedian dot com slash |
| 1:30.1 | Insiders where you can also find out more stuff about Pierre now listen |
| 1:33.8 | We've got loads of extras, but let's talk about the main content Pierre is such a funny guy |
| 1:38.6 | It's a joy to have him on the show. We're gonna talk about how he's an outsider expert on the English |
| 1:43.2 | We're gonna find out why he deliberately obscured the fact he was the vice president of Cambridge footlights under president |
| 1:50.0 | Wang would you believe and he never mentions it and we'll talk about that |
| 1:53.4 | We'll talk about his early assumptions that he was low status on stage |
| 1:56.6 | Which are absolutely preposterous once you've seen him and we're gonna explore his body of work |
| 2:00.7 | We're gonna explore risk and his attitude to certainty and we'll discover the perils of getting your bum out too early |
| 2:07.0 | vis-a-vis and Edinburgh debut |
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