390 - Foil Arms and Hog
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
With a dedicated crowd of 650K YouTube subscribers, Foil Arms & Hog are a live sketch act who also do internet videos, and not “YouTubers” like you thought...
We explore how these lovely men have spent a decade at the Edinburgh Fringe entirely on their own terms, and why they aspire to “Moneyball” but don’t know their arse from their SEO.
We uncover their creative, scripting and filming processes, examine their position as “permanent underdogs”, and as we dive further into how they pool their personal ambition, we happen upon one of the best thing’s Stu has ever heard…
40 mins of scorchingly good extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club includes FA&H sharing their own homemade vocabulary of sketch-writing terms, including “The Matrix’, “The Swan-dive”, “Chris-Rocking” and more! We also cover how they embody the DIY aesthetic regarding management and pitching to people, and Stu forces them to describe each other’s strengths and weaknesses in detail…
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.
For Foil Arms & Hogs videos check out: www.youtube.com/foilarmsandhog
(And because they are not 'Youtubers' you can see their live show tour dates here: www.foilarmsandhog.ie/tour)
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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. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm extraordinarily pleased to bring you a stone-cold |
| 0:51.2 | Banger of an episode with foil arms and hog now |
| 0:54.5 | I begin this episode with a little apologies the boys because I've never seen them live |
| 0:58.4 | I've always seen their posters at the Edinburgh festival and I guess there was something that looked a little bit too clean cut about them |
| 1:04.5 | I was like no sketch act three-wide guys sure what a fool. I was they're so so good |
| 1:09.6 | They're YouTube content which comprises lots of clips from their live shows |
| 1:13.1 | Which I now wish I had been at they're all of that stuff precedes them |
| 1:16.9 | They are wonderful and the more I mention them to people the more I realized loads of my friends are really into them |
| 1:22.6 | And they have this huge kind of cult following we will go on in this episode to discuss a little bit about the difference |
| 1:28.0 | Between live fans their live following and their YouTube fans and the different ways in which they are kind of |
| 1:34.8 | Famous underground famous permanent underdogs. We'll get into all of that |
| 1:38.6 | There are 40 minutes of absolutely cracking extras from this episode in which we talk about |
| 1:44.5 | Some of their they share their homemade vocabulary of sketch writing terms including the matrix the swan dive |
| 1:50.2 | How to Chris rock something and so much more and and we'll I also there's a lovely bit |
| 1:54.8 | I force them to describe it excruciating detail each other's strengths and weaknesses all of that at comedians comedian.com slash insiders |
| 2:01.8 | To sign up for all the extra content from this show |
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