395 - Slim
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We find the irrepressible Slim at a crossroads in his long career. After three decades as “the King of Black British comedy”, this very funny and astonishingly likeable comic is crossing over to the mainstream with the help of new management and a new game-plan.
From possibly the world’s most terrifying first gig - shoved onstage by a comedian friend at a sold-out Hackney Empire - to just recently selling out the London Palladium by himself, we talk about faking it til you make it, serving and deserving the community, and the tension between his natural humility and the swagger required to kick down doors…
20mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Slim on whether connecting with audiences is a teachable skill, a lovely analogy about comics as salespeople and what represents a “good sale”, whether there’s a downside to doing your learning on a different circuit, and the decisions that went into his Live At The Apollo set.
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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IG: @slimcomedian
Twitter: @SLIMcomedian
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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 am very pleased to be bringing you the irrepressible slim and |
| 0:52.4 | When I say irrepressible both here and in the show notes. Let's just underline as well |
| 0:56.7 | He's extremely funny. It's just that I've listened back to the interview and what I love most about him is how incredibly |
| 1:02.2 | likable he is very very funny guy |
| 1:04.3 | Soreyman Bristol on his king tour and he is indeed |
| 1:07.8 | I mean he's at a really fascinating point in his career |
| 1:10.2 | He's been the king of black British comedy ever since well, maybe not ever since maybe let's give him a little bit of |
| 1:15.5 | While a bit of time to get good after this incredible origin story where he was shoved out on stage to do his first |
| 1:21.9 | Devigig in front of a sold out hackney empire. I won't say he's been the king of black British comedy ever since that moment |
| 1:27.2 | But he definitely got very he started good got even better quick |
| 1:30.8 | And then has been absolutely at the top of the black circuit for years and years and years and now he's crossing over |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to hear more about that. We're going to hear about |
| 1:39.7 | His his show last November at the London palladium which he sold out himself with very little TV exposure |
| 1:45.2 | And we're going to talk about the tension between his natural humility |
| 1:49.8 | And the swagger that you need to kick down doors and get proper famous as he is on the way to being |
| 1:55.4 | 20 minutes of extra content available exclusively to the insiders club |
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