398 - Byron Bowers (Live at SXSW)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
CW: Suicide, School shooting
Visionary comedian, and actor in “Honey Boy” (Prime) and “Concrete Cowboys” (Netflix), Byron Bowers once moved to LA and slept in his car while he tried to make stand-up work. In this live special from South By South West, he joins us to talk about processing trauma; finding true freedom onstage and emotional freedom among his family; how he apprehends his comic and acting technique; and being so poor people think you’re wealthy…
25 mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Byron on his relationship to hope, his experience at Old Rope in London, and how he avoids feeling like a v victim of racism in Hollywood.
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 Byron:
TW/IG: @ByronBowers
Byron’s new special “Spiritual Negro” is in the edit, so watch out for a release soon!
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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 |
| 0:30.8 | You |
| 0:45.3 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith today |
| 0:48.2 | I'm speaking to Byron Bowers who I spoke to about I mean almost a week ago now as as I record this when I was |
| 0:56.6 | Having a very joyful time in Austin, Texas. That's South by Southwest which remains the most excitingly bleeding edge tech music film and comedy |
| 1:06.3 | First of all at a part of which I am very proud to occasionally be that was a very English sentence wasn't it? |
| 1:11.6 | I've spent the week really really |
| 1:14.2 | Aware of my Englishness an absolute joy to be somewhere where I'm different and exciting |
| 1:20.3 | So today it's it's Mr. Byron Bowers. I've got episodes coming up with Eddie Pepitone and Dulce Sloan |
| 1:27.4 | Those will be coming up either side of episode 400 with |
| 1:31.5 | Rob Deering returning 10 years on and as I record this listen |
| 1:36.1 | We'll get stuck in properly in a second |
| 1:37.6 | But I need to talk to you about the whole birthday plan thing because I'm recording this on Friday the 18th |
| 1:42.0 | You're hearing it the earliest on Sunday the 20th and Saturday the 19th is the official 10 year birthday of this podcast |
| 1:48.8 | But I'm calling it the birthday month instead so that it will coincide with episode 400 which is going to go out in two weeks |
| 1:54.9 | So that's reasonable isn't it? Hold on to your birthday wishes till then let's say that |
| 1:59.5 | Byron Bowers is not only a brilliant actor you can see him in concrete cowboys on Netflix |
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