4 - Ben Norris

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Already an experienced headliner, Ben is on a continuing quest to unleash the improvisational demon within. But can he run naked into battle without the temptation to put his pants back on? Also discussed: why comedians are such terrible human beings.Trapdoor Comedy Club, West End Centre, Aldershot, The Cartoon, The Plough, Clapham Jongleurs, Late N Live, Noel James, Ivor Dembina, Patrick Marber, The BAR, Willesden, Paul Tonkinson, Rudi Lickwood, Victoria Coren, The Comedy Store, Setlist, Matt Kirshen, Paul Provenza, Glastonbury, Ed Byrne, Dara O'Briain, Andrew Maxwell, Glenn Wool, Edinburgh PBH Free Fringe, Barnstormers, The Gulbenkian, Canterbury, Tony Hancock

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0:14.4	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.
0:42.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:46.0	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.
1:15.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the comedian's comedian podcast.
1:18.0	I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm going to be talking to Ben Norris
1:22.0	who as well as being one of the funniest people
1:24.4	socially that I think I've ever met, is an incredible improviser. He's got really good jokes,
1:30.4	but we're going to be talking in the episode today about his quest to release
1:36.4	himself from the confines of his prepared material to activate his his demon
1:41.7	more on that later, and finding himself a kind of free and energetic and sometimes
1:50.2	quite manic energy that then leads him onto greater heights of
1:54.7	creativity. So we probably don't make it be sound that pretentious, maybe we will.
2:00.4	There'll also be a couple of boneheaded references to the Hulk. So Ben Norris today and I think that's going to be a lot of fun. I think you're really going to enjoy this one very different to the conversations we've had so far and remember coming up later in the series we've got Paul
2:14.7	Sinha on political comedy and I've just yesterday recorded a fascinating
2:18.8	interview genuinely electrifying chat with Adam Bloom who is in many ways the janitor at the bottom of
2:26.1	the basement of comedy fixing jokes for people and sort of the only guy maybe who
2:31.8	understands how jokes really work on a sort of
2:35.2	technical exploded diagram kind of a level. That's probably going to make less
2:40.6	sense to you now that it will after you've heard the that episode so look forward to Paul Senate and then Adam Bloom after this
2:46.2	conversation with Ben Norris a tiny bit of admin you've been sending me lovely
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