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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

40 - Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Unknown, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Talented, dedicated and analytical, Melbourne-based Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall is part of a new generation of comics. We discuss the acquisition of stage-time in a town with relatively few gigging opportunities, and geek out over the “mathematics” of joke-writing. Alasdair also reveals the ten thousand dollar motivational gamble that got his head in the game...


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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

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0:51.0

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1:23.7

This is a podcastians comedian podcast. pod... Churchill, who is the last to the comics that I interviewed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

1:24.7

Although next week we will have another Australian, a superb Tom Gleason will be joining

1:28.8

us, though even though he's Australian, I worked with him and interviewed him in New Zealand so that counts.

1:34.5

This is Alistair Trembly Burchell.

1:36.5

I saw your show at the Forum here at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

1:45.0

two nights ago and it absolutely blew me away. I never heard of you, I didn't know

1:49.7

anything about you, I think someone gave me a tip off, someone was like, gave me a little list of things I should see.

1:55.6

So I just took a punt on it and I laughed harder and for longer than I have at any other show

2:01.6

this festival. So let's start with that. Yeah, sure.

2:04.7

Tell me about his show, how's it going? How's your festival going?

2:07.2

Okay, well, it's going really well. This is definitely the best festival I've had. It's my third comedy festival.

2:14.4

Okay. So I'm a Melbourne comic. So I started here. I did one gig when I lived in

2:20.4

Canberra. Okay. Because I did uni there but yeah I started doing it properly

2:25.1

since I've been here and this show is now like just basically a best of

2:30.0

of whatever I've created in the last four years.

2:33.0

Okay.

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