402 - Daniel Rigby
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
BAFTA-winning, Cumberbatch-beating actor, comic, and now the writer-performer of his screamingly funny new audiobook “Isaac Steele and the Forever Man”, Daniel Rigby is an extraordinary talent. The star of “Eric & Ernie” (BBC), Black Mirror’s “Waldo” episode, and Donald in Will Sharpe’s amazing “Flowers” (CH4), Daniel is dipping his toe back into standup after years away.
In an episode Stu describes as “absolute ComCom-Bait”, Daniel discusses having no self-esteem despite being good at everything (Stu’s words not his), and how casting directors can smell that he’s an “angry weirdo”. We dig into creativity, dread, anxiety, and why there’s more of him than he intended in his book’s ultra-nihilist protagonist…
25mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Daniel on the immense responsibility he felt when asked as a young comic to portray the legendary Eric Morecambe on screen; manufacturing a middle class “bumble” to disguise his working class background; and trying to focus on the journey of standup rather than the destination.
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 Daniel:
TW: @danielrigby
Listen free for 30 days with a free trial to Audible and devour “Isaac Steele and the Forever Man” (actually do this, it’s fantastic!):
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Isaac-Steele-and-the-Forever-Man-Audiobook/B09FQ8NKJ9
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Transcript
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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 there Stu Goldsmith here this is the comedians comedian podcast and I managed to abbreviate my own name there |
| 0:52.0 | I managed to make it |
| 0:54.0 | I'm it was halfway between Stu and Stuart did you hear listen back to that? |
| 0:58.2 | I think I said hello there Stuart Goldsmith here like that you could just you got Stu Gold |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, I never know what to say when people bring me on people other comics go |
| 1:07.2 | What do you want to come on at Stu or Stuart and I often say I honestly don't care |
| 1:11.2 | That is just a tiny part of why my brand is not big |
| 1:17.0 | So let's get on with this this is the wonderful Daniel Rigby now as you will hear Daniel Rigby is a BAFTA winning actor |
| 1:24.3 | He won a BAFTA 10 years ago or so for his portrayal of the young Eric Mauchem if you're listening outside of the UK Eric Mauchem is one of the most loved and legendary key figures in British comedy |
| 1:34.9 | So we will talk a little bit about how scary it was I think that's in the extras in fact because on this main episode |
| 1:40.9 | We're going to be talking about and this is you know if you're a fan of this show |
| 1:45.6 | I don't know if you're coming to me from Daniel or if you're coming to me because you've listened to the last |
| 1:49.5 | 401 episodes, but this is absolute concombat |
| 1:53.4 | We're going to be talking about creativity dread anxiety and why there is more of him than he intended in the ultra nihilist |
| 2:01.5 | protagonist of his recent audiobook which he wrote performed himself Isaac steel and the forever man now you have had to suffer through me banging on about this audio book |
| 2:10.7 | For the last few episodes and this is finally the episode on which we'll talk about it |
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