404 - Helen Bauer
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
CW: Self-harm
"Basic plus" (because she’s self-aware), brilliant Helen Bauer is probably the most self-actualised comedian and human we’ve had on the show. Her punchy gags and insightful premises are all imbued with an absolute tsunami of personality, flirting with us one minute and roaring the next. And she even seems to have accepted her longterm depression…
We talk about her Apollo-conquering debut; how she acutely weaponises elements from her real life that might seem like hindrances; and basing your personality around a scrunchie.
15 deeply painful minutes of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club includes a conversation about “cringe”. (I mean honestly, even if you’re an Insider, just skip this bit - there’s nothing for you here), and some lovely stuff about her podcasting co-hosts Rosie Jones and Catherine Bohart.
Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for ad-free episodes, extra content from every show that has it, and much more - including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, Alfie Brown, James Acaster and Fern Brady, plus the incredible “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet.
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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 and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm talking to Helen Bauer who in unusually for this podcast |
| 0:52.9 | I have just come off the recording and so it's very fresh in my mind at the time of recording this |
| 0:58.4 | It's an absolutely brilliant conversation. I can't tell you which bits are going to be on the insiders because I haven't decided just yet |
| 1:05.2 | But we've definitely got an air and a half in the can so whatever isn't on here |
| 1:09.2 | The rest is on the insiders club which you can join at comedians comedian dot com slash insiders and |
| 1:14.8 | Pay two pound a month or as much more than that as you like to get extras from all the episodes that have them |
| 1:20.0 | Including this one we're going to talk about the origins of Helen Bauer's |
| 1:23.9 | Oh, I tell you what we are going to do is we're going to trigger warning this episode |
| 1:26.8 | There is going to be some discussion and some brief discussion of self-harm and a little bit of depression and later on |
| 1:34.3 | She will refer in passing to her dad as being autistic and it turns out he is actually autistic. So that's well |
| 1:40.4 | It might not be fine, but her saying so is fine and we will talk to Helen about |
| 1:46.4 | Well, I mean we spent a lot of time talking about me being cringe which is painful |
| 1:50.6 | Maybe that'll end up on the insiders and Helen makes the excellent |
| 1:55.3 | Observation that what basic is to her cringe is to me which I've never felt so |
| 2:02.1 | Just called on my shit frankly, and this one is just an absolute joy Helen is brilliant |
| 2:07.6 | And we talk about her origins as a tech at the Pleasants a million years ago when she teched for mine in Richard Sandling's sketch show |
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