405 - Olaf Falafel
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
The comic creation of comedian and illustrator Derek Chickpeas, “Olaf Falafel” is an absolute combine-harvester of inspirationally daft ideas; hoovering them up and blasting them out across multiple creative outputs.
We talk about “Olaf Falafel’s Art Club”, “Old MacDonald Heard A Parp”, “One Giant Leek” and plenty of other projects including “The Pearl With The Girl Earring” and a load of other stuff he unsurprisingly doesn’t have time to properly leverage…. We also discuss his penchant for over-delivering; his uniquely brilliant Edinburgh Fringe flyer designs; how to prioritise a million projects; as well as how he manages to stay one of the happiest creatives who’ve ever graced this podcast.
Over half an hour of extras available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include an exploration of his copycat-inspiring success on Vine (and the relief he felt at its collapse); further investigation of his effervescent comedy mind; and why he probably won’t illustrate your kids’ book idea…
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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| 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. This is the comedian's comedian podcast and today I'm very pleased to be speaking to an absolute |
| 0:53.0 | Tumble dryer of daftness a combine harvester of picking up crazy little ideas and turning them into other things |
| 1:00.8 | This is Olaf falafel |
| 1:03.0 | We won't be speaking to Olaf because he is a comic character |
| 1:05.9 | We will instead be talking to his creator Derek chickpeas who I will confusingly refer to as Olaf throughout the interview |
| 1:12.7 | We're going to talk about the way his mind works |
| 1:15.5 | We're going to talk about all of his projects including his |
| 1:18.6 | Olaf falafels art club, which was one of those lockdown superstar things |
| 1:22.9 | And some of his other work in the realm of writing and illustrating for children including such books as old McDonald |
| 1:29.5 | Heard a pop one giant leak and also all manner of other little bits and bobs not to mention his entirely not entirely separate |
| 1:38.4 | But his very different stand-up career, which manages to take the same sense of humor attention to detail and poncho |
| 1:44.8 | For over-delivering and turn it into something that grownups could enjoy whilst drinking alcohol |
| 1:50.2 | There's nearly an hour of extras available if you're a member of the insiders club because me and Derek slash Olaf spoke for ages |
| 1:57.5 | Including an exploration of his copycat inspiring success on Vine and the relief he felt that it's collapsed |
| 2:03.1 | Some further investigation of his bubbly mind and why he probably won't illustrate your kid's book idea |
| 2:09.4 | Sorry, that's all available if you go to comedianscomedian.com slash insiders and sign up for a minimum two pound a month subscription |
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