407 - Alison Spittle
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Tremendous story-teller comedian Alison Spittle is a very sunny specialist in making comedy from trauma, but you’ll be furious that she’s had to undergo so much of it. We talk about her incredible new Edinburgh show “Wet”, and why it’s no longer simply about a fight during an aqua aerobics class. We also cover her excellent shame-beating podcast “Wheel of Misfortune”; the challenge of keeping oneself emotionally secure when making comedy out of pain; and how to be powerful.
25 mins of extras available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include Alison on her earliest material that made her feel like herself; the journey of her expressing her mental health honestly; the importance or not of doing “reps” in comedy; and the non-comedy-related quality that got her where she is…
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.
Catch up with Alison Spittle:
IG/TW: @alisonspittle
Wheel of Misfortune podcast: https://pod.link/1525520717
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See “Wet” at the Edinburgh Fringe:
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/alison-spittle-wet
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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 and I have slightly lost my voice as a result of |
| 0:50.8 | 20 plus hours of comparing and two sets at cluster brief festival |
| 0:55.1 | I didn't even go out and go hard and enjoy myself and I was in bed by two o'clock in the morning every night |
| 1:01.0 | Which at cluster brief terms is very reasonable more exciting stuff including bootrosses first gig |
| 1:07.2 | To come I will tell you all about that in the post-ample, but now I am so pleased to finally have had Alison Spittel on this show |
| 1:14.1 | She is such a wonderful guest such a tremendous comedian and we are going to talk about her Edinburgh show wet |
| 1:21.6 | And why it's no longer simply about a fight during an acro aerobics class and we're going to talk about we're going to listen |
| 1:27.4 | I'm going to I'm going to content warning this in a sort of general way because some horrible shitty things have happened to Alison |
| 1:33.3 | And she's managed to make excellent comedy out of them |
| 1:35.9 | We are going to get into them in some depth and we're going to talk specifically |
| 1:41.3 | And about the challenge of keeping oneself emotionally secure when you're making comedy out of pain |
| 1:48.0 | She is such a powerful comic and such a powerful person and I'm so thrilled she's on the show |
| 1:53.9 | And we will go into further details 25 minutes of extras available if you're in the insiders club |
| 1:58.6 | You can join that comedians comedian.com slash insiders |
| 2:01.6 | We will talk about the material that Alison first made her feel like herself |
| 2:07.1 | On stage and we'll talk about the journey of her expressing her mental health honestly |
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