408 - Ria Lina
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Sharp as a tack and with a scientific bent that underpins her charming demeanour, Ria Lina is experiencing a TV-takeover career breakthrough. We talk about the different preparation required for Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You and QI; why the fact that a comedy career has no end point is so addictive; and how the recent increase in diversity on the circuit gave her an insight into embracing a more distinct character.
With degrees in virology, pathology and forensics, we also learn more than you might expect about bodies washing up on shores, and ask Ria to turn her scientific mind to analysis of how to save the circuit…
25 mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club include some excellent advice to newer comics, and an investigation of which social media platforms suit which characters - and some brief thoughts on the implied consent of audience interaction videos going viral…
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 | Welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedians comedian podcast and today I'm talking to real |
| 0:51.5 | Lena who and we can't skate over this I'm not gonna sort of gag my way into it |
| 0:56.1 | But she has three degrees in forensics pathology and verology and is an extremely smart cookie and towards the end is a smart cookie |
| 1:03.6 | afraid |
| 1:04.6 | Towards the end of this interview we will talk about well |
| 1:08.2 | We were I invite Ria to lend her analytical mind to |
| 1:13.3 | To working out some of the challenges with the comedy circuit so look forward to that |
| 1:17.7 | Broadly speaking, we're gonna to well we we start off and talking about her kind of |
| 1:22.4 | Sensational career breakthrough that's happening in the moment by way of working out the different types of preparation required for her appearances on mock the week |
| 1:29.6 | Have I got used for you and QI we're gonna talk about why it's so addictive that a comedy career has no end point and also |
| 1:36.5 | There are some charming thoughts from Ria about how the recent increase in diversity on the circuit a mild increase |
| 1:42.3 | We should say gave her an insight into becoming more distinct and rich a persona |
| 1:48.3 | So we also talk a little bit about bodies washing up on shores, but that's to be expected 25 minutes of extra content available to the |
| 1:55.4 | Insiders Club at comedians comedian dot com slash insiders include Ria with some excellent advice to new |
| 2:01.2 | Accomics and a bit of a conversation a bit of an investigation into which social media platforms |
| 2:06.4 | Suit which characters so lots to enjoy there. This is real |
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