410 - Tom Ward
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
A uniquely nuanced voice in comedy, the riotously imaginative Tom Ward balances gleeful absorption in the creative process and robustly-managed mental health.
Destined to become a fan favourite, this episode sees Tom sensitively exploring: why comics with certainty make him suspicious; his internal landscape and how he copes with the non-triggered meltdowns occasioned by his Complex PTSD; and how his careful devotion to doing one thing at a time impacts his creativity.
He also uses a burner phone so he can’t get distracted whilst writing… •chef’s kiss•
25 mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club includes Tom on the therapeutic value of comedy for good or ill; how his stolen Casio beats keep his ambiguity accessible; and the shared desire to write “a joke so good that he doesn’t die alone”.
Catch up with Tom:
IG: @tomwardcomedian
www.facebook.com/tomwardcomedian
Tom Ward: Anthem plays at Monkey Barrel at The Edinburgh Fringe from 3-28th Aug 2022 @22.25
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/tom-ward-anthem
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| 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 and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and if you're a fan of the show this |
| 0:49.4 | Fourth coming conversation can something be forthcoming if it's immediate the ensuing conversation that you're about to hear with me and the |
| 0:56.6 | Fabulous comedian Tom Ward. I think is destined to become a favorite of yours |
| 1:01.1 | This is absolute calm calm catnip as we discuss the balance that Tom enjoys between his gleeful |
| 1:07.6 | Absorption in the creative process and how incredibly robustly he manages his mental health Tom does a lot of things to keep himself |
| 1:15.2 | mentally on the straight and narrow that |
| 1:17.9 | Your eye might think oh it would be good if I did that |
| 1:20.3 | He actually does them and we'll find out exactly how and why up to and including using a burner phone |
| 1:26.0 | So that he can't get distracted by phones. Wow. That's probably what the people that invented phones do |
| 1:31.5 | You can catch up with Tom at Tom Ward voice dot com or follow him at Tom Ward comedian on Instagram or Facebook |
| 1:37.5 | And his Edinburgh show is called anthem. It's in the monkey barrel at the Edinburgh fringe this year |
| 1:41.4 | That's 2022 for listening in the future. That's when you missed it. It's 1025 nightly, but not every nightly |
| 1:47.4 | So go to the monkey barrel website to find out how you get tickets for that. My own show is as you probably just heard on a recent advert |
| 1:55.4 | 125 p.m. at the monkey barrel from the 4th of the 11th |
| 1:58.6 | But there are 25 minutes of extra content from this episode on the therapeutic value of comedy for good or ill |
| 2:04.6 | Keeping ambiguity accessible and mine and Tom's shared desire to write a joke so good that we don't die alone |
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