413 - Jordan Gray
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Exploding supernova Jordan Gray has just had the Edinburgh that every newer act dreams of: five-star reviews across the board, sell-out shows, a transfer to the Palladium, as well as being made an honorary X-Man by Sir Ian McKellen. She’s an extraordinarily funny, talented and skilled act who’s managed to pull an absolute Minchin!
We talk about the danger of believing your own hype, why she has to be an example not just a comedian, and we get an intimate snapshot of the very early stages of the sorts of hard choices that await someone experiencing this kind of success…
25mins of extras available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include Jordan on her music career as “Tall Dark Friend”, the most heartbreaking thing to hear after a gig, and she takes Stu to task on his skittishness! We also get an incredibly useful breakdown of the transferable skills a comic can bring to script writing, and find out why she wears a jump-suit and why she very deliberately isn’t “fabulous”…
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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TW/IG: @talldarkfriend
Don’t miss Jordan live at the London Palladium on 28th October!
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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 back to the show. This is the comedians comedian podcast and today I am very excited to be speaking to Jordan Gray |
| 0:52.6 | Who I've described in the show notes to this side note I found out in the Comcom Facebook group |
| 0:57.6 | No one reads the show notes more of those later |
| 1:00.1 | But to save you the trouble of having to read the show notes |
| 1:03.1 | I described Jordan Gray as an exploding supernova |
| 1:06.5 | Who has just had the Ed and professed of all that every new act dreams of five star reviews across the board sell out shows |
| 1:12.4 | A transfer to the palladium being made an official superhero and she is just absolutely brilliant |
| 1:18.9 | And as I put it to her in the early part of this episode she has pulled a complete mention by which I mean turning up a dead |
| 1:25.9 | I mean it wasn't her first ever show, but turning up at Edinburgh and it took kind of a rive |
| 1:31.0 | With just an absolute wealth of kind of quintuple threat |
| 1:35.5 | gear and an angle again an incredibly rich and brilliant angle and a persona and |
| 1:41.8 | Songs and gags and a cut overarching concept and everything and it's just exploded |
| 1:46.6 | So we are gonna get right into how it feels to be in that moment right now |
| 1:50.4 | We're gonna get a snapshot of the things that change them the things that shift the challenges that crop up |
| 1:55.4 | When you are when your star is in the ascendant also and this was an exclusive announcement on the show |
| 2:02.8 | But by the time you hear it you'll probably already know Jordan is bringing her show |
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