415 - Grace Petrie
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
“Socialist, feminist, lesbian, protest singer” Grace Petrie made her first foray into “official” standupdom this year with a phenomenal Edinburgh debut, in which as well as skewering transphobes and bigots, she managed to extend genuine empathy towards them - all while being very, very funny.
As well as talking about her comedy origins as a support act for Josie Long and Robin Ince and her work with The Guilty Feminist podcast, we discover the peace she’s made with her impostor syndrome, and get deeply involved in the responsibility she feels to look inside herself and to not deny people their feelings.
22mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Grace on how she maintains her activism in the face of criticism and despair, and we learn the transferable skills between writing a protest song and a standup routine…
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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 today. I'm speaking to Grace Petri |
| 0:50.3 | Socialist feminist lesbian protest singer Grace Petri and that's a quote of hers from a separate interview |
| 0:56.2 | She's very hard to define exactly what she does. We will start with whether she's a folk singer or a protest singer |
| 1:03.2 | But she is certainly above and over and under all of these things a stand-up comedian |
| 1:08.0 | I saw her show her debut stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival this year and it just blew my head off |
| 1:13.1 | It was so funny and so meaningful and so warm and empathic and genuine. I just loved it |
| 1:19.2 | I think I banged on about it in the comedians comedian Facebook group at the time because not only does it take to task |
| 1:25.8 | Transphobes and bigots and really talks about some genuinely fascinating issues |
| 1:30.8 | But it also extends this incredible empathy to the people that she is |
| 1:36.3 | And I'm in mocking or making fun of doesn't do it justice at all |
| 1:39.8 | It's like there are so many listen we'll get into all of this on the on the podcast |
| 1:43.6 | So I won't go into too much detail |
| 1:45.1 | But this is if you are a fan of social justice and you like stand-up comedy that tackles a subject head on and not |
| 1:52.8 | Simply skewers that subject but really takes time to understand why the people on the end of the skewering are like they are |
| 1:59.3 | Then this is for you. There is extra content 20 something minutes 22 minutes of extras |
| 2:03.8 | If you're in the insiders club including Grace on how she maintains her activism in the face of criticism and in the face of despair |
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