417 - Esther Manito
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Skilfully navigating territory of misogyny and a clash between lad culture and woke lads, Esther Manito’s recent show “#NotAllMen” burst at the seams with relatable material rooted in the clash between her Middle Eastern heritage and her Essex upbringing.
Esther talks here about whether you can be too relatable; having children before comedy and musing on an agent’s misguided warning that no-one wants a ”comedy mum”; and growing up in Essex at the time of the Gulf War, with anti-Arab rhetoric prevalent in her school
15mins of extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include more from Esther on her generalised anxiety disorder, and the worst gig of her life!
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 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm speaking to Esther Minito. She's fantastic |
| 0:50.6 | I saw her show not all men at Edinburgh this year and it was one of those shows that I found myself |
| 0:57.2 | Recommending to loads and loads of people particularly men particularly married men |
| 1:01.4 | She is incredibly relatable in her comedy and if you know the territory |
| 1:05.7 | I would suggest it is even finer still so really really good fun talking to her and we're gonna talk about whether you can be too |
| 1:12.0 | Relatable we're gonna be talking about the material that is rooted in the clash between her middle Eastern heritage and her |
| 1:17.6 | Essex upbringing and we're gonna talk a little bit about an agent's misguided warning that people don't want a comedy mum |
| 1:25.0 | Maybe what people want is a comedy mum. There's 15 minutes of extras available exclusively to the insiders club |
| 1:30.5 | Including more from Esther on her generalized anxiety disorder and she lets us in on the very worst gig of her life |
| 1:37.0 | All of that is a comedians comedian dot com slash insiders for now. This is Esther Minito |
| 1:46.4 | Welcome to the show Esther Minito. Hello |
| 1:49.4 | Lovely to have you we've got a reason we've got to do the fake start fake |
| 1:52.6 | Could we just finish our lovely conversation? We were having about |
| 1:56.9 | You ran for the Chingford Harriers I ran for the mix up to is that right? |
| 2:03.8 | No, it's called the Orion Harriers, so yeah, they were in Chingford. Yeah, okay |
| 2:08.4 | Yeah, I was running for a running club mean just means you meet up every week and you run an occasionally you'll do races |
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