423 - Michelle Brasier
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Launching her new show “Legacy” at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival right now, Michelle Brasier completes a trilogy of heartfelt, philosophical and very funny one-woman shows about loss and forgiveness, which includes the multi-award winning “Average Bear”.
We talk about her work with purveyors of sketch carnage Aunty Donna, and discover why drama school rejects have all the fun. We also discuss her secret fears that she’s doing some kind of TEDTalk and can’t write proper jokes; about main character syndrome and the “fraud cycle”; and why people will be commenting “one of the boys!” under everything she ever puts out, for the rest of her life…
15mins of extra content available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Michelle on her interaction with strangers after the powerful energy that suffuses “Average Bear”, and how she safeguards herself in such intimate connections, and her unique perspective on clowning, chaos, and exactly what makes the Aunty Donna boys such special little guys…
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| 0:44.9 | Hello there and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedians comedian podcast and my guest today is the |
| 0:51.7 | Effervescent and very very funny Michelle Brazier and you might know Michelle from her incredible one-woman shows including |
| 0:59.1 | Average Bayer which was nominated for almost every comedy award going and you might also know her as one of the boys from |
| 1:06.1 | Aunty Donna and with whom she cut her did she cut her teeth? No, I think we'll go on to discuss in this episode that she didn't |
| 1:14.5 | Become a sort of creative force of chaotic offer driven comedy energy |
| 1:19.8 | With Aunty Donna, but they certainly cut from the same cloth and she went on to work with them in some very very memorable |
| 1:26.2 | Sketches like tours podcast and all of that kind of stuff, but my point you understand my point right |
| 1:31.0 | She's not Michelle Brazier from Aunty Donna. She's Michelle Brazier from her own incredible |
| 1:35.7 | Irvra and we're going to get into talking about loads of it. I am still kind of a bit |
| 1:42.0 | Whatever the phrases. I'm a bit |
| 1:44.0 | Energized as a result of this conversation which took place unusually for the recording of these blurbs only a few hours ago |
| 1:49.9 | We're going to talk about her new show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
| 1:53.1 | That's legacy which will have been running for a week or so over the time you hear this |
| 1:56.3 | I hope you go and see that tickets at Michelle Brazier.com slash tour and we're going to talk about why drama school rejects have all the fun |
| 2:04.6 | We're going to talk about |
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