428 - James Adomian (Live @ SXSW)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Ingenious stand-up, actor and impressionist James Adomian’s impact is truly global, with his voice appearing on a hundred cartoons and a thousand podcasts - making him "a famous person no-one knows”.
Delving deep into his character performance and how he chooses who to impersonate, James lets us in on his love for Aristophanes and his processes of tackling intelligent and academic subjects, in voices ranging from US Presidents to Slovenian philosophers, all whilst maintaining mainstream appeal. We also discuss audience reactions to James being gay and how not fitting into the gay ‘template’ has helped shape his stand-up sets, and get POD-JACKED BY EDDIE PEPITONE NO LESS.
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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 and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedian's comedian podcast getting into the |
| 0:51.8 | Depths of the minds of your favorite comedy creatives |
| 0:55.6 | Can you say comedy creatives God that sounds so brand-based but nonetheless? |
| 1:00.2 | It's to do with comedy and creativity and today my guest live at South by Southwest is none other than James Adomian |
| 1:06.4 | Who has someone I've been trying to get on the podcast for many years? |
| 1:09.4 | Absolutely thrilled to finally get him on you will know him from a hundred cartoons and a thousand podcasts |
| 1:14.8 | You'll know him from comedy bang bang and also from his incredible long form improvised characters of people like Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk and |
| 1:23.3 | Jesse Ventura and Slavo Gishek another more complex people and he does these extraordinary kind of long form |
| 1:30.6 | Improvised characters and we're gonna delve into how he chooses who to impersonate |
| 1:35.6 | His love for Aristophanes and his processes for tackling intelligence and academic subjects |
| 1:41.2 | We also talk about audience reactions to James being gay and how not fitting into the gay template has shaped his stand-up sets |
| 1:48.8 | Plus as a little bonus. We actually get pod jacks that I think that for the first time in the history of this podcast a |
| 1:55.0 | previous guest |
| 1:56.6 | Interjects and interacts live at South by Southwest this not to be missed is James Adomian |
| 2:12.3 | Yeah |
| 2:13.8 | The thing I often forget to do at the beginning of these interviews is set up |
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