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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

43 - Benny Boot (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Unknown, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2013

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It's the second Live special, and London-based Australian gagsmith Benny Boot lets us in on his effervescent cartoon-like imagination. We talk about the unusual techniques he employs to create a writing environment, why the true stories of his checkered past don't fly, and how long he can keep an owl impression going...


*** This episode suffers from audio issues which do not represent the usual quality of the podcast ***


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0:14.4

Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can never get that right. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:39.1

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:46.0

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:53.0

This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast.

1:07.0

Hello. Podcast. episode. The good news is that we managed to save this live special show from being

1:24.9

unlistenable, frankly. The bad news is that in terms of sound quality it's

1:29.2

still not great. Really sorry about that. We had a great time talking to a very talented comedian, but due to some unforeseen issues with background noise and some other technical problems, this was very nearly a washout, and I'm afraid it's all completely my fault. I'm very grateful to my sometime assistant

1:44.4

producer Sarah Grun for her help with this, but if you're new to the comedians comedian

1:48.4

podcast, please be aware that the sound quality that follows is not representative of our usual standards.

1:54.4

We didn't want to throw it out completely and if you persevere with it you will hear why.

1:59.3

There's some excellent stuff here from the very funny Mr Benny Boot.

2:03.2

Thank you so much for coming along.

2:10.3

I was going to interview you at Baby Blue the last time we kicked together.

2:13.4

Do you remember in Liverpool?

2:15.0

Oh, we got had a big night and I texted about 2.30 PM the next day.

2:19.6

So I said, I said, I just do it a lot of time.

2:21.0

Sorry.

2:22.0

And that was the last time I saw you prior to the

2:25.0

thing you did for us tonight and you absolutely smashed it to pieces in a

2:29.4

commercial comedy club on a weekend night so I'm Friday or Saturday like

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