5 - Paul Sinha

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2012

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Paul is that rare thing - a comic who can make the political personal and vice versa. He lets us into his well-ordered but intriguing view of comedy and the world, from the comfort of his Mazda...The Now Show, Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Hughes, Hal Cruttenden, Ian Stone, Alastair Barrie, The BNP, Jim Davidson, David Cameron, Cutting Edge, The Comedy Store, Daniel Kitson, Dan Nightingale, Toby Jones, XS Malarkey, Pete Waterman, The Chase, Tim Vine, Mickey Flanagan, Milton Jones, Gina Yashere, Ed Byrne, Simon Pegg, Banana Cabaret, Ha Bloody Ha

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.
0:42.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
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. Podcast.
1:19.0	Welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm going to be talking to Paul Sinha. We're going to be finding out how anyone can be a political comic, but also it's important to stick to what you know.
1:26.0	Without any further ado I hope you enjoy Mr Paul's car.
1:38.0	It's a Mazda 3 if anyone's wondering.
1:40.0	I don't know not more about it than that.
1:42.0	There are spaces for six CDs and the CD player.
1:45.4	Yeah, it picks up most radio channels, but I'm not really a car person.
1:50.3	I'm not either. I wouldn't have been able to tell even looking at the logo on the steering wheel
1:54.2	I wouldn't have been able to tell you that this was a Mazda particularly.
1:56.7	No I changed my car every two or three years although it's become I don't drive as much as I used to.
2:02.3	Okay we were saying before this the reason we're having this chat in your car is this is where you do most of your writing.
2:07.0	And you were just saying that that's true in a stand-up sort of a way, but when you write for radio radio when you're writing topical jokes for the
2:14.6	nail show or similar you know I tend to be at the desk anything that's much more
2:19.3	scripted I tend to be at in my flat on my computer.
2:23.2	Okay, well let's talk about stand up to begin with and then we'll because that's, yeah, that's kind, yeah, let's talk about stand up to begin with.
2:29.9	And what I'm trying to do is I go along is not stop, make any aside that I then have to painstakingly edit out as I go.
2:35.6	I'm just kind of wrestling with the thing. So by way of introduction you and I have giged together several times the last time you drove me to Southampton in this car in this very car
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stuart Goldsmith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stuart Goldsmith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.