55 - Milton Jones (Live)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2013
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
One of the best joke-smiths in the world, Milton Jones is a consistently funny powerhouse of verbal cartoons, wordplay and clowning. We explore his persona, his process, and the advantages of making something really bad rather than making it better. He also paints a picture of the community of one-liner specialists, describes his specific approach to “Mock The Week”, and explains how to get everyone's attention on sports day...
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| 0:21.2 | So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not |
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| 1:14.0 | This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith. |
| 1:17.0 | This is another live episode recorded at the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013. |
| 1:22.0 | We've got an absolute powerhouse of a comedian for you today, |
| 1:25.0 | one of the most consistently excellent jokes myths in the world. This is Milton Jones. Lovely to have you here. How is your show going? |
| 1:43.4 | Good, yeah. I'm only here for 11 nights, which feels like cheating in a way because I've done my time |
| 1:49.1 | doing four weeks for ages. So yeah it's going very well. |
| 1:53.7 | Okay. |
| 1:54.7 | On the assembly hall. |
| 1:56.7 | I enjoyed the show very much. Can I just ask who here has seen Milton's show this year? |
| 2:00.8 | Yes. |
| 2:01.8 | That's a relief. But I think we can safely assume you've all seen Milton in some |
| 2:07.0 | context or another. And the first question I wanted to ask was really about your persona and how you are on stage and how that differs from how |
| 2:17.1 | you are in real life. Because I notice even now having said hello to you two minutes |
| 2:21.2 | ago and seeing you sitting there now, you have adopted a slightly |
| 2:25.1 | milton-esque. |
| 2:27.1 | Do you know what I mean? |
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