63 - Marcus Brigstocke (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sidetracked by youthful addictions, and making up for it with an incredibly intense approach, Marcus Brigstocke produces brilliant political comedy underpinned by passion and rigorous research. Find out what it's like to storm a commercial club with stuff that you no longer believe in, why The Telegraph regard Marcus as a traitor, and the one thing about comedy that breaks his heart...

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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 now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:39.4	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:47.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:49.0	Tees and sees apply.
0:50.0	Check the Uber app.
0:52.0	This is a podcast from Comedians. Check the Uber app.
1:23.0	This is a podcast fromians comedian podpot. Hello and welcome Pod say and I'm going to let him get on with it. Really excited about this one. Recorded live at the Gilded Balloon last year.
1:25.0	This is Marcus Brigstock. Hello.
1:35.0	Excellent. Short walk and sitting down immediately.
1:39.0	Perfect. We should probably start with what did you do to your leg?
1:43.0	Well, firstly, it's worth pointing out that Edinburgh is not a city, beautiful though it is, well
1:49.4	set up for a person on crutches. This being a place where you can leave where you started to go where you're going and travel uphill and then on the journey home also travel uphill.
2:00.0	City designed by Escher. Two of you. Fine, good. So what I've done to my legs
2:07.2	specifically is I've ruptured my Achilles tendon and ripped all the muscles.
2:10.9	All that's lovely people go, oh yeah.
2:13.4	People love a wound, don't they?
2:15.9	I don't know if that'll show up on the recording
2:17.8	that there was a lovely, the audience aren't miked,
2:19.7	but there was a lovely chorus of ooze.
2:21.5	Yeah, I've ruptured not broken my Achilles tendon
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