7 - Sarah Millican
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Millican is relentless and wonderful. A household name in the UK for her stand-up comedy, she is also a massive comedy nerd and has a lot to say about her favourite subject. As well as going into detail on her writing process, she discusses some of the unique challenges faced by a high-profile act, including playing large rooms and preparing for panel shows. She also has plenty of tips for newer acts on how to escape the day-job and turn pro.
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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 |
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| 1:25.2 | This is a podcastians comedian podcast. pod... start straight away delving into the creative writing secrets of Sarah Milliken with adult language from the start. |
| 1:32.1 | You are very positive. You're really positive. You're really, like we were talking about |
| 1:37.8 | Dan Evans's podcast early on. We should officially mention here that you are the first person I'm interviewing who's already heard the show. |
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| 1:53.0 | You were a super-goldsmith before. |
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| 1:58.0 | had you not excitedly gone, |
| 2:00.0 | yay, I was super-gold, but now it lives and it's your fault. |
| 2:04.0 | So you, so someone, like in a conversation I had with Dan, |
| 2:08.0 | Dan, as we were saying, whilst being incredibly endearing, |
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