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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

8 - Arthur Smith

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

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Arthur is an almost shamanic figure on the UK comedy scene; a warrior-poet who combines a love of language with a healthy disregard for some of society's formalities. He talks here about learning to write without fear, and the need to "kill the cliche".


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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.

0:27.7

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1:01.0

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1:04.2

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1:09.2

To donate and opt out text action, no. This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast.

1:39.0

Hello there and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to Arthur Smith. I was a little bit overexited when I first met Arthur and very keen to recount a tale of my own.

1:45.0

So you'll need to bear with us for the first five minutes of this interview in which there's not a great deal of Arthur talking

1:51.0

and there's quite a lot of me excitedly telling him a story

1:54.0

about my brief involvement in his life many years ago.

1:57.4

After that however we get back into a proper groove so please be upstanding for Mr Arthur Smith.

2:04.0

Arthur Smith.

2:05.0

Arthur Smith.

2:09.0

Hello, thank you for Green to be on the...

2:12.0

I'm delighted to be answering in a the

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