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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

84 - Nick Doody

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Nick Doody is a textbook "unsung hero" of comedy: fiercely analytical, and with an approach to jokes that is both cerebral and instinctive. He talks here in fascinating detail about elements of his writing process: divergent thinking, freeing oneself from the logic of a situation, and manufacturing outrage...Jim Jefferies, The Now Show, Radio 4, Ben Moore, Wayne Shepherd, The Comedy Cellar, Arnold Brown, Stephen Fry, Bill Hicks, Jack Dee, Stephen Wright, Emo Phillips, Nick Revel, Ben And Arn, Paul Rogan, Stewart Lee, Andy Zaltzman, Matt Kirshen, John Gordillo, Simon Evans, Old Rope, Louis CK, Carey Marx, Ed Byrne

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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. 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

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0:51.0

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1:13.0

This is a podcast from comedian podcast. Hello there and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this episode is recorded live in a mid-range hotel in Leeds.

1:20.0

This is the brilliant Nick Doody.

1:28.0

So here we are in Leeds. Thanks Nick for coming to talk to me.

1:30.0

I appreciate it.

1:31.0

This is you're from here are you? I was born in Leeds. I'm from

1:35.0

West Yorkshire generally, generally. No way specific, just the malls. Yeah, I grew up in Shipley, which is sort of between Leeds and Bradford, it's technically part of Bradford.

1:47.0

Okay, and how did you find last night's gig?

1:50.0

I'm aware we've got very limited time, so we will, we will set you up and find out about you

1:54.2

along the way but let's also something I want to do is get really straight into

1:58.3

it because on the strength of last night and Friday night gigs we've both been playing in

2:03.7

jungler's leads and I haven't seen you for a while and I knew you were brilliant and

2:10.1

I knew that I'd seen you a couple of times at altitude.

2:13.0

I saw you doing a gig in French.

2:14.0

We can come into that.

2:15.0

That was quite exciting experience.

2:17.0

But I was so impressed last night with the way you,

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