90 - Bridget Christie (Live)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The leading voice of feminism in UK comedy, devastatingly funny Bridget Christie is adept at unearthing humour in difficult or important topics. She talks here about her comic origins in surrealism, and reveals beneath her insecurities the wilfulness that kept her going in the face of critical bewilderment. We Love Comedy, Stewart Lee, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Fosters Comedy Award, A Bic For Her, An Ungrateful Woman, David Trent, Hannibal Buress, Cheese Roll, Charles II, Charles II The Second, Daily Mail, Housewife Surrealist, War Donkey, A Ant, The Stand, ACMS, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, The Alexander, Clapham, The Comedy Stop, The Comedy Store, Sam Simmons, Alison Vernon-Smith, Bridget Christie Minds The Gap, Radio 4, Kate Smurthwaite, Danielle Ward, Soho Theatre, Eddie Izzard, Celebrity Squares, Warwick Davies

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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.
0:30.8	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:40.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
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0:48.8	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, Comedian Pod-Pondt.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and this is another episode recorded live at Bob and
1:14.4	Misbehaves Bookshop at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014.
1:18.1	This is the devastatingly funny Bridget Christie. Bridget, how is your show?
1:24.0	Bridget, how is your show? How are you? How's it going? I haven't seen you properly in ages. The
1:36.5	last time you and I had a proper chat was two years ago when we gig together at We Love
1:42.4	Comedy in Liverpool Street and it was about two weeks
1:46.3	before the Edinburgh Festival and you were backstage and you went Stuart I've got
1:49.8	nothing I've got nothing and then sorry one year ago because that was the year you came up and then smashed it and won the award
1:56.3	two weeks later
1:59.3	I don't think I smashed it but yeah I well I am't think I smashed it. But yeah, well I, I, um, I think I had a bit of the show, didn't I? I didn't have all the ending, but I think I had... Not according to you, you were like, I've got nothing, I don't know what I'm doing, I'm breaking it.
2:17.0	Yeah, I do normally leave it, like I don't leave it late,
2:21.0	I normally start writing them around sort of May okay it's kind of late yeah but
2:30.3	the world changes I normally have like a few routines that like I could use but then I'm going to do the whole hours like this.
2:45.0	I've normally got about 15 minutes,
2:50.0	10 minutes, 15 minutes, but then just from May, hammer it.
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