93 - Eleanor Tiernan

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

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor Tiernan makes tremendously articulate comedy, often out of morally murky ideas and subjects. She talks here about the comedy scene in her native Ireland, how to find the bits of your act that are genuinely “alive”, and how she escaped material she felt trapped by. We also go into depth on her experiences with therapy, how her artistic purpose helps her emotionally, and how we share the underlying fear of getting kicked out of the gang...Free Fringe, Laughter Lounge, Tommy Tiernan, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Poor School, The Oxford Drama School, Help The Frigid, So You Think You're Funny?, Mrs Brown's Boys, Chris Brown, Stewart Lee, Andrew Lawrence, Headwreckers, David McSavage, Phil Kay, Hunter Square, Reginald D Hunter, Up The Creek, Comedy Store, Dublin Fringe Festival, The National Therapy Project, Jason Byrne, Dara O'Briain

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0:18.0	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 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
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1:07.0	This is the Comedians comedian podgos.
1:10.0	Hello there and welcome to the show. podcast.
1:16.0	Hello there and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and this is Eleanor Tiernan.
1:18.0	She's a superb comic from Ireland that I first worked with in Dublin,
1:21.0	maybe five or six years ago,
1:22.0	and her show was on the free fringe at
1:24.3	Edinburgh this year one of the many free fringes and it was entitled Help the Fridget.
1:29.2	It was one of my absolute favorites so is she. This is Eleanor Tin.
1:33.3	Yeah, I really love talking about comedy. I don't get to have enough conversations about
1:40.5	it and an hour is, I think is a good length of time to talk
1:44.5	Yeah why is that why don't you get to have many conversations about it?
1:48.8	Well my friends aren't as interested or knowledgeable about it.
1:54.5	Do you not, do you have friends in comedy?
1:56.3	I have loads of friends in comedy, but we just don't, I suppose, geeked together that
2:02.2	often, you know, some people are doing day jobs and yeah, I suppose
2:07.1	we're, you get to a stage when you're doing gigs where you're traveling with maybe newer comedians or on your own to gigs and it's those
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