95 - Trygve Wakenshaw

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Bloody lovely Trygve is a superb physical improviser, and more of a "weird lanky white brittle idiot" than a clown. We dissect the hilarious savagery of his imaginary worlds, and talk about stealing ideas from yourself, spotting your habits, and why it's good to go and see bad shows...Dr Brown, Phil Burgers, Kraken, Squidboy, Barry Awards, Golden Gibbo Awards, FRED Awards, SOMPBDILSPIWCL, Le Flop, Cardboard Cabaret, Vikki Stone, The Classic, Auckland, Steen Raskopoulos, Red Bastard, Benjamin Crellin, Barnie Duncan, Calypso Nights, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel And Hardy, Gaulier, Clowning, Carlo Jacucci, The Underbelly, Julien Cottereau, Imagine Toi, Monty Python, Kune's Kitchen, John Kearns, Liam Williams, Ben Target, The Boy With Tape On His Face, Kim Noble

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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.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Bloom's 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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0:53.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian pod-pond. Hello everybody, welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to the brilliant Trig v Wakenshaw.
1:18.0	Now I must apologize for my hung-over state.
1:21.0	This was at the very end of the Edinburgh Festival just passed. This is the last of the Edinburgh
1:25.2	Festival recordings I made and you can very much tell it's the end of the festival. So sorry about the quality of my voice and I don't think the quality the interview suffers.
1:34.3	In fact, who knows?
1:35.4	Let me know, tweet me at comcom pod or email me info at comedians comedian.
1:39.6	com. If you think I'm better when I'm hung over and together we can stamp out this sober
1:44.3	student goldsmith menace. I think it worked out in the end this is the brilliant
1:48.0	trig v wakenshaw.
1:52.0	I did a gig in New Zealand that was it was these kind of comedy award things and so
2:00.5	and it was being filmed until the like house lights were up more than usual.
2:04.8	And backstage all the comics were just going like, oh my God, I can see all the audience.
2:09.4	It's really, it's really tough.
2:12.2	And like, what are you guys talking about?
2:14.0	You have to see the audience, right?
2:16.0	They're like, no, no, no, I like it when it's just lights in my eyes and it's like I'm performing
2:20.0	to a big black void.
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