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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

98A - Ross Noble (2 of 2)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In part two of this conversation with the free-wheeling comedy craftsman, Ross Noble argues that ideas with unusual logic are often mistaken for "surreal" comedy, and explains his process of un-honing ideas by starting with something neat and then taking it to bits live on stage...Mock The Week, Writing Jokes, Live At The Apollo, Tour, Exclusive, Australia, Improv, Russell Brand, Bill Bailey, Boothy Graffoe, Stewart Lee, Harry Hill, Billy Connolly, Joe Wilkinson, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Sean Hughes, Rob Newman, Peter Kay, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Glee Club, John Cooper Clarke, Sean Lock, Fred Macauley, Jo Brand, Lee Evans, Dave Gorman, Jasper Carrot

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1:45.0

Hello, welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and here we are with part two of my conversation with Ross Noble.

1:51.0

And you join us as we're talking about ideas and how Ross uses

1:55.0

logic as a jumping-off point of his signature flights of fancy. This is Ross Noble. I want to talk about the assemblage of the show and I wanted to sort of get into that

2:09.7

stuff before we get onto that I wanted to ask about the your relationship to your audience

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