Abby Wambaugh
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Abby Wambaugh is an American comedian, writer, and improviser who has made their mark on the UK comedy scene with The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows, which earned them the Best Newcomer ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award. This month, they return to the Fringe with their hit show before it transfers Off-Broadway in the Autumn.
We discuss the cultural shifts moving from New York to Denmark, creating an environment to worm, Abby shares how the grief of a miscarriage became the unlikely starting point for her journey into comedy, the impact of content warnings on a show's structure, what it's like returning a show to Edinburgh, expectations for a career in comedy and is Abby Wambaugh happy...
Content warning: this episode includes discussion of miscarriage.
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Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows is at the Pleasance Courtyard from the 12th (that’s next Tuesday!) to the 25th August before it heads Off-Broadway in the Autumn. Find all the info and more at abbywambaugh.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Every single person that comes along to my Edinburgh show, |
| 0:02.7 | an inconvenient time at 11.5 a.m. |
| 0:05.0 | between the 11th and 17th of August, |
| 0:07.2 | will receive a kiss. |
| 0:08.4 | That's right, a full-on snog from me. |
| 0:10.5 | Get your tickets now at Stuartgoldsmith.com. |
| 0:12.6 | Kiss not guaranteed. Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedian's comedian and in it we are going to get inside the mind of American comedian, writer and improviser Abby Wombard. |
| 0:39.6 | Abby made their mark on the UK comedy scene with their debut show, |
| 0:43.0 | the first three minutes of 17 shows which earned them the best newcomer-ish Edinburgh Comedy Award. |
| 0:49.2 | This month, they return to the fringe with their hit show before it transfers off Broadway in the autumn. |
| 0:53.8 | And as I think i make |
| 0:54.7 | clear at the beginning of this interview abby is very very new for an appearance on this show normally my |
| 1:00.6 | sort of general rule of thumb is bare minimum three full hours of stand-up um so like it's in order that my guest |
| 1:08.0 | has a significant body of work upon which to reflect. However, |
| 1:16.8 | Abby has passed that clause because this show, aka the first three minutes of 17 shows, |
| 1:22.7 | just absolutely blew my head off. I thought it was fantastic and I shall say so to them at length, |
| 1:29.5 | so I won't go on about it now. But yeah, very exciting, very exciting to have someone so new and a different, |
| 1:36.3 | I think there are, I think the aficionado of this podcast will recognise that there has a different flavour to it and there's some different questions about direction looking forwards |
| 1:40.4 | rather than looking back, that kind of thing. So, without further, with a small amount of further ado, there's extras, of course, on the Patreon, which you can find at patreon.com.com slash comcom pod, along with the full back catalogue of extras. And don't forget, you can now sync all of your Patreon goodies on Spotify. And I think I'd know how to do that. I actually, yesterday, managed to tidy up the |
| 2:02.9 | playlist that we've been keeping for my nine-year-old son since he was born. Any kind of music |
| 2:07.2 | that he responded to we put on there. And then when he was about six, he completely nawsed it up |
| 2:11.3 | by kind of multiply duplicating it and putting loads of trash on it and adding loads of, you know, stuff that even now |
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