Alex Kealy
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Alex Kealy is one of the country's most exciting up-and-coming stand-ups, currently touring throughout the UK with "The Fear". He’s also the host of Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham, and has featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show as well as writing for Mock The Week and The News Quiz.
In this episode, we discuss the comedian’s fear of the comedian, weaponising vulnerability, the secret superpower of audience eye contact, the emotional fallout of privilege, the split identities of performing vs writing and is Alex Kealy happy….
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Leamington Spa: 2nd June, 2025: Work In Progress @ The Royal Pug
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Cheltenham Playhouse: 23rd July, 2025: Work In Progress
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| 0:00.0 | Stu here, before we get stuck in, go to Stuart Goldsmith.com slash comedy to find details of all of my work in progress shows leading up to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm doing shows in London, Mahantlath, Lemington, Exeter, the Green Phoenix Festival, Oxford, and then the Edinburgh Fringe, 11th to the 17th of August at the Monkey Barrel. |
| 0:16.8 | See you there. Stuartgoldsmith.com slash comedy. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm pleased to bring you this interview with Alex Keely. |
| 0:41.1 | He is one of the most... |
| 0:42.5 | Who speaks like that? |
| 0:44.4 | He is one of the most exciting up-and-coming stand-ups in the country, currently touring throughout the UK with The Fear. |
| 0:51.1 | Now, I've been jiggling the schedule... |
| 0:52.9 | Why have I said it like that? The schedule recently to accommodate the fact that I've |
| 0:57.8 | got so many, I've got like 10 episodes in the can. They're all brilliant and many of them |
| 1:01.3 | are currently on tour, wrapping up a tour or about to be at Edinburgh. So apologies, Alex, |
| 1:05.8 | there are only a few of your tour dates left, so I hope people can get in and see them. I will say that this episode |
| 1:12.4 | was, and I texted Alex about this, Susie, who logs the episodes, emailed me about this one |
| 1:17.3 | when she finished logging it, and said, this is like the comedians, comedians, comedians, comedians, |
| 1:21.8 | I think you're going to absolutely love it. This episode includes the phrase, I'm vulnerable |
| 1:26.7 | to smelling negative energy that may not exist and then committing Harakiri for no reason. I love it. This episode includes the phrase, I'm vulnerable to smelling negative energy that may not |
| 1:28.5 | exist and then committing Harakiri for no reason. I love it. You're going to love it. We clearly, |
| 1:33.6 | this is, I mean, this almost could have been a two-part. We talk for so long. And clearly our |
| 1:39.5 | minds are, I can't say our minds are in sync because I think he's considerably more intelligent |
| 1:44.7 | and good at reading books than I am. Those two things often go hand in hand. But I think this is a sparky, |
| 1:51.3 | brain, fizzy, fun kind of a chat, which if you like me and the things I like, you're going to like. |
| 1:56.8 | So Alex is also the host of gigpigs with Ivo Graham, which I've done the first bit of. I went to the gig with Alex, Ivo is away, and I've heard nothing more about it. So maybe I can leverage an appearance, an eventual final actual appearance on that podcast by releasing this. Let's hope so. But Gigpigs is lots of fun, so check that out. Also, I can pay it one of the highest compliments I |
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