Brett Goldstein Loves Making Fun of Shakespeare

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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After winning an Emmy for playing Roy Kent on 'Ted Lasso', Brett Goldstein has returned to stand up comedy. He joins us on this week's Good One to discuss his new special 'The Second Best Night of Your Life', visiting 'Sesame Street' and joining the cast of 'Shrinking'. 00:00 Intro 00:00:45 Funniest thing that happened this week 00:02:10 Plays versus musicals 00:08:05 Before Ted Lasso 00:12:00 Ted Lasso 00:15:50 Going to the Emmys 00:20:30 Doing stand up after Ted Lasso 00:23:00 Finding season four 00:25:30 Shrinking 00:33:00 Sesame Street 00:40:00 All about love 00:47:10 The Laughening Round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.7	stand-it where it's like, you know me as Roy Kent, but in real life, I'm like this.
1:14.4	I didn't want to do that.
1:16.6	And I never had to, which surprised me.
1:19.3	I sort of thought this might be an issue.
1:22.0	But it wasn't.
1:22.8	I also think the thing I had on my side is absolutely zero expectations for the audience, as in,
1:29.1	I don't think anyone knew I'd done stand-up. Perhaps they thought this is like an actor trying
1:33.9	stand-up. So the fact that I actually am, I hope, a competent to stand-up who's got lots and
1:39.4	lots of years of experience, perhaps I come out, they go, I don't know what I'm getting,
1:43.1	and they go, oh, he appears to know what he's doing.
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