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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Andy Kindler - Intrusive thoughts, 'being a man' and how to be a hack comic

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to American comedian Andy Kindler about Colin Farrell, Caddyshack, language and impressing people, a stream of self-consciousness, ADHD and OCD, Prozac and therapy, intrusive thoughts, 'being a man', the draft, a run-in with Adam Sandler, how to be a hack comic, why Ricky Gervais is the comedic equivalent of Donald Trump, our perception of beauty, Yahweh, Popeye and bad trips.

Trigger warning – ADHD, OCD, Dieting


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Bailey Lenart

Produced by Sarah Garvey

A huge thanks to Phoenix Artist Club in London for letting me record my podcast and do my shows with them. Special thanks to Peter Dunbar.

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0:00.0

My thing is, like I do a joke of my act, you know, OCD have intrusive thoughts.

0:05.3

So like, it's like, until recently I thought there was a 50-50 chance I was the Golden State

0:10.0

killer, you know, maybe I'm a serial murder with a short memory.

0:14.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:20.0

We're all made of humans. You are listening to the Made of Human

0:26.5

You are listening to the Made of Human podcast. I am Sophie Hagen. I am your

0:30.4

host for the day for the episode for the entire podcast actually I'm a Danish

0:35.3

stand-up comedian living in London in the UK if this is the first time you tune in

0:41.2

or listen press download and then listen. This is a

0:44.7

podcast in which I speak to people about life. I try to find out how to do it and

0:49.5

if people don't know how to do life, which I'll be honest with you quite often they don't then

0:56.7

we just have a chat about well that so thank you for giving this podcast a chance. I will let you listen to my chat with any kindler. I'm going to try not say too much because

1:11.2

It's so me I don't mean that in like a fun, oh I'm so, I do these wacky things. I mean it in like a,

1:19.7

it's such a me thing to get all up in my own head about you know make a big deal out of something that's not a big deal and

1:29.1

But I do want to say that I absolutely love Andy Kindler and I don't want to exaggerate.

1:37.9

So I'll just say in a mild way he might be my soulmate and that's just all I'm going to say I'm just

1:47.4

going to say I think any kindler's my soulmate that's all I'm going to say he's

1:50.4

an amazing person we're the same person actually so it's quite self-indulged of me to declare him to be the best person in the world.

1:57.0

But, fuck it, he is. And we're the same person, and we're probably soul mates.

2:01.0

We probably knew each other in a past life, and we'll probably knew each other in a past life and we'll probably know each

2:05.2

other in the next life as well because we're such similar people that we'll

2:10.2

always end up knowing each other that's all I'm gonna say and I don't want to make a big deal of it okay but that's just all I'm going to say and I don't want to make a big deal of it

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