Comedian Sebastian Marx
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week it's comedian Sebastian Marx, discussing the French language, performing comedy in French (even though he's an American), and of course, Paris.
Join us for the 30-minute chat, and consider signing up as a flaneur on Patreon to see our 50-minute Walk Show on the Grands Boulevards of Paris (where we ended up on the stage of a local theatre).
And last, but not least, Happy Birthday Seb!!
Here's more on his new show, The French Language Explained by an American.
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| 0:00.0 | Airful Tower listeners, hello, it's another Monday in Paris. This week we've got a great episode. It is comedian Sebastian Marks. |
| 0:06.5 | Now this is an American guy who lives in Paris and France. In fact, it's his birthday today. So let's start with that. He's 39 today on Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | So if you are listening today, Sebastian, happy birthday. But before we get into this conversation about language, stand-up comedy and of course Paris, |
| 0:21.2 | I want to make a few corrections. |
| 0:23.3 | One thing I mentioned in the episode is this German comedian who I called Henning Mankel. |
| 0:28.4 | That is a Swedish crime writer. |
| 0:30.5 | I was talking about Henning Ven. |
| 0:32.1 | So don't get confused if you want to Google, Google Henning Ven. |
| 0:35.4 | The other thing I want to say is that Sebastian was talking about this theater, |
| 0:39.4 | Teatro Gymnas, which we did a walk show together right after the episode. |
| 0:43.5 | We ended up in that theater. |
| 0:45.3 | We ended up on the stage when it was close to the public. |
| 0:47.5 | It was really cool. |
| 0:48.7 | So if you want to support this show and check it out on Patreon, |
| 0:51.9 | so that's patreon.com forward slash the yearful tower. |
| 0:54.6 | You can watch these shows live or you can watch the replay of us popping into this |
| 0:58.4 | theater. |
| 0:59.0 | It was amazing. |
| 0:59.7 | Anyway, on with the show. |
| 1:01.0 | Sebastian's new comedy stand-up show is called The French Language Explained by an American. |
| 1:05.9 | Check it out and enjoy this episode. |
| 1:08.5 | And once again, happy birthday, Sebastian. |
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