EP 185 - SIMON BRODKIN

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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After a quick catch-up on a mad week I speak to Simon Brodkin about his amazing career. From pranking Donald Trump and Kanye to starting out all over again as a straight stand-up, Simon has some unique tales to tell about the comedy industry.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 185 of what most people think and we've got it's another great
0:20.3	guest week we got we got son of rockin we had Phil Wang last week Philly Wang Wang loads
0:26.3	of loads great feedback about that and this week we'll be speaking to Simon Broadkin it's just a
0:31.4	great chat with Simon we start sort of start off straight with the ADHD thing he talks about being
0:36.6	one of these comedians that's been diagnosed with that and the the legal speed that you can get
0:42.2	I don't know if you know about this but he breaks it down very interestingly and then we talk about
0:46.1	the the famous stunts that he's done and you know the time he got on stage with Kanye Weston
0:50.7	it's a really great chat and of course I speak to his my tour basic bloke is on sale and I just
0:56.6	want to say I'm going to do a proper thank you on this but it's on sale people are buying tickets
1:01.8	thank fuck for that because you just don't know do you you just don't know you do all this stuff
1:06.7	and then you put it on sale and then right in the last minute because you're what's not by any
1:10.9	tickets like not a single ticket I've been having these weird anxiety dreams where I keep turning up
1:15.4	in places but people say we we don't want you here I've got to say fair play to my dreams for not
1:20.2	being in any way symbolic and just being fairly literal what's that Jeff you worried that you're
1:24.2	not going to sell any tickets and then in your dreams you go to a place where no one wants to see you
1:28.3	yeah I'm a complicated guy hence the name basic bloke I had a great week weekend last weekend I
1:35.5	did gigs in France and Amsterdam and the the French gig was really interesting which it was
1:42.0	it was like it was build as an English speaking gig and so I don't know if there's some angular
1:47.4	files over there or some expats who want to come along but there were plenty of people at the gig
1:52.3	who didn't speak English so that made it you sort of end up feeling like the arrogant Englishman
1:57.9	abroad but then you kind of go and as I start to make a joke out of it saying look English is evidently
2:04.1	a design classic because that's why so many people speak it you know all these Europeans that go
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