Ep. 527 - Emmanuel Sonubi
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Emmanuel Sonubi is a two time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee. Nominated for Best Newcomer in 2022 and Best Show in 2023, as well as the Chortle Award for Best Club Comedian in 2023 and Next Up Comedy Award for Best Show in 2022. He has headlined BBC's Live at the Apollo and appeared on QI and Have I Got News for You. He will next be seen in the forthcoming shows The Hitlist (BBC), Silence is Golden (U&Dave) and Richard Osmond’s House of Games. Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, an acclaimed European tour, and a triumphant New York Soho Theatre residency, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on the road with his latest show, Life After Near Death. After surviving heart failure, Emmanuel takes audiences on a rollercoaster ride through his journey of recovery, resilience, and the moments of comedy that emerge even in life’s darkest corners .
Emmanuel Sonubi is our guest in episode 527 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Tickets for Emmanuel’s tour are available here - https://www.emmanuelstandup.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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| 1:44.3 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they would like to have in a time capsule. They can have anything from any time, but they pick four things that they really love, |
| 1:49.8 | and one thing they like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is the comedian Emmanuel Sunubi. Emmanuel is a fantastic stand-up comedian who's become, in a very few short |
| 1:56.4 | years, a regular on the live comedy circuit, then the one to watch. He was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, and now he's one of the top stand-up comedians in the UK |
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