Ep. 542 - Connor Burns - Award winning comedian

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Connor Burns is one of the fastest-rising stars in UK comedy. Career highlights include supporting Daniel Sloss on three continents, closing the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala at the Sydney Opera House, he completed an off-Broadway run at the New York Comedy Festival and he’s won the Fringe Encore Series twice, in 2024 & 2025. Hailing from Scotland, he’s sold out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across the UK with acclaimed tours. He’s also become a hit online with millions of views on TikTok and over 110,000 followers on Instagram. He’s also made his mark on broadcast media — regularly appearing on BBC Radio Scotland’s panel show Breaking the News and making his UK television debut on Edinburgh Unlocked in 2022. He’s currently on a national tour with his new show GALLUS.

Connor Burns is our guest in episode 542 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 .

Connor’s tour tickets and dates are available here - https://www.connor-burns.com/shows .

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0:00.0	Hello again 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 wish they had in a time capsule.
0:20.8	Four things they love, and one thing they'd like to get rid of from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. Four things they love,
0:21.9	and one thing they'd like to get rid of from their life by burying it in the ground and never
0:25.7	thinking of it again. My guest in this episode is the Scottish stand-up comedian Connor Burns.
0:32.6	After stepping on stage for the first time in 2017, not that long ago, Conner has gone on to become one of the
0:38.6	most exciting acts emerging from the UK. Named as one of Chortle's Ones to Watch in 2020,
0:45.2	Connor has gone on to become a prominent feature on weekend lineups across the UK, and in
0:50.2	2022, Connor debuted his first hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show Live,
0:56.2	laugh, loathe.
0:57.7	In recent years, he's become a regular on BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the News and made his UK television debut in 2022 on BBC Scotland's Edinburgh Unlocked.
1:08.1	He's performed as tour support for globally renowned acts, including Daniel Sloss,
1:13.2	Larry Dean and Ishan Akbar. Conner has done four tours of Australia and his Australian television
1:19.1	debut was just for Laugh, Sydney. He's also performed and filmed at the Sydney Opera House.
1:25.0	Connor has now over five million views online and since Edinburgh has been
1:29.8	touring his show Gallus around the country. He's just off to do it in New York, then tours all
1:35.3	over the country and Australia again in 2026, so probably from Perth to Perth. Yeah, that makes sense.
1:42.6	There's a link to the tour and tickets in the written description
1:45.0	of this episode. So if you're not persuaded yet that it's worth buying a ticket, then let's have a
1:50.2	listen to Connor on my time capsule and see if that helps. I'm sure it will. Here is Connor Burns.
2:00.0	Hello.
2:20.8	Hi, Conor, how are you? Hi, good, thank you. How are you? I'm very good, thank you, mate. Now, I've had a bit of a cold last week. Typically, of course, during a holiday. Yeah. Yeah, it always happens. You sort of go, oh, I'm going on holiday next week. And then you go, oh, no, no. Oh, you're blessed. I've been pretty under the weather the last few days as well Right
2:21.3	Right on holiday next week and then you go oh no no oh you're blessed i've been a pretty under the weather
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