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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 83 – GEOFF NORCOTT – Meet The Comedy Outlier – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to comedian and writer Geoff Norcott. Tim and Geoff discuss how he began in comedy, what it’s like being one of the very few Conservative voters in the comedy industry and why the business he works in is very much a Labour voting one.
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
Tickets for Geoff’s upcoming tour are available here http://socomedy.co.uk/artist/geoff-norcott/
And he is on Twitter here @GeoffNorcott

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast and it's a special.

0:03.8

Woo-hoo!

0:06.5

Today's conversation is with Jeff Norcott.

0:08.8

He's a stand-up comic, but he's famously known for being a conservative voter.

0:14.0

He's a Tory.

0:14.9

Such a thing exists, Tim.

0:16.2

It's a tory.

0:16.8

A comedian who's a Tory.

0:18.9

And no, this is the thing.

0:20.0

This was his angle. He sort of found it one day. He explains this on the podcast. I won't explain it now how he did it. But I remember watching one on the MASH report and thinking, it's good. It's funny. And if you haven't heard his stuff, it's clever. He's got an angle. He takes his, he's very self deprecating and he and he takes the Mickey out of his

0:39.3

views whilst making his views apparent he's very good and he's a funny guy but he's charming

0:44.1

round here oh he's fantastic great company and I think I think a very very interesting comedian

0:51.0

giving the landscape which is you working it a fair fair bit, and I've worked in it.

0:56.6

You've certainly worked with them. It's a very left-leaning culture, and I think he's a real

1:02.8

outlier in that world, which I think is really, I think that's really exciting and interesting,

1:07.1

and I found him really funny and really charming. This will fascinate you.

1:11.4

Let's meet him.

1:12.1

Here's Jeff Knockup.

1:16.0

This is just a guide to modern life.

1:20.3

Modern life is hard to get just right.

1:24.0

It can frustrate you and annoy it.

1:28.3

And if it does, write into dear love joy.

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