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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Fern Brady 2016: ComCompendium

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Unknown, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Instinctive, irrepressible, and with an inimitable aversion to bullshit, today we revisit Fern Brady's 2016 nascent dalliance with success, mere moments before catapulting herself headlong into the comedy stratosphere...


Catch up with Fern via:

fernbradycomedian.com

@fernfrombathgate

@FernBrady


Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for ad-free episodes, extra content from every show that has it, and much more - including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, Alfie Brown, James Acaster and (this episode's very own!) Fern Brady, plus the incredible “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet.


And submit your unmissable moments of ComComPod at www.comedianscomedian.com/unmissable



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Stu offers remote and in-person talks to business, distilling insights from over 400 comics on cultivating resilience and the ability to bounce back, to all levels from C-suite to team members.


“There’s perfect and there’s perfect; and that was perfect.” David Cooper, Chief People Officer, Circle Health Group






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0:00.0

Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special

0:04.2

I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com

0:08.1

There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month

0:13.2

Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box

0:17.8

God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and

0:23.6

Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty

0:30.0

Hello, and welcome back. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is another concomendium today with Fern Brady

0:51.0

Now I'll chat you in the in the middle of the show a little bit about the concomendium strategy

0:56.0

And how my feelings towards it have shifted over the last couple of months

0:58.7

And but suffice to say this is another golden oldie from the archives what we're going to do is alternate

1:04.3

Concomendiums and new episodes. I hope you enjoyed last week's episode with the brilliant Vierdass

1:09.0

He of the towering five Netflix specials. It's a really cracking interview

1:13.6

So I hope you will go and involve yourself with that

1:16.0

And but for now we are looking back to way back when and I don't have the original episode number in front of me

1:21.2

But it was so long ago that Fern was in the ascendancy as opposed to a stratospheric as she is now

1:29.0

And we're going to talk about

1:31.4

Doing eight out of ten cats and then going back to work in a call center the next day

1:35.8

We're going to talk about not giving a shit versus diplomacy

1:40.0

And we're going to talk about social awkwardness reading reviews or not and feeling uncomfortable on stage

1:46.1

And also we are going to I mean the thing about Fern is look. I'm not going to rattle through all of it

1:50.0

She just says what she thinks and she thinks hard and she is also a really innate and instinctive comedian

1:58.2

I think I think this is this is such a brilliant episode and I'm manking to get her back on the show because it's been years and years

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