Fin Taylor on Offensive Comedy, Free Speech and Count Dankula

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We sat with the fantastic Fin Taylor to discuss the nuances of free speech, Count Dankula's case, the culture war, and offensive comedy. 00:02:08 Comedy, Irony and Free Speech 00:31:44 Count Dankula and Hate Speech Fin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fintaylorcomedy?lang=en Support TRIGGERnometry: Paypal: https://bit.ly/2Tnz8yq https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading

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0:00.0	Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,
0:05.6	Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.
0:08.6	In the Penlyown and bro Alithia since 1906.
0:15.0	100% authentic.
0:17.3	But not all Spanish beers are what they seem.
0:19.8	A bit like me.
0:21.1	I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia. Spanish. Not Spanish. Hello and this is a show for you.
0:38.0	I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constance and Kissen.
0:39.0	And this is a show for you if you're bored of watching people argue on the internet over subjects they know nothing
0:44.6	about.
0:45.6	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts, we ask the experts.
0:49.8	Our brilliant guest this week is one of our favourite comedians here in the UK, Finn Taylor.
0:54.4	Welcome to Trigonometry.
0:55.4	Thank you for having me.
0:56.4	It's good to have you here.
0:57.2	Listen, before anyone who doesn't know you, who hasn't seen you perform, tell us a little bit
1:00.8	about who you are, how are you where you are, what has been your journey through life to the point where you're sitting in this chair.
1:07.0	Well, I'm a stand-up comedian, I have been for 10 years, basically the only job I've ever had.
1:12.0	I suppose in the last three years I've started talking
1:16.8	about identity politics, tribalism, lots of the same similar sort of things that you talk about on this podcast, and it's
1:25.0	since doing that I've had, I guess, a relative level of success.
1:30.0	Well, you've been in Live with the Apollo, which is the biggest comedy TV show in this country at the moment?
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