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TRIGGERnometry

Geoff Norcott on Conservative Comedy, Brexit & Free Speech

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Right-leaning comedian Geoff Norcott (@geoffnorcott) discusses conservatism, being a working class Tory, comedy, offense culture, free speech, diversity of thought, immigration, populism, austerity, Brexit, the European Union, Tommy Robinson, the far right and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry.

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0:12.9

Hello and this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet

0:16.4

over subjects they know nothing about.

0:18.6

At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.

0:21.5

We ask the experts.

0:23.0

Our fantastic guest this week is a wonderful comedian, Jeff Norco, welcome to Trigonometry.

0:28.0

Thanks for having me on.

0:29.0

It's great to have you here man.

0:34.4

The question we always like to ask our guest before we get into the interview

0:37.7

itself is how are you where you are what's your background what's your

0:40.4

story now we know quite a bit about it.

0:41.8

Yeah so I am a comedian I'd probably be better known for being right of

0:45.7

center conservative voter leave voter working class just scumbag basically depending on who you ask but I've been around for a while you know I was

0:56.1

talking about when I arrived here was I've been a circuit comedian for a long time

0:59.3

since the early naughties then I was I did like writing for television you have a

1:04.4

lots of different phases of my career did appear where I did a lot of gigs for

1:07.3

the armed forces obviously I'm not totally pitching for like Jim Davidson's but yeah and yeah, and then, you know, sort of round about the early noughties, I sort of decided to chat about the fact that I voted conservative because I thought it was just odd.

1:20.0

My wife was the one that said it.

1:22.0

Oh really? Well, I just said to her like you

1:23.7

know you do the club game is brilliant do you know what I mean you do end up talking a lot about

1:27.2

gender and stuff like that and she and I still do to be fair but she said I said I need a new

1:31.5

subject need new angle here you know, what's.

1:34.0

She said, we're voting Taw is a bit weird, isn't it?

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