Kae Kurd

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What is the rudest thing a therapist can do during a session? Kae Kurd found out and tells a belter of a story in this episode all about it. This quite brilliant Brilliant Things takes in perverts watching Panda sex, it covers the beauty of Rottweilers and there’s even a bit of perineum sunning in there for good measure. Kae Kurd is a fantastic British-Kurdish comedian and gives incredible insight into what it’s like gigging around the UK had how he weaves his fascinating cultural heritage into his comedy. 🎤 Kae is going on tour in 2025. Over September, November and October he’ll be all over the UK’s theatres with his brand-new show ‘What’s O’Kurd’. You can get tickets and find all the dates at kaekurd.com 🎤 At that same place you can watch his last two specials in full for free, and you can get hold of his weekly podcast too. It’s all there. As you’d hope. 💥 If you’re enjoying this podcastness and you want it even podcastier, as in no adverts, an exclusive extra show every week that you help to make, and getting it all a day early… all for less than the cost of one sandwich a month… then click here to find out more. 💥 And so the podcast word scribe closed his antiquated typewriter and made sure the submarine was still on course, doing one last upload for the week. He stared out of the dirty portholes at the murky darkness, hoping to see a passing crab or lantern fish but still nothing. It would be another nine years until he would see the surface again, he contemplated, but it was worth it in order to keep pumping quality content across the internet on a weekly basis. He grabbed his 5 Brilliant Things branded duvet, shuffled over to his bunk and slept a good long sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends, welcome back on today's show.
0:10.4	I've got a stand-up who's inspired a huge following online with his material about race and identity in the UK.
0:16.8	It's the British Kurdish comedian K. Kurd Kurd and here are its five brilliant things.
0:26.6	So straight away, tell me about the headaches you had. We were just discussing off there. So Kay gave up coffee in December. We're now in March. Yeah. And you said you had mental headaches for three weeks. Mate, three weeks. I was like, but you know people always tell you, oh yeah, give up caffeine, give up this, give up that. It was one of those things. I thought to myself, let me just do it before January. If you want to make a change, do it immediately. And mate, like Irofen's every day, like trying to, because the only reason I would have coffee, it wasn't for the taste. It was like, because I'm too scared to have cocaine. So I, I know. That should be the advert for Neska. Yeah. Yeah. Are you a cocaine coward? Yeah. That's exactly it. Yeah, I'm a cocaine coward. So I was like, well, I'm going to have a double espresso every day. And I was just doing it for the effects. And I just went cold turkey. Do you have any baristas have ever done Coke? That must be wild. But imagine that. Imagine you work in a coffee shop. And then you go in your your break you go out for a line have you seen some
1:28.7	baristas i've seen many baristas exactly so like yeah i imagine cocaine isn't alien today yeah yeah
1:35.3	exactly yeah but that that combo of coffee and coke like the heart must be like it probably
1:42.4	it must sound like you you could put a kendrick lam backbeat off it. Absolutely. Well, that's the other funny part of it, right? So do you ever wear like a fitness watch or anything like that? Would you wear? I mean, we're not ever time. Yeah, okay, cool, cool. I'm a Fitbit guy. Yeah, so I've got an Apple watch and my one tells me. You flash bust., no. So my one tells me when my heart rate goes below a certain level. Yeah. And after I gave up coffee, my heart rate was going below 40 beats a minute in my sleep. So it was like I get these notifications. So basically my heart's going, boom. Boom. Like it he's taking breaks and stuff, whereas before it's like,
2:19.4	it's like, so it's funny, isn't it?
2:21.2	So you've gone from like German techno.
2:23.3	Techno to kind of, like, I guess almost like a ritual sacrifice.
2:29.4	Like, brigging the goat.
2:33.7	Shame. Yeah, shame. How interesting. What is the, Briggin the goat Shame
2:34.1	Shame
2:35.3	What is the
2:38.4	Clearly coffee is not one of them
2:40.3	What is the first brilliant thing
2:42.0	Sunshine
2:44.4	Okay
2:45.3	Sunshine man
2:46.4	We're lucky this week
2:48.7	I don't know
2:49.2	In the past couple days
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