Kemah Bob
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Kemah Bob is a bold, fearless and sharply funny comedian, writer and producer originally from Houston, Texas and now based in London. Her debut show Miss Fortunate, which explored resilience, recovery and self-acceptance, was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 Comedy Shows of 2024.
We discuss valuing authenticity over polished craft, navigating a bipolar diagnosis and turning a mental health episode into art, the healing power (and challenges) of using comedy as an open dialogue with strangers, how moving from the US to the UK gave her space to truly find herself, when to say no to club gigs, how the George Floyd moment opened doors but also exposed performative allyship within UK TV and is Kemah Bob happy…
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Catch Up with Kemah:
You can find out more about all the wonderful things Kemah Bob is up to at kemahbob.com, including her new podcast Icerberg which explores what it means to truly live your best life.
You can also stay up-to-date on Instagram, @kemahbob.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Every single person that comes along to my Edinburgh show, |
| 0:02.7 | an inconvenient time at 11.5 a.m. between the 11th and 17th of August, |
| 0:07.2 | will receive a kiss. That's right, a full-on snog from me. |
| 0:10.5 | Get your tickets now at Stuartgoldsmith.com. |
| 0:12.6 | Kiss not guaranteed. Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:31.6 | Kima Bob, a bold, fearless and very, very funny comedian, writer and also producer, originally from |
| 0:39.6 | Houston, Texas, now based in London. I said Houston there, because I am just a sort of metropolitan |
| 0:47.1 | chameleon. Kimmer's debut show, Missfortunate, which explored resilience, recovery and self-acceptance, |
| 0:53.6 | was one of the Guardian's |
| 0:54.7 | top ten comedy shows of 2024, and also, more importantly, one of mine. It was such a belting show, |
| 1:00.4 | and it flashed past, which is the highest compliment I can pay a comedian, given my busy brain. |
| 1:07.6 | It really went very quickly, because it was so good. Kima's also the creator of the |
| 1:11.2 | Fuck It Up Comedy Club, that's F-O-C, Fems of Color, a platform for women and gender non-conforming |
| 1:16.8 | comedians of colour. And you might have seen her on shows like QI, and you might have heard her on |
| 1:21.3 | James Acaster's Springleaf. She's just fantastic. In the first half of this episode, we will |
| 1:26.7 | discuss Keema navigating a bipolar diagnosis and turning a mental health episode into art, which is, I mean, when you put it like that, it feels a bit sort of blaz-eat. But my God, Keman's show did this so, so well. We'll talk about the healing power and the challenges of using comedy as an |
| 1:44.4 | open dialogue with strangers, and we'll talk about how moving from the US to the UK gave her |
| 1:49.2 | space to truly find herself. You can watch this episode on The Insiders Club, and if you're in |
| 1:53.8 | the Insiders Club, you can get access to 15 minutes of exclusive extras. We'll talk about |
| 1:58.3 | Kima losing a role to a mega pop star for a pilot. We'll talk about how |
| 2:02.4 | Kima made just 23 pounds from a super successful sold-out fringe run, painful, and the reality |
| 2:07.8 | of self-producing from psychedelics and burnout to learning what really matters. Plus, of course, |
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