Lindsey Santoro
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Lindsey Santoro shot to prominence at 2023’s Edinburgh Fringe, winning Next Up’s Biggest Award in Comedy with her show, Pink Tinge.
Since then, Lindsey has created her hit BBC Radio 4 comedy series, The Lively Life of Lindsey Santoro, appeared on Live at the Apollo and supported Joe Lycett on tour! We discuss:
- using comedy as a tool for connection
- balancing a NHS day job with the crushing anxiety of early comedy gigs
- earning critical acclaim at Edinburgh, the financial surprises and attic life at the Pleasance
- escaping imposter syndrome
- the importance of having a "base" outside of comedy
- and we find out if Lindsey Santoro is happy….
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- how her agent kept her grounded through Edinburgh
- and balancing ambition with sanity
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Catch Up with Lindsey: You can see Lindsey Santoro live, including an upcoming work-in-progress at the Pleasance London - find out more at lindseysantoro.co.uk. You can also keep up-to-date on Instagram, @lindsey_santoro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. |
| 0:18.4 | Stuart Goldsmith here. |
| 0:19.8 | This is the Comedians Comedian podcast. and today I'm talking to wonderful Lindsay Santoro, who you will know from being the big old winner of Next Up's biggest award in comedy in 2023 at the Edinburgh Fringe with her show Pink Tinge. And since then, as well as what has she done. |
| 0:42.5 | Her hit BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series, The Lively Life of Lindsay Santoro. |
| 0:43.9 | We'll talk about that a little bit here. |
| 0:48.3 | That's still available on BBC Sounds and you should definitely download and listen to that. |
| 0:49.3 | It's very, very funny. |
| 0:55.4 | She's also been on Live at the Apollo and not to mention she's also supported Joe Lysitt on tour, |
| 0:59.6 | and he's doing those kind of things. And I'm fairly certain she has a new podcast coming out with Harriet Dyer and Amy Mason, who are both brilliant, wonderful comics. And I'm really, I mean, |
| 1:07.1 | this is, I believe, and this is not official press release, this is Green Room Chat, but I believe they've recorded a bunch of them, this, it's, I believe, and this is, this is not official press release, this is |
| 1:11.0 | Green Room Chat, but I believe they've recorded a bunch of them, paused it, recorded a bunch more, and they're hopefully going to get their skates on and release it pretty soon. However, that's not an official press release, and probably I'll wait until they tell me about it, and then I'll shout about it on the socials, because that is an absolute comedy powerhouse of a triumvirate. |
| 1:28.2 | But for now, in the first half of this episode, we're going to talk to Lindsay about using comedy |
| 1:33.1 | as a tool for connection. We'll find out about her balancing her NHS day job with the crushing |
| 1:38.9 | anxiety of early comedy gigs. And we'll talk about financial surprises, critical acclaim at Edinburgh, attic life |
| 1:46.0 | at the pleasance, and all of that to come. This is very much another splash of sunshine one, |
| 1:51.6 | because Lindsay is someone whose attitude, I absolutely wish I could faithfully replicate. |
| 1:56.3 | Before we get into it, of course, if you want to, you can get the extra content with Lindsay. |
| 2:01.2 | That's available to members of the Insiders Club, along with the full audio and the full video as well. |
| 2:07.8 | Not to mention the very special episode 500 Stu and A hosted by a very special guest or guests. |
| 2:14.7 | And, of course, a lovely, warm, fuzzy feeling that is is just you can't put a price on it really |
| 2:20.3 | that fuzzy feeling supporting a thing you love and going ooh i've done a good thing there and you |
| 2:24.8 | get to feel that feeling every month when your three pound goes out of your account and into |
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