Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. Hello. Hello, Stue Goldsmith here. Welcome to this lockdown special of the podcast. After the

Resilience special that I did a week or two ago. I thought it would be a good idea to check in with some of my friends and some fellow comics and find out how they're coping. So this isn't a proper Comcom. We don't talk much about the craft of my guest

excellent comedian Alexander Bennett, but we will be talking about the dose of

COVID-19 he's now very happily recovered from, how he is coping with being isolated

with a French woman he doesn't know, and more besides.

So this is steeped in coronavirus chap, this one. There are a few more coming out soon which which don't mention the

pandemic at all and I'm going to try to mark future episodes as to whether they have any reference to it at all so that if we do

get one that's completely clean, then I can say so in the show notes and if you're in the mood

to listen to something other than people, I'm not saying people worrying, but people

relating direct experiences about something just in case you're a bit concerned or scared of it.

I mean, if you're in that camp maybe you're not

listening to this episode which is clearly marked as a lockdown one but there we

are and this is Alexander Bennett a great pleasure to talk to him and if you are

a comic listening to this and you have a particular or unique take on life under the pandemic with what you're doing with either your imagination, your creativity or if you have recovered from the virus, or if you are suffering

from the virus, but have the wherewithal to talk to me about it?

God, no, I can't pick for that. Basically you know where to find me. Get in touch if you would like to have a

conversation like this with me. It's sort of a combination of bringing new stuff and also, you know, bringing the random, the casual

listener, bringing the casual listener some stuff which is of a different flavor, and also it's a little bit of international

clown rescue which we can all do with at this troubled time.

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