Lucy Pearman
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Pearman is one of the most inventive and original comedians in the UK, her shows are gloriously surreal, full of clowning, characters, props, audience interaction and ideas that feel like they’ve tumbled straight out of a wonderfully strange imagination.
Her one-off BBC Three original comedy, Please Help, was nominated for a BAFTA, and she won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
We discuss exploring the vulnerability beneath the absurd, Lucy’s process of discovering characters onstage, how embracing strangeness is an act of connection, the reality of making art in our current economy, how the death of director Adam Brace impacted her creative process, the challenges of bringing clowning to a wider audience and is Lucy Pearman happy…
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Lucy Pearman: Lunartic is at the Soho Theatre from Monday 29th September through to Saturday 4th October!
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| 0:00.0 | Stu here. Episode 500 is somehow fast approaching. It's already in the cat. I can't wait for you to hear it. |
| 0:06.4 | I need your feedback. I want to gather some data on your favourite episodes, your best moments, see if there's any fun anecdotes I can uncover along the way. |
| 0:14.5 | Something must have happened in your life in nearly 500 episodes of podcasting. |
| 0:17.9 | And as a thanks for taking part, myself and producer Callum will be gifting an Insider's Insider 12-month membership on Patreon to one lucky respondent. You can pay this forward if you're already one. The survey's super short, all the questions are skippable, and this would mean a lot if you could just take five minutes out of your day to go and fill the thing in. Head to Stuartgoldsmith.com slash survey or the link is in the show notes. |
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| 2:00.7 | Will you hold me down? Leave me on my own. Film it. Or can I count on you to help? |
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