Nick Mohammed Returns | Part One
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Nick Mohammed is a double Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, and writer. He's featured on-screen in Ted Lasso, Intelligence and Taskmaster, and on-stage with his creation of Mr Swallow, which is now touring throughout the UK.
In the first part of this special, we discuss the exploration of identity through Mr Swallow, Derren Brown and the positioning of magic, the creative vision for Show Pony, initially turning down Ted Lasso, trying to get a Mr Swallow sitcom off the ground and the systemic issues surrounding race in the UK television commissioning.
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Nick Mohammed is Mr Swallow: Show Pony is on tour throughout the UK, find all the dates and more at nickmohammedlive.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Stu here, before we get stuck in, go to Stuart Goldsmith.com slash comedy to find details of all of my |
| 0:05.6 | work in progress shows leading up to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. I'm doing shows in London, |
| 0:09.6 | Mahancliffe, Lemington, Exeter, the Green Phoenix Festival, Oxford, and then the Edinburgh Fringe, |
| 0:14.1 | 11th to the 17th of August at the Monkey Barrel. See you there. Stuartgosmith.com slash comedy. This episode is sponsored by Bits, the ultimate tool for stand-up comedians. |
| 0:23.9 | Now, I have got a pretty scattered mind, and I know a lot of you also struggle with this. |
| 0:28.7 | Where do you keep your set lists? |
| 0:30.1 | I've got about three apps, ten different word documents, five bits of paper mashed into my bag. |
| 0:35.4 | It's all over the place. But with bits, you can tag a punchline at lunch, reorder your set on the commute, and then open it at the club exactly where you left off, with no loose pages and no lost ideas. You can get it now at thebits.combe. The bits. club. Dot Club. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello and welcome to the show. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today I am welcoming back to the |
| 1:13.1 | Comedians Comedian podcast, Mr Nick Mohamed, the now double Emmy nominated actor, comedian and writer |
| 1:19.7 | who has featured on screen in Ted Lasso, Intelligence and Taskmaster, and on stage with his |
| 1:26.6 | creation Mr. Swallow, which is now touring throughout the UK. |
| 1:30.6 | And in the first half of this splash of sunshine of an episode, we will discuss the exploration |
| 1:36.4 | of identity through Mr Swallow, fantastic character, I will never forget. |
| 1:41.5 | And the very first Mr Swallow show that me and my wife saw, and for weeks |
| 1:45.9 | afterwards, whenever we ate a banana, we'd go, what is this? We will talk about Darren Brown and the |
| 1:52.6 | positioning of magic, and we will talk about the creative vision for his current tour show, |
| 1:56.6 | Show Pony. You can join the Insiders Club, if you fancy. Three pounds a month is what it'll cost you. |
| 2:02.1 | You can watch this full episode and that is as good a reason as any other. But you will also |
| 2:06.4 | get access to 15 minutes of exclusive extras including the security of magic within comedy. |
| 2:12.5 | There's a sentence for you. If you're a magic fan, I highly recommend downloading these ones. |
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