Pete Lee (Live @ SXSW)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In the first of three SXSW specials, I’m joined by Pete Lee!
Raised in Wisconsin, in 2008 Pete made his network television debut performing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, where he subsequently went on in the same year to earn his very own Comedy Central Half Hour Special. Now, he's a frequent face on late night television with 9 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and has featured on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle.
In this episode, we discuss performing on The Tonight Show while his house burned down in the LA fires, the loss of power held by traditional tastemakers, why being yourself now beats chasing Netflix fame and and I try to stop Pete riffing (which I eventually succeed with!).
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Catch Up with Pete:
Pete Lee is on tour throughout the US in 2025 with "Ready To Connect" - find out all the dates at PeteLee.net.
Everything Stu's up to:
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Machynlleth Comedy Festival: 4th May, 2025: Work In Progress
Leamington Spa: 2nd June, 2025: Work In Progress @ The Royal Pug
Exeter Comedy Festival: 5th June, 2025: Work In Progress
Green Phoenix Festival: 6th July, 2025: Work In Progress
Oxford Comedy Festival: 15th July, 2025: Work In Progress
Edinburgh Fringe: 11th-17th August, 2025: "An Inconvenient Time" (11.05am, WIP)
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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 work in progress shows leading up to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm doing shows in London, Hantluth, Lemington, Exeter, the Green Phoenix Festival, Oxford, and then the Edinburgh Fringe, 11th to the 17th of August at the Monkey Barrel. |
| 0:16.8 | See you there. Stuartgoldssmith.com slash comedy. The Comedians Comedian podcast is an independent family-owned podcast, which makes it similar |
| 0:24.0 | in many ways to the Timothy Taylor's Brewery based at the Null Spring in Keithley in Yorkshire. |
| 0:28.7 | I don't have over 165 years of brewing experience, nor am I renowned for the quality of my |
| 0:33.4 | cast-conditioned ale. |
| 0:34.6 | But they have, and are, and do. |
| 0:36.4 | You'll know that their most famous |
| 0:37.6 | ale is the legendary landlord, which has won more awards than any other beer, and I imagine beer |
| 0:41.6 | awards are slightly less ephemeral than comedy awards, but nonetheless, you know as well as I do |
| 0:45.7 | that I'm committed to uncompromising dedication, care, and a desire to always go the extra mile, |
| 0:50.6 | and blow me down if Timothy Taylor's aren't similarly committed. Only in their case, |
| 0:54.3 | they're less interested in finding out about comedy and more in ensuring that the taste of |
| 0:58.4 | landlord is exceptional. What taste you say? Well, it's a classic pale with a complex citrus and hoppy |
| 1:03.4 | aroma, and normally you'd be thinking, but where can I get a pint of landlord? I shall have to |
| 1:07.6 | travel far and wide. But I'm pleased to tell you, you'd be quite wrong. You can travel less far and more narrow, because you can now find it in more pubs |
| 1:14.4 | than ever via their website. Timothy taylor.com.uk. slash pint-hyphen finder. That's |
| 1:19.3 | pint hyphen finder. If you'd like to find a pub near you that serves a great pint of |
| 1:23.4 | landlord, all for that taste of Taylors. MWA. Do people, moi, at the end of beer ads? |
| 1:28.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:47.4 | Hello and welcome to the show. |
| 1:52.4 | I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and in the first of three South by Southwest specials for the Comedians, |
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