Ray Bradshaw
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week on episode 499… I'm joined by Ray Bradshaw - the multi-award-winning Scottish comedian who’s about to head out on his fourth UK tour with CODA. You may know Ray from BBC Scotland and Radio 4, he’s recently just finished supporting John Bishop, and hosts his own hit football podcast, Fantasy Fives! We discuss:
- growing up as a child of deaf parents and how that shaped Ray’s confidence, memory and lack of stage nerves
- making comedy accessible with the technical challenge of signing live comedy with timing laughs and learning structure
- Ray’s approach to stand-up with no notes and no structure but total authenticity
- being niche famous and knowing when you’ve already won
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Catch Up with Ray: Ray Bradshaw is on tour in 2026 across the UK and Ireland with CODA, find out all the dates and more at raybradshaw.com. You can also watch Ray’s special, Bald Ginger, on BBC iPlayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm talking to Ray Bradshaw. It's episode |
| 0:21.2 | 499, if you could believe that. We've got an absolute killer in the can for episode 500, |
| 0:27.3 | which you can hear in the earliest part of January next year. But for this one, for now, |
| 0:32.6 | let's focus on Ray. There are some episodes I quietly regard, and I'll message producer Callum or a pod goblin, |
| 0:39.7 | Susie Lewis, who I don't think it's okay with Susie if I refer to her as a goblin, I should at least |
| 0:44.4 | ask. But I will sometimes say to people, I'll get something in the can and I'll email them |
| 0:49.7 | with just a quick couple of words on, oh, this one is, it's one of these ones. |
| 0:54.5 | And this one is a splash of sunshine. |
| 0:56.7 | I love to describe things of a splash of sunshine. |
| 0:59.8 | But this one in particular, I honestly came out of this episode, wanting to be a better person. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm completely, I think I'm madly in love with Ray Bradshaw, the multi-award |
| 1:14.0 | winning Scottish comedian who's about to head out on his fourth UK tour with a brand new show |
| 1:18.5 | Coda. That stands for a child of deaf adult. Child of deaf parents. Child of deaf adults. |
| 1:24.3 | I knew at some point. It's a child ofh something and I'm surely sure it's adults. |
| 1:29.1 | But you might know Ray already from BBC Scotland or Radio 4. He's just finished supporting |
| 1:34.1 | John Bishop on his arena tour and he's done other other arena tours for Frankie Boyle as well as others. |
| 1:39.4 | And he hosts his own hit football podcast Fantasy Fives. And the reason that I am going so hard on having |
| 1:46.0 | fallen foray in an entirely platonic and respectful way is that he is, he's this incredible |
| 1:55.5 | example of positive masculinity. Like he's just a non-toxically masculine man. And there's something so |
| 2:04.5 | positive and refreshing. I mean, I cannot wait for you to hear his answer to the question, |
| 2:10.3 | are you happy that comes at the very end of this episode? Without wanting to go on about this too |
| 2:15.3 | much, and I don't want to over-hype it. Maybe I've already already overhyped it. I just thought that this was going to be an interesting chat about |
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