Sophie Duker
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Sophie Duker is a comedian, writer, improviser, and storyteller whose fearless, sharp, and subversive comedy has earned her sellout shows across the world, along with a nomination for Best Newcomer 2019 and a spot on Taskmaster! We discuss:
- why financial awareness is essential for new comedians
- how visibility can be both empowering and exhausting
- the unique challenges Black women face in comedy
- why staying bold matters even when people judge
- and we find out if Sophie Duker is happy….
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today I am talking to Sophie Duker, a comedian, writer, improviser, storyteller. |
| 0:25.7 | Sellout shows across the world, of course, along with the nomination for Best Newcomer in 2019, and of course you will know her from Taskmaster. |
| 0:33.3 | And in the first half of this episode, which crackles, I think, with the sort of, what do I say to her? |
| 0:39.8 | I think I tell her that she's the most empowered comedian I think I've ever met. |
| 0:44.5 | We're going to talk about how visibility can be part of that. |
| 0:47.9 | It can be both empowering and exhausting. |
| 0:50.6 | We'll talk about why Sophie taught herself to DJ in three days. We'll find out about some of the |
| 0:56.1 | unique challenges that black women face in comedy and will cover why staying bold matters so much |
| 1:02.2 | even when people are judging you. This is a humdinger of an episode and a worthy 501 after |
| 1:09.0 | last week's excellent, if I do say so myself, |
| 1:12.0 | 500th birthday interview with Reggie Watts. |
| 1:15.0 | So if you haven't heard that one yet, please jump in. |
| 1:17.5 | There has never been, before we get to Sophie, |
| 1:19.8 | there's never been a better time to support this independently produced podcast. |
| 1:24.1 | There's basically only me, Callum, and then Susie does the logs. |
| 1:26.8 | And that's it. So for only £3 a monthum, and then Susie does the logs. And that's it. |
| 1:28.0 | So for only £3 a month, you can get access by supporting the pod to the full video and audio |
| 1:33.3 | of every episode. You get a very special 500th episode, Stu and A, not to mention the regular |
| 1:39.6 | monthly ones. Extra content with Sophie, I'll tell you more about that later. And you just get to feel like a |
| 1:45.2 | real good egg for listening to this show for 501 episodes or any part thereof and thinking to yourself, |
| 1:51.9 | I must get round to contributing to it and joining the Patreon. Well, now is the time. Come on, |
| 1:57.7 | 500 episodes, you bastard. Why not jump on board? So, uh, find out more at |
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