Were Comedians Happy In 2025: Vol 2
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Welcome back to the second part of this end of the year special as we find out whether comedians were actually happy in 2025 with Max Fosh, Lucy Pearman, Pete Lee, Marjolein Robertson, Damien Power, Huge Davies & Josie Long!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Stu here. Welcome back to this second little foray into the concept of an end of the year special |
| 0:22.1 | as we find out which comedians were happy in 2025. I stress this isn't us pitting themselves |
| 0:29.0 | against, pitting them against each other and making a mockery of what I consider to be one of |
| 0:34.5 | the kindest and most sensitive and interesting elements of the show, |
| 0:38.4 | asking ostensibly happy people, whether they are actually happy. |
| 0:44.0 | So first up, we're going to hear from Max Foch. |
| 0:46.4 | Do you remember lovely Max? |
| 0:47.5 | He carved out an extraordinarily unique path in the world of comedy, |
| 0:51.7 | propelled by over 4 million YouTube subscribers. |
| 0:55.0 | Sorry, by now, probably 5 million YouTube subscribers. Let's find out whether he's happy, though, eh? |
| 1:02.0 | What do you not have that you currently want? What's the next, like, what's the next thing, either in YouTube or in your, your comedian. The respective comedians. Well, do you? I did wonder, I thought, you know, this show by your, you could cough and it would get more listeners than this show. It is very niche, right? But what's special about this show is that comedians listen to it. So I was like, he has agreed to spend some time. |
| 1:28.5 | I did wonder if that was... |
| 1:30.2 | To respect to comedians, it's the trying to like slowly be like, hey, I know I'm not... |
| 1:37.0 | I know I haven't done the exact same hard yards. |
| 1:40.4 | But I promise that I have spent time and I've worked really hard to give the art form the proper respect that it deserves. |
| 1:49.5 | James Redmond, do you know James Redmond? |
| 1:51.9 | Very funny comic. |
| 1:52.9 | He used to be Finn on Holyoaks and then he put the fucking hard yards in. |
| 1:56.5 | And he's never been on the show and he should. |
| 1:58.1 | He went through, I imagine, years of comics being like, |
| 2:03.6 | oh, nice one, Finn off Holly Oaks. |
| 2:05.6 | And he stuck to it, and now he's a very, very good comedian if he has the respect. |
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