439 - Jeff Shaw
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In 1987, Jeff Shaw decided he was going to do comedy for a living. He meant it.
With shades of “The Story Of Anvil”, this interview follows a man who has picked himself up and started again over four decades, each time achieving a version of his dream, and surviving the paradigm shifts that have accompanied his every decade in the US comedy industry.
With tens of thousands of shows under his belt, and still chasing his dream, Jeff lays out his career as a standup, a comedy writer, and a Carnival Cruise comedy show director, before he found stand-up again, all the while displaying limitless hope, humility and gratitude…
Extras include an Insider’s guide to what works and what doesn’t on a cruise ship comedy gig, from his unique perspective of both act and booker…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today this is a very special episode with a very lovely man |
| 0:52.0 | This is Jeff Shaw a comedian who you may not a comedian of whom I should say you may not have heard and |
| 1:00.0 | I am a real fan not only of his work, but also of his approach to comedy now |
| 1:07.6 | I'm gonna read from the show notes here because I've written exactly what I want to say and |
| 1:12.8 | So I'm just going to read it to you. Did you know that there are show notes? Not everyone does |
| 1:16.7 | I bother writing them and very few people seem to even be aware of them |
| 1:21.0 | Here's what I'd like to say about Jeff in |
| 1:24.0 | 1987 Jeff Shaw decided he was gonna do comedy for a living he meant it |
| 1:29.7 | And that is a reference as many of you will recognize to Anville the story of Anville about a band who inspired a load of brilliant |
| 1:37.7 | Heavy metal bands in their early years and but then did not go on to |
| 1:42.5 | Achieve the same dizzy heights as |
| 1:44.7 | Metallica and Megadeth and all these other people that were inspired and |
| 1:48.1 | So with shades of the story of Anville this interview follows a man who has picked himself up and started again |
| 1:54.7 | Over four decades each time achieving a version of his dream and |
| 1:59.8 | Surviving the paradigm shifts that have accompanied his every decade in the US comedy industry with tens of thousands of shows under his belt |
| 2:07.7 | And still chasing his dream Jeff lays out his career as a stand-up a comedy writer |
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