441 - Sikisa
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
There’s drive, and then there’s Sikisa! Interrupting her holiday for this interview, we meet an amazing comic with a superhuman work ethic; working as an immigration lawyer, then filling her life with shows and part time work leaving her 4 hours a night to sleep.
We talk about self-care, how to manage multiple shows a day at the Edinburgh Fringe, why hosting a show is like throwing a party, and why she can still feel like a failure in the middle of an ascendant career…
Extras available exclusively to the Insiders Club include Sikisa on her experiences teaching at Soho Theatre, and her new wrestling podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
| 0:09.7 | including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:31.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I'm very pleased today to be introducing you to |
| 1:03.9 | Sakisa unless you've already met her in which case hey look it's Sakisa again. |
| 1:07.5 | This is a journey with someone who is I think has a good a good claim on being one of the |
| 1:16.2 | hardest working comics I've ever spoken to interrupting her holiday for this |
| 1:21.6 | interview we're gonna meet an incredible comic with a superhuman work ethics. |
| 1:26.6 | Sakee's day job is an immigration lawyer, and then she absolutely fills every moment of her life with shows and other work and |
| 1:35.7 | podcasting, planning and strategizing and writing and so off, which sometimes leaves her only four |
| 1:41.4 | hours a night to sleep. I'm tired just recalling it now as I sit in my |
| 1:46.4 | little cellar recording these blurbs. I've got so much respect for someone who not only does all this work but also is as candid and open about it as Sakeza is. |
| 1:56.5 | I think that the conversation about class in stand-up comedy and the different opportunities available to people who are working-class |
| 2:04.8 | compared to people who are middle or beyond is one that is being had more and more and I hope that this |
| 2:10.9 | contributes to it. There are extras available exclusively to the insiders club, |
| 2:15.0 | including Sakisa on her experiences teaching at Soho Theatre |
| 2:19.0 | and her new wrestling podcast. |
| 2:20.0 | All of those are available at comedians comedian.com slash insiders. But here |
| 2:24.8 | and now this is Sakeza. |
| 2:27.0 | You join us Sakeza from Glittering South End. Can we say where you're recording from? |
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