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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

73 - Max And Ivan (Live)

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, Society & Culture, Widdicombe, Learn, Comedy, Performing Arts, Burr, How To, Carr, Acaster, Cope, Writing, Interview, Persona, Arts, In-depth

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

To call Max and Ivan a comedy double-act with a narrative doesn't really do justice to this pair of rubber-faced, multi-voiced storytellers, who have a penchant for sneaking actual theatre into their work. They've only recently quit their day-jobs, but with a run of international festival appearances and award nominations under their belt, it seems to be working out – you could literally just slap them. Here, the boys outline their writing and rehearsal process, who gets final say over the editing, and which one of them has a google alert for their own reviews...


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0:14.4

Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 five-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Blooms book, repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

0:42.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:46.0

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:51.0

This is a podcast from Comedians Check the Uber app.

1:15.0

This is a podcast from comedian podgos. podcast. Hello and welcome to the show.

1:16.0

I'm Stuart Goldsmith.

1:17.0

Today we've got the penultimate episode

1:20.0

from the Edinburgh Fringe shows recorded last year at the Gilded Balloon.

1:24.0

This are the, this are, this is, they are the absolutely brilliant, Max and Ivan. I'm going to Hello, welcome.

1:37.0

Welcome.

1:40.0

Welcome. Thank you so much for coming guys.

1:42.0

Thank you for having us.

1:43.0

Do take that out of the thing and then

1:44.0

Yvonne can occasionally have a pop on that.

1:47.0

Hello?

1:48.0

Hire. Nailing it.

1:49.0

So just for the benefit of anyone here who hasn't seen your meteoric rise or any of your work

1:55.2

Can you just tell us what your show is what sort of thing do you do? Yeah, so we're a comedy double actor and we tend to perform sort of narrative character based shows

2:07.0

Which feature kind of sketch like bits but tend to tend to tell some kind of story over the course of an hour

2:11.8

These that's the idea.

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