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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

76 - Ben Hurley

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

🗓️ 15 May 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Laidback observationalist Ben Hurley made a foray to the UK some years ago, and returned to his native New Zealand to become a TV hero. We get stuck into the relationship between British and NZ comedy, and the pros and cons of each scene. We also cover natural talent, making laziness work for you, and whether observations hit harder when performed totally clean, or when injected with personality...


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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

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0:51.0

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1:07.0

This is a podcast from comedian podgos. This is the Comedians comedian podgos.

1:18.1

Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and I'm sitting in Wellington in a lovely hotel which has an eye-watering amount of mirrors and brightly coloured wallpaper in it.

1:24.6

So I'll try and concentrate as I introduced to you recorded here at the New Zealand International

1:29.2

Comedy Festival, actually recorded this interview last week in Auckland.

1:33.0

This is with the lovely Ben Hurley.

1:35.0

He's a wonderful dude, very, very funny.

1:37.0

As you'll hear, I knew him when he was working in the UK,

1:40.0

and he's now back living in Auckland and living in Wellington I think actually no I can't remember

1:46.2

will I'm sure we'll will explain of the interview in due course but he is really funny and blow me he's famous. That was fun to step off the plane and suddenly see

1:57.1

Hurley's face on billboards. So here we go. This is Ben Hurley and I hope you enjoy it.

2:02.2

I'll speech in a bit.

2:07.0

Ben thank you for coming on the show

2:09.0

sorry for shushing you as soon as you walked in. So I can do it on this.

2:14.0

I've never been great at taking direction.

2:16.0

So you lived in this hotel, when was that?

2:19.0

I lived here, when I lived in the UK,

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