82 - Andy Zaltzman

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The grand high sultan of Bullshit-istan, Andy Zaltzman is one half of the incredible Bugle Podcast, and combines densely-written satirical nonsense with improvised flights of fancy. He goes into detail on how The Bugle is made, how he copes with his partner's stratospheric success, and answers the ultimate question: "what is bullshit?"The Bugle, John Oliver, Karen Taylor, Danny Bhoy, Spencer Brown, Honourable Men Of Art, Daniel Kitson, David O'Doherty, Ross Noble, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Noel Fielding, The Daily Show, Mark Thomas, Rob Newman, Michael McIntyre, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Alun Cochrane, Ricky Gervais, Political Animal, The Department, Radio 4, Greg Proops, Sara Pascoe

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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. I can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:39.4	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:47.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:49.0	Tees and sees apply.
0:50.0	Check the Uber app.
0:52.0	This is a podcast from Comedians. Check the Uber app.
1:24.8	This is a podcastians comedian podcast. Pod you an interview with the truly unique comedian and one half of the bugle podcast please be upstanding for the grand high poo bar of bullshit
1:29.2	Istanbul a man who tortures language until it weeps and begs for mercy, he shows no mercy, the pun grinder general himself, Mr Andy Salzman. I'm in your shed which is presumably where you write this is the hub of you know
1:50.2	ziltzman PLC it'smann PLC. It's...
1:53.0	Not P. I'm not P. I'm not P. I'm going to the great media empire for this.
1:57.0	Andy's Altzman is based in this shed.
2:00.0	It's... and it's more than just a shed as well. I think to call it just a shed is sort of to do it a disservice.
2:04.8	This is a premium, this is like a spare.
2:07.7	It's, I believe what's technically known as a garden office.
2:10.4	Is that right? Okay. So that makes me feel like when I walk in it it's an office
2:14.0	on you know at work which is very hard to think as a comedian because your entire
2:17.9	your entire kind of working life is dependent on you not thinking of it as a job I think.
2:24.7	So it's kind of maintaining the necessary levels of
2:30.4	juvenileity and lack of seriousness to make things funny.
2:37.3	So, but this is, you know, I have now a 10-odd commute.
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