83 - Aamer Rahman

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Aamer Rahman was on the verge of giving up his career in overtly-political comedy when his youtube standup clip on “reverse racism” went life-changingly viral. We talk about anger, activism, whether issues-based comedy can lead to political change, and the problem with “Game of Thrones”...Fear Of A Brown Planet, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Reverse Racism, Roar, Nazeem Hussain, Nabil Abdul Rashid, Twitter, YouTube, Bloc Party, Alanis Morissette, Ironic, Game Of Thrones, Breivik, Australia

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0:53.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podgues.
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1:24.3	state of my voice. I've been at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, so not only have I been staying up late and drinking too much booze, I've also been welcoming acts to the stage
1:30.9	such as Kevin Eldon and Josh Whitticham and Josie Long and really when you're dealing
1:35.1	with that kind of talent you can't do anything apart from screaming to a mic on a massive
1:39.7	PA so I'm rather nack in my voice, many apologies. The interview you're about to hear contains me and much more fine
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2:08.0	And I feel now I should get a Zylophone and go bing bing bing bingly bing.
2:12.0	I've never done an advert before. was that was that all right? I hope
2:15.6	I'm so rock and roll it sounded a bit clanging to you to hear me advertise something but the truth is
2:19.7	I'm probably more like you're probably reacting more like No Stu.
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2:27.7	things.
2:28.7	Oh well, let me make it up to you with a very terrific interview indeed.
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