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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In the second part of this special episode, we explore the development journey of James' latest show, Hecklers Welcome, the false idea of a perfect audience and dealing with the inner-crisis of being a comedian.
I also put your questions to James, where we talk all things Ghostbusters, Bo Burnham and *that* Oscars moment.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the second part of this special episode. |
0:06.7 | We're talking to James Acaster as he returns to the podcast. |
0:10.4 | If you are a member of the Insiders which if you're not you can join at |
0:13.3 | comedians comedian.com slash insiders |
0:16.0 | then you will already have been able to see this entire episode and literally see it |
0:19.9 | not just hear it because it has full video as well. More on that later. |
0:23.6 | But for now, we are going to talk to James |
0:25.6 | about the development journey of James's latest show |
0:27.8 | Heckler's Welcome. |
0:28.9 | We're going to talk about the potentially false, |
0:31.0 | potentially true, is it true or is it false? The idea of a perfect audience. |
0:35.0 | And we're also going to deal with the inner crisis of being a comedian. Then later in the second half of the episode, |
0:41.0 | the second half of the second half, that's Q4, arguably, we're going to talk about |
0:45.1 | ghostbusters. So, lots to enjoy here, let's get stuck in. This is James Acaster. Let's talk a bit more about the show because we're making reference to it without having really |
0:59.6 | set up exactly what it is. |
1:01.6 | So I mean almost everyone everyone will know but for the |
1:03.8 | rare people that don't the show that you're touring at the moment how much how much |
1:07.5 | of the tour have you got left? We've got three more days here in Bristol and then I think we've got four days in Leeds, four days in Belfast, |
1:17.0 | some about three catering dates and I think that's this year done and then next year there's like five other towns or |
1:28.9 | cities that's like four dates in each but then but honest, I think yeah, most of it will happen next |
1:34.3 | year. I think there's also going to be a bunch more London dates added and hopefully some |
1:39.3 | American dates. So like, you know, I'm probably not halfway for it by the end of this year. |
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