Leo Reich
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Leo Reich is a comedian and writer, with his smash debut, "Literally Who Cares?!", nominated for Best Newcomer at the Dave Comedy Awards and culminated in a sold out show at EartH Hackney, which was filmed as an HBO Special by A24!!
In this episode we discuss launching a debut hour on the cusp of the pandemic, his experience working with the late Adam Brace and what's the next cultural moment to be tackled in stand-up.
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| 0:23.0 | The Open University, the future is open. Hello and I'm |
| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to the show Stuart Goldsmith here. I am talking today on the comedians comedian podcast to Reich. Leo, and I didn't check with him whether it should be pronounced Reich or |
| 0:47.4 | like how hard you lean into the Reich? |
| 0:49.4 | Because it's a hell of a word, isn't it? |
| 0:50.7 | He's a hell of a comic. |
| 0:51.5 | He's a comedian and a writer, and his debut, |
| 0:54.3 | which is called Literally Who Cares, |
| 0:56.1 | Culblinated in a sold-out show at Earth Hackney, that show was then filmed as an |
| 1:00.4 | HBO special by A24, right? So this is the territory. |
| 1:05.0 | Debut show turned into an HBO special. |
| 1:08.3 | Leo is something really special and as you will hear at the very beginning of this interview, I think we started from a sort of a point of view. |
| 1:16.0 | We started from a place of me saying, |
| 1:18.0 | I'm angry at how good you are given how young you are. |
| 1:21.0 | And that's very much the theme of this, how young he is. And also, we're going to talk about sincerity and how young people |
| 1:27.4 | engage with sincerity or fail to and I'll also probably bang on about |
| 1:31.1 | being cringe it's just me You can join the insiders club at |
| 1:35.3 | Patreon.com.com pod where you can watch the full episode. Yes, you heard me |
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