Show Notes
This week I’m joined by two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Ian Smith! You may also know him best as the co-host of the Northern News podcast with Amy Gledhill, as well as appearances on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and on his own Radio 4 series, Ian Smith is Stressed!
He’s now back with Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty - a sharp, surreal and painfully relatable look at stress, love, and the kind of life choices that include buying a magic spell off Amazon. In this episode we discuss:
the brutal on-the-job experience that actually makes a stand-up the uncertainty of what actually leads to TV work learning the value of other comedians as “outside eyes” on your material why comedy as therapy is limited (but why it still helps anyway) the stuff that gets cut from The Northern News and we find out of Ian Smith is happy...
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