It's hard to go up on stage at 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon in front of about 12 slightly drunk Scottish people. The funnest gig that I did while I was there, we hired a flyer girl,. She was about 16 or 17 and she helped us out with fliring. Fliring is when you hand out little posters, I guess, of your show. And before the show, we would go out on the streets of Edinburgh, like every other person and say, please come to our show. It's comedy from Paris. We had to find something like a tagline. So I'd just say, free comedy show from Paris. As soon as the word Paris came out
This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode.
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