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S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Limitations of Stand Up Comedy

I assume you also have to build a guard of a kind of persona when you're on stage so that you don't feel completely disemboweled as a person when it goes wrong. Is it hard to balance the two? I think I don't do much of that and I think less and less. Partly is the truth thing. It's also partly to, you know, very keen on admitting failures, by the way. At some level, if I was to be male about it, I would say the ability to admit failures is always an expression of strength. So for example, I do a show on Radio 4 called David Bell tries to understand in which I start always from

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