James Davis' star is in the ascendent.  In this live special episode from South By South West in Austin Texas, we discuss how the "Hood Adjacent" comic keeps his material provocative without being exploitative.  Just off the back of writing gags for Will Smith on a major new movie, we learn how James is levelling up...   

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Her writing and performance in The Fast Show made her one of the most influential women in British sketch comedy; now Arabella Weir reflects on her work and the balance of power underpinning the five-man, most-often-one-woman sketch team.  We discuss the tension and friction of making comedy; whether a happy person still has the same hunger to perform; and learn the awful truth about the genesis of her character "Girl Who Boys Can't Hear"...

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Sage-like producer of QI, Blackadder, Not The Nine O’Clock News and forty years’ worth of some of Britain’s finest comedy TV and radio, John Lloyd could be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels. Instead he’s brought his third standup show to the fringe, and talks here about process, legacy and how he philosophised himself out of a deep depression…

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Star of the brain-smashingly surreal sketch show “Anna and Katy”, and Daisy in “Not Going Out”, Katy Wix is an actress with an exceptional comic mind.
We talk about the roots of creativity, the fear of daydreaming, and her new book, “The Oberon Book Of Comic Monologues For Women”.

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David McSavage is one of Stu’s all-time favourite performers, with an incredibly elastic, glib and scathing sense of humour. In between slinging barbs at his homeland and his fellow comics, he gives us a glimpse of a man perpetually at war with his inner demons and his need to be appreciated by his father.
We also discuss his TV series “The Savage Eye”, his often breathtakingly rude street-show, and the glee to be found in attacking the innocent…

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In the second part of our conversation, standup and comic actor David Cross explores offence, outrage and sensitivity.
We also talk about his work on Arrested Development and Mr Show, and dig into his process, his struggle to write jokes, and how to regard an audience as a living breathing thing…

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The star of “Arrested Development”, “Mr Show” and “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”, David Cross is also a phenomenal stand-up, whose work howls at the stupidity and hypocrisy around him.
In part one of this interview he talks about his earliest material and how he overcame the fear of bombing onstage, and speaks very frankly about the cycle of anger and depression that could grip him in his less creative moments…

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Impro aficionado Steen Raskopoulos has mastered a style of audience interaction that lets his volunteers contribute to the show, rather than simply supplying a punchline.
Nominated for Edinburgh Best Newcomer moments after this interview, he talks here about his training, the origins of his characters, and how he’s ended up so aggravatingly well-adjusted…

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