{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/339736e5-b21f-4af2-ada6-2d48cb8a1581/5a7dfcc5-2747-4ba9-bc8a-102c7d869372?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"275 - Doc Brown","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/611ee35c06c05e6c01f40f42/611ee403fbda3b0013c3b6c3.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown is a prodigious talent, with clean-cut standup and roof-raising comedy rap, as well as a parallel career as an influential and respected rapper. But his ostensibly industrial self-belief conceals a \"patchwork of anxiety and depression\". We talk about the state of mind that led him to turn down a 220-date national tour, how his stage name became a millstone, and why he struggles to make a meal he wouldn't eat himself...</p><p><br></p><p>Extra content available to donors at&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders\" target=\"_blank\">www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders</a>&nbsp;includes the full story on how Doc wrote and prepared for hosting the LA BAFTAS in&nbsp;2016, and how to improvise in front of Samuel L Jackson. We also learn why Doc's change in career is kind of Stu's fault...</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.docbrown.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">www.docbrown.co.uk</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/7usDVD6PDkEOCbHK7Elk7O?autoplay=true&amp;v=A\" target=\"_blank\">Doc on Spotify</a>&nbsp;| <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCam5JV2nW6k3Rv4slGwqO5A\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Book now for LIVE ComComPods:</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Feb 2nd 4.30pm</strong>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href=\"https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/the-comedians-comedian-podcast-live-with-the-pretend-men-creators-of-police-cops/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Live special</strong>&nbsp;with hilarious rubber-limbed melodramatists POLICE COPS&nbsp;@ Vault Festival London!</a>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Mar 23rd 1pm</strong>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.thsh.co.uk/event/comedians-comedian\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Live special</strong>&nbsp;with comedy legend TBC&nbsp;@&nbsp;Birmingham Podcast Festival!</a></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Stu’s 2019 tour of “End Of” is on sale now!</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><em>“A comedy masterclass… Endlessly inventive”</em>&nbsp;(The List)</p><p><br></p><p>Tickets for the first half of the tour at these links:</p><p><a href=\"https://abercomedyfest.co.uk/show/2018/stuart-goldsmith-end-of/\" target=\"_blank\">22/02/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://norden.farm/events/stuart-goldsmith-end-of\" target=\"_blank\">Maidenhead – Norden Farm</a></p><p><a href=\"https://norden.farm/events/stuart-goldsmith-end-of\" target=\"_blank\">01/03/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"http://thepoly.org/whats-on/event/946/stuart-goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">Falmouth – The Poly</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/whats-on/salisbury-arts-centre/stuart-goldsmith/\" target=\"_blank\">13/03/2019 Salisbury Art Centre</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on/spring-2019/stuart-goldsmith-end-of/?fbclid=IwAR1NHgHMzN0TKAakQ9aeIV1mdj_jSi2E1Uu7_8ZGGpDCyLJ1TWIJmq-wgWE\" target=\"_blank\">20/03/2019 Cheltenham Playhouse</a></p><p><a href=\"http://thepoly.org/whats-on/event/946/stuart-goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">29/03/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y9ozpnlj\" target=\"_blank\">Crawley -The Hawth</a></p><p><a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y9ozpnlj\" target=\"_blank\">05/04/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://www.readingarts.com/south-street/whats-on/stuart-goldsmith-end\" target=\"_blank\">Reading – South Street Arts</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalspacentre/events/event/1224/stuart_goldsmith_end_of\" target=\"_blank\">12/04/2019 Leamington Spa - Royal Spa Centre</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.readingarts.com/south-street/whats-on/stuart-goldsmith-end\" target=\"_blank\">17/04/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/stuart-goldsmith-end-of/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Old Fire Station</a></p><p><a href=\"https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/stuart-goldsmith-end-of/\" target=\"_blank\">19/04/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://www.artrix.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/stuart-goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">Bromsgrove – The Artix</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.artrix.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/stuart-goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">27/04/2019&nbsp;</a><a href=\"https://www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/event-details/?eid=62428\" target=\"_blank\">Plymouth...","author_name":"Stuart Goldsmith"}