{"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/a4550516-3e93-449e-bc1f-ca9017ed9451?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"273 - Laura Davis","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/611ee35c06c05e6c01f40f42/611ee403fbda3b0013c3b6ca.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Incredibly insightful and darkly funny, Laura Davis is a truly gifted artist who holds aspects of herself up to the light and says \"you too?\"&nbsp;We discuss the iron resolve that took her from an \"extremely shy and extremely loud\" girlhood, to performing jokes without victims,&nbsp;inside a duvet cover.&nbsp;If you've ever thought of jokes as \"ideas refracted through a prism of other people's experience\", you're going to love this one...</p><p><br></p><p>*Content Warning*: This episode contains a discussion of suicidal feelings.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include:</p><ul><li>Some tips on wielding status for naturally shy comedians</li><li>A defence of the right of artists to make shitty work</li><li>A reflection on an early piece of Laura's work in which she deliberately entrapped the audience in an abusive relationship...</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Join now at&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders\" target=\"_blank\">www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders</a></p><p><br></p><p>Follow Laura Davis <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/lauradaviscomic\" target=\"_blank\">@LauraDavisComic</a><a href=\"http://www.lauradaviscomedy.com/\" target=\"_blank\">www.lauradaviscomedy.com</a><a href=\"http://comedy-festival.co.uk/event/laura-davis-cake-in-the-rain/\" target=\"_blank\">http://comedy-festival.co.uk/event/laura-davis-cake-in-the-rain/</a><a href=\"http://comedy-festival.co.uk/event/laura-davis-work-in-progress/\" target=\"_blank\">http://comedy-festival.co.uk/event/laura-davis-work-in-progress/</a><a href=\"https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/comedy/laura-davis-ghost-machine/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/comedy/laura-davis-ghost-machine/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Book now for LIVE ComComPods:</p><p>Feb 2nd 4.30pm -&nbsp;<a href=\"https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/the-comedians-comedian-podcast-live-with-the-pretend-men-creators-of-police-cops/\" target=\"_blank\">Live special&nbsp;with hilarious rubber-limbed melodramatists POLICE COPS&nbsp;@ Vault Festival London!</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Mar 23rd 1pm -&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.thsh.co.uk/event/comedians-comedian\" target=\"_blank\">Live special&nbsp;with comedy legend TBC&nbsp;@&nbsp;Birmingham Podcast Festival!</a>&nbsp;Don't miss out! you only have until 31st December to pre-order the insanely good&nbsp;new ComCom T-shirt&nbsp;designed by&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/liserichardson\" target=\"_blank\">@LiseRichardson</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.comedianscomedian.com/merch\" target=\"_blank\">www.comedianscomedian.com/merch</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Stu’s 2019 tour of “End Of” is on sale now!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>“A comedy masterclass… Endlessly inventive”</strong>&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...","author_name":"Stuart Goldsmith"}