In this episode, I talk to Dr Oliver Double.
Dr Double is an academic and was previously an accomplished stand-up comedian who regularly played the circuit and created Sheffield’s longest running comedy club, The Last Laugh. Since 1999, he has been based at the University of Kent School of Arts, teaching and researching comic and popular performance. He has written several books and has helped to establish The British Stand Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA). Dr Double is also the regular compere of the Funny Rabbit Comedy Club performing at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury.
I first saw Dr Double at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 where he interviewed Jo Brand and Alexei Sayle for his Talking Comedy series. I visited the Bristol Slapstick Festival in 2023 where Double was a guest of Robin Ince talking about the books of Monty Python. In 2023, I visited twice the BSUCA, where I watched Double compere a Funny Rabbit Comedy night, and I am very proud to say that the comedians’ interviews featured in my podcast are being added to the Archive collection.
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Please read Dr Double’s blog at:
www.arichcomiclife.blog/2023/01/29/dr-oliver-double/
Dr Oliver Double Links:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/oliver.double/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/OliverDouble/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/oliver.double/
Website: www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/544/double-oliver
Website: www.arichcomiclife.blog/the-british-stand-up-comedy-archive/
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EPISODE 96: CHRIS YOUNG & JAKE ALEXANDER (CO-DIRECTORS: HASTINGS COMEDY FESTIVAL)
EPISODE 95: MARK DUQUENO
EPISODE 94: JOE BOR
EPISODE 93: PETER GRAHAME
EPISODE 92: LESLIE GOLD
EPISODE 91: PETER MERRE
EPISODE 90: ANIA MAGLIANO
EPISODE 89: GEOFF ROWE (FOUNDER, LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL)
EPISODE 88: FRANCIS FOSTER
EPISODE 87: A RICH COMIC LIFE IN A NUTSHELL: FROM LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL
EPISODE 86: JOSH PUGH
EPISODE 85: STEVE BUGEJA
EPISODE 84: PAUL TONKINSON
EPISODE 83: ELLIOT STEEL
EPISODE 82: ILAYDA ARDEN
EPISODE 81: MILTON JONES
EPISODE 80: STEVE JAMESON AKA SOL BERNSTEIN
EPISODE 79: BENJAMIN BANKE BELLO AKA PRESIDENT OBONJO
EPISODE 78: JOSH BERRY
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