About this episode

Scroobius Pip is joined by comic and podcaster Elis James to discuss various topics including performance environments, standup comedy, and the journey to performing at the Royal Albert Hall.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by frankly long overdue comic and podcaster ELIS JAMES ! Elis is something of a missing piece in the Distraction Pieces puzzle, one of those guests whose appearance was only a matter of time (a long time, sure, but inevitable). It's a pleasure to have him, and as you'd expect/demand, so much ground gets covered. Silence and not stressing it, a Humble Pie album of all things, podcasting with John Robins, the nuance of performance environments and the beauty of old venues, the weird and not awesome world of early morning comedy gigs, performing standup in Welsh, opportunity and being bold, the long and surprising road to the Albert Hall, football, technology adjusted ambition, the Cymru Connection (and the New York Times discovering it), and other favourite podcasts. Oh but so much besides. Lovely stuff, enjoy! PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting nature ONLINE MANY ELIS & JOHN LINKS EP 428 Elis & John podcast HUMBLE PIE ELIS IN NEW YORK TIMES SPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTORE PIP TWITCH •  (music stuff) PIP INSTAGRAM PIP TWITTER PIP PATREON PIP IMDB Hosted on…

People in this episode

Host: Scroobius Pip

Guest: ELIS JAMES

Topics covered

• comedy
• podcasting
• performance
• standup
• football
• technology
• Welsh culture

Keywords

• Elis James
• comedy
• podcasting
• Royal Albert Hall
• Humble Pie
• Welsh standup
• performance
• football
• technology
• New York Times

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, Acast

Books & works: Humble Pie

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