The Adam Buxton Podcast

[Sin Agog]

I loved hearing Ken Korda again. I'd like Adam to interview Ken next.

Don't begin Adam's descent into becoming Richard Herring quite yet, please!

[Mango Chimes]

I am worried that at some point Adam will get his friend Graham Linehan on to talk about his careeTRANSWOMENTRANSWOMENTRANSWOMENTRANSWOMEN

[Twit 2]

Yes, considering they both live in Norwich, I'm surprised it's not happened yet.

[Crabwalk]

Buxton interviewed Linehan for R4's 'Chain Reaction' and they were writing a sci-fi sitcom together a few years back. Wonder what happened to that?

Edit: seems like it only got as far as an I broadcast pilot

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_cloud/

[Thomas]

Listened to the Simon Pegg one today, and, I too, found it to be an open, thoughtful, and interesting chat.

And the recent Louis Therouxer was brilliant. I was stifling laughs in the street. When you've got headphones in and you begin to laugh, people appear bemused, as though headphones only facilitate music. Well, they don't. They also facilitate Adam Buxton Podcasts.

[nedthemumbler]

After hearing his episode I have completely changed my opinion of Simon Pegg.

Some of his odd, more Hollywood behaviour* had started to grate despite my love of his early films, but he was fantastic here.  Incredibly intelligent yet modest, emotionally literate when talking about his teens and twenties and budding sexuality, just very human and relatable.

*E.g. His one show appearance with the burger.

Felt a bit sad when Simon was asking Buckles why he hasn't developed his own thing.  Ad was very self-deprecating but anyone that listens to this knows he has the talent to do it, just maybe not the patience for the admin and schmoozing required.

I'd be the first to help kickstart a Buxton film or web series.  Hope he reads these sort of threads, despite his extreme sensitivity, to know how much he's loved

[popcorn]

Felt a bit sad when Simon was asking Buckles why he hasn't developed his own thing.  Ad was very self-deprecating but anyone that listens to this knows he has the talent to do it, just maybe not the patience for the admin and schmoozing required.

I'd be the first to help kickstart a Buxton film or web series.  Hope he reads these sort of threads, despite his extreme sensitivity, to know how much he's loved

I'm going to be Denny Different here and ask... has anyone here ever truly loved Adam's "character" stuff?

I think he's marvellously funny and endearing and engaging as a host - even when he's just going on a walk with Rosy. He'd be high on my list of "people to go for a pint with", if I were forced to make such a wanky list. And you know what, I personally value his podcast more than any of the fucking Mission Impossible films.

But I've always found his sketches a bit tedious and... daft in the wrong way. I don't think he's an exactly natural sequencer of ideas in that sense.

Adam if you're reading this, sorry, I love you, please let's go for a pint ??

[Fried Egg Sandwich]

The one with Pegg was pretty much the best hour-and-a-bit of anything I've heard this year. Just brilliant.

[DrGreggles]

Pegg seems nice enough, but he's not particularly funny in interviews.

[Chollis]

I'm going to be Denny Different here and ask... has anyone here ever truly loved Adam's "character" stuff?

I think he's marvellously funny and endearing and engaging as a host - even when he's just going on a walk with Rosy. He'd be high on my list of "people to go for a pint with", if I were forced to make such a wanky list. And you know what, I personally value his podcast more than any of the fucking Mission Impossible films.

But I've always found his sketches a bit tedious and... daft in the wrong way. I don't think he's an exactly natural sequencer of ideas in that sense.

Adam if you're reading this, sorry, I love you, please let's go for a pint ??

Yeah, I agree. I completely believe Adam when he said he didn't have the ideas or the drive to accomplish it.

[magval]

Pegg seems nice enough, but he's not particularly funny in interviews.

I was caught off guard and laughed loudly in the forest when he mentioned seeing the speed bumps sign and exclaimed "what have I DONE?"

I can only echo the general sentiment that Simon's sometimes rubbish when he's not in his own things, but I loved his book and this is an extension of that. If you liked the podcast, read it, it's more of the same.

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

I was a bit surprised by Pegg's early sexual successes. I always had him down as a late developer, not sure why. Possibly because of his love of all things geek.

Incidentally, did anyone catch the name of the author he read at uni who'd apparently foreseen the present epoch of mass infantalism? Rewound it a few times but couldn't parse it.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Only heard podcast once - was it


baudrillard america

?

[olliebean]

Only heard podcast once - was it


baudrillard america

?

Yes, America by Jean Baudrillard: https://www.amazon.co.uk/America-Jean-Baudrillard/dp/184467682X/

[Twed]

Loved Roisin Conaty's recent episode. She is charismatic.

[Twed]

She is charismatic.

MY WIFE

[Wet Blanket]

She's obviously a lot more steely in real life than her gormless persona. She gave poor old Buckles short shrift when he blundered into a centrist dad critique of feminism. Made passing reference to seeing a therapist too, which he never picked up on.

Some lowbrow laughs from his wind song and Rosie's political song, too. Top stuff.

[popcorn]

Again, to be a negative dick: I really love the podcast but whenever I look up the comedians he interviews I always come away thinking they're ghastly.

In fact most of them aren't actually nearly as funny as Adam in his interviews with them. He often says obviously silly ludicrous whimsical things and they react like "wow what a slightly mad thing to say". Every time it happens I think "Aren't you supposed to be professional funny person?" The people who don't do this are always the reliably brilliant guests - Louie, Garth, and of course Joe.

[Chollis]

Again, to be a negative dick: I really love the podcast but whenever I look up the comedians he interviews I always come away thinking they're ghastly.

In fact most of them aren't actually nearly as funny as Adam in his interviews with them. He often says obviously silly ludicrous whimsical things and they react like "wow what a slightly mad thing to say". Every time it happens I think "Aren't you supposed to be professional funny person?" The people who don't do this are always the reliably brilliant guests - Louie, Garth, and of course Joe.

Buckles loves his shit comedians. They make up 75% of his guests. He's still great though and you do get good ones occasionally like Tim Key or Cathy Burke.

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

Yes, America by Jean Baudrillard: https://www.amazon.co.uk/America-Jean-Baudrillard/dp/184467682X/

Thanks! :) Cheers also to Mr. PlanktonSideburns.

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

Again, to be a negative dick: I really love the podcast but whenever I look up the comedians he interviews I always come away thinking they're ghastly.

In fact most of them aren't actually nearly as funny as Adam in his interviews with them. He often says obviously silly ludicrous whimsical things and they react like "wow what a slightly mad thing to say". Every time it happens I think "Aren't you supposed to be professional funny person?" The people who don't do this are always the reliably brilliant guests - Louie, Garth, and of course Joe.

I know what you mean. Sedaris (although I enjoyed his rants about litter and Waitrose) seemed to be the worst at this. Just wasn't on the same frequency at all.

[Vitalstatistix]

Disagree completely. Of the guests I wasn't particularly familiar with previously, Sedaris was one of the few who really made me laugh and seemed to be on the level comedically with Buckles. A true dry wit, and it was a delight to hear them amuse each other.

[Sin Agog]

I haven't really disliked anyone he's had on, though the Burr-Buxton match up made for a really odd dynamic.  The image of Buxton at a bar with Bill Burr and Joe Rogan, while the two of them are holding court on conspiracy theories, almost makes me shiver with sympathetic awkwardness.

[SteveDave]

Thanks to his Tash Demo-thingy podcast(s) I watched "Stath Lets Flats" and loved it. There, I said it.

[Beagle 2]

I watched episode one for the same reason and really liked it. Just completely ridiculous and over the top, great stuff.

[SteveDave]

I watched episode one for the same reason and really liked it. Just completely ridiculous and over the top, great stuff.

The second episode with the garden flat had me screaming laughing almost throughout

"This gardens a mess innit?"
"Yeah, it's a dirty mystery"

[Hat FM]

the fact that adam, actually, knows the whole tom cruise story has ruined Joe's unveiling of it bit by bit in the christmas podcast. :(

[popcorn]

the fact that adam, actually, knows the whole tom cruise story has ruined Joe's unveiling of it bit by bit in the christmas podcast. :(

So he does know it? He seemed to imply that but I found that so confusing I wasn't sure I'd understood properly. It does seem a shame.

[Wet Blanket]

I thought it was always clear that he knew the story, just that Joe refused to spill the beans on the podcast

[popcorn]

To be honest I'd completely forgotten the entire thing until it was brought up again in the Pegg episode, so I've sort of started from scratch. It was a bit odd because Adam sounds very much like he wants to know the story, then appears to admit he knows it.