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Emmanuel Sonubi

Emmanuel Sonubi

British comedian

Oct 21, 2026

28:27
then I'll do it.
28:28
Because I know it's not coming from...
28:30
So we've spoken about when I'm writing jokes, that I will speak to other people...
28:35
If I'm writing a joke, because I love to do jokes where I'll use a trigger word, but I'll use it in its proper context.
28:42
So now the only thing triggering is your opinion.
28:44
Because there was a joke I used to do about a doorman I used to work with who's a dwarf.
28:51
And we used to do this thing, because when bouncers get bored, we wind people up.

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37:22
Well, this is the thing.
1:36
Yeah, that's
1:37
what I mean, this year.
1:38
And it's not even just – it's globally as well.
1:40
Yeah, yeah.
1:41
So I thought about it the other day when someone said, what have you been up to this year? And just sort of speaking very quickly without thinking, I was like, oh, well, we did Austria, then we went to Melbourne, and then Sydney, then New Zealand, and then back to Austria, and we did – all these different places just came up.
2:02
And I thought, wow, what's a good year? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:06
It actually changed the narrative of my show.

7 MINS LATER

9:04
Do you think that would help? Maybe sort of Smith's-esque, a single-decker bus, admittedly, crashing into a group of zombies? Would that help? Oh,
9:44
Because
9:45
I've been going, oh, look at that.
9:48
Especially when I started comedy, because I started late.
9:53
I never knew I wanted to be a comedian.
9:54
I've always loved stand-up.
9:56
I've always loved comedy.
9:58
But I never knew thinking, oh, I wanna be a comedian.

21 MINS LATER

30:56
probably charming, right? When you're a comedian as well, you can just get away with it if you're a bit cheeky and
11:54
But the truth is still the same, isn't it? The core wound is, will they like me?
12:00
Yeah.
12:00
And I, with stand-up, I remember writing my first five minutes of comedy and then your brain goes, what if I can never write another five minutes again? What if that was it? And then you slowly get through that and your five becomes a seven and it just...
12:18
It just naturally will just evolve into more of a rounded set.
12:21
Now you've got a 10.
12:23
And then I remember getting my first 20 and thinking, what if this is it? That's a lot of material.
12:29
What if I never write another joke? So every time I got to the hour mark, I was like, that's all of my material.

26 MINS LATER

38:53
Yeah.
16:47
Yeah.
16:47
And now for a lot of the people, um, I think an excuse, which is what happens a lot now.
16:56
So before, we used to identify a problem and go, "Right, how do we fix it? Or how do we live with it?" And if we...
17:02
So I think if we use, um, physical health as an example of how people deal with mental health.
17:09
So if, for instance, so I had asthma as a kid, so before I knew I had asthma, I'd get out of breath quickly.
17:16
I had breathing issues.
17:18
I had these physical attributes.

32 MINS LATER

48:51
Okay, and what's one thing you'd advise men start doing today to improve their life, either physically or mentally, whatever?

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