Penguin Classics
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Sep 9, 2026
Kyla CobblerGUEST
And what he does is he has a book.
Kyla CobblerGUEST
You go on, he goes on stage and he has a bookshelf with all the Penguin Classics, and he acts out all the titles, but the whole time he's completely naked.
Kyla CobblerGUEST
And I know that sounds- You're like, "Why is that funny?" There is something so brilliant and so creative about it, and it's just one of those shows that you walk out...
Kyla CobblerGUEST
I walked in, and I'm a prude.
Adrian TchaikovskyHOST
I didn't, you know, that's not something I looked at.
Emma NewmanHOST
Yeah, the edition that I was given as a Christmas present is the most beautiful hardback edition published by Penguin Classics.
Adrian TchaikovskyHOST
It does feel like the sort of book that is going to be reprinted in a sort of a classics kind of list.
Adrian TchaikovskyHOST
And I'm glad that is the case.
H. Alan ScottHOST
He just wants more people to read.
H. Alan ScottHOST
And so he decides to sort of do in one show all of the classic Penguin or the Penguin Classics books in one show dressed up.
H. Alan ScottHOST
as like a penguin.
H. Alan ScottHOST
And so Gary or Damien is naked the entire show because penguins don't wear pants.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
Well, it's nice of you to say sort of weird because it's actually just full-blown weird.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
So it's me as Gary Starr, who's this kind of idiot character who's attempting to save literature.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
by performing every Penguin classic novel ever written in the space of an hour and thus saving both Penguins and literature from extinction because he somehow believes that Penguins wrote all the Penguin books and he's put two and two together and got four.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
So if I can get people to buy the Penguin books, then they'll have enough money to fix the South Pole somehow as well.
Peter MarksHOST
I saw it at the Edinburgh Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, and I laughed my butt off.
Peter MarksHOST
Damian Warren Smith plays Gary Starr, a character he created, and the show's conceit is that Gary Starr is going to misinterpret for you all the classic Penguin books And he gets on stage with a bookshelf with two shelves of Penguin classics and goes through them in hilarious improv-like detail.
Peter MarksHOST
And the wonderful thing is also his costume, in quotes, is he's naked.
Peter MarksHOST
And it's disarming.
Peter MarksHOST
How do you lay out what you want in an elevator description of what you do on stage? Yeah, it depends
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
who I'm talking to, I guess.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
I would say the blurb for the show is Gary is attempting to perform all of the Penguin classic novels in an hour in order to save literature from extinction.
Damien Warren-SmithGUEST
But the twist is that he believed penguins wrote all the books.
Phil CousineauGUEST
And I mean sing, not just as cool.
Phil CousineauGUEST
For me, E.V. Rue, who is in London, he was the one who came up with the whole legacy of the Penguin Classics.
Phil CousineauGUEST
It's R-I-E-U, 1946.
Phil CousineauGUEST
He translated the Odyssey into prose.
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
He's basically one of the graduate students on the on the expedition.
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
He apparently brought a ton of books with him, including a portable copy of the Necronomicon, like the Penguin Classics edition or something.
Andy ForemanGUEST
That's the one thing in Lovecraft lore that always I find a little bit funny is how available the Necronomicon is to so many people.
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
Yeah, but it's especially funny in that one because Miskatonic University's whole thing is they keep it locked up.
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
Because it's supposed to be this huge book, but it's, like, this portable, like...
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
I would love to...
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
If there was, like, a meme template for making, like, a fake Penguin Classics edition, I would love to make one for the Necronomicon.
Bruce Kielkowski Jr.HOST
Yeah.
Adam MinihanHOST
And he made this staunch stance... and wrote this essay called Why I'm Not Going to Buy a Computer.
Adam MinihanHOST
Ironically, Penguin Classics, or Penguin Modern, not Classics, but the Penguin Publishing House, republished this in 2018. and which is like 40 years after he originally wrote it and it became uh the most reprinted thing he's ever wrote which is kind of like a small joke based off of you know or ironic at least based off of of what he talks about and And if you listen to the audio book of world ending fire, you'll, you'll, you'll hear this and it's very good as well because it allows when he wrote the essay, there were many critics of the, uh, of the essay and penguin publishing house allowed them to allow him to respond to the critics in the essay.
Adam MinihanHOST
So it was like the essay and then like his response to the critics, um, They critiqued his essay and his response to them.
Adam MinihanHOST
Very, very
Mandy HortonHOST
Penguin Books remained her most steady source of work and income.
Mandy HortonHOST
She designed several covers for the Penguin Classics series from 1951 to 1960, as well as the Globe Theater icon for the American Pelican Shakespeare.
Mandy HortonHOST
In 1958, Monotype commissioned a series of calligraphic borders, which they named Friedlander Border.
Mandy HortonHOST
This was the first time her family name was used on one of her designs without fear of anti-Semitic reprisal.
Tansy GormanHOST
And that's what this reminds me of.
Tansy GormanHOST
Jacob has got a Penguin Classic in his pocket and a chip on his shoulder and he is ready to rumble.
Tansy GormanHOST
And Kendall's gone flying to Japan.
Tansy GormanHOST
We don't even know that
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exactly
Alex PerksGUEST
and okay now my ears are bricked up yeah but I just think he's there's so many funny fucking things he's done like the not publishing his autobiography, unless it can be Penguin Classics, not Penguin
Charlie WebsterHOST
Modern, is just incredible.
Charlie WebsterHOST
In fact, he didn't have an editor as well.
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