Tony Law

And we've also got Scott Capurro.

And we've got Tony Law, Canadian comedian.

He's fantastic.

And starting up in Halloween week, I'm not sure what day I'll drop it.

to recognise, if ironically there.

I mean, what you're saying there sounds to me a lot like how someone like Tony Law works.

I spoke to him years ago, first ever episode of the podcast.

Well worth flicking back and checking that out, listeners, if you haven't already.

And he writes, I mean, he basically doesn't write, right? You know, whatever's in Tony Law's set.

It's very much like Irish stew of like what the ingredients in Irish stew.

It's like whatever was in Tony Law's set last night.

plus an extra potato right and and having watched like several of his hours like more or less back to back because i had a free evening and i had all of them in one place one reason like you can see the links there are some bits that come back and some motifs etc etc and it sounds like you're doing that but you're doing that with the like structured bits of narrative and in a way that makes the a lot more narrative sense and a lot more sort of has a lot more thematic unity than when Tony does it which I say in a value neutral way like he's got his own brand of rolling nonsense but you do it in a way that yeah yeah it's great and he's a really nice guy as well so you know he's

Tony, how much of confidence on stage is genuine confidence? And how much is simply looking as though you know where you're going?

Oh, 100% looking.

So I think of my character on stage as I'm a low status person acting high status.

welcome to before during after a smirk experience podcast about performance from the inside every week i'll sit down with a professional comedian to unpack how they prepare for a gig what they're thinking about while they're on stage and how they reflect once it's over because great performances don't just happen they're built My guest today is Tony Law, who is a brilliant, surreal comedian.

His work often looks like complete chaos.

But as I discovered, there's quite a lot going on under the bonnet.

You will find out how Tony turns improvisation on stage into fully formed bits of material.

Why, if something starts to go wrong, the best thing you can often do is to acknowledge it.

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And, um, and, uh, Tony Law was his son, Thor.

That's incredible.

And it was like-