Stuart Goldsmith

Stuart Goldsmith is an English actor standup comedian and former street performer He has presented the Comedians Comedian podcast since 2012 Goldsmith grew up in Bristol and trained at Circomedia circus school He was a member of the Playbox Theatre Company youth theatre group in Warwick and worked as a court jester at Warwick Castle He began in street theatre as half of the comedy double act Kiosk of Champions with fellow standup Richard Sandling where he walked the tightrope eating a packet of crisps4 Under the name Beautiful Stu he came second in the Street Performance World Championship in 2008 On his street theatre work he has said If you can draw in the crowd at 945am in Covent Garden it teaches you to be funny Goldsmith was a 2005 finalist in So You Think Youre Funny a 2006 finalist in Laughing Horse New Act of the Year and came third in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year He was also a finalist in the BBCs Witty and Twisted competition In 2011 Goldsmith competed in the ITV reality show Show Me the Funny where he was eliminated in week 6 Goldsmiths 2010 Edinburgh show Stuart Goldsmith The Reasonable Man received positive reviews as did his followup 2011 tour Another Lovely Crisis His 2012 Edinburgh show Prick was the subject of some controversy after the title was censored by the Edinburgh Fringe Guide Goldsmith received generally positive reviews for his 2014 and 2015 Edinburgh shows Extra Life and An Hour respectively In 2012 Goldsmith launched a podcast The Comedians Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith where in each episode he interviews a comedian about how they approach their profession It published its 200th episode in March 2017