Always Be Comedy - EP95 - Helen Bauer Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST! Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more. Today's guest is a comedy superstar and “friend” of the night: Helen Bauer! Go watch Helen's BBC pilot Small Doses here! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0btb9cp/bbc-comedy-singles-small-doses To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Alan Partridge (travel tavern era) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApYdHs_Owc Opener - Birthday Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-GRGYEi4xQ Middle - Mat Ewins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0bh5gP-YE Closer - Key and Peele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBdGTX3vZc About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices