S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

S14, Ep8 How To Fail: Asim Chaudhry

As well as being a stone-cold legend, Asim Chaudhry is probably best known for co-creating the BAFTA-award-winning mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing and if you’ve ever been on a British Airways flight and paid attention to the safety video, you’ll recognised him instantly as the inept director of a sketch involving national treasures Sir Michael Caine and Olivia Colman. He's an actor, writer, director and musician. And he's also hilarious.He joins me to chat about failing drama class and being kicked out of school with two GCSEs, the time he got deported from America (no, really) and a vicious mugging that left him questioning what life was all about. Along the way we discuss comedy as a defence mechanism, using his dad as creative inspiration and why he wasn't sure about the jeans he was wearing on the day he came to my house.--How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com--Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayHow To Fail @howtofailpod Asim Chaudhry @asimc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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S18, Ep6 Marina Abramovic: one of the greatest living artists on performance, passion and power

S18, Ep6 Marina Abramovic: one of the greatest living artists on performance, passion and power

It is impossible to put into words how much I adored this conversation. Which, in a way, is apt because Marina Abramovic is one of our greatest living artists and renowned for expressing through her w...

11 Okt 20231h 1min

S18, Ep5 Geri Halliwell-Horner on writing, grief - and what the Spice Girls taught her

S18, Ep5 Geri Halliwell-Horner on writing, grief - and what the Spice Girls taught her

On this week's episode, I welcome the all-singing, all-writing, all-dancing POWERHOUSE that is Geri Halliwell-Horner. She started out as Ginger Spice, in the most iconic girl band of all time (simple ...

4 Okt 202351min

S18, Ep4 Arlo Parks on the impossibility of perfection

S18, Ep4 Arlo Parks on the impossibility of perfection

Arlo Parks is a singer, songwriter and poet. Her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams was released when she was just 21 and earned her two Grammy nominations, a BRIT Award and the Mercury Music Prize. H...

27 Sep 202357min

S18, Ep3 Rory Stewart on why politics is broken - and what to do about it

S18, Ep3 Rory Stewart on why politics is broken - and what to do about it

Rory Stewart is a bestselling writer, podcaster, former politician, adventurer and charity boss. You might know him from his chart-topping podcast, The Rest is Politics, which features Stewart and Ala...

20 Sep 202353min

S18, Ep2 Sara Pascoe on fertility, fear and what success really means

S18, Ep2 Sara Pascoe on fertility, fear and what success really means

TW: fertility and miscarriage Sara Pascoe is a critically acclaimed comedian, writer and actor. Her latest stand-up tour is called - aptly enough for this podcast - Success and her debut novel, Weird...

13 Sep 20231h 1min

S18, Ep1 Miriam Margolyes on not marrying a nice Jewish doctor

S18, Ep1 Miriam Margolyes on not marrying a nice Jewish doctor

WAHOOOOO! A whole new season of How To Fail, and WHAT an opening guest we have for you. Yes, it's the one and only Miriam Margolyes: actor, bestelling author and the nation's favourite talkshow guest....

6 Sep 202351min

The F-Word Miniseries: Mo Gawdat and Elizabeth Day on Friendship

The F-Word Miniseries: Mo Gawdat and Elizabeth Day on Friendship

Welcome to The How To Fail F-Word miniseries! Three days, three guests, three different F-words.In this final episode, the tables are turned and I’m the one being interviewed on...friendships. My inte...

17 Aug 20231h 21min

The F-Word Miniseries: Nigel Morris on leaving school at 15 and becoming a billionaire

The F-Word Miniseries: Nigel Morris on leaving school at 15 and becoming a billionaire

Welcome to The How To Fail F-Word miniseries! Three days, three guests, three different F-words.Today, we have Nigel Morris...on fuel.Nigel Morris is the definition of a self-made man: born in Essex, ...

16 Aug 202353min

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