Josh Kingsford: Midnight Porridge | Full Comedy Special
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- This is it. The big kahuna. The hardest I’ve ever worked on something. The culmination of so many years of effort. I hope you like it haha.
This was the product of filming 50 (ish) gigs over the past year. The making of this special had many challenges. Both expected and unexpected. Gonna gauge the reaction to it and then potentially make a video or two breaking down how I wrote the material and how it was filmed/edited together. There’s also so many alternative takes, failed sets, interesting adjustments, camera malfunctions and random happenings that have been caught on camera. It would be cool to show those as well.
Steve Martin recounted talking to Johnny Carson during an early ‘The Tonight Show’ appearance. Carson leaned in during a commercial break and told him “You’ll use everything you ever knew”. That has 100% been the case with this. It’s brought so many different skill sets into play. As a performer obviously it’s stretched me. But also as a CZcamsr, editor, writer and amateur filmmaker. It’s been a huge struggle at times to persevere and get this thing to the level of quality I wanted. But I’m nothing if not stubborn haha.
The thing I’m proudest of, I hear you ask?
Making this special vindicated my belief in the CZcams channel. There’s always a risk as a video essayist that the things you teach can’t be applied in a practical setting. That you’re delivering well intentioned but ultimately pretentious wank. So I was stoked that I kept falling back on the things I’ve talked about for the past 4 years. Word choice, premises, rhythm, camera positions. Every video I’ve made has taught me new things about my own comedy. Which is honestly so cool!
I started the channel as a performer wanting to talk about comedy. But over the years I hid the performer side of myself. I’ve hardly talked about my own comedy in the videos. I’ve never used any of my own stand up as an example (even though there were times when it would have been an interesting point of discussion). I became scared. Scared that when people saw my comedy, they would think I sucked and wouldn’t care about anything I had to say. That my small following would evaporate and I’d be revealed as the imposter I was.
But I don’t feel like that any more. Over the last couple years, I’ve improved dramatically as a performer. My confidence has grown and I’ve found a voice that is weird, occasionally awkward and unique. It’s time to share this part of myself. It’s really exciting. Terrifying sure. But exciting. Who knows, maybe it will bring brighter opportunities for the channel moving forward.
Enjoy ‘Midnight Porridge’ :)
0:00 - Video 1 (The Art Gallery)
2:10 - Graham Norton
12:22 - Video 2 (The Goz)
14:24 - Video Games
19:46 - University
23:38 - Wet Bed
27:19 - The Bath
31:10 - Guitar Dudes
37:55 - Video 3 (The Flat Party)
40:39 - Harry Potter
45:48 - Lego Daddy
48:54: Mirror Man
55:23 - Video 4 (Bear meet Bear)
Thanks for the laughs!
You created a great special and it’s impressive how it turned out. I can’t even fathom how much work went into it.
I’ve been trying to brainwash myself into being courageous enough to go onto a stage myself and I’ve always tried to use the “If you go up there and try you’ve already won” quote by Seinfeld for that.
But honestly seeing such a cool special, not financed by Netflix, and all the cool people in the cozy cafés and small clubs chuckling and laughing. It’s genuinely inspiring.
Great, memorable special. Congrats!
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations man, honestly incredible that you dare to put yourself in such a vulnerable place. And on top of that, you also just are really funny.
watching so many topics that you discuss in your videos being implemented in one special seems so genius for branding.
The mic noises, the word choices, the rhythm fluctuations, mic placement, everything! Well done sir.
Great stuff. Weird to me to see you perform for the first time after already being familiar with your voice from hours of top drawer content.
Fantastic work man! Amazing to see the different elements that you've guided us through over the last few years all expertly and seamlessly crafted into one special. Can't imagine the work that has gone into this. You should be really proud of this, we're all really looking forward to seeing more of your comedy in future.
It was very exciting to analyze each part of your special and appreciate the clear references of each explanatory video personified in this special.
This is awesome. Love the callback at the end. It's clear to see how the work you've put into studying comedians for your videos has paid off, and this provides an incredible backbone to your integrity as an essayist.
I have been doing standup for 4yrs now and your channel has been REALLY good in showing me the depths of comedy writing. It's awesome that 1) you have completed and put this out and 2) you have incorporated different styles into one. Good on ya!
Dude I loved it, what great piece of work. Hilariously funny, unique, weird, surprising and endearing. All laughs, some feels, no filler. 14:05 the whole "video game pacifist" bit killed me. I knew you were smart from the analysis videos, and backing it up with a special of your own takes balls. Excited for what you come up with next
This really moved me. Starting what will most likely be the first of many rewatches, right now.
Fantastic. I was curious when I saw the video length and thought 'how did a CZcamsr get an hour-long special?' But envisioning, planning, performing, and editing this all together over dozens of gigs is a great effort and you can really see how the character and your confidence as a performer grows. I can see where you take your influences from: Acaster's timid, prodding stage persona, or Stewart Lee's favourite bits (aping the audience, scraping the mic, fully buying into the sound malfunction), but making them your own. The whole piece is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
mad respect for the way you incorporate stand-up and film together. its something ive always wanted to do with my stand-up too someday.
I love how descriptive you get with your sentences, especially like when you describe the film plots vs the kinda actor you want in those roles. It shows that youve really harnessed your writing chops right down to sentences being punctuated with humour. All that just backed with a super likeable and human stage personality.
Really good. I enjoyed the special overall, and can tell that a lot of time went into the writing. Reminds me of some of the early clips I've seen of James Acaster. I've loved your analysis over the years, and i can see exactly where you've learned some of the techniques employed in this, especially rhythm.
I have written some standup myself- actually quite a lot, which I wrote when considering dropping out of college, as a "fallback career" of all things- but I've never peformed it. I get very self-conscious in general, and performing sounds impossible with the material I write, because of the very personal subject matters I always loop back to. This is really inspiring. I might try it now, or at least go and support my local standup scene.
“Depressed violinist playing the saxophone” is fantastic and went entirely under the radar. Incredible special.
Edit: I cried
Waaahoooo! Yes Josh!
I loved it, I really loved it!
Fantastic.
Man this brings up so many emotions in me. Well done mate.
Great, real, authentic comedy! This is the furthest thing from internet crap. Love it!!!
Cracking stuff Josh
Man this is genuinely excellent, I can feel you channelling your inner James Acaster in the delivery but not so much as not to be completely unique. Hilarious throughout and I loved the Witcher 3 reference :)
I have no idea why this was one of my suggested videos, nor do I know why I decided to watch it. Maybe it was the Teddy Bear(?)! Maybe.
I have never seen any other videos on this channel (having a look through it now), and I have no idea who Josh is (not meaning that to offend in any way), but good lord that was great. Absolutely superb stuff. The little Mass Effect bit really got me - loved that game and that bit was excellent. It was *all* excellent - the guitar bit was incredible. Wonderwall! 😂😂😂
Looking through the channel again i see that it mainly has writing videos, which is not something that I’m into. However, I will be following this channel from now on in the hope that more stand-up from Josh is posted.
Recently when I go on streaming services i keep seeing adverts for awful comedians like Bert Kreischer and Andrew Shultz, or Ricky Gervais ffs. I’ve seen a bit of work from each of them and their ilk and they’re about as funny as AIDS, so it was refreshing to see someone new (to me at least) and as weird as James Acaster but actually funny.
Can’t say it enough - brilliant stuff
Very, very funny. Good work man
The proof is in the hyper-self-aware, anxious, whimsical, orchestrated, acute, honest pudding.
You know your shit, intensely so.
Thanks, man.
This is fantastic! Congratulations!
Only about a third in, and I really love your energy and stage persona. I'm not sure if the hesitant tone at the start of each segment is contrived or if you're genuinely anxious, but it's perfectly charming.
You're very funny and likeable - excellent show, well done to you ❤️
This is terrific stuff Josh, huge congrats and thank you so much for putting it out! Would love to see more videos breaking it all down...
What a beautiful piece of work. I enjoyed every minute of it
I loved it, great work :)
Excellent work!!! What a ride.
Absolutely brilliant
Very well done, this felt like a movie with standup. :)
Brilliant work
Well done, mate!
Fantastic!
Awh man, I left a comment before I started watching but wanted to let you know I never knew what it would be like but really left me having experienced everything I want to when I watch something new. Each stand up part was really funny in an isolated way but as a cohesive whole it really made me feel like I was wondering through an increasingly chaotic and imaginative timeline only to reach a crescendo and brought back to earth to experience a new stream of consciousness that starts a new bizarre path from a similar beginning :D really really good. gonna demand a rewatch!
Best in the game! I loved watching it live and equally loved watching it on here, congrats gangster.
You madman! Hell yeah!
Amazing mate, so well done!
Brilliant work, can't wait to see more of your performances!
Mate, this is fantastic! I’m so impressed, well done!
Awesome work
I absolutely ADORE your special, Josh. I could see the heavy influence of the absurdity of James Acaster and the vulnerability of Jerrod Carmichael (was sitting on that uncomfortably sized seat to emphasize how childish you felt?). Plus, you have a lovely singing voice!
Bravo...this one will stay with me for a LONG time. :)
Man oh man, that was fantastic. Congratulations Josh, you have bucketfuls of talent and deserve every success. Best of luck going forward!
I can’t tell you how much I relate to this, truly brilliant work! That ending definitely making me miss my mum
Excellent!
funny, accessible, and clever. Loved the imagery between scenes. Keep up the good work on stage and off it on this channel!
So stoked to see this up here bro!
Just about to hit play man, so so excited to see this. I've followed and loved your channel checking regularly for updates for AGES and it's inspired me from an occasional writer and performer trying to write stuff that people found funny to writing stuff that I WANT to write.
This was quite the treat. Thanks for the belly laughs.
Congratulations, Josh!
Brilliant!
Been following your channel ever since the Bo Burnham Inside video.
Happy to see you still creating wonderful things for us commoners to enjoy ;)
Cheers
Congrats!!!
So good. :)
Great stuff man! This is like a summary of your video essays and I love it! The intro is specially brilliant. Can’t wait to see more from you!
That was absolutely solid man, fantastic special! 🫂
Very good. I laughed loudly, at work, several times. Can definitely see the Acaster and Stewart Lee influence strongly in a few of the bits. Keep up the great work.
This was very very good! Well done!! I am looking forward to when you come to London!
Great work, congratulations on putting this all together. Can tell a lot of work went into it.
Big up yer lad!
I'm not just proud, I'm impressed!
Oh I love this, I am having so many emotions. Ahhh!! I am so impressed! I am cackling like a fool! I've loved this channel and when I saw you uploaded this I knew it would be amazing. I'm sick and things are hard and this feels so like a warm hug I needed. Thank you, thank you, please don't stop :D
you're one of my favorite channels on youtube please keep making videos
Fab to finally see your own stand up! You are a funny man. Also didn't realise you were Kiwi until I watched it. Where can people see your act?
Congratulations!
When's the director's commentary coming?
No, seriously, you're going to annotate this, right? It's *superb*.
Dude, it was awesome. Of course production, lets say, "value" is low, but bits - those are great! You have this distinctive style of painting pictures and scenes with your storyteling. Focusing not so much on punchlines, but vibes. And the vulnerabilty. Congrats man.
Finally found time to watch the entire thing.... I'll try and give an honest review :)
Overall... Pretty good. Held my attention throughout and didn't feel boring at any time. One criticism could be that there weren't many "extremely high" points, most jokes got a good chuckle out of me but I think I laughed very hard at only 2-3 points in the show. Not bad at all, unless you want to compare yourself to the very best comedians out there. The dobby joke was top class though!
You also seemed to have taken your own advice, implenting the tricks you've shown in your videos, some of the descriptive analogies were so good! I could also see a bit of James Acaster peeking through your character.
One thing I really enjoyed was the uniqueness of the special. The stuffed toy bits made for an extremely good intro and segues for when you switched to different recordings. From the on stage prop usage, I really liked the creative use of the torch and bottle of water. The "story" of the special was told well and felt true to you and/or the character you were portraying. The jokes felt original, which is a lot more difficult to pull off than it seems nowadays with so many topics already being milked by every comic out there. All in all, I'd say it was atleast a 7/10.
Now I don't really know what was missing or what you could have done better, but I just wanted to leave this comment because I felt like that the best thing I could do when you put so much effort in this special was to give you as honest of a review as I could. Hope it helps :)
Thank you, man
Didn't know you do comedy yourself. I guess it makes sense 😂. Bloody brilliant!
Nice job man !
Tbh this is really good for a first special. Really enjoyed it
So many stuffed animals from my childhood... this hit so on the mark
Oh wow this is awesome, I've been a fan of your channel for a long time and didn't even know you did stand up! 😂
Going to watch now.
Haha 😉
Fucking brilliant Josh!
Maybe it's because I like you but seriously that was hilarious!
Love your creativity, voice, posture, expressions, voice, all fantastic!
Closer shots of your face would be great and you'll inevitably slow things down a little bit as you do more shows but you're ready for the big stage mate.
Congratulations!
And thanks for the laughs!
Steve
👍 🍻
it was so awesome ro watch the first part of the set and realize it was genuinely so good. congratulations, hope you're still on cloud nine.
I don't usually watch this sort of thing, but since you've gone to the effort of disguising it as an hour long comedy special I'll make the exception... Maybe the best Ryan Gosling fancam I've ever seen.
Congrats :)
Congratulations!!!
Been following for a while and remember catching that you did standup yourself. This is truly superb!
I'm back for another round! Fantastic!
6 mins in. This is pretty good!!
😂 would have been a pleasure to see live but the teddy makes up for it🐻
Congrats indeed.
Im sorry, but the pirate bit absolutely floored me.
"FINGER ME JAAAACK!" 🤣🤣🤣
Genuinely exceptional work. Great material, filmed properly, edited beautifully. Top notch. Would love to get you up to one of our nights in Leeds sometime
This channel always will get an instant like from me
This is excellent. Hope you get more opportunities to do stand up.
big love
Yesss can't wait for this
Geez you worked hard on this. Ive seen your analytics on other videos and I can see all the language preferences, personality antics and pacing... Flippen hell dude, I will be watching your career closely mate. Aim high, you belong there!
this special was not only delightful but was also a very fun game of "which cardiff or bristol gig is that?"
I’ve already commented but this video is heavily underrated so here’s another
My hero haha!
Very much enjoying this, but just wanted to say, I noticed you using the audience member crossing camera as a wipe edit during the Harry Potter segment, and I was very impressed.
I’ve always wanted to do a wipe. Made me feel like Edgar Wright haha. Thanks for noticing. There’s another in there somewhere 😏
good shit bro
I hear your voice almost every day and now I get to see your face 🥰
Josh, this is fucking good. Actually good. Your art is real and funny and I'm glad it and you exist. Thanks for the laughs lego daddy
May I say congratulations?
as good as this is, it is a shame that there isnt really a place for this on youtube. in a shortform environment most people will not be able to appreciate the artistry that goes into a project like this (basically, thing good)
Oh so this what bro been cooking
Loved it. Original, funny and engaging.
(there's always criticism somewhere.... and here it is.... the last wonderwall comeback was too obvious, the misdirection needs to be improved.... but if thats all for now, its pretty good !)
This is fucking ace
Is it done yet?
The best bit was the Teddy.
❤🎉🎉🎉
Acaster in ayoade’s voice
I think Joe pera wants his act back...