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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Stephen Merchant: ‘Most famous people are f**cked up’
Description: Actor, writer and director Stephen Merchant joins How To Fail this week and is reflective, fascinating and - yes - even funny. We talk about what he learned from Ricky Gervais when co-writing The Office, on feeling rattled turning 50 and how it’s hard to fail as a stand-up comedian (but he got over it).
✨ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Intro
17:16 Height and Humor
17:50 Reflections on Failure and Success
22:12 Stephen Career Journey
30:50 The Office and Ordinary Lives
32:46 The Comfort of Rewatchable Comedies
33:53 Expl...