Culture | Comedy These days it seems to be mandatory that every comedian fronts at least one podcast. But in 2015 when Adam Buxton launched his online series by interviewing old schoolfriend Louis Theroux he was a pod pioneer. Nearly a decade on, and over 200 episodes later, the Adam Buxton podcast remains essential listening.
And there was an opportunity for what he grandly dubbed a "glimpse behind the curtain" when he recorded an upcoming release at the Apollo. As he said as he settled down and sparked up his laptop, this is a venue that has a special place in his heart. His hero David – or as he calls him, "Zavid"– Bowie famously played his farewell gig as Ziggy Stardust here in 1973, when it was the Hammersmith Odeon.
Buxton never interviewed Zavid but he has reeled in stars including Paul McCartney and Tom Hanks . For this special, however, he reunited with that very first guest, Louis Theroux, for am illuminating, entertaining chat about subjects ranging from Theroux's alopecia to their time together as geeky boys at Westminster School. Before Theroux appeared, Buxton delivered his dizzyingly inventive brand of multi-media wizardry projected onto the onstage screen.
There was plenty of comic mileage looking at his list of current anxieties, which ranged from his concerns over Norwich train reliability to the possible withdrawal of Caramac bars. There was also much talk about AI, or as Buxton expanded on it, "Artificial Intelligence but real stupidity". He had great .
