Sofa Science is back after a brief hiatus, and we return with comedic mathematician Matt Parker to discuss math v. maths, pi v. pie, and a very important piece of black fabric.
Sofa Science is now available in podcast form at http://sallylepage.co.uk/sofascience/?format=rss and on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/sofa-science-sally-le-page/id1160972129?mt=2
As always, timecodes to the questions and all links are below:
00:00 Intro
00:11 Who are you?
01:14 Math or Maths?
02:18 How did you get started?
02:40 What made you transition from teaching maths to stand up?
05:02 Can you establish a full-time stand up comedy job in 2 years?
07:44 Where were you doing your gigs?
08:55 What is it you enjoyed about stand up? The immediacy?
10:13 What was the transition from comedy to YouTube like?
11:33 What is community TV?
13:00 What were the first films you made?
13:50 When YouTube started, did you just use your back catalogue?
15:30 Matt's old videos for the Australian government on standard meal units: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ3GGWrDwMM17:28 A wild Brady Haran appears!
17:44 Had Brady seen your TV or your comedy work?
18:50 Why on Earth do you love editing???
20:40 How did you learn how to edit?
21:20 What was it that had put you off YouTubing?
23:55 Matt gets overly excited about pies
24:20 Was Numberphile making any money at this point?
25:10 BBC Headsqueeze, then BBC BritLab, now BBC Earth Lab
26:30 Non-science/maths editors make science/maths mistakes
27:48 Unlike most, you went from no control over videos to full control. Discuss.
31:38 How do you manage your time?
32:35 Did you and Steve Mould ever film each other's videos?
34:30 What was the conscious decision to prioritise YouTube?
34:55 Do you think TV is dead?
36:46 Who do you aim your videos at?
36:57 Who are your actual audience?
37:32 Why do you think your audience is so male?
38:48 Where do you find your ideas?
39:05 Do you feel you have a good relationship with your audience?
40:57 Have you thought about making clickbaity videos?
42:04 Brand deals?
46:35 You seem to be moving more into a TV style format.
46:52 What video are you proudest of?
48:11 What one thing do you want people to know about you that you don't think they already know?
Matt Parker:
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/standupmaths
Website: http://standupmaths.com/
Me:
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