![]() ![]() We hear Noble reassuring a church warden that he isn’t a paedophile, and persuading the head of research at a pharmaceuticals firm that he, Noble, is the company’s new assistant vice-president. We meet Anish, his suburban spiritual guide, and Stevie Chang, to whom Noble wants to apologise, 36 years on, for a mild schooldays dust-up. Because it’s fucking wank, isn’t it?” Each episode considers another of Noble’s adventures in the search for meaning, splicing narration, dreamy music, and secret audio recordings made as our host goes about his unglamorous life. The podcast, Noble tells us, is about “my attempt to find ways to survive life. ![]() Labels aside, Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) is, judging by its first three instalments, as twisted and tender as Noble’s best stage work: a bleak, blissed-out game of chicken with the abyss, in 20-minute audio instalments. But then comedy barely describes the whole career of this self-styled “failed performance artist”, whose work tightropes between self-lacerating confessional, pranksterism and reality TV. Comedy barely describes what he’s up to in that episode, interrogating his use of antidepressants, and the ignorance of the industry that manufactures them. “I used to be a comedian,” says Kim Noble in part three of his new podcast. ![]()
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