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Kiell Smith-Bynoe: New Ghosts' Film, First Acting Memories & Love For Improv Comedy | TalkBox Ep. 52 · Rich Fulcher's TalkBox

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  I can't stop laughing. So please watch the listen to
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  the next episode. And our guest this week is Kyle
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  Smith Bino. He's an amazing performer.
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  You've seen him on Ghost Stathlets Flats, you've seen him
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  on Taskmaster, you've seen him on everything.
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  He's everywhere. And he's got a new improv show
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  that he's touring the whole United Kingdom with.
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  You're going to love it. Let's listen in.
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  I can't wait personally. Stringer versus streaming.
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  Hi, Kyle. How are you?
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  Good to see you. How to see you.
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  Yeah, why not? There's a drink for you.
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  Thank you. How did you know what I wanted?
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  I didn't really. I just sort of guessed that
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  somebody would be coming and right.
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  Yeah, whoever was coming was going to get this drink a bit.
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  I'm so glad it was you. Thank you.
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  Yeah, glad it was me. Now, did you have to walk very
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  far to get here? I walked from a place called Q.
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  Oh nice. KEU and it's a we get enough
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  Yeah, eyes, right. My eyes.
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  The bubbles went in my the bubbles went in my eyes.
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  I went from a place called. Now he has bubbles for eyes Q.
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  Garn. I know QQ, the restaurant, it's
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  like a Vietnamese ban me restaurant.
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  That sounds nice. It really was nice.
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  I had the crispy pork belly nice in a ban me.
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  Oh, so you're going to be a little bit like the opposite in
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  a coma? The absolute opposite.
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  This guy's going to have too much energy.
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  It must be that bad. Me.
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  They're going to have to ban me from this podcast studio.
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  Have you ever? Do you like to?
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  Eat stuff for. A show.
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  Oh, sorry, do. The guests do stuff like that.
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  Yeah, yeah, I do. Takes.
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  OK. So they're a lot.
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  And we're also allowed. Yeah, I guess.
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  I'll try to keep. I'll keep it minimal.
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  Try not to do too many, yeah? Sorry, you were saying?
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  Before a show would. Will you eat?
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  I'm always afraid. Of what to?
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  Eat a lot and then you get sluggish.
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  Yeah, yeah. On whatever night it was
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  Saturday, I ordered Nando's and it was meant to come at 6:45 and
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  it came at 7:20 and I was on stage at 7:30 to.
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  The theatre to the theatre, yeah.
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  Oh my gosh. Yeah, and I was so hungry.
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  You had it on stage. I asked the audience if they
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  didn't mind me eating. No, I I left it to the Intel and
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  then the chips were cold. Oh no, I hate.
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  That I should complain about that?
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  Yeah, I will. It's not too late.
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  For those who don't know, you're on tour as we speak right now.
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  Yeah. And the name of the show, Yes.
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  Is cool for cats. No, I forgot the name.
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  You you fired really well though.
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  Cool story bro. Cool story bro.
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  Yeah, OK. Cool with AK.
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  Now we're going to get into this, yes, heavy big time, but I
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  just wanted to start out about how things got started for you.
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  Like how did you get involved in the whole?
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  Was improv the first kind of comedy stuff that you did or?
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  Was it? Drama.
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  It was drama because I went to drama school, nice.
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  But before that I'd gone to like, Youth Theatre and I'd gone
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  to summer schools and Saturday schools and I always pick drama.
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  Did you want to do it? Yeah, I wanted to.
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  I wanted to be actor real bad from when I was like 4.
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  I wanted to be an actor. And were you, was there a
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  particular type of drama? Did you like musicals or did?
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  You like all of it? I just like showing off.
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  I just wanted to be on stage in front of people.
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  Would you show off at dinner and stuff?
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  I mean, I grew up. Past the salt like that.
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  I wasn't. I didn't have a big family, so I
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  would have just been to my mom and occasionally my dad.
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  I don't know. Hey Mom, how was your day?
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  No, no, you wouldn't do that. Someone must have done this.
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  If not, you should do it. Really.
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  Yeah. OK, like just a family dinner
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  musical. That is a great idea.
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  Maybe we we both copyrighted. And then you have a.
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  You have a special guest with no lines, but they're a really
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  amazing singer. And maybe the whole thing is
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  they get to eat during the. Whole thing exactly.
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  Like Tony and Tina's wedding or something.
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  That would be amazing. Yeah, you can.
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  Have that, you can have that. That's all yours.
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  If this the rest of the podcast went in flames, that would be.
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  At least we had that. We had that, Yeah, yeah.
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  So it wasn't, yeah, I wasn't really singing at dinner.
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  It was sort of. It was more before dinner.
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  Whilst I'm waiting for dinner, I'm watching Sister act too.
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  Nice. I'm singing it along.
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  Oh, Happy Day. There was a movie that or a show
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  that was an influence on you that you could say at that
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  moment when I watched Whoopi Goldberg watch Walk Out on
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  stage. I mean, there's a few Goofy
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  Movie, Goofy Movie, which is not real people that influenced me
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  to want to be a dog or something.
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  Goofy Movie. Goofy Movie.
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  A Goofy Movie. You must have seen A Goofy
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  Movie. I have not seen.
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  I mean, I've seen one maybe. Man, what a what a motion
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  picture. Kenny, have you seen a Goofy
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  Movie? Scary.
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  Movie not goofy. That's not the same.
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  It's not. Come on, stay on track.
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  A Goofy Movie with Goofy. You know, Goofy from from.
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  But I didn't know Disney even spoke.
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  He's got a son. He does?
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  Yeah. He's got a son.
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  No, his son came out of his goofball.
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  Oh, OK. He's got a son called Max and
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  Max is at high school and Max is interested in a girl called
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  Roxanne and he wants to go to the school disco, but his dad
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  has planned a weekend away. So this came out when you were
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  young? Yeah, I would say this came out
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  in 1991. And how did this have an
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  influence on you? It was just like, so cool.
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  It was really cool. It was a it was a musical,
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  right? And some of it's like some
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  incredible songs. And you animated.
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  Animated and it's about. To watch it.
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  Oh man, you've got to I I haven't seen A Goofy Movie too,
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  because I didn't want anything to ruin it but that that first
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  one. It's the first Goofy Movie.
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  Yeah, I would strongly recommend it.
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  And so any any other movies. Yes, good burger.
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  Good burger. I think you're making these up
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  you. Haven't seen good burger.
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  No, you know. What I'm talking about when I
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  say good burger? What the hell?
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  How old are you? I'm 20.
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  I you might not. Yeah, it might have been after
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  your time. It's.
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  Anime. Before, before your time.
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  No no no no. Good burger is with Keenan and
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  Kel. OK.
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  You know those guys? Yeah, They made a film because
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  they were doing so well with their TV show, and they made a
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  film called Good Burger, and I thought it was one of the
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  funniest. There's a joke in that which
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  still makes me laugh. Which is so stupid.
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  And the guy is trying to bribe Kell's character about finding
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  out what their secret sauce is at Good Burger.
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  And then he he's like, no man, I'll never tell you.
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  And and then the guy goes, well, how does 20 bucks sound?
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  And he goes kind of like. Silly stuff.
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  It's good, yeah. Good Burger is an incredible
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  film, but I'd say watch Goofy Movie first.
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  OK, goofy before Good burger. Before Good Burger.
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  OK, got that. Everybody has everyone got that.
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  And then so you were just basically anytime at school
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  there was something going on, you would.
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  I was involved, yeah. Yeah, happily.
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  What any particular memories of school stuff you did that?
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  Yeah, well, my first ever play or the first performance I did
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  was the nativity. Nice.
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  The story of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, of course.
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  And I played the innkeeper right?
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  You know that guy? He had he first, he said.
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  There's no room. That's exactly what he was
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  supposed to say, right? Well, I said he.
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  Changed. It No, I had one line.
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  The innkeeper in this play had one line and the play and the
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  line was round the back. Right.
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  Because that's where Mary and Joseph ended up.
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  And they come and they knock at the end and they ask for a room
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  and I shout round that back as a four year old Chaos Mcbeiner.
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  And the audience laughed. Nice.
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  So I thought, I know what I'll do.
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  I'll say it again all. Right.
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  So if it works the first time, say it again, yeah?
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  Yeah, the golden rule of comedy. You learned the first rule,
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  Yeah. Yeah, so I said it again and
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  again and again. And I said it may be 7 times
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  screaming at the top of my lungs.
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  Just without any response, yeah. Round that back and then
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  eventually I think I, I was in, I was tapped into the audience.
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  They're not loving it so much now.
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  I'll, I'll stop. But little did you know, if you
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  had kept going, it would. Have been funny again.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  Yeah. I didn't know.
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  I hadn't learned that yet. Yeah.
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  So did anybody try to stop you from saying any?
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  Not that I remember. No, I think I just everyone, I
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  guess all the other four year old kids were like, why is why
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  are the adults laughing? Yeah.
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  And that was my first taste. Yeah, of show business.
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  Yeah, I love those memories because they are so imprinted on
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  your brain when you do stuff like that.
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  So let's get back to the episode, but think about it.
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  OK, Bye. And then you, so you went into
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  high school and then you started to do more stuff.
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  Yeah, so I was always doing drama either in summer school or
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  Saturday school or after school club and.
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  It was your thing, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  And there was a boy in a year above me, not two years above
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  me, that was on ATV show. What?
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  Yeah. So I knew it was possible
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  because there was a kid that I would see every day that was
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  also on television. There's a show called Ka Ching.
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  Ka ching, Yeah. And it was about some kids that
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  wanted to make money and they were like school kids.
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  I think I have heard of this show.
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  It was on CBBC. Was he very popular?
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  Yeah. And were a lot of your friends
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  like, were most of your friends like drama friends?
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  No, not really at all. No, no, they were like rappers.
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  Everyone in my school was a rapper.
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  Yes. I went to the rapping school.
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  You went to the rapping. School.
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  I was the actor in the rapping school.
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  Nice. Yeah.
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  So you played a role for the rappers?
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  Yeah, yeah. And that was, yeah, it was
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  mostly that. And then I left there and I went
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  to drama school. No, I left there.
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  I went to sixth form and then did all the sixth form plays,
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  the college plays and stuff and then went to drama school.
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  Where did you go to drama? He's 15, School of Acting.
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  Nice. It's got a reputation.
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  A good reputation? No, not a good reputation.
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  No, it does have a good, it has a good reputation for like
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  turning out good actors, but also the the process people
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  worry about. Oh, I see.
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  There's a lot of like, actually doing the stuff that they say in
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  the play. What was your expectation of
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  drama school versus what really happened?
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  Was it? I remember on my first day we
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  had the first two lessons and then a break and then the second
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  two lessons and then a break. And then I was like, wow, what a
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  day, ready to go home. And they were like, we still got
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  two more lessons. I was like, what the hell are
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  you talking about? Too much.
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  We went in till from 9 till 6:30 every day.
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  Holy. I couldn't believe it.
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  Yeah. And that that had to have been
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  written down somewhere. I just didn't read it.
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  Well, because school is normally over a three or something.
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  Yeah, we. Went down till 6:30 that's.
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  Too much. It's way too much.
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  And I never had problems sleeping ever again.
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  Genuinely. Like I used to have problems.
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  I didn't have problems sleeping. I had problems getting to sleep.
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  So it'd always take me like an hour at least to fall asleep.
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  Like all the all the time growing up.
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  And I started like I tried loads of things.
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  I tried classical music, I tried like I tried everything but
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  medication. And then when I went to drama
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  school, first day cocked out, gone.
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  So did you enjoy it? Yeah, I loved it.
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  Oh OK. I had a great time.
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  Not everyone had a great time in my year or but I did.
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  Sorry. Did people leave?
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  Did people get Yeah. Well my my drama school had an
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  admin error. Can you believe this?
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  My school had an admin error where they sent out too many
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  acceptance letters. I think they do that in general
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  because they know not everybody's going to accept.
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  Well, they're they were meant to send out 30 and they sent out
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  53. Oh shit.
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  Yeah, So what happened? And 51 people accepted.
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  That's a good sign for the school.
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  Yeah, but then they were like, oh shit, we've got too many
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  people. What if they did like Squid
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  Games? Like we're going to have to
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  narrow down 20. Yeah, do a monologue.
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  If you get a line drug, you get shot.
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  One of these monologues will explode.
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  So did they. They were trying to weed people
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  out or they. Not really trying, but they were
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  like, you know, some people just weren't quite out for it.
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  And you find out in the first term, I think they only actually
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  got rid of two people, but then there were a few people that
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  dropped out. But by the end of 3rd year I
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  think they were like 36 or something like that.
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  Wow. So in the three years they would
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  they be dropping? So you feel like you really went
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  through something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  It's sort of like to be alive. The army, Yeah.
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  You talk about the old theatre school days like it was Nam.
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  Yeah, yeah. I'm never going back.
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  And are you close with a lot of the people you went to school
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  with? A few of them, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm going to one of
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  the so a guy that I lived with in drama school, I'm going to
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  his wedding in June. Nice.
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  Yeah. That's my boy.
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  That's great. Yeah, it seems like.
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  And have you worked with any of them in the biz?
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  No, but I am going to tomorrow night or I will have a few weeks
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  ago depending on when this comes out.
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  Oh, on on your show. Yeah, on my show, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. One of them is a special guest.
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  So one of them who's a really good actor she is, was trying
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  out loads of different, like she was doing clips and content and
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  then she just blew up out of nowhere on TikTok and on
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  Instagram. Recently.
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  Recently I'd say in the last year nice.
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  And she got 300,000 followers. How do you do that?
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  I think you just got to be. Diligent.
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  Really. Yeah, you've got to be on.
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  It talented and diligent and on top of it, yeah.
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  You don't always have to be talented.
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  She is, but you don't always. Well, have you ever been into
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  that mode where you're doing all the clips and stuff?
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  And we do clips from my improv show.
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  Right. Oh, I've been watching those.
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  Oh, yeah, they're great. Yeah.
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  And you you still thought the show was called Kool and the
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  Cat? No, no, I mean, you know, my
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  brain doesn't function properly, Kenny will attest.
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  No, that's fine. It doesn't.
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  It doesn't matter the name of it.
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  Do you know what it is? Yes, We.
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  Yeah, We're putting out clips from from the improv show.
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  I knew Cool was in the team. Exactly.
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  You started right. Yeah, yeah.
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  I have another show called String V spitter.
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  I don't want to talk about that. I.
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  I'm, I'm going to tell you the name of it one more time, and
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  then at the end of it I'm going to ask you the name.
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  Of it, yeah yeah, String V spitter.
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  Yeah, and people do not get it like the the name, they did not
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  get it right. I've heard every variation.
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  But it's such a a different name, people probably remember
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  it. You'd think, you know, people
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  are calling it all sorts strong and slammer.
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  Someone called it Songs with Spencer.
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  Like seriously, it was like, oh, how's Songs with Spencer going?
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  What are you talking about? Supper Show.
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  Tegan supper. I can imagine we'd get something
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  like that, but people are not. But cool story, bro.
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  People remember because it's a show about getting stories from
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  the audience. Right.
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  And also it's my initials KSP. Oh nice.
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  Oh that's a good title. And how did the Stringer around
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  V Slammer get started? It's 2 rival children's
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  entertainers, OK and they are both at the top of their game
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  and they're both contended to be the best in the area.
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  And this is a stage show. This is a stage show.
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  Oh awesome. And is it going on now?
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  We're we're going to, we're going to do a Malta.
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  Malta. We've done it for five years at
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  Soha Theatre and then someone came and watched it from Malta
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  and they said would you come and do it in Malta?
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  We're. Like, see, I love this.
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  I'd love stuff like this when somebody goes, hi, I live in
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  Antarctica. Would you do?
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  I'd definitely say no. No, too cold.
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  OK. I don't like to be cold.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure they have indoors areas there.
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  It's still be cold inside. Yeah, that's true.
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  But wouldn't you like to perform on every continent?
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  No, No, I wouldn't. No, that's not a thing for you.
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  No. Would you do Antarsica?
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  If it was the right situation, yeah.
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  If it wasn't just like some, like some Russian guy just
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  invited me out there, I don't know if I would.
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  Yeah, into. It if it was like if they were
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  offering you like flight hotel. Snowshoes. 650 lbs.
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  Yeah, yeah, they have to be perfect, yeah.
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  But everything else is paid for. Yeah, you've got to.
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  Get your own you You can have lunch in the hotel.
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  Breakfast and lunch is included, but you've got to get your own
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  dinner. Yeah.
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  Are you in? Yeah, I'm in.
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  OK. Yeah.
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  So if you're listening out there, I think we're open to
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  something like this. So how after you left, did you
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  start working right away or was there a big gap?
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  There was a gap. Well, I say I left with an agent
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  and then it is, Yeah. And I felt really lucky to have
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  had so many like meetings with agents and stuff and people that
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  were interested. Or were agents like hovering
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  over the school at the? Graduation, we did a showcase
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  and then agents come. And in those days you would you
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  would print out your CV and staple it to your headshot.
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  And your CV was only of stuff that you've done in drama school
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  because no one's done anything else.
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  And it's just plays you've done, like plays you've done at drama
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  school, and your headshot is on the front and it's your series
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  stapling on the back and you put out like 20.
• 22:28
  Yeah, yeah. And I remember like after the
• 22:30
  showcase being in the green room with all the rest of it.
• 22:32
  Is that my headshot? Do some people have headshots
• 22:35
  with different hats on? Little people have really bad
• 22:40
  headshots. Little Fez.
• 22:41
  Yeah. Or like, you know, to show their
• 22:44
  character depth. It's like I'm a cook, a butcher,
• 22:48
  a policeman. Yeah.
• 22:53
  I mine was pretty normal. Mine was this.
• 22:56
  Oh, that's good. I like that.
• 22:58
  And they, we were in the green room afterwards and everyone
• 23:03
  was, Oh my gosh, I was so nervous.
• 23:05
  And someone's come and go, Kyle. I'm like, yeah, what?
• 23:09
  All your head shots are gone. Have you got any more?
• 23:12
  No, like everyone was told to have 20.
• 23:14
  They took them. Yeah, like because the the cast
• 23:17
  of. Directors.
• 23:18
  One guy. Yeah, one guy's and one more and
• 23:21
  just one more and yeah, they would come and they'd like cast
• 23:25
  of directors or agents would come and take a headshot if they
• 23:30
  liked you. And.
• 23:32
  Then they get in contact, Yeah. So I left with AI Mean at the
• 23:37
  time I signed with. I signed with just like the
• 23:39
  biggest agent, just because I like the name.
• 23:42
  Yeah, but it wasn't the right thing to do.
• 23:44
  Well, I know hindsight, but how do you know?
• 23:47
  You know, early on, Yeah. But you know, when you said that
• 23:50
  that you're showcasing, I saw that sketch you did in Red Flag.
• 23:56
  Oh, yeah. I'd love that sketch show, by
• 23:58
  the way. Thank.
• 23:58
  You, man. 'Cause that's happened to me
• 24:01
  sometimes where they go, oh, such and such is in the audience
• 24:05
  and then you don't get a good show.
• 24:07
  Yeah, any of the performance they're just going let me get.
• 24:10
  On Yeah, yeah, Yeah. Yeah, Watch Red Flag, by the
• 24:15
  way. Whatever happened to that?
• 24:18
  I'm sorry it's such a funny sketch show.
• 24:21
  Thank you man, I loved it. We won an award for it and then
• 24:24
  nobody wanted to make it. I just think it's, I don't think
• 24:30
  it was to do with, I think it has to do with comedy in
• 24:33
  general. Definitely, yeah.
• 24:35
  But then there was a lot of talk about like not doing sketch.
• 24:37
  And then Channel 4 we're like, no, we're not doing any sketch.
• 24:40
  And then like a year later, they're like, do you want to be
• 24:41
  a Mitchell and Webb's new sketch show?
• 24:43
  OK. I was like new what?
• 24:48
  But yeah, there was. And like other channels are like
• 24:51
  we've already got a one sketch show, so we're not going to do
• 24:53
  another. Why do you have to allot one
• 24:55
  sketch show? Yeah, it's sad.
• 24:57
  Have about 80 of them, yeah. Imagine someone We've already
• 25:02
  got a sitcom. Sorry.
• 25:03
  And it's so good when it's one person's vision or a couple of
• 25:08
  people where it's not like a watered down, kind of sketchy
• 25:12
  thing. This was like, you could totally
• 25:15
  tell. It was like your comedic
• 25:16
  sensibility. I'd loved it.
• 25:20
  Oh, but it's just like those types of shows are always you
• 25:25
  either have to have a champion. Yeah.
• 25:28
  That will push it. Yeah, or it goes by the wayside.
• 25:33
  That's what happened, but people still say nice things about it
• 25:36
  and it makes me happy and it immediately makes me sad.
• 25:39
  I know. Because I'm like, I feel that I
• 25:41
  had so much potential. Yeah.
• 25:44
  We have so many great people in the writers room for the second
• 25:46
  episode as well. And then?
• 25:48
  What? So you were all set to do a.
• 25:50
  Yeah, they gave us, they gave us money to write a second, second
• 25:54
  episode. And then before I think we'd
• 25:56
  even hand it in, they were just like, yeah, we're not doing a
• 25:58
  sketch. No lunch, guys, Guys, hold the
• 26:01
  lunch. I know we were going to Pretz.
• 26:05
  No, no, no, take that sandwich away.
• 26:10
  Who ate the tuna? You don't have the tuna anymore.
• 26:15
  And so it was like that. It was like, oh.
• 26:18
  Yeah. So, yeah.
• 26:21
  But I still, I, I still got, I still got a dream.
• 26:24
  I still feel like we might get it on somewhere.
• 26:27
  At some stage, yeah. All you got to do is have that
• 26:31
  moment in time. Yeah.
• 26:33
  What what about people like, Sorry, I'm.
• 26:37
  I'm skipping because I wanted to go.
• 26:39
  OK, I can skip. Yeah, I can.
• 26:42
  You can do whatever you want on this podcast, man.
• 26:45
  I can, yeah. Oh my gosh.
• 26:47
  What do you think the state right now is?
• 26:49
  Comedy. It's like on TV they're they
• 26:52
  don't seem to Commission that much.
• 26:54
  No, no, it's so difficult to get anything made.
• 26:59
  I mean, all, all the stuff you've been in is like heavy
• 27:04
  solid stuff. I've had a good.
• 27:06
  Run staff. Yeah.
• 27:09
  You were you on staff first before.
• 27:11
  Before goes yeah, yeah. Staff was from 2017.
• 27:15
  I think we filmed that and it came out 2018.
• 27:17
  Yeah. But people, some people are
• 27:19
  still getting like into staff now.
• 27:22
  They're only finding out about it now.
• 27:23
  Well, that's the beauty. There's so much out there.
• 27:26
  Yeah, people are like, like the other day somebody goes, oh,
• 27:32
  wow, you were in Willy Wonka. I just saw that on the plane.
• 27:37
  And then it's like, oh, OK, all right, That's that's fun.
• 27:41
  You. Know what?
• 27:42
  I loved you man. What?
• 27:45
  Top Coppers. Oh really?
• 27:47
  I fucking. Loved.
• 27:48
  That oh, thanks. I thought it was.
• 27:51
  I loved that show. That show was.
• 27:52
  Perfect it. Was so funny.
• 27:55
  I know, I know, it was only one series.
• 27:59
  Yeah, it was great. I don't even know what drew me
• 28:03
  to it. When was it?
• 28:05
  When? Was it, I think it was 2014,
• 28:08
  right? Yeah, yeah.
• 28:09
  And you know, there's, it was a mayor, right?
• 28:12
  And there was these huge pictures of me and I have them
• 28:16
  now. I said I've got to have those.
• 28:19
  Is that like, what are they going to do with them?
• 28:21
  Yeah, so I have them, but there's no I I don't have a wall
• 28:26
  big enough to hang them up and but they're in the garage.
• 28:30
  That was such a good show, man. Yeah, John Kearns.
• 28:34
  And Steen? Steen.
• 28:37
  He's going to be on my tour. He's an improv guru.
• 28:40
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's on the tour as well.
• 28:43
  So how did you start to get involved?
• 28:46
  Because you were in theatre school?
• 28:47
  Was improv a natural thing that you like took as a class like?
• 28:52
  No, it was sort of the teachings of the youth theatres that I
• 28:59
  went to. I went to theatre on Stratford
• 29:01
  East, so it was all like the teachings of Joan Littlewood and
• 29:07
  that was all like devised and improvised.
• 29:09
  Nice. So it was a lot of that, and
• 29:11
  then when I went to E15 it was all like heavy improvisation.
• 29:16
  Really. Yeah, like that's how you learn
• 29:18
  how to act is through. Yeah, but also, even when we had
• 29:21
  text, it was like, we're going to improvise around the text
• 29:25
  first before we actually get into the.
• 29:27
  See, I think that's a good thing too.
• 29:30
  Like I just had an audition, right?
• 29:32
  A self tape and I'm like before I get before I Start learning
• 29:37
  the lines, I just don't I just want to get this character so I
• 29:42
  want to if you can, I feel like if you can talk in the
• 29:45
  character, yeah, then the lines just go yeah, yeah, quickly yeah
• 29:51
  or or they're not as important as as the character.
• 29:55
  Yeah, I I feel like it's. Not what I'm saying.
• 29:59
  No, I, I agree what you mean. I think that like the lines,
• 30:02
  once you, once you get to know the character before you're
• 30:05
  saying the lines, then things should come, You go, oh,
• 30:08
  actually, I mean, because then you might even change some
• 30:10
  stuff. You might go, it doesn't feel
• 30:12
  like it's that line. It feels like it's more.
• 30:14
  And then you can sort of just give yourself licence to like
• 30:17
  change it a little bit. Exactly.
• 30:19
  Yeah, like when you're improvising too, you just
• 30:24
  automatically do a character and you're not thinking.
• 30:27
  Yeah, yeah. And then you just totally flow.
• 30:31
  Yeah. So what?
• 30:33
  When did you start doing like improv for the stage?
• 30:37
  And my first show was when I was 14, my first improv show in
• 30:41
  front of a live paying audience. Oh wow.
• 30:44
  I was 14. I'd audition for this thing
• 30:46
  called Junior Bloggers. So there was a show called
• 30:48
  Bloggers and it was like quite grown up stuff and it was a very
• 30:56
  like the the black comedy scene at that time.
• 31:00
  It was all the sort of stars of that.
• 31:02
  And then they created Junior Bloggers and I auditioned for it
• 31:06
  the first time and I didn't get in and I was gutted.
• 31:08
  Oh no. But I went to go and see the
• 31:09
  show even though I was fuming and.
• 31:12
  You ran up on stage. I ran up on the stage and kind
• 31:15
  of punched him in the. Round back.
• 31:22
  Round the back what doesn't? Work anymore?
• 31:25
  They were playing a short form game.
• 31:28
  There were two two people in a dentist.
• 31:29
  Why is he shouting round the? Back it worked when I was a kid.
• 31:34
  I don't even have a mic. They can't hear me.
• 31:39
  What's he saying? Yeah, I watched it and I was
• 31:44
  like, when's the next audition? When's the next audition?
• 31:47
  And they told me. And then I I got in the second
• 31:49
  time. Well, you learned from your.
• 31:52
  From my mistakes. Well, you made mistakes.
• 31:55
  And I poisoned some of the others.
• 31:58
  But yeah, I yeah, I loved it. And then I did that.
• 32:01
  That was at John Blues in Beau. Oh, wow.
• 32:04
  Yeah, that's like a paying gang. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:08
  Yeah. That's great.
• 32:09
  And so you just kept doing it? Yeah.
• 32:11
  Did you take classes or was it just after that you just kept
• 32:15
  performing? I.
• 32:16
  Just kept performing, yeah. Then I was in a show called
• 32:18
  Acting Up, which was, that was from 2008.
• 32:22
  And it was like short form games.
• 32:24
  And that was sort of a bit like. Let me guess, it started up
• 32:27
  acting up. All of us are acting up.
• 32:31
  And then you'd walk out on the stage in little and.
• 32:34
  What are we wearing? You're wearing like skirts,
• 32:38
  everybody is, and then the guys would RIP off theirs and they'd
• 32:42
  have trousers on. Trousers under the ski.
• 32:45
  Yeah, I don't know. That's just the way I'm
• 32:48
  envisioning it. How come you can't see the
• 32:50
  trousers below the skirt? Because you roll them up and
• 32:54
  then as you RIP them off. They hold.
• 32:57
  Down, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was that.
• 33:02
  It was Oh my God. We all had canes and a top hat.
• 33:09
  Acting up. Acting, acting up.
• 33:17
  Oh, and then you'd freeze, and then somebody would do a little
• 33:20
  scene and they'd go. You're acting up.
• 33:23
  Acting up. I don't know, sorry.
• 33:29
  Well, yeah, it was exactly like that.
• 33:31
  And I did that until 25th, from 2008 to 2015.
• 33:35
  So I was like. Seven years of touring.
• 33:39
  No, it was, it was in London. So we did Hackney Empire, we
• 33:42
  did, Rich Mix we did. We did one year we did a tour,
• 33:46
  Birmingham, Norwich, Manchester. Well, so this was all year long
• 33:51
  you'd be working. Wow.
• 33:53
  You're a maid actor. Yeah, that's amazing.
• 33:58
  Yeah. Like, because I did stuff in
• 34:00
  Chicago and we didn't get, you know, money.
• 34:02
  OK. We got lunch appreciation, you
• 34:08
  know, but everybody, you know what it was like Second City was
• 34:13
  what was the paid 1 But that was like, oh, you get paid.
• 34:18
  Right. Yeah.
• 34:19
  Yeah, that was viewed as something crazy.
• 34:22
  Yeah. I'd like to go and do something
• 34:25
  the United States of America. Yeah.
• 34:28
  Oh, they'd love you. Like, it's funny because I've
• 34:34
  talked to people about this before, but Chicago is like New
• 34:38
  York in that the improv scene there like different schools of
• 34:43
  improv, like there are different acting schools.
• 34:47
  OK. You know, like Meisner and yeah,
• 34:50
  so it's like different people have like, Oh, well, this is
• 34:54
  this is this type of improv. Yeah.
• 34:56
  Yeah. So it's, it's really kind of,
• 34:59
  you can get really kind of heady about it, yeah.
• 35:03
  I'd love to. Oh, nice.
• 35:08
  Yeah, I'd love to do some. I mean I did some in LA but it
• 35:12
  was with English actors. Right.
• 35:15
  It's not the same. It's not the.
• 35:17
  Same. I want to be.
• 35:17
  I want to go and be the English actor.
• 35:19
  And people like, he's so funny. Andy is British.
• 35:22
  Yeah. And that accent?
• 35:24
  Well, this is what I tell people over here.
• 35:28
  Go over there. They're going to love you.
• 35:30
  Yeah. And it might not even be like
• 35:33
  deserved. No, what I'm saying is they'll
• 35:36
  immediately fall for the accent and then they'll go, oh, and
• 35:40
  that's. Good too.
• 35:41
  Yeah. When did you come here?
• 35:43
  I came here many different times, but the mid 90s
• 35:49
  initially, yeah. And then I came back and then I
• 35:55
  did the Bush in the early naughties, and then I left.
• 36:00
  And then I came back for COVID, yeah, to get me.
• 36:04
  Some you wanted that you wanted that British COVID.
• 36:06
  Yeah, yeah. I didn't like the US COVID.
• 36:09
  You don't. Like the US version?
• 36:10
  No, it's too Fleming. Yeah, yeah, some people say they
• 36:13
  prefer the the UK version. It's like ghosts.
• 36:19
  Yes. Are you willing to say what you
• 36:21
  think of the US ghosts? I haven't seen it.
• 36:24
  Oh, good, good. But I know that they're getting
• 36:26
  paid $250,000 per episode. Oh my God, that's just what you
• 36:33
  were getting here. That's almost what I was
• 36:36
  getting. But you guys are doing a movie.
• 36:39
  Yes. When does that start?
• 36:42
  We've finished start. We've done it.
• 36:45
  We've done it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:49
  What we don't completely. Lead to that man.
• 36:52
  What oh when does it go out? 23rd of October 2026. 23rd of
• 37:01
  October. Write it down in your calendars.
• 37:03
  Yeah. And were you happy with the
• 37:06
  show? Yeah, I mean, Abe was condensed.
• 37:10
  Yeah, mine and Charlotte. So we were pushed towards the
• 37:15
  end of the shoot. So it was literally 3 weeks.
• 37:17
  We're in and out. So it felt like we weren't there
• 37:21
  very long. We weren't there very long.
• 37:23
  And it's weird that we didn't start the film together like
• 37:28
  with the whole group because they had started 4 weeks before
• 37:31
  we. Oh, that's a shame.
• 37:32
  Yeah, but yeah, it's really fun. I think it'll be a great film.
• 37:38
  Get out there and watch it. Yeah, you're going to love it.
• 37:41
  This show will come out in October then.
• 37:43
  Twenty 22nd of October, yeah. No.
• 37:47
  Oh, that's that's so cool. And then you got reunited with
• 37:52
  everybody. Yes, exactly.
• 37:54
  Yeah. And like, it'd been three years
• 37:57
  since we've done it and those related.
• 38:00
  Yeah, yeah. So we, we missed each other.
• 38:03
  Yeah, 2023 we finished Series 5. And did you have a really good
• 38:07
  wrap party? It's a.
• 38:08
  Great wrap party and then the the wrap party for the film was
• 38:14
  fucking shit. Right.
• 38:16
  It was so dead. Why?
• 38:19
  It was just like. Was it right after the film or
• 38:24
  was it? Yeah, it was like the day.
• 38:25
  After we filmed it. Oh, OK.
• 38:27
  And it was just like because. People are too tired.
• 38:31
  The place was, the place was too big for the amount of people.
• 38:34
  The music was too quiet. The drinks were like, organic or
• 38:39
  some shit. It was like, you know, when
• 38:42
  you've got like, oh, we make our own Coca-Cola.
• 38:45
  Oh yeah, yeah. That sort of place, I'm like,
• 38:47
  alright, give me, give me that. I don't want that again.
• 38:52
  It was, yeah, but. Have a cucumber Margarita
• 38:56
  please. Yeah, yeah, that really like
• 38:59
  better. Get your organic drinks,
• 39:01
  everybody. Last call for organic drinks?
• 39:07
  Yeah, I didn't. I wish that I had been put in
• 39:10
  charge of organising that. I know because you know, what I
• 39:13
  find out sometimes with wrap parties is if people wait too
• 39:18
  long afterwards, they're all doing other things.
• 39:22
  So it's like if it's two weeks after the thing, but if it's
• 39:25
  right after, I always think that's the better wrap party.
• 39:29
  Yeah, we finished on the Thursday and then did the wrap
• 39:33
  party on Friday. Wow.
• 39:36
  So it should have been good. Should have been good.
• 39:39
  No, we finished on the Wednesday.
• 39:40
  We finished Wednesday morning, 5:30 AM and then did the wrap
• 39:44
  party on Friday and then everyone came having shaved,
• 39:49
  shaved their moustaches off, etcetera.
• 39:52
  Not me. I've never shaved my moustache
• 39:54
  off, ever. No, I'm growing one right now.
• 39:57
  It doesn't look like what? Do you usually have?
• 39:59
  No moustache. OK.
• 40:01
  Yeah, but it I know it's kind of wispy right now.
• 40:06
  It's a process, so it's my beard.
• 40:08
  My beard is a process. Yeah, it's all a process.
• 40:10
  I'm trying to get this motherfucker to connect.
• 40:12
  Come on, you can't do you can. Come on, get there.
• 40:17
  Just get there. So is it going to be like
• 40:21
  Downton Abbey? You're going to have various
• 40:24
  films come out throughout the years.
• 40:27
  One film every six months. Yeah, because people love the
• 40:30
  show so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:34
  I've never watched Downton Abbey like fully a whole episode from
• 40:37
  the beginning to the end. You have to commit to it.
• 40:40
  Really, if you want to watch it, you have to commit.
• 40:45
  You have to sign a form. I could imagine you being in
• 40:48
  Downton Abbey. Me.
• 40:49
  Yeah. As what?
• 40:51
  A horse? What?
• 41:00
  What possible role would I have in Downton Abbey?
• 41:06
  I could. I could see you as like
• 41:09
  eccentric American billionaire. Oh, that's good.
• 41:13
  Yes, Hi, everybody. I'm very wealthy.
• 41:19
  Wow, look at his shoes, they must be very well to do.
• 41:23
  They're clown shoes. Well, I'll, I'll be.
• 41:28
  Or maybe I could be like a famous inventor.
• 41:31
  Yeah, in that. Yeah.
• 41:33
  You invent the hot air balloon, for example?
• 41:35
  Yes, did you know I found out this fact recently, so I went
• 41:39
  into a Houdini rabbit hole. Wow.
• 41:42
  OK, that's good. That's good about Houdini,
• 41:48
  obviously. And did you know?
• 41:50
  Did You Know? Yes.
• 41:53
  He how he died. Well, apparently there, there's
• 41:57
  a lot of different theories, but apparently he could hold his
• 42:03
  stomach and then people would punch him in the stomach.
• 42:06
  Exactly. So somebody went up to him and
• 42:09
  he wasn't prepared. They just sucker punched him.
• 42:12
  This is a heavyweight boxer. This is like a world champion.
• 42:16
  Oh, really? But well, this is the the
• 42:19
  version I read OK that he was backstage.
• 42:23
  I heard it was a baby but no that's OK.
• 42:28
  We we've got different sources. Yeah, yeah.
• 42:30
  And then somehow, somehow the 2 will link.
• 42:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I heard it was like
• 42:36
  backstage at a show or something like that.
• 42:38
  And this heavyweight boxer had said, oh, I heard that you
• 42:41
  could, like, take punches. And he was like, yeah, go for
• 42:45
  it. And this guy punched him.
• 42:47
  And he was like, see, I'm fine. And then he was like, do it
• 42:50
  again. And the guy punched him again.
• 42:52
  And then he fell to the floor and then got up and he was like
• 42:55
  yeah I'm good. And then he would suffered
• 42:57
  internal bleeding and died like 3 days later.
• 43:00
  OK, now this is another thing I heard.
• 43:03
  Yeah, that's different, right? Is then I heard he did a trick.
• 43:09
  And the trick, I mean, he did a show.
• 43:12
  Yeah. And the show exacerbated the
• 43:14
  injury or something. Yeah.
• 43:17
  Yes. I think, I think there's some of
• 43:19
  that. When you're underwater and
• 43:21
  you're trying to breathe. Yeah, and your rib is going into
• 43:24
  your lung. Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of hard.
• 43:26
  Or maybe the straight jacket thing.
• 43:28
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing I heard about
• 43:31
  Houdini, he was the first man to fly an aircraft in Australia.
• 43:38
  No, really. Like as a pilot.
• 43:42
  Yeah, some of that they just like they just built a plane
• 43:48
  there and they were like, do you want to try?
• 43:49
  It I'm going to fly it, really. Hey, man, do you want to try it?
• 43:54
  What is it? It's a plane.
• 43:57
  OK. Wow.
• 43:59
  Yeah. Imagine that.
• 44:03
  So this he was around what, the turn of the century, right?
• 44:08
  So this was about 1920 or something.
• 44:11
  Yeah, I think maybe, maybe a little bit, yeah.
• 44:16
  Wow. That's like the equivalent of
• 44:18
  today if somebody had a jet pack.
• 44:20
  Yeah. And you were in Antarctica and
• 44:22
  they said, hey, you want to try it?
• 44:24
  Yeah, and the guy from Ghost was the first person to ever fly a
• 44:28
  jet pack. What are you talking about?
• 44:30
  I bet people try to be the first at things like that.
• 44:34
  Yeah. And it's it's almost like giving
• 44:37
  yourself a nickname. It's like you're trying too
• 44:40
  hard. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:42
  I don't care if you're the first to do jumping jacks in a field.
• 44:49
  Yeah. What I like about you is you've
• 44:55
  got ginger beer. Yeah, you do your gigs.
• 44:59
  You like, you've got all these gigs, right?
• 45:01
  But you're always like going back to your roots of improv and
• 45:06
  stuff because it seems like you love it.
• 45:09
  I do love it, I do. What is it about it?
• 45:12
  It's. So it's just it's showing off #1
• 45:17
  and I love that it's been silly with your friends.
• 45:21
  Which is what is great. Yeah.
• 45:23
  This is one of the reasons I got into this.
• 45:25
  Yeah, yeah. And you get to sell merch and
• 45:28
  make some money afterwards, because without the merch there
• 45:33
  ain't no money, baby. That's true.
• 45:35
  Them tickets are not enough. I mean, there's six.
• 45:37
  I've got 6 people on stage. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:39
  That's a lot to get through. 6 miles to feed.
• 45:41
  I've got 6 miles to feed kids dinner.
• 45:45
  Because you know what else I found with improv is because the
• 45:50
  show is unique and it's done that night.
• 45:55
  It's almost similar to doing sports together.
• 45:59
  Yeah. Like you've done something and
• 46:02
  that sports match is never going to be replicated.
• 46:05
  Yes, exactly. Same thing as that performance.
• 46:09
  I've never said this in an interview.
• 46:11
  Because I've never, after doing a show, you're so excited, even
• 46:18
  if it wasn't, you know, the best show, it's, it's like you've
• 46:23
  gone through something and you want to celebrate afterwards or
• 46:27
  something, you know? Do you mind if I use that
• 46:30
  analogy? No and.
• 46:33
  Does that expire at any time? Expires I think when the movie
• 46:38
  comes out. What October?
• 46:40
  23rd yeah. No, it's fine.
• 46:44
  You can use it. Yeah, OK.
• 46:46
  OK. So listen, there is a formatted
• 46:51
  part of the show. What?
• 46:53
  Yes, I know I told you not to prep, but it's called fill in
• 46:58
  the blank, OK? I could.
• 47:00
  Do that. So I'll say a sentence.
• 47:02
  Yes, please. I've got five.
• 47:03
  Yeah, with a blank. You have to fill in the blank.
• 47:06
  And is there a right or wrong? No, and it doesn't have to be
• 47:09
  funny. It's.
• 47:10
  Just whatever my heart desires. Yeah, yeah, Like improv.
• 47:14
  Just. Because I'm really competitive.
• 47:15
  So if you were to tell me that the previous guest has done it
• 47:18
  and got five out of five. I'll tell you where you rank
• 47:21
  amongst the guests in your answer.
• 47:23
  No, no no. The weirdest place I ever fell
• 47:27
  asleep is blank. Under the bed.
• 47:34
  Really. Yes.
• 47:36
  What, you missed the bed? No, I just thought it'd be more
• 47:41
  comfortable. Yeah, because it was the middle
• 47:43
  of the day and I was like, well, it needs to be dark.
• 47:47
  Get under the bed. I don't want to sleep on a bed
• 47:51
  during the day. You know, so when you want to
• 47:54
  nap, but it's like it's too, it's light.
• 47:55
  You don't want to get into sleep.
• 47:57
  It's like under the bed. Was there enough room?
• 48:00
  Yeah. Oh, OK.
• 48:02
  Oh yeah. That is the fourth funniest
• 48:05
  dancer anyone's ever. Done.
• 48:07
  How many episodes have you done? We've done 51.
• 48:11
  OK, blank is the thing I have to explain over and over again to
• 48:17
  people. I have to explain over and over
• 48:24
  again to people, I would say. Or animals.
• 48:32
  Or animals. Animals don't ask, they just.
• 48:35
  Take they take no giving. My name.
• 48:41
  Oh, your name? Yeah, what the?
• 48:43
  Pronunciation of my name, Yes. OK, three.
• 48:49
  Whenever I blank, I immediately regret it.
• 48:53
  Eat KFC. Oh, because the calories.
• 48:57
  No, no, just because it's never good, really.
• 49:02
  It's going to really taste good. Not like I have the idea.
• 49:08
  I'm not. I'm going to have KFC, then I go
• 49:10
  and have KFC. I'm not.
• 49:12
  I don't have it. On that right?
• 49:14
  So you're always having it under false pretences.
• 49:17
  In this country. Yeah.
• 49:20
  I don't want to sound like a hotshot jet setter but when I go
• 49:23
  to other countries the KFC is nice so.
• 49:25
  Oh, it is. I would say so, yeah.
• 49:27
  Oh interesting, I like the fact they have other states too.
• 49:32
  They'll have Tennessee Fried. Chicken.
• 49:35
  Yeah, they won't have anything. Fried chicken.
• 49:37
  Now, you know, back in the day. Do you remember catch phrase?
• 49:39
  The show. Yeah.
• 49:41
  Like the catch phrases used to actually be catch phrases,
• 49:44
  things that people would say as a catch.
• 49:45
  Phrase run out. Of now they've run out and
• 49:47
  they'll just put any fucking 2 words together.
• 49:51
  Anything monkey nuts. What?
• 49:54
  What is that? That's not a catch phrase.
• 49:55
  Why have you done? That.
• 49:56
  What? Like what is that about Stephen
• 49:59
  Mulhern? Why are you telling people to
• 50:01
  anyway? So now they're putting anything
• 50:04
  in front of fried chicken. Yes.
• 50:06
  So it could it could be Miami fried chicken or it could be
• 50:10
  Flamin fried chicken. Bulgarian fried.
• 50:13
  Chicken, it could be Tuesday. Fried chicken?
• 50:16
  It could be literally anything. Holy shit, any word fried
• 50:20
  chicken? Yeah, yeah, purple fried
• 50:23
  chicken. They'll just do anything.
• 50:25
  Don't and no one cares, no. One cares, there's nobody's
• 50:29
  putting a stop to it. It's like the Edinburgh Fringe.
• 50:30
  The cost of the of the accommodation in Edinburgh, it's
• 50:34
  almost if someone put their foot down then it would stop.
• 50:37
  But no one's putting their foot down, and that's why you've got
• 50:40
  things like cream fried chicken. Stop it with the chicken
• 50:44
  prefixes people. All right, 4 All of my hobbies
• 50:51
  are destroyed. This is a hypothetical.
• 50:54
  You can't do any more of your hobbies.
• 50:56
  I don't think I have any. My next new one is going to be
• 51:00
  blank. So whatever hobbies you had, I
• 51:05
  don't know what they were, I don't think.
• 51:07
  I had. Any really.
• 51:08
  Yeah. Oh.
• 51:10
  Hobby. You know, like jigsaw puzzles.
• 51:14
  I don't get nothing, baby. No, no.
• 51:17
  What if you had to start a hobby?
• 51:19
  If somebody said look, you've got a month.
• 51:23
  I'd love to get into bacon. I'd love to be good at I.
• 51:28
  Love bacon, do you? Oh, I love it on like
• 51:32
  cheeseburgers and oh, it's not oh, it's baking.
• 51:43
  I'd like to bake on a cheeseburger.
• 51:46
  What would you bake? I would bake.
• 51:48
  Have you ever had Angel cake? Yeah, it's good.
• 51:55
  It's good. What a concoction.
• 51:57
  Yeah. What is it?
• 51:58
  It's pink and it's yellow and it's white.
• 52:00
  It's so nice. Yeah.
• 52:02
  Are the are the three things different?
• 52:03
  Are the layers different? No, just food colouring.
• 52:05
  If you eat it, you go to heaven. Every time.
• 52:08
  Yeah, yeah. So I'd love to be able to make
• 52:12
  an Angel cake. I don't think my friends would
• 52:15
  be impressed. Well, some of them will be
• 52:17
  impressed. Baking or cooking?
• 52:20
  Baking. OK baking but I think most of
• 52:22
  them would be like why have you made that?
• 52:24
  Just buy it bruv. OK?
• 52:25
  It's 1 LB. Your friends don't seem very
• 52:28
  impressed. No, I don't think there would
• 52:30
  be, but I think I would. I would like to bake.
• 52:32
  I would like to try it just seems like a lot of effort.
• 52:36
  It's science at the end of the day.
• 52:38
  A. Lot of stuff you have to get.
• 52:43
  Yeah, 55. This is the last one.
• 52:48
  OK, Blank has been with me forever but needs to be thrown
• 52:54
  out, yeah. Wow.
• 53:00
  I say the best from last. Has been with me forever but
• 53:06
  needs to be thrown out. I have a lot of photos on my
• 53:16
  phone. I'd say I've probably got about
• 53:19
  60,000. They're all good.
• 53:22
  I would say that, but then the phone starts lagging.
• 53:25
  Yeah, yeah. And you're like, maybe it's not.
• 53:27
  But who takes the time out to handle that?
• 53:30
  There's no time. Anymore we used to delete
• 53:32
  pictures like on the train or on like in a doctor's weight in a
• 53:38
  room or something that was a flying.
• 53:40
  That wasn't just the action that I do when I'm thinking about
• 53:44
  deleting photos. You know, you used to do that,
• 53:49
  but now you've got fucking Wi-Fi everywhere and 4G and 5G even.
• 53:54
  Yeah. So you don't have time to delete
• 53:57
  photos. No.
• 53:59
  You're already on to the next. You're acquiring more photos, if
• 54:02
  any, of him. Yeah, So maybe my phone.
• 54:07
  My phone has been with me forever and it's my camera roll
• 54:10
  needs. To go.
• 54:11
  No, no, I don't. I don't think it does need to
• 54:13
  go. The memories, yeah.
• 54:16
  Well, I always feel like I've got too many.
• 54:19
  I'll need to put them aside somewhere so they're not
• 54:22
  constantly. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:25
  So OK, now the last thing is plugs.
• 54:30
  Plugs. Is there anything you want to
• 54:32
  plug that's? The first thing that I asked
• 54:33
  about when I got in here. Yeah, plugs.
• 54:36
  Yeah, my iPhone is charging. Have you got plugs?
• 54:41
  Have I got anything to plug? I'm I'm on, I'm probably on tour
• 54:45
  depending on when this comes out.
• 54:46
  Where do people buy tickets? Cool.
• 54:48
  Storybro.co.uk. OK it's not cool for cats.
• 54:52
  It's cool story bro. It's cool with AK and what's the
• 54:57
  other show that I did? Stringer versus streaming,
• 55:03
  right? There you go.
• 55:09
  Streaming, yeah. It's like streaming like
• 55:14
  Netflix. Stringer versus streaming, we
• 55:21
  haven't had that before. Oh, I'll take it.
• 55:23
  OK. Yeah, but if you want to buy
• 55:26
  tickets to that, to that same. I then you can't.
• 55:29
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 55:30
  Well, thank you for coming. Thank you for having me.
• 55:33
  Yeah, and good luck with everything.
• 55:35
  I feel like I didn't ask you enough questions.
• 55:36
  But no, you don't need to ask anything.
• 55:39
  The Downton Abbey thing was a nice wow.
• 55:48
  I am really amazed at myself and my guest.
• 55:53
  What a great show. Listen, if you want to keep
• 55:56
  supporting, please watch or listen.
• 55:59
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• 56:08
  or oilier, you know, putting oil.
• 56:12
  Never mind. The question this week is from
• 56:15
  Sarah G. And the G stands for great
• 56:19
  because she says, dear Rich, you're the funniest guy around.
• 56:25
  Ha, ha, ha, ha. Who are you hoping to get as a
• 56:29
  guest in the coming year? I would like to see Reese
• 56:33
  Shearsmith chatting with you. Well, Sarah G, we're going to
• 56:39
  try to get Reese on the show. OK, just for you, if you guys
• 56:44
  have any suggestions of people we want to get, you name it.
• 56:49
  We're also trying to branch out. Not just comics.
• 56:52
  Maybe artists, rock'n'roll singers, maybe people with only
• 57:00
  three legs, I don't know. So anything anything you find
• 57:05
  interesting, I'm going to find interesting.
• 57:08
  And we're going to try to get some comics from the US.
• 57:12
  Maybe. I'm hoping Ron Funches a good
• 57:15
  friend of mine and we'll see. I I don't want to say anything
• 57:21
  too soon, but I just said it. OK.
• 57:24
  All right, Well, listen, enjoy. Thank you.
• 57:27
  Bye. Rich vultures talk box.