1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,280 Prime big deal days is coming October 8th and 9th, which can 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,680 lead to involuntary deal squeals like the infamous deal on a new 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,920 massager squeal. Save big on prime big deal days 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:25,280 October. 8th and 9th. Zippers, welcome to this episode 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,080 of the Tea With Me podcast. With me, your big mate Shane 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,960 Todd. What an episode it's going to 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,320 be. It's a guest episode. 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,000 Very excited about this one. Asked this guy to do an episode 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,240 a few months ago. He was on tour at the time. 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,440 But because of Covad, nobody is doing tours, including myself. 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,440 Make no ones making any money and that's fine. 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,440 I'm wearing a cardigan and then, you know, probably shouldn't be 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,600 because I was wearing it to do a video and I'm too warm in it. 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,880 But then, you know, made the decision to just go with it. 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Although whenever I do the mid podcast at sponsor rate, I 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,520 probably won't have it on. In fact, my face is burning up 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,680 right now and that could be because I'm wearing a cardigan 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,120 or that could be covered. I don't know. 19 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,120 I hope it's just because the cardigan, but zippers welcome 20 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,680 along to the episode. Before we get into it, I'm going 21 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,680 to plug a couple of things. One is the podcast merch. 22 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,800 We've got sweet tea with me merch. 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,280 It's on Shopify. You go on there, Shopify, you 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,680 search for she and talk comedy, Although I've posted it on on 25 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,960 the channels in the about a week ago, but I'll do that again 26 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:23,600 today. And you can get yourself a 27 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,400 zipper's T-shirt, a money to T-shirt. 28 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,000 You can get yourself a tea with me mug and you can just have a 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,440 great time with friends because that's what it's all about. 30 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,640 That's what it's all about. I wore a face mask to the shop 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,360 for the first time this week a couple of days ago. 32 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,040 And then I was like, I'm just going to do this from now. 33 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,040 And then literally the next day I was going to the shop and 34 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,680 forgot to bring it. So what an asshole I am, but I 35 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,680 put a picture of myself up in the mask and then just this guy 36 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:59,120 who I know and he he he's the guy that runs taquitos, the Taco 37 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,520 place, which is phenomenal in Belfast. 38 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,080 And just like a cracking guy I've always had real good fun 39 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,520 with. And it's like been there a 40 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,720 couple times. You know how good chat with him. 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,560 And then I just put up this picture, whatever, saying I just 42 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,760 wore a face mask to the shop and he's like, you're a client. 43 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,440 I was like, why are people getting so annoyed that the 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,880 money toads wearing a face mask to the shops? 45 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,920 I can understand in a way, although I don't know if I can, 46 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,200 people being like, I don't want to be told to wear a mask, but I 47 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,280 don't even do anything. I was just wearing a mask. 48 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,240 I was just wearing a mask because listen, here's the 49 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,560 thing. I'm from north down. 50 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,240 I've been wearing a face mask in public since 2004. 51 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,960 So I think that guy got the wrong end of the stick. 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,480 And don't call Slide to call me a clown just because he's 53 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,480 wearing a mask. I don't know. 54 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,000 I just thought that's what you're supposed to do. 55 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,800 And all these guys, you're like, now you're being muzzled by the 56 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,720 government. Hey, I don't give a fuck. 57 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,480 I need muzzle because I'm a biting bitch. 58 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,120 This bitch bites, so you better watch out. 59 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,320 That's not me threatening to bite the guy that owns taquitos 60 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,000 in Belfast. I just want to let you know the 61 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,760 only thing I want to bite into is your tacos, and that's not 62 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,880 code for anything. I think this cardigan is making 63 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,720 me too warm and it's making me question a lot of stuff. 64 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,840 A lot of stuff. This episode of the pod is with 65 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,960 Tim McGarry. Tim McGarry is known from Give 66 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,280 my Headpiece, The Blame Game, Perforated Ulster, countless 67 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,800 great documentaries about Ulster Scots which I have I think seen 68 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,760 all of and and really enjoyed. Tim is also a stand up as well. 69 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,000 He's a stand up comedian who I've seen many times. 70 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,320 We talk about the fact he did Bug Uglies Dead Elliot's Club a 71 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,600 couple of months before lockdown and just absolutely demolished 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,200 the place. Tim is also just a very, very 73 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,320 nice guy. Like when I first got into stand 74 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,400 up, when you met someone like that who was like a big TV name 75 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,880 you, it was, you know, I would get like not nervous around 76 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,920 them, but you didn't know whether like jump in in 77 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,840 conversation, wherever. Tim's one of those guys. 78 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,880 You just always made you feel very welcome and, you know, out 79 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,800 of gig and, and there's, there's I'm sure instances where people 80 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,800 don't do that. So I've always really liked him. 81 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,880 We talk about loads of different things and I asked him about how 82 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,600 comedy has changed here and the reaction the blame games had or 83 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,440 sorry, get my headpieces hard throughout the year. 84 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,480 So I had a great time talking to him. 85 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:25,760 Tim is a lovely guy and there's a reason why he's still so 86 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,320 prolific on TV and radio and that is because he's very good 87 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,560 at what he does and he's a very nice guy. 88 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,720 So I hope the zippers enjoy this episode. 89 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,000 I think this might be the second last episode before we're back 90 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,200 in the studio, which will be great. 91 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,280 And you don't have to look at my shitty video uploads and we can 92 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,640 get Big Mike back on it. Also before I just just before I 93 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,480 recorded this producer Dan straight away. 94 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,320 When will you have this sent? And I send a picture of me 95 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,680 recording this and he's doing the laughing emoji, cry crying, 96 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,160 laughing emoji. But I think the crying laughing 97 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,600 emoji is code for tears because he's going to make me cry 98 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,680 whenever he tells me that I'm not allowed outside for a month. 99 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:03,880 Hashtag free. Shane. 100 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,640 The other thing I've got to plug is our patreonpatreon.com/tea 101 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,080 With Me podcast. It's all going on over there. 102 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,080 You've got my stand up film from the Waterfront Hall in its 103 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,000 entirety in full HD in full vibrancy. 104 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,480 It's there just for the Patreons. 105 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,960 You get the bonus podcast with me and producer Don every 106 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,960 Monday, which is mainly me asking him why I'm not allowed 107 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,000 to have things anymore and why all my money is not in his name. 108 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,440 And there's just a lot of different things like 109 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,400 merchandise comes out first there exclusive gig news, 110 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,480 there's merchandisegiveawayspatreon.com/TV 111 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,480 podcast. And if you can support the 112 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,760 podcast that way, that's great. But if you could also or just or 113 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,880 not even do this if you want, I don't care. 114 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,240 It'd be great if you could. I do care. 115 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,600 It'd be great if you could go on the Apple podcast and read and 116 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,680 review the pod. That really does help. 117 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,280 Takes but 30 seconds. And I really appreciate that. 118 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,480 And definitely just say money, just say rivet at the end of it. 119 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,640 And let's just help people look at that and go, what's that 120 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,680 about? And yeah, enjoy this episode 121 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,720 with Tim McGarry. I had a lot of fun doing it. 122 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,520 Tim, I've I've, I've said too many Times Now. 123 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,360 It's a great guy. He really is. 124 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,360 Enjoy it. This is Tea with Me episode with 125 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:27,520 Tim McGarry. Tim, my first question for every 126 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,640 guest on the podcast is do you drink tea? 127 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,440 And if So, what is the level of your tea drinking? 128 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,760 I used to drink a lot of coffee, but I'm drinking actual tea as 129 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,920 we speak. Nice from my my favourite, my 130 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,800 son got me a really, really good present, which is the the 131 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,080 Cliftonville mug. That is Jordy McMullen 132 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,520 celebrating scoring the winning goal against Linfield in 2013. 133 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,440 Thirteen April 2013 is just if you're interested. 134 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,600 That's an effect. So I do. 135 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,520 I drink quite a lot of tea. I drink tea and work and when 136 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,800 we're in the office down in David Hall's office, I drink a 137 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,080 lot of tea and drink a lot of tea at home because I have to. 138 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,720 How many cups, Tim, would you say you're on a day and is this 139 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,080 the peak for you tea wise or have you scaled it back? 140 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,960 Well, I've had this idea for a great podcast called Tea with 141 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,120 Tim. You know, because it rains. 142 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,440 Yeah, but you know, I literally. Hear from my lawyers, Tim. 143 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,840 Becker came and stole the idea. But yeah, I like, I like a good 144 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,120 cup of tea. Are you a tea bag, man? 145 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,440 Are you? Are you leaves and all of that? 146 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,480 Are you? Oh definitely not leaves. 147 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,880 I mean, I think I bought them once and then realised I was 148 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,120 just totally out of the depth. I I, I got it wrong. 149 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,400 I bought like a pot for them. But I've just I've gone back to 150 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,760 the bags. I think them, I don't mean to be 151 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,480 rude, but I think you always go back to the bag. 152 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,960 Yeah, You know, you always come crawl back, you know, you know 153 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,520 what you're getting with the bag, so. 154 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,560 It's like all that Mikey Philtre coffee as well, you know, and 155 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,560 all that. No, just, you know, boom, bang 156 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,320 and then whack cup of coffee. There it is. 157 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,360 Yeah. That's it. 158 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,040 We were just chatting briefly before this about the fact that 159 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,560 you've still been sort of working through this and you've 160 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,720 both done sort of radio, TV type stuff during lockdown. 161 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,560 But what's, what's lockdown been like for you? 162 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,200 Are are you used to taking this kind of length of a break? 163 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,160 I imagine you seem like a guy who just never stops, you're 164 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,040 always doing something. So has it been tricky to sort of 165 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,120 set in? Yeah, it has been tricky. 166 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,560 We we lost a hell of a lot. We were on tour with Give Me A 167 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,800 Piece and had done 19 shows. It would. 168 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,680 I think we lost 9 or 10 shows that were sold out and literally 169 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,880 overnight it disappeared. Then a series of the Blame Game 170 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,919 was supposed to start in April and it disappeared. 171 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:36,880 And then there's loads of gigs that just disappeared overnight, 172 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,159 you know, after dinners and corporates and stuff. 173 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,440 So when you go after your freelancer, you're sitting there 174 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,159 twiddling your thumbs and you're always worried if you're a 175 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:46,320 freelancer, you go where's the, where's the next gig? 176 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,840 When is it when you're just completely empty? 177 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,080 On the other hand, I'm quite relaxed and I enjoy sitting out 178 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,400 my back garden reading the paper and doing crosswords and taking 179 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,240 life very easy and not doing an awful lot like reading books and 180 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,960 sit and listening to music and watching crap TV, you know. 181 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,520 So it's been quite enjoyable as well. 182 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,800 But we were able to keep our hand in with some of the, the, 183 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,760 the radio. So we're perfectly Ulster, which 184 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,080 we normally do September, October in front of an audience. 185 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:14,680 They brought it forward and we're in week five I think out 186 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,840 of six and it's been brilliant, been really good for me. 187 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,480 It you say about the blame game, like I would imagine or what I 188 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,480 would I think would be good is like just even seeing you guys 189 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,000 like on Zoom do do the show, just just chatting about maybe 190 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,320 like the last year in politics or something like that. 191 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,400 But it like I had the totally cancel that my tour was supposed 192 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,920 to be September, so I had to cancel it. 193 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,480 But I think that's better than I imagine. 194 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,760 It must be a nightmare as a performer to be halfway through 195 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,000 a tour or. Yeah, or just during it when? 196 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,600 You've got the momentum going and. 197 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,440 Well, that's it. We showed 19. 198 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,400 I actually got my word lines right for the first time, you 199 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,960 know, and we were all having great fun and enjoying 200 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,400 ourselves. And we actually did a night in 201 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,240 arm and there's supposed to be 400 people turned over, which 202 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,320 sold 400 tickets and then 200 people turned up because the 203 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,400 COVID kind of panic had set in. Yeah. 204 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,720 Then the next night, like I just went, no, we can't keep doing 205 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,600 this. So all the shoes we're stuck. 206 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,200 But with blame game and doing it off Zoom. 207 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,120 I don't know. Some of it works in some I've 208 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,520 used. Did you watch my get news for 209 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,120 you? I didn't know if, I don't think 210 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,880 that worked awful lot. You know, I think it does lack 211 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:19,080 an audience. Otherwise you're just four 212 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,880 people laughing at their own jokes, which kind of can be a 213 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,200 bit sad looking. I mean, we do need an audience. 214 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,040 We need an audience reaction. With Perforated, it's different 215 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,080 because we're doing scripts. We actually started off way, way 216 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,520 back in the midst of time when, when you were -3 or whatever. 217 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,200 We, we did it, we did it in studio without, without an 218 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,680 audience. But recently we did it with a, 219 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,080 with a notice. But it's a different animal. 220 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,040 But it's really, we're really pleased with it, I have to say. 221 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,360 But if you have you ever like taking a break? 222 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:50,800 Because to me as a 32 year old guy, I feel like you have been 223 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,720 on my TV, on my radio since I can remember and I don't ever 224 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,520 remember. I just feel like you've always 225 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,840 been doing something always when get you doing Get My Hairpiece, 226 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,600 that's obviously how myself and so many people kind of got to 227 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,280 know you. Then when Get My Hairpiece kind 228 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,560 of went away for a while, it was, it felt to me like straight 229 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,240 into the blame game. See you at the Empire doing 230 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,360 stand up and you must be like constantly, constantly doing 231 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,160 stuff, which is great, but how's a break affected you? 232 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,480 What happened? Pretty good, Yeah, I've been 233 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,280 pretty constant. We've kind of really haven't 234 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,160 been out of work since about what we had it with. 235 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,440 There was a there was a woman in the BBC didn't like us very much 236 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,440 a few a lot of years ago and scrapped everything, which I 237 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,560 don't want to go into because I'll get annoyed and we don't 238 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:35,440 want that. We're all drinking. 239 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,280 Tea. No, we do want that. 240 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,720 Then we want ratings. We want ratings. 241 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,160 But even when we would been scrapped, we were doing gigs, we 242 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,880 were doing drama, we wrote some dramas and stuff as well. 243 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,920 But yeah, you're right. I mean, my wife keeps 244 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,640 complaining we haven't had a decent three-week holiday. 245 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,680 And you last time was with 12 years ago we went on a 246 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,720 three-week holiday. And every summer she goes, well, 247 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,960 what's the correct this summer I go, well, I'll probably be free 248 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,960 and then there's something comes up and something comes up. 249 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,880 So it's hard to plan, but I mean, it's it's nice with I'd 250 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,280 like the variety of the stuff I do. 251 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,560 I'm a very lucky, you know, with the sitcom and give me headpiece 252 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:08,240 with blame game with perforated also. 253 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,280 And then I do as you say, bits of stand up and after dinner 254 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,720 speaking as well. And then do we bits and pieces 255 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,720 like a radio show we do about Irish history with an orange man 256 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,480 called David Hume called the Long and the short of it, which 257 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,920 is the best joke in radio. But nobody gets it. 258 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,680 Can't see him. And he is he's Robin Swans twin 259 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,160 brother. Basically he's a bit the same 260 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,720 right as Robin and as he him come up with the idea of the 261 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,360 title, you know, the long and the short of it. 262 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,600 I'm 6 foot four and he's not. I got my I got my haircut for 263 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,480 the first time today since locked down and I think up until 264 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,680 just the second before I got a cut. 265 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,240 Me and Robin Swan, we're having a competition to see who has the 266 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,760 worst lockdown hair. I mean, it was close between us, 267 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,280 but he just someone needs to have a word. 268 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,480 I don't know if he dies it. I don't know if it's a rug, but 269 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,520 someone needs to speak to him. I mean it get he has a lot on 270 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,560 his plate, but he needs to sort that out. 271 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,360 Like honestly, I don't think anyone would would mind if he 272 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,760 just took a day off. Just get it for him and. 273 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,680 And just have a rest. There's a guy Steer. 274 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:06,880 What do you call him McBride from the what do you call him? 275 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,600 Sam McBride, McBride from the journey from the newsletter and 276 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,600 I haven't seen Sam for weeks and he was on the news the other 277 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,560 night. He looked like he looked like he 278 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:19,240 was on The Dirty protest in the H blocks in the 1970. 279 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,960 He's got this beard down to her and his beard down to her is 280 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,080 absolutely mad. So yeah, there's some people 281 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,200 have taken it very seriously, but I I don't have enough heard 282 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,760 of. I remember, you know, Speaking 283 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,200 of, you know, you always haven't been busy and get my hairpiece 284 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,000 and doing stand up. I remember the first time I saw 285 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,280 you do stand up at the Empire. It was when I first started 286 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,840 doing stand up or I don't even know if I was performing just 287 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,600 yet, but I remember you were, you were doing a guest spot. 288 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,400 You, you maybe filled in. You did a guest spot. 289 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,800 And I remember being like, I didn't know you did stand up. 290 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,160 So it was like, it was like that. 291 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,040 I forget my headpieces. The fact that you did stand up 292 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,080 and I remember just being very excited that I was seeing you, 293 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,360 seeing you doing you. You do stand up. 294 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,920 What do you what do you prefer? Have you ever had a preference 295 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,000 or has it changed over the years? 296 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,200 I. Didn't tell you actually heard 297 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,800 what it was saying. I came out at the other the the 298 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,680 the reverse way. So I came at it from writing and 299 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,800 performing and acting and give me a headpiece. 300 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,800 And then the only thing I started, the only reason I just 301 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,320 started doing stand up was because David Holt promotions 302 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,040 kept getting a sort of quasi corporate gigs to come and open. 303 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,280 You know, Dan Uncle Andy, the open supermarket somewhere. 304 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:26,960 Because we were huge at one stage. 305 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,360 We can all we we did a long call it back. 306 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,720 To tell me. We are. 307 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,880 We opened the whole bars and then they used to the cut a 308 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,840 ribbon, then that hand your microphone and go give us some 309 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,840 of your crack there. Your some of your do your sketch 310 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,760 from the show. So eventually I had to develop 311 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,000 sort of at least sort of 1015 minutes of stuff that did myself 312 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,320 and then it kind of developed from that. 313 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,960 And David Hull, again, one of those great promoters who just 314 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,800 he booked me, genuinely booked me into the Belfast Festival for 315 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,040 an hour and a half show that he said, I've got you a good slot 316 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,720 on the Belfast Festival. I said, what am I doing is I 317 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,520 don't know, you've got, you've got to make up your mind. 318 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,960 So we did this one man show about Irish history called Tim 319 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,360 Mcgarry's Irish History Lesson. And it's the first time I've 320 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,840 done a proper full length show of about an hour. 321 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,400 Well, I did an hour 20 or something like that. 322 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,000 And it was really, really, really delighted with it, you 323 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,720 know, because it's one of those things I, you stand up's great 324 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,800 when you've got a big audience and you, you tell a couple of 325 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:24,600 jokes that, you know, we're kind of warmer uppers. 326 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,400 And you know, they quite like that with a deal with their 327 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,800 reaction to the one that's coming 5 minutes from there 328 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,880 they're going. But you know, there really is no 329 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:33,240 better feeling, I have to say that. 330 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,560 When you did Pug Uglies with the Dave Elliott runs, I think I was 331 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,520 down to watch or do another gig that night. 332 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,600 And you know, you did a headline set and it was for not like it 333 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,920 was so good. And that must be that must be 334 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:54,480 nice to to yeah, have different strings to your bows and and you 335 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,800 know, the pugs is a very, very young crowd. 336 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,160 It's a it's a student crowd and them and God, I just remember 337 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,040 you, you you were doing a top a little bit about Liam Neeson at 338 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,120 the time and I was like this. The people need to like say, 339 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,680 like, I think pugs is the one of the best rooms and it would look 340 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,160 really good to film something in. 341 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,200 But then I just remember being like, that is some great stand 342 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,280 up there. By the way, good idea of yours 343 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,360 to get rid of Dave Elliot. You know, it wasn't working, was 344 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,560 it? I mean, he's is he all right 345 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,800 with the as he because I mean, it seems like a lovely fella. 346 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,240 And then you go, Jesus, that's an awful lot of drugs for one 347 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,440 fella. Yeah, he's had his problems, you 348 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,480 know. We're all, we're all trying to 349 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,680 intervene, but you know, it's. He has his demons. 350 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,600 He has his. Demons, you know, but that's but 351 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,600 he runs a very nice week club there really. 352 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,920 It's a really nice week spot. As you say, it's nice and small. 353 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,880 The crowd are very close to you. The steer the low ceiling helps 354 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,600 and it's just a really nice week. 355 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:50,800 But there's there's lots of them. 356 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,840 I mean I'm or the umpire, of course is the oldest and the 357 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,480 best and all that, but they Lavery's have done Colin 358 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:56,520 Guinness his gig. Oh yeah. 359 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,000 And it's lovely to have a couple of really nice gigs in there, 360 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,560 but I don't, I don't have the same sort of turnover as some of 361 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,880 the other guys would have, you know, on the playing games likes 362 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,440 of Delamere and some Murph and stuff and go out and, you know, 363 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,160 literally make up stuff on the hoof. 364 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,280 And I need to sit down and write it and, you know, plan it and 365 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,920 think about it and try it out and stuff. 366 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,520 I'm not a natural stand up, but I'm, you know, the bits that I 367 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,160 can't do. I really enjoy doing it. 368 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,000 I really, really, really enjoy it. 369 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,839 But I do it a bit in the middle of our stage. 370 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,280 You'll give me a piece. I do about 20 minutes, half an 371 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,120 hour of stand up just so the rest of them come back and put 372 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:33,360 their feet up and have a Peach in a glass of wing and it's 373 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:35,400 well, you know, when, when it works well, there's nothing 374 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,080 better, nothing better. Yeah. 375 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,120 I mean just that the, the, the I've, I've, I mean, I haven't 376 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,800 really done much play type stuff at all or, or stage stuff that 377 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 isn't stand up. But whenever you're sort of 378 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,800 sharing the stage with a lot of people and something gets a 379 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,160 laugh, it's nice, it's great. But when you're doing stand up 380 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,640 and it's just, it's just you. It's just you that's got that 381 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,400 laugh by yourself with. All the glory is yours. 382 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a It was one of the 383 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,120 nicest comedians ever. And Gory, who passed away 384 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:02,680 recently. Sean. 385 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,400 Sean Crummy. Sean Crummy used to be an 386 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,920 impressionist and he does, you know, stuff. 387 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,640 And it was one of the, you know, the comedians. 388 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,840 Comedians, all bastards. OK, we're all ego tests. 389 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,880 We're all going to, you know, some comedians step backstage 390 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,440 and if Shane toads or and he dies on his whole, we all go 391 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:22,640 great endlessness. Sean Crummy used to stand out 392 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,280 the spine of the stage and go fantastic. 393 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,000 You were brilliant and the best. I genuinely wanted everybody to 394 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,200 be funny. And that's kind of the attitude 395 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:29,960 I've now developed. 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Use the code Tea with me. 441 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,000 Back to the podcast with my man Tim McGarry. 442 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,440 I I would love to see a stand up show. 443 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,200 I mean, since I mean I've been standing for like 13 years now, 444 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,280 I think, and then I've never seen from here. 445 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,720 I don't think like a stand up TV series. 446 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,000 I mean, I would I I know they there has been in the past, like 447 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,040 people have told me about it or there was this show in the 90s 448 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,240 that was from the Empire and there was this kind of thing. 449 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,840 I think now I don't know what your opinion on this is, but I 450 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,840 think the stand up scene, now I might be biassed, but I think 451 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,040 it's like it's so, so good. The stand up scene here now the 452 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,200 even the, you know, the likes of Laveries, the likes of Pug 453 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,800 Uglies and stuff like that. I think pound for pound, it's in 454 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,120 the 13 years I've been doing it, it's the best that it's ever 455 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:37,520 been. So I would love to see live TV, 456 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,640 not live, but as live stand up show and and have just a real 457 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,760 mix of people on there. I don't know why that's not 458 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,000 happened. Well, I'm, I'm lucky that I'm 459 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,920 old enough now to do to, you know, not to worry about having 460 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,200 to struggle and do gigs every weekend. 461 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,640 But you're right that the scene here has got a lot bigger and a 462 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,160 lot better. And there's a lot of acts I 463 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,640 haven't seen or I've only seen once, but all the likes of Patty 464 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,920 Mcgahee working up in Ballymena there in the bridge. 465 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,480 I mean, Patty does great week gigs and I always him because, 466 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,440 as you know, he's the nicest man in show business. 467 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,200 Like Robbie has dead cats in the basement. 468 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,320 You know, he's a lovely guy. So I do the braid for him to 469 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,040 come and there's people, you know, that I that he's brought 470 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,520 on and he's a guy who's just doing it for nothing as well. 471 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,920 And there's a really nice just, you know, just want to get out 472 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,680 there and try, try to be funny, which is great. 473 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,880 How's the how's the scene changed? 474 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,760 Not just stand up, but like if you want to call it the comedy 475 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,480 scene here in terms of TV as well. 476 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,360 What what year did? What year did you start? 477 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,640 Like when when when when did you get into everything? 478 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,200 Well we were, we were full time lawyers. 479 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,160 I became a full time comedian in 1996. 480 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,440 Well, but before that we were doing stuff in Edinburgh 481 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,720 Festival in the late 80s, early 90s where big break was 482 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,560 Talkback. We did a live 5 minutes up a 483 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,960 good slot on Talkback from 1990 Odd and then got a radio break 484 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,760 up in the days when lots of people listen to radio. 485 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,320 And we did a couple of live shows from the group theatre and 486 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,320 it took off from there. And from this, from being on the 487 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,000 radio. What happened was we'd normally 488 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,040 had 30 or 40 people come to see our shows and then being on 489 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,960 Talkback, which has a listenership of a couple 490 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,040 100,000, suddenly the theatre was falling when this is quite 491 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,720 different. So we've been sort of full time 492 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,000 at it, well from from 1996, but it was completely down with 493 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,360 certainly the lady in these early 90s. 494 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,600 There was very little, there was the big boom across the border 495 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,240 and we were kind of got the, the, the very, very tail end of 496 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,680 it. And it was Jackie Hamilton 497 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,520 again, starting up the Empire with Paddy and you, then Murph 498 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,240 and Jacob Kane coming on the scene as well that started. 499 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,680 But again, up until recently, there weren't very many 500 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,160 comedians. You know, there really weren't 501 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,720 up until the last 10 years. You know, yourself and Colin get 502 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,680 us and various people. And Mickey Bartlett you have a 503 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,040 lot of time for as well. You know that they were kind of 504 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,520 the second wave, but now it's just got bigger and bigger and 505 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,880 it's great to see. Yeah. 506 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,840 Have you noticed that? Like do you feel it's it's sort 507 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,720 of gone up and down in terms of quality, the stand up scene or 508 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,320 do you think it's gradually even getting better or when when for 509 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,160 you was the best time? Well, obviously the, the, the 510 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,320 subject matter has changed since the end of the troubles and all 511 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,120 that sort of stuff. But the, there is, I think there 512 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,560 is, there is a standard. I think the second way of like, 513 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,920 as I say yourself and Mickey Barton and various other people, 514 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,600 they come on the scene. I think the new ones, they have 515 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:20,960 a have a have a different standard. 516 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,320 I think also culturally things have changed dramatically. 517 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,680 I mean, you, you would you and various other people would be 518 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,080 massive fans of the American comedians that we wouldn't. 519 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,520 Oh yeah, really. Have, you know, known about at 520 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,000 our time, I mean, I was a great fan of Woody Allen's club years. 521 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,160 Listen to Woody Allen's early, early, sexy, great stuff. 522 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,720 But I mean, our, our touchstones, you know, we were 523 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,440 things like Monty Python early on. 524 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,160 And then in the late 80s, early 90s, you're talking about the 525 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,360 likes of, you know, the people from the Comedy Store and stuff 526 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:51,920 like that. And so we didn't really get into 527 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,440 the amount we were kind of, well, there's always a bit of 528 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,040 cultural cringe here in Northern Ireland. 529 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,680 We're we're kind of, we're too destined from London in those 530 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,440 days, you know, we were thinking, Oh yes, we'd like to 531 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,440 be like those comedians over in England who have the likes of 532 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,800 Eddie Izzard and people like that. 533 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,840 That's our our goal. But I think now there's so much 534 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,320 stuff online. There's so much stuff that's 535 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,280 accessible. Do you that wasn't accessible 536 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,080 when, you know, when I was a youngster that I think it has 537 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,840 improved everybody because you can see that the standard has to 538 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,800 be very, very high. What was the start of Give my 539 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,400 Headpiece because get my headpiece is one of the fun 540 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,920 things I look back on whenever I kind of first would have been 541 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,360 like watching TV whenever I remember sort of watching a 542 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,360 series. So I was born in 88. 543 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:37,160 I don't know what age I would have been would get my be 544 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,360 started, but it was my Friday night ritual at my granny and 545 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:44,840 granda's house in a place called White City in Hollywood, which 546 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,720 is a which is kind of the only council of state in Hollywood. 547 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,200 I mean, still plush them, you know, still like 99 bedrooms, 548 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,320 but but I just. Just on with golf clubs, yeah. 549 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:02,680 Yeah, I just remember Friday night sitting with them watching 550 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,120 the Kelly Show and and get my headpiece. 551 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:10,520 And I remember just being so excited that the they you you 552 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,120 talk like us. You know, that that that this 553 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:15,520 was a show that was about the place that I was from. 554 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,760 And I remember being very young and just just cracking up. 555 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,400 And and it could even be something as simple as like a 556 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,360 vote, like the first time I heard and Patty do Pastor 557 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,800 Begby's voice. I was gone for days. 558 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,320 I was gone for days. And and there was always that 559 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,160 thing. If you know, you would chat to 560 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,440 your mates in the playground about it, even though you're 561 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,680 very young, you know, did you see it? 562 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,640 What about this bit and not bit actually had the video out of 563 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,520 video would give my head piece, which I remember watching a lot 564 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,200 and yeah. How did how did it all start? 565 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,760 Because I think it's something that them it's such a big 566 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,200 cultural thing here and there is so much love for it. 567 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,920 And especially I think when it, when it came back, I think I, I 568 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,640 appreciated more the fact that it, it had such a place and, and 569 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,280 still does on, on our screens here. 570 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,920 Because like, to be totally honest, I fell into a thing of 571 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,640 being like a frustrated kind of young comedian. 572 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,520 I was like, why are me and my friend? 573 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,280 This was maybe 8-9 years ago. I was thinking, why are me and 574 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,440 my friends not on TV? Now, with hindsight, there was 575 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,880 no way we were ready to do anything on television. 576 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,400 But, but now you kind of go, you know, this is this, people 577 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,960 absolutely love it. And there's there is an 578 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,720 nostalgia thing, but then there's also like a a topical 579 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,440 aspect to it as well. I'm rambling but what I'm saying 580 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,440 is. Yeah. 581 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,400 Dave, Dave, give me some gear. So how did you? 582 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,160 Sleep mate, you have not any. Sleep. 583 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:50,480 So at the same time. How did how did you get my 584 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,280 hairpiece? Start. 585 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,120 Thank you for your very nice question. 586 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:57,120 I fucking forgot what was now. It started a way, way back when 587 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,480 we did live shows and it started as a one off sketch literally 588 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,640 about the bad Northern Ireland TV plays and dramas that were 589 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,520 about the troubles with people with English accents doing bad 590 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,320 versions. And it was a sketch that's. 591 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,640 Interesting. Too late to talk to Billy and 592 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,880 Patty about love across the barricades in the terror 593 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,720 triangle. And it took the piss out of all 594 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,760 those pathetic tropes, you know, about love across the barricade. 595 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,960 And we, we made it to men, of course and stuff. 596 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760 And then everybody was happy and then there was a bomb and they 597 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,640 all, why can't it all be like Carrie, Mila? 598 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,960 And this, this was our kind of finale sketch at the end of our, 599 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,000 you know, half hour, 40 minute routine. 600 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,880 And it always brought the house thing brilliant. 601 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,880 And we when we started the radio, we got a radio series and 602 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:38,760 we thought there's something in that. 603 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,640 We can maybe make that into a one off soap. 604 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,040 So we made 1/2 hour version of that sort of play and just took 605 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,600 the piss out of all the, all the English accents and stuff like 606 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,840 that. And then that radio series won a 607 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,160 Sony Award for best radio comedy and then developed from there 608 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,040 and eventually Law. And again, you talk about, you 609 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,280 know, doing it, you know, seven or eight years ago, where am I? 610 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,640 Not on TV. It took us about 10-12 years to 611 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,280 get on the telly from where we'd started. 612 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,880 But but 1995, we did 2 ceasefires in a wedding and we 613 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,600 thought it was a one off. We were going to do this as a 614 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:09,800 one off. I remember that. 615 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,480 We've taken the taking the piss out of all the thing and it was 616 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,560 Martin Lynch, the playwright came to one of our one of my 617 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,800 writing colleagues, Michael McDonald says you've got a soap 618 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,240 opera there. You've got a soap opera. 619 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,400 You've got the characters. You know, it's you know, it's 620 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,760 very stereotypical and there's the broadside and the Catholic, 621 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,640 but you've got a soap opera. You've got the basis of the of 622 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,720 all six or seven core characters. 623 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,440 And it kind of went off from there. 624 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,560 And I mean, you're very kind of thank you very much for saying. 625 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,200 I mean, it was definitely what the thing about the success was. 626 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,360 It was definitely full pitch of the Northern Ireland audience 627 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,560 for Northern Ireland and we didn't give a shit about anybody 628 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,240 down or anybody in England or anybody. 629 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,040 We just went, we know who our audience is. 630 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,080 It's for Northern Ireland now. It was hugely successful in 631 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,440 Northern Ireland but nobody outside Northern Ireland, no one 632 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,960 gets it or understands it. You know, if it had been in 633 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,960 England, I would have been a fucking multi millionaire. 634 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,800 I wouldn't have to buckle ecstasy into board on a free 635 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,640 podcast. I mean, you'd be speaking to my 636 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,840 agent, my friend, because at one stage we were getting 4050% 637 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,360 audience here. I mean it's ridiculous, you 638 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,040 know, which is basically half the people watching TV at any 639 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,880 particular time. We're watching that programme, 640 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,440 which is great, but it was kind of a happy accident and the 641 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,920 mixture of, you know, I'm in a writing team of three people, 642 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,760 Damon, Michael and myself, and we knock stuff about and we 643 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,520 because we work in a real world as a threesome. 644 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,440 There's kind of there's we're prolific, which we can be very 645 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,120 quick, but we also have instant editing. 646 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,440 So if I come up with a joke and I think this is a great joke and 647 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,920 the other two go, no, it's crap. It's not in and just kind of 648 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,600 it's done and dusted and I don't go off down a, you know, a 649 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,840 rabbit hole, go my joke and my ideas. 650 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,000 You got instant editing and you know, if somebody comes out the 651 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000 line that makes the three, it was all laugh, you go right, 652 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,720 that's in no matter what. So we are fairly quick. 653 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,000 So we can write, for instance, A perforated lobster, we'll write 654 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,840 it, you know, 1/2 hour in about two or three days. 655 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,040 All right. OK, I mean that. 656 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,280 Good stuff, but give me a headpiece episode we could 657 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,760 write, you know, and basically about a week or so, or a week or 658 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,280 two weeks at most. That that's very, very 659 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,440 interesting makes you know, that's so funny to me that 660 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,440 almost you're saying like, get my headpiece started as a parody 661 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,760 of what was already out there, what was already happening. 662 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,560 Like that's, that's great. And I mean just the just some I 663 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,600 I just remember being in my granny grandma's house and just 664 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,200 his all of us hysterically laughing and and enjoying it. 665 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,280 And then this may be just my perception of this, but when you 666 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,720 did the schedule dry your eyes very well known at the time, 667 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,040 popular at the time, but it feels like because of a lot of 668 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,200 social media clips that have really gone viral with it. 669 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,680 There's almost like being like a delayed second wave of it where 670 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,800 people, people are kind of re sharing it and going like, you 671 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,520 know, what was it like? Like I see young people sharing 672 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,600 it who who when it was on wouldn't have been watching TV. 673 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,800 Well, there's just we were really proud to give a dry rise 674 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,040 again, go back to earlier conversation about the person 675 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,720 who didn't like us and scrapped everything. 676 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:56,760 Didn't like me either by the way. 677 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,880 Yeah. There was supposed to be a third 678 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,320 series of that and it got decommissioned, shall we say. 679 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,040 But we were. I mean, the remit for that was 680 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,640 very simple. It was kind of, you know, you've 681 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,360 done your trouble stuff, you know, have characters from here 682 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,320 and very set here, but it's not about no politics or anything. 683 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,320 You know, there's Derek the Linfield fan. 684 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,080 That's Eddie's a Linfield fan. He's a basic slobber who who's 685 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,840 countries, countries is, is a by fuck, you know, in the matter 686 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,040 where he is, you know, you know, we yeah, there's a couple of 687 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,120 clips that were really with the the one where he the the Islamic 688 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,880 Jihad tried to take over the plane and stuff and the bank 689 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,360 robbery, you know, and nothing get in the way of his holiday in 690 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,440 Santa Paul's it. I think my my personal favourite 691 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,000 was the the sketch the Marty McCanns and Marty's Good Friend 692 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,160 and the Holy Land. The Holy Land Sketch. 693 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,320 Oh, yes, yes. Just just so good, so good. 694 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,120 Is dry rice something you would you would you would ever bring 695 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,560 back? Well, we would, we would 696 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,720 possibly bring it back. Yeah, because we would 697 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,480 definitely like to. I mean, there were some legs in 698 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,520 it. I mean, we, our other favourite 699 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,800 characters were the Mcdowell's, you know, the, the motorbike, 700 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,640 you know, the mad motorcyclists. Yeah, definitely somewhat on the 701 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,720 McDowell, but on the, on the Dunlops. 702 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,520 But I mean, it's, it's lasted as well. 703 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,000 I mean, that word just exists. And we had great fun, you know, 704 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,320 just taking that. Absolutely. 705 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,480 Anyway, great fun. The two two mad McDowell 706 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,160 brothers, you know. Yeah, I mean, my dad was a was a 707 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,600 road racer for decades and and those characters always, always 708 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,160 made us laugh, you know, because, yeah, you know, you 709 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,200 know, boys like that who are beyond obsessed with their bikes 710 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,560 and and yeah, I thought dry, dry your eyes was great. 711 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,360 And Pop goes Northern Ireland 2 is I don't think I missed an 712 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,760 episode. We're very, I mean, it's a 713 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,040 different animal altogether, but we're genuinely very, very proud 714 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,360 of it because it started off as a kind of five part series and 715 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,920 we did five of them and then people went, that's actually 716 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,200 quite good. And you know, if you don't want 717 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,200 to know your history of Northern Ireland, pick a year. 718 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,040 And there it is in half an hour on and away. 719 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,120 We made a very wise decision at the start. 720 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,120 So this is all archive. There's nobody from today 721 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,560 talking about what they did in the past or just defend 722 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,040 themselves or coming back and say I would have did that 723 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,480 because or I said that because you know, that's what you said 724 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,840 in 1975 and that's what you did in 1982 and all that. 725 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,480 And you know that the stuff just speaks for itself and the music, 726 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:11,719 you know, we've we've no comment. 727 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,760 We've no more with just the music of the time and we're 728 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,040 really delighted with that. And you know, don't want to get 729 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,400 too pointed about it, but we've done a lot of work with the 730 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,159 victims group. We have who I've worked with 731 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,320 because we had to contact a lot of people and say listen, you 732 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,679 know, no harm, but you know, we're making a programme. 733 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:28,840 If you're watching TV on a Sunday night, you might find 734 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,239 yourself walking behind your dad's coughing or something. 735 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,320 A lot of sensitivity involved and a lot of going to Victoria. 736 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,320 And we ended up, we did a lot of contact with Wave, the victims 737 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,239 group and the great people there, Alan McBride and us, lots 738 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,480 of people who have worked with, they're just Absolutely Fabulous 739 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,520 and have been really supportive. And in fact, you know, we 740 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,760 thought we'd get an awful lot more crap because you know what 741 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,560 Northern Ireland, like people have around no matter what, but 742 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,600 virtually nothing. You know, we've only had the, 743 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,880 you know, the only thing we had to change and the entire thing 744 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,480 we had, we did the 1969 year 19 is the start of the Troubles, 745 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,960 you know, very controversial. And the only thing we had to 746 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,200 change a year later was the end of 1969, we had Rolf Harris 747 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:14,000 singing 2 Little Boys and then and then the BBC said that we'll 748 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,880 have to edit that off has to go not. 749 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,200 Too too many, too many, the red. That's all thing. 750 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,320 But Ross. Has to go. 751 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:30,640 Take your didgeridoo and jog on. What did you ever have? 752 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaking like controversy and stuff and reaction to things. 753 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,680 Whenever whenever. Give my head piece was was kind 754 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,280 of was first on or or was like, like you say, getting that big 755 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,800 audience share. What was the sort of day-to-day 756 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,600 reaction you were getting on the street? 757 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,280 Because I have seen multiple times. 758 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,520 And then I'd say the gig that you're at or whatever and just 759 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,320 people in unison just shouldn't die. 760 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,240 Just just it's like an involuntary thing. 761 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,560 I don't think anyone knows you're doing it, but just people 762 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,200 wanting a thumbs up or whatever. Like people know you as almost 763 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,360 like the, the, yeah, like the nations die in, in a way, as 764 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,480 well as the other stuff you've done. 765 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,600 So what? What was the? 766 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,800 What was the reaction when when that was kind of happening? 767 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,360 And 1st going on pretty part now they have to say, I mean, I'm 768 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,680 not, I'm not this isn't North Korea. 769 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,920 There's a lot of people hate that show with a passion and 770 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,400 they understand. I can understand. 771 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,800 They go, listen, this is cliche and they're cartoon characters 772 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,800 and you know, our acting is, you know, could be a well start to 773 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,000 the start was a bit rookier that it could have should have been. 774 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,480 And there are people who hate it and I go absolutely fine. 775 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,960 I don't know. But you know, like that word 776 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,280 like if you don't like, it's not for you. 777 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,760 Absolutely be fine. But the reaction early on, it 778 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,360 took a couple of series actually it was started well, but the 779 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,040 third series it just went, you know, from through the roof. 780 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,800 And I think people start to realise where we were coming 781 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,120 from, realising where we're weren't coming from one side, 782 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,440 realising we haven't got an agenda and realising you were 783 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,920 just here to entertain you and tell you jokes and make you 784 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,040 laugh at a friend. And, you know, if it wasn't for 785 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,000 you, fine, it wasn't for you. Don't worry about it. 786 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,760 But the reaction was very there was a bit of political. 787 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,040 There were a few people saying, oh, you can't make fun of the 788 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,400 Troubles and this is too serious, you know, and you go, 789 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,480 well, you'll catch a grip. You know there's mash that a 790 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,560 series set in the fucking Korean War. 791 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,560 You know, when we were only the Northern Ireland Troubles. 792 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,800 Plus it was I mean everybody, the piss was taken out of 793 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,920 everyone of every side equally. There was no, there was no angle 794 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,240 to it. It was just every everything's 795 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:18,880 up for everything's up for a laugh here. 796 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,960 I mean, I mean those are the old days, but every when the people 797 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,520 in London were started to get interested in and go, you know, 798 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,560 how many Catholics and Protestants are in the group and 799 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,320 all that you go, we get off and leave us alone. 800 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,160 But you know, but there was a semblance of fairness. 801 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,760 There wasn't we didn't go right. We've done 3 jokes and Uncle 802 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,200 Andy said we'll have to even add up and do that being the other 803 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,000 side. But the reaction was been really 804 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,640 good. But I, you did a thing, I think 805 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,960 one of your podcaster. I think that's what the modern 806 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,840 world is. I think slightly less, it's less 807 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,040 comfortable than it was even in our time during the Troubles 808 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,600 because there's so much crap online. 809 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,040 I think you do the thing about the Belfast Telegraph where you, 810 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,840 you know, there's an article about, you know, pot plants and 811 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,800 44 messages down. It's by the way, what about 812 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,840 Bloody Sunday? And you didn't get there to go 813 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,760 back. You go, sorry, we're talking 814 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,840 about pot plants, tweets and go, what the hell happened here? 815 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,400 And there's a lot of that online and you know, which is really 816 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,960 quite depressing, which is why, you know, you know, it's part of 817 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,360 me goes, we've been doing get my head piece and taking piss out 818 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,480 of sectarianism for a long time. I do a lot of work for the 819 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:23,040 integrated education firm and the and the idea is basically, 820 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,440 would you put me out of work? I don't want to let's not tell 821 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,120 any more jokes about frauds and take let's all live together. 822 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,480 Let's all go to school together and we don't have to have these 823 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,360 bloody stupid differences. Yes, yeah. 824 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,080 I mean the integrated education funds, great. 825 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,240 Like I did the gig in London, I went to see you guys do it, do 826 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,760 the gig this year and. On the Ulster Hall, yeah. 827 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,360 In the Ulster Hall, which was, which was brilliant, by the way. 828 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,920 I mean, you know, I, I, I was so used to just doing like the 829 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,400 student gigs to doing my own shows that I realised it was 830 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,480 that it had been so long since I'd just gone to a comedy night. 831 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,240 They just said and enjoy it went down with my wife and God, I 832 00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:02,320 mean, I'm I'm so used to like to not see and you guys do stand up 833 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,960 too often, you know, because sometimes you go to your comedy 834 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,000 club, you just drop into your set and then you leave. 835 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,360 But I was able to really just sit back and enjoy it and it was 836 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,120 just 10 out of 10. It was great. 837 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,040 Really, really good night. Also Barnes. 838 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,760 Good night. I think that's the night you, 839 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,120 your your child was conceived. It must have been. 840 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:19,840 You think so? Work that out, I think. 841 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:24,720 Yeah, you've seen Tim McGarry and you go and I need them. 842 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,080 I'm pretty sure the dates work out there by right there. 843 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,880 I mean, that was, that was such a great night. 844 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,960 But the highlight of the night, I'm starting to say for me, was 845 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,120 Baroness Mayblood. Oh yeah. 846 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,240 She got up on stage. I was like, oh, no, like, does 847 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:43,720 she need help getting up on stage? 848 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,960 I thought she was like, you know, some sort of timid older 849 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,800 lady who was just going to say thank you to everyone. 850 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,440 She started, like, doing a set and she was bringing the house 851 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,400 down. Just a complete savage. 852 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,080 I am I that's reminded me that at the time I was like, I would 853 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,360 love to do a podcast with her because she then I did a little 854 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,520 bit of reading about her and what an interesting life she's. 855 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,400 She's a brilliant woman, you know, no matter what, if you're 856 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,680 on the same side as far as Mayblood, you're on the right 857 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,120 side. I always say, you know, she's a 858 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,200 great woman. Very. 859 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,040 But she doesn't doesn't like all the bad language and the rude 860 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,960 bits that people do, you know, to tell you either. 861 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,240 Yeah, very much. But, you know, cut that right, 862 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:20,480 you know. Yes, yes. 863 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,440 But she has, I mean, she's been through a lot, but she's just as 864 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,920 a strong woman. Oh, definitely, definitely. 865 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,320 But just bringing it back to that kind of thing of, you know, 866 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,160 some people hate the show and and like any comedy, like I put 867 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,600 a video, yes, of course you're going to get people who hate it 868 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,960 and want for some reason or adamant that they want to tell 869 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,920 you that. But we we had a kind of thing 870 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:48,680 where I did an interview for The Sunday Times, which was such a 871 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,320 big deal in the made time. I was like, this is great. 872 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,080 Then it was all about kind. I think I was doing my first 873 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,560 Ulster Hall show. So it was supposedly just about 874 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,120 that and a little bit about the local comedy scene. 875 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,720 And then and it was, you know, recorded on like a dictaphone 876 00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:06,960 and went back and forth and and I was asked about about getting 877 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,840 my hairpiece. You know, the guy was very much 878 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,640 like, so you know, what do you think I got where he was trying 879 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,960 to take me with it. And then, you know, I at that 880 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,160 point, this was four years ago, maybe this you might remember 881 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,280 it. And I, I said, like the thing I 882 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,760 want to see on TV is, is new comedy alongside the established 883 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,480 stuff that's there. So, you know, I would love to 884 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,520 see get my headpiece on a 10, but at half 10 or 11, I'd love 885 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,080 to see like a new comedy show. And of course I'd want to be in 886 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,360 it. But if I wasn't, I would just 887 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,920 love to see that new scene being represented. 888 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,360 And I was like, you know, it's a the shows and institution said 889 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,840 the same thing. I told you about watching it 890 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,400 with my granny and granda and how much I enjoyed it. 891 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,680 And then that article came out and I was buzzing to like read 892 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,600 it and open it up. And I was beyond misquoted and 893 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,880 so embarrassed. And I could tell that the guy 894 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,040 that wrote it had like an agenda, had a, you know, was 895 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,200 adamant that he was going to get in the point that he wanted to 896 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,040 save it almost used me to do it. So I had to, I was straight on 897 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:08,840 to you. And I was like, listen, this is 898 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,960 this was I was glad it was recorded because I was like 899 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,920 under pressure. I was like, I would never want 900 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,760 anyone to think I would. Yeah, slobber. 901 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,680 You know, almost. I wouldn't worry about it, but I 902 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:21,760 mean, journalists do that anyway. 903 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,240 But I mean, we've never had genuinely never had a good 904 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,000 review. Forgive me, Headpiece never has. 905 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,560 A reviewers here are pretty bad. And I mean, they don't review 906 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,360 comedy here, and they should be. There's enough comedy out there 907 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,160 for people to go. Yeah, no, never get that. 908 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,840 Should be, should be looked at, you know, and they like Paddy 909 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,720 Ralph and all that sort of stuff that's coming up and you go, 910 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:41,520 bloody hell. This is the different vibrant 911 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,720 scene here. Let's look at this but don't 912 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,120 worry about that at all, but we have never and The Sunday Times 913 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,240 was again The Sunday Times you really has every time for the 914 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:50,520 first few years. Give me a piece. 915 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,320 He just spent every year there's a new series. 916 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,600 He just give it a kick and he just he got a baseball bat and 917 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,880 he just this is crap and these are cartoon characters and 918 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,760 pantomime and it's crap. What according to Northern 919 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,080 Ireland prosthetic and you go after a you got you got annoyed 920 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,240 the first time, but the second time you got the S and then when 921 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:10,200 you just go like that's fine. It's that your opinion? 922 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,040 What I couldn't believe was I then said to him, and I was 923 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,200 like, you recorded this. Like, you know, I didn't say 924 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,480 that. And he was like, yeah, you're 925 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,600 you're right. Couldn't believe it. 926 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,560 That's like don't say I said it you. 927 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:28,480 Know, but yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, there is an element of 928 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,720 this where you're, you know, there is an ego involved in 929 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,960 being a being a comedian, but there's all you've got to take, 930 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,080 you know, criticism. You got to accept criticism. 931 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,720 And no matter what you're doing, no matter how brilliant you are, 932 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:39,360 you're the best you in the world, there's still people 933 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,000 going to hit you no matter what you're selling their stadiums. 934 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,240 You're Kevin Bridges or whatever. 935 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,960 And sometimes comedians take themselves too far, as you say. 936 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:48,480 Kevin Bridges told us this great story. 937 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,920 He was on the he was on the the blame game one time, a couple of 938 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,560 times and he was on the he said he sold out this stadium and it 939 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,720 went fucking great. The standing ovation at the end, 940 00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:59,000 except for one guy who was sitting at the front row just 941 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,040 with his arms folded like that and didn't smile or anything. 942 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,320 And when he walked off the stage, he caught this guy's eyes 943 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,320 and the guy was sitting and he said it took me a day. 944 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,560 So there were 10,000 people cheering me to the rafters. 945 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,680 This guy going to annoyed me. What's wrong with him? 946 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,400 Why is he not laughing? What's on my head? 947 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,120 I don't know what's happened to this man's life or where. 948 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,040 Yeah, you definitely do. We could have annoyed, you know, 949 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,680 Dave Village dealer or whatever. You know, Dave couldn't pay. 950 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,880 He could have an awful day. And just remember, he was 951 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,480 spending two minutes before he caught his eye and he's tired 952 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,200 and he's like, no, he said. That fucking annoyed me for a 953 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,160 week. The worst? 954 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,120 The worst thing is when you do see someone like that and you're 955 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,440 chatting to them after and you know someone you'd be like you 956 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:42,840 are you OK? Like is everything right? 957 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,560 The person. I'm just I'm not a laugher. 958 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,080 You know, you go well, don't come to my shows ever again. 959 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,600 I don't need you here. I need I need laughers. 960 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,640 You know I need laughers. Did you ever have a did you ever 961 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,800 have a hairy moment with with get my headpieced with a gig 962 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,960 like after a show like ever? Like, did you ever have a quiet 963 00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:02,600 word like anything like that walking home to the car? 964 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,720 We we had a few complaints about some of the stuff we did in a 965 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:07,760 live show. But the the only time we felt 966 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,680 really bad was we did a show up in Derry one time and the the 967 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,960 situation there was a March and it was very controversial. 968 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,360 There was a huge rat and Derry and the tension was very high 969 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,640 and we were doing the taking the piss out of the Provost and 970 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,400 Gerry Adams and stuff, and they didn't get it. 971 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,240 They thought we were being serious. 972 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,960 So instead of, you know, laughing at these, you know, we 973 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,520 we have this this band called Jerry and the peacemaker, you 974 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,240 know, and Jerry was, you know, doing these wolf tone song and 975 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:35,720 instead of, you know, going that's very funny. 976 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:36,920 They went fucking right. Yeah. 977 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,800 And we go no, no, no, no, you're missing the point. 978 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,800 This is satire. We're we're having a go with 979 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,840 that. No, no, no, not, no, not up the 980 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,240 rat, no. And it was really clear the only 981 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:54,600 time the message isn't getting through here. 982 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,240 Oh, that's, yeah, that's, that's enjoyable. 983 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,720 I mean, like, like you say about, you know, social media 984 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,960 and and this sort of new thing of people, well, it's not new at 985 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,080 all. People getting into the 986 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:10,240 sectarian arguments. It is madness that that that's 987 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,760 the and it's not a generational thing because my generation to, 988 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,840 you know, the whole just getting into that so quickly. 989 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,120 And when you look at the likes of the Belfast Telegraph comment 990 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,760 section, you see this. I don't know if everyone who 991 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,480 does it is into it. I think a lot of it is, you 992 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,400 know, faceless people is troll accounts and that's pretty 993 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,360 prevalent like right now on social media with like, I don't 994 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,960 know, fold like the loud flag thing, but all that. 995 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,560 And and that's kind of the only thing where I will always 996 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,800 respect like someone like getting on stage, Tim McGarry 997 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,880 getting on stage, you can see your face, you're standing over 998 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,600 your jokes. But now it's possible for anyone 999 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,800 to to to just be anonymous and do that kind of thing. 1000 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,440 And I. The problem is a lot of people 1001 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,960 are taking themselves too seriously and that's you know, 1002 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,080 you always have a sense of your own ridiculousness. 1003 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,440 As my late father used to say, calm down. 1004 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,680 And what I've learned a lesson. Sometimes I used to engage with 1005 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,120 people on Twitter and something go no, no, don't just always be 1006 00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,160 nice. Always been AI had a Meg 1007 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,520 birthday was recently and there are lots of people sent me very 1008 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,760 nice messages from a birthday and some guy kind of said ah, 1009 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,400 but what about Brexit and went in this rant about Brexit. 1010 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,040 I go under bastards and blahdy blah instead of getting 1011 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,240 aggression to this. Thanks very much for your 1012 00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:22,640 message. I think you've missed the mood 1013 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,760 of the thread, Sir. All right, Sir, you've misread 1014 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,640 the room here, you know, but the bet I haven't said that. 1015 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,600 The best quote quote I think I should put on my posters from 1016 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:34,840 there. When I did the Irish History 1017 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,600 show and out on TV and it was the early days of Twitter 10 1018 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,880 years ago and there were people calling ISIS crap and then some 1019 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,960 people said it was brilliant. And then I got the best quote 1020 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,320 ever. This guy said watching Tim 1021 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,240 Mcgarry's Irish history lessons and not a shape as I thought it 1022 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:51,160 would be. Which Northern Ireland is the 1023 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,440 highest of praise? It's four stars, that's. 1024 00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:01,400 Put that in The Sunday Times. Oh yeah, I mean it. 1025 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,880 I think I took longer than I should have to get that point 1026 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,240 of, you know, you are going to get criticised and you know, 1027 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:10,680 it's other people's insecurities. 1028 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,640 Obviously you will get people who do genuinely think it 1029 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,200 should, but it gets to the point now where you kind of just you 1030 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,760 kind of worry about the sort of people who would take their time 1031 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,720 to yeah, to do that kind of thing. 1032 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,080 Trying to make you feel. Bad. 1033 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,600 Yeah, and I think just being polite and not reacting kills 1034 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,320 them a bit. So. 1035 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,360 So yeah, the other. Thing is, you should sorry, you 1036 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,840 should always there can be some good criticism. 1037 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,160 You can you always got to be careful about your work and not 1038 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,760 be complacent and go well, hang on, am I, you know, have they 1039 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,520 got a point here is that, you know, we, as I say, we're very 1040 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,360 lucky in the whole of war game. There's three of us who do all 1041 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:45,680 the writing. Forgive me a piece. 1042 00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:47,080 I write the stand up and stuff on me. 1043 00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,360 One writer, Paul Gamble, who helps me blame game stuff for 1044 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,000 doing me on. But for, you know, we have our 1045 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,720 built in kind of editorial policy, but we also have to be 1046 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,720 very strict with ourselves and go guys, this is all right, but 1047 00:48:57,720 --> 00:48:59,000 it's not great. We have an order. 1048 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,600 Go with this, you know, give another pass of that. 1049 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,880 Don't be happy just to go first draft. 1050 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,760 That will do That's funny. Let's knock it out and away you 1051 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,960 go, you know. So some criticism is is valid. 1052 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,960 You know, you got absolutely criticism from Buck and shame 1053 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,120 towards the wanker. I don't like them. 1054 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:15,680 You know that's not a criticism mate. 1055 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,360 Tim, you were very quick to come up with that. 1056 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,680 Off the top of my head, I'm just going to tweet here from Dave 1057 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,400 Elliot. He's This is the line for you to 1058 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,640 go. We know all about lines. 1059 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:31,880 Say we're riffing now. We're riffing now. 1060 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:37,160 We're riffing. I want to ask, no, I want to ask 1061 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,360 you this as a, as a, as a final question, have you, is there any 1062 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:45,720 sort of project or thing that you would, you would love to do? 1063 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,720 You know, you've you've been really lucky to do like 1064 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:52,920 documentaries, sitcom stage is is is there any like personal 1065 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,720 thing or programme that you would you would love to make at 1066 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,120 some point? Well, that's a very good 1067 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,400 question. We we're, we're, we're delving 1068 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,520 into documentaries and stuff. We're making a documentary about 1069 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,240 Oscar Wilde and Edward Carson and the relationship between 1070 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,040 Oscar Wilde and Edward. We like our history. 1071 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,120 So I'd like to do a couple more history programmes. 1072 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,320 But comedy ways. I mean, I just would like to do 1073 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,360 a still a stand up show me when I haven't done a solo show in a 1074 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,240 long time. And I'm thinking of doing 1 next 1075 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:20,840 year called Tim McGarry Needs a Hug. 1076 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,160 And I would just like the, you know, idea And just, I haven't 1077 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,760 done a full solution in a way. And I just thought I would like 1078 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,520 to get back into the Opera House on my own and just do an hour, 1079 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,560 an hour and a half or something. And just, you know, because 1080 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,600 there's nowhere better, by the way, than the Opera House. 1081 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,160 It's just the best venue. You know, I love the Ulster 1082 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:38,240 Hall. We did the Ulster Hall for the 1083 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,040 first time this year. But the Opera House is just, you 1084 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,000 know, they're just, they're nice and close to you and it's just a 1085 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,040 lovely atmosphere. You have to put in a word with 1086 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,240 the Opera House for me because I've, I've tried to do it for 1087 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,520 years. And yeah, yeah. 1088 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,920 I mean, I don't know whether it's in age thing or something 1089 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,120 like that, but I've tried. I would love to do the opera. 1090 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,600 The only time I did the opera, you mentioned Jackie Hamilton. 1091 00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,960 Whenever I first started stand up Jackie Phone, I was maybe 19 1092 00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:03,640 years old. I had the flu. 1093 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,520 It was Christmas time. Jackie phoned me. 1094 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,600 He said do you want to come and perform at the Opera House? 1095 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,640 And I felt like it was on my deathbed, but I remember my dad 1096 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,840 going to the garage to buy me look as aid sport a fire that 1097 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,440 into me. I did a few press ups and when I 1098 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,360 have to do this, I've got to go and perform. 1099 00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,200 I got there thinking I was going to do like 5-10 minutes set. 1100 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,840 Do you ever remember Dermot Whelan used to do a thing called 1101 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,680 the Toll trolls? Oh, yes, yes, yes. 1102 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:32,520 I wasn't doing a set. I was putting on the troll 1103 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,080 outfit and they were talking from microphones up in the 1104 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,040 stands and me and George Quinn, me and Magic George were acting 1105 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,440 out what they were saying. So we were wearing these big 1106 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:47,160 giant outfits and John Bishop was headlining the shows and we 1107 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,440 were doing. That. 1108 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,280 You were doing it. You were doing it and we were 1109 00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,640 the 2 main George with the total trolls and we introduced John 1110 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,240 Bishop. I was like, I've just managed to 1111 00:51:57,240 --> 00:51:58,640 get through this without faint dinner. 1112 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,440 Whatever. I walked off stage was like it 1113 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:01,960 still counts performance at the Opera House. 1114 00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,520 As I was walking off, I thought I'm the told troll it's funny 1115 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,000 night. I'll give John Bishop a total 1116 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,760 high 5 as he walks onto the stage. 1117 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,360 He just punched me in the nose. He just punched me flat in the 1118 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,000 nose. I don't know what he was trying 1119 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,720 to do comedically, but the suits weren't as thick as he thought. 1120 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:21,200 The worst when he punched me in the nose, I did feel it on the 1121 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,480 bridge and I walked off a wee bit, a wee bit fuzzy. 1122 00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,680 And I was like, I don't, I don't know why he's done that. 1123 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,920 And then I just went home and was sick for a long time. 1124 00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:34,000 So the more the story is I want to avenge my my Opera House 1125 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,840 show. You need to get a, you need to 1126 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,120 get a good solicitor that's Case is still active and live. 1127 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,720 You need to go and sue John Bishop. 1128 00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:40,560 He's loaded. He's like. 1129 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,120 I know I'm waiting until yes, that's what that that was my 1130 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,400 point, you know, just waiting until he keeps making that money 1131 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,680 and then I'm just going to hit him with that with that lawsuit. 1132 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,960 And Tim, cheers for for doing the podcast. 1133 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,960 Really, really appreciate it. Anytime, Sir, look forward to 1134 00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,920 gigging with you soon and definitely do that. 1135 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,560 Do that. Do the new stand up or I would I 1136 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:04,040 would love to say it because pugs honestly, that was that in 1137 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,240 that sort of year that that stood out for me. 1138 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:11,800 That spot. And also Neil Dugan did we did a 1139 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,040 thing called Live at the Sun Floor, which was a radio show 1140 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:18,360 for Radio Ulster. And Neil was not nervous about 1141 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,680 doing it, but there was everyone on the bill. 1142 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,960 I don't think there was anyone over like 25 that night. 1143 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,080 And they, and it was a very young crowd in the Sun floor and 1144 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,120 they was, you know, not hesitant at all, but he was sort of 1145 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,120 asking a lot of questions. He went up. 1146 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,480 The only guy wearing a suit, you know, you don't need like turned 1147 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,640 out in the suit. He went up and it was just one 1148 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,000 of the most enjoyable, enjoyable performances. 1149 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,920 It was a little bit old school, but it absolutely destroyed the 1150 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,680 place. Neil's brilliant, he did a one 1151 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,680 man show about religion that and I saw it in the Hollywood 1152 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,560 Welders Club, believe it or not, and you know, brilliant show and 1153 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,920 it's sadly it just didn't get a big enough audience. 1154 00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,120 Now there was a half decent audience that night. 1155 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,560 I think he took it on tour and it just didn't take off from 1156 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,360 which is a real because he's real good talent, a really hot 1157 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,520 show he had. I mean he's a great guy. 1158 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,880 I think he's giving it up there, hasn't he? 1159 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,240 Or. Yeah, I think he's taking like a 1160 00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,280 little bit of a break because he works full time and he was 1161 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,520 gigging most weekends and I've messaged him a couple of times 1162 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:16,960 to be like, when are you getting back into this? 1163 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:21,000 Because there's something I love about a stand up, not that I 1164 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,480 would, but a stand up that wears like a suit, you know, there's 1165 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,680 something, I wouldn't do it myself, but I can always 1166 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,960 appreciate it. And there's something like, this 1167 00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,400 is like a real, this is what a real comedian should be, you 1168 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,640 know? And I'm wearing a throw. 1169 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,160 Back to the 70s with the oil, wore decky bows and dinner 1170 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:36,760 suits. You know, we should bring that 1171 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:37,840 back. Maybe we should bring that. 1172 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,040 Yeah, I'm wearing flip flops and a Man United training top, you 1173 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,560 know. But but yeah, Tim, thanks very 1174 00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,520 much. Appreciate it. 1175 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:46,880 Chat to you soon. Right. 1176 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,520 Give Dave a hug from me when you see him, will you? 1177 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:50,560 Well, unfortunately I. Can't. 1178 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:52,600 Get into the facility. Yeah, okay. 1179 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,280 He's only allowed one visitor a week, so event me and you should 1180 00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,280 both go up because he needs it. He needs it. 1181 00:54:58,600 --> 00:54:59,000 Good luck.