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October 8th and 9th. Zippers, welcome to this episode
of the Tea With Me podcast being recorded backstage at my shows
at the Limelight in Belfast. Although apparently the kids are
supposed to call it limelight. I didn't realise there was no
the in the limelight anymore until Tim McGarry, who's gigging
with me tonight told me that. So if anyone was going to online
bully me because they called it the limelight, please don't,
Please don't hair check. So I was shooting a sketch this
morning at a car place up in Bushmills and my hair had to be
like all quiffed up for it and I haven't washed it since then.
But the quiff has like naturally sort of, you know, like it's a
good day after a house party, the quiffs on a come down.
But I'm not 100% behind it, just the way it's sitting at the
minute. So I may wash it before the
show. Also a lot of people ask me like
she knew Rock'n'roll guy in between the two shows now sold
in an early show at half seven and a Late Show at half 10.
In between the two shows. What are you doing man?
You're doing gear, you're doing an MDMA or cat or you're just
getting a load of beers in. No, me and my manager Joe are
just going for a run. I brought my running gear.
The only gear I brought is my running gear is a vest, a
luminous top and my running shoes and a toilet char gel.
And that's just the way it is. And then me, Tim McGarry, Dave,
my manager, Joe, everyone just jumping in a shower and it's
going to be a nice time. Before the last show, it was
weird. We're sort of waiting to see
with the crack, with the new lockdown regulations was going
to be there at half 5. Bear in mind, the show starting
at half seven there was the genuine option that the show
just wasn't going to happen. So it's pretty class that it is
because, you know, I would have had to walk out of here past the
people that are already queuing up and just sorry, Madam, I'm
really sorry about that. No.
And then it would add invite them all back to my house and it
would have just been awkward because, you know, my babies are
and stuff and everything. Most people would have been
fine, but there would be someone who would just, you know, be too
loud and I'd have to kick them out of my house and people who
wouldn't get taxis. And obviously it just wouldn't
be an ideal situation is what I'm trying to say.
So what I'm going to do in this episode, it's going to be 1/2
hour episode. I'm going to say that right up
front. Hopefully you understand.
Still doing the video version, but it's going to be half our
version of the podcast. Anything can happen.
Anybody can walk in as we do this.
It could be the ghost of people that have played here before.
I don't know if Amy Winehouse has ever played the Limelight.
Chancellor's probably has, but we could be visited by legendary
spirits. I'm not too sure.
Before I move on, let me just plug Patreon, which is
patreon.com says Tea With Me podcast.
We get the bonus episode on a Monday with me and producer Dan
and my stand up show from the waterfront from last year's
there too. So servers, let's just get into
it. By the way, I don't have a tea
because I forgot to specify that I want that almond milk brought.
So someone has been dispatched to get that.
I just want I just want you to know that I hopefully will have
a tea by the end of this podcast.
And if I don't, I just won't be doing the shows.
Simple as that. I just won't be doing the shows
and everyone will understand. People will be like odd, he
cancelled because of COVID. Like no, the women just didn't
get his almond milk and he's had some people sacked and some
people sent to prison. LMJ says weirdest interaction
with a fan ever. I think people have asked that a
couple of I feel like I've answered that every week for a
couple of weeks. So I'll I'm going to swear that
one. Mark says would you rather never
allowed to be eaten Nando's again or never use hair product?
What I would do is probably not use hair product.
I would eat my Nando's and then I would just ruffle my hand
through the check from like get the peri peri sauce and the
juice of the chicken at the end and then just quiff up with
that. Probably just quiff up with
that. What happened there?
Oh, OK, I had some technical difficulties, which is cool.
That number one, I couldn't say technical and I said technical
and #3 it's literally just me recording a zoom by myself.
So that's cool that I had that technical difficulties doing
that. And technical difficulties can
fuck off because it's hard to pronounce.
So what I would do is just take all the juice of the chicken and
the Perry sauce and I'd use that as my hair products.
So no hair product, although it'd be difficult because when I
don't have hair product, I look like I'm eleven years old and
that's not sweet. Whenever your father because
I'll take my son out for a walk and a lot of people will be
like, oh, there's two mates knocking about together.
Jamie Harrison, aside from Tribal Burger, what's your go to
restaurant in Belfast? Tribal Burger used to sponsor
the boy town podcast and then didn't and that's why boy no,
it's not. That's why boy town stopped.
It's not. It's because Dave Elliott has
has a has a problem with shandy and we'll leave it at that.
Travel Burger isn't my go to, although I do enjoy Tribal
Burger. It's not my go to.
My go to is of course Nando's for restaurant in Belfast.
But then I also like pizza punks, I like Bunsen.
They should all sponsor the podcast and I like anywhere that
would sponsor the podcast. Spuds, is that still there?
Spuds guy used to go to school with his mom and dad own Spuds.
He was in Shaftesbury Square and it was very decent.
Very decent. Someone asked the exact same
question. Aside from Anders which will go
to restaurant in Belfast. Weird, very weird.
A couple of guys haven't banter under that.
This is what OK, yes, I put I retweeted a press release from
BBC Northern Ireland about shows that they have coming up this
year and someone wrote under it all white middle class lobbies.
And I replied under that and said thank you.
And people are not commenting under that.
But I'm obviously not middle class.
I'm I'm upper. I'm upper class.
Rory Arkin says who's the funniest comedian they've come
from Northern Ireland, yourself included.
We answered the question there with the second last thing you
said. If I couldn't say me, would you
would if I was allowed to include myself.
In all seriousness, I go for Kevin Mcaleer, Colin Murphy
being the mix. Jimmy Cricket will be in the
fair play to Jimmy Cricket. Jimmy Cricket will be in the
mix. Someone bought me tickets to see
Jimmy Cricket once, an old school comic and I'll be honest,
I went thinking this is maybe not going to be good or or for
me it was class. So fair play to Jimmy Cricket as
we hot and all but yeah, I would say, I would probably say myself
someone's going to listen that and go.
He means that and guys, I do. I did a Speaking of being, you
know, a stand up. I did a stand up show last night
in Titanic Quarter in Belfast and we are Vertigo.
It's going to be on BBC Three and BBC One and it was a hell of
a time. It was a ball.
It was a lot of fun. I was really nervous because
there's been tape for TV and anytime I do something for TV
either my hair or my outfit gets so much slagging from people.
And so I was just worried about that.
And then before I went on stage, this guy went where's both their
mate and I was just glad I didn't shut it during myself
because then on BBC you would have seen me go, he's on the M2
mate away and find him. But but it was good.
And that's going to be on later in September, I think on on
actual like full BBC, which is class.
So so you just kind of you just kind of enjoy that with a week
couple swell Jimmy Wilson, that's not related to the
podcast, but Matthew Merlin's question is, has Corey flames
lost his brand appeal? By the way, this is kind of more
of AQ and a than a podcast. So I apologise that we're not
properly doing the podcast, but I'm doing limelight tonight,
tomorrow night and Saturday night.
I was filming a sketch this morning.
I did the TV show last night. Essentially, guys, I'm getting a
lot of work and I can only apologise for that because I'm
going to enjoy that while it lasts.
Matthew Merlin says, has Corey Flames lost his brand appeal?
So Corey Flames is my Corey Flames is my social media
influencer character. And yeah, he probably has lots
of brand appeal because I didn't do more sketches with him, but
he's always willing to come back out for the right #exclusive
#collab hashtag brand relationship.
Don't know the thing with thing with parody and like influencers
and social media people, everyone should be parodied,
everyone. Comedians should be parodied,
politicians fucking everybody. But there's the you know there.
You got to be careful with social media because there has
been a whole like hashtag be kind thing recently and I
totally get that. But at the same time, I don't
know, I just felt like awkward of like maybe doing that
character, don't know. It's, it's a longer conversation
for another time. But I think people don't realise
Corey Flames isn't just specifically based on that.
He's based on every single influencer I've ever seen or
met. And it should be parodied.
So he's lost his brand appeal, but he's came to team up for
another collab. Kara Stokes says.
What's the name of your YouTube channel?
If you just type in She and Todd the YouTube, you're going to
find my YouTube channel. Although I think I actually
changed the channel name to She and Todd, but it it did have the
name Harlem Harlem Gun Club. Shit name.
But that was the name of me and Dan Watson's sort of sketch
group back in the day. So I came up with that name.
It's pretentious. Harlem Gun Club.
I don't know what it means. We did one live sketch show
together on our sketches and it was under prepared and shit, but
you'll find it. Just Shane Todd, you know what I
mean? You'll find it.
Willie Palmer, which I'm sorry, but it's always a funny name to
me. He's a bit of a Willie Palmer
says Hey bro, would you rather have 25 cats follow you for the
rest of your life and never be able to close anything you open
ever again? Cheers boyo.
I like the idea of 25 cats following me.
I like the idea of like a gang of cats because I I'm the number
one super bitch. Like deep inside you might not
think I'm some people do think I'm deep inside the number one
super bitch. So what would happen is I'd get
into a bitch fest with someone and I'd say I'm actually going
to be the bigger woman. And I would walk away and then
my cats would come and scrub your face off.
So I would like to have a gang of cats and their paws are just
covered in blood from the faces of my enemies who are all local
social media influencers. Give me the 25 cats, one flying
Irishman as one of Belfast top 10 T based football podcasts.
Fuck you. Have you any plans to upload any
more stand up gigs on the Patreon?
Yes I will do 1A year. I'll put a big all singing all
dancing stand up special on Patreon a year.
That's my plan, but I don't want to put too much on there stand
up by, especially now because I'm just working on the new
material. So I don't want you to see it
while I'm still working it out. Basically, I might put all in
the previous stand up specials if you want to call them that.
There's nothing that special about them.
Hopefully this show I'm about to do there is, but now I'm joking.
I'm just being deprecating, but I will put some old stand up on
it. But at the minute I'm enjoying
working on the new material, figuring it out.
So it's not ready for to be put out there as the finished
product yet. Although I don't know if this
will interest you from the stand up point of view, but for this
BBC show I had to do 15 minutes of stand up and it's massive
because I've never done stand up for like network TV.
So like all BBC, not just BBC Northern Ireland.
And I was going to do like tried and tested stuff, old material
because you know, I know it a lot of the time it goes down
well, absolutely. Sometimes it doesn't, but most
of the time it works. Like the Starbucks material I
have about getting a cup of tea in America.
Do I do that? And then kind of the last minute
I was like, I'm excited about the new material.
I'm giddy about the new material and I want to challenge myself.
So I just did all new stuff. And it was so much fun because I
had that element of like, this could easily go wrong.
And I think if I went into with material done before, I would
maybe be too safe and I wouldn't properly perform it.
But what you're seeing is a guy who's like, I don't know if I
know this next sentence. And that made me like excited.
So I had a lot of fun doing it. I can't remember what the
question was, but hopefully that answers it.
Hopefully that answers it. If if we do go back into more of
a lockdown type thing, then we'll just walk out way more
Zoom episodes of tea with me. So I always say if you have an
idea for a guest or someone you want to speak to, even if it's
way outside of the box, do it. If you want us to interview a
male porn star. If you want us to interview
Sonia from EastEnders, comment on the podcast or messages
teawithme@gmail.com or if you're if you're a Patreon subscriber,
just send a direct message, Instagram, whatever it is, let
us know what guess you want us to get on.
Because in the times of Zoom, nothing's impossible.
You can kind of get people. So I can get people obviously
with my army of cats. If anyone says no to doing the
podcast, I will set my army of cats on them and they will be
faceless after. Someone please mock up artwork
of me with 25 cats behind me. That'll be a lot of fun.
But but yeah, if, if it goes more like that, we can't get
back to the studio. Obviously I said that I've done
one in the studio since we've been back to the studio and I
hate it when people do error speech marks, but I've just done
it. OK?
Tim McGarry just says no problem.
I basically said that Tim, listen, I'll see you when I see
you. The venue staff are expecting
you, they'll bring you upstairs. Tim says no problem.
Part of me was hoping Tim would come in during this and we'll
just do an impromptu chat, but that has not materialised.
But yeah, if we go back into more of a lockdown, we'll still
do 2 episodes a week. We'll we'll do the live episodes
on Zoom. We'll just have a lot of fun and
we'll look at more inventive ways of just bringing you chat
basically. But yeah, I can only apologise
that this is a way shorter episode, just a week, quick bit
of AQ and A, I'll still stick the video up.
But from next week, we've got our guests in place.
The podcast will be going properly.
Definitely not an excuse, but mommy's busy, Mommy's mommy's
doing a radio showing this, and I'm just trying to take care of
you so, you know. But from next week, we'll be
properly back at it. We'll get the Zoom going.
Britney Spears, Dallas, stop beating me up.
Maybe for one week. And we'll just get the podcast
out there. But it's getting giddy next door
because Dave Elliott and our Butler are there.
I asked Dave to come in and do this episode, by the way, and he
said he had to prepare a set. And I can see him and he's not
preparing a set. So anyone who thinks that we
stopped doing Boy Town because we fell out, this is only going
to add fuel to the fire because I booked him for this before Boy
Town ended. So maybe I booked him for this
and we're just keeping up appearances, but we're falling
out. Who knows.
Separate. Thanks very much.
Cheers for bearing with me for a way shorter episode this week.
I apologise but kind of not really at the same time.
Hopefully my hair sorts itself out before this gig.
If you see me running through Belfast tonight or tomorrow
night when I'm doing the shows, you know, just like do the
Muhammad Ali thing when he was running through Zaire in the
film and people were like Ali, Ali, maybe like a she Enchant
would be pretty sweet. I'm doing the limelight on
Saturday night, which is tomorrow night.
If you listen to this, the day it comes out, as it stands,
there's a couple of tickets left.
I don't think there will be on the day, but you can get them on
my Instagram, Twitter, the links are all there, Facebook, all
that kind of thing. Cyprus, thank you very much for
joining me for this episode. We're back to the normal length.
That's what she said. Next week, keep sipping tea,
keep listening to me. Thank you.