Zippers. My guest on this week's podcast
is Reese James. Hello.
Reese, I am, I want to say this, I'm in the the sort of space at
the minute where I'm ready for like a new friend.
Oh, yeah. Like, not like a lot of precious
not. I just have one friend, but I
mean I'm ready to like. Help.
Brutal if your next sentence is so please help me choose.
But Calvin here we could, I could sort of trade him off.
Oh yeah, I'm quite sick of him. Bringing in you that way.
Calvin sat on a big high stool. It's a sort of power play of
like, no, no, where you are, Shane.
Calvin, what are you on Parliament?
Yeah, the tennis of this part, yeah.
Really. But I wonder.
I wonder. I think, let's find out.
I think you and I to protect if you're open, love.
That there's going to be so this podcast now has a verdict on the
end of it yes is that how this podcast works you always.
Know to be. Never.
Your life, it's so much pressure to put on someone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, I feel like if you're
also open, because you might not be open to it and you can tell
me now, you might say if I'm not friends.
To new friends. Yeah.
Interesting. I don't.
Yeah, I think you've got to be I, I guess I'm more spontaneous
than you are about that sort of thing.
Right. No, I'll take.
I don't go into things going yes, friend questionmark, you
know, just you just see what happens, don't you?
But so I'm going to do that. I'm going to go with the flow.
No, but. I think we've never met.
We have a short time here together and I think we should
just make a call, right? The end of it, yeah.
Let's do. That and I think there's no how.
We do. We stay in touch kind of thing,
beyond the sort of professional, Yeah, Spotify studios.
Cause and it might just be, we might to say no, but that
doesn't have to be bad. We might see each other after
this and it's like. 1st dates, It's like the end of first
dates, yeah. First Mates.
Go first mates, first mates, first mates I.
Think we already became best friends?
I think we know the answer. Come on.
Yeah. I'd say it was a tentative high
5 for both of us there, yes. So, you know, let's see, let's
see what the let's see what the handshake's like.
Both a bit nervous, 'cause our feet touched there, yeah, yeah.
And then we got a bit like, yeah, yeah.
But I think I think this could be good.
Like, yeah, like, let's see how we do.
Like say we were doing a festival together or doing shows
together, or you a late night party guy.
It really depends. So I, I go into most things
going absolutely not take it seriously.
This is, you know, yeah, if you're at the festival, if
you're like Edinburgh or something like that.
Yeah, not these days. But, you know, when I was there
every year and it was, and it mattered, it was like, well,
this is the World Cup. So don't, yes, get pissed after
the World Cup. Don't sort of make this harder.
And shows as you get older are just so hard when you're
hungover. Yeah, it just gets so much
harder. Yeah.
But I sort of go in with those intentions these days and find
myself. What do you do the day of a
show? Day of a tour show?
I would try. And do you like activities?
Yeah, these days I'll try and kill time.
It used to be that I couldn't do anything.
I could and I would like even have to eat quite early and I
would just be like basically a bit of a wreck.
But then I realised how that ruins your life.
Yes. So now it's like you need to be
doing stuff that is totally distracting like.
Would you be open to bowling? Bowling.
Yeah, big time. How close before a show?
Well, yeah, I mean ideally if I could like do bowl a strike,
turn around and instead of going back to my seat, go on stage.
But it would have to. Deliver a gag then go back to
the lane. But there's another pressure,
because if you've got a bullet and then you walk under your
show, that's going to be an awful.
Show I think that's I know I actually think that's the energy
you need because my my vibe is unjustified and unjustified
swagger, right? That's the vibe.
It's like I think I'm winning. I was going to call my tour show
yeah, watch this then, right? That's what it was going to be
called and I bottled it. But that the whole point being
like, that's what a kid says before they do something shit,
right? Like shit.
Like they're going to do this. They're like at the top of a
skate ramp and they're going to do something immediately fall on
their ass. It's like, yeah, that's the
funniest thing to me is. My kids will do the.
Arrogance and then failure. My kids will will say like daddy
because it because they'll compete for your attention,
right? And they'll go watch this, but
with nothing in mind. Yeah, exactly.
And then you have to. Relax.
Watch this. And but they've just had like
some Harry, but they don't know what they're going to do.
And then they just sort of like, just sort of like pull their
T-shirt, really. They Hulk Hogan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Say racial things I might manage
but bit much. Exactly.
So that's what that's what I want to do.
I want to bowl it got yeah, yeah, I'd have the sides up
anyway, so that can't happen. Bowl into the sides to do do do
do still, knock 1 pin down, walk on stage and then really
arrogantly deliver the first joke.
This could affect things. Are you being serious about the
bumpers? All right, Because that
honestly, that would have killed.
Things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because. I've done that before.
We've gone out with like friends and.
They've insisted on the bumpers. Yeah, and it's the guy doing it
and you're like, well, what's the point then, because we're
not bowling then. Yeah, that's true.
We're not. When I was at university, we
went bowling in Freshers week and there was a guy in our group
who had his own ball and his own glove and he came third.
You've got to be winning by a long way if you're going to do
that. You have to, yeah, you have to
have a perfect. Game, You've got to be amazing,
yeah, You've at least got to dominate everyone else.
You can't be like just in the mix.
The saddest thing is like, it's probably the idea of him going
home on the bus with the ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, And then. I'm just like never getting it
out again at uni because he's so embarrassed.
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Although I quite like that. I wonder how much a ball and
ball would cost. What do you think you'd pay for
a bowling ball? Interesting.
Could it be? £20 or £400.
It actually could be £400, couldn't it?
Yeah, it must be made of. What is that?
What is it made of? Marble is it?
No. Is it a big Are we playing a big
game of marble? I think you that's.
Why you get to keep the bowling ball at the end?
I think you'd want if you're going to get your own ball.
I think it's £150. That's the other thing we can
look up at the end of the show. Well, so how much does it cost
to get? I think, I think it would.
I think you could get a standard ball like they would have in
bowling alleys. But I think if you if you then
professional level, but I think you go if you're buying a
bowling ball. Go all in.
Oh, you don't want, you don't costume.
Yeah, you're a costume ball. No.
I got like a see. Through one with the rules in
the middle of or a scorpion. Wow, like a scorpion.
OK, that's real. Like scorpion by on a school
trip. Yes, that's got a real vibe of
just like weird preserved scorpion in a glass.
Dome astronaut food. Just sits on your fucking
bedside table for years. Yeah.
Was that what you had when you were a kid?
Those sorts of ornaments I had. I had skulls this size but it
would be like a skull with a leather jacket on with a scarf
blowing in the wind and like motorbike glasses.
Yes, that's what I thought was cool when I was 10.
In the gift. Shop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just I don't know where it was.
Markets on holiday, I would buy little.
I I bought AI, bought an African drum.
Yeah, of course in. Lanzarote.
Yeah. And I obviously that's where
they're from. And I love it.
You still have. I still have it.
And I love what like a full size 1?
No, probably one point night. Yeah, just like this.
Yeah, like little ornamental. Yeah, of course.
And I, I love. That and do you play that often?
Just Sunday nights. What grade are you?
What grade are you in? Tiny Africa?
Really. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Provide quite quickly through that though because only like 3
things you can. Do I'm unbelievable in the air
tonight yeah yeah, I can really no, I've I've never played it.
I just like looking at it right, right, right.
But I would have, I I would have liked little trinket type
things. Yeah, I like that like.
Tat. So if you got a lot of tat in
your house like that. Not anymore.
I'm really unsentimental now. OK, Yeah.
Like, to the point where it's brutal.
What's the name of that Mary Kondo?
You know, Mary Kondo had that show where it was like, if it
doesn't spark joy, you've got to get rid of it.
She had this. Mary Kondo had this big Netflix
decluttering show. 10 years. Ago, what was it called?
Do you remember Mary Kondo? And then she was like, this
person would come to your house and just like basically sort
your house out but her main thing was does this thing spark
joy? It's not like I don't.
Think taking my wife away, I love her so much.
Don't believe you. She puts the sides up at
balding. But it was.
Yeah. But life isn't about that, is
it? Because it's like if you got rid
of. You know my pots and pans don't
spark joy, but I need them. Now you say that, but my
porridge pot actually wow, brings me porridge pot.
Porridge pot? What a decade is this?
I've got gold porridge. Pot, I see one of them we're
talking about. This is absolute fairy tale
bollocks. My porridge.
My little porridge. Pot.
Oh, it's not little. My God.
Oh, sorry. I'm a little bit, I'm a little
bit rattled by that because this is a giant gold porridge pot.
Sorry you couldn't be sounding porridge for me.
Right now. My giant gold porridge pot at
the end of a rainbow. And I share it with the rest of
the village. But yeah, no, I I saw this
woman. You bang your African drama.
When the in the air tonight for my kids.
No, this is I just saw it in a shop once and I went I need that
for my porridge because I I have a big porridge routine in the
morning at the same park every day.
Every day. See, I think this is where I
marry condo and I think it doesn't spark joy to have the
same breakfast. Oh, it does.
I find it does. For me, it's like I have to have
four different breakfast options at all times that I can go to.
Or I start my day furious and losing my mind going.
I've got fucking brown flakes. But then I'd say you just have
them find breakfast for you. Every time I think I do, it
lasts a week. And then I go, not that, you
know, I did the Greek yoghurt thing with berries and with
honey and all that shit. And I was like, yeah, this is
it. And that was the one that was
filling me up and giving me energy for the day the most.
And still it's now just like, I know that it is biologically the
best breakfast I can have, right?
And still I'm like, I'm not doing that.
I'm sick of it. See that?
Could we could butt heads there, Say we're like on tour and we're
going for breakfast? Yeah.
You're looking at options and I'm going.
Yeah, yeah, but we wouldn't know what you want.
Every menu has options, so we would be fine.
You don't just go to a porridge shop.
Well, there's no such thing, but there might be.
In your house there's a porridge shop, but there's no, there's no
restaurants you can go to that are just porridge.
I am, but if there was, I'd love that.
I'd love that. You don't need porridge police.
You, you're the one going. To monitor, I don't bring the
porridge pot on tour. Oh yeah, of course.
So what are you doing that's so special about your porridge?
What's? Well, I don't like the way
you're saying that because you're immediately, immediately
you're. Gonna have to win me around I'm
afraid. Right, here's what I do 7
scripts of boats. Because oats build boats, right?
You know the phrase Oats build boats?
Oh yeah, I know the phrase. Yeah, yeah, right.
Now, do you know the phrase you? Just said I've read a gravestone
in my time. I know the phrase.
She's got that. I don't want to say but all due
respect. You know he will have it, Sir.
Steve Redgrave. He's just start to have it.
What? Really.
That's you guys. I was thinking sort of
Goldilocks. No, but he, he.
He knows bills, but he does an actual rowing phrase.
Is this a rowing phrase? I think it might be, but now I'm
thinking, I don't think Steve Redgrave built the boat.
Yeah, he did, but he wasn't in row boats.
Yes. Or I wrote.
I wrote it was because of. Oats, I wrote.
Well, if he's dead, it would say I rode.
I rode boats. Yeah.
Brackets. Oats.
Just the oats of boats. Yeah.
In bold. Yeah.
So your method. 7 scoops of
oats. Yes.
What we talking Quaker? Yeah, Or Flavans, which is a
brand back home. OK.
But I'm not completely tied to a brand.
Fine, you're you're open to offers of what you're saying.
Look down the camera. And Scots the Scots one as well
with the Scottish guy doing oh. Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, I get that one. Yeah, the branding and then what
we took. So then you they're straight
away. So you're not starting with is
the hob on at this stage yet? Fine, right?
Well, won't keep relax so. You're not, but you're not
preheating the pot, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
So here we go. Oh, 10 almond milk?
No, you can have whatever milk you want.
I personally have unsweetened almond milk.
I think that's fair. I don't drink Dairy Milk, but
you can't have oat milk with oats.
No, or you're going crazy. You'll you'll die.
You're going nuts. You're you're dipping.
That's what like dipping falafel into limos.
It's like too much of the same thing.
Yes. So you'll go with your milk.
I stir that, then I get the consistency right and then I
will get my frozen fruit. Blueberries usually get them in
get that going under the hob. See all of that seven free hob?
Seven, yeah, 7 out of 10. Heap 7 out of 10 is crucial.
Let that go. Can I say that I think Hobbes
famously go to 9? I don't think there's a 10.
Obvious time my wife right now our hob goes to 10 because I had
a custom built. You got a gold pot on a custom
built hobb and you're relatable to the public.
This is absolutely despicable. The King's porridge.
Yeah, exactly. So then when that's when that's
done, I'm going to put that into a bowl.
I like a nice wide bowl, you know, not like a deep bowl, like
a. Shape you're doing is like a
banana split. No, like that's the boat.
Is I don't like this gravy. I don't like.
This. Yeah.
OK, fine. I like shallow, wide, shallow.
OK. Like a sort of pasta dish.
I don't know, I just like it. I just like it fine.
And then I put my almond butter into that.
Stirred up or almond stuff. So then butter.
You stir that in almond butter, Yeah.
And then are you putting any honey or anything like that on
it? It's flavoured enough, trust me,
with the blueberries on the almond butter.
So you're the blue bees are becoming hot.
Oh yeah, and they're mixing with the almond butter.
And is there a bit of like there's a bit of blue runoff
into the porridge because of them heating up is?
Oh, this is. This is.
It looks blue. Right.
This is like novelty Sonic porridge.
Yeah, yeah. And.
It's honestly it's the breakfast have every day.
Every day so good and you're eating, are you eating that full
amount that day with the seven scoops or you then like, are you
batch cooking that? No, no, no, I don't believe in
that. 7 scoops. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was what do you have you worked out the calories on that?
No, I don't believe in that. Don't believe in it, No.
Interesting. So you But yeah, fair enough.
I would, yeah, if I was having 7 scoops of votes a day.
I also wouldn't want to know the calories.
Yeah, I started my day with. But but again, it let it allows
me to build boats. And what do you mean by that?
So what are you doing that you think is building boats in your
day? I just think I would if I wanted
to. I would have the capability to
help build a boat more than if I.
You're taking it very little. More than if I have no photo, I
just think I could contribute more to that.
So yeah, there's no Greek yoghurt builds boats, there's
nothing that. No one's ever said that.
No, the rhyme would be Greek yoghurt.
Go on, I'd like to hear it. Greek yoghurt and.
We can cut all this time. Greek yoghurt.
Yeah, go on, I'm not helping you.
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That's what they say. Yeah.
Great yoga. Do you think I made him up or do
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That's what. I'm so he's tell me about this
tour. We kind of covered it, really.
You know what's weird? I I kind of, this sounds weird.
I almost feel like when I started comedy, I kind of grew
up watching you, even though you may be younger than me.
How old are you? 38, No 37.
I'm 34. It's not weird though.
You grew up watching me. Are you sure it was me?
Well, what? What year did you start doing
Mark the Week? 201516 something like that
started doing it. You must have been going for
ages by then. Yeah, probably was.
I just feel like if you had said to me you started doing Mark the
Week in 2003, Yeah, Yeah, I'd have just believed that because
I think you're with Dary, you're probably the person most
connected with the show. Have you done the most episodes
as a? No, I think it's.
I'm getting there. I'm climbing that Wikipedia
table, but I think it probably is still people who were
regulars for a series. So I think I'm not as I'm not.
I'm certainly not as connected to the show as Frankie Boyle.
I think he probably is. He's still more episodes than
me, but he actually didn't do as many as people think.
Ed Byrne, I think, has done every series except the first
series. Ed Byrne got on the show because
he was Dora's best man and the creator of the show, Dan
Patterson and producer was at Doras wedding and Ed Byrne did a
really funny best man speech. And then they were like, he
couldn't get on the show before this.
And then he went, oh, that was funny.
Actually, you can come on the show, right?
So you know, it is who you know and our best friends with they
can do a best man speech for. Yeah.
So he's done loads. Milton Jones has done loads.
I think I've now overtaken Ed Gamble at last.
Well. What age did you do?
What age did you start doing that?
I think. It was like 25 when I first went
on it, which, but also The thing is about when I went on it,
everyone thought I was the youngest person ever to do it
just because I looked like a teenager.
Yeah, Yeah. But Jack Whitehall and Kevin
Bridges did it at like 19. Oh, right, right.
Right. And I think Sean Walsh was like,
23. He just looked 48, right.
But I think Sean Walsh, like, yeah, people really didn't give
credit to how young Sean Walsh was when he got on all this
stuff. Yeah, because he was the early
20s and like, being 22 is basically being 18.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all think that we're
grown-ups or whatever, but it's so different.
Whereas 2526 is sort of like I sort of know what my voice is
now and what I'm doing. I feel like I maybe, I think
only about five years ago did I start going in my 30s.
Was I like, yeah, no, I, I, I can't, yeah, yeah.
I'm not trying to be something like.
This. Oh, yeah.
I don't see. You're not just like, scared all
the time that someone's going to go.
You're not really like that. Yeah.
Pretending to be a bit.
Yes, exactly. What did you start stand up but.
17. Oh, yeah, I think that's rare.
I was 18. Yeah, I think, yeah.
I actually think it's a weird age to start doing it because
you really don't know yourself. Everyone thinks you have an
advantage for starting young, but you actually, it's, it takes
ages because, you know, there's comedians who start at 40 and
then they just like, they're just like massive immediately.
And you go, yeah, because you've got a clearly defined voice that
you've worked on for years. And and a lifetime of material
and. You've got material.
You've got like, yeah, funny things to say about your past
experience, but also your kids and all this sort of stuff.
But also you really have established what your social
voice is and who you are. And when you're 17, you're just
sort of like. Oh, you don't spot a drum and
landrotic? Yeah, but nothing drum and
landrotic. And you shouldn't be playing
that on stage, so you can't even use.
It you haven't seen the end of this.
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So everyone was always like, you're so lucky for starting at
17 and in many ways you are because you get to get all of
those like nervous years out the way or whatever.
But you really waste 10 years, Yeah, being like just doing
stand up and trying on different voices, yes, and stuff like
that. And kind of being like, is it
this? Yes.
And you are derivative for a while.
Of course you are, because you're 17.
You're derivative. I think you're friends and
stuff. I felt like I impersonated
you're doing an. Impression of a comedian when
you're 17. Exactly.
It's because it's like a kid. It's like an actual kid, yes
doing like a talent show, yes. Where they're right at that and
it's still like, it's not, oh, it's obviously not natural and
it's horrible. And also all your jokes have to
be about being a kid because the audience.
Yeah, What the fuck? Yes.
Did you ever gig in Belfast in your early days?
This time? Yes.
Yeah. What was the first time you went
over? Do you remember?
Is the is that where the Empire is?
Yeah, I did the Empire. I remember doing the Empire a
couple of times. No, it would have been a bear
pit when you started. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I probably didn't do it when I was 17.
I probably did it when I was about 23 or something.
So I'd done a bit of, I'd done a bit, but I was still, it was
still scary. Yeah, but I remember it being
all right. Yeah, but I remember it not
being, I remember being terrified of it, yes.
But it's sort of being OK because everyone just said just
go on and apologise for being English.
Yeah, yeah. And I think I was the only
English person on the bill, so it was just all I could sort of
really do that and I sort of upped the poshness.
Yes, yes. I was sort of like, oh, you know
what, I think years ago I had had this experience when I was
really new, when I was still at university, where I went and did
the the Glasgow stand and I'd never done Glasgow before.
And a Glaswegian comic said Cockney's struggle here.
But posh people don't, because posh people feel like it feels
like a character. So it's like London.
It's like you're kind of pushing London, being brilliant and they
don't want that. But if you go on being posh and
kind of position yourself above it all, they'll think that
you're just doing a bit. So I just really up to the TS
and ages. And they're really, Glasgow was
a city where they're great about like having the piss taken out
of them and they can laugh at themselves.
So if you're almost looking down on it, but they know that.
You know that really mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
I think that's and I think I kind of took the set.
I sit slightly similar approach when I went to Belfast.
It was just like just be posher than you are and don't don't try
and gazer it up like you would insert.
I think you're right because. London gigs.
Because when definitely there was a, there was.
When I started, there was maybe like 10, 10 years where English
acts coming over, there was so much jeopardy on it because if
they got it right, they would kill.
But it didn't take much for the audience to turn correctly and
you would hear horror stories. Well, yeah, because everyone
always said, like, this could be a disaster.
Yeah. It felt like just a gig that was
quite normal, but it was a bit chatty because everyone's like,
dotted around. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's some of them are facing you and looking at some of them
just walking around at the bar and yeah, there's no rules in
that gig. Yeah, that it just felt like
you're going to have to get their attention in a way you
don't in normal theatre or normal gig.
What are the but the horror stories of what people go on and
misjudge it massively and then people are screaming at them?
You basically for summary, it just developed this reputation
where like you, you had to get, if you didn't get them in the
1st 10 seconds, you lost the room.
Yeah. And when you lost the room in
there, it became so loud because of the way everyone was
positioned. So I've done it before,
especially when I was starting out where if you got it, when
you got it right, it was rocking and it was, yeah, that's.
The dream a rowdy crowd on your side is the.
Dream. It was so good.
First time I did it, Jason Byrne was headlining and I remember
what I was like 18. I was like my 4th gig and I was
walking up to it and I saw this line down Botanic in Belfast
where it is. And I thought there was like a
fire drill somewhere and everyone had left some building.
But it was the queue for the comedy club and I remember being
like, fuck, I'm doing this. And they were that packed in.
And Jason was doing it maybe just on like live at the Apollo
that week or something like that.
Where like that was a time where if you did a stand up thing on
TV, you would then get a crowd like instantly from people were
like, he's the guy that was on this, you know?
And then people were that tightly packed in that Jackie
who ran walked out at the start. And before he brought the MC on,
he was like, he used to do the fire safety thing.
He was like, if there's a fire, run, try and get out, but you're
fucked basically. And people were so packed in and
I remember going on and I had a good one and I got away with it
because maybe, like you're sort of saying, I looked so much
younger than my age. I do think that was a bit of an
advantage is like they've given you it maybe instead of 10
seconds, they're giving you 20, they gave you a bit grace of
like. They're thinking about their
kids when you're. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, so I kind of got away with it.
And I remember being so relieved.
But I saw acts go on there. And if you're open in line,
wasn't good. The audience just, they didn't
Boo you. They didn't do anything other
than just start talking. Yeah.
And that was just seeing acts. It was just white noise.
They were just doing this. We've all had corporates like
it. Oh God, just going.
No one's even looking and I was even facing me.
They're all just mingling. I remember realising that bad
court, like I thought a corporate was just stand up, you
know. I remember the first time doing
one that didn't go well and I was like, oh, this is a
different world. Yeah, that's it.
It's my a friend of mine really established comedian who just
never done corporates before was texting me the other day having
just done 1 and it being bad, but like didn't actually sound
for a corporate bad. It was just bad for a gig.
Yeah. And was texting me and I was
like, it's like, you're complaining about how tough open
mics are. It's like, you should know this
by now. You've been calling for 20
years. You've never done a corporate.
Yeah, yeah. They sort of laughed, but it was
like a chuckle. And it was sort of never really
took up. And I was like, yeah, that's a
good gig. Yeah, that's a good call.
You've done well. Yeah, Yeah.
If you came off and they were like, cheers.
And not like, yeah, yeah. Why did you say that then?
You're absolutely fine. Better corporate.
How buzzing were you when you realised Mark the week was
coming back? That was, yeah, that was, it's
that classic thing of it was a bit similar to the first time I
got asked to do it. It was like, there's nothing
better than getting asked. Oh yeah, there's nothing worse
than having to do it. Yeah, yeah.
So when I the first time they asked, it was like, do you want
to do more of the week? And it it was the biggest,
easily the biggest thing I would ever have been asked to do at
the time. And still.
But it was just like, Oh my God. They're like, I grew up watching
this show. This is one of the reasons I
wanted to do comedy. This is incredible.
And you get about 10 seconds of that.
And then it's just like, Oh my God, I've got to go on this show
that I grew up watching. I'm going to, I'm going to ruin
it and I'm going to be so nervous.
And so when it was coming back, it wasn't quite that because
less nervous because obviously I've done it a lot of times, but
it was a bit like it's, you know, it's a bit pull your socks
up back to work because it's a there's a lot of work in doing
that show. Yeah.
And so there's a lot of dread that comes with that.
Yeah. You know, you've got to do a lot
of. I don't pay attention to the
news outside of that show being on, right.
So it's like, all right, suddenly I've got to start
looking at that again. And then it happens that it
comes back as World War three. Yeah.
Paedo island as exposed. OK, right.
We're in the defence. And also they're always like
legally we can't say any of these things.
You're like, Jesus Christ, it's like, it's almost like a
taskmaster task of do 3 hours of jokes about pedo island without
using the word pedo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Nonce. No, not allowed that one, right?
So yeah, that's where it gets tricky.
And it's like, and oh, Donald Trump is famously litigious and
will sue you for saying anything, but also he has waged
a war on Iran. Yeah, off you go.
Imagine if he if you did a joke about that and he was fighting
like around Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and you.
Yeah, and then he says, I kept saying that to the producer.
It's amazing press. If Donald Trump sues TLC's Mock
the Week, it will be like. But they because he's he
threatened to sue Trevor Noah for saying some of the Grammys.
For a split second I I thought you were going to say Trevor
Nelson. He threatened to see Trevor
Nelson. Remember Trevor, because.
Of the way he DJ's, yeah yeah, because of his Boo Boo Boo Boo.
I'd be so sad if he cleaned Trevor.
Like for all of money. I'd be so sad.
I love Trevor Nelson and a couple of Trevor Nelson
compilation series. Really.
Oh yeah. Wow.
Don't think in the early 90s, yeah, Trevor Nelson's like.
I love Trevor Nelson as much and the next guy.
Alessandro Westwood, double disc.
Really. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's not getting infection. A lot of charity.
Shopping. No, no, no.
No, he used to have my favourite tweet, which was like, it's not
even funny to say, but he just had this tweet when Twitter was
new and it's just him with two big shopping trolleys next to
his Range Rover. And he's in the car park and
he's holding a receipt that is about 6 foot long.
And the tweet just says I'm still unpacking my shopping.
And that was it. And I used to be obsessed with
it. I don't know why I loved it so
much. Every little helps, baby.
It's like a crazy thing for like a yeah, like a hip hop DJ to
yeah. Supposed I'm still on bucking.
My shop. But you don't think?
Yeah, because you don't think of DJs like that.
Doing a big shop? Yeah, someone does.
Doing a big shop, but he's still unpacking a show and no GS on
this, you know? Yeah, I'm packing my shopping.
I could see Trevor and Nelson do more like little shops.
Yeah, he's at station local. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Except like, I think I do that, but I do it every day.
It's between the station and my house and I just, I don't plan
ahead. I.
Just what supermarket do you like?
Going there, Sainsbury's local is the one that's in between.
But I did see recently they were, they were stocking it and
they had a little fit like they printed off a way to stock the
shelves for the for instructions basically.
And they just stuck it to the shelf while they were doing it
and it had been left unattended. And I walked past it and read it
and it said how to stock the shelves in a low income area.
No. How brutal is that?
What a wake up call. I was like, oh, right.
And so it's like things like hummus and stuff.
It's like we don't need much of that.
We don't need any brioche. Get rid of the brioche.
Yeah, they're not having sourdough.
Yeah, get the monster to the. Only, yeah, it's all just like
frozen stuff. And it's all just like total
judgement. Crispy pancakes, Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Oh no, exactly. Put a couple of Capri Suns.
Out, maybe at most. Can we get Can we get Sunny D
back? I tell you what, you want a
cheese drink you can get in my Sainsbury?
Do you ever get the wrong sunny day?
Because it was 2. There was Florida style and
there was the other one, but one I didn't like.
And it was like sugar free type vibe.
No, there were just one was more like AI think like a pure orange
and the other one was maybe Florida style which might have
had a red cap and it was I think the one I like.
Florida style would have been the one that's made you crazy as
a kid, right? Yeah, there's a lot of sugar.
You've been to Florida. You don't want to go Florida
style. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Florida style is not great.
That's why they're. All men.
So because they're drinking too much sugar.
Yeah, Yeah. Sunny Day.
Man, that was like big arguments always as a kid of just begging
for Sunny day. Maybe allowed it once a month.
I don't think we got a lot of it in general.
It wasn't, I don't think it was everywhere, but I was.
I mean I'm part of the in Bongo generation.
Well, I know I've seen you, Drum.
That's my stadium. The Bongo generation.
I don't think I'm Bongo. That's a Trevor Nelson, Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think it's got a legacy to have its own
generation. Oh, I I would disagree.
What do you? Think, I mean, obviously, yeah,
of course, but you can't. That advert has to have been
discontinued. Oh, man, even at the time when I
was, yeah, it wasn't Guys, I don't know.
What was the catches? They drink it in the.
Congo and Bongo and Bongo, they drink it in the Congo and and
they didn't. No, of course they don't.
They didn't. Of course they don't.
They're having sunny day, Florida style.
But it was great, I can pee, I feel like in my head I can taste
and mongo now. I can't do that.
So I can picture the cartoon and stuff, but I can't remember the.
Taste. I can remember the taste.
What we're talking? I can imagine, just taste it.
That's a great shot. Yeah, it's a great shot.
Because, you know, but it'll be totally tropical.
Like a mixture between lilt and a bath.
Like tears. Like a bath.
Really tastes like. When I go.
Sorry, got that? I'm Bongo.
Please sponsor this board. Welcome back.
Are you saying are you made? Into it, you don't read.
Into it. Don't read it because if you do.
That in the bath, that's wild. That's what the shower for.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know my mate?
That's piss my mate. You're.
Mixing up your fluids. My mate told his wife that he
shits in the shower and pushes it down with his feet, and she
was like, oh, for fuck's sake. And he's like, how could you
think I'm being serious? Not possible.
Why would you still be married to me?
Yeah, I say my yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really projecting. But no, I mean in terms of a
bath, like when I go to America, if I try and order a cup of tea,
they give you like they give you all these different types of
teas. And to me they always taste like
a bath if you've got a bit of bubble bath in it.
I don't I. Am I imagine the bath would
taste? I've never drank bath water,
probably have some. But why?
Salt is just too much water. No, I mean the taste.
Bubbly. No.
I I. Say you put like a bath bomb
into a bath. Sure.
Right. I imagine if you drank that
water, that's what this would taste like.
I see. You know what I mean?
Yeah, I just an educated guess. Have you ever tasted your shower
gel because it smells so good? No.
Come on, of course you have the fruity shower gels that you can
get. You must have like you must have
smelled like God. God this.
This smells like it's delicious. Yeah, I'm watching up until that
point. And just had a little gifts go.
I just have a little taste. Oh no.
No. Well, you neither.
You're tasted Bath bombs. Yeah, me neither.
Don't know what you're on about. If you had to eat a Shard gel,
like if you had to use a Shard gel as a little dressing, yeah,
what Shard gel would you? Like it would be, it would be
or. A question won't be asked
anywhere in the Spotify studios all day, I guarantee you that.
I don't it would be some sort of fruit to see like sort of.
Fragonian nutrace or something. Something like that.
Yeah. OK, sounds like you have tasted
them. It wouldn't be the Mint.
That's what I was thinking. Original source.
That's what I'm thinking. If, if if that does to your
tongue what it does to your balls, then you're in big
trouble. That's the cat.
That's a slogan. It does to your tongue what it
does to your balls. Good luck.
It'll blow your fucking cock off.
That's what. That's what that one feels like.
So I don't want that. Maybe that be good in the mouth.
Just just use that sentence. That's a.
Name of your next? Show yeah, maybe that'll be good
in the mouth. That's the sort of subtext of
Harry Styles is new album. His accents doing my head.
Well, he's sort of sort of Australia, Australia going
accent. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's just because he's trying. He's doing that slow, cool
musician thing like that. Yeah.
Well, I was thinking about LCD
sound system. Yeah, the eyes.
The eyes get a bit smaller, don't they?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they just seem a bit tired.
Yeah, they go. There's Persona where it's just
like a bit tired. I'm just cool.
I'm just yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I will always defend him. I love Harry Styles.
I like his music and I think I'd like him.
Yeah, as a friend. Yeah, OK.
You said you're in the market for a friend.
Thought I was in the running, but no.
It's yours, it's your Harry Styles, and at the minute you're
a winning. Yeah, because he's he's not
available through the pod, but you're on the promo rounds.
So if it's going to happen, it's going to be now, yeah.
I do you know what? I feel like to get in touch with
Harry Styles to get him on the pod.
Probably damned them during COVID and whatever.
And if you haven't are here, like what do you think because
there was people you were able to get during COVID you wouldn't
necessarily got? Interesting, that's a good I
got. Even Holmes, if you get him in
Holmes, you can get Harry Styles.
Like I was at a funeral that Amon Holmes was that, and every
time I looked at Amon Holmes, he was looking at someone else
going like this. He was making a drink gesture.
Oh, I thought you were doing like a frappe or I wasn't.
He was just going like, if you have a drink and it's like, yes,
there's going to be able to chill out, Eamonn, there's going
to be awake. We're going to go for a fucking
drink. You don't need to look at
everyone here. And go.
He didn't even know the decision.
He didn't know this person. Yeah, just go wandered into a
fucking Oh my God. That must have been a cool
moment for you. Not cool, but like, he didn't.
Do it as a gesture to me. Right.
But even just to see, just to see host.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly how you feel.
Did he do that to you over Zoom? No, because he he was, I think
at that point he was like fall or something.
Ohh yeah, yeah, you know, do do you see when he's on GB News and
he fell off that chair? Yes, yeah, didn't something like
that happened this week as well? Something I fell asleep when GB
news this week, Yeah. He.
He felt he's. Going like that to all the
runners, could you just get a quick point before the show?
He fell asleep and did that thing where he's pretended he
hadn't just fallen asleep and he should have just been like, I
fell asleep there. Yeah, because it's GB news.
Yeah, any any 24 hour news. We're just constantly saying the
same thing. Yes, of course you'd fall
asleep. I don't know how they do it.
Yeah. God, he's got an interesting
life, isn't? He I would like to see him on a
funeral. That'll be fun.
Yeah, it really made. He really made it for me.
Yeah, he really cheered. Was it out of context?
Like, did you know we would be there?
It was, I didn't know he would be there, but there was lots of
people like him, right, Sort of in that industry.
Yes, yes, yes. So it wasn't that shocking to
see him there, but it was it was still exciting because he was,
you know, he's big celeb, big star.
Yeah, you know, Harry Styles, you know, in terms of bragging
about getting on your podcast. But he's still a big name that.
Would be a fun pod though. Him and Harry Styles.
To see it if he's falling asleep
in that, that's very disrespectful.
But Harry does speak like he is also falling asleep.
Yes, who's going to fall asleep first?
Asleep first, Have you ever checked?
Because I I did this with my mate the other day.
We were at a Spurs game and they're pretty bleak at the
moment and so you're trying to get conversation going about
something else. But we realised, like if you go
on Tottenham players throughout history's Instagram and then you
click message, it will show you the messages you've sent them
over the years, 10 years ago. We've just become firm friends.
Yeah. Yeah.
Because I also love football and I like weird stuff like.
Exactly right all. Right.
Are you dropping Ramon Vega DM or anything like that?
I haven't actually DM Ramon Vega, but we're talking like
Ryan. Let's even add some.
Oh, you mean more recent? But slightly more recent because
it's the Instagram era. So like, but I was like, I
wonder what I've ever sent to Eric Dyer, if I've ever sent him
anything. And you're sort of expecting I
won't have sent him anything because I understand what it's
like to receive DMS and I don't really read them or respond to
them. So it'd be pointless.
But it's just so many messages to Eric Dyer being like legend,
mate, like that was so good when you went and defended your
brother in the stands. I've got your back.
Or it'd be like, can I interview you for this thing?
It would be fuck, you'd be sick. And then he's just ignoring all
the tongue and being like super Yan, mate.
Love it when you do the celebration.
You're alleged deli ally a million.
Are you? Are you fault?
Do any Spurs player fault you? God, no, I'm not in no.
And The thing is, I had I sort of had to make this decision a
few years ago because I started getting asked to do little
things sort of with the club occasionally, like go on the
pitch half time and chat to them and stuff.
But I in order to do that, I would have sort of had to stop
slagging off Spurs publicly, I guess, especially on Twitter
when Twitter was still a thing. It was like, I just, but I was
like, I can't not slag this team off.
And I had to be like, no, I'm a fan.
I'm not part of this. I'm a fan from a distance.
I watch from the stands. I don't need to go on the
picture half time and do that and have who are you charted at?
Me. I'm a fan of the club and I want
to be able to slag them off. They bring me.
No one in the world brings me more pain and anger in this
thing. Yeah, I need to be able to vent
that publicly. Yeah, or this is a waste of
time. That's what I'm paying for.
But I respect you more than myself because I'm trying to do
the same on Man United. Like I'm looking to do a lot
with Man United as a club. So even like in the last year, I
was like defending Ruben Amarim every week.
Because you because I want to do stuff for the club.
I was like, stick with it. He's going to get it right.
Yeah like you shouldn't change it for me I was DM and him being
like don't change your formation but you're probably.
Agreeing with everything. So Jim Ratcliffe says as well.
Are you? You're saying, yeah, stop the
boats, I go. Jim, if anything, this is a team
view. Yeah, you know.
Your famous catch phrase is, oh, stops the boats.
Yeah, that's what you've always said.
And that's why, yeah, you've Quaker.
Quake at times, Man United. You're the face of that, yeah.
They probably do have a porridge partner, have porridge partners
now because Man United have Man United have a like a deal with,
I think it might be John Deere or someone like that and they're
their agricultural partner. Yeah, we got crypto partner and
stuff like that and you're like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because that's also a scam. Yeah, same as supporting it.
Is it I just? Put a lot of money down this
morning. You've you've picked the wrong
time to do that. I bought a such a crazy NFT last
night as well, cost me a lot. Actually, last night, no, you're
five years later I bought the. Human homes I.
Believe, I believe that you would have bought an NFT.
I've never when NFTS were big I believe.
I don't do any technology stuff like that.
Ah, of course you're still on sort.
Of a gold porridge pot. Never known.
Cripple you're investment money in gold, you're investment.
I'm also quite I'm century based.
Yeah, gold is that, but that is an investment, yes, invest in
gold, yeah, but but that means sort of like on the markets, not
a big gold pot. So do you think when you're
buying that, that you're doing an investment in gold?
Yeah, Interest, is it actual? So is it gold?
So real gold it. Would be insane if it was and it
is. You're worth more than your
house. Can you put it?
You should put a Belfast already at all.
I think there is going to be 1, it's just not announced yet.
Because at the minute it's a lot of what I would call like I know
most of the cities and towns, and then there's some like
someones I thought weren't real. Simpleton and places like that.
I've made that up. But I thought these places were
just like in books about England, like Canterbury I
didn't know was real. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Canterbury Tales and then go there it but there is
Canterbury. Canterbury is a weird one.
Every time I've ever done a show there, there's the I think this
person might be a local celebrity, but there's a
delivery driver in Canterbury that I always see who's on a
tandem bicycle with his like child daughter, and they're a
delivery team of like father and daughter on a tandem bicycle and
that So like if you think the town sounds made-up, it
basically is a load of nonsense that is made-up and it's all
they're like they're on a tandem bicycle going down a cobbled St
to do. It's like all of these towns in
England that have like, it's still like Tudor buildings.
So like Stratford upon Avon, it's still all the buildings
look like Tudor buildings. They're all sort of thatched,
but it's, it's a Pizza Express or it's an HSBC and you're like,
your head is just exploding. What?
It's a vape shop, but it's like from Shakespeare.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, those places freak me out,
but they are always. Canterbury is a great place to
do comedy. They're always really up for it.
But maybe because they're all mad and they see deliver
routines every day. But yeah, there's definitely a
bunch of those. But there are, there's some
dates coming, there's some Irish dates coming, but they're just
like. What do you do?
Belfast. Dublin.
Yeah, probably that. So we.
Cork in there. Might throw a cork in there
throw. A cork in a cork in there.
Yeah, it depends if Dara is willing to tweet about it.
Right. That's I'm relying on that for
the sales in places like Cork, I think, yes.
So it depends if you know how well this friendship goes, if
you'll post about it. I would be more than happy to.
There we go. Well then.
I would, I would, I would actually do that.
I would actually be your friend. I, I think this has gone well
and I could see those, I could see us go and do a game
together. Like I would like to go at some
point to go to the Spurs game with you in the championship.
But I think maybe for the first time we do that.
Maybe there's like a couple more people there and then we can
eventually just have like a one-on-one, Yeah, that's right,
Friendship date kind of thing. So who would need to come to
that? So you need it.
Eamon Holmes and Harry stacks. Yeah, we told so.
God, what a what a bunch. Homie just for the kind.
There'd be cameras on us at all times, but neither of us would
feature in any. Yeah, yeah.
Any. Press Photos with anonymous
friends Harry Styles and Avon Holmes watch football match with
two strangers. They're sleeping and we're just,
we're watching the match like we're.
Leading into these pictures, yeah, me and a comedian called
Lloyd Griffith. I know Lloyd went, went to
England V the Netherlands in the, I believe semi final of the
EUR and we were in a corporate area.
We've got these tickets last minute that Lloyd has sorted out
through being a Wheeler dealer from Tops stickers.
Oh yeah. And so we were in there, and in
front of us was Tommy Fury. He was sat directly in front of
us. And he was being filmed at all
times by his people around him. But also at one point, it was
just before him and Molly May broke up.
Yeah. And he was on FaceTime to Molly
May. And me and Lloyd were just
either side of him in the background of his FaceTime, just
looking at Molly May like the devil Angel on his shoulder.
And Catherine Ryan was sat next to me.
And I was desperate for Catherine to just get her phone
out and take a picture of like me and Lloyd, his screen at me
and Lloyd in the. Background instead of.
My best ever picture and he, yeah, it was really weird
because Tommy Fury is not really into football, I don't think.
He was just sort of there and so he missed most of the second.
Yeah, he did soccer in one year and I was like, that's.
Oh, you could see by the. Way I was annoyed.
Ball. Yeah, yeah, I was really
annoyed. Yeah, that's my dream.
Is it soccer, right? Yeah, I was working on it last
night backstage at the show. In what way?
We work at doing keeping UPS. My, no, my agent was there and
she was like, yeah, we know the people who kind of run it.
And I'm, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to use the Northern Irish
card of like Patrick Hildy used to do years ago.
Yeah, but no, no Irish representatives in a long time.
And I'm really trying to guilt them and be like, it would mean
a lot to the people. It would do a lot of Belfast.
This historic relations been false on both sides, but you
know, I think this could. Yeah, yeah, this could just.
Say so. So rest of world.
Of course I play for a rest for England.
Rest of but rest of the world is a harder 1 isn't it?
Because there's a lot more to pick from.
And I'd also be demanding to start.
I don't think you can do that. I think you get in 5 minutes.
Mini minter from the side men, yeah, got like 2 minutes and is,
I don't know how good you are at football, but he's really good
at football. Yeah, confident.
He's at his porridge mini. Vince is really good and and
really they really need his. He's got so many for.
Does he play for Wrestle World? No, it was, that was England I
believe, but he got on the pitch for hardly any time and all the
side men, I remember it, I was getting all the tick tocks then
going crazy like they were just using him for clout and he
didn't even play him and all this stuff.
Use me for clout. Yeah, exactly.
You'll have. Use me.
I'm happy. I'm happy to I might be to not
get on at the end of the game, take my tracksuit off, walk on
John Terrier. John Terrier.
I'll walk about when my kid on dirty minutes a bit and I'll
I'll be doing that. Yeah, the Ian Sterling method.
Yeah, he's played running down from the commentary version 5
minutes and then celebrate with everyone.
Oh man, OK, I want that. So soccer.
Honestly, soccer. Is positioned would you
different free roll free roll there's no free roles in soccer
aid. He's gonna have to.
They give that to Paul Skulls. Clarence Sedorf gets a free
rollers upgrade. You're not.
You can play the first English second-half, I'll play the
first. What would you would you accept
going in goal to play? No, I think yeah.
Nope. Your requirements are too
narrow. I could.
I would rather not play than do Nets because if I do Nets I'm
going to have a couple of hilers and I don't want that.
Although as a comic, I guess that's kind.
Of thing, it's fine. And I love it's a deprecate and
stuff, so like you take the best out of that.
But I think if I was to do that, it would be like, it'd be like a
Sheila Bay kind of thing, right? Remember that?
My Paraguay goalkeeper, Yeah, yeah, You know, I'd be like
coming up. Every day that trying to do that
yeah, fair enough. Yeah.
And they wouldn't like. I could make I think I can make
an impact. I think she enthusiasm 5
minutes. I actually think I wrote on
them. I was one of the writers on the
remake of Fantasy Football League all last couple of years.
And we would get these research packs on the guests that we
would have to write questions and jokes based on this stuff.
And basically all of the guests, because a researcher would have
called this guest and like interviewed them about their
relationship with football. And we just get 10 pages on
Soccer Aid from these people. And all of the writers were just
like, yeah, okay, you've done Soccer Aid.
No one gives a fucking. It was like driving us mad.
They were just, you know, how people talk about the strictly
family, Yes. And you go like, yes, it makes
me feel sick. Just like, get a grip.
You're on a dance. Best thing I've ever done.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
No, it never leaves you. Yeah, never.
That family never leaves you. Yeah.
And it's not the mafia. You're in the mop.
And Socrate is the same thing, I think, where it's like this
weird cult where once you do it, it's like you will never
understand the bonding of doing a penalty shootout against David
Seaman. I will never understand the
crossbar challenge with Tom Hiddleston.
It really just changes things and you're just sort of like,
what are you I? Want me and him and Holmes
upfront for the rest of the world?
I don't know if you get any knows.
Upfront, you'd be surprised. Technology these days, those
medical teams, they can do a great deal, a bit of magic
sponge. When does it start?
September and I'll run through the the next year.
Yeah, I think it's at the moment it's going till the end of May.
Tell you what, see if you do a Belfast show, I'll come open if
you like. Oh yeah, unless you bring an
opener and you don't want that. No, no, that'd be great.
I would. I would really do.
That I would love to, yeah. Yeah.
Because I do that quite a bit when people are coming over.
Nice. I like to just like.
Cocktail. Bring in, you know.
Yeah, that'd be lovely. Yeah, I'd love that.
That'd be great. Can I say some of this?
I feel like this going really well.
Yeah. From podcast on a friendship
point of view, Yeah, nice. And I mean nothing.
And I actually think we could have a Nandos when you're in
Belfast as well. Yeah, if you want.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think we can do and I
think we can even hire a 5A side pitch, do some drills, you know
what I mean? Get some cones.
I'm playing tomorrow in London, I'm playing for a team in London
tomorrow. What do you mean for a team?
I put it on Instagram on Thursday.
Then yesterday said well we only got every play.
From. We could do with that.
Plan for some Paul Celtic. You're a team of Scottish guys
to play in the league here. Oh no, from the boots and
Chimpat. So really good as a kid.
No. Oh, right, but.
Or an adult, but I like to. Do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fine. No, my own shin pads.
That's my levels commitment. Yes, yeah, yeah, they're gold as
well. Solid gold race.
Thank you so much for coming on, Paul.
We'll put the link for the tour and all that in the description
of the episode. Lovely.
Thank you. Very much click on it, but thank
you very much. Thank you, it's great to have a
new friend.