1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,560 Coming up, do you shave? Sometimes. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,160 Would you look like me if you didn't shave? 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:06,920 What? Indian. 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,480 Yeah. But you do look like you could 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:10,960 come across as a football hooligan. 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,560 You've got the look of a foot. You could you could play many 7 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,160 parts. Mike Occasion of White. 8 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,680 You're kind of like almost an ethnic minority because you're 9 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:19,480 Irish. I know. 10 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 So you're not white White. No, I'm off white. 11 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,320 Yeah, you're an off white. You're like cream. 12 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,720 Your nose isn't straight, but you are. 13 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:35,880 I'm straight, my nose is gay. Don't Ask Me That is sponsored 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,600 by Mrs. Elswood Pickles. Genuinely top tier Pickles give 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,840 you a lunch, a proper upgrade with Mrs. Elswood. 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,240 They're brilliant in sandwiches, they're great in burgers and a 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,880 game changer in salads. Pick up a jar the next time 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 you're at the shop. Today I'm joined on Don't Ask Me 19 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,160 That podcast with me, Paul Chowdhury with another 20 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,880 exclusive. I'm joined by one of Northern 21 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,800 Ireland's top stand up comedians. 22 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:10,080 Huge podcaster. He grew up in Hollywood, not the 23 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,760 one you're thinking of, the shithole near Belfast. 24 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,320 Despite that, he supported some of the biggest names in American 25 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:20,520 stand up and on the global scene. 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:28,560 I introduce to my audience and further afield, Mr. Shane Todd. 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,720 Yes, there's a lot of, you know, there wasn't that a lot of. 28 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,000 Gravitas. There's a lot of gravity. 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,080 And I've never said that word. I don't. 30 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,000 Think you think my voice has got gravitas? 31 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,400 Loads of loads of it. It's because it's deep you. 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:41,960 Know. Yeah. 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,840 And it's deep and it's, it's, it's concise. 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,320 Really. Yeah, I take that as a 35 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:48,000 compliment. Have you ever been to Hollywood? 36 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,600 I've been to Hollywood, my Hollywood, not your one. 37 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,000 Well, you can't call it a shithole because you would love 38 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,640 it. You would love it. 39 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,640 I might have to re record that intro, no? 40 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,720 No, keep it. Because I'm going to get a lot 41 00:01:58,720 --> 00:01:59,680 of backlash. You're not. 42 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,520 It's too small of a town to get backlash. 43 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's not enough people to 44 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,400 come together to organize some sort of protest or something. 45 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,320 But here's what I'd like to do. I see down the line me and you 46 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,440 making a documentary about you being in Hollywood and then at 47 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,320 the end of it you break down and say this place is lovely. 48 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,760 It's a nice. It is lovely. 49 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,920 When I get cancelled in Hollywood? 50 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:22,720 Yes, but your Hollywood only has 1L. 51 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,120 That's right. My production company is called 52 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,360 1L Productions because we're the original man. 53 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,160 We were there long before. It's Hollywood in America. 54 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,440 They just, they just made that up. 55 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,800 Yeah, on the hills. Yeah, we all. 56 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,240 We all like the the hot. I can't. 57 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,040 Well. We had one for a while. 58 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,120 There's a place called Spa Field, which is like some 59 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,880 playing fields and we which has a slight hill on the side of it. 60 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,160 And we had our own version of that, but the letters weren't 61 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,280 like heavy enough, so it would just blow away. 62 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,040 So it'd be like Hollywood or, you know, Hollywood, Yeah. 63 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,800 Or Hollywood, you know, so but, but I think we should. 64 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,680 I think we should have. I've just come back from 65 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,920 Hollywood actually, and in LA, in LA and it's one of the 66 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:09,800 biggest shit holes in America now. 67 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,720 It's weird and. It's a dump. 68 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,760 And it's all spread out. You can't. 69 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,000 You can't walk the places. Podcast takes you about an hour 70 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,600 to get to each one. Yeah, I've been a few times and 71 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,080 I do like it, but I just kind of like looking up at that sign, 72 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,360 you know. But I think I would like to have 73 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,440 been there 30 years ago or something. 74 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,480 But it is, it is still cool to be there, but it is. 75 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,240 But my one is the me in Hollywood. 76 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,880 You would like my Hollywood more than that one, I guarantee you. 77 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,200 That I do love the people of Northern Ireland, yes. 78 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,600 Want to say that. No offence to the Southern 79 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Irish. Yeah, I know you guys. 80 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,960 I know we can bring this up, but you had some troubles. 81 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,160 Yeah, there was a better stuff. Yeah, I think that's fair to 82 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,240 say. And. 83 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,000 There's a bit of a pullover. Yeah, there was Catholics and 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,840 the Protestants who had an issue with each other, which I 85 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,800 obviously won't bring up in the Don't Ask Me That podcast 86 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,160 because you have asked me not to. 87 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,640 Specifically say. Yeah, don't bring this up, which 88 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,080 I'm going to keep away from. I think that's a touch of class 89 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,320 from you. That's the that's why at all. 90 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,240 Exactly. That's the name of the podcast 91 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:12,880 is Don't Ask Me That, so I won't. 92 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,880 No, that and I appreciate that. But for reference purposes, 93 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:22,800 what's your religion? Look, I have this policy where 94 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,840 and I think it's brave to have this policy, especially in this, 95 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,960 with the history of where I'm from, I will be whatever I need 96 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,800 to be. Do you know what I mean? 97 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,360 So I'm willing to, I think it takes a lot of balls really to 98 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,120 stand up and say, first of all, I when I'm home, I say, where am 99 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,200 I? What's the demographic? 100 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,240 And then I'll, I'll be that. So I'm willing to flip flop 101 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,400 between Protestant Catholic multiple times a day. 102 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,200 You know, I get the money from the show, cash in hand, get back 103 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,920 in the car and then go back to neutral, you know, but I, I'm, 104 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,080 I'm willing to be both. I grew up with no religion in 105 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,880 the house, like at all. So no one in my family either 106 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,120 side really goes to church. And I'll be very rare in 107 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,960 Northern Ireland. Now the downside of this is with 108 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,320 doing stand up people do get obsessed. 109 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,120 You do like it would amaze you that in 2026 people are still 110 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,840 like but what are you? People need to know that. 111 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,960 But I genuinely have never been anything and my family aren't 112 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,480 anything. So I I say like, well, I'm 113 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,320 nothing. I don't I'm not religious at 114 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,280 all, but that's no good to people. 115 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,040 But they need they're indeed. But what are you? 116 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,080 You're a nothing. What? 117 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,280 And your pronouns? Yes, you have to have a pronoun. 118 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,880 Yes, a religion and an identity. I have no identity. 119 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,760 You have nothing. I'm like an assassin. 120 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,920 You are, you come. In Dead, I'm in the I'm just in 121 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:48,960 the shadows. You're just. 122 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,080 Yeah, I'm a myth. A mystique. 123 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,960 I'm a myth who does sex podcasts a week, You know I'm like, but 124 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,600 who is a? Profile, Yeah. 125 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,160 But like that, that has always been since I started stand up 126 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,440 people just what? So I kind of like winding people 127 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,120 up at shows back home because because when you when you sort 128 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,680 of play both sides, but you're open about that. 129 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,240 I think people like that because not many people do that, you 130 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,560 know? Because you're obviously a very 131 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,480 young man. You see, when I grew up during 132 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,800 the Troubles and they almost blew me up at one point in 133 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,840 London, right, the fly over near my house, which I used to drive 134 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:30,840 over got blown up just before I drove on the on the fly over at 135 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:35,600 Brent Cross right and hang a lane like it's with the name of 136 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,240 the road. It was like the Brent Cross fly 137 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,520 over where the shopping centre was and they decided in the 138 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,680 morning to. But the thing about the IRA was 139 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,240 they'd give you a warning. It was a you got a phone call 140 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:47,040 you. Got a phone call? 141 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,040 15 minutes to get out, yeah, you know. 142 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,000 They were very ethical. That, you know what I think 143 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,280 that's been lost in terrorism there's. 144 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:55,640 Been lost now there's no ethics anymore, there's no values. 145 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,520 Pete, can I say something? Terrorists nowadays Rude. 146 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,680 Yeah. You know there wasn't that phone 147 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,440 call before and probably ring up and say hi. 148 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:03,520 Are you at the start of the call? 149 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,920 They don't even put the work in, you see, they just the admin has 150 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,480 gone down. Yeah, yeah. 151 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,480 You guys had secretaries? That human touch, yeah, you 152 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,400 know, but can I say sorry? But yeah, about that. 153 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,240 Although it was just before you drove over to like just. 154 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,280 Can you say? Sorry, you say you're nearly 155 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,240 could have been blown up on that. 156 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,480 I'm just coming over here to say I apologize for that. 157 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,080 Well, I'm sure you have no connection to Jerry Adams. 158 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,120 You'd be surprised. Not anymore. 159 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,920 But you see, this is Northern Ireland you see, and Southern 160 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,880 Ireland is very different and I don't want to offend any people 161 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,120 in both parts because I do tour across Ireland. 162 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,080 Very good people. The Irish, I know it's not 163 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,840 trying to be patronising in any way, but I'm a Sikh and we're 164 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,520 considered the Irish of India because of the amount we drink. 165 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,760 Right, right, right. Because there's that Irish thing 166 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,360 we would say. People always say we're the 167 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,840 blacks of Europe. It's been racist, but yeah. 168 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:58,480 But that's, that's the, that's the old. 169 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,360 Phrase we'll apologise to people in Europe, yeah, but you know, 170 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,840 the Sinn Fein and the IRA and Gerry Adams have obviously it's 171 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,200 all moved on, you know, and, and you grew up and you're a younger 172 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,360 man than myself. What do you think I am, Puff? 173 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,720 You must be coming up to 23. I love that. 174 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,200 Say that again for two class 37? Really. 175 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,320 Yeah. I've been in stand for 19 years. 176 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,160 19 years now. Can I ask a big question? 177 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,400 What's the see sheiks and sikks? Yeah, what's the difference? 178 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,320 Sheiks and sikks. Sikks and shikks. 179 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,200 Oh, sheikhs, Sheikhs are they're like in the in the Middle East, 180 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,880 right are they're a Sheikh who like they have their whole. 181 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,039 Garb a Sikh. A Sikh isn't a Sheikh. 182 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:46,200 But what if a Sikhs in the Middle East a Sheikh? 183 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,080 That doesn't make them a Sheikh. No, a Sheikh. 184 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,880 A Sheikh is like the Middle East and somebody in the United Arab 185 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,160 Emirates. Yeah, get you. 186 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,600 And generally Muslims. Get you get, you get. 187 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,960 You, whereas we are Sikhs, generally Indians. 188 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,280 And Sikhs like the booze. That's what you're telling me. 189 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,840 They don't it's not part of the religion. 190 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,800 Yeah, but they do enjoy a drink. Yeah. 191 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,480 You see, and I've got into a lot of trouble with this and I'm. 192 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,800 I'm sure this is going to cause me you you're causing me issues 193 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:12,360 now. I'm sorry. 194 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,960 My own, my own audience is going to try and cancel me, you see, 195 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,480 because when I do shows now, I go to Ireland and they like a, 196 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,320 they like a drink, they Heckle and you're going to get heckled 197 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,200 and you'll move on. You see. 198 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:29,760 You perform to Muslim crowds, teetotal, no alcohol. 199 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:34,160 It's a very listening audience. But when I perform to the Hindus 200 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,240 and the Sikhs, the heckling is on another level. 201 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,640 They're like the new wave of white people, right? 202 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Because the white people just kind of calm down with the 203 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,240 drinking. Yes, yes. 204 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,800 Even the Irish have taken the drinking levels down. 205 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,320 We're doing like 8-9 pints now, you know, basically tea total. 206 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,480 In the morning. But you're a big drinker. 207 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,320 I can see you're drinking now. I'm on the coffee now. 208 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,480 I, I, I am very Irish in my drinking in that I would say I'm 209 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,200 tea total. I would say I don't drink. 210 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,000 If you said do you drink, I said don't drink. 211 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,000 But on special occasions I drink. 212 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,720 But special occasions would be anyone's birthday that I vaguely 213 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,040 know, a wedding, a christening, a funeral. 214 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,320 After I've done maybe a really big show, I'll have a few 215 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,240 drinks. But I would say I'm teetotal, 216 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,360 but I'm like an Irish teetotal where I would do like I'm going 217 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,720 to stag do next month. I'll drink all day for like 3-4 218 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,960 days but that's just because it's a stag do so I'll drink 219 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,800 regularly on special occasions heavily. 220 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,640 You're a method actor. But I'm Tito. 221 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,160 Because the thing about drinking, like when you're used 222 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,600 to funerals, wakes. Yeah, yeah. 223 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,000 Is an Irish thing. It's it's you're. 224 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,240 Yeah. Even when someone's dead. 225 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,840 Yeah, you're like, I have a point, like. 226 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:52,440 Yeah, sorry. Well, it's my. 227 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,080 Why are we so? I don't know why that happened. 228 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,080 I think you can. Irish people convert. 229 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,640 Before you confuse our. Pitch. 230 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:04,600 I don't know why I did that. I think I did my neck in last 231 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,080 night, you see, and right, right, right. 232 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,840 But it was a a a bad attempt at a Northern Irish. 233 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,360 But what are the so the the audience who come and see you 234 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,720 know who who are heckling a lot? What's the temple? 235 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,080 Because it, you know, is it. Just beer, WW Spirits. 236 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,120 Whiskey's dangerous. I don't want the audience having 237 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,480 spirits. You see, beer isn't as big a 238 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,040 thing in the Asian communities in the Indian diaspora. 239 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,720 They're more into the spirits. Right, right, right. 240 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,200 Generally, the whiskeys are a big thing, right? 241 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,880 OK. And Jamaicans are more than rum. 242 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,480 Yeah, and Guinness. And they love, they love a 243 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,800 Guinness. Jamaica, and I think it's 244 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,240 Nigeria. Nigeria. 245 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,520 Nigerians love the Guinness you. See, when my dad came to to 246 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,360 England in 1964 and worked on the buses as a bus conductor on 247 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,160 London transport, it was mainly the and I grew up with the 248 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,640 Irish, that part of London like Kilburn, and it was a big Irish 249 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,400 population. And when people would go into 250 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,680 hospital, Guinness was was like a supplement. 251 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,320 For iron, right? For iron. 252 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,200 Yeah, they they, they made pregnant ladies drinking. 253 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,760 Yeah. So it was given out as a vitamin 254 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,600 supplement in hospital. I don't know, actually a vitamin 255 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,800 supplement, but it was used, yeah, for medicinal purposes, 256 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:16,800 yeah. Yeah. 257 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,080 So you guys were at the forefront of medical advanced? 258 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,920 Pioneers. Yeah, we're pioneers. 259 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,640 You may actually be good because alcohol does cure the body of 260 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,640 everything. It cleanses everything. 261 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,640 Yes, yes, it will cleanse you of all the toxins. 262 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,240 I'm on a Stella cleanse at the minute, yeah, which has been 263 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,160 great. Exactly, Look at look at you're 264 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,960 37 years old. Who would have thought? 265 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,600 I. Have Crohn's disease though. 266 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,400 I'm sorry to hear that. That's no problem, have you? 267 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:46,800 Been public with that before. Yeah. 268 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,280 This wasn't an exclusive. No, because I was going to say 269 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,360 exclusive. Shane Todd reveals he has 270 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,600 Crohn's disease. You like, I've heard that, that 271 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,760 you're on this pod. You like your guest to like 272 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,040 reveal contract something? Yeah. 273 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:01,600 And then reveal. And then reveal it. 274 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,520 Yeah, cry. Yes, crying is a big thing now 275 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,200 online. I cried yesterday. 276 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,240 Online no. Oh, in real life I was watching 277 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:10,960 something online. What you're wasting that for? 278 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,560 I know I couldn't get the camera quick enough. 279 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,040 Well, they just do a retake, you know when you see people cry, I 280 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,560 think. How many takes did this take to 281 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,080 get the right cry? I cried on the train yesterday. 282 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,040 I come. I was watching a video of it 283 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,840 just came up of kids getting fitted with like hearing aids 284 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,480 and hearing for the first time. I've. 285 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,120 Seen I was completely gone. And when the kid and the baby 286 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,240 like it, it can hear. And then, yeah, I've said tough 287 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,040 on that one. Gone even like I, I don't have 288 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,200 pets, I'm not an animal person, but seeing like pets reunited 289 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,840 with their owners. You ever seen the one where the 290 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,800 guy it's in like Georgia or somewhere then not the America 291 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,600 one like the one like maybe near Russia or something If it is 292 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:55,800 near there, like it's around that region like of like you 293 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:01,000 know those guys right? Like near there it's a guy whose 294 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,120 dog's been missing for like 7 or 8 years and he's never given up 295 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:05,960 looking for it. You fight. 296 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,160 Have you ever seen this and he finds it after years and he's an 297 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,760 old guy and see when the dog that him and the dog see each 298 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,240 other the there's just like a second where the dogs like you 299 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,560 can you see the dog go? This can't be real and then he 300 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,000 realizes it is but. We wouldn't have recognized the 301 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,720 guy, but the dog did. The dog did because it smells 302 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,160 it. Yeah, they can smell it. 303 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,640 Yeah, like the Greyfriars, Bobby, you remember that? 304 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,000 That like we dog in Scotland used to sit in its owner's 305 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,440 grave. Oh yeah. 306 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,920 Yeah, those are tough ones as well. 307 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,680 But then I read about that and then apparently the guy who 308 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,320 worked in the graveyard used to like leave food there for him 309 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,560 and stuff. I don't know how he sentimental 310 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:43,800 law was. I think he was just looking 311 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,280 like, you know, biscuits or something. 312 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,360 Good, good way to go viral. Yeah, you've got to find these 313 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,320 little hacks. Your algorithm is different to 314 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,640 mine, right? I'm getting like a lot of Bonnie 315 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,080 Blue videos. Right, right, right, right. 316 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:01,240 And a lot of like ass clapping videos, you know when I went on 317 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,360 they they juggle the cheeks and it's like clapping. 318 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,920 And is it? Is there something in the middle 319 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,920 or it's just? Just that really right? 320 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,760 They're not algorithm is just I don't know. 321 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,400 Your algorithm seems to be. Mines emotional reuniting videos 322 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,440 because because I have two kids who I when I tour I missed them 323 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,200 and I'm like but I've only been there. 324 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,840 Like I'm watching videos of soldiers who have been away for 325 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,600 12 years coming home and I've just been there like Birmingham, 326 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,680 Sheffield and Leeds to do the Glee clubs. 327 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,240 But but I'm equally as emotional when I get reunited. 328 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,920 But my algorithm is reuniting videos and like nostalgic 329 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:40,440 football from like the late 90s. So you, your other half, could 330 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,800 go through your algorithm and there'll be no issues. 331 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,440 There's no issue. Nobody can see my algorithm. 332 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,960 There's no issue because here's the thing, you know, for us clap 333 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,880 and all that kind of thing, I just buy magazines, you know, 334 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,080 newsagents I still would buy, like Rosler and all that kind of 335 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:56,520 stuff. Really. 336 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,480 You can actually go no, no, no. Because we used to find them in 337 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,400 the woods when we were kids. Yeah, the the, the old hedge 338 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,080 thing people. People used to try and bury 339 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,520 their old pornography. Yeah. 340 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,200 Now it's your algorithm. In Ireland it's like you, you 341 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,760 still buy like paintings and stuff, you know? 342 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,240 The Renaissance. Period. 343 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,120 Yeah, yeah. Pornography was different back 344 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,680 then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 345 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,240 When I was a kid. Games change like. 346 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:19,840 Game has changed. I bet like terrorism. 347 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,200 To get terrorism is just there's no ethics. 348 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,760 Lost to human touch? I actually used to come to 349 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,160 Northern Ireland on a regular basis to perform for the blame 350 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,080 game. Yes, the panel show, yeah. 351 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,000 The panel show the blame game great, great show in Northern 352 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,600 Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland and and the the hotel that they 353 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,000 used to put us up in was the hotel that was the most bombed 354 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,200 hotel. We are very proud of the Europa. 355 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:44,800 Hotel. What? 356 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,280 A hotel. Should have the Europe Hotel 357 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,200 most bombed hotel in the world? In the world. 358 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:49,680 Thank you very much. Not just Europe. 359 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,800 Thank you. And, and there's some nostalgia 360 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,320 when you stay in it. Absolutely and unlike. 361 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,480 No offense to anyone. And people, people stay there 362 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,720 and they're like, oh, my God. So like, hundreds of years ago, 363 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,240 this would have been blown up. And they were like, way less 364 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,319 years ago than you think. Yeah, way more last year's news 365 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,200 should be comfortable with, like, not that long ago. 366 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,000 And let's not rule out that someday it happens again, you 367 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,400 know? But we're we're weird about 368 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,680 that. We've got that hotel, the 369 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,079 Titanic, of course. Yeah. 370 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,200 The things that we're proud of and we showed about have a sad 371 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,440 history. Yeah, that's what the Titanic. 372 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,599 The famine music. Ireland's very like Troubles 373 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,520 stuff, Famine stuff. Yeah, they do like trauma. 374 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,480 Yeah, love it. Which they do like trauma. 375 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,040 They're they're very much into depression. 376 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,440 Yeah. But when I did, I used to do the 377 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,440 the show there in in the Belfast Empire. 378 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,240 Yep. And they and then what they 379 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,520 would do in those days and we're going. 380 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,080 When you're saying those days, yeah, how far are you going 381 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,440 back? We're going back to like the 382 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,920 2000 and probably 6. Right. 6:00-ish. 383 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,680 Because that might have been around the time. 384 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,560 I still remember the first time seeing you on Life of the 385 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:56,440 Apollo. Oh really? 386 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,920 I remember being blown away by yourself on Life of the Apollo. 387 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,840 Honestly, I mean that. That was 2012. 388 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,040 This was way before that. OK, OK. 389 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,760 We're going back to like Colin Murphy. 390 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,520 Colin Murphy would have been Colin Still MC the Old Testament 391 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,040 still there. Yeah, yeah. 392 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,800 Now what they would do is they would put on the the the 393 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,880 travelling or the international comic generally from England on 394 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,120 as a headliner. And then and Colin would do like 395 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,320 an hour just understand. And they'd have a bunch of Irish 396 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,560 comics that would destroy, and they'd put the British guy at 397 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,920 the end on like, early midweek Tuesday night. 398 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,080 It was Tuesday. And you stay in the hotel 399 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:39,360 upstairs. Yeah, Yeah. 400 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,280 And you could hear the nightclub office was downstairs. 401 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,200 And. And when you go on the stage, 402 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,200 people were so drunk by that point. 403 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,680 And the English guy would come on and they would Boo him off 404 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,480 stage. It would be, I don't know if you 405 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,560 find it, but it would be always the first 10 seconds, yeah, 406 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,720 dictate how it was going to go. Because if you were an actor 407 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,760 come over from England and you killed, you really killed and 408 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,680 they really went for it. But if you didn't, that place 409 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,520 could be a bear pit. It was tough. 410 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,080 Gig, I've been on both sides of it where like I've had nights 411 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,520 where it's been unbelievable and I've had nights where especially 412 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,720 like when I was starting or doing like the middle spot, if 413 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,000 if your first bit didn't connect, they just talked 414 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,160 amongst themselves. Yeah. 415 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,440 And that's worse than being booed. 416 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,200 That's worse, the indifference of it, you know. 417 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,160 Tough gig, but Colin was a very, you know, he, he was very good 418 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,200 to the headline act. You'll do an hour just before 419 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,680 you. So he was good like that. 420 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:39,520 And then and then you'd go up and, and I'd go up because I was 421 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,120 the British guy. But then they would see me as an 422 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,720 Indian guy and think, well, we don't know if we should be 423 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,280 booing him off. Right, right. 424 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,840 And then kind of some would listen and some would just talk 425 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,040 about because they were so drunk they didn't even want comedy at 426 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,480 that point. People are trying to get some 427 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,920 pom pom there. Because it started, people were. 428 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,000 This isn't no freeze. It will be in our vocabulary. 429 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,360 Boom boom. Yeah, they were trying. 430 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,040 I couldn't say that. Yeah, you know what I'm talking 431 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,320 about. They're trying to get Galdem. 432 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,160 Again, in my accent, Galdem doesn't sound right. 433 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,880 Boom Boom definitely doesn't. And I'm up on stage, yeah, 434 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,480 trying to trying to do some. I don't want to hear me at that 435 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,680 point, right? Yeah, 11:45. 436 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,400 Yeah, that's the other thing, because that that gig famously 437 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,560 starts quite late, really late. And especially if there was 438 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,640 football, there always seemed to be a Champions League game on 439 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,400 beforehand, so people were watching that match get juiced 440 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,480 up and then come upstairs at the comedy club. 441 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,400 I like I my shows tour shows always started 8:00 PM, and this 442 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,560 year every show half seven. See that extra. 443 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,640 How far? You go into half seven now. 444 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,440 I started half 7. That's what I do now, yeah. 445 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,520 It's a game makes a. Difference and you do the both 446 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,040 both halves or you have a support. 447 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,000 I have support, so support will do 20 minutes. 448 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,200 If I've got two guys, they'll do 30 minutes and then break and 449 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,160 then I'll do 70. Yeah. 450 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,160 What are you both UPS? Yeah, I mean, I I kind of do 2 451 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,400 hours, right? So I do like say half an hour, 452 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,400 40 minutes break an hour and 10 with an interval. 453 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,400 But when I start the tour, I'll have somebody opening and then 454 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,920 the tour expands. Yeah, go along, let's get longer 455 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,560 and that's sort. Of but then at the same time 456 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,040 with the attention span these days, is it too long? 457 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,680 I personally find like an hour is great. 458 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,840 Yeah, part of me, I would love to just do 50 or maybe 55, but 459 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,160 then like you say, you have fun with bits and you end up doing 460 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,200 longer than you. Do like in America that that's 461 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,800 the model, right? 50 minutes a year. 462 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,200 Yeah, and there are no interval. No, no, they think it's. 463 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,960 Crazy when you do a break. Well, Louis just came over here 464 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,080 and the the Apollo and even like get a couple of supports and 465 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,120 then straight him. There was no, no intermission. 466 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,720 Yeah, like when I do, for instance, I did the Comedy 467 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,080 Cellar in New York for a while, did a couple of weeks there. 468 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,360 There's no intermissions. It's straight. 469 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because they have table service. 470 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,240 And then you're the Czech act at the end, Yes. 471 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,800 And then they're dealing with the Czechs while you're up 472 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,080 there. And over here we would address 473 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,720 that. You can't even talk to them. 474 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,600 Yes, I had that in LA last time I was there. 475 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,720 I was like, this is great, what a line up. 476 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,880 And then they all leave and you're on and you can see the 477 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,360 audience LED up by their book in the Ruber. 478 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,800 Yeah, you just can see everyone booking the Uber. 479 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,520 Which club was that, the Improv or the improv? 480 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,560 Hollywood Improv. Yeah, yeah, I was out there a 481 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,840 couple of months ago. I'm going back to do Pasadena. 482 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,880 Oh yeah, that Netflix is a joke festival. 483 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,040 I would love to do that. So so. 484 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,920 I would love to do that. I'm doing my own show there in 485 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,200 in May May the 6th. That's great. 486 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:46,200 I think May the 4th is is is Seinfeld and and his writing 487 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,120 partner. That'll be unbelievable. 488 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,520 Larry David doing a show together. 489 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,680 Will you go watch that? If I can get in, if I can get 490 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:56,960 in. You know, it's weird going to 491 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,920 watch a show as a comedian, isn't it? 492 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,960 Especially when you don't buy a ticket. 493 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,240 I think I've just got to that point where I can go and enjoy 494 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,880 it and just be a fan and not do the working every bit out then. 495 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,480 When I did Montreal last time, I headlined that British showcase 496 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,360 way back and I I saw Dylan Moran. 497 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,880 But it just feels weird going to watch other comics. 498 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,880 Yeah, I know what you mean. Dylan doesn't ever want 499 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,320 pictures. He never wants a selfie. 500 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,600 Right, right, right. Doesn't like pictures of himself 501 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,560 and other people. I opened for him a few months 502 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,240 ago. He was doing some like work in 503 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,840 progress shows in Belfast and I was like that'll be fun to go to 504 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,240 go open. And it was great because I used 505 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,080 to have a DVD of his. It was a show called Monster. 506 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,720 Monster, Yeah. Brilliant. 507 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,640 So good. So you were in America because 508 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,640 you had an American management? Yeah, at one point, which is why 509 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,160 you open for the likes of Bill Burr. 510 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,120 Yeah, yeah. Kevin Hart Yeah. 511 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,280 What happened with the American situation? 512 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,840 I thought that was my thing where I was like, you know, no 513 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,600 one else is really doing it and going over there. 514 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,680 I enjoy more American comedy than anywhere else. 515 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,320 So I went, maybe that should be what I'm sort of aiming for. 516 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,840 And the goal. I got my visa, spent a time and 517 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,840 money. Yeah, no one. 518 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,480 And. How many years? 519 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,040 2 year visa 4. Four year it was it was 4 now 520 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,120 it's changed to three, right. So I got that and then I was 521 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:19,680 sort of going over semi regularly with the eye of 522 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,960 building it up and and then who knows kind of and then so I got 523 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,600 and I got really good representation out there, like 524 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,840 agents. I was with WME right, who are 525 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,560 like one of the biggest and looked after everyone. 526 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,920 So it worked out great because when their acts were coming over 527 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,720 to UK and Ireland, I'm a big fan of going, you know, hey, I'll 528 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,080 come do 1520 minutes, I don't care if you pay me, I'll come 529 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,120 and do it. That's how good to do the shows 530 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,800 of those guys. But then the America thing just 531 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,600 kind of, I still tour right there, but I may be away for 532 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,840 10-11 days because once my kids came along, my priorities 533 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:04,760 totally changed like instantly. And I just lost all motivation 534 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,400 to in my head, not break America. 535 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,480 But I was, I was thinking, I want to do something like that. 536 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,520 And now that's just something I can go and enjoy as like a 537 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,960 little bonus. But I'll never leave where I 538 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,640 live. Yeah, because I just did A10 539 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,160 state tour in America and it's. Intense. 540 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,280 Intense. So you can get to Ireland from 541 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,800 London? Yeah, quicker than getting to 542 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,800 another part. Of other cities, yeah, it's not. 543 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,440 But I it was, it was great then I had a really good team out 544 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,560 there and but I just would have needed to have spent longer 545 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,520 there. That's the thing in in America, 546 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,120 like you'll go to a stand up comedy night, a club night, not 547 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,760 a tour show, and you'll see some of the biggest names in comedy. 548 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,600 Back to like 6 of them. Whereas over here there's almost 549 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,440 like we're beyond that. You rarely see unless they they 550 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,040 test material to their own audience. 551 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,200 And I and I, I know you play like top secret a lot and things 552 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,080 like that. And anytime I'm on tour, I still 553 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,600 want to, if I've got a day off, can I go and do the local club? 554 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,880 I would hate to, I would hate to lose that. 555 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,960 You know that that that desire to also want to go and do the 556 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,280 clubs. And I get these people are doing 557 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,160 these very lucrative tours, but I also can't work out why you 558 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,720 don't want to drop in and do 10 minutes here, test some stuff, 559 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,240 be in a comedy club environment doing the theatres and and 560 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,480 arenas. That's great. 561 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:35,160 But like the doing the clubs, I nearly would enjoy the clubs 562 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,440 more. Well, club comedy is very 563 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,000 different to tour shows and your own because they're they're 564 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,600 there to be in your company. Whereas in a club they just want 565 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,480 to get the jokes. But I think it's very important 566 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,560 to test material in front of people that don't know who you 567 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,720 are, of course, see if it works and then expand on it your own 568 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,800 shows. And then you can you can find 569 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,800 some of the bones and then building that and then and then 570 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,840 make it your voice. But it's tough, man. 571 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,480 Yeah. No matter how many years are in 572 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,680 stand up, if you ever think you've mastered it, you haven't. 573 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,760 And like you say, if you're only doing theatres in your own tour 574 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,480 and they're only there for you, then when you, if you eventually 575 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,200 do go back to clubs, you know, you'll realize like, oh shit, 576 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,880 the I'm, I'm not owed anything by the crowd here. 577 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,600 You know, So I that's why I like, I would always want to do 578 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,960 clubs. Yeah, well, Belfast when I did 579 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,200 it a few months ago and and Dublin a very different 580 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,080 audiences. Dublin's more of an 581 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,000 international audience, yeah. Did you find that? 582 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960 Yeah, and it's very local. In Belfast, yeah. 583 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,280 And they're a bit more reserved I found in in Belfast. 584 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,720 Did you think so? Yeah, but then when I'm at the 585 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,200 first half, so I just went out. I was a great crowd, you know? 586 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,720 But they're very comedy literate and it's almost like they watch 587 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,640 stand up like theatre. Right. 588 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,760 I found in Belfast. Well, I, I think there's so much 589 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,840 comedy. Belfast went from having hardly 590 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,240 any comedy to this explosion of of comedy. 591 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,480 We've got that arena there now, right? 592 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,360 Yeah, and there's half a dozen local comics playing in that 593 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,960 arena. And that just that doesn't 594 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,760 happen anywhere else. So people might have enjoyed 595 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,200 watching a bit of stand up, but you had to watch it on TV or 596 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,560 wait until your favorite comic came over once every five years. 597 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,400 And now there's loads of comedy nights and there's loads of 598 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,960 local comedians. So there's just far more. 599 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,640 So I think that maybe novelty of this is a night that we're 600 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,000 getting to watch live stand up comedy. 601 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,440 It's now almost like going to the cinema. 602 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,320 It's just a regular thing you can do. 603 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,040 Well, that's the thing. Cinema now is in the living 604 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,680 room, right is. And cinema is dying. 605 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,720 Yeah, I've been to the cinema in like 8-7 years or something. 606 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,120 Once Upon a time in Hollywood, that. 607 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,800 Was the last. Thing you saw, I went to the 608 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,600 cinema. I wouldn't even know what. 609 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,240 I saw and it was that good that I went. 610 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,800 I don't, I don't want to. I'm happy to leave my cinema 611 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,280 career there. Yeah. 612 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,560 And I've had a big cinema career. 613 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,200 I sneak a lot of things into the cinema. 614 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,600 Into the cinema, yeah. Like guns? 615 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:08,400 No, like pizza, Couple of beers. It used to be a beer guy. 616 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,160 Used to take him in. You wouldn't smile at the box 617 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:10,920 office. No small. 618 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,320 Cans of beer or they wouldn't serve alcohol in cinemas in 619 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,360 Belfast. Jesus. 620 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,200 The place would be basically carnage, but I'd sneak in a few 621 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,240 cans in my coat pocket. Yeah, can of beer in the cinema. 622 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,960 Indian people, my shows, they sneak in samosas. 623 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,960 I'm looking in the front row and I can see, you know, a Bombay 624 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,320 mix in the front. I'm. 625 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,480 Sure, they don't sell this here at the theatre. 626 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,400 We get we have similar problems you see and then but it's hard 627 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,840 for you travelling because if you now you've got kids all over 628 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,200 the world. Yeah, yeah. 629 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,200 What do you mean? Now you've got kids. 630 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,920 Oh yeah, I've got kids, not kids in different countries. 631 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,600 All right. Yeah, there's one. 632 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,440 One country, one wife. My kids are one wife, two kids. 633 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,080 One wife, two kids, same woman. Same woman. 634 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,400 How? I know it's crazy. 635 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,360 It's crazy. How did this happen? 636 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,040 And you're such a young man. Yeah, I know. 637 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,600 I'm 23. And and you decide to settle 638 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:05,840 down. Yeah. 639 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,800 Why didn't you stay on the road and get multiple women? 640 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,040 Not my thing, no your thing. Sorry, I'd I assumed something 641 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,200 there. You see, I assumed and I do 642 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,600 apologise if I was wrong. I said women, yes, I like. 643 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,640 I could have made a big mishap there. 644 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,680 No, I am actually, and it's a brave thing to say. 645 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,120 I'm actually straight. We'll, we'll. 646 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,800 Cut that out. No, please don't. 647 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,320 We'll change it. Please don't we need to get? 648 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,240 Views. Yeah, I'm not kind of dull like. 649 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,920 Normal. Heterosexual. 650 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,760 Heterosexual, married, two kids. Are you trying to get work in 651 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:44,440 this business? Are you trying to get yourself 652 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,000 cancelled? I'm going to see how this goes 653 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,560 for now and then if I need to change things up in the next 654 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,200 couple of years, I'm, I'm more than willing to do that for the 655 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,520 benefit of my, of my career. Yeah, but yeah, I mean. 656 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:56,840 I'm not even Indian. Represent. 657 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,400 I know I am. You're in. 658 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,440 I know I am. That's something I'm really 659 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,840 going out with this. Year I've been Indians before it 660 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,640 was fashionable. Yes, yeah. 661 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,040 Yeah, you're young enough. Since birth. 662 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,600 Since birth. 1970s. I was born. 663 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,520 Yeah, it was not. At some point in that decade. 664 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,960 It was not fashionable to be Irish either, Yeah, especially 665 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,720 in London. No blacks and dogs, no Irish. 666 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,920 That's why when my dad was trying to get accommodation, 667 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,320 those were the signs. Well, I thought you were going 668 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,720 to say he was putting it up and he was like, it's insane. 669 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,840 Let me just write No, he was the the, the stuff. 670 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,960 And I grew up like so many Irish. 671 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,080 So many of my dad's friends were Irish because the the pubs. 672 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,560 The pubs Yeah, yeah, yeah, pub. Scene that. 673 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,200 Kilburn Rd. Place did not have a load of 674 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,120 pubs like. Irish, all Irish, yeah, all like 675 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,360 Kilburn, Kilburn High Road and most of the Irish people came 676 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,040 across from Ireland and went to Kilburn. 677 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,840 I live not too far from there still, so it's pretty much 678 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,480 still. And there was a big nightclub 679 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,120 there, an Irish nightclub that my friend's mum used to work at. 680 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,400 It was the biggest Irish club on Kilburn High Road in in the 80s 681 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,080 and 90s. But yeah, the Irish, have they, 682 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,760 they had a tough time and that was when Liam Neeson used to 683 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,240 live in in London. Yeah. 684 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,360 Do you remember he did the interview about the Kosh? 685 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,520 Yeah. I'm surprised he he came back 686 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,320 after that I'm. Surprised he said it. 687 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,960 I'm surprised he said it firstly. 688 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,480 Because he wasn't even really it wasn't like they that someone 689 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,280 went, I've heard this story. Can you say that's true or 690 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,920 false? Off his own accord he went. 691 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,160 You know what's crazy? Yes. 692 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,760 I got a kosh, yeah. Also, what an old school weapon? 693 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,800 A kosh, yeah. Which is like a steel bar. 694 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,960 Yeah, we used to walk around with Kosh is back in the days. 695 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,520 You did too. Well, I I didn't, but I'm going 696 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,880 to say that just. People did, yeah. 697 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:53,160 You know that that film Yeti with Gary Oldman, that football 698 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:54,440 hooligan Yeti? Oh. 699 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,640 I used to hear a kosh and smack them. 700 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,080 See, I'm in the football factories. 701 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,520 My generation. Oh, that's way. 702 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,760 Hooligan movie. Yeah, something I'm thinking 703 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,160 about getting into. Football, yeah, it's not as 704 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,480 fashionable as it used to be, but. 705 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,400 I think with all trends are going to come back at some 706 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,080 point, should be nice to get in at the start. 707 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,600 I think if you and I, yeah, maybe started a firm. 708 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,600 But you do look like you could come across as a football 709 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,960 hooligan. You've got the look of a foot. 710 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,120 You could you could play many parts. 711 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,560 Yeah, well, I've been saying this, but casting directors 712 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,040 don't share your opinion. Really. 713 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,320 I've done like, sex auditions in my life and I got my first call 714 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,760 back about 3 weeks ago. Oh yeah? 715 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,000 What for? I didn't get the role. 716 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,600 It's a, it's a big thing that's coming out. 717 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,440 It's, it's a new show and I had to do my audition when I was on 718 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,760 holiday, a family holiday in Tenerife. 719 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,920 And there was a bit of a lag in the Wi-Fi, which is purely what 720 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,920 I'm putting down my not getting the casting for. 721 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,760 But I, I auditioned for Derry Girls, a few things that haven't 722 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,280 come out yet, but I, I'm in this weird thing where at least 723 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,280 that's what people are telling me. 724 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,400 Maybe they're just being nice. I go for rules that are my age. 725 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,800 But you can play any age though. But then this is the thing at 726 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,000 the last minute they go this recent, more recent thing, they 727 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,239 were like, they just don't really think you look right for 728 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,360 this role. But then they're not putting me 729 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,320 forward for roles of guys who are 30 or early 30s. 730 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,800 So I'm only going for roles of guys in early 30s. 731 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,719 But I'm not getting it because they say I don't look like I'm 732 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,760 in the late 30s. But yeah, I do look like I do a 733 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,320 better stand up. I used in the last show about I 734 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,960 could be any age and nearly any nationality. 735 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,280 Yeah, you could. You could play. 736 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,679 Polish. Indian. 737 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,600 I would. Easily. 738 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,679 I mean, I don't know if I would get counselled for it, but I 739 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,760 would definitely do that. So many actors did it. 740 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:45,679 Yeah, Peter Sellers, where he was π Indian. 741 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,400 Yeah, Ben Kingsley. Bet he's half Indian. 742 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,560 His full name is is not Ben. His real name actually isn't Ben 743 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,240 Kingsley. What is it? 744 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,200 Krishna Bandit Bungie. That's a way cooler name than 745 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,720 Ben Kingsley. Use that one. 746 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:06,960 He he said that he's he's agent or someone at the time said 747 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,800 you're not going to get parts with Krishna Benedetto Bunji. 748 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,640 So he called himself Ben Kingsley. 749 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,040 He could have picked anything. It's half, half Gujarat. 750 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,320 Like my name's so on exotic she and Todd 2 syllables 2 first 751 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,120 names I would love. I'm going to whatever his real, 752 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,480 I'm going to change my name to that well. 753 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,320 My name is Paul Chowdhury, right? 754 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,440 Yeah, but that I didn't change that. 755 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,240 My full name is Taj Ball singer Chaudhary. 756 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,480 I would kill for that. I would kill for that. 757 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,200 If you see it's fashionable now. I was pre pre diversity quotas. 758 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,080 Yes. And you, your name, Paul 759 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,320 Chowdhury, feeds like a name you should only say as a full name. 760 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,560 Yeah. Paul Chowdhury. 761 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,400 Yeah. I will only ever call you Paul. 762 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,480 I would never call you Paul. Nobody ever does. 763 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,880 You're Paul Chowdhury. Yeah. 764 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,800 And she and Todd's a little bit like that, too. 765 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,360 Or Todd Barry. Yeah, it's another example. 766 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,000 I've been on his podcast actually. 767 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,520 Oh, OK. Great comic. 768 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,120 Great comic, I did a zoom pod with him during COVID and it was 769 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,200 one of my worst ever pod. Performances. 770 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,720 Why is that? The time difference, it was kind 771 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:12,720 of late. He's like a low energy guy. 772 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,280 I didn't really, just over Zoom, I couldn't get that connection, 773 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,760 you know? I went to his flat in New York 774 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,120 and his cat was there. Yeah, he's a big cat guy, and 775 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,320 it's a. Big cat guy and but it's much 776 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,760 better. See, podcasts are very weird, 777 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,720 aren't they? Now it's who hasn't got one. 778 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000 I know Ben Kingsley. I was just about to say Bamajeed 779 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,560 Bhandari is he could have a podcast quite soon. 780 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,280 Yeah, The way things are going. Yeah. 781 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,440 And going up for auditions, as you say, it's like entering the 782 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,480 lottery. Yeah, I just, I will. 783 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,200 I feel like it's an ongoing thing that I've accepted it as 784 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,320 like it's funny, but I'll never get and I'll never get a role. 785 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,600 I just don't think I will. Well I was up for doom like 3 786 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,800 times. Recall off and then how many 787 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,880 auditions for Pirates of the Caribbean? 788 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,280 I did a whole routine on it because they wanted me to be an 789 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:08,320 Indian pirate, right. So you got pirate Barbosa is 790 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,200 looking for deckhounds and I'd do all this and there's no, no, 791 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,880 I'd like it more Indian. And then you'd have to go by the 792 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,000 Barbosa. And I did this whole just 793 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,600 winding up. See, that's the voice I did for 794 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,200 dairy girls. So it's you do why I didn't get 795 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,840 it, Yeah. You would have been great as a 796 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,040 dairy girl. That's what I said. 797 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,640 You look, you could, because do you shave? 798 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,640 Sometimes very like. Would you look like me if you 799 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,920 didn't shave? What Indian? 800 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,240 Yeah, like this. Beard. 801 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:40,760 Oh, here's I shaved three days ago. 802 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,640 Three days ago, yeah. Yeah, I shaved 2 days ago. 803 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,000 Not clean. Clean. 804 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,120 No, you didn't. Yeah. 805 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:53,120 This is 2 days of growth. No, because we're a mustache. 806 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,040 There's no way. And the mustache. 807 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,680 I could get away with not shaving because I'm I'm quite 808 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,520 fair haired, you know, Good hair, though. 809 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:03,280 I'm delighted with it. You're. 810 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,440 Never going to go bald. I'm delighted with it, as you 811 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,080 should be too. No, I mean this is this is a 812 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,000 comb over. OK, no, but it looks brilliant. 813 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,680 I'm delighted with this hairline. 814 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,760 But honestly I always said if I get the 40 with anything hair 815 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,560 wise I'll be I'll be buzzing. You're still a young man, 37 816 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,640 years old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 817 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,080 Still a baby in my my eyes. Yeah, yeah. 818 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,280 No, I'm I'm I'm happy with my hairline and I think generally 819 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,480 in life I'm pretty happy, but I'm a. 820 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:31,880 Happy guy, you're not a hairy guy. 821 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,120 Slightly more than you'd think, but still, in the grand scheme 822 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,240 of things, not a lot. Yeah, I'm probably, I'm probably 823 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,680 average for white. Right. 824 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,160 Being a white guy, yeah. I hope you're enjoying the 825 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,680 podcast so far. Just a reminder, this show is 826 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,360 brought to you by Mrs. Elswood Pickles. 827 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,320 Now bringing punch to your podcast. 828 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,480 Mrs. Elswood Pickles are packed to maximize freshness and 829 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,520 crunch. Back to the show. 830 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,800 Mike Occasion of White. You're kind of like almost an 831 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,480 ethnic minority because you're Irish. 832 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,080 I know. So you're not white White. 833 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:12,000 No, I'm off white. Yeah, you're an off white. 834 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,760 You're like. Cream. 835 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,840 You're right, Mike. You know, like the office. 836 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I am, Mike. 837 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,720 Yeah, I used to get that right. I thought, oh, is that a 838 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,120 compliment? As if that was a compliment. 839 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,920 So it's a racist compliment. Because sometimes you try and I 840 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,560 know I, I as well, like I'll admit, I would do stuff like I 841 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,120 live in a very small town and it's not that diverse of a town 842 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,200 like Hollywood. But if you see anyone from a 843 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,280 different race, you give them, like, a smile and a nod, and 844 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,280 that then feels wrong. Yeah, you're like that. 845 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,560 That will make someone feel uncomfortable. 846 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,960 But you do like a purse of the lips and a, you know, I'm in a 847 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,720 cafe near or whatever you would get if you were in Hollywood. 848 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:52,080 You get a lot of this. You get a lot. 849 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,960 Of that people just shake your hand. 850 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,880 But yeah, good work. I I was on the way of, I could 851 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,200 have become a household name in Northern Ireland at the time. 852 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,920 I was getting booked on the blame game so much. 853 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:05,240 Yeah. And playing, you know, the 854 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,680 biggest venues. Yeah, but it doesn't take long. 855 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:10,720 But that's most people's dream, isn't it? 856 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,480 Yeah, as a comedian. Is is who wants to be? 857 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,440 But then I tell people from Southern Ireland and they said, 858 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,480 well, you haven't performed in Ireland, in Ireland yet. 859 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,480 And I, I, I took that as an insult. 860 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,480 Yes, on behalf of your people. Yeah, like they said, but you 861 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,000 haven't done Ireland. I said I have. 862 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,160 And they said no, that's not Ireland. 863 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,400 It's where it gets complicated. What do I say to them? 864 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,280 You well to follow my thing of when people ask what religion 865 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,640 you're, you just say, you know what, you're right, you know. 866 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,600 Northern Ireland is Ireland. What's the Republic? 867 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,320 Well, here's the thing. See, if you're speaking to 868 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,840 someone who's very sees himself as very Northern Irish and 869 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,280 Unionist, you really aren't that up. 870 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:50,600 And you're like, yeah, you're right. 871 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,760 Make courtesy of the king, Yeah. And then you drive into the 872 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,440 South or whatever, or you're speaking to someone from a 873 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,840 Republican or nationalist background, and then you're 874 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,120 like, yeah, you know, fuck the king. 875 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,080 Yeah. So you you say whatever you need 876 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,320 to. Have some tourettes. 877 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,320 To sell tickets. I drive to Colerain and you see 878 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,720 the murals on the walls. Yeah, and they're still. 879 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,680 They were there at the time. I don't know if they're still 880 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:14,840 there. Yeah, they're still there. 881 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:18,440 Yeah, most of them, probably every once in a while in 882 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,120 Northern Ireland somewhere, they'll be like they've had a 883 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,360 grant to paint like some like, you know, doves on this or 884 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,840 something instead. But some of the murals on both 885 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,360 sides are are brilliant like. I was outside the was the town 886 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,080 hall in in Dublin and and the bullet holes are still in the 887 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,800 posts of on the pillars. The GPU from the from the 888 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,080 British when they tried to shoot. 889 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:40,680 There's a post office now, isn't it? 890 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,240 It, it was the GPU, the GPO, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 891 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,440 And the the British trying to they shot they she's. 892 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,520 Still rising? Yeah. 893 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,800 See, there's another thing. They kept the bullet wounds or 894 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,920 the bullet holes in? Yeah, they haven't got rid of 895 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,520 them. Yeah, haven't filled them in 896 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,640 with some plaster. But that's the council for you, 897 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,000 isn't it? You know, it's like potholes. 898 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,200 You've got bullet holes. How long is it going to take? 899 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,200 To drive over. You know, yeah. 900 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,800 You damage your car and yeah. I like when people in TikTok do 901 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,640 like fill in their own potholes, you know, like fuck the council. 902 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,440 And then they try. They're trying to do a good deed 903 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,000 and risking their lives to fill in a pothole. 904 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,120 And then all the comments are like, mate, that's not going to 905 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,960 stay. Rod Stewart did it down his Rd. 906 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:19,760 didn't he? Did he? 907 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:20,680 He's filling in his own potholes. 908 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,160 Because apparently all the residents had a problem because 909 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,880 their Ferraris were getting damaged by potholes in some part 910 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,440 of Surrey and they filled them in themself. 911 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,960 Right. Rod is doing it like what was he 912 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,920 filling it in with? I don't know, it's probably wads 913 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,640 of cash. Money. 914 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,160 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw him recently at the 915 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,560 boxing. Oh yeah. 916 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,200 I was at the Chris Eubank, a friend. 917 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:44,480 Chris Eubank junior is a friend of mine, so I was at the fight 918 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,440 with Connor Ben and Rod Stewart was there at the front. 919 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,760 He's really committed to that hero, hasn't he? 920 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,720 Like you think at some. Point he was a massive racist 921 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,320 early on. Was he massive racist way back? 922 00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,560 There was a documentary I was watching about how he kind of 923 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,280 cited the Enoch Powell. All right, I mean that that is 924 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:05,960 picking aside. So did Bowie. 925 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,600 Really. David Bowie and Rod Stewart's 926 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,400 were on that kind of rhetoric of when Enoch Powell did this. 927 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,760 Was what, 70? 67 He did a speech, Rivers of 928 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,920 blood and at that point only the Sikhs were already here and it's 929 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,040 and lots of some Indians and Hindus. 930 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,960 And they were drunk, so they weren't paying attention. 931 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,080 We, we, you know, so we, we just bottle them like. 932 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,240 See, with stuff like that, I go, what's the need for you getting 933 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:37,320 involved there? But he quickly kind of shield 934 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,120 away from it and I'm sure they they buried that somewhere. 935 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,400 Right, right, right. Yeah. 936 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,080 But it's it's incredible, like going back and I'm sure I'm 937 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,040 going to get a stick for even saying this on on the Don't Ask 938 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,360 for That podcast about Rod Stewart and David Bowie. 939 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,880 Yeah, I'll get a stick for it. Rod Stewart's comment underneath 940 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,200 it. I'll fill you in like a pothole. 941 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,520 I might be able to take him on now. 942 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,480 I would say if you keep at a distance, yeah, if you keep it 943 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,040 at any of you getting close. I think he's Caddy, you know 944 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,720 what I mean? I think he's going to scrub and 945 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,000 claw. He's very old now. 946 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,800 But I think if you just, if you just keep him back and and, and 947 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:15,320 the longer the rounds go on, the more I'm favouring you. 948 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,320 You've had a lot of fights. 22 boxing matches. 949 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:23,600 A real ones recently. Yeah, yeah, 1-2 years ago and 950 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,080 year before that with comedians, charity boxing. 951 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,400 Oh really? So who did you fight? 952 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,080 From from a friend, Johnny Beau for the first time, and then my 953 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,760 friend Sean Haggerty. How did that go? 954 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,000 We did the Ulster Hall in Belfast. 955 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,920 Ulster Hall. One of the best nights in my 956 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,960 life. Both of them were absolutely the 957 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,560 adrenaline of being so out of your comfort zone as someone who 958 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,000 doesn't fight and like is not into that at all. 959 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,520 And we did 2. They were for charity and we 960 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,320 raised loads of money and it was it was see the training and 961 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,840 stuff there was such fun. How? 962 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,280 Many rounds. We did 3-2 minute rounds. 3-2 963 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,400 minute rounds and it's brilliant. 964 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,800 People don't realize how tough that is. 965 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,320 I was I play football so I would have been fit going into it. 966 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,000 And you were 3435. Yeah, and I thought 3-2 minute 967 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,320 rounds like, but no matter, you're dying by the end of it. 968 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,560 Even after 2 minutes, 2 minutes is a long. 969 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,320 Long time a long time a. Long time and three of them, 970 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:19,960 yeah. I don't think most human beings 971 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,120 could do that. No, but I, I loved it and I've 972 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,800 kept the training up a little bit. 973 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,120 Like do a little bit in the in my gym, but it's it's a hobby. 974 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,160 I would definitely go back to. I wouldn't do another like white 975 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,040 collar type of fight because I feel like. 976 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,680 Head Gods. Hey, God, yeah, I feel like we 977 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,200 got it. I got out of my system. 978 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,600 It went well. Leave it there. 979 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,200 But I would definitely keep up the boxing training, a little 980 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,360 bit of sparring and stuff like that. 981 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:43,320 I would do it again. I loved it. 982 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,800 I thought it was really, really enjoyable. 983 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,200 I've been around a lot of boxes and they come to shows and 984 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,400 stuff. And I, I, I went to the 985 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,680 celebration party of Lennox Lewis after he beat Tyson years 986 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,840 ago. Evander Holyfield was there and 987 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,320 everyone's there. And one, one time I did a show, 988 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:01,920 I used to do a lot of shows in the black circuit. 989 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,480 And the security guard was, I think it's Francis. 990 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:11,760 He fought Tyson. We're going back around 1520 991 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,880 years. And he said to me, Paul, how do 992 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:20,160 you do what you do? Like don't you get scared of 993 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,960 doing stand up? Because I used to do this just 994 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,400 stand up in general. I was like, mate, you fought 995 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,280 Tyson. What do you mean? 996 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,560 How do? I been killed. 997 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,720 The worst thing we're going to do is get like someone with 998 00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:32,840 their arms crossed. Well, he's also a heavyweight, 999 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,160 right? So he's he could kill me. 1000 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:37,800 In terms of kill each other, he's probably got a better 1001 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:43,520 chance than we have. But how people think egos can be 1002 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,680 more damaged than your physical? 100%. 1003 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,080 Yeah, to damage someone if you get knocked out, it's that they 1004 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,440 can deal with that. Yeah, they can't deal with being 1005 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,840 mentally destroyed. Yeah, yeah. 1006 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,720 Or indifference is sometimes harder to deal with than 1007 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,160 physical. Criticism. 1008 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we put ourselves on the 1009 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,600 line on an emotional level. Yeah. 1010 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,520 You know, when you get a review and and it can affect you coming 1011 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,320 up through comedy? Yeah. 1012 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,280 You've been in comedy family. Yes. 1819. 18 That's a long time 1013 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,920 you see and, and it's taken you a while to get to this level of, 1014 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,240 of being on the don't ask for that podcast. 1015 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,320 How do you deal with the criticism and and the comment 1016 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,720 sections? I think because I started so 1017 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:31,240 young and so long ago, I was exposed to it from when I was a 1018 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:35,440 kid, almost a teenager. So I remember at the start, if I 1019 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,520 was putting sketches on YouTube and stuff you would get you 1020 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,040 would get good comments and bad. And I think that's the thing 1021 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,360 that still surprises. I'm surprised people are 1022 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,280 surprised that they get negative comments. 1023 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,800 It's like you if we can't accept it's back, good and not bad. 1024 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,440 So I got over it so long ago. I. 1025 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,720 Think there's a lot of attention seeking online? 1026 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,960 Yeah. See, back in the old days, if 1027 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,720 you were a psychopath of some sort, you would look for John 1028 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:05,000 Lennon and shoot him in the back. 1029 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,880 Yeah. Now they've got TikTok, you can 1030 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,000 make a video about something. It may be a safe haven. 1031 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:14,600 You know they say don't legalize pornography. 1032 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:17,360 There was an argument but then it could save women on the 1033 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,320 street if we have pornography and then someone would argue it 1034 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,720 makes it worse. The comments section and when 1035 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:26,040 people turn off their comments, they know what's coming. 1036 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,280 Don't turn them off. No, no, of course not. 1037 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,080 It's like holding in a fart, yeah. 1038 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,360 Yeah. It's going to come out 1039 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,320 somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1040 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,120 Shit yourself through your nose. You've got a good nose for 1041 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,200 boxing, you see. Yeah, I appreciate that. 1042 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,960 You've got to be careful when you've got a nose. 1043 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:41,920 Oh. No, this has been broken. 1044 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,160 I thought you were joking, and I was. 1045 00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:46,160 It's a good nose. Well, it's not straight if I was 1046 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,680 sitting, if I was looking at you straight on. 1047 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,160 Your nose isn't straight, but you are. 1048 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:59,040 I'm I'm straight. My nose is gay, I would say. 1049 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,640 I would say I have my nose. My nose has been broken playing 1050 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,080 football before. How did you break it doing 1051 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,720 football? A guy, I went up for a header 1052 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,440 and the guy did noise behind him and he went to flick the ball on 1053 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:14,400 with his head and it just, and you know what, stand up is the 1054 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,240 reason my nose isn't straight because I got an operation to 1055 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,880 reset it really. And they put these little 1056 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:24,320 plasters the whole way down it. But I had a gig that night and 1057 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,400 my friends were like just fucking do the gig without on 1058 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,200 and address it at the start. But I just there was like 20 1059 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,280 people at this open my gig when I was new to stand up. 1060 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,480 I went Nah, took them all off. See, you've almost got like a 1061 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,640 nose, which is like a nose. You know when you see pictures 1062 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,360 of noses I. Have a Roman nose. 1063 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,320 Yeah, that's people say. Like a real like it you'd see, 1064 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:44,680 you know, like. This started off as a 1065 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,240 compliment. Yeah, it's a compliment. 1066 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,760 Well, you know, I have a deserve a Roman. 1067 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,960 I do have a Roman nose. What's a Roman nose like? 1068 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,280 Like a Roman helmet. No. 1069 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,400 Like if you turn it like, you know that you see the side 1070 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,920 profile of people on Roman coins and you're like, you know. 1071 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,400 It's a good nose. It's a good nose for a Roman 1072 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:03,560 coin. It's a very good nose. 1073 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,720 I would buy those that nose if you want to sell that nose. 1074 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,560 Over yours. Yeah, I don't. 1075 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,600 This is a busted nose. There's no bone in this side. 1076 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,320 Serious. There's an empty nose. 1077 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,560 I didn't know that. Nobody knows that. 1078 00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,080 They do not. Well, your nose now. 1079 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:22,040 So you had a bone in your nose? Not not that kind of bone, but 1080 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:28,200 I've had like 2-2 operations. This started growing that way. 1081 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,560 And then because I had got a sinus condition, I've got Qatar. 1082 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,080 So and then they tried to shave this bit. 1083 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,400 Yeah, not, not near Dubai, yeah. This. 1084 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,920 So I've got Qatar in my nose. And then as you can see, this is 1085 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,600 just I, I put this one on in the morning, right? 1086 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,400 It's not even straight. You see, you've got like a 1087 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,400 proper nose. Yeah, I appreciate that. 1088 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:50,840 Thank you very much. That would be putting on a 1089 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:51,960 poster. Good nose. 1090 00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,600 Yeah, the nose on your. Core yeah, you've got like a a 1091 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,600 mid Michael Jackson nose, not a later 1. 1092 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,000 No, no, no. I know you don't want an early 1093 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:01,760 one. No, you don't. 1094 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,320 You want this is like you want that 1994 Michael Jackson nose. 1095 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,400 This is like a mid operation in Michael Jackson. 1096 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you think of the film 1097 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,000 coming out? Was there a Michael Jackson film 1098 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:14,280 coming? Out. 1099 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,440 Oh, you didn't know that? No, I don't I, I, I. 1100 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:17,120 You're a bit. It's a bit. 1101 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,440 You're too young for these things, aren't you? 1102 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:19,960 Well. It wouldn't have been for him. 1103 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,440 I think with the film coming out about him, give us like a real 1104 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,240 movie about him. And it's going to be one of 1105 00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:31,640 these ones like the Elvis movie where it goes top guy, good 1106 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,160 singer. But also, you know, he married 1107 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,440 like, didn't he marry a kid and all? 1108 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,560 Priscilla Presley, you met her when she was 14 or something? 1109 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,320 You need, you need that if you're going to do a movie, do 1110 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,200 it right. See, this was the whole thing 1111 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,440 with Philip Schofield. He, he, he met the kid when he 1112 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,600 was underage and then they said it was grooming and then he got 1113 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:51,080 with him. That's. 1114 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,400 Celine Dion's I remember Rene husband. 1115 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,760 She was like, I don't know, 12 or something when she met him. 1116 00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,480 And then he's like conveniently we, we fell in love the day of 1117 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,960 her 18th birthday day. He's like, that was the day we 1118 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,600 fell in love. And that's the age of consent in 1119 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:05,720 America, right? So. 1120 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,160 Big Renee like. But Celine Dion's got a whole 1121 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,280 heap of problems now. I. 1122 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,920 She's got that stuck disease or something. 1123 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:17,920 She's got a What's the condition? 1124 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,680 Definitely, I'll call that. She's got like stiff Oh. 1125 00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:21,720 That's right. That's right. 1126 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:23,920 Stiff nose disease. Yeah, that's what I have. 1127 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,000 Yeah. Yeah. 1128 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,720 But that was, and I feel like it was years ago. 1129 00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:32,000 People were like, she's struggling, stiff person. 1130 00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,120 I do. I've heard of that before. 1131 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,680 It's all coming back to me now. Stiff person syndrome. 1132 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,520 I used to have that when I was. Watching porn. 1133 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,760 Yeah, I used to get stiff person syndrome. 1134 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,840 Come on. I'm sure that's going to offend 1135 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,120 a lot of people. She had, I didn't know, I didn't 1136 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,640 know she she could get that she I thought it was only men that 1137 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,200 got sick. She had some great songs. 01 of 1138 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:55,160 the. Best that one album in 1139 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,240 particular. Unbelievable. 1140 00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,240 Titanic. No, it was the one, that's all. 1141 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:01,840 Come back to me is on. Yeah. 1142 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,880 And you were my breaths when I couldn't breathe and all that. 1143 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:13,080 Oh yeah, yeah, it's a weird one. Not stiff person syndrome, but 1144 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:14,960 you got to look after your health man. 1145 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,560 You know, I think new boxing is a dangerous. 1146 00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,680 I did a reconstruction for die hard a few Christmases ago when 1147 00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,320 and they were we were re enacting the stunts from die 1148 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,400 hard. So you jump off like this crane 1149 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,800 and fall onto your back and another got this mad whiplash 1150 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,680 from it and the. What was it for? 1151 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:37,840 It was it was ATV Show the Sky where we'd re enact the stunts 1152 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,400 from that. We built the sets of Pinewood 1153 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,440 again and then I jump off buildings and stuff. 1154 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,480 And was the money good enough or it was worth money was? 1155 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,560 Yeah. Not worth the whiplash. 1156 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,920 OK, what? What kind of money is worth it 1157 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,720 anymore? 70 grand. 1158 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,560 Well I'm thinking like how much is if you're in like a mini bus 1159 00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,560 accident in school, you're getting like 15 grand for 1160 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,680 whiplash. Have you been her at work today? 1161 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,000 That sort of thing, yeah. Can't, and you can't because you 1162 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,360 have to sign a waiver if you die on this set. 1163 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,440 Yes. We have the right not to be 1164 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:06,400 sued. Yeah. 1165 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,120 But yeah, so you're going to, you're going to be touring 1166 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:12,760 quite. So you're in London at the 1167 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,400 moment? To probably be over. 1168 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,640 It will be actually, Yeah, saying that by the. 1169 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:17,120 Time. You know what? 1170 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,240 Can I tell you something? Yeah. 1171 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:20,320 I don't care about Plug and I'm just happy to be here. 1172 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,160 And you know, I can't believe you know how long we've been 1173 00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:24,320 trying to get you on this podcast. 1174 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,080 Days. You come on, Ryanair or. 1175 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,400 Pardon. I told you straight. 1176 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,880 I was on a EasyJet. EasyJet. 1177 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,200 I was on the EasyJet. A terrible flights. 1178 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,080 They, there was a long time where I flew EasyJet where they 1179 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,240 were always delayed. But I've got to say, recently 1180 00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:42,600 easyjet's been doing all right for me. 1181 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,440 So when I get in the shirt and I shot it. 1182 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,320 Ryan is. It's probably worse. 1183 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,840 Yeah, Ryanair, your your knees are in your at your ears like. 1184 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,720 At one point he wanted to put standing toilets. 1185 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,560 And pay for the toilets. And pay for the toilet standing 1186 00:54:58,560 --> 00:54:59,440 seats. It was, wasn't. 1187 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,520 Standing seats and you would pay for the toilet. 1188 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,960 And then he did AI remember I did a joke about this because he 1189 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:10,040 did a statement saying Asian men should be searched more than 1190 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:14,200 white passengers before getting on my flights and I said even 1191 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,280 terror your flights are so bad even the Taliban wouldn't take 1192 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,200 your flights. Please brother don't send me on 1193 00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,120 the Ryanair. I will get on any flight. 1194 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:28,360 Please not the Ryanair. And actually, this was a few 1195 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,760 years ago, wasn't I think David Bowie before he died, Yeah, said 1196 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,600 that was he agreed with that. He agreed Ryanair policy. 1197 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,000 Yeah, he agreed. And. 1198 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,520 But did he say if he's out? If he's out a pocket for him? 1199 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,920 Feel like he's normally just being cheeky about cost cutting 1200 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:41,680 things and that's pretty wild from the be like. 1201 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,080 But seriously, check Asian guys. Check check them. 1202 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,560 They should be double checked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1203 00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,840 So I have problems getting on those flights. 1204 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:50,680 Yeah. And Aer. 1205 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,560 Lingus is good. Yeah, I know, Aer. 1206 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:55,440 Lingus is a touch of. Now I know you're a straight 1207 00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:56,640 man. What's that? 1208 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,840 Because of the. The Lingus thing, I like that. 1209 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,520 And touring with Kevin Hart, I was. 1210 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,920 I was told that that's a triggering topic. 1211 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,920 It's not triggering. It's more just like, you'll know 1212 00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,520 what I mean by this. There's only so many times I can 1213 00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,040 tell the story, you know, and then I and then people are like, 1214 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,080 we've heard this before, you know, I. 1215 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,600 Haven't heard the story yet. We did like 24 shows. 1216 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,400 Together, yeah. I wouldn't even say together, I 1217 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,960 just opened. You opened for Kevin. 1218 00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,360 Yeah, he was shooting a Netflix movies in Belfast for three 1219 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:29,000 months. Right. 1220 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,520 Which film was this? It was called Flight. 1221 00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,640 Oh yeah, yeah. There was a moment where one of 1222 00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,760 the first shows, all the directors and producers and cast 1223 00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:42,640 came to the movie and I was like pretty nailed on for them to ask 1224 00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:44,600 me to be in this. And then after the show I was 1225 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,240 like, hope you enjoyed it guys. And they were all like, it was 1226 00:56:47,240 --> 00:56:49,440 great. And I went, come on. 1227 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,320 And they were like, no, see you later. 1228 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:52,960 There's no offer to be in the movie. 1229 00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,040 But yeah, I just feel like I I get asked about it because it's 1230 00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:02,280 obviously so odd that an Irish comic would have done these 1231 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,080 shows. Where was he performing then? 1232 00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,640 Intimate venues in Belfast, the limelight in Belfast just to and 1233 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,680 then we did the arena in Belfast, Arena in Dublin. 1234 00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,520 Kill time. He was developing in New York, 1235 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,640 right? But then I got to be fair after 1236 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,520 that, about six months after that, I was in New York, and he 1237 00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,480 had a show the same night as I had a night off. 1238 00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,720 And I emailed my American representatives at the time. 1239 00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,480 And I was like, look, I'm only saying this to rule it out 1240 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,080 because it won't happen. But could I jump on that show 1241 00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,360 with them? And they went, yeah, he says, 1242 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,320 yeah. And then they cancelled that 1243 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,120 show, I think because I had asked to do it. 1244 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,880 But he'd been filming somewhere in the city, and he was supposed 1245 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,040 to do an intimate 3000 seater, and they cancelled it on the day 1246 00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,120 because he wouldn't have made it in time. 1247 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,320 But that would have been unbelievable to do an American 1248 00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:46,400 show with him. You know, how great. 1249 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,560 But but yes, I don't want people to think I'm constantly talking 1250 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,800 about it just sometimes feels like something you should bring 1251 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:53,760 up. And it's a cool story. 1252 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,680 Yeah. But but yeah, did a load of 1253 00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,120 shows and it was great because I got to see his R develop because 1254 00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,000 I watched nearly every show, right? 1255 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,360 And you see it from the start and the little changes he makes 1256 00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,920 and it was great. Yeah, I I performed with him 1257 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,680 first back in O7 when he came to London. 1258 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,880 I used to do shows in the black circuit and this guy called 1259 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,640 Kevin Hart was coming and only the black community knew because 1260 00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,200 of soul plane. Yeah, of course, of course. 1261 00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,840 And I opened him for him at the time and a bunch of other black 1262 00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,640 comics. Richard Blackwood was on and 1263 00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,000 and, and no one knew. And then the next thing he 1264 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,280 became some. Whenever people have performed 1265 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,120 with me, they've gone on to huge things. 1266 00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,320 Do you think they're they're calling you the springboard? 1267 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,720 I, you know, I'm, I'm the kingmaker. 1268 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,000 Yeah, which is better than the human springboard kingmakers, A 1269 00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,600 way better nickname. Exactly. 1270 00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,880 I would love to do those black eggs. 1271 00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,400 I would love to do them. And now they're very different. 1272 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,920 Now it's all kind. See, they created that circuit, 1273 00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,560 like the Jewish circuit in in America because they wouldn't 1274 00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:58,400 get booked on the main stages. So they created their own in 1275 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,400 America, they had BT and they have these black channels and 1276 00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,520 networks because they wouldn't get booked by the main circuit 1277 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,560 and and the main mainstream industry. 1278 00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,520 So is it last kind of underground now? 1279 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:10,800 Almost. Oh yeah, yeah. 1280 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,240 Now it's it's quite gentrified yeah, but still there are 1281 00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,840 issues. I I'd I'd still think there are 1282 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:23,240 issues and me performing an island I've I find I'm welcomed 1283 00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:27,680 without open arms. So and then he went on and he 1284 00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,240 used to live with a friend of mine in in New York, Patrice 1285 00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,080 O'Neill, when I used to perform with him back in the day when he 1286 00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:38,280 first came to to London. And but you know, that's what 1287 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:43,280 what an experience to to do I I never really opened for many 1288 00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,640 people coming up. I have always done it and love 1289 00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,040 doing it and will continue to do it. 1290 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,720 It's weird performing in to someone else's crowd. 1291 00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,520 They're never really there for you, right? 1292 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,000 No, but I think sometimes that can work definitely against you, 1293 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,560 but sometimes four times when it's like, oh, who the fuck is 1294 00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,360 this guy? You know, when it goes well, 1295 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:02,560 they're like, God, that was great. 1296 01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:04,080 Exactly. But but you're right, I've 1297 01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,360 definitely experienced it when you walk on and they go, we 1298 01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:08,760 don't want to see anyone else but this guy. 1299 01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,280 I did Tim Dylan show in Belfast and even though it was my home 1300 01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,360 crowd that I think there was a bit of a thing of like, fuck 1301 01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:16,040 off. We're here. 1302 01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,760 We we've seen you, you know, so I'm, I'm a little bit wary that. 1303 01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:25,040 He's here again, Like, yeah, I did the yeah, but you also, 1304 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:27,240 you're reading a lot of books at the moment. 1305 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,000 Yeah, getting in the books. You're back, back in them. 1306 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,920 It's good books. You know some of them. 1307 01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,160 How many pages do you manage to get through? 1308 01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:43,240 In a in one sitting, yeah, 12. That's remarkable because when? 1309 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,600 I was high it's. High Oh, you think so? 1310 01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,880 When I was young, people would read a whole I don't know if you 1311 01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:51,560 know about this your generation when a whole book. 1312 01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,920 Yeah, like we'd read a whole one of these. 1313 01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:58,160 This is nostalgia are. These yours did you bring. 1314 01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,200 These are all my books. I brought them in. 1315 01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:01,960 Now. You could just swipe these away. 1316 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,760 Yeah, you can't swipe these. No, no, no. 1317 01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:06,280 You wouldn't even know what to do with it. 1318 01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,000 So when you turn a page, do you do that or do you turn it? 1319 01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,320 I'd be I would turn quite gentle. 1320 01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,480 Yeah, because you, you, you guys, Gen. 1321 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:16,960 Z. Do you think I'm not Gen. 1322 01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:17,840 Z? Gen. 1323 01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,160 X. Millennial. 1324 01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,160 Millennial by maybe even before that. 1325 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:22,360 Oh yeah? Oh yeah, you're not Gen. 1326 01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:23,640 Z. Yeah, born 1988. 1327 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,720 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm the Windrush 1328 01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:31,840 generation. You think I was a bit my around 1329 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,200 my era? I just like that word. 1330 01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,440 And then I didn't realize there was a Windrush line on the 1331 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,160 train. Yeah, Now there's a Windrush 1332 01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:39,480 line. I like that on the tube. 1333 01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:41,680 I like. That it's a nice, it's a nice 1334 01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:43,440 word. Yeah, Windrush, Windrush. 1335 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,880 So now when you watch a film and it has subtitles, even if you're 1336 01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,120 watching in English, you can say you've read a book. 1337 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,360 Yeah, Yep, you can double up. You can just double. 1338 01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,560 It I found out my mate Calvin, he's over in London with me. 1339 01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:00,720 He does my videography stuff. He he listens to an audio book 1340 01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,760 while he's reading. While he's reading along with 1341 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:05,680 the books, Yeah, it's a good idea, isn't? 1342 01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,640 It no, there's something where I think devil worshiper. 1343 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,880 That's kind of like watching a film with subtitles. 1344 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,280 But he's doing the book version. Yeah, to make out he's clever. 1345 01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:18,080 Yeah, it's a great idea. If you want to read a book, just 1346 01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,440 get the audio book and then and the book. 1347 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:22,160 And it's a hack. It's AI. 1348 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,280 Feel like you don't need one of those Isn't necessary. 1349 01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:28,120 And you you have a problem with about sharing food. 1350 01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,640 I just hate the concept. I'm a very, I would say I'm a 1351 01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,080 very not for me to say I'm a very generous guy, like would 1352 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:41,360 share whatever, but I don't like this thing of like, sometimes it 1353 01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,440 works out great. So me and my wife are getting 1354 01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:45,840 the Chinese. I get salted chili chicken and 1355 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,240 chips. She gets honey chili chicken and 1356 01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,440 fried rice. And then we mix those four 1357 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:51,720 things. But that's our system. 1358 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,440 I, I don't like the idea of we go to a restaurant, right? 1359 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,920 And I've ordered something and you're like, oh, I'd love to try 1360 01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:02,720 that. I go, well, you get it too. 1361 01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:04,920 And you go, no, but I don't want that much of it. 1362 01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,800 I'm happy to pay for you to get it, even if you're going to need 1363 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,480 a tiny bit of it. I've got the right portion size 1364 01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,800 of what I need. I don't like this idea of, well, 1365 01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:15,880 I must have a little bit of that. 1366 01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,560 If we're at BBQ restaurant in Texas and I go, I really want 1367 01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,160 the brisket and you're ordering ribs, but you want brisket and I 1368 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,840 want ribs and we make a deal before we order. 1369 01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,440 Great. But when the food comes, don't 1370 01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,440 start. This is the borders thing. 1371 01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,360 We've already established an international border. 1372 01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,520 Don't try and renegotiate where that border is. 1373 01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,880 What I'll do with that is when I talked about the troubles, I'll 1374 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,160 cut that bit in and put the two together. 1375 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,720 Perfect. It will come across as so 1376 01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,040 controversial, yes. And potentially could start 1377 01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,480 trouble again, Yeah, yeah. But that's the that's the 1378 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,200 trailer. Yeah, and that's the world we 1379 01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:57,400 live in. I'm going to now engagement. 1380 01:03:57,600 --> 01:03:59,520 I'm going to do ABBC on you, Yes. 1381 01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:00,720 I'm going to cut the middle bit out. 1382 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,720 Yeah. And you could be the Irish 1383 01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,800 Trump. Yeah, yeah, we've we've this 1384 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,280 could make you. Or break, Yeah. 1385 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,640 Yeah, I made Kevin Hart a lot of these. 1386 01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,280 I used to gig with some of the biggest comics in the world who 1387 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:20,520 are now superstars from you name it, you name it and I've gigged 1388 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:24,280 with them any any comic. Lenny Bruce. 1389 01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,080 Bit before my time but. She had any comic. 1390 01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,000 Prior we could go to because his daughter rain prior. 1391 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:36,280 Yeah, but you can't say you've gigged with. 1392 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,720 Him technically a part of the seed. 1393 01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:46,040 OK, who do I really like? I really like Joe List. 1394 01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:51,520 Joe List I think I've gigged within in the cellar. 1395 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,280 I like Tim Dylan. Tim Dylan, you. 1396 01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:56,600 Want to go a little bit more old school? 1397 01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,040 Yeah, these guys are new compared to I'm old. 1398 01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:03,440 Colin Quinn. Colin Quinn I've met briefly. 1399 01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,600 See, but I haven't. I'm actually trying to think of 1400 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:07,560 people you will have gigged with. 1401 01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,600 It seems like I'm trying to think of people you wouldn't 1402 01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:11,040 have closed. Trust me, I am trying. 1403 01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:12,840 I just can't think of any comedians. 1404 01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,480 Because he used to do tough crowd with Keith Chegwin. 1405 01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:19,160 Keith Chegwin, you. Done anything with Jagger? 1406 01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,720 'S she's now no longer with us. That's right. 1407 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,440 I did Knowles house party. With Jaggers. 1408 01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,160 So you're doing nothing with Richard Pryor's daughter where 1409 01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:28,880 I'm like, if you get Keith Chegwin, you've gone. 1410 01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,120 I've done Knowles house. Party. 1411 01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,240 So I've done Knowles House party, yeah. 1412 01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,920 That is actually big like. That, that was big. 1413 01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,480 Was Blobby knocking about? Mr. Blobby days, but this was 1414 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:38,040 the. Gotchas. 1415 01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,560 Blobby. He, I yeah, he was in the room. 1416 01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:46,200 I did a gotcha for Frankie de Tory and Mike Reed and Mr. 1417 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,680 Blobby came into the room and he was chegwin in the suit. 1418 01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:50,640 Mike Reed has some thoughts, too. 1419 01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,600 Yeah, Mike Reed. But again, he's like, but it's 1420 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:55,280 in a song, so it's not. I'm not really saying it. 1421 01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:58,680 What song was that? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong 1422 01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:00,960 guy. Mike Reed from EastEnders, who 1423 01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,880 was also a mainstream standard. Shout out to my grade, not the 1424 01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,800 guy I'm thinking of at all. It was no longer with us. 1425 01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:07,200 It's my grade, Frank Butcher. Yeah. 1426 01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:10,400 Rick Butcher. Oh boy. 1427 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,280 Ricky Ricky, not even thinking of it all. 1428 01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,080 Sorry. That also double s up as a Beppe 1429 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:18,720 Beppey. He Beppey was in it, but yeah, 1430 01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,280 most of the people are big with the dead now. 1431 01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,400 Yeah, the springboard. Sometimes into death. 1432 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:27,680 Into death or stardom? I want the stardom, please. 1433 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,640 Russell Brand started with him, right? 1434 01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:37,640 You could be the next big comic. Kitchen young cheggers. 1435 01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,680 You you you got a young cheggers vibe about you, no? 1436 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,880 Take it out. Check cheggers is that he never 1437 01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:45,920 got cancelled. He well. 1438 01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,360 He drank a lot. Of the ultimate cancellation and 1439 01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,480 yeah. But it wasn't for anything 1440 01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:51,440 suspect. No. 1441 01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:53,760 That was a great entertainer. Right. 1442 01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:55,680 Yeah. Which is what you are. 1443 01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:58,920 Thank you very and soon to be after the release of the Don't 1444 01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:00,320 Ask Me That podcast. Yes. 1445 01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,600 Well, I I think we've. Am I the best? 1446 01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,760 Am I the best ever known? The Irish guest you've had on? 1447 01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:10,720 You're the best ever comic that's been on this podcast that 1448 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,880 I've never heard of. Come on. 1449 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,680 That that it doesn't. Get better. 1450 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,560 That's replacing the quote in the poster about my nose. 1451 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,560 That's the. Best nose that's ever been on 1452 01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,440 this podcast. Yeah, and nobody knows that. 1453 01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,240 I appreciate that. I don't like that word play. 1454 01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:29,320 You know, I just want to say, Mr. Todd, Mr. I don't know if I 1455 01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,320 should call you, Mr. Shane or Mr. Todd. 1456 01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,840 No, I just go Mr. Shane Todd, is there anything I've missed out? 1457 01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,760 I do a podcast. Called Tea with me, I know Tea 1458 01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,400 with Me podcast. Going lots of clips all over the 1459 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,240 algorithms yeah I get ask clap videos and you're. 1460 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,200 I would really like it if you would come and do it next time 1461 01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,920 you're breakfast hundred and you could come to Hollywood. 1462 01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:50,480 I can't. I'm going to fly. 1463 01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:51,760 Over just for that and apologize. 1464 01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,120 And and make an apology to the people of Northern. 1465 01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:55,920 Ireland in town. Square for calling it a show. 1466 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:57,640 We do, but we don't use it. I'm sure you're going to take 1467 01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,880 out the clip from this one, put it in that one and saying that 1468 01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:03,600 today we're going to be hard. Yeah, hopefully I'll get 1469 01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,840 cancelled because cancellation just makes you bigger. 1470 01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,560 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then I'll be selling 1471 01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:13,560 the arena in in Belfast. Yeah, Capacity 400. 400,000 1472 01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,040 capacity The entire population of Belfast. 1473 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,960 Tower population of Belfast is. A million. 1474 01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:24,720 No, when? Probably not far off. 1475 01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:26,000 It's not far off. I have no idea. 1476 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,760 I just want to say, Mr. Todd, thank you. 1477 01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,200 What an honour and a privilege to have you and the Don't Ask Me 1478 01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:36,120 That podcast. I cannot wait to come to 1479 01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:42,319 Hollywood and Belfast and further afield and to be and to 1480 01:08:42,319 --> 01:08:47,479 be a guest on your synonymous podcast, which is called. 1481 01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,840 Tea with me. Tea with me, a big, big show. 1482 01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:52,200 Tea with me. I'm a big fan. 1483 01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,040 Mr. Shane Todd, ladies and gentlemen. 1484 01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,319 Thank you, Mr. Paul Cherry. Thanks for watching this podcast 1485 01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:01,920 so far, hope you're enjoying it and if you are, leave a five 1486 01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:06,399 star review, drop some comments. I might even read them out in 1487 01:09:06,399 --> 01:09:09,200 future episodes and give you a shout out.