Susie McCabe and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd on bringing their podcast to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival

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Here Comes the Guillotine goes live at GICF 2025.

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00:00It was a gambit, it was a gambit, it paid off.

00:03It did, it did.

00:04My name is Susie McCabe and I am a stand-up comedian, writer and podcaster.

00:09Hi, I'm Chris McArthur-Boyd and I do that stuff as well.

00:12Me, Christopher and Frankie Boyle do a podcast called Here Comes The Guillotine

00:17and we decided to jump on the live podcast bandwagon and sell our souls.

00:24I thought, you know what, if I was like Ambo can do it, I can do it.

00:27If a man who's sexed up a dossier, allegedly, can do it, I think me, Christopher and Frankie can do it.

00:34And it turns out, so do our listeners because they've bought tickets.

00:37Yeah.

00:38You can commit some war crimes, we can commit some war crimes, you know.

00:42This is true, this is true and we probably will at some point on that podcast.

00:46Yeah, so we decided to do that and I'm really looking forward to it

00:50because the podcast, we don't really have a structure.

00:54We don't go in, we don't have pre-prepared topics, it's not topical or anything like that.

00:58And people seem to really like that.

01:00It's essentially just three people sitting around a table having a chat who are pals.

01:04So it could be you and your two mates in the pub and I think doing that live will be incredibly funny

01:13and maybe a bit of audience interaction.

01:15Maybe.

01:16Maybe.

01:17Maybe, maybe not, maybe not.

01:18I'm all in for them.

01:19No, I'm up for it, yeah, yeah.

01:20I think Christopher should do a split.

01:22Heavily moderated audience interaction.

01:25Yeah, not moderated by us, not moderated by us.

01:28So yeah, it'll be good fun.

01:30I think we're like three different generations basically.

01:35Yes.

01:36You're in your early 40s.

01:37Mid now, mid now mate, 45 I turned the other week.

01:40Don't describe yourself as mid.

01:41But you're in your mid 40s, I'm in my early 30s, Frankie's in his early 50s.

01:47Yes.

01:48And so we're kind of like three different generations.

01:51Which brings its own humour as well, doesn't it?

01:53Because sometimes we'll be having a conversation and you will see the absolute generational difference

02:00and it's very funny.

02:02It's normally between Christopher and Frankie, it makes me laugh a lot.

02:05Me and Frankie, what was it Frankie's son said?

02:08He was like, it's good because Frankie and me know about the X-Men

02:13and you and Frankie know about...

02:17We know about the 1980s and the 1970s.

02:20And the events.

02:21And the troubles.

02:22We're generally quite current affairs, not current affairs but kind of political in history and stuff like that.

02:28You and Frankie are Lord of the Rings.

02:30Sure.

02:31And then the thing with Christopher is he was made for podcasting.

02:34He was made for it because he just says the most random stuff.

02:37Talk nonsense.

02:38There are times where me and Frankie will just look at each other and go, what is he talking about?

02:45But there are also times where, for example, Christopher was talking about manscaping.

02:50Sure.

02:51Very much shocked Frankie.

02:53A man who was born in the 70s.

02:56It's a nice thing.

02:58But now it's coming back.

02:59It's a big thing.

03:00Now manscaping's...

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