00:00This coffee is perfect, by the way.
00:01Thank the machine.
00:03Thank you, machine.
00:04Hi, my name is Ed Knight.
00:05I'm a stand-up comedian,
00:06and I'm here at the Independent HQ
00:08to play overrated or underrated.
00:11We're going to kick things off with astrology.
00:14What type of astrology?
00:16I think the Chinese Ardeac is amazing.
00:18I was born in the ear of the pig.
00:19I do feel strongly that being born in the ear of the pig
00:23has greatly influenced my life.
00:25But, like, the ones that scare you in the newspaper,
00:28and it's like, your life sucks, you're poor.
00:30Did you check your horoscope for today?
00:35That doesn't seem like there is a horoscope in here.
00:38Do you want to hear it?
00:39Yeah, I'd love to hear my horoscope.
00:40Your horoscope is,
00:41today you can be powerfully persuasive.
00:43You're likely to resent anyone who blocks your plans.
00:46This is a lucky time to make a break from the usual routines.
00:48Accept last-minute invitations.
00:50I love routines, and I don't like accepting invitations,
00:53so that makes me feel conflicted.
00:56But if the newspaper's telling me to do it,
00:58I guess I will.
00:59Overrated or underrated?
01:01I'll say overrated.
01:02So next up, we have meal deals.
01:05I'm going to say they're appropriately rated.
01:08I've been told that I have a very strange meal deal.
01:10I did a tour show in Bristol a couple of years ago last year,
01:14and, like, I mentioned what it was offhand,
01:16and it started, like, a 45-minute-long argument.
01:19What is the meal deal that was so divisive?
01:21Um, uh, egg and crust sandwich.
01:25Right.
01:26Water.
01:27Oh.
01:27And then, I can't remember what my snack was.
01:30It was, like, a Grey's bar or something.
01:32A meal deal would never be my first choice of budget meal
01:35when I'm out and about.
01:37Like, wasabi do, like, really cheap.
01:38Like, sushi and, like, hot bits of chicken and stuff.
01:40I will eat mercury if a push comes to shove.
01:43If there are no Tesco's nearby but there is, like, a Hatter's shop,
01:47I will go in and ask if I can have some, uh, some...
01:50A glass of tap water and a big bowl of mercury.
01:53Mullets on men.
01:55Mullets on men.
01:58I think I'm going to have to go with underrated for this one
02:00because they get...
02:01They're getting a bit of a hard time at the moment.
02:05I remember when I was a kid, it was, like,
02:07you know, the mullet had an extremely bad reputation.
02:10Um, uh, uh, but now it's everywhere
02:14and I think that's quite cool.
02:16It's a good haircut but with bad PR.
02:18Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
02:20Someone needs to get on the...
02:21It needs to be someone's job to get out there
02:24and start, like, pressing for mullets.
02:27I just think all haircuts are quite brilliant, really.
02:29We've got this, like, stuff that grows out of our head
02:32and we use it for, like, expression.
02:34I think that's pretty...
02:36That's pretty nice.
02:37It's like birds with, like, cool plumage and stuff.
02:39Ikea?
02:40Oh, f***, actually.
02:41I might have to go with underrated because...
02:43Okay.
02:43I've got all my lamps from there
02:44and I can only get my light bulbs from there now.
02:47So I'm kind of in...
02:47I'm kind of in Ikea's pocket here.
02:49If I slagged them off too much on the independent website,
02:52they might discontinue the light bulbs I need for all my lamps.
02:54They do watch all our content.
02:56Do they really?
02:56Yeah, they do.
02:57F***ing sake.
02:57Yeah.
02:58No, actually, f*** them.
02:59I hate it in there.
03:00It's too big.
03:01It's really confusing.
03:03And, like, the allure exists entirely in the promise realm.
03:07The promise of...
03:08The good thing about going to Ikea
03:09is you go into the showroom, the fake rooms,
03:11and you go,
03:12wouldn't it be brilliant if I had a different life,
03:14if I was a completely different man?
03:16And then you buy the desk and you put it in your room.
03:19That lamp in my sort of dingy, horrible room
03:22doesn't have the same effect as when it's in Ikea, you know?
03:24Wow, what if I had a million pounds and really good taste?
03:27Well, I don't, so...
03:28LukaZade Sport.
03:32Overrated because normal LukaZade is better.
03:34What is the difference?
03:36I don't know if one's got more, like, electricity in it or something.
03:39Orange LukaZade is the best drink.
03:40Like, it is an amazing drink.
03:42Playing with Lego as an adult?
03:44I'd say that Lego is underrated.
03:47My grandparents, when I was a kid,
03:48had, like, some Lego from, like, the 70s.
03:51Like, original Lego that was my mum's or something.
03:54And that was great because it was purely kind of, like,
03:58uh, just-gone-mid-century functional Lego.
04:04Sort of, like, f***ed-up 70s Danish Lego.
04:06There's nothing special about it.
04:08No Anakin Skywalker or Spider-Man.
04:10It's not up to the Lego company to decide who this little person is.
04:14I'll decide if it's f***ing Spider-Man.
04:16You can do anything with it.
04:17You can make, like, a car out of it.
04:19You can swallow it for attention.
04:22I used to do that.
04:23What was the brick size of choice for you?
04:25Um, for eating?
04:26Yes.
04:27Um, gosh, it's hard to say.
04:31So many options.
04:32Um, yeah, there's so many, so many options.
04:34Um, so many different shapes, uh, and, uh, and things to choose from.
04:39Um, but, yeah, I just, I just couldn't get half of this stuff.
04:42I'm getting antsy because I haven't eaten any Lego for about 15 minutes.
04:45Velvet.
04:48Underrated.
04:48Okay.
04:49It's sick.
04:49It feels amazing.
04:50And it's always, it feels really, um, really, uh, uh, special and kind of, uh, and, and interesting
04:58when you have, like, a piece of velvet.
05:00Velvet does good.
05:01And I like it when you get, what's that, like, special?
05:04You know, it's not velvet, but it's sort of like velvet.
05:06But when you, when you, like, rub it one way, it goes a different color.
05:09That's brilliant.
05:09Like, the pillows were, like, you know, you rub it one way and it's, like, sequels.
05:13I don't like that.
05:14You don't like that?
05:14I don't, I don't like that.
05:15There's too much engineering for a pillow.
05:17Clapping when the plane lands.
05:19Underrated.
05:20It's cool to clap for things.
05:21I like to, when people clap for me, uh, and it's, like, a big part of my job is at the
05:28end, if I've done a good job, people will clap for me.
05:30How could I begrudge a pilot or the cabin crew the experience that I love so much and hoard
05:37it all for myself?
05:38Do you know what I mean?
05:39It should be impressive that this massive, this massive machine has taken us from one
05:44country to another.
05:45You know, what's wrong with showing a little bit of appreciation?
05:48People are clapping for my stand-up comedy, but people can, are far more justified in
05:53clapping for being alive.
05:55So I'd say underrated.
05:57Weetabix.
05:58Oh, massively underrated.
06:00I remember, like, my granddad having Weetabix all the time and being, like, this stupid
06:05****, you can, you can just have Coco Pops.
06:07What's wrong with you?
06:07And now I'm like, he was right the whole time.
06:10Weetabix is absolutely amazing.
06:11I can't remember the last time I had it, but now that you've said that, it's like, I'm
06:15definitely going to have to have a, I'm going to have to get a box and have some for my
06:18breakfast.
06:18Small plates.
06:21Massively, massively, massively underrated.
06:22I've had a few small plates dinners recently.
06:25All I can think of is, man, I wish this plate was bigger.
06:30I like to have a big plate of big dinner in front of me.
06:32And, um, so you get, like, not enough of loads of different stuff and you don't, like, three
06:39quarters of them.
06:40Small plates can get ****ed as far as I'm concerned.
06:42Thank you very much to The Independent for having me and letting me play overrated and
06:46underrated.
06:47I'm going on a tour of the UK, so you can come and watch me on my stand-up tour.
06:51And I'm also doing the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, so you can come and watch me there.
06:55Thank you very much.
06:56We should give all men a pair of small flags to express themselves with.
07:01Because this is really, I'm really, I'm really liking it.
07:03This is the best conversation I've had in many years.
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