00:00It's still a game I'll always be very very proud of you know I mean I don't think it's very rare to have a job like that that lasts so long and also to have a job that I don't think any of us expected it to touch people in such a way and of such longevity and to do it and then stop after six series and come back seven years later and play the Hydro which nobody anticipated and I remember at that point somebody well my agent at the time who no longer is said to me
00:29do you think you'll be able to fill the Hydro you know it's a big space and I was like yeah I think so you know so I think they can do one of them but that first time we ended up playing 21 times and then in total we played at 51 and I don't you know I don't think anybody's beat that Kevin Bridges we stand up maybe and I don't know if anybody ever will and that's quite crazy when you break it down to the numbers of the population who's seen it and think so
00:59and then bringing it back on TV again so there's very few people get to do that you know and you kind of become part of the public psyche really I mean I think punters probably understand it better than I do you know if you thought about it too much your head would pancake over the ceiling for a moment
01:17but no just yeah very very proud and proud that it's still there and people still talk about it and there's such warmth even when we did a tour last year five of us and we went outside Scotland and the number of people that are just freaked out about it you know we're over an island we're down south and people love it
01:37you know or as I say I met a lovely guy in Paris the concierge said to me one moment I went to get coffee and I could see him looking at me and he said
01:45are you on television yeah are you in still game yeah you are the barman you are the barman yeah yeah I am yeah oh how do you know still game do you watch Netflix
02:03no no no no it is my mother is from Don Barton and my father is from Newcastle
02:09hmm
02:10I'm like oh okay and what's your name and he said my name oh my name is Ian Ian Robertson
02:16I'm like oh okay Ian brilliant yeah so you find it everywhere it's lovely I mean what a lovely thing to have really yeah
02:25Bobby was kind of pretty fully formed the way it was written I mean there's a few sliding door moments
02:31and still game because I wasn't originally Bobby I was Winston years ago really in 96 we did a sketch show for Greg and I
02:41Jane MacCarrie was in it too and Sanjeev Kohli wrote for it at the time and we there was a couple of sketches within that and that's kind of where the old guys came from and at that point I was Winston but he was a really sugary dog
02:54dodery old guy and it was somebody else who played Bobby there was a pilot made and there was an actor called Billy McElhaney brilliant acting lovely man who used to play Scarlett's husband in River City
03:07pardon me so Billy McElhaney was originally Bobby but he couldn't do the series he was busy doing another Welsh play in London so they asked me to audition so it was kind of they changed that a bit when I came in you'll notice in the first episode I still
03:24again they talked about his daughter and things and then he never mentions his daughter or wife again and then the whole two-pound shipwreck thing started so I think they were kind of having a wee pop at me because we hadn't worked together for years I couldn't do the stage show I still get and we kind of went our separate ways and came back but it was there the only thing that kind of brought into it was collaborative in terms of makeup girl Julie Doric Keenan who worked with us for all those years
03:51I had a shaved head at the time for another sitcom and as an actor you always kind of want to look slightly different
03:58and I said I don't want to keep shaving my head and things and said leave it with me and I came up and in the dressing room she had this box of wigs and she said I've got an idea but you're not gonna like it
04:11and I'm like right what's the idea and said well it's a mullet oh right Jesus and said please just try it on Gavin try it on okay and took out the scraggy wee thing and pulled it in my head and I said as it looked in the mirror and I'm like oh hello who's the missing member of Duran Duran
04:33so it was partly the wig stuff and I used to drink a lot down in Scotia and Victoria bar and a couple of the barmen there that I'd watched quite closely Jerry and Alex in particular
04:46so some of it was based on them just how they were their personalities and quite miserable baggers but big hearts kind of looked after you a good barman you know just a good kind of social worker member of the community who listens to everybody and looks after them
05:01so it was a bit of that but really it's down to the boys writing that they created Bobby kind of fully formed
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