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In his brand new stand-up special, multi-award-winning Scottish comic Ray Bradshaw talks about the problems of being a b | dG1fUThwaEM4NWliVUE
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00:00while i was traveling with work i was trying to meet as many bald ginger people around the world
00:03as i could and then last year i was in india i was in mumbai for a couple of days doing some shows
00:08and i was like if i can find a doppel ginger here i've completed it like i'll try it so i'm in
00:14mumbai i don't know if you've ever been to me but it's great city but mental like mental so i'm
00:19walking around trying to find other bald ginger people i was like i'll take a ginger that's all
00:23i need i'm walking around i can't see anyone and i just thought i'll just walk around like tourist
00:27bits trying to find some people couldn't do it and then everything's really cheap in india apart
00:32from um data on your phone so because i was still my uk contract so i sat outside of mcdonald's getting
00:38their free wi-fi so i'm sitting on the wall i'm on my phone i'm missing my wife and i looked down the
00:44wall was this indian guy maybe like 20 feet away from me i'm texting away the next time i look up
00:49he's like 10 yards away from me and i'm looking down and the next time i turn around he's like here
00:54like so close to me and this is how he started the conversation he went hello i have seen one of
00:59you before and i was like strong start mate way to make me feel like a zoo animal um and i knew what
01:08he meant but what he double checked i was like one of what and he was like orange hair person and i was
01:12like cool i was like nice to meet you and then my curiosity got the better of me i was like when and
01:19he said maybe two weeks ago and i said where and he said in mumbai and then i became the weirdo
01:24because i was like can you help me find him and he let me back down his first question was to kill
01:29and i was like no like i don't know why we've gone from here to here so quickly like i don't have any
01:37why why is that your first thought like you're gonna put one in your head like in the room and i went no
01:43and he generally went why then like as if that's the only reason to be a bald ginger person and i
01:48was like oh i'm doing a show where i meet ginger people and he was like what does ginger mean i was
01:52like oh sorry it's a scottish word for handsome um so like he was like okay it's my friend's friend
01:57i'll try get him and i was like i'll leave here like 36 hours um so here's my number text me if you
02:03can find this guy and i was like what's your name he said sunil i was like nice to meet you so i go away
02:08i do a show that night and i don't really think about it until that night when i get back to my
02:11bed and i'm like why is he not i turned into a love six 16 year old i was like why is he not text me
02:16he said he would text me like and then the next morning i wake up to a text two words and it just
02:21says found him and no other information i was like come on don't be a cock tease like what are you doing
02:26man so i text him back and he says meet me here 1 p.m and i go he sends me a link on google maps and i
02:32google map it and it's like an industrial estate like an hour and a quarter outside the city and i was like
02:37that's not what i want so i facetimed my wife and he was like so let me get this straight you met a
02:42man sitting outside mcdonald's he approached you said he's never seen one of you and now you're going
02:50to go meet him in an industrial estate i was like yeah and he offered to help me kill someone yeah that's
02:53it and she's like you're going to lose a kidney and i was like sound i've got two like let's try it
02:58and i google that so it's an hour and 15 away so i get an uber four pound twenty what a country
03:04and i get it and we take we get to this industrial estate it's like one o'clock in the afternoon on a
03:08friday and sunil's there he's waiting on me and i think he's surprised i've turned up i'm not gonna
03:12lie and we go out and he goes follow me and he takes us through these um kind of like narrow kind
03:18of cobbled streets like back streets we're cutting about i'm really nervous and then we get to a busier
03:23area like a mosque has just finished friday prayers so more people are about so i feel less
03:27relieved i'm gonna die and then we get taken a more residential area and i can see a cafe some shops
03:32and sunil goes he's in here and i look up and it's an irish bar and i was like why the
03:36did i not think of that man that is that is ginger 101 like most gingers are conceived in irish bars
03:44i don't know if you know that and i was like man yeah of course so we go in and like it's one o'clock
03:48on a friday it's got these big saloon doors and i go in and me and sunil and we look around there's
03:53like maybe six indian people in this place and i was like where is he and sunil was like oh he's the
03:56area manager he's coming so we sit down and sunil goes and speaks to his friend and he comes and sits
04:01with me so we've got a table facing the door and that's big maybe 10 minutes in these big saloon
04:05doors swing open and a guy walks in and snails like oh so similar so similar so similar and i
04:12start laughing right and it's disrespectful but i start laughing and i can't stop and i cannot stop
04:17and snails like he keeps on saying so similar like twins and after about two minutes like with just me
04:22laughing i go i don't i don't think we look that similar because um that's quite clearly a korean
04:27man would dye ginger hair but i was like fair enough if you see it man because you're a better person
04:36than i am
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