00:00Comedy is the elixir for life.
00:02I have no question for me.
00:04For me, the best therapy is therapy, but I will say.
00:07No, hang on. Just hear me out.
00:09Yeah.
00:10No.
00:10Here we go.
00:11It's lovely to see you both.
00:13Congratulations on this film.
00:15It's beautiful and uplifting and really wonderful.
00:18Although I was curious how you feel about the dog stealing the show,
00:21which I only found out afterwards was your dog, Bradley.
00:24Yeah, both dogs.
00:25Both dogs?
00:26Yeah.
00:26But they stole the show.
00:27I agree.
00:28Yeah.
00:31You know, I knew that going in they would.
00:33Yeah.
00:33These are special dogs, Charlie and Lucy.
00:36Because Charlie's the dog from A Star is Born, which he also stole.
00:39Yeah.
00:39Oh, my God.
00:40I think by now that everyone knows it's obviously inspired by John Bishop's life,
00:45great stand-up comedian.
00:47What was the reasoning behind giving it that American version?
00:51You know, John, we weren't telling his story per se, like his exact story.
00:56You know, it was inspired by, you know, he inspired, his journey, which had plot points
01:01that you, if we fictionalized, you would think, you know, this idea of he just happened to
01:05walk into a bar one night and didn't want to pay the cover.
01:07And then his wife happened to walk in the bar where he's doing an open mic set.
01:11I mean, those are two incredible elements and are just ripe for a story.
01:16Yeah.
01:17And, you know, it's like right what you know.
01:19It felt to me like the thing that I could offer the movie is New York and my experience
01:25with the cellar and the comedy scene.
01:27And Will and I have been such a, you know, sort of bystanders for the most part for the
01:33last 23 years of that scene.
01:35And that's a culture that I really know well and have watched its evolution.
01:39So I thought, oh, what a great place.
01:41And New York City for both of us has been what it is for Alex.
01:45Yeah.
01:45So it just all sort of made sense in that way.
01:49Okay.
01:49Yeah.
01:49It makes sense when you explain it.
01:51But in the same way that obviously, I guess John must have used comedy almost as therapy
01:55for him.
01:56Do you find comedy as like therapy for you guys?
01:59Or do you have something else that you kind of feel like helps you to comedy is the elixir
02:03for life?
02:04You know, I have no question for me.
02:07For me, the best therapy is therapy.
02:08But I will say, no, hang on.
02:12Just hear me out.
02:13Yeah.
02:13No.
02:14Here we go.
02:15No, it is.
02:16Comedy is, you know, the expression, obviously, laughter is the best.
02:19Medicine is insane.
02:21Medicine is the best medicine.
02:22But it is true that it does make you feel better.
02:25And there is that thing about laughter.
02:28A, it quite literally makes you feel better in whatever it does sort of chemically.
02:33And B, it often is this thing that can allow us to talk about things that are difficult.
02:38Yeah.
02:38Yeah.
02:38And C, and be honest about ourselves and help us laugh at ourselves.
02:42All those things.
02:42I guess you were also relieved, though, Will, that John was from Liverpool.
02:47So you could wear a Liverpool FC top, right?
02:49Yeah, yeah.
02:49And do the chant, right?
02:50Yeah.
02:51Otherwise, if they had had you in any other top, that would follow you around for the rest
02:54of your life.
02:54Yeah.
02:54Because you're a Liverpool fan, right?
02:56That's my shirt.
02:56That's why it's in the movie.
02:57It's why it's in the movie.
02:58He did that, yeah.
02:59Yeah.
02:59As a nod to John and to the, yeah.
03:01And that's my actual shirt, yeah.
03:03Yeah.
03:04Okay, okay.
03:04When he was 10, that's why.
03:06That's why it's so tight.
03:07And the sleeves are off because, obviously, you're not going to cover these up.
03:14Absolutely.
03:15That was, like, my favorite part of the whole film.
03:17Yeah.
03:17The same with us on.
03:18And, Bradley, I feel like you just had the best time playing your character.
03:23I feel like I've never seen you have that much fun, almost.
03:27John Peters was fun.
03:28I've got to play a role.
03:29Yeah.
03:29It reminded me of that.
03:30Like, yeah.
03:31It was very fun.
03:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:33No, he's a great character.
03:35And he's such a clear character, too.
03:37And he's such a genuinely happy person and finds the goodness in his life, you know.
03:44So I thought that was really, and he just sort of says exactly what he's thinking all the time.
03:48Pretty optimistic.
03:49Yeah.
03:50And the only moment, it's only when Alex tells him he's doing stand-up that he gets bummed out.
03:54It's the only moment.
03:56And he says exactly why.
03:57Even when he's talking about his marriage break, he's not as bummed out.
03:59Well, he is that moment when he's with the club.
04:01Well, that moment.
04:02Yeah, yeah.
04:03But the most bummed out is when Alex tells him he's doing stand-up.
04:04For sure.
04:05Oh, yeah.
04:06Yeah, no, that really killed him.
04:07Well, because everyone wants to be favorite child, right?
04:09Yeah, yeah.
04:09And, like, be the one who is, like, going to impress him or not.
04:12And you can't even say it.
04:13I'm the one who's, like, he hasn't made me going for it.
04:15Yeah, exactly.
04:17Like, you can't even...
04:17He has to be honest about it.
04:19I love that.
04:20It felt really, like, honest and truthful.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Yeah.
04:23Those scenes were, like, some of my favorite moments between you guys.
04:26Great job with this.
04:27Honestly, I think you've done a phenomenal job, like, turning this into something that
04:31I think everyone will enjoy.
04:33Lovely to see you both.
04:34You too, too.
04:34And see you again very soon.
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