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00:00To talk to you. This is lovely. Hello. How are you? I'm good. Okay. I love what you're wearing. Thank
00:06you. I love what you're wearing. No, have it. Shall we swap? Let's swap. At the end of the night,
00:12it's all yours. Okay. I mean it.
00:33Hello, hello. Thank you. You are very fun. Hello and welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining
00:44us. I've just met a woman who has eight pet cats. One is called Malcolm. We have a lovely audience.
00:52Thank you very much.
00:53A lovely audience and some truly excellent guests are joining us on the sofa. So let us begin. One of
01:00the country's finest comics. He's back with a new series of Last One Laughing. It's Jimmy Carr.
01:16She's in the six-time Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another and is here to tell us about her
01:22new series, The Testaments. It's Chase Infinity.
01:34We know him from the fall and the Oscar-winning Belfast. His this week's host of Saturday Night Live UK
01:41is Jamie Dornan.
01:51And she is the star of Friends and is here as actor, writer, and producer of her show, The Comeback.
01:58It's Lisa Kudrow.
02:03Thank you. Thank you so much. Have a seat.
02:14I know we have to be casual about it and cool, but Lisa Kudrow.
02:25Thank you all so much for coming because many of you have quite bad jet lag. I mean, Jimmy, you
02:32got in from Australia literally this morning.
02:34Well, I flew from Australia but via Los Angeles. Oh. So it was... I went... I'm basically trying to prove
02:41flat earthers wrong.
02:44How do you deal with it? What's the answer? Lisa, what's your... Do you have an answer? You get on
02:49the plane...
02:50Drugs.
02:53But what are you supposed to eat? I can't travel anywhere. I can't go to Manchester. I get jet lag.
02:58I've never... Yeah.
02:59It's true. I've never moved. But I don't think you're supposed to eat. I think you're not supposed to eat.
03:04You know when to eat on the plane, right? Right. I don't eat plane food.
03:07You don't? I do if I'm hungry.
03:10LAUGHTER
03:12LAUGHTER
03:12That's how food works.
03:14LAUGHTER
03:16Is it true I read once that you love meat?
03:19I always... No, I always travel with, like, biltong. It's, like, a cured sort of...
03:24Beef?
03:25Dead animals, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:27And when you say, like, do you take a slither or are you taking a bag?
03:29I take, like, a big... a big bag, uh, just to get me through, yeah.
03:34A big, sort of, fatty bag of, sort of, old meat.
03:38LAUGHTER
03:39As fatty?
03:40Well, I... You can ask for it many different ways, but I ask for the wettest, fattiest stuff.
03:44What's... What's happening?
03:45LAUGHTER
03:45You can get, like, pre-packaged stuff in supermarkets. It's terrible.
03:48I feel like I need a visual of it. No, I go... I go to, like, a South Africa...
03:52It's the store. Like, it's the South Africa themed store.
03:55But does the meat... Is it odiferous? Like, does it smell really bad?
04:00I don't think it smells bad, but I think other people might think it's...
04:04It smells bad. I don't know.
04:05Just curious. It smells good. You know.
04:07Yeah. It smells good?
04:08Do you... Are you a meat eater?
04:09I love meat, yeah.
04:11Listen, I'll bring you to the South Africa themed shop.
04:14LAUGHTER
04:15OK.
04:15This is the worst episode of First Dates ever.
04:18LAUGHTER
04:19Um, Chase Infinity. The best name on the sofa.
04:23Yeah. The best name I think I've ever heard.
04:26Hey!
04:26Um, your parents are very clever. How did they put it together?
04:29And I'm so sorry if you're bored of answering the question.
04:32No, I will answer it as many times,
04:33because I love the story of my parents coming up with my name.
04:37But pretty much both movies came out in 1995,
04:40which was, I believe, the year that my parents got married.
04:42But, um, they had watched Batman Forever
04:46and Nicole Kidman played a character named Chase Meridian.
04:48And they were like, regardless of anything, her name was going to be Chase
04:51because they were obsessed with Nicole Kidman in that movie.
04:54And then Infinity comes from Toy Story to Infinity and beyond.
04:58Oh!
04:58And I've just gone by Chase Infinity since I was ten.
05:01So...
05:02I love that.
05:02They sort of decided what you were going to do
05:04before they even met you.
05:06Kind of crazy.
05:07Literally crazy how that happened, but yeah.
05:09I love it.
05:10And what's your sister called?
05:11Her name is Dolce, and she's into fashion.
05:13She went to school for fashion.
05:16Is that all you have to do with your kids?
05:18Yeah!
05:19My parents kind of were like, wait a minute, hold on a second.
05:22Movies, fashion, this is where we're going.
05:25I wish I'd known.
05:26Yeah.
05:26I would have given my kids different names.
05:29Um, I don't want anyone to panic, because we will talk about
05:33Friends, because I know you three are obsessed.
05:35But first of all, can we, uh, talk about the comeback, please?
05:39Yes.
05:39Yes.
05:40It's the best.
05:44Because...
05:45You know it?
05:46Who knows the show?
05:48Also, you said, uh, the comeback is the greatest show of all time.
05:51I think it might be honestly.
05:52Oh.
05:53Friends a second.
05:54OK.
05:54I'll go to the meat shop with you.
05:57I'll go to the meat shop with you.
05:59I'll go to everyone.
05:59Now it sounds rude.
06:01Um, but before Friends, before Phoebe was created,
06:06you had this idea, right?
06:08You were...
06:10Oh.
06:10There was a character that you created, you couldn't let go.
06:13At the Groundlings, which is a sketch, comedy, improv,
06:17theatre company, and I wrote a character monologue
06:21called Your Favourite Actress on a Talk Show.
06:23And she had a short red wig, and she was really phony,
06:26and I just, you know, it was funny.
06:29I won't do the whole thing for you.
06:31Um...
06:32But we're on a talk show.
06:34This feels like the perfect time.
06:36To do something funny.
06:38Yeah.
06:38No, it's not the right place.
06:40No, but I...
06:41I mean, I do remember one...
06:46But I do remember one sort of thing.
06:48She was just so phony that she would say, you know,
06:51like, actors who can be really self-important.
06:53And she just said, um, no, you know, it's funny,
06:56because what's really important to me now is, um,
06:59you know, the planet...
07:00LAUGHTER
07:01..we need to save the planet, everybody, OK?
07:05Please, please, as a favour to me.
07:08LAUGHTER
07:08I love you for it, I will.
07:11You know, so that was my funny thing.
07:15LAUGHTER
07:15It certainly was.
07:16Pretty funny.
07:18Pretty damn funny.
07:21You were so advanced.
07:23You were miles ahead of everybody else doing a mockumentary
07:29or a fly in the wall, however you would describe it.
07:31Of reality shows.
07:31Of reality shows.
07:32Yeah.
07:33And you made it, and it then had a cult following,
07:35but lots of people were like, what?
07:36Yeah, what's happening?
07:37What are these cameras moving around that I hate?
07:40You know, and, um, yeah,
07:42there were no housewives of anywhere yet.
07:45Well...
07:45We're gonna have a clip.
07:46This is from series three.
07:47This is just as Valerie gets offered a big job.
07:50Yeah.
07:51Have a look.
07:52And they are offering Valerie Cherish...
07:54Uh-huh.
07:55Please note that I said offer, not audition.
07:58Noted.
07:59Yeah.
08:00A starring role in their new multi-camera comedy.
08:04Wow.
08:04Right.
08:05It's been thrilling.
08:06I could cry.
08:08Um...
08:08In a multi-cam.
08:09So sitcoms are making a comeback.
08:11Yeah.
08:12Knew they would.
08:13You know, people need a laugh.
08:15Now more than ever.
08:17Yeah.
08:18Oh.
08:20Okay.
08:21What's it about?
08:22I don't know.
08:23Oh, okay.
08:24What's the part?
08:25I don't know.
08:26Well, what do you know?
08:29Well, I know that you're not gonna have to deal
08:31with any asshole writers.
08:33It's being written by A.I.
08:37Uh-huh.
08:38Now, is that allowed?
08:47It's so fantastic.
08:50Was there a little bit of you, or was it slightly inspired by The Office at all?
08:55Oh, I loved The Office.
08:57Yeah.
08:57Yeah, yeah.
08:58And when I saw these reality shows, I went, oh, gotta do this.
09:04Because I have a lovely fact.
09:06Is it true, Jimmy, that you took Ricky and Steven on a tour of Slough?
09:11You said, do it here.
09:14Yeah, I took them on a tour of Slough, yeah.
09:17Because when they were writing that, we were all hanging out.
09:19We did like our first Edinburgh Fringe together.
09:22Yes.
09:22Me and Ricky and Steve.
09:23And then we, yeah, they wanted to know, because Reading wasn't quite shit enough.
09:28LAUGHTER
09:31But Slough, which is where I'm from, is, it's legit shit.
09:36LAUGHTER
09:36And then, and then I, uh, and if anyone's watching this in Slough, stand by that.
09:42LAUGHTER
09:43And I kind of, I took them round and then, and then was just explaining,
09:47oh, yeah, there was, this was where the nightclub was,
09:49and then told them that the nightclub was called Henry's.
09:52It was a Henry VIII-themed nightclub.
09:54LAUGHTER
09:55I mean, yeah, sort of writes itself, doesn't it?
09:59Yeah.
09:59Oh, my God.
10:00Also, in the comeback, and this is weird that I say that,
10:03because I'm part of the UK version, your character, Valerie,
10:07takes part in Traitors.
10:08Uh-huh.
10:10And...
10:10I know.
10:11And...
10:13And Valerie's, uh, stint on Traitors was inspired a little bit
10:17by somebody on the UK Traitors.
10:19Yes, it was.
10:21On Linda.
10:22Linda.
10:22Oh!
10:29Because, for those who haven't, um, seen, and they...
10:33I'll just explain, Linda was the person who, and I said,
10:36Traitors will meet each other later, and looked at me and nodded.
10:40LAUGHTER
10:41And there was a bit of Linda in it, wasn't there?
10:43A bit?
10:44Yeah.
10:44Oh, my God!
10:46Yeah, we had Valerie, someone saying, like,
10:48well, I think he's a traitor, and she's,
10:50oh, no, I can tell you 100%, he's a faithful.
10:53LAUGHTER
10:54How do you know?
10:55Just, I have a... I have a feeling.
10:57I mean, you know, I don't...
10:59Don't you wish we knew who the traitor was?
11:01I do.
11:02Something so stressful.
11:04Yeah.
11:04I love the fact that it was based on Linda,
11:06and I think it's only right that you meet her.
11:08But...
11:08Oh, yes!
11:09Linda!
11:11Hi.
11:11Oh, way!
11:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
11:28I love seeing you.
11:31I just somehow wanted Linda and Lisa together,
11:36even just for a minute.
11:38But, Linda, in your wildest dreams, when that happened
11:41and you looked at me and went, got it!
11:44LAUGHTER
11:45Did you ever think that then the mighty Lisa Kudrow
11:50would use you as inspiration in her amazing show?
11:53No!
11:54LAUGHTER
11:56Crazy.
11:57Absolutely.
11:58On our show, she was voted out, like, that night.
12:03No.
12:03What was wrong with your group?
12:05Seven.
12:05Yes!
12:06Episode seven.
12:07They took a very long time.
12:09They took a very long time.
12:11Because you're very charming.
12:12Ladies and gentlemen, Linda.
12:15Thank you, darling.
12:18Thank you, darling.
12:20Oh, my God.
12:25That was thrilling.
12:27That was true.
12:28That was thrilling.
12:28What the...?
12:29We're all still alive, though, yeah?
12:32Yes, we are.
12:33I just...
12:33I just...
12:34I couldn't help it.
12:35When I watched, I was like,
12:36Oh, hold on a minute!
12:38Yeah.
12:39I know, but they didn't vote her out.
12:40Sorry, none of them are here.
12:42So I can say, not bright.
12:44No.
12:48She basically held up a sign.
12:51Yeah.
12:51Like you said, so traitors.
12:53That's me.
12:53Yeah.
12:54I'm right here, nodded.
12:57We absolutely love the comeback.
12:59It's on HBO Max with new episodes airing weekly.
13:04Yeah.
13:04Um, Jamie, we're going to talk about SNL,
13:06but first of all, slightly friends-related.
13:09Everything is friends-related.
13:10Let's talk about flat shares.
13:12Because didn't you share a flat with Eddie Redmayne?
13:15I did, yeah.
13:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:17A long, long time ago.
13:18That's Eddie there, yeah.
13:20Conveniently on the TV.
13:22Yeah.
13:22He'd prefer if you used a picture he's holding his Academy Award.
13:25Oh!
13:27I get that.
13:28Yeah.
13:28Um, what was he like as a flatmate?
13:30Or what are you like?
13:31I'm a real, like, OCD, neat, freaky person.
13:34And so is Eddie.
13:35I mean, Eddie, it's not like we shared a flat and then haven't seen...
13:38Like, he's one of my best mates still.
13:40Oh, right.
13:40But this is, like, 2018 years ago, I think, in LA.
13:43Uh, no, we were really, um, tidy for, like, you know,
13:46a couple of guys sharing a house together in Laurel Canyon.
13:49Uh, Chase, you live with your best friend from college, I think.
13:53I do.
13:54And how is that?
13:55Because it must be lovely when you're, you know, Oscars,
13:58all of this, like, busy and then you go back.
14:00Is it lovely to live with her?
14:02Well, it is, but I haven't been home, like, in probably,
14:06I don't know, six months.
14:08So I go home for, like, maybe three days at a time.
14:11And I'm like, hey, change my luggage.
14:13And I'm like, OK, bye.
14:14Thank you for being here.
14:15I love you very much.
14:17But, yeah, but it is nice.
14:19And, like, getting to go home and kind of ground myself
14:21and then she's my best friend in the entire world
14:24and I love her very much.
14:26Aw.
14:27And she gets her own apartment.
14:29She does.
14:29She gets a completely empty apartment.
14:31Yeah, sublet.
14:32Why is there someone in my room?
14:35Um, Jimmy, talk to me about, what's it like sharing?
14:38Have you...
14:39I used to live with a couple, yeah.
14:41And?
14:41Come on.
14:42Well, then my mum and dad.
14:44LAUGHTER
14:46Um, Lisa, didn't you meet your husband through your flatmate?
14:49Yes.
14:50I was living with a French woman, Isabelle,
14:52and he had just moved to the US
14:56and was told to look up this French girl
14:57and so he came to take her out and I just went, no.
15:01He's for me.
15:03This isn't going to work.
15:04And now, oh, my God.
15:06Is that French lady still in your life?
15:09Yeah.
15:09Mm-hmm.
15:10Yeah.
15:10No, then we met again six years later at her party
15:13and started dating.
15:15Oh, cool.
15:15Yeah.
15:16And everyone said, Lisa, no.
15:18Not him.
15:19One French guy, really thick accent, he said,
15:22Lisa, Michel, he's a butterfly.
15:25He goes from flower to flower.
15:30And you were like, I'm the best flower he's ever going to make.
15:33No.
15:33No.
15:34I said, yeah, it doesn't matter.
15:35There's a rebound thing for me.
15:37LAUGHTER
15:39Been together ever since?
15:4030 years.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Congratulations.
15:43APPLAUSE
15:47I believe there is somebody here
15:49who's got the worst flatmate story.
15:52David?
15:52Yeah.
15:53Hi, David.
15:54Tell me about the flatmate.
15:55Yeah, I was an entertainer, a red coat on holiday parks
15:58and I was told I was going to share a very small caravan
16:01with the guy that was on the entertainment team,
16:03but he just never stopped.
16:06And he would be telling jokes and we wouldn't finish till 1am
16:10rehearsing shows.
16:11And then you'd just fall asleep and you'd hear some horrible noise
16:15and he was on a unicycle.
16:17Oh!
16:17He was practising.
16:18I'm not kidding.
16:19And he wasn't very good.
16:20He'd be banging on the walls.
16:22Honestly.
16:22And then you'd go and work and then you'd come back
16:24and he'd get his jumper out.
16:26LAUGHTER
16:27And he loved cooking fish.
16:29LAUGHTER
16:29Well, I enjoyed our time together.
16:32LAUGHTER
16:35APPLAUSE
16:39Very much...
16:41Very much his side of the story.
16:43LAUGHTER
16:44And you're good at the unicycle.
16:46I would have been good if someone had let me practise.
16:48LAUGHTER
16:50Thank you very much, David.
16:52So, Jamie, let's talk about SNL UK.
16:55Sure.
16:58You host tomorrow night.
17:00How are the nerves?
17:02Or should I not be asking that?
17:03Or are you feeling fine?
17:05I go through phases of feeling fine and feeling comfortable.
17:07The team are unbelievable.
17:08Like, I feel incredible support.
17:10You know, they're a very funny bunch.
17:13You know, I just feel immense support
17:15and, like, gratitude that I get to do it.
17:17It's a proper honour, you know.
17:19Yeah, huge honour.
17:20Let's have a look at a clip this was from Saturday night.
17:23Mm.
17:23I'm just here as a long-time SNL employee
17:27to help out and to answer, like, any questions anyone might have
17:32of what to...
17:33Oh, hi!
17:33Yeah, Nicola Coughlin.
17:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
17:39It is lovely to see you.
17:41But my question is, if this is SNL UK,
17:44then why are you the first host?
17:47Like, shouldn't it be, like, a British icon,
17:49like David Beckham or Judi Dench or, like, Shrek?
17:52Well, that is a valid question.
17:54Why an American host?
17:55And the way it was explained to me was that,
17:58for this first episode anyway,
18:01how do I put this politely,
18:03none of you fuckers would do it?
18:05LAUGHTER
18:07APPLAUSE
18:07Yeah.
18:08Who's going?
18:09Who's going?
18:11Who's going?
18:11Um...
18:12Tina Fey is amazing.
18:14Has she helped in any way with you?
18:17Yeah, well, I guess I'm the fucker who's doing it.
18:19Which is...
18:20Important to note.
18:21Yeah, Tina and I have done a movie together, so, you know,
18:25I know her and she's incredibly supportive.
18:27She's been around all this week.
18:29I mean, look, it's so iconic, you know,
18:31even from the, you know, the early days of Dan Aykroyd
18:33and Chevy Chase and Bill Murray and people,
18:36friends of mine who I've worked with since at Kristen Wiig.
18:38You know, it's...
18:39It's just incredible, but even in the sort of...
18:41that sort of company or in those conversations.
18:43Yeah.
18:44Um, Lisa, you hosted, didn't you?
18:46Yeah.
18:46How was it?
18:47I don't know.
18:49LAUGHTER
18:50Blanked it up.
18:50Yes.
18:51Was it...
18:52Was it terrifying?
18:53Terrifying?
18:53Too late to pull out.
18:56LAUGHTER
18:56I've been making jokes about that with them all week.
18:59LAUGHTER
18:59No.
19:00Saying things like I might be there,
19:01I plan to be there, but I might not be there.
19:04And, uh...
19:05What day is it on again?
19:06Yeah, exactly.
19:07LAUGHTER
19:08You're going to be utterly brilliant.
19:10Have they asked you...
19:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:11..to sing?
19:12Uh, no, but I will sing, yeah.
19:15They haven't asked me, no, but it's live,
19:17I can do what the fuck I want.
19:18LAUGHTER
19:22Yeah.
19:22Yeah, I do.
19:25I love the story when you went, I believe, for a singing audition
19:29Yeah.
19:29and you decided to deal with your voice in a certain way.
19:32Yeah, I did.
19:33I was first up, it was out in L.A.
19:35Around the time I was probably living with Eddie,
19:38and there was a movie called Rock of Ages,
19:41I think, like, Tom Cruise was in it,
19:43and, uh, you had to sing, and, like, I can sing
19:46as much as any other sort of douchey actor guy.
19:50But, like, I'm not, like, a great singer, but I can sing a bit.
19:53And I was first up, it was, like, 10 a.m. in the morning,
19:57which in those days, like, pre-kids was, like, an early kick-off.
20:00Yeah.
20:01And, um, I thought, I'm not really good enough to be in this room,
20:05so I thought, right, well, what I'll do is I'll drink whisky.
20:10Um, so I bought myself a little quarter bottle of, like, Jameson.
20:14Big up Ireland.
20:17And, uh, because it was so early in the morning,
20:19I hadn't had breakfast or anything, I sort of got up, brushed my teeth,
20:21had a shower, and, uh, I arrived, and I sort of opened the door
20:25of the car, and I sort of saw the whisky in the car door,
20:28and I went, that's the first thing that passed my mouth apart from
20:30Toothpaste, so I, as soon as I drank it, and I puked.
20:34LAUGHTER
20:36Like, really violently puked.
20:38Um, like, sort of down my front.
20:40No. All down thing.
20:42I didn't have, like, mouthwash, you know what?
20:43So I then walked into this audition with puke down my front,
20:48smelling of whisky and vomit.
20:51And then had to. It could change.
20:53And honestly, it was so bad.
20:54And then I had to, we were, honestly, like,
20:57the most comedy small room you've ever been.
20:59There was, like, seven people in this tiny room,
21:01and I stink, and I had to sing this song that I can't sing.
21:04LAUGHTER
21:05And I couldn't sing it, I really couldn't sing it,
21:07but directors just kept going, ah, nah, let's go get it, let's do it.
21:10You want to do it one more time?
21:11No. Honestly, no, I don't.
21:13LAUGHTER
21:14And I can't keep doing it, and this is a living nightmare.
21:17Um, and I kept, they made, I think I did it three times,
21:19and then that was it, and I never heard from them.
21:22LAUGHTER
21:24Well, you're going to be great on Saturday.
21:27Thank you. Jimmy, you are magnificent.
21:29Do you have advice for a monologue, or what, what's the key?
21:33You know, you don't have to take my advice,
21:35but I've done a lot of comedy, I've done a lot of, kind of, jokes on stage.
21:39I would buy a quarter bottle of Jameson.
21:42LAUGHTER
21:46Right before...
21:47APPLAUSE
21:50When you're watching TV, you can't smell, so...
21:52That's a good point, that's a good point, yeah.
21:54I think that's what Tina Fey does.
21:55Yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely, yeah.
21:57I got a sniff of her, it was...
21:58Yeah.
22:00LAUGHTER
22:00I didn't...
22:01LAUGHTER
22:03OK.
22:04You're hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow night, Sky One, 10pm.
22:09APPLAUSE
22:15Chasing Timothy, you're here to talk to us about The Testament.
22:19Yes.
22:19Which is unbelievable.
22:21I cannot say this enough.
22:23They sent me one and they said,
22:25that'll do you, and I had to phone and beg.
22:27It's after The Handmaid's Tale.
22:29Yeah.
22:29It's the sequel, it's five years later.
22:31It's about, like, three to four years later,
22:34after the final season of The Handmaid's Tale, yeah.
22:36I like that already people are like...
22:39LAUGHTER
22:39It's nice and dark and meaty.
22:42Yeah, I saw The Handmaid's Tale.
22:43It wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be.
22:45LAUGHTER
22:46Um, let's have a taste, if you will, of The Testament.
22:50I believed in this world once.
22:52It's easier to accept a story
22:54than believe that the people around you are monsters.
22:57We gather here tonight
22:59to bring women back to their rightful place.
23:03Blessed be the fruit.
23:10It was time for us to change things.
23:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
23:14It's so crazy to see it.
23:16Did you know too much of it?
23:17Well, I have, but, like,
23:19you know when you just don't realise,
23:20you're like,
23:20oh, my God, that's, like,
23:21that's something that I made,
23:22and it's really cool getting to see it.
23:24Yeah, yeah.
23:25It is unbelievable.
23:27Tell people a bit about the premise
23:29and who you play.
23:30OK, so I play a character named Agnes Mackenzie,
23:33and it's kind of a coming-of-age story in Gilead.
23:35So The Handmaid's Tale was sold
23:37from the perspective of a handmaid,
23:38but this follows a group of girls
23:41who are the daughters of high-ranking commanders,
23:43so you're kind of seeing the nobility,
23:45in a sense, going to school
23:46and training to become wives in Gilead.
23:50So you're kind of having that new perspective
23:52around a 14-year-old girl, so...
23:54And it's Margaret Atwood,
23:55and it's quite dark.
23:57A lot of it is really dark.
23:59How do you come out of that,
24:02if that's not a weird question?
24:04It's not a weird question,
24:05but, like, I feel very grateful
24:06because our entire cast and crew
24:08was so, so sweet,
24:10where you felt very supported the entire time.
24:12So even if you had an unexpectedly difficult day
24:15with the material on set,
24:17you felt...
24:17You felt like you were, um...
24:19You were cared for in a way.
24:21And I really am...
24:22I owe a lot of my hard days
24:23to my entire cast and crew
24:25because we really had each other
24:27on those dark moments.
24:28I mean, Jamie, you played a real baddie.
24:32I have, yeah.
24:32In the fall.
24:34How did you do that and then go,
24:35yeah, I'm going to make some pasta now,
24:38or however it works.
24:39I just honestly think you need, like,
24:41levity in those moments
24:42because it's just not a healthy place
24:45to keep your head.
24:46I'd talk about, like, crisps or something.
24:49I'd say, like, I could talk about crisps all day.
24:52So could I.
24:53I honestly do think, take after take,
24:56coming at it totally fresh
24:58is a better energy, I personally find.
25:01And we've been talking about hula hoops
25:03for five minutes.
25:04Beef, obviously.
25:05Obviously.
25:06Obviously.
25:07Just have to say that out loud.
25:08Yeah.
25:09We usually have about 48 packets
25:11at any point in my house.
25:13Yeah, same as me.
25:14Do you?
25:15I'm just...
25:16And then we'll go back.
25:17I promise.
25:17Don't panic.
25:18Chase's agent is like,
25:20get her out of there.
25:21Have you tried the large hoop?
25:24Not as big a fan of it.
25:26Yeah.
25:26Too much.
25:27No.
25:28Never.
25:29What's happened?
25:30I just...
25:30I don't know where Margaret Atwood stands
25:34on the hula hoop, but we were...
25:37We were on that.
25:38So maybe...
25:40Just...
25:41Get back in?
25:41Just a modicum of professionalism.
25:44I'm so sorry.
25:46He said crisps.
25:47I went with it.
25:49With the hula hoops, the toy?
25:51No, the crisps.
25:53The chip.
25:53I don't know what you're talking about.
25:54Fine.
25:54I'm sorry.
25:55We'll move on.
25:57So.
25:58The Testaments is available on Disney Plus from April the 8th.
26:02Yay!
26:04Yay!
26:05Yay!
26:09Yay!
26:10Yay!
26:11Yay!
26:12Yay!
26:15Yay!
26:16They were you in that film.
26:17And it just won all of those Oscars.
26:19When you went for the audition, they asked you to get quite close to Leonardo DiCaprio, didn't
26:24they?
26:25Yeah, I know exactly where this is going.
26:29Yes, definitely.
26:30My first camera test that I had, I was asked to shave his face, um, and I didn't know that
26:37I was shaking the entire time because it was with an electric razor, and I was like...
26:42I don't know what I'm doing.
26:43This is Leonardo DiCaprio.
26:45It's a famous face.
26:46Yeah.
26:47As faces go.
26:49I was literally like, I don't know what I'm doing.
26:51I'm so sorry.
26:53And tell me about the Oscars.
26:55I mean, because it's your first one.
26:57Yeah.
26:58And you go, you win everything, you look beautiful.
27:01Did you have fun?
27:03It was the coolest experience ever.
27:05And it felt even more special getting
27:08to be there with everyone from one battle.
27:09And we had so much love in the room.
27:12And it's a night I will never forget.
27:15And getting to also be a part of presenting the first award
27:19in casting was also so special.
27:21And then our casting director won.
27:23And I could not stop jumping on the stage.
27:25And I was like, I'm sorry.
27:25I can't contain my excitement right now.
27:28But you were presenting it.
27:29And the person that cast your movie won.
27:32Well, she could have said anything.
27:34Because it just feels like...
27:36Well, I didn't read it.
27:37Gwyneth Paltrow read it.
27:38It wasn't me.
27:39Yeah, but you've just seen her backstage and gone, Gwyneth.
27:41I know, there wasn't the seal like there normally was.
27:44It was kind of just a magnetic thing.
27:46Was it in your handwriting?
27:48It was...
27:49No one did see it, so it could have been.
27:53Um, and how were the parties?
27:55Where did you, which house did you go to first?
27:57Or at that point, were you like, I'm going night-night?
28:00I went to five parties.
28:02I went to five parties.
28:05Because it was my first Oscars, OK, I had to go to all of them.
28:07Of course.
28:08Of course.
28:09Of course.
28:10But, um, I tried to go to as many as I possibly could.
28:14Absolutely.
28:15Award shows, where do you stand?
28:16I mean, you've hosted a lot, Jimmy.
28:18Yeah, but, I mean, the National Plumbers Awards...
28:21LAUGHTER
28:21..in Telford, it's not the same thing.
28:23There are not five after-parties.
28:25LAUGHTER
28:26How many were there, three?
28:27There's like, yeah.
28:29Well, you know, I hosted a lot of corporate awards.
28:31It's a different thing.
28:33It's fun, though, right?
28:34It's an honour, a privilege, and a massive cheque to be here.
28:37LAUGHTER
28:39I also went...
28:40I met Nicole Kidman at the Oscars, which was crazy.
28:43No.
28:43Because I'm named after her, and I was like,
28:44I'm named after you!
28:45LAUGHTER
28:46So that was really special, too.
28:48And did she love it?
28:49Was she adorable?
28:50Or did she say, stop touching me?
28:52LAUGHTER
28:53She couldn't have been kinder.
28:54Like, truthfully, it was so, so sweet.
28:57And afterwards, I texted my parents, I was like,
28:59I just met the woman I'm named after, that's so cool.
29:01Oh, that is.
29:02But that is.
29:03It is.
29:04Lisa, Friends won 79 major awards.
29:09Did they have a... Really?
29:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
29:13Yeah.
29:14And do you know what I love, Lisa?
29:17Because you're all in it, if lots of people don't like talking
29:20about, like, don't like harking back, so we were like,
29:23well, maybe we shouldn't talk about Friends, but you...
29:25you like talking about it, you don't mind?
29:27No, I don't mind.
29:27Why would I mind?
29:29But I'm just grateful.
29:30Because I'm a wonderful person.
29:33LAUGHTER
29:36No, but honestly...
29:41I get it.
29:42Yeah, I'm proud of it.
29:43You should be.
29:45Um, Chase, you watch it, don't you?
29:47Of course I do.
29:48I remember watching it in high school.
29:50Oh.
29:52That awkward pause, just like, I feel very exposed after that pause.
29:56Because we're wondering, you mean last week?
29:58LAUGHTER
30:00So you just started watching it.
30:02LAUGHTER
30:03Look, I love the fact that you said,
30:06I know the song off by heart, and I thought it was going to be
30:08the one about the cat.
30:10Oh, no.
30:10It wasn't.
30:11The first thing I said was, P is in Phoebe, H is in Hebe, E is in E.
30:15No.
30:16I, like, went through the whole thing on the car.
30:19At least, didn't they search your car sometimes for you?
30:23Every week.
30:25Why?
30:25After we would shoot a show,
30:27security would not let me out without looking in my trunk
30:31to see if I took something.
30:32LAUGHTER
30:33Did they do that to every car?
30:35No, just me.
30:37Why?
30:38I don't know!
30:39LAUGHTER
30:40You can tell us.
30:41Was it because you stole someone's French boyfriend?
30:45LAUGHTER
30:45That one time.
30:47Well, is it because you took something?
30:49No, I absolutely did not take something.
30:52Did I?
30:53Do you know something?
30:54At the end, I did.
30:57LAUGHTER
30:57You got me.
30:58I did at the end.
30:59After the same years, I did.
31:01I took the rings.
31:02I took Phoebe's rings.
31:04Is that...
31:05Because out of everything, because I think...
31:07You've got to take something.
31:09No, you weren't really allowed.
31:11But Matthew Perry asked permission
31:13and he gave me the cookie jar
31:16that was on Monica's refrigerator.
31:19Oh.
31:19Well, yes, it is nice.
31:21Yeah, it's really sweet.
31:23Your character specifically had such reach, such impact,
31:28you don't need me to tell you how much,
31:31but just to illuminate...
31:35..to our audience, if you are called Phoebe, please stand up.
31:39What?
31:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
31:53I hope Nicole Kidman's watching this.
31:57LAUGHTER
31:58You've got one.
32:00LAUGHTER
32:02Wow.
32:03Thank you so much, Lisa.
32:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
32:08OK, Jimmy, the time has come to talk about your show, which is...
32:13I feel like I've won a competition to be here.
32:15I'm quite happy not.
32:16LAUGHTER
32:17We're going to talk about it.
32:18Honestly, this is lovely.
32:19Last one laughing.
32:20It was the biggest hit of last year and it is...
32:23Was it? Or was it the traitors?
32:25No.
32:27No, it was.
32:29I thought your show was the best one.
32:31No, it wasn't.
32:33The practice was bigger.
32:34No, we can arm-wrestle.
32:35I'm obsessed by your show.
32:37LAUGHTER
32:37Let's discuss it.
32:38Before we have a clip, tell everybody the premise.
32:42So, the premise is we get ten comedians, they're all very funny,
32:45they go into a house and they're allowed to try and make each other laugh
32:49and they're not allowed to laugh.
32:51It's... It's that.
32:52It's that simple.
32:53And somehow it works.
32:55It's a perfect line-up.
32:57Before they come in, you know them all really well,
33:00do you say to Roisin, do you say to anybody going,
33:03this person's going to smash it?
33:05And do people surprise you?
33:07Yeah, I was very...
33:08I was surprised people...
33:09People take it so seriously and everyone gets weirdly competitive
33:13about, well, no, we're here, we might as well win it.
33:15Yeah.
33:16And then you're performing, these guys are doing bits on stage
33:19and they're giving it their all to be funny
33:22and just 11 people are just...
33:25Mmm.
33:27..stony-faced, just nothing.
33:29It's killing them inside.
33:31Can we have a clip?
33:32This is David Mitchell's Joker, which, go on, before we show it.
33:36I mean, this is...
33:36So, David Mitchell is like...
33:38I mean, he's a wonderfully funny comedic actor,
33:40but also, like, a serious actor.
33:42Yeah.
33:42He's a serious guy.
33:43I mean, he writes columns in the papers.
33:45He's a dear friend.
33:46He's quite the talent.
33:47This blew my mind.
33:49I mean, maybe this is how you were thinking of David Mitchell.
33:52This is not how I see him.
33:54At all.
33:55This is David Mitchell's Joker.
33:57You've read it in a folio or seen it in a Shakespeare play
34:01How Juliet fell for Romeo in the merry month of May.
34:05And as he climbed the orchard wall to reach his lady fair
34:10As he stumbled, she began to bawl
34:13As he travelled through the air
34:16Oh, dear!
34:17Flash-bang-wallop!
34:18What a picture!
34:19What a picture!
34:19What a photograph!
34:20Poor young chap!
34:22What a night you spend!
34:23Tights all torn and his rabia bent!
34:25Clap hands!
34:26Stab your feet!
34:27Banging on the big bass drum!
34:29What a picture!
34:31What a picture!
34:31Um-tiddly-um-pum-pum-pum-pum!
34:45The psychology of that, which you touched on before,
34:48is these are the funniest people in the land,
34:53and nobody's lot, everyone's like that.
34:55And they come out, David does something like that,
34:58there are others, people just go,
35:00Yeah, well done.
35:01What is that?
35:02What?
35:03Yeah, they're dying inside.
35:05And that's why, it's like, I think it's,
35:07I think the reason it's a here is kind of,
35:09it's people, everyone's experienced that.
35:11Whether it's at a family funeral...
35:15LAUGHTER
35:18..a nativity play, anywhere that I think
35:20I shouldn't be making jokes and laughing,
35:22that's when I want to laugh.
35:23And I've got, I can never hide it.
35:25No.
35:25Because I have the audit, I've got a weird laugh.
35:28I laugh on an in, not an out, so instead of laughing like,
35:30ha ha, I know, I laugh on a, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
35:34Mmm.
35:36LAUGHTER
35:36Not great.
35:37Could you do it?
35:39What, this?
35:39Yeah.
35:40Could you, you'd be, you'd...
35:42I think I could.
35:44I've got my game plan, I know what I would do.
35:46Because they all get to do a performance piece,
35:48and I would just, I'd wear what I normally wear,
35:51normally three-piece and a tie,
35:52and I would just full Magic Mike.
35:55LAUGHTER
35:57Full Monty it, and just, and grind.
36:02LAUGHTER
36:04And lots of eye contact, super sexy, yeah.
36:09Is there anyone, you've mentioned David,
36:11anyone else that you were impressed by?
36:14Because I imagine, for the...
36:15We don't know who's won, I'm not giving any spoilers out,
36:17Bob Mortimer walks in, and you go, all right, never mind,
36:21I can't do it.
36:22Is he the only one that has come back from the first series?
36:25Yeah, he's the only one still alive.
36:27LAUGHTER
36:28Have you seen Final Destination?
36:31A weird thing happened with our cast.
36:34LAUGHTER
36:35They're all gone.
36:36Um, no, he came back to defend his title,
36:38so that was kind of fun, and he, Romesh's face,
36:42because Bob went in last, and Romesh's face just drops.
36:45Yeah.
36:46I mean, I say drops, drops further.
36:48LAUGHTER
36:50He always looks pretty grumpy, but he's like,
36:52oh, extra grump.
36:54It's an awful lot of fun, and it does feel like, you know,
36:58the right show for now, because, I don't know,
37:01the world's in turmoil.
37:03You know the guy that used to present, you probably saw it,
37:06you know The Apprentice in the States?
37:07Mm-hm.
37:08There was a...
37:09There's a guy called Donald Trump used to present that,
37:11and he's now got a new show...
37:13LAUGHTER
37:14..it's called The News.
37:16LAUGHTER
37:17It is fucking terrifying.
37:19LAUGHTER
37:20I like The Apprentice, so I'm going to try the new one.
37:24LAUGHTER
37:26APPLAUSE
37:31So people can watch Last One Laughing on Prime Video,
37:34available now.
37:36Correct.
37:36Jimmy, here's the thing, you've started making whisky.
37:40Yeah, I've got a weird whisky company...
37:42Go on.
37:42..with some friends.
37:44So there's a town outside, um, Derry called Muff,
37:48and so...
37:51LAUGHTER
37:52Please.
37:54I...
37:54Get your minds out of the gutter.
37:56It's...
37:57You know Muff?
37:58I didn't, yeah.
37:58Because I thought you were a big meat guy.
38:02LAUGHTER
38:03So I...
38:05I own The Muff Liquor Company.
38:07LAUGHTER
38:09It only gets weirder, it's like me and Russell Crowe and Ed Sheeran.
38:12I own a whisky, gin and vodka company called Muff Liquor.
38:18LAUGHTER
38:18It was recently, and this is, this is a fun fact,
38:21it was recently brought to my attention that that is actually a double entendre.
38:25LAUGHTER
38:27So watch out for that.
38:29LAUGHTER
38:29You are still on tour, you're going all over the world.
38:34How many countries?
38:3548.
38:3648?
38:37What?
38:38Yeah, I think 48 countries, yeah.
38:39I'm just doing sort of Australia, New Zealand at the moment.
38:41I think Canada later in the year.
38:43Yeah, it's a lot.
38:44It is a lot.
38:45It's a lot, but you've got to remember, I've got young kids,
38:47so it's nice to be away.
38:49LAUGHTER
38:52APPLAUSE
38:53Jimmy, where can we get tickets for your talk?
38:55I've got a website, you could go to that, I guess.
38:57People will figure it out.
39:00LAUGHTER
39:02I think, if you're not, if you're not smart enough to figure out where to get tickets,
39:06I don't want you on my show.
39:08LAUGHTER
39:10APPLAUSE
39:14We're nearing the end, but before we go, Jimmy,
39:17you've become an advice guru.
39:19When you say you've put a lot out there, the crowd work is exceptional.
39:24My kids are like, if I have a problem, can you ask Jimmy?
39:27I was like, no, that's super weird.
39:29But you...
39:30LAUGHTER
39:31I also do know your kids quite well.
39:32I know.
39:33So that's weird.
39:35But how...
39:36How did that start?
39:38People ask questions.
39:39As a comedian, I think you...
39:41If you think about who's your best friend in the world,
39:43I'll tell you who your best friend in the world is.
39:45It's the person you have the least filter.
39:47If you sit next to someone on a plane and go,
39:49oh, the weather, you know, it's been cold, hasn't it?
39:51It's like, that's a lot of filter.
39:52Yeah.
39:53Right?
39:53And if it's like your best friend in the world, you go,
39:55oh, my God, you have to see these hemorrhoids.
39:58LAUGHTER
39:59Seriously, it's like a bunch of grapes.
40:01Like, that...
40:02That...
40:03That zero filter.
40:04And I think if you treat an audience as if you have no filter
40:07with them, then people open up.
40:09Audience, would you like to feel involved?
40:11Yeah!
40:12Would you...
40:13Would we like some advice from Jimmy?
40:15Yeah!
40:16I think we would, too.
40:18OK.
40:19Yes, here we go.
40:20Go on, darling.
40:20Hi, yeah, I'm Phoebe.
40:23LAUGHTER
40:23One of many.
40:25It's like Spartacus.
40:27I know.
40:27It was like me and my army when I stood up.
40:29It was great.
40:31Um...
40:31My question is, I want to tell people when they're being annoying
40:36to help them be less annoying, but then I look like a...
40:40a bitch.
40:42LAUGHTER
40:42So, what's the best way to handle this?
40:45LAUGHTER
40:46When you say people, how many people are we talking about?
40:50I mean, it happens every day.
40:51Like, there's a lot of...
40:52There's a lot of people I would like to tell that to.
40:55LAUGHTER
40:56Well, the adage would be, if you meet three arseholes before noon,
41:00you're the arsehole.
41:02LAUGHTER
41:11It's tough love.
41:13LAUGHTER
41:14I didn't know...
41:15I didn't know it was going to go this way.
41:19LAUGHTER
41:19Would you like a gentler piece of advice?
41:22No, it's all right.
41:24LAUGHTER
41:25I'm so sorry.
41:26I think you've learned something.
41:29Me too.
41:29And that's what life's about.
41:31LAUGHTER
41:33I mainly do dick jokes.
41:35OK.
41:36LAUGHTER
41:37No, I like this, Jimmy, as well.
41:39Wow.
41:39What do you do?
41:40I feel like I should...
41:41What do you do?
41:42My best.
41:43LAUGHTER
41:46APPLAUSE
41:53What do you do for me?
41:55I'm training to be a therapist.
41:57LAUGHTER
41:59I mean...
42:02I mean...
42:03I'm not sure if it's the job for you.
42:06LAUGHTER
42:09I love Chase's face throughout all of that.
42:12And then I believe we have...
42:14Phoebe number two, please?
42:16Yes.
42:17Are you also Phoebe?
42:18Hello.
42:18I'm also Phoebe.
42:19Yay!
42:20I'm dating at the moment and I'm just wondering,
42:23how can I figure out the difference between a red flag
42:25and just a floor?
42:27LAUGHTER
42:28That's a good question.
42:30Um...
42:31Do you like the guy?
42:32This is just sort of in general.
42:34In general, red flags?
42:36Yeah, and like...
42:37And sort of like icky things and like...
42:39So, I've got a specific example if it helps.
42:41Yes, yes, yes.
42:42Yeah.
42:42Um, men who...
42:45Specifically only grow an underbeard?
42:48Oh.
42:49That's the worst.
42:50Thank you!
42:51What is that?
42:52Thank you!
42:54It's just hair here.
42:56Oh, like Lincoln?
42:57Yeah.
42:58Yeah.
42:59OK.
42:59Or they just have, like, the sort of...
43:01the straps?
43:02Like a helmet strap?
43:04Oh, yeah.
43:05OK.
43:05I think I might have the answer for this.
43:07Go ahead.
43:08Tell him.
43:09I think if you just are open and you go,
43:12Hey, I don't like that.
43:14That's got to go.
43:14But he should know that.
43:17LAUGHTER
43:18But then...
43:19How am I...
43:21Like, there's no...
43:23Like, he's not...
43:24Yeah, but you're Jamie Adonis.
43:26He said the same thing as everything.
43:27Like, he's not...
43:27There's not articles in magazines going,
43:30this is a great look.
43:32LAUGHTER
43:32No-one's telling him to do it.
43:34Like...
43:35No offence, but you're an Adonis.
43:37LAUGHTER
43:39Yeah, but this is just the...
43:40I'd look worse if I had a half beard.
43:42LAUGHTER
43:43Maybe not.
43:44You would still turn heads.
43:46LAUGHTER
43:47He'll look good.
43:48I don't know.
43:48I think...
43:49I think, tell him.
43:50You say, I'm very much enjoying this bit of the show.
43:52LAUGHTER
43:52I could do this all day.
43:55Yes.
43:56That's another show, everybody.
43:59Right.
44:00That's it.
44:01We're off to knit a small hour.
44:02I would like to thank my guests.
44:04Jimmy Carr!
44:05CHEERING
44:05Jason Timothy
44:08Jamie Dornan
44:09And Lisa Kudrow
44:11CHEERING
44:13We're back next week when I'll be joined by
44:15Russell Howard, Gugu Mbatha-Roy,
44:17Rita Wilson and James McAvoy.
44:20Thank you so much for watching.
44:21Good night.
44:22CHEERING
44:27It's usually the centre of the house, let's face it.
44:29Sophie Ellis-Bexter's Kitchen Disco
44:31is up and running on BBC Sounds.
44:33Listen now.
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