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The Claudia Winkleman Show Season 1 Episode 3 (2026)
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00:00To talk to you. This is lovely
00:03Hello, how are you? I'm good. Okay. I love what you're wearing. Thank you. I love what you're wearing. No,
00:08have it. Shall we swap?
00:10Let's swap. At the end of the night, it'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 full 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.
02:06Thank 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, it's true.
02:59I'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?
03:05Right. I don't eat plain food.
03:07You don't?
03:08I do if I'm hungry.
03:10LAUGHTER
03:12That's how food works.
03:14Um, is it true, I read once that you love meat.
03:19I always, no, I always travel with like biltong. It's like, uh, cured sort of, uh,
03:25Beef?
03:25Dead animals, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:27And when you say, like, do you take a slither or are you taking a bag?
03:30I 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, the wettest, fattiest stuff.
03:44What's, what's happening?
03:45LAUGHTER
03:45You, you, you can get like, pre-packaged stuff in supermarkets, it's terrible.
03:48I feel like I need a visual of it.
03:49No, I go, I go into like a South Africa, like a South Africa, is it the store?
03:53Like a South Africa themed store?
03:55But does the meat?
03:57Is it odiferous?
03:58Like, does it smell really bad?
04:00I don't think it smells bad, but I think other people might,
04:03I think it smells bad.
04:04I don't know.
04:05Just curious.
04:06You know.
04:07It smells good?
04:08Yeah.
04:08Do you, are you a meat eater?
04:10I love meat, yeah.
04:11Listen, I'll bring you to the South Africa themed shop.
04:14OK.
04:15This is the worst episode of First Dates ever.
04:18LAUGHTER
04:20Um, Chase Infinity, the best name on the sofa.
04:23The 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 for your board of answering the question.
04:32I will answer it as many times, because I love the story of my parents coming up with my name.
04:37But pretty much, both movies came out in 1995, which was, I believe, the year that my parents got married.
04:42But, um, they had watched Batman Forever and Nicole Kidman played a character named Chase Meridian.
04:48And they were like, regardless of anything, her name is going to be Chase, because they were obsessed with Nicole
04:53Kidman in that movie.
04:54And then Infinity comes from Toy Story to Infinity and beyond.
04:58And I've just gone by Chase Infinity since I was ten, so...
05:02I love that.
05:02They sort of decided what you were going to do before they even met.
05:06Kind of crazy.
05:07Literally crazy how that happened, but yeah.
05:09Yeah.
05:09I love it.
05:10And what's your sister called?
05:11Her name is Dolce, and she's into fashion.
05:14She went to school for...
05:14What is that?
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.
05:24I wish I'd known.
05:26I would have given my kids different names.
05:30I don't want anyone to panic, because we will talk about Friends, because I know you three are obsessed.
05:35But first of all, can we talk about The Comeback, please?
05:39Yes.
05:39Yes.
05:40It's the best.
05:44You know it?
05:46Who knows the show?
05:47Who knows the show?
05:48Also, you said The Comeback is the greatest show of all time.
05:51I think it might be honestly.
05:52And Friends a second.
05:54OK.
05:55I'll go to the meat shop with you.
05:58Now it sounds rude.
06:03But before Friends, before Phoebe was created, you had this idea, right?
06:09You 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 theatre company,
06:18and I wrote a character monologue called Your Favourite Actress on a Talk Show.
06:23And she had a short red wig, and she was really phony, and I just...
06:28You know, it was funny.
06:29I won't do the whole thing for you.
06:31Um...
06:32We're on a talk show.
06:33Yes.
06:34This feels like the perfect time.
06:36To do something funny.
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, like, actors who can be really self-important.
06:53And she just said, um, no, you know, it's funny, because what's really important to me now is, um, you
06:59know, the planet.
07:01LAUGHTER
07:02We need to save the planet, everybody, OK?
07:05Please, please, as a favour to me.
07:08LAUGHTER
07:08I'll love you for it, I will.
07:11You know, so that was my funny thing.
07:15LAUGHTER
07:15It certainly was.
07:17APPLAUSE
07:18Pretty damn funny.
07:20APPLAUSE
07:21You were so advanced.
07:24You were miles ahead of everybody else doing a mockumentary or a fly in the wall, however you would describe
07:31it.
07:31Of reality shows.
07:32Of reality shows.
07:32Yeah.
07:33And then you made it, and it then had a cult following, but lots of people were like, what?
07:36Yeah, what's happening?
07:37What are these cameras moving around that I hate, you know?
07:41And, um, yeah, there were no housewives of anywhere yet.
07:44Well, we're going to have a clip. This is from series three.
07:47This is just as Valerie gets offered a big job.
07:51Yeah.
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.
08:05Thrilling.
08:06I could cry.
08:07Um, in a multi-cam.
08:09So sitcoms are making a comeback.
08:11Yeah, knew 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 going to have to deal with any asshole writers.
08:33It's being written by A.I.
08:37Uh-huh.
08:38Now, is that allowed?
08:48It's so fantastic.
08:50Was there a little bit of you, or was it slightly inspired by The Office?
08:54At all?
08:56Oh, I loved The Office.
08:57Yeah, yeah.
08:58And when I saw these reality shows, I went, oh, got to 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?
09:12You 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.
09:23Me and Ricky and Steve.
09:24And then we...
09:25Yeah, they wanted to know...
09:27Because Reading wasn't quite shit enough.
09:31But Slough, which is where I'm from, is...
09:34It's legit shit.
09:37And then...
09:37And then I...
09:39And if anyone's watching this in Slough, stand by that.
09:43And I kind of...
09:44I took them round and then was just explaining,
09:46Oh, yeah, there was...
09:47This 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.
09:56I mean...
09:57Yeah.
09:57Sort 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,
10:06your character, Valerie, takes part in Traitors.
10:08Uh-huh.
10:10And...
10:10I know.
10:11And...
10:13And...
10:14Henry's 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!
10:25APPLAUSE
10:28Because...
10:30For those who haven't seen, and they...
10:33I'll just explain, Linda was the person who...
10:36And I said, Traitors will meet each other later,
10:38and 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...
10:47Someone saying, like,
10:49well, I think he's a traitor, and she's...
10:50Oh, no, I can tell you 100%, he's a faithful.
10:54LAUGHTER
10:54How do you know?
10:55Just...
10:56I have a...
10:56I have a feeling.
10:57I'm...
10:58You know, I don't...
10:59Don't you wish we knew who the traitor was?
11:01I do.
11:02Something so stressful, yeah.
11:04I love the fact 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.
11:11No way.
11:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
11:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
11:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
11:25And here I am.
11:26There you are.
11:29I love seeing you.
11:31I just somehow wanted Linda and Lisa together,
11:36even just for a minute.
11:38But...
11:39Linda, in your wildest dreams,
11:41when that happened,
11:42and you looked at me and went,
11:43got it!
11:44LAUGHTER
11:44Did you ever think
11:46that then the mighty Lisa Kudrow
11:50would use you as inspiration in her amazing show?
11:53No!
11:56Crazy.
11:57Absolutely crazy.
11:58On our show?
11:59She was voted out, like, that night.
12:01Oh, yeah.
12:02LAUGHTER
12:02No.
12:04What was wrong with your group?
12:05To seven.
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.
12:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
12:18Thank you, darling.
12:23Thank you, darling.
12:24Oh, 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?
12:30LAUGHTER
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.
12:41Sorry, none of them are here.
12:42So I can say, not bright.
12:44No.
12:45LAUGHTER
12:45LAUGHTER
12:49She basically held up a sign.
12:51Yeah.
12:51You said, so traitors.
12:53That's me.
12:53Yeah.
12:54I'm right here, nodded.
12:56Um, we 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, yeah, yeah, a long, long time ago.
13:18That's Eddie there, yeah.
13:20Conveniently on the TV.
13:22Yeah.
13:23He'd prefer if you used a picture
13:24he's holding his Academy Award.
13:26LAUGHTER
13:27I get that.
13:28Yeah.
13:28Um, what was he like as a flatmate,
13:30or what do 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 share a flat
13:37and then have and sit, like, he's one of my best mates still.
13:40Oh, right.
13:40But this is, like, 20, 18 years ago, I think, in L.A.
13:43Uh, no, we were really, um, tidy for, like, you know,
13:46a couple of guys sharing a house together in Laurel Canyon.
13:50Uh, Chase, you live with your best friend from college, I think.
13:53I do.
13:53I do.
13:54And how is that?
13:55Because it must be lovely when you're, you know,
13:57Oscars, all 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, okay, 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, so.
14:27Aw.
14:27And she gets her own apartment.
14:29She does.
14:29She gets a completely empty apartment.
14:32Yeah, sublet.
14:32Why is there someone in my room?
14:35Um, Jimmy, talk to me about, what's it like sharing?
14:39Have you...
14:39I used to live with a couple, yeah.
14:41And?
14:42Well, they're my mum and dad.
14:45Um, 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 and was told to look up this French girl,
14:58and so he came to take her out, and I just went, no.
15:00He's, for me, this isn't gonna work.
15:04And now, oh, my God.
15:06Is that French lady still in your life?
15:09Yeah.
15:09Mm-hmm.
15:10Yeah, no.
15:11Then 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 butterflyer.
15:26He goes from flower to flower.
15:30And you were like, I'm the best flower he's ever gonna make.
15:33No.
15:34No.
15:34I said, yeah, it doesn't matter.
15:35There's a rebound thing for me.
15:39Been together ever since?
15:4030 years.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Congratulations.
15:47I believe there is somebody here who's got the worst flatmate story.
15:51David?
15:52Yeah.
15:53Hi, David.
15:54Tell me about the flatmate.
15:55Yeah.
15:55I was an entertainer, a redcoat, on holiday parks.
15:58And I was told I was gonna share a very small caravan with a guy
16:02that was on the entertainment team.
16:03But he just never stopped.
16:06And he would be telling jokes.
16:08And we wouldn't finish till 1am rehearsing shows.
16:11And then you'd just fall asleep and you'd hear some horrible noise,
16:15and he was on a unicycle.
16:16He was practicing.
16:18I'm not kidding.
16:19And he wasn't very good.
16:20He'd be banging on the laws, honestly, and then you'd go and work,
16:24and then you'd come back and he'd get his jumper out.
16:26And he loved cooking fish.
16:28Oh.
16:29Well, I enjoyed our time together.
16:41Very much his side of the story.
16:44And you're good at the unicycle.
16:46I would have been good if someone had let me practice.
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.
17:09Like, I feel incredible support.
17:10You know, they're a very funny bunch.
17:13You know, I just feel immense support and, like, gratitude
17:16that 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.
17:23I'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!
17:38Right.
17:39It is lovely to see you, but my question is,
17:42if this is SNL UK, then why are you the first host?
17:47Like, shouldn't it be, like, a British icon like David Beckham
17:50or 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,
17:59for this first episode, anyway, um...
18:01How do I put this politely?
18:03None of you fuckers would do it?
18:07Yeah.
18:08Too short.
18:09Too short.
18:10Um, Lena Faye is amazing.
18:14Has she helped in any way with you?
18:17Yeah, well, I guess I'm the fucker who's doing it.
18:18Which is important to note.
18:22Yeah, Tina and I have done a movie together,
18:24so, you know, I 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, even from the,
18:32you know, the early days of Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase
18:34and Bill Murray and people, friends of mine,
18:36who I've worked with since, like Kristen Wiig.
18:38You know, it'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.
18:50Blanked it out.
18:50Blanked it out.
18:52Was it, was it terrifying?
18:53Terrifying.
18:54Too late to pull out.
18:56I've been making jokes about that with them all week.
18:59No.
19:00I think saying things like I might be there.
19:01I plan to be there.
19:02Well, I might not be there.
19:04And, uh, one of my kids is sick.
19:05What day's it on again?
19:06Yeah, exactly.
19:08You're going to be utterly brilliant.
19:10Have they asked you to sing?
19:12Uh, no, but I will sing, yeah.
19:15They haven't asked me.
19:16No, but it's live.
19:17I can do what the fuck I want.
19:18You could do what the fuck you want.
19:20There he is.
19:22There he is.
19:25I love the story when you went, I believe, for a singing audition.
19:29And you decided to deal with your voice in a certain way.
19:33Yeah, I did.
19:33I was first up.
19:34It was out in LA.
19:36Around 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.
19:45Like, I can sing as 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.
19:52And I was first up.
19:55It was, like, 10am 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 whiskey.
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, I hadn't had breakfast
20:20or anything, I sort of got up, brushed my teeth, had a shower.
20:22And, uh, I arrived and I sort of opened the door of the car
20:26and I sort of saw the whiskey in the car door.
20:28And I went, it's the first thing that passed my mouth apart from
20:30Toothpaste.
20:31So I, as soon as I drank it, I puked.
20:36Like, really violently puked.
20:38Um, like, so down my front.
20:40No.
20:41All down thing.
20:42I didn't have, like, mouth walls, you know, so I then walked
20:44into this audition with puke down my front, smelling of whiskey
20:50and vomit.
20:51And then had to...
20:52It could change.
20:53And honestly, it was so bad.
20:54And then I had to, we were honestly, like, the most comedy
20:58small room you've ever been.
20:59There was, like, seven people in this tiny room and I stink.
21:02And I had to sing this song that I can't sing.
21:05And I couldn't sing it, I really couldn't sing it,
21:07but the director just kept going, ah, nah, let's go and get,
21:10let's do it.
21:10You want to do it one more time?
21:12Honestly, no, I don't.
21:14I can't keep doing it.
21:15This is a living nightmare.
21:17Um, and I kept, they made, I think I did it three times
21:19and then that was it.
21:20And I never heard from them.
21:22LAUGHTER
21:24Well, you're going to be great on Saturday.
21:27Jimmy, you are magnificent.
21:29Do you have advice for a monologue?
21:32Or what, what, what's the key?
21:34You know, you don't have to take my advice,
21:36but I've done a lot of comedy.
21:37I've done a lot of, kind of, jokes on stage.
21:39I would buy a quarter bottle of Jameson.
21:42LAUGHTER
21:45And right before, just, when you're watching TV,
21:51you can't smell, so it's a good point.
21:53It'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, yeah.
22:00I didn't.
22:01LAUGHTER
22:03OK, you're hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow night,
22:07Sky One, 10pm.
22:09CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
22:15Uh, Jason Timothy, you're here to talk to us
22:18about The Testament.
22:19Yes. Which 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. It's the sequel, it's five years later.
22:32It'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,
22:38Ooh!
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 than believe
22:54that the people around you are monsters.
22:57We gather here tonight to bring women back
23:01to their rightful place.
23:03Blessed be the fruit.
23:10It was time for us to change things.
23:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
23:14It's so crazy to see you again.
23:16Have you met too much of it?
23:17No, I have.
23:18But, like, you know when you just don't realise,
23:20you're like, oh, my God, that's, like,
23:21that's something that I made,
23:22and it's really cool getting to see it.
23:24Oh, yeah.
23:25It is unbelievable.
23:27Tell people a bit about the premise and 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 told from the perspective of a handmaid,
23:38but this follows a group of girls who are the daughters of high-ranking commanders.
23:43So you're kind of seeing the nobility, in a sense, going to school
23:46and training to become wives in Gilead.
23:50So you're kind of having that new perspective around a 14-year-old girl.
23:54So...
23:54And it's Margaret Atwood.
23:55And it's quite dark.
23:58A lot of it is really dark.
23:59How do you come out of that, if that's not a weird question?
24:04It's not a weird question.
24:05But, like, I feel very grateful because our entire cast and crew was so,
24:09so sweet, where you felt very supported the entire time.
24:12So even if you had an unexpectedly difficult day with the material on set,
24:16you felt like you were cared for in a way.
24:21And I really am...
24:22I owe a lot of my hard days to my entire cast and crew,
24:25because we really had each other on 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,
24:36yeah, I'm going to make some pasta now, or however it works?
24:39I just honestly think you need, like, levity in those moments
24:43because it's just not a healthy place to keep your head.
24:46I talk about, like, crisps or something.
24:49Honestly, like, I could talk about crisps all day.
24:52So could I.
24:53I honestly do think, take after take, coming at it totally fresh,
24:58is a better energy, I personally find.
25:01And we've been talking about hula hoops for five minutes.
25:04Beef, obviously.
25:05Obviously beef.
25:07Obviously.
25:07Just have to say that out loud.
25:09Yeah.
25:09We usually have about 48 packets at any point in my house.
25:13Yeah, same as me.
25:14Do you?
25:15Yeah.
25:15I'm just, and then we'll go back.
25:17I promise.
25:18It's important.
25:19Chase's agent is like, get her out of there.
25:21Have you tried the large hoop?
25:24Not, not a big fan of it.
25:26Yeah.
25:26Too much.
25:27Too much.
25:28No.
25:29Never.
25:29What's happened?
25:30I just, I don't know where Margaret Atwood stands.
25:34On the hula hoop, but we were, we were on that.
25:38So maybe, just.
25:40Get back in.
25:41Just a, just a modicum of professionalism.
25:44I'm so sorry.
25:46He said crisps, I went with it.
25:49With the hula hoops, the toy?
25:51Oh, no.
25:52The crisps.
25:53The chip.
25:53I don't know what you're talking about.
25:54Yeah, fine.
25:55I'm sorry.
25:56We'll move on.
25:56So, The Testaments is available on Disney Plus from April the 8th.
26:02Yay!
26:05OK, now, we have to talk about one battle.
26:09What a film.
26:10Thanks.
26:11What a film.
26:15And you in that film, and it just won all of those Oscars.
26:19When you went for the audition, they asked you to get quite close to Leonardo DiCaprio,
26:24didn't they?
26:25Yeah, I know exactly where this is going.
26:28Yes.
26:29Yes, definitely.
26:30My first camera test that I had, I was asked to shave his face.
26:35Um, and I didn't know what I was doing.
26:38And I was shaking the entire time because it was with an electric razor.
26:41And I was like, I 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.
27:00You look beautiful.
27:01Did you have fun?
27:03It was the coolest experience ever.
27:05And it felt even more special getting to be there with everyone from one battle.
27:10And we had so much love in the room.
27:13And it's a night I will never forget.
27:15And getting to also be a part of presenting the first award in 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.
27:26I can't contain my excitement right now.
27:28But you were presenting it.
27:29And then the person that cast your movie won.
27:32Well, she could have said anything.
27:34It 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.
27:40You're gone.
27:41Gwyneth.
27:41I know.
27:42There wasn't the seal like there normally was.
27:45It 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.
27:53And how were the parties?
27:55Which 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.
28:02That was my first Oscars, OK?
28:06I had to go to all of them.
28:07Of course.
28:08Of course.
28:09But I tried to go to as many as I possibly could.
28:14Absolutely.
28:15Award shows?
28:16Where do you stand?
28:16I mean, you've hosted a lot, Jimmy.
28:18Yeah, but I mean the National Plumbers Awards.
28:21In Telford, it's not the same thing.
28:23There are not five after parties.
28:25How many were there?
28:27Three?
28:27There's like, yeah.
28:29I 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 check to be here.
28:39I also went, I met Nicole Kidman at the Oscars, which was crazy.
28:43Because I'm named after her and I was like, I'm named after you!
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?
28:53She couldn't have been kinder.
28:54Like, truthfully, it was so, so sweet.
28:57And afterwards, I texted my parents.
28:58I was like, I just met the woman I'm named after.
29:00That's so cool.
29:01Oh, that is.
29:02But that is.
29:03It is.
29:04Lisa.
29:05Friends won 79 major awards.
29:09Really?
29:14And do you know what I love, Lisa?
29:17Because lots of people don't like talking about, like,
29:21don't like harking back.
29:22So we were like, well, maybe we shouldn't talk about friends.
29:24But you like talking about it.
29:26You don't mind?
29:27No, I don't mind.
29:28Why would I mind?
29:29But I'm just grateful.
29:30Because I'm a wonderful person.
29:37No, but honestly...
29:41I get it.
29:42Yeah, I'm proud of it.
29:43You should be.
29:44Yeah.
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?
30:00So you just started watching it.
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.
30:10No, it wasn't.
30:11The first thing I said was P is in Phoebe, H is in Hebe, E is in E.
30:16I, like, went through the whole thing on the car.
30:19And, Ace, didn't they search your car sometimes?
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.
30:33Did they do that to every car?
30:35No.
30:36Just me.
30:37Why?
30:38Why?
30:38I don't know.
30:40You can tell us.
30:41Was it because you stole someone's French boyfriend?
30:45I heard.
30:47Yeah.
30:47Well, is it because you took something?
30:49No.
30:50I absolutely did not take something.
30:52Did I?
30:53Do you know something?
30:54At the end I did.
30:57You got me.
30:58I did at the end.
31:00After the ten years I did.
31:02I took the rings.
31:02I took Phoebe's rings.
31:04Is that, is that, because out of everything, because I think you've got to take something.
31:09No, you weren't really allowed.
31:11But Matthew Perry asked permission and he gave me the cookie jar that was on Monica's refrigerator.
31:19Oh.
31:19Well, yes.
31:20It is nice.
31:21Yeah.
31:21It's really sweet.
31:23Your character specifically had such reach, such impact, you don't need me to tell you how much.
31:30But, just to illuminate.
31:34OK.
31:35To our audience, if you are called Phoebe, please stand up.
31:39What?
31:41What?
31:43Yeah.
31:47Oh, Jesus.
31:49Another Phoebe.
31:50Another Phoebe.
31:50Another Phoebe.
31:50Thank you very much.
31:53Thank you very much.
31:54I hope, er, I hope Nicole Kidman's watching this.
31:58You got one.
32:02Wow.
32:03Thank you so much, Lisa.
32:08OK.
32:09Jimmy, 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.
32:17We'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?
32:23Or was it The Traitors?
32:25No.
32:27There it was.
32:29I thought it was.
32:31I thought it was bigger.
32:34No, we can arm wrestle.
32:35I'm obsessed by your show.
32:37Let's discuss it.
32:39Before we have a clip, tell everybody the premise.
32:42So the premise is, er, we get ten comedians.
32:44They're all very funny.
32:45They go into a house, and they're allowed to try and make each other laugh, and they're
32:49not allowed to laugh.
32:51It's...
32:51It'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, this person's going to smash it?
33:05And do people surprise you?
33:07Yeah, I was very...
33:08I was surprised people did.
33:09People take it so seriously, and everyone gets weirdly competitive about, well, no, we're
33:14here, we might as well win it.
33:15Yeah.
33:16And then you're performing.
33:17These guys are doing bits on stage, and they're giving it their all to be fun.
33:22And just 11 people are just...
33:27Stony-faced.
33:28Just nothing.
33:29It's killing them inside.
33:31Can we have a clip?
33:32This is David Mitchell's Joker, which gone.
33:35Before we show it.
33:36I mean, this is...
33:37So David Mitchell is like...
33:38I mean, he's a wonderfully funny comedic actor, but 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.
33:48I 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.
34:06And as he climbed the orchard wall to reach his lady fair.
34:10As he stumbled, she began to bawl as he travelled through the air.
34:16Oh dear!
34:17Flashbang wallop!
34:18What a picture!
34:19What a picture!
34:19What a funny crowd!
34:20Poor young chap!
34:22Why now you spend tights all torn and his rapier band.
34:25Clap hands!
34:26Stabbing a bit!
34:27Bang on the big face drum!
34:29What a picture!
34:31What a picture!
34:31Um, tiddly, um, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum!
34:33It's digging in your family!
34:35Oh, bum!
34:37He's amazing!
34:42I mean, he's amazing.
34:44Talking through the psychology of that, which you touched on before,
34:48is these are the funniest people in the land,
34:52and nobody's lot, everyone's like that.
34:55And they come out, David does something like that,
34:59there are others, people just go,
35:00Yeah, well done.
35:01What is that?
35:02What?
35:03Yeah, they're dying inside.
35:05Yeah.
35:05And that's what, it's like, I think it's, I think the reason it's a here
35:08is kind of, it's people, everyone's experienced that.
35:11Yeah.
35:11Whether it's at a family funeral...
35:15LAUGHTER
35:18A nativity play, anywhere that I think I shouldn't be making jokes
35:21and laughing, that's when I want to laugh.
35:23And I've got, I can never hide it.
35:25No.
35:25Because I have the odd, I've got a weird laugh.
35:28I laugh on an in, not an out, so instead of laughing like, ha-ha,
35:31I laugh on a, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
35:36It's not great.
35:37Could you do it?
35:39What, this?
35:39Yeah.
35:40Could you, you'd be, you'd...
35:42I think I, I 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,
35:48Yeah, yeah.
35:48And I would just, I'd wear what I normally wear,
35:51normally three piece and a tie, and I would just full magic mic.
35:56LAUGHTER
35:57Full Monty it, and just, and, and grind.
36:02LAUGHTER
36:04And lots of eye contact, super sexy, yeah.
36:08LAUGHTER
36:09Is there anyone, you've mentioned David,
36:11anyone else that you were impressed by?
36:14Because I imagine for the, we don't know who's won,
36:16I'm not giving any spoilers out,
36:18Bob Mortimer walks in, and you go,
36:20all right, never mind, I 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
36:29Have you seen Final Destination?
36:31A weird thing happened with our cast.
36:34LAUGHTER
36:35They were 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.
36:45I mean, I say drops, drops further.
36:48LAUGHTER
36:50He always looks pretty grumpy, but he's like,
36:52ah, extra grump.
36:54It's an awful lot of fun, and it does feel like, you know,
36:57the right show for now, because, I don't know,
37:00the world's in turmoil.
37:03You know the guy that used to present...
37:05You 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,
37:12and he's now got a new show...
37:13Oh!
37:14..that is called The News.
37:16LAUGHTER
37:17It is fucking terrifying.
37:20LAUGHTER
37:20I like The Apprentice, so I'm going to try the new one.
37:24LAUGHTER
37:25APPLAUSE
37:31So people can watch Last One Laughing on Prime Video,
37:34available now.
37:36Correct.
37:36Jimmy, here's the thing.
37:38You'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
38:04So I...
38:05I own the Muff Liquor Company with...
38:08LAUGHTER
38:09It only gets weirder, it's like me and Russell Crowe
38:11and Ed Sheeran.
38:12I own a whisky, gin and vodka company...
38:15..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
38:23that that is actually a double entendre.
38:25LAUGHTER
38:27So watch out for that.
38:29LAUGHTER
38:29You are still on tour.
38:32You'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's a lot.
38:45It is a lot.
38:45It's a lot.
38:46But you've got to remember, I've got young kids,
38:47so it's nice to be away.
38:50LAUGHTER
38:54Jimmy, where can we get tickets for your top?
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
39:04to figure out where to get tickets, I don't want you on my show.
39:07APPLAUSE
39:14We're nearing the end, but before we go, Jimmy,
39:17you've become an advice guru.
39:19When you say you 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...
39:30I also do know your kids quite well.
39:32I know.
39:35Um...
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,
39:49well, the weather, you know, it's been cold, hasn't it?
39:51It's like, that's a lot of filter, right?
39:53And if it's like your best friend in the world, you go,
39:55oh, my God, you have to see these hemorrhoids.
39:59Seriously, 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.
40:21Hi.
40:21Yeah, I'm Phoebe.
40:24One of many.
40:25One 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.
40:31My 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 bitch.
40:42So, what's the best way to handle this?
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.
40:56LAUGHTER
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
41:14Fair enough.
41:15I didn't know...
41:16I 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.
41:27LAUGHTER
41:28Me too.
41:29And that's what life's about.
41:31LAUGHTER
41:33I mainly do dick jokes.
41:35OK.
41:36LAUGHTER
41:36No, 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.
41:44LAUGHTER
41:53What do you do?
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 Phoebe number two.
42:16Yes, please.
42:17Are you also Phoebe?
42:18Hello, I'm also Phoebe.
42:19Yay!
42:21I'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, do 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.
42:43Um, men who...
42:45specifically only grow an underbeard.
42:48LAUGHTER
42:49That's the worst.
42:50Thank you!
42:51What is that?
42:52Thank you!
42:54It's this hair here.
42:56Oh, like Lincoln?
42:57Yeah.
42:58Yeah.
42:59OK.
42:59Or they just have, like, the sort of, the straps,
43:02like a helmet strap.
43:04LAUGHTER
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...?
43:20APPLAUSE
43:22Like, there's no...
43:23Like, he's not...
43:24Yeah, but you're Jamie Adonis.
43:26He's fed 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
43:47You look good.
43:48I don't know.
43:48I think...
43:49I think...
43:49Tell him.
43:50I'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.
43:58Yeah, yeah.
43:59LAUGHTER
43:59Right.
44:00That's it.
44:01We're off to knit a small hour.
44:03I would like to thank my guests,
44:04Jimmy Carr!
44:05APPLAUSE
44:05Jason Timothy.
44:07APPLAUSE
44:07Jamie Dornan.
44:09And Lisa Kudrow.
44:13We're back next week when I'll be joined by
44:15Russell Howard, Gugu Mbatha-Royle,
44:17Rita Wilton and James McAvoy.
44:20Thank you so much for watching.
44:21Good night.
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