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00:00And welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
00:04This week, Lucy and our team did tiny paintings of all of us,
00:08and it was fantastic.
00:11Thank you for that.
00:13Thank you for getting involved.
00:15We have an amazing audience and some very brilliant guests.
00:18He's a comedian, a presenter,
00:20and one of the country's most successful podcasters is Josh Whittaker.
00:27Hello.
00:28Hello.
00:29One of the most.
00:34He's shot to fame in Tobiasco,
00:36and he's got a new series called Rooster.
00:39It's Phil Dunster.
00:43Thank you for having me.
00:47Hello.
00:50She's played a lawyer in The Good Wife,
00:53and tonight she'll be talking about criminal record.
00:56It's the amazing Kush Jumbo.
01:05Now, he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in Schitt's Creek,
01:10and he's here this evening for his new show, Big Mistakes.
01:14It's the magnificent Dan Levy.
01:21Thank you, everybody.
01:23Thank you, everybody.
01:24Happy to see you.
01:29We're so grateful you're here, and I have to tell you, it's the last show, so we're feeling a bit
01:35end of term.
01:36Great.
01:37You know what I mean?
01:37Anything's possible.
01:39Anything is possible.
01:40Love it.
01:40I think we should smoke fags, buy in the bike chair.
01:42I'm going to do this.
01:44Yeah, drink.
01:45I'm going to drink.
01:45I don't even know what it is, but get it down.
01:47It's a Negroni.
01:48Hey, cheers, for God's sake.
01:49Cheers.
01:51Cheers.
01:53They're so sweet.
01:54They're like, we're quite so...
01:55LAUGHTER
01:57Phil, didn't you, going back to school, didn't you have a huge crush on your teacher in year three?
02:03I did.
02:03Can you expand?
02:05Yes.
02:06Shamefully, yes, I will.
02:08She was a miz, so obviously very, very mysterious.
02:13And so I was really into that, apparently, when I was in year three.
02:17I kept having a sort of dream about her going, OK, I'm going on a picnic and I'm taking one
02:25student.
02:25LAUGHTER
02:26Oh, wow.
02:28Philip, it's you.
02:30Oh, you were Philip as well in those days?
02:32Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:33She kept it formal as I kept her formal.
02:35Yeah, yeah.
02:35Ms. Smythe.
02:37Big love, huge respect.
02:38Oh, what happened on the picnic?
02:39Thank you so much for everything you've done.
02:40It was imaginary.
02:41It was imaginary.
02:42Oh, sorry, yeah, no, I know that.
02:43I'm sorry, I knew that.
02:44LAUGHTER
02:46On this imaginary picnic, I would imagine kissing her.
02:50And so I'd be lying there in my bed, just going...
02:53LAUGHTER
02:55How old were you?
02:56Yeah, good.
02:57Year three...
02:58I was...
02:59I was about seven.
03:01Um, unreal.
03:02She's here tonight!
03:04LAUGHTER
03:05Give me a minute.
03:06She's in this cupboard.
03:08Josh, didn't you go to school with about three people in it?
03:13I...
03:13Am I slightly exaggerated?
03:15No, you're not slightly exaggerating.
03:17I think, um, I had four of us in my year at school.
03:21LAUGHTER
03:21Oh, man!
03:24So we only had two teachers, and I was taught with, like,
03:28four other year groups, and then...
03:30What do you mean?
03:31So when you were little, you were doing, like, GCSE?
03:33LAUGHTER
03:34So, like, when I was seven, I was also with 11-year-olds.
03:37What?
03:37Wow.
03:38Was it a very small town?
03:39I'm trying to understand what...
03:40Oh, let me be very clear.
03:41It wasn't a town.
03:43LAUGHTER
03:43Oh, so this makes sense.
03:44So it was just a small grouping of people, and then they all put you together in school.
03:48Yeah, yeah, it wasn't like a cult.
03:50LAUGHTER
03:51LAUGHTER
03:51Um, so...
03:52I actually would have preferred it if it was.
03:55LAUGHTER
03:55This is adorable.
03:56And you do wonder why I'm so desperate for attention now.
04:01LAUGHTER
04:01LAUGHTER
04:01Laugh at me!
04:02Laugh at me!
04:03Someone look at me now!
04:05What are you talking about?
04:06There was only four of you in a class.
04:07You had all the attention.
04:09LAUGHTER
04:10This is my class.
04:11There's four.
04:12Yes!
04:13And Josh Ridicom.
04:15And Josh Ridicom.
04:16Uh, Dan, what were you like at school?
04:18Unpopular.
04:19What?
04:20No.
04:20No, please.
04:22Um...
04:23I...
04:23Yeah, I didn't have any friends.
04:25Oh.
04:26No, it's fine.
04:27Look, I'm successful.
04:28It's fine.
04:29It builds character.
04:30You've come into your own.
04:32LAUGHTER
04:34No, I was an awkward kid.
04:37I was in the theatre programme.
04:40I have a memory of second grade.
04:43My mom had made me a...
04:45Um, and it's funny that the memory is still, like, seared into my brain.
04:48My mom had made me a birthday cake.
04:51And my teacher said,
04:52Daniel, do you want to share the cake with the class?
04:55And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:55I'll go get the cake myself.
04:57Yeah.
04:57Second grade.
04:58So I go to the back, grab the cake.
05:00I'm walking to the front.
05:01Trip.
05:02Nice.
05:03Oh.
05:03I know.
05:04Cake falls onto my shoes.
05:07No.
05:07So it's now inedible.
05:09Yeah.
05:09I panic, start to cry.
05:11The class is laughing.
05:13I don't know what to do.
05:14I start to eat the cake off my shoe.
05:20Oh, my word.
05:21Well, you think, I mean...
05:28I needed that.
05:29I panicked.
05:31I didn't know what to do.
05:32Of course.
05:32So then I just started, and people started laughing.
05:34So then I just kept eating it, thinking like, well, it's getting a laugh.
05:37So...
05:37And to this day, in a way, you're still eating that cake, aren't you?
05:41Every day of my life.
05:43I was not the cool kid in the class.
05:45And for the rest of my time in school...
05:47...was the kid that ate the cake off the shoes.
05:49The kid that ate the cake, like, I'm...
05:50Yeah.
05:51No problem.
05:52Because your son is eight.
05:54Yes.
05:54How does he find school?
05:56He's...
05:56He's rather cheeky.
05:58I was a little cheeky at school.
05:59Not rude.
06:00Not disrespectful.
06:01No.
06:01Not kissing teachers in my dreams.
06:03No.
06:04I was a little cheeky.
06:06Yeah.
06:06And I was pretty good at mimicry, and my son is pretty good at mimicry.
06:10And I...
06:10Yeah, I came very close to suspension at school.
06:13Did you?
06:13Who did you mimic?
06:14Every single teacher I could.
06:16Like, I mean, I grew up in the 90s where, like, every school was in a Victorian building,
06:20and you were bored.
06:21He didn't even have a building.
06:22And...
06:23Just one port-a-cabin on a hill.
06:25It's a young country.
06:27We weren't on a heath.
06:29Yes.
06:31We had quite hilarious characters of teachers, and so they were quite easy to mimic,
06:35and they'd leave the room to go to the toilet.
06:37And, you know, I'd get up...
06:39And just leave a class empty?
06:40Oh, yeah.
06:40This is South London.
06:42Right.
06:42So, you'd just get up, and I'd just do the teacher for a while,
06:46and then someone would warn me when they were coming back,
06:48so I would get into a lot of trouble for that.
06:50My son's quite like that.
06:51He's quite cheeky.
06:52Like, he was a little too funny today.
06:54I'm like, God, no, absolutely.
06:56Come on.
06:56Yeah!
06:58I've never been on a chat show before where everyone started with an anecdote they've
07:02done in therapy.
07:04It's a neutralisation of all of our nerves.
07:08Yeah.
07:08Shared vulnerability.
07:09Can we move on to first jobs, please?
07:12Mm-hmm.
07:12Because, Phil, you did something...
07:14You were a very special kind of butler.
07:16Thanks so much.
07:17Ooh.
07:18Um, I was at drama school, and a girl's got to eat, and so I...
07:24LAUGHTER
07:26I did the thing that any, uh, non-self-respecting person would do,
07:30and I became a butler-in-the-buff.
07:31Oh!
07:31Uh...
07:32And also...
07:33Yeah.
07:34Talk me through the whole thing.
07:35Or show us.
07:36It's up to you.
07:37LAUGHTER
07:38Re-enact it for us right now.
07:40Yeah.
07:41Um...
07:42Do you...
07:42Can I catch the chase for the question?
07:44Go.
07:45Knob out?
07:46LAUGHTER
07:47That was very...
07:49That's what we were all thinking, Claudia.
07:51I know you've got an MBE so you can't ask it.
07:54LAUGHTER
07:55Come on!
07:56That's an explanation.
07:58No, no question.
08:00APPLAUSE
08:00I'm not allowed.
08:02Uh, was it out?
08:04LAUGHTER
08:05Since we're here.
08:07Uh, not on purpose.
08:09Oh.
08:10Uh...
08:10Was it in a pouch?
08:11It was basically, you have a little apron,
08:14and because we're classy, you have a bow tie.
08:16Ah, yeah.
08:17Always.
08:17What do you think about the bow tie and stripping?
08:20What is it?
08:21Yeah.
08:21Leaving something to the imagination, for God's sake.
08:23What?
08:24Just the neck?
08:26That's a very erogenous...
08:27No, no, no, no.
08:30Um, there was...
08:31But yes, I did play Twister once.
08:33Um, semi against my will and, um...
08:35And...
08:36Semi being the operative word.
08:37Oh!
08:39John!
08:40John!
08:41Sorry!
08:42And it's the end.
08:43Thank you all.
08:44Go on.
08:45How old were you at this point?
08:47Uh...
08:48Early 20s?
08:48I was...
08:49This was year three, so...
08:54APPLAUSE
08:57Dan, um, your parents were very keen on you getting a job, weren't they?
09:01Yeah, my parents kicked me out of a moving car in front of a Gap Kids.
09:07So for the longest time, they were like, you need to get a job, you need to get a job,
09:10and I said, sure, fine.
09:12Put it off, put it off, put it off.
09:14I was coming home from my cousin's bar mitzvah at the time, so I was in a suit.
09:19They pulled up in front of the Gap Kids, said, get out, walk in, ask for a job application, and
09:25walk home.
09:26And I was so...
09:27How old are you?
09:2815?
09:29I love that.
09:30Yeah.
09:32And so I did, but I was so mortified because when I went in to ask for the manager, the
09:36manager came out and went,
09:37Oh, you dressed up for this.
09:40Oh!
09:40Because I was in a full suit coming from Rosenthal.
09:43Oh!
09:44And again, me in a panic was like, yeah.
09:48Have you got cake?
09:49Put it on my suit.
09:51Absolutely got the job based on the suit, so it all connected.
09:55Fantastic.
09:56And then was the sales associate of the summer.
09:57Oh!
09:58Thank you so much.
10:00You know what, fair play.
10:02Absolutely.
10:05We have unbelievable news because, Dan, you are moving to London.
10:09Yeah.
10:10Oh!
10:11Woohoo!
10:12Yeah, I mean, I'm moving as...
10:15Yes, I have a place here.
10:17That is...
10:18And I will be here as much as I possibly can within legal bounds.
10:24You lived here before.
10:25I did.
10:26I lived here in my early...
10:27I had a very bad relationship.
10:29I'm sorry.
10:29I needed to come here because that's where Notting Hill was.
10:33The movie.
10:34One of my favorite movies.
10:35Aww.
10:37And I was like, I don't know.
10:38I'm 21 years old.
10:40Anything's possible.
10:41I'm going to move to London and find myself.
10:43Yeah.
10:43So I found a little apartment.
10:45Yeah.
10:46And it was great.
10:47And it was...
10:48I moved in and I like to be clean.
10:51I'm spraying everywhere.
10:52I don't know who was in here before.
10:54It was kind of dirty.
10:56I'm hearing rumours from the people downstairs
10:58that it might have been a mother-daughter sex duo.
11:04Got it.
11:05Ooh.
11:05Sexy.
11:07Probably had way more sex in there than I did.
11:09Anyway, I'm cleaning.
11:10What was the address out of interest?
11:12I pulled the bed from the wall.
11:14At this point, I had taken my gloves off.
11:17And I'm now...
11:18You know when you're in cleaning mode, it doesn't...
11:19Yeah, you're just fishing.
11:21So I'm reaching down the side of the bed.
11:25I'm going to tell you what I found,
11:27and then you tell me what you think it is.
11:29OK.
11:29OK.
11:30So I grabbed it.
11:31Can I just say the weirdest game show I've ever been on?
11:35I'm into it.
11:35It slips out of my hands.
11:37Oh, no.
11:37What do you mean?
11:37Oh, hell.
11:38It was a...
11:40Yeah.
11:42phallic-shaped perfume bottle
11:45wrapped in a condom.
11:47Ooh!
11:47And tied at the end.
11:49Oh.
11:50And slippery.
11:56I love...
11:57It was his.
11:58Was it your flask?
11:59It was that man.
12:00Finally someone found it.
12:03Do you still have it?
12:04Yeah.
12:05What do you think it was?
12:07What, perfume?
12:07Perfume?
12:07It's a sex toy, isn't it?
12:08No, not perfume.
12:09Well, it couldn't...
12:10It was perfume until someone turned it into something else.
12:13Why else would it be me have a condom?
12:15Well, maybe because it was cold.
12:16LAUGHTER
12:18I don't...
12:20You asked.
12:21I know.
12:22And I love you for answering.
12:24Um, Otis...
12:25And I still want to live here.
12:27Yeah.
12:28Delighted.
12:30So, Otis rented a flat.
12:32And what did you find?
12:34I found my landlord's mum having a bath.
12:37Oh!
12:38LAUGHTER
12:39Oh, my word.
12:41So, you walk in...
12:44I...
12:44...see a woman in the bath.
12:48She then says,
12:49I'm the landlord's mum!
12:51LAUGHTER
12:54If only it was that simple.
12:56LAUGHTER
12:57So, I'm coming home from work.
12:59I really need a piss.
13:01And I run...
13:02This is revolting.
13:03LAUGHTER
13:04Do you know what, though?
13:05I think you've got the right to have a piss in your own house.
13:08LAUGHTER
13:10So...
13:10Can we stop saying that word?
13:11Oh, sorry.
13:12Your own flat.
13:15LAUGHTER
13:16APPLAUSE
13:19Go on, Otis.
13:20So, yeah, I run in there to have a pee,
13:23and the way the door opens, I don't see the bathtub immediately.
13:26LAUGHTER
13:28So, I'm basically mid-stream when I hear this scream.
13:33LAUGHTER
13:33And, yeah, so then I go out of the bathroom
13:36and go into the kitchen, waiting for a really awkward chat
13:39thinking it was my housemate.
13:41Oh, yeah.
13:41And then she comes in and explains.
13:43I see an old woman in the room.
13:45What does she explain?
13:45She said she used to live in the house and misses the bath.
13:49LAUGHTER
13:51Thank you very much, Otis.
13:53APPLAUSE
13:56I have to ask you about Schitt's Creek.
13:59It was...
14:00I mean, honestly, it won everything.
14:02APPLAUSE
14:03Correctly.
14:05APPLAUSE
14:06It's so many people's favourite show.
14:09It almost didn't get made because of the name.
14:12Yeah.
14:13Yeah.
14:14We almost sold it in America.
14:18And then we found out that they had a problem with the name
14:22and didn't want to make it.
14:23Mm.
14:24So then we took it up to Canada and made it there.
14:26They had no problem with the name.
14:28LAUGHTER
14:29My dad was, like, adamant.
14:31Yeah.
14:32Because there was a lot of people saying,
14:33what if we called it Uppercreek?
14:35Oh, God, no. No.
14:36I don't want to call it that.
14:38Yeah.
14:38It's a bad name.
14:40So, yeah, anyway, here we are all these years later.
14:43Dan, you were a writer, the creator, you act in it.
14:46You must be incredibly proud of it, but how do you handle the stress of it?
14:51Or do you not find it stressful?
14:52Do you just go, I'm in love with this cast?
14:55That's exactly it.
14:55And I think if you ask anyone who's sort of put a show together,
14:59you have to love what you're making in order to do it,
15:03because it's so time-consuming.
15:05I mean, the last season of Schitt's Creek, I was in a neck brace
15:09because I was so stressed out that my neck muscles seized.
15:12Oh, my God.
15:13And I had to wear a neck brace through the entire last season of the show.
15:16So I would direct in the morning, and then at lunch someone would come in,
15:21acupuncture and chiropractors would come in at lunch
15:23so that I could move my head to then perform in the afternoon.
15:27Oh, my God.
15:27Ah.
15:28Yeah.
15:29Aw.
15:30Aw.
15:31So, anyway, it's a commitment.
15:33On behalf of everyone that loved that season, thank you for your service.
15:37Oh, my God.
15:40I was moving my head all through that last season.
15:44Now, Dan, you have a brand new show.
15:47That's right.
15:48Can we talk about big mistakes?
15:49Yeah, of course.
15:50Tell me about it.
15:51Brother and sister find themselves inadvertently blackmailed into the world of organized crime.
15:57They cannot handle the world of organized crime, and mayhem ensues.
16:02I need to talk to you about your character, but here is a clip.
16:06Oh.
16:07Who is Alan Botkins?
16:09I don't know who is Alan Botkins.
16:11You tell me.
16:12You've been digging up his grave for the past two hours.
16:15What?
16:15What?
16:17No.
16:18That's...
16:18No.
16:19No.
16:20Oh, my.
16:20No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:21No, that...
16:22Did you look at the headstone, Morgan?
16:24Or did you just see a fresh plot and start digging?
16:26This is where the funeral took place.
16:36Morgan!
16:37No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
16:40no, no.
16:46You play a pastor on the show.
16:50I do.
16:50Tell me about creating him.
16:52Uh, well, I thought, what is the farthest thing from me?
16:56And a religious leader came to mind.
16:59Yeah, he's a non-practicing gay pastor who finds love
17:05and then is secretly practicing and hiding it from the church.
17:10And it becomes a problem, especially when crime gets involved.
17:15But we had a...
17:16I really didn't want this to be a joke on the church.
17:19I wanted it to be a joke on me.
17:20We had a crime expert and we had a church expert.
17:25And I think that's the thing.
17:27When you tell a crime story and you're dealing with religion of any kind,
17:30I think you have to honour both with somebody who knows what they're doing.
17:35Because the last thing you want to do, especially in comedy, is punch down.
17:39Yes. You know what I mean?
17:40Absolutely. So anyway, that's what we did.
17:42It's as authentic as it could possibly be.
17:44And you... I like the idea that you came up with a show because of an irrational fear.
17:48I do not want to be blackmailed into the world of organised crime.
17:53How did that even...
18:03So in the show, we find cocaine in the testicles of a bull.
18:10Fun fact, actually happened.
18:13Wow. So, yeah.
18:15I'm surprised you didn't say it was inside of a perfume bottle inside.
18:18Inside of a...
18:18Would have been a perfect place to...
18:20Season two.
18:23This is...
18:25In someone's balls.
18:27They would transfer the balls and then no one thinks to look there.
18:31Oh, so they're not fake balls balls.
18:33They're real balls.
18:34Well, they would take the balls out and then fill them with the sack, the sacks, with the cocaine.
18:43Wow.
18:43Why don't they just put it inside the bull?
18:46I would just make fake sacks.
18:48Well, because a lot...
18:49I think criminally speaking, a lot of things are hidden inside the bull.
18:54Oh, that's genius.
18:55That's what you think about it.
18:55Isn't it?
18:56Please, can you tell us when and how can we watch Big Mistake?
18:59Big Mistakes, I believe, is available now to stream on Netflix.
19:02Yes.
19:02Very easy.
19:03Very easy.
19:05Very easy.
19:06The end of this and then watch that.
19:08Correct.
19:09Um, Kush, we have to talk about Criminal Record, which is your baby.
19:13Yes.
19:14You came up with the idea.
19:15Yes.
19:16Amazing.
19:16Peter Capaldi and I met many years ago doing a show called Torchwood, which we loved doing
19:21together and we loved each other and got on very well and, yeah, we got to pitch it to
19:25Apple and sell it and, like, develop the characters from the beginning and, like, you said,
19:29you have to be obsessive, you have to be obsessed with it, but it's so joyful then getting to
19:35bring it to life and bring everyone along with you.
19:37Yeah.
19:38Um, so, yeah, it's been a dream.
19:39Series one was amazing.
19:41I was lucky enough to get series two.
19:44I mean, can I swear?
19:46Yeah.
19:47I don't know who I'm asking.
19:50Holy shit.
19:51It's so good.
19:53Here is a clip.
19:53Tasty.
19:56What if there's a bomb?
19:58We'll stop it.
19:59What if we don't?
20:01This is intelligence.
20:03What we do here is fill in the fires before they start.
20:08Do you want to catch this man?
20:12This is the only game in town.
20:16Do you ever think to yourself, have I actually made this world a safer place than it was yesterday?
20:20No.
20:21Why?
20:22Because it's stupid.
20:24No-one remembers the saves.
20:28It's the ones you miss.
20:33Oh, yeah.
20:35I mean, it's gripping.
20:38You're such a lot.
20:40I know.
20:41It makes me look really cool.
20:43You are really cool.
20:45I love the fact because you and Peter are properly, like, you're great friends.
20:49Yeah, yeah.
20:49But you say he's the loveliest person in real life.
20:53Absolutely.
20:53He's amazing in real life.
20:54Lovely.
20:54What happens when it's the other way around?
20:56What happens if there's a bit of a turd that you have to work with?
21:00You know what I mean?
21:01Oh.
21:01When they might be playing somebody lovely.
21:03Like if they're an arsehole in real life.
21:05But, like, you have to have a sex scene with them or they have to play you.
21:08Oh, you've taken it up a notch.
21:11I think my experience in my younger days was that the biggest lesson I learnt was, like, kindness is so
21:17key.
21:17Particularly from the people at the top of the show.
21:19I'm saying this like I have really personal stories.
21:21I absolutely don't.
21:22Nothing bad has ever happened.
21:24But I...
21:25Yeah, I just don't...
21:27I just absolutely don't put up with it.
21:29Can people be hypothetically secretly fired when you're an exec producer?
21:34Absolutely.
21:35Can I ever do that?
21:37No.
21:40Dan, didn't you, on Schitt's Creek, I believe somebody was a bit rude to the wardrobe team?
21:47We...
21:47Yeah, we had a...
21:49And I was very lucky, like you, to have the top of our show.
21:53My dad and Catherine O'Hara set such an unbelievable standard for everyone else.
21:57And the reality is, if the people at the top are kind, nobody can...
22:02Yeah.
22:02..come up against you.
22:05So when there were people that were tricky, they would stand out because everything else was running so smoothly.
22:11Yeah.
22:11So we had an actor who was ruffling some feathers.
22:17And...
22:18And I am very protective of my crew.
22:21Yeah.
22:21So...
22:22You killed him.
22:22This person had some scenes.
22:25You see that burial?
22:26He shot some scenes.
22:30He's now in a bowl of testicles.
22:35I got into edit and we were running long.
22:38Cut them out.
22:39See ya!
22:39I love it.
22:41Now, for actors out there, that can happen to you.
22:45You've got to be nice.
22:46Yes.
22:47Absolutely.
22:47Sometimes you hear...
22:48You're like in a make-up trailer and you hear an actor down the other end,
22:51moping about their call time or something they had to do and you're like...
22:57Shut up, mate.
22:59Shut up, mate.
23:01Read the room.
23:01Do you call it out?
23:02Have you seen...
23:03I'm scared for that.
23:03Yeah.
23:06Do you do what I do and imagine what you would have said when you're having a shower the next
23:10morning?
23:11That's what I do.
23:12I'm in the shower going, and then I said this.
23:18Have you ever...
23:19Have you seen bad behaviour, Geoff?
23:20No, I was edited out.
23:26I was being kind.
23:29What, in comedy, Claudia?
23:31I don't know.
23:31Everyone's just so well-adjusted.
23:35Do you know what?
23:36Think of a name.
23:37Go on.
23:38You're right.
23:40No.
23:41That's the best magic trick.
23:43That was so clever.
23:45I always loved them.
23:48Cush, when can we see your show, please?
23:50Oh, April 22nd, Apple TV.
23:53First two episodes are out.
23:54One episode every week.
23:55We're so proud of it.
23:56Please watch it.
24:02So.
24:03Hello.
24:03Ted Lasso.
24:04Yes.
24:05You played Jamie Tartt, but you didn't originally audition for that role, did you?
24:09No, I didn't, no.
24:10I did a very, well, somewhat offensive and inappropriate Spanish accent for Danny Rojas.
24:16Right.
24:16Oh, let's hear it, my friend.
24:19LAUGHTER
24:20Go on.
24:22A footballish laugh.
24:31It made you incredibly famous very fast, Ted Lasso.
24:36Did it?
24:36Yes, did it not feel like that for you?
24:39Well, it was during lockdown, really.
24:41So, I don't know, really.
24:42Everybody, what, there isn't anybody here.
24:44We all watched it, right?
24:45Yeah.
24:47So, you want to be able to say, I couldn't even go out, but the truth is you couldn't.
24:52LAUGHTER
24:53I will say, I feel like there were a handful of shows that, like, found their audience during Covid.
24:59We were the feel-good moments of Covid, collectively, so...
25:03Someone doesn't remember Tiger King.
25:05LAUGHTER
25:08But I went into Covid with nobody knowing who I was.
25:13And then Covid ended, and you go back out into the world the same as you were before,
25:18except people roll down their windows and be like,
25:20Ew, David, and I was...
25:22But you, like, you had to have experienced this shift.
25:26I get, well, the thing is...
25:27It's very bizarre, isn't it?
25:28It did very well over the pond early on.
25:31Yeah.
25:31And it sort of took a little while to come over, so I think I was, like,
25:34I was doing it coming out of the house being like...
25:37LAUGHTER
25:39Is that clapping on a Thursday evening for me?
25:43LAUGHTER
25:49Yes, you're right, here I am.
25:51Tell us about Rooster.
25:54Rooster is a HBO show which has just come out and it stars Steve Carell,
26:00who basically...
26:01Woohoo!
26:01Who plays...
26:03Who plays an author which is sort of...
26:05He's sort of a beach-read kind of trashy novel kind of author.
26:08It goes to give a speech at, like, a liberal arts university.
26:12Um, but really he's there to check in on his daughter
26:15because she's going through a terrible time because her husband,
26:18hello, is cheating on her.
26:19Uh, with the students.
26:21You shit.
26:22LAUGHTER
26:22Wait, you're cheating with a student?
26:24Sorry, a post-grad student.
26:25So definitely say post-grad student.
26:27Oh, I thought it was going to be kind of year three.
26:29Your life...
26:30Your life has been flipped.
26:32You have to play this role because of Miz.
26:35Is Miz?
26:36Call me Miz.
26:36Yes!
26:37Call me Miz, darling.
26:38Call me Miz.
26:39Let's have a look at a clip.
26:42This is where your current wife has...
26:46Maybe I shouldn't give it away.
26:48Uh, I think it's fine.
26:50OK, there's been a fire.
26:51Motive.
26:52Check.
26:52Officer, she doesn't have to practice if she is saying the truth.
26:56Do you want me to write that down?
26:57Mm-hmm.
26:58Anyway...
27:00I took his copy of War and Peace and I lit it on fire.
27:03Sorry, you intentionally burned my first edition Tolstoy?
27:06I did, yeah.
27:07The Clarabelle translation is the only one in the English language that has the second epilogue.
27:12Oh, it burns so good.
27:13So, then you did arson a book.
27:16Arson isn't a verb.
27:17I'm pretty sure it's a verb.
27:18No, it's not a verb.
27:19It's a verb.
27:19And I am not looking it up, I just have to check...
27:22It's not a verb, mate.
27:23Just checking something out.
27:24I burned the book, but the house was an accident, I swear.
27:28Exactly.
27:28APPLAUSE
27:30I love the fact that you went on a road trip, didn't you?
27:33To sort of...
27:33To bond.
27:34To bond with Charlie Clive, who plays Steve's daughter, my wife.
27:39I play her husband.
27:41That's how that works.
27:42And we needed...
27:43So, our department said, when you're on this road trip, would you mind just getting some
27:46photos of the two of you as if you were on holiday or whatever?
27:50We're there having some wine.
27:51How's your wife at this point?
27:53Well, she was fine.
27:55She understood it.
27:55But the problem was it was her boyfriend who was having to take the photos.
27:59LAUGHTER
28:04Doesn't feel like you mean it, guys.
28:05Give it more.
28:06Give it more.
28:07Yeah.
28:08I had to do that once with Luke Evans.
28:11We played husbands in a movie.
28:13Oh, my God.
28:13And we had to take Polaroids as a couple.
28:18And he was there with his partner at the time.
28:21And I believe we showed him the Polaroids.
28:24Like, I think I was so not wanting to make a thing out of it that I was like,
28:28And then this one of us kissing means nothing.
28:30And then this one of us snuggling, nothing.
28:33Felt nothing.
28:34And then this one, nuzzling, still felt nothing.
28:38You are.
28:40When can we watch Rooster, please?
28:42Rooster comes out every Monday and it is on HBO Max.
28:45Hello.
28:48APPLAUSE
28:51Um, Josh, you have two brand new additions in your face.
28:56Yes.
28:56We've got two kittens that have blown up on social media.
29:00Aww.
29:01How does a kitten blow up on social media?
29:04I'll tell you what happens, you put a photo of them on your Instagram
29:07and it does a lot better than any of your comedy.
29:09Look at them.
29:11Well, when you put that photo up...
29:14Yeah.
29:14What are their names?
29:15They were named by my children.
29:17So, my daughter called one of them, I can't tell the difference,
29:21Tilly and my son, who's four, called the other one Fluffball.
29:26Throwing your kids under the bus like that.
29:27Yeah.
29:28You love cats?
29:29I love cats.
29:30I think that, yeah.
29:31Where do you stand on dogs, then?
29:33Oh, a step away from.
29:35Yeah.
29:36I love dogs.
29:37OK.
29:37I'm obsessed.
29:38I lick my dog's tongue.
29:40LAUGHTER
29:42I do.
29:42I believe I...
29:44This is too much, but it's the last show.
29:45What are they going to do?
29:46I believe that I...
29:48I made him in my womb.
29:50Wow.
29:51I do.
29:52Like, cats are fine, but dogs...
29:55I'm with you on the licking the tongue and stuff, because...
29:57It's not a cat tongue.
29:59No.
29:59It's not a cat tongue.
30:00So, say I've got a glass of water there,
30:03if my cat came along and started drinking out of it,
30:05I'd happily carry on.
30:06Mental.
30:07Absolutely insane.
30:08It might be the last show and BBC can't do anything about it,
30:11but the RSPCA definitely can.
30:13LAUGHTER
30:16Josh, can we talk about your podcast?
30:17Oh, yes, please.
30:18You've just had to change the name of it.
30:20Yeah.
30:20We launched it as Josh Widdicombe's Museum of Pop Culture,
30:24and then it turned out in America there's a Museum of Pop Culture.
30:28And we got a cease and desist.
30:30Wow.
30:31Yeah, so we ceased and desisted.
30:32But it doesn't have your name in front of it.
30:34No, I know, but I don't hold any sway in Seattle.
30:37LAUGHTER
30:38And so I've changed it to Josh Widdicombe's archive of pop culture now,
30:42because we just didn't want to take it to court.
30:45You take sort of cultural phenomenons and...
30:49and pick them apart in the most hilarious way.
30:51We try and do long...
30:53Because there's lots of...
30:53I like the long-form story podcast.
30:55Like, obviously, the rest is history.
30:57It's the biggest podcast in the world.
30:58But there was none about...
30:59I wish there was one about popular culture.
31:01Like, about the kind of silly popular culture things
31:05that we're really obsessed with.
31:06And there wasn't, so I just made it.
31:08So we've done, like, the Spice Girls.
31:11We've done Pete Waterman and his record label.
31:15We've done Mr Blobby.
31:16We've done all the...
31:18Exactly.
31:19There you go.
31:20You must have worked with Blobby.
31:21God, I married Blobby.
31:23LAUGHTER
31:25I didn't marry him.
31:26Tiny fiddle.
31:27Could you try and explain to Dan who Mr Blobby is?
31:32OK, it's quite...
31:33So, there was...
31:36Bear in mind, this took four hours in the podcast.
31:39Right.
31:39I need it in 15 to 30 seconds.
31:42There was a man called Noel Edmonds.
31:43He had a Saturday night TV show.
31:45Uh-huh.
31:46And he used to prank people.
31:47It was huge.
31:48It was the biggest show on British TV.
31:49Massive.
31:50Massive.
31:50And he thought a good way of doing that would be
31:51to dress as a fake character.
31:53So they made Mr Blobby,
31:54which was a seven-foot rubber and pink thing
31:57that went Blobby, Blobby, Blobby.
31:59And then, right...
32:01Where's your photos?
32:02Is it?
32:02Yeah, go on.
32:03Yeah.
32:04Yeah!
32:05So, that's just to be clear, Noel is on the left.
32:08Very good.
32:08And a bit of fun, come on.
32:10Don't mind it.
32:11And so, and then the problem was that Mr Blobby
32:15became so popular...
32:17Terrifying.
32:17Popular?
32:18Yeah.
32:19With the British public...
32:21...that he became...
32:22This is absolutely bone chilling.
32:26If this creature showed up at my house,
32:28I would call the police.
32:30So that Mr Blobby, he became so popular,
32:33he got a number one single.
32:34Yep.
32:35A Christmas number one.
32:35What do you mean?
32:36He sings too?
32:38He's Mr Blobby.
32:39Exactly, yeah.
32:40And then, he became so popular, they opened a string of Mr Blobby theme parks.
32:44Yes, they did!
32:45Sure, yeah.
32:46That's our Mickey Mouse.
32:47Yeah.
32:49LAUGHTER
32:51APPLAUSE
32:52OK.
32:53What are you in there?
32:55And then he became, quickly, the most unpopular thing in England.
32:59In Britain.
33:00And so, the whole country turned on him.
33:03And he disappeared as fast as he appeared.
33:05And so, it was like...
33:06Where is that docuseries?
33:08It's a pop car!
33:11LAUGHTER
33:12We've made it.
33:13We've made it.
33:14We've made it.
33:14I get it.
33:14I get it now.
33:16We've made it.
33:17And then, it got thickens.
33:20Oh, yeah.
33:20Because you've bought Noel Edmonds' house.
33:23Yeah.
33:24Oh.
33:26LAUGHTER
33:27Not the crinkly bottom one.
33:29Not the crinkly bottom one.
33:30Not the crinkly bottom one.
33:30No, not the one from the TV.
33:31No, not that one.
33:32No.
33:32It's quite weird.
33:33There's only one wall and a load of cameras.
33:35LAUGHTER
33:37No, so we've left London, right?
33:40What the house you're in now?
33:41Is Noel Edmonds' house?
33:42Yes.
33:42Yes.
33:43No!
33:44So, we moved to Exeter in Devon, and we went to look around the house,
33:50and within ten seconds, the estate agent said,
33:53you're not going to believe who used to live here.
33:56And I said, it's a deal.
33:59LAUGHTER
33:59That wasn't why he bought the house.
34:01I don't believe you.
34:03I don't either.
34:04Phil, you, you, you love Mr Blobby.
34:06I love Mr Blobby.
34:08Mr Blobby is absolute conviction, utter chaos.
34:12Yes.
34:13He may or may not get gunged.
34:14Yeah, he might get gunged.
34:16What does gunged mean?
34:18LAUGHTER
34:19What the hell is going on here?
34:22By the way, Dan is no longer moving to the UK.
34:25Do you sense that?
34:26Do you sense that?
34:26OK, I have sold my home.
34:28John, you are on tour.
34:30We also have to mention that.
34:31Yes.
34:31Well, there's quite a lot left of this tour, not my cup of tea.
34:34I didn't know you had the picture.
34:35APPLAUSE
34:38It's so much fun being on tour being a comedian.
34:40It's brilliant.
34:41You get to do all the theatres around the country.
34:43You get to go to all these places.
34:45There's so many amazing kind of old theatres,
34:46and then you get to be on your own,
34:48which is what I like to do.
34:50You have a very specific way to wind down.
34:53Yes.
34:54You do this after every show, I believe.
34:56Yeah.
34:56I've got a, um, just behind the bed.
35:00LAUGHTER
35:04APPLAUSE
35:07Um...
35:08No.
35:08No.
35:10LAUGHTER
35:11That's how you're winding down?
35:13OK.
35:14It worked.
35:16No, I...
35:16It's a bit different end of the kind of rock and roll spectrum.
35:19I have, um, a bowl of Shreddies from a Tupperware in the back of the car.
35:23LAUGHTER
35:24Yeah, that's...
35:25Dry?
35:26No, with milk.
35:27OK.
35:28But in a moving vehicle?
35:29In a...
35:30So Ali, who drives me, who's my lovely tour manager, will drive,
35:33and then I'll sit in the back and I'll pour my milk into my Shreddies.
35:36And sometimes on stage I'll think,
35:38I'm going to be having those Shreddies soon.
35:40LAUGHTER
35:41Underrated meal, I'd say.
35:43Yeah.
35:43Cereals in general.
35:44Fantastic cereal.
35:45Yeah, superb.
35:46Fantastic cereal.
35:47Yeah, exactly, yeah.
35:48What do you always take with you, Phil, please?
35:50Whenever I'm working away from home, I will, without fail,
35:53take my teddy bear, Ben.
35:55Aww.
35:56Oh, Phil!
35:57You weirdo.
35:58LAUGHTER
35:59You can't use the word weirdo.
36:01You live in an old Edmonds house.
36:03That is not allowed.
36:05When did you get Ben?
36:07I would have...
36:08I think I was, like, six months, something.
36:10I don't know.
36:10What do you mean?
36:12Well, I guess I was...
36:13I was fresh.
36:14I thought you were going to say, like,
36:16just like last week, you were making it up.
36:18No.
36:18What do you mean?
36:18No, no, Ted...
36:19Oh, you thought I was making it up?
36:21No, no, God, no, no.
36:22Ben, yeah, yeah, he travels with me, boy.
36:24Yeah, oh, God, yeah.
36:25Are you not worried, like,
36:26if I'd had a teddy bear since I was six months,
36:28I'd be too worried about taking it?
36:30What if they lost your luggage or something?
36:33I hadn't thought of that before now.
36:35LAUGHTER
36:35Now, we are nearly at the end of the show.
36:37I cannot express this enough that we are deeply unqualified
36:42to answer questions, but lovely people in the audience
36:45have questions.
36:47And so anybody who has a question, please.
36:51Um, yes, sir.
36:52Right?
36:52Yeah, so, hello, my name is Balder.
36:55I've got a dating question.
36:56I've just recently started dating someone...
36:59No, I'm married.
36:59LAUGHTER
37:05Sorry, sorry.
37:07Go on, Ted.
37:07No, I've just recently started dating this girl.
37:11And I think it's going really well, you know?
37:13But I'm afraid that maybe she's into, like, star signs.
37:18No, get out.
37:19Well...
37:20Is that a red flag?
37:22When was she born?
37:24LAUGHTER
37:25I don't know.
37:26But, you know, the irony is that we met filming a music video.
37:30And she was literally in a star-shaped costume.
37:33Oh!
37:33So, I don't know, like...
37:34Oh, that feels like a classic Sagittarius.
37:38LAUGHTER
37:40First of all, we said we wouldn't bring this here.
37:43LAUGHTER
37:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
37:47I love you, Chris!
37:50APPLAUSE
37:51Said you were just coming to support me tonight.
37:53LAUGHTER
37:56Why would that be...
37:57Why would that be a bad thing?
38:00LAUGHTER
38:01I...
38:02I think somebody being into star signs is a big red flag for me.
38:07This is going to go down badly.
38:09If you'd made me guess, I'd have guessed you're into star signs, Claudia.
38:13LAUGHTER
38:13Is that true?
38:14I could burst into two.
38:16LAUGHTER
38:16That's almost the most offensive thing that anybody has ever said to me.
38:21Let's go deep on this.
38:23Why?
38:23We want to hear it.
38:23Where is the trauma?
38:24Why do we not like star signs?
38:26What?
38:27This was my last show!
38:29I've talked about your podcast!
38:33LAUGHTER
38:38I've done everything I had to do.
38:41I...
38:41Can I say this?
38:43But we won't put it out.
38:44I think people who believe in star signs are thick.
38:48LAUGHTER
38:52APPLAUSE
38:53LAUGHTER
39:00Oh, my God.
39:01I've already upset the cat people, we can't...
39:03LAUGHTER
39:05And, let's be honest, star signs and cat people, they're the same people!
39:09LAUGHTER
39:12APPLAUSE
39:13They are in the same Ventiaries.
39:15A little bit.
39:16Of course.
39:18Anything?
39:19Yes, please.
39:20Hi.
39:20So, me and my flatmate are hosting our first show.
39:24Our first flat party, we want to know what theme we should have for it.
39:28Erm...
39:29So, OK, talk to me.
39:30Are you cooking?
39:31No.
39:31LAUGHTER
39:32Nor should you.
39:34Do you like a sort of, you could do fancy dress vibe?
39:38Yeah, I think so.
39:38No?
39:39Yeah, I think so, yeah.
39:40OK.
39:40What's your initials...
39:41First initial of your names?
39:43Well, we were thinking of going with things starting with H,
39:45cos I'm Holly, she's Hannah.
39:47Excuse me!
39:47That's fantastic.
39:48You already had the answer to your question the whole time.
39:50Yeah.
39:50So, what would...
39:51So, what, guys?
39:52Yes.
39:52You've got H.
39:53Oh, I'd go as H from Steps.
39:55Mm-hm.
39:55Nice.
39:56I'd go from...
39:57I'd go to Triple H, the wrestler.
39:58Yeah.
40:02Are you asleep, Kush?
40:05LAUGHTER
40:10I was going into my metaphorical wardrobe to get out who I was,
40:14actually.
40:15Oh, thanks.
40:16Hold the Ligola.
40:18LAUGHTER
40:19Yeah, I'd maybe, I don't know,
40:20Halle Berry.
40:21Yeah.
40:21Great.
40:23Solid.
40:23You're welcome.
40:24Fantastic.
40:25I was thinking Harrison Ford.
40:27Oh!
40:28Many a character.
40:30Yeah.
40:31And...
40:31I'd wear a hat.
40:33LAUGHTER
40:39OK, we've got one, one final question.
40:43Oh, there we go.
40:44There we go.
40:46LAUGHTER
40:50Awesome!
40:51Yeah!
40:53Oh my God!
40:55Oh my God!
40:56Oh my God!aking
41:02Oh my
41:03God! Oh my
41:05God! No!
41:07No!
41:12Oh my
41:13God! Oh my
41:14God! Oh my
41:14God! Oh my
41:14God! Ah!
41:15God! And...
41:28Oh
41:32Josh would you like to answer that please I think you should put the perfume bottle in something first
41:45thank you thank you very much that is it for tonight next week there'll be a compilation show of
41:52the series I would like to thank my extraordinary guests Josh Widdicombe
42:00Chris Trumbo and Dan Levy thank you so much for watching good night
42:18oh
42:28that's what he does
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