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00:00Hello. Hello. Who are you? My name is Giles.
00:03Giles. And you're Har. Har, yes.
00:06Har, lovely to me. You do something unbelievable.
00:08I think so. I'm a commentator for the Microsoft Excel World Championships.
00:14LAUGHTER
00:14That was a good reaction.
00:17Ladies and gentlemen, this is the current champion.
00:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:26And what do you have to do to win?
00:31So there are pre-set puzzles that we have to solve using formulas in Excel,
00:36in spreadsheets, like they give you a map of England
00:38and we're supposed to count how many steps it takes to go from London to Belfast, for instance.
00:43Are you with someone?
00:45LAUGHTER
00:46I'm with him today. OK.
00:48No comment.
01:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:06Hello. Hello.
01:13Thank you, thank you.
01:14Hello and welcome to the show.
01:17Thank you so much for joining us.
01:19This week, Lucy and our team did tiny paintings of all of us
01:24and it was fantastic.
01:26Thank you for that.
01:28LAUGHTER
01:29Thank you for getting involved.
01:30We have an amazing audience and some very brilliant guests.
01:34He's a comedian, a presenter and one of the country's most successful podcasters
01:39is Josh Whittaker!
01:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:43Hello.
01:44Hello.
01:45One of the most.
01:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:49He's shot to fame in Ted Lasso and he's got a new series called Rooster.
01:55It's Phil Dunster.
01:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:01Thank you for having me.
02:03Hello.
02:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:06She's played a lawyer in The Good Wife
02:09and tonight she'll be talking about criminal record.
02:12It's the amazing Kush Jumbo.
02:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:21Now, he wrote, produced, directed and acted in Schitt's Creek
02:26and he's here this evening for his new show, Big Mistakes,
02:29it's the magnificent Dan Levy!
02:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:46You're beautiful, you're here.
02:47And I have to tell you, it's the last show, so we're feeling a bit end of term.
02:52Great.
02:53You know what I mean?
02:53Anything's possible.
02:54Anything is possible.
02:56I think we should smoke fags, buying the bike chair.
02:58I'm going to do this.
02:59Yeah, drink.
03:00I'm going to drink.
03:01I don't even know what it is, but get it down.
03:03It's a Negroni.
03:04Hey, cheers, for God's sake.
03:05Cheers.
03:06Cheers.
03:08Cheers.
03:09They're so sweet.
03:10They're like, we're quite so...
03:11LAUGHTER
03:12Bill, didn't you, going back to school, didn't you have a huge crush
03:16on your teacher in year three?
03:19Can you expand?
03:21Yes, shamefully, yes, I will.
03:23She was a mus, so obviously very, very mysterious.
03:27LAUGHTER
03:29And so I was really into that, apparently, when I was in year three.
03:33I kept having a sort of dream about her going,
03:36OK, I'm going on a picnic and I'm taking one student.
03:42Oh, wow.
03:43Philip, it's you.
03:45Oh, you're a Philip as well in those days?
03:47Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:48She kept it formal as I kept her formal.
03:51Yeah, yeah.
03:51Ms Smythe.
03:52Big love.
03:53Huge respect.
03:54What happened on the picnic?
03:54Thank you so much for everything you've done.
03:56It was imaginary.
03:57It was imaginary.
03:58Oh, sorry, yeah, no, I know that.
03:59I'm sorry, I knew that.
04:00LAUGHTER
04:01But on this imaginary picnic, I would imagine kissing her,
04:05and so I'd be lying there in my bed, just going...
04:08LAUGHTER
04:09Oh, wow.
04:10And it was great.
04:11How old were you?
04:12Yeah, good.
04:13Year three, I was about seven.
04:16Um, unreal.
04:18She's here tonight!
04:21Give me a minute.
04:22She's in this cover.
04:23LAUGHTER
04:24Josh, didn't you go to school with about three people in it?
04:29I...
04:29Am I slightly exaggerating?
04:31Oh, no, you're not slightly exaggerating.
04:32Um, I had four of us in my year at school.
04:37Don't...
04:37Oh, me!
04:39So we only had two teachers, and I was taught with, like,
04:44four other year groups, and then...
04:46What do you mean?
04:46So when you were little, you were doing, like, GCSE?
04:49LAUGHTER
04:49So, like, when I was seven, I was also with 11-year-olds.
04:53What?
04:54Was it a very small town?
04:55Oh, it wasn't...
04:56Let me be very clear.
04:57It wasn't a town.
04:59LAUGHTER
04:59Oh, so this makes sense.
05:00So it was just a small grouping of people...
05:02On a field?
05:02..and then they all put you together in school.
05:04Yeah, yeah, it wasn't like a cult.
05:06Right.
05:07Um, so...
05:08I actually would have preferred it if it was.
05:10LAUGHTER
05:11This is adorable.
05:11And you do wonder why I'm so desperate for attention now.
05:16LAUGHTER
05:16Laugh at me!
05:18Laugh at me!
05:18Someone look at me now!
05:20What are you talking about?
05:21There was only four of you in a class.
05:23You had all the attention.
05:25LAUGHTER
05:26This is my class?
05:27This four?
05:28Yes!
05:29And Josh Riddicum.
05:30And Josh Riddicum.
05:32Uh, Dan, what were you like at school?
05:34Unpopular.
05:35What?
05:36No.
05:36No, please.
05:38Um...
05:38I...
05:39Yeah, I didn't have any friends.
05:40Oh.
05:41No, it's fine.
05:43Look, I'm successful.
05:44It's fine.
05:45It builds character.
05:46You've come into your own.
05:50No, I was...
05:51I was an awkward kid.
05:53I, uh, was in the theatre program.
05:56Yeah.
05:56I have a memory of second grade.
05:59My mom had made me a...
06:00Um, and it's funny that the memory is still, like, seared into my brain.
06:04My mom had made me a birthday cake.
06:06And my teacher said,
06:08Daniel, you...
06:09Do you want to share the cake with the class?
06:10And I said,
06:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:11I'll go get the cake myself.
06:13Yeah.
06:13Second grade.
06:14So I go to the back, grab the cake.
06:15I'm walking to the front.
06:17Trip.
06:18No.
06:18Cake fall...
06:19I know.
06:20Cake falls onto my shoes.
06:22So it's now...
06:24Inedible.
06:25Yeah.
06:25I panic, start to cry.
06:27The class is laughing.
06:28I don't know what to do.
06:30I start to eat the cake with my shoe.
06:36Oh, my word.
06:37Well, you think...
06:38I mean...
06:39No.
06:44I need a bath.
06:45I panicked.
06:46I didn't know what to do.
06:47Of course.
06:48So then I just started...
06:49And people started laughing.
06:49So then I just kept eating it, thinking, like, well, it's getting a laugh, so...
06:53And to this day, in a way, you're still eating that cake, aren't you?
06:56Every day of my life.
06:59I was not the cool kid in the class, and for the rest of my time in school...
07:03Yeah.
07:03..was the kid that ate the cake off the shoes.
07:05That ate the cake, like, I'm...
07:06Yeah.
07:06No problem.
07:07Because your son is eight.
07:09Yes.
07:10How does he find school?
07:12He's rather cheeky.
07:13I was a little cheeky at school.
07:15Not rude, not disrespectful.
07:17No.
07:17Not kissing teachers in my dreams.
07:18No.
07:19But I was a little cheeky.
07:21Yeah.
07:22And I was pretty good at mimicry, and my son is pretty good at mimicry.
07:25And I...
07:26Yeah, I came very close to suspension at school.
07:28Did you?
07:29Who did you mimic?
07:30Every single teacher I could.
07:32Like, I mean, I grew up in the 90s, where, like, every school was in a Victorian building,
07:35and you were bored.
07:37He didn't even have a building.
07:39Just one porter cabin on a hill.
07:41It's a young country.
07:43We weren't on a heath.
07:45Yes.
07:46We had quite hilarious characters of teachers, and so they were quite easy to mimic,
07:51and they'd leave the room to go to the toilet.
07:53And, you know, I'd get up...
07:54And just leave the class empty?
07:55Oh, yeah.
07:56OK.
07:56This is South London.
07:57Right.
07:58So you'd just get up, and I'd just do the teacher for a while, and then someone would
08:02warn me when they were coming back.
08:04So I would get into a lot of trouble for that.
08:06My son's quite like that.
08:07He's quite cheeky.
08:07Like, he was a little too funny today.
08:09I'm like, God, no, absolutely.
08:11Come on.
08:12Yeah.
08:13I've never been on a chat show before where everyone started with an anecdote they've
08:17done in therapy.
08:19LAUGHTER
08:20It's a neutralisation of all of our nerves.
08:24Shared vulnerability.
08:25Can we move on to first jobs, please?
08:28Because, Phil, you did something...
08:30You were a very special kind of butler.
08:32Thanks so much.
08:33Ooh.
08:34I was at drama school, and a girl's got to eat, and so I...
08:40LAUGHTER
08:42I did the thing that any non-self-respecting person would do, and I became a butler-in-the-buff.
08:47Oh!
08:48And also...
08:50Talk me through the whole thing.
08:51Or show us.
08:52It's up to you.
08:53LAUGHTER
08:53Re-enact it for us right now.
08:57Do you...
08:58Can I catch the chase for the question?
09:00Yes.
09:01Knob out?
09:01LAUGHTER
09:03That was very...
09:05That's what we were all thinking, Claudia.
09:07I know you've got an MBE, so you can't ask it.
09:10LAUGHTER
09:11Come on!
09:12That's a situation.
09:14No, no question.
09:15Oh!
09:16I'm not allowed.
09:18Er, was it out?
09:19LAUGHTER
09:21Since we're here.
09:23Er, not on purpose.
09:25LAUGHTER
09:25Was it in a pouch?
09:27It was basically, you have a little apron, and because we're class, you have a bowtie.
09:31Oh, yeah.
09:32Always.
09:33What do you think about the bowtie and stripping?
09:36What is it?
09:36Yeah.
09:37Leaving something to the imagination, for God's sake.
09:39What?
09:40The neck?
09:41Yeah.
09:42That's a very erroneous shirt.
09:43No, no, no, no.
09:46There was...
09:47But yes, I did play Twister once.
09:49Semi against my will, and...
09:51Semi being the opposite word.
09:53Oh!
09:54Sorry, come on.
09:55Josh!
09:56Josh!
09:57Sorry, sorry.
09:58And it's the end.
09:59Thank you all.
10:00How old were you at this point?
10:03Early 20s?
10:04I was...
10:05This was year three, so...
10:10APPLAUSE
10:13Dan, your parents were very keen on you getting a job, weren't they?
10:17Yeah, my parents kicked me out of a moving car in front of a Gap Kids.
10:23So for the longest time, they were like, you need to get a job, you need to get a job.
10:26And I said, sure, fine.
10:28Put it off, put it off, put it off.
10:30I was coming home from my cousin's bar mitzvah at the time, so I was in a suit.
10:34They pulled up in front of the Gap Kids, said, get out, walk in, ask for a job application, and
10:41walk home.
10:42And I was so...
10:43Old were you?
10:4415?
10:45I love that.
10:46Yeah.
10:47And so I did, but I was so mortified because when I went in to ask for the manager, the
10:52manager came out and went,
10:53Oh, you dressed up for this.
10:56Oh!
10:56Because I was in a full suit coming from the bus.
10:59Oh!
11:00And again, me in a panic was like, yeah.
11:04Got the job.
11:04Have you got cake?
11:05Put it on my shirt.
11:06Wait till you want.
11:07Absolutely got the job based on the suit, so it all connected.
11:11Fantastic.
11:11And then was the sales associate of the summer.
11:13Oh!
11:14Thank you so much.
11:16You know what, fair price.
11:18Absolutely.
11:20Um, we have unbelievable news because, Dan, you are moving to London.
11:25Yeah.
11:26Oh!
11:26Woohoo!
11:27Um, yeah, I mean, I'm moving as, as, as, yes, I have a place here.
11:32That is...
11:33And I will be here as much as I possibly can with, with, within legal bounds.
11:39You lived here before?
11:41I did.
11:42I lived here in my early, had a very bad relationship.
11:45I'm sorry.
11:45Needed to come here because that's where Notting Hill was, the movie.
11:49One of my favorite movies.
11:51Aww.
11:53And I was like, I don't know, I'm, I'm 21 years old.
11:56Anything's possible.
11:57I'm going to move to London and find myself.
11:59Yeah.
11:59So, I found a little apartment.
12:01Yeah.
12:01And it was great and it was, I moved in and I'm, I like to be clean.
12:06I'm spraying everywhere.
12:08Yeah.
12:08I don't know who was in here before.
12:09It was kind of dirty.
12:12I'm hearing rumours from the people downstairs that it might have been a, a, a mother-daughter sex duo.
12:20Got it.
12:21Oh.
12:21Sexy.
12:22Probably had way more sex in there than I did.
12:25Anyway, I'm cleaning.
12:26What was the address out of interest?
12:28I pulled the bed from the wall.
12:30At this point I had taken my gloves off.
12:33And I'm now, you know when you're in cleaning mode it doesn't, you're not really thinking.
12:36Yeah, you're just fishing.
12:36So I'm reaching down the side of the bed.
12:40Oh my god.
12:40I'm going to tell you what I found and then you tell me what you think it is.
12:45Okay.
12:45Okay.
12:46So I grabbed it.
12:47Can I just say the weirdest game show I've ever been on?
12:50I'm into it.
12:51It slips out of my hands.
12:52Oh no.
12:53What do you mean?
12:53Oh hell.
12:54It was a.
12:56Yeah.
12:58Phallic shaped perfume bottle.
13:01Wrapped in a condom.
13:03Oh!
13:03And tied at the end.
13:05Oh.
13:06And slippery.
13:12I love.
13:13It was his.
13:14Was it your flap?
13:15He said, finally someone found it.
13:18Do you still have it?
13:19Right.
13:20What do you think it was?
13:22What perfume?
13:23Perfume.
13:23It's a sex toy isn't it?
13:24No, not perfume.
13:25Well, it couldn't.
13:26It was perfume until someone turned it into something else.
13:28Why else would it be, I mean, have a condom?
13:30Well maybe because it was cold.
13:36You asked.
13:37I know.
13:38And I love you for answering.
13:40Um, Otis.
13:41And I still want to live here.
13:43Yeah.
13:44Delighted.
13:46So, Otis rented a flat.
13:48And what did you find?
13:49I found my landlord's mum having a bath.
13:53Oh.
13:55Oh my word.
13:57So you walk in.
14:00I see a woman in the bath.
14:03She then says, I'm the landlord's mum.
14:09If only it was that simple.
14:13So I'm coming home from work.
14:15I really need a piss.
14:17And I run into...
14:18This is revolting.
14:19Yeah.
14:20Do you know what though?
14:21I think you've got the right to have a piss in your own house.
14:25So...
14:25Can we stop saying that word?
14:27Oh sorry.
14:28Your own flat.
14:35Draw on Otis.
14:36So yeah, I run in there to have a pee.
14:39What?
14:39And the way the door opens, I don't see the bathtub immediately.
14:43Wow.
14:43So, um, I'm basically mid-stream when I hear this scream.
14:49And, yeah, so then I go out of the bathroom and go into the kitchen.
14:53Waiting for a really awkward chat thinking it was my housemate.
14:56Oh yeah.
14:57And then she comes in and explains.
14:59I see an old woman in the room.
15:00What does she explain?
15:01She said she used to live in the house and misses the bath.
15:05LAUGHTER
15:07Thank you very much, Otis.
15:09That is too perfect.
15:12I have to ask you about Schitt's Creek.
15:14It was...
15:15I mean, honestly, it won everything.
15:19Um...
15:19Correctly.
15:22It's so many people's favourite show.
15:25It almost didn't get made because of the name.
15:28Yeah, yeah.
15:29We almost sold it in America.
15:33Um, and then we found out that they had a problem with the name
15:38and didn't want to make it.
15:39Mm.
15:40So then we took it up to Canada and made it there.
15:42They had no problem with the name.
15:44Um, my dad was, like, adamant.
15:47Yeah.
15:48Because there was a lot of people saying,
15:49what if we called it Upper Creek?
15:51Oh, God, no.
15:52No.
15:52I don't want to call it that!
15:54Yeah.
15:54It's a bad name!
15:56So, yeah, anyway, here we are all these years later.
15:58Dan, you were a writer, the creator, you act in it.
16:02You must be incredibly proud of it,
16:04but how do you handle the stress of it?
16:06Or do you not find it stressful?
16:08Do you just go, I'm in love with this car?
16:10Yes, that's exactly it.
16:11And I think if you ask anyone who's sort of put a show together,
16:15you have to love what you're making in order to do it,
16:19because it's so time-consuming.
16:20I mean, the last season of Schitt's Creek,
16:23I was in a neck brace,
16:24because I was so stressed out that my neck muscles seized.
16:28Oh, my God.
16:29And I had to wear a neck brace through the entire last season
16:31of the show.
16:32So I would direct in the morning,
16:34and then at lunch, someone would come in,
16:36acupuncture and chiropractors would come in at lunch,
16:39so that I could move my head to then perform in the afternoon.
16:42Oh, my God.
16:43Yeah.
16:45Aw.
16:46Aw.
16:47So, anyway, it's a...
16:49On behalf of everyone that loved that season,
16:51thank you for your service.
16:52Oh, my God.
16:53That's it.
16:54That's it.
16:56I was moving my head all through that last season.
16:59Now, Dan, you have a brand-new show.
17:03That's right.
17:03Can we talk about big mistakes?
17:05Yeah, of course.
17:05Tell me about it.
17:07Brother and sister find themselves inadvertently blackmailed
17:10into the world of organised crime.
17:12They cannot handle the world of organised crime,
17:16and mayhem ensues.
17:17I need to talk to you about your character,
17:20but here is a clip.
17:22Oh.
17:22Ooh.
17:23Who is Alan Botkins?
17:24I don't know who is Alan Botkins.
17:26You tell me.
17:27You've been digging up his grave for the past two hours.
17:31What?
17:33No, that's...
17:34No.
17:35Oh, my.
17:35No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:37No, that...
17:37Did you look at the headstone, Morgan,
17:39or did you just see a fresh plot and start digging?
17:42This is where the funeral took place.
17:46No, this is where the funeral took place.
17:52Morgan!
17:53No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
18:02You play a pastor on the show.
18:05I do.
18:06Tell me about creating him.
18:08Well, I thought, what is the farthest thing from me,
18:11and a religious leader came to mind.
18:14Yeah, he's a non-practicing gay pastor who finds love
18:20and then is secretly practicing and hiding it from the church,
18:25and it becomes a problem, especially when crime gets involved.
18:30But we had a...
18:32I really didn't want this to be a joke on the church.
18:34I wanted it to be a joke on me.
18:36We had a crime expert and we had a church expert.
18:41And I think that's the thing.
18:42When you tell a crime story and you're dealing with religion
18:45of any kind, I think you have to honour both
18:49with somebody who knows what they're doing.
18:51Because the last thing you want to do, especially in comedy,
18:53is punch down.
18:54Yes.
18:55You know what I mean?
18:56Absolutely.
18:56So anyway, that's what we did.
18:58It's as authentic as it could possibly be.
19:00And you...
19:01I like the idea that you came up with a show because of an irrational fear.
19:04I do not want to be blackmailed into the world of organised crime.
19:08How did that even...
19:10Sure.
19:12And you...
19:12Do you?
19:13No.
19:14That sounds like the words of someone who already has.
19:19So in the show, we find cocaine in the testicles of a bull.
19:24There we go.
19:25Oh!
19:26Fun fact, actually happened.
19:29Wow!
19:29So, yeah.
19:30I'm surprised you didn't say it was inside of a perfume bottle inside.
19:34It would have been a perfect place.
19:36Season two.
19:41In someone's balls.
19:42They would transfer the balls and then no one thinks to look there.
19:47Oh, so they're not fake balls balls.
19:48They're real balls?
19:50With the drugs inside?
19:51Well, they would take the balls out and then fill them with...
19:54The sack...
19:56The sacks.
19:57With the cocaine.
19:58Wow!
19:59Why don't they just put it inside the bull?
20:01I would just make fake sacks.
20:04Well, because a lot...
20:05I think, criminally speaking, a lot of things are hidden inside the bull.
20:09Oh, that's genius.
20:11Isn't it?
20:12Please, can you tell us when and how can we watch Big Mistake?
20:15Big Mistakes, I believe, is available now to stream on Netflix.
20:17Yes.
20:18Very easy.
20:20Very easy.
20:21The end of this and then watch that.
20:24Correct.
20:25Of course, we have to talk about Criminal Record, which is your baby.
20:29Yes.
20:29You came up with the idea.
20:31Yes, Peter Capaldi and I met many years ago doing a show called Torchwood,
20:36which we loved doing together and we loved each other and got on very well.
20:39And, yeah, we got to pitch it to Apple and sell it and, like, develop the characters
20:43from the beginning and, like you said, you have to be obsessive.
20:46You have to be obsessed with it.
20:48But it's so joyful then getting to bring it to life and bring everyone along with you.
20:53Yeah.
20:53So, yeah, it's been a dream.
20:55Series one was amazing.
20:57I was lucky enough to get series two.
21:00I mean, can I swear?
21:02Yeah.
21:03I don't know who I'm asking.
21:05Holy shit.
21:07It's so good.
21:08Here is a clip.
21:09Tasty.
21:11What if there's a bomb?
21:14We'll stop it.
21:15What if we don't?
21:16This is intelligence.
21:18What we do here is put on the fires before they start.
21:24Do you want to catch this man?
21:27This is the only game in town.
21:31Do you ever think to yourself, have I actually made this world a safer place than it was yesterday?
21:36No.
21:37Why?
21:37Because it's stupid.
21:40No-one remembers the saves.
21:44It's the ones you miss.
21:51I mean, it's gripping.
21:54You're such a laugh.
21:55Unbelievable.
21:57And it makes me look really cool.
21:59You are really cool.
22:01I love the fact because you and Peter are properly, like, you're great friends.
22:05Yeah, yeah.
22:05But you say he's the loveliest person in real life.
22:08Absolutely.
22:09He's amazing in real life.
22:10Lovely.
22:10What happens when it's the other way around?
22:12What happens if there's a bit of a turd?
22:15Oh.
22:15That you have to work with.
22:16You know what I mean?
22:17Oh.
22:17When they might be playing somebody love them.
22:19Because they're an arsehole in real life.
22:21Yeah.
22:21But, like, you have to have a sex scene with them or they have to play them.
22:23Oh, you've taken it up a notch.
22:24Oh, you've taken it up a notch.
22:27Um, I think my experience in my younger days was that the biggest lesson I learnt was, like,
22:32kindness is so key, particularly from the people at the top of the show.
22:35I'm saying this like I have really personal stories.
22:37I absolutely don't.
22:38Nothing bad has ever happened.
22:40But I, yeah, I just don't.
22:43I just absolutely don't put up with it.
22:45Can people be hypothetically secretly fired when you're an exec producer?
22:49Absolutely.
22:50LAUGHTER
22:51Did I ever do that?
22:52No.
22:55Dan, didn't you, on Schitt's Creek, I believe somebody was a bit rude to the wardrobe team?
23:02We, yeah, we had a, and I was very lucky, like you, to have the top of our show.
23:09My dad and Catherine O'Hara set such an unbelievable standard for everyone else.
23:13And the reality is, if the people at the top are kind, nobody can come up against you.
23:20So when there were people that were tricky, they would stand out because everything else was running so smoothly.
23:27Yeah.
23:27So we had an actor who was ruffling some feathers.
23:33And, um, and I am very protective of my crew.
23:37Yeah.
23:37So...
23:38You killed him.
23:38This person had some scenes.
23:40LAUGHTER
23:41He shot some scenes.
23:44LAUGHTER
23:46He's now in a bull's testicles.
23:49LAUGHTER
23:50Um, I got into edit and we were running long.
23:53Cut them out.
23:54See ya.
23:55Aw.
23:56I love it.
23:57Now, for actors out there, that can happen to you.
24:00LAUGHTER
24:01You've got to be nice.
24:02Yes.
24:03Sometimes you hear, you're like in a make-up trailer and you hear an actor down the other end,
24:07moping about their cool time or something they had to do, and you're like,
24:13Shut up, mate.
24:14Shut up, mate.
24:16Read the room.
24:17Do you call it out?
24:18Have you seen...
24:19I'm too scared for that.
24:19Yeah.
24:21LAUGHTER
24:21Do you do what I do and imagine what you would have said when you're having a shower the next
24:26morning?
24:27That's what I do.
24:28I'm in the shower going, and then I said this.
24:30LAUGHTER
24:33Have you ever...
24:34Have you seen bad behaviour, Geoff?
24:36No, I was edited out.
24:38LAUGHTER
24:41Um...
24:42I was being kind.
24:45What, in comedy, Claudia?
24:47I don't know.
24:47Everyone's just so well-adjusted.
24:49LAUGHTER
24:50Do you know what?
24:51Think of a name.
24:53Go on.
24:54You're right.
24:55LAUGHTER
24:56No.
24:57That's the best magic trick.
24:59That was so clever.
25:01I always loved them.
25:04Um...
25:04Gosh, when can we see your show, please?
25:06Oh, April 22nd, Apple TV, first two episodes are out.
25:10One episode every week.
25:11We're so proud of it.
25:12Please watch it.
25:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
25:17Phil.
25:18Hello.
25:19Ted Lasso.
25:20Yes.
25:21You played Jamie Tartt, but you didn't originally audition for that role, did you?
25:25Oh, I didn't know.
25:26Um, I did a very, uh, somewhat offensive and inappropriate Spanish accent for Danny Rojas.
25:31Right.
25:32Oh, let's hear it, my friend!
25:34LAUGHTER
25:36Go on.
25:38A footballish laugh.
25:40LAUGHTER
25:43APPLAUSE
25:46It made you incredibly famous.
25:49Very fast, Ted Lasso.
25:52Did it?
25:52Yes, did it not feel like that for you?
25:54Well, it was during lockdown, really.
25:56Um, so...
25:57Everybody...
25:58There isn't anybody here.
25:59We all watched it, right?
26:02CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
26:03So you want to be able to say, I couldn't even go out, but the truth is you couldn't.
26:07LAUGHTER
26:09I will say, I feel like there were a handful of shows that, like, found their audience during Covid.
26:14Yeah.
26:14We were the feel-good moments of Covid, collectively, so...
26:19Someone doesn't remember Tiger King.
26:21LAUGHTER
26:21LAUGHTER
26:23But I went into Covid with nobody knowing who I was.
26:28And then Covid ended, and you go back out into the world the same as you were before.
26:34Except people roll down their windows and be like, ew, David, and that was...
26:38But you, like, you had to have experienced this shift.
26:42Well, the thing is, it's very bizarre.
26:43It did very well over the pond early on.
26:46Yeah.
26:47And it sort of took a little while to come over, so I think I was, like, I was coming
26:50out of the house being like...
26:51LAUGHTER
26:52LAUGHTER
26:54Is that clapping on a Thursday evening for me?
26:59LAUGHTER
27:00LAUGHTER
27:01APPLAUSE
27:05Yes, you're right, here I am.
27:07Tell us about Rooster.
27:10Rooster is a HBO show which has just come out and it stars Steve Carell,
27:15who basically...
27:16Woo-hoo!
27:17Who plays...
27:19Who plays an author, which is sort of a beach-read kind of trashy novel kind of author.
27:24He goes to give a speech at, like, a liberal arts university.
27:28Yeah.
27:28But really, he's there to check in on his daughter because she's going through a terrible time
27:32because her husband, hello, is cheating on her.
27:35With a student.
27:36You shit.
27:38LAUGHTER
27:38You're cheating with a student?
27:39Sorry, a post-grad student, so definitely say post-grad student.
27:42Oh, I thought it was going to be a kind of year three...
27:44LAUGHTER
27:45Your life...
27:45Your life has been flipped.
27:48You have to play this role because of Miz.
27:51Is Miz?
27:51You told me Miz.
27:52Yes!
27:53You told me Miz, darling.
27:54You told me Miz.
27:55Let's have a look at a clip.
27:57This is where your current wife has...
28:02Maybe I shouldn't give it away.
28:04Er, I think it's fine.
28:05Okay, there's been a file.
28:07Motive.
28:07Check.
28:08Officer, she doesn't have to practice if she is saying the truth.
28:12Do you want me to write that down?
28:13Mm-hmm.
28:14Anyway, I took his copy of War and Peace and I lit it on fire.
28:18Sorry, you intentionally burned my first edition Tolstoy.
28:22I did, yeah.
28:23The Clarabelle translation is the only one in the English language that has the second epilogue.
28:28Oh, it burned so good.
28:29So then you did arson a book.
28:32Arson isn't a verb.
28:33I'm pretty sure it's a verb.
28:34No, it's not a verb.
28:34It's a verb.
28:35And I am not looking it up.
28:37I just have to check...
28:38It's not a verb, mate.
28:39Just checking something out.
28:39I burned the book, but the house was an accident, I swear.
28:43Exactly.
28:46I love the fact that you went on a road trip, didn't you?
28:48To sort of...
28:49To bond.
28:50To bond with Charlie Clive, who plays Steve's daughter, my wife.
28:55I play her husband.
28:56That's how that works.
28:58And we needed...
28:59So art department said, when you're on this road trip, would you mind just getting some photos
29:03of the two of you as if you were on holiday or whatever?
29:06We're there having some wine.
29:07How's your wife at this point?
29:09Well, she was fine.
29:11She understood it.
29:11But the problem was it was her boyfriend who was having to take the photos.
29:19It doesn't feel like you mean it, guys.
29:21Give it more.
29:22Give it more.
29:23Yeah.
29:24I had to do that once with Luke Evans.
29:26We played husbands in a movie and we had to take Polaroids as a couple.
29:33And he was there with his partner at the time.
29:36And I believe we showed him the Polaroids.
29:39Like, I think I was so not wanting to make a thing out of it that I was like...
29:44Check.
29:44And then this one of us kissing means nothing.
29:46And then this one of us snuggling, nothing.
29:49Felt nothing.
29:49And then this one, nuzzling, still felt nothing.
29:53You are.
29:55When can we watch Rooster, please?
29:57Rooster comes out every Monday and it is on HBO Max.
30:01Hello.
30:07Um, Josh, you have two brand new additions in your family.
30:12Yes.
30:13We've got two kittens that have blown up on social media.
30:16Aww.
30:17How does a kitten blow up on social media?
30:20I'll tell you what happens.
30:21You put a photo of them on your Instagram and it does a lot better than any of your comedy.
30:25No.
30:27Well, when you put that photo up...
30:29Yeah.
30:30What are their names?
30:31They were named by my children, so my daughter called...
30:35One of them, I can't tell the difference.
30:37Tilly and my son, who's four, called the other one Fluffball.
30:41Throwing your kids under the bus like that.
30:43Yeah.
30:44You love cats?
30:45I love cats.
30:46I think that, yeah.
30:47Where do you stand on dogs, then?
30:49I step away from.
30:50Yeah.
30:51I love dogs.
30:53I'm obsessed.
30:54I lick my dog's tongue.
30:57I do.
30:58I believe I...
30:59This is too much, but it's the last show.
31:01What are they going to do?
31:02I believe that I made him in my womb.
31:06Wow.
31:07I do.
31:08Like, cats are fine.
31:09No.
31:10But dogs...
31:10I'm with you on the licking the tongue and stuff because...
31:13It's not a cat tongue.
31:14No, not a cat tongue.
31:15No, not a cat tongue.
31:16So, say I've got a glass of water there.
31:19If my cat came along and started drinking out of it,
31:21I'd happily carry on.
31:22Mental.
31:23Absolutely insane.
31:23I know...
31:24It might be the last show and BBC can't do anything about it,
31:27but the RSPCA definitely can.
31:31Josh, can we talk about your podcast?
31:33Oh, yes, please.
31:34You've just had to change the name of it.
31:35Yeah.
31:36We launched it as Josh Widdicombe's Museum of Pop Culture,
31:39and then it turned out, in America, there's a Museum of Pop Culture.
31:43And we got a cease and desist.
31:45Wow.
31:47Yeah, so we ceased and desisted.
31:48But it doesn't have your name in front of it.
31:49No, I know, but I don't hold any sway in Seattle.
31:53And so I've changed it to Josh Widdicombe's archive of pop culture now
31:57because we just didn't want to take it to court.
32:01You take sort of cultural phenomenons and pick them apart
32:06in the most hilarious way.
32:07We try and do long...
32:08Because there's lots of...
32:09I like the long-form story podcast.
32:11Like, obviously, the rest is history.
32:12It's the biggest podcast in the world.
32:14But there was none about...
32:15I wish there was one about popular culture.
32:17Like, about the kind of silly popular culture things
32:21that we're really obsessed with.
32:22And there wasn't, so I just made it.
32:24So we've done, like, the Spice Girls.
32:27We've done Pete Waterman and his record label.
32:30We've done Mr Blobby.
32:32We've done all the...
32:34Exactly.
32:34There you go.
32:36You must have worked with Blobby.
32:37I married Blobby.
32:40I didn't marry him.
32:42Tiny fiddle.
32:43Could you try and explain to Dan who Mr Blobby is?
32:48OK, it's quite...
32:49So there was...
32:52Bear in mind, this took four hours in the podcast.
32:55Right.
32:55I need it in 15 to 30 seconds.
32:58There was a man called Noel Edmonds.
32:59He had a Saturday night TV show.
33:01Uh-huh.
33:01And he used to prank people.
33:03It was huge.
33:03It was the biggest show on British TV.
33:05Massive.
33:05Massive.
33:06And he thought a good way of doing that would be to dress
33:07as a fake character.
33:09So they made Mr Blobby,
33:10which was a seven-foot rubber and pink thing that went
33:13Blobby, Blobby, Blobby.
33:15And then, you know...
33:17Here's your photo.
33:18Is it?
33:18Yeah, go on.
33:19Yeah.
33:20Yeah!
33:21So that's, just to be clear, Noel is on the left.
33:24Very good.
33:24And a bit of fun.
33:25Come on.
33:26Don't mind it.
33:27And so, and then the problem was that Mr Blobby
33:31became so popular...
33:33Terrifying.
33:33Popular?
33:34Yeah.
33:34With the British public that he became...
33:38This is absolutely bone chilling.
33:41If this creature showed up at my house, I would call the police.
33:46So that Mr Blobby, he became so popular,
33:48he got a number one single.
33:50Yep.
33:50A Christmas number.
33:51What do you mean?
33:52He sings too?
33:53He's Mr Blobby.
33:54Exactly, yeah.
33:55And then, he became so popular, they opened a string of Mr Blobby theme parks.
34:00Yes, they did!
34:01True.
34:01Yeah.
34:02That's our Mickey Mouse.
34:03Yeah.
34:05LAUGHTER
34:07APPLAUSE
34:07OK.
34:09Brilliant.
34:11And then he became, quickly, the most unpopular thing in England.
34:15In Britain.
34:16And so, the whole country turned on him.
34:18He disappeared as fast as he appeared.
34:20And so it was like...
34:22Where is that docu-series?
34:24It's a podcast!
34:27LAUGHTER
34:27Right.
34:28He's made it.
34:29He's made it.
34:30I get it.
34:30I get it now.
34:31He's made it.
34:33And then, it got thickens.
34:36Oh, yeah.
34:36Because you've bought Noel Edmonds' house.
34:39Yeah.
34:39Oh.
34:41Yeah.
34:43Not the crinkly bottom one.
34:45Not the one from the TV.
34:46It's not real.
34:47No, not that one.
34:48It's quite weird.
34:49There's only one wall and a load of cameras.
34:51LAUGHTER
34:53No, so we've left London, right?
34:55What the house you're in now?
34:57Is Noel Edmonds' house?
34:58Yes.
34:58Yes.
34:59No!
35:00So, we moved to Exeter in Devon, and we went to look around the house,
35:05and within ten seconds, the estate agent said,
35:09you're not going to believe who used to live here.
35:12And I said, it's a deal.
35:14LAUGHTER
35:15That wasn't why he bought the house.
35:17I don't believe you.
35:18I don't either.
35:19Phil, you, you, you love Mr Blobby.
35:22I love Mr Blobby.
35:24Mr Blobby is absolute conviction, utter chaos.
35:28Yes.
35:28He may or may not get gunged.
35:30Yeah, he might get gunged.
35:32What does gunged mean?
35:33Oh, you can't watch it.
35:35What the hell is going on here?
35:38Either way, Dan is no longer moving to the UK.
35:40Do you sense that?
35:41Do you sense that?
35:42OK, I have sold my home.
35:43John, you are on tour.
35:45We also have to mention that.
35:47Well, there's quite a lot left of this tour, but not my cup of tea.
35:49I didn't know you had the picture.
35:51Yeah!
35:54It's so much fun being on tour, being a comedian.
35:56It's brilliant.
35:56You get to do all the theatres around the country,
35:59you get to go to all these places.
36:00There's so many amazing kind of old theatres,
36:02and then you get to be on your own, which is what I like to do.
36:06You have a very specific way to wind down.
36:09Yes, so...
36:10You do this after every show, I believe.
36:11Yeah.
36:12I've got a...
36:13Just behind the bed.
36:16LAUGHTER
36:27That's how you're winding down?
36:28OK.
36:30It works.
36:32No, it's a bit different end of the kind of rock and roll spectrum.
36:35I have a bowl of shreddies from a Tupperware in the back of the car.
36:40Yeah, that's...
36:40Dry?
36:41No, with milk.
36:43OK.
36:44But in a moving vehicle?
36:45So, Ali, who drives me, who's my lovely tour manager will drive,
36:48and then I'll sit in the back and I'll pour my milk into my shreddies,
36:51and sometimes on stage I'll think,
36:54I'm going to be having those shreddies soon.
36:57Underrated meal, I'd say.
36:59It's fantastic cereal.
37:01Yeah, superb.
37:02Fantastic cereal.
37:02Yeah, exactly, yeah.
37:03What do you always take with you, Phil, please?
37:05Whenever I'm working away from home,
37:07I will, without fail, take my teddy bear bed.
37:11Oh, Phil, you weirdo.
37:15You can't use the word weirdo.
37:17You live in Noel Dedman's house.
37:19That is so loud.
37:21When did you get Ben?
37:23I would have, I think I was like six months, something.
37:25I don't know.
37:26What do you mean?
37:28Well, I guess I was, it was...
37:29I thought you were going to say, like, just like last week,
37:32you were making it up.
37:33What do you mean?
37:34No, you thought I was making it up?
37:36No, no, God, no.
37:37Ben, yeah, yeah, he travels with me, boy.
37:39Yeah, oh, God, yeah.
37:40Are you not worried?
37:41Like, if I'd had a teddy bear since I was six months,
37:43I'd be too worried about taking it.
37:46What if they lost your luggage or something?
37:48I hadn't thought of that before now.
37:51Now, we are nearly at the end of the show.
37:53I cannot express this enough that we are deeply unqualified
37:58to answer questions, but lovely people in the audience
38:01have questions.
38:03And so anybody who has a question, please.
38:06Um, yes, sir.
38:08Right?
38:08Yeah, so, hello.
38:09My name is Balder.
38:10I've got a dating question.
38:12I've just recently started dating...
38:14No, I'm married.
38:21Sorry.
38:22Sorry.
38:23Sorry.
38:23I just recently started dating this girl.
38:26And I think it's going really well, you know?
38:28But I'm afraid that maybe she's into, like, star signs.
38:33No, get out.
38:34Well...
38:36Is that a red flag?
38:38When was she born?
38:41I don't know, but you know, the irony is that we met,
38:44Filming a music video and she was literally in a star-shaped costume. Oh, so I don't know
38:50Oh, that feels like a classic Sagittarius
39:07You're just coming to support me tonight
39:13Why would that be a bad thing? I
39:18Somebody being into star signs is a big red flag for me
39:23This is gonna go down badly if you'd made me guess I'd have guessed you're into star signs, Claudia
39:28Is that true? I could burst into two
39:32That's almost the most offensive thing that anybody has ever said to me
39:37Let's go deep on this. Where is the trauma? Why do we not like star signs?
39:42This was my last show. I've talked about your podcast
39:48Um
39:53I've done everything I had to do
39:56I can I say this? Yeah, but we won't put it out. I think people who believe in star signs
40:02Are sick
40:17I've already upset the cat people we can't
40:21And let's be honest star signs and cat people
40:29They're the same people
40:32Hi, um, so me and my flatmate are hosting our first flat party. We want to know what theme we
40:42should have for it
40:43Um, well, it's okay. Talk to me. Are you cooking? No, no
40:48Nor should you uh, do you like a sort of um, you could do fancy dress vibe. Yeah. Yeah, okay
40:55What's your initials first initial of your names?
40:58We were thinking of going with things starting with h because i'm holly she's hannah. Yeah, yeah, excuse me
41:03You already had the answer to your question the whole time
41:06So what would you so what guys you got h? Oh, it goes h from steps
41:11I go from trip. I go the triple h the wrestler. Yeah
41:14Are you asleep kush?
41:26I was going into my metaphorical wardrobe to get out who I was actually
41:32Hold the like all up
41:34Yeah, I maybe I don't know harleberry
41:36Yeah, great
41:39You're welcome fantastic. I was thinking harrison ford. Oh
41:44Many a character. Yeah, and i'd wear a hat
41:55Okay, we've got one one final question
41:58Ah, there we go, there we go
42:05Oh my god
42:10Oh my God.
42:10Oh my God.
42:13Oh.
42:23You people are fucking crazy.
42:28Yes, you in the pinks!
42:29Oh my God!
42:32Oh my God!
42:36Is that...
42:48Oh
42:49Josh would you like to answer that please? I think you should put the perfume bottle in something first
42:55Oh
43:07Compilation show of the series. I would like to thank my extraordinary guests Josh Widdicom
43:26Oh