00:00Why did you do the stuff with your son?
00:02Didn't you do... It's called Brad and Dad, is it?
00:05Breaking Dad.
00:07Breaking Dad. Sorry, it's...
00:10It's one of the most wonderful things I've ever done.
00:13Because spending time with my lad from the age of 18...
00:18He's now 26, by the way.
00:20That's how long that show's been running.
00:24Was just extraordinary.
00:25It was the greatest thing.
00:28The only people say,
00:29what's the greatest thing you've ever done in the game?
00:33You're not going to believe this, but all the things...
00:36And I've done some stuff.
00:39In 2006, I was in a pantomime in Milton Keynes.
00:45And my son...
00:46I needed a sidekick in the show.
00:48And my son, at the age of seven or eight, played my sidekick.
00:52I was Buttons. He was Zip or something.
00:56And he...
00:57He knew that we used some of his gags that he played with his mates.
01:01So all the other kids in the audience were going to get it.
01:04It was that level.
01:05Yeah, yeah.
01:06And running down for the curtain call every night with my son,
01:09taking a bow, was the greatest thing I'd ever done.
01:13And it still is today.
01:15Until, of course, you then go on the road with him and he's
01:18throwing you off a bridge or something like that.
01:20And I've just...
01:23Like anybody else, dads mainly...
01:27Mums as well, that try and forge careers for themselves.
01:31Yeah.
01:32You don't spend enough time on your kids, I guess.
01:36And that's payback time.
01:40But I've really, really loved it.
01:42I've really loved it.
01:43I mean, it's a great stroke of luck to be able to do that, isn't it?
01:46And I swear, Tom, unbelievable.
01:49Because you've got a few kids, haven't you, Tom?
01:50I've six.
01:51Yeah.
01:51So I've got a daughter as well, by the way, sorry,
01:53who's 41, but it's a different ballgame than that.
01:56She's not in the industry.
02:00But Barney, who's...
02:02I always say this about him.
02:03He's the person.
02:05He's the man I always wanted to be.
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