Jimmy Carr & Frankie Boyle Interview on Writing Stand Up Comedy Jokes | Q&A

apparently we're here talking about what we're doing right now an ounce of new touring. I know I announced a new one. I'll show you the tour. I'll show you the posters. People. We both announced tours and I think it's. of interest simply because I quite like it why live I like I work all the time because that's me and then I'll show you Frankie and Frankie their tour is called the last days of Sodom yeah well what was the last one? called I have no idea, I actually deleted it, I mean it was called. I would happily punch each of you in the face.

Yes, it just seems wonderful to me, a kind of ironic art. You don't like public speaking and you don't like people, yes, and yet your job is to talk to people in public, yes, I hate people and now people come up and talk to me, it's that bad. It is, you know? I started grading

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as best I could, Elaine, huh? I started, they started for a year, yeah, years ago there was a guy called Ian Morris, who we both know, who now writes The Inbetweeners, who was a mutual friend and we were

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. in distraction, I don't know if anyone ever watched that crazy quiz show we used to smash things up and we used to get things from Frankie and a guy called Jim, yeah we still had you there to give the vibe, you were very much the bears from the

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room of 8 out of 10 cats, yes, and there, yes, so I sort of drafted it, they did it, they can, they are lice a little bit by accident and there and the performance of Walking Living because happily it I would have done well, it's nothing.

I guess that's what we have a little bit in common. I mean, you know you don't like acting. I love it, it's like my whole life is about acting, but the idea of ​​being kind of a '50s-style joke writer. Like when we write

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and that's not as common these days, it's mainly the artifice of creating observational

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and our thing is just wordplay and just playing, yeah, but it's an amazing job that you just spend your time trying. thinking of surprising ways to finish sentences, you know, and you sit in a room and people bring your door nice and you know, then you can go see it live, but the actual live scene with Parvati is really nerve-wracking, you almost know , I.

I've talked about this before as the idea that you would write, you would end up writing a program, if you could, you would write a program good enough for it to be there, almost like magic words, it's almost like a spell that you could just say those. words with almost no interpretation and it would be like it works, you say those words and somehow people have a reaction and they laugh and it's a strange thing that you don't do it because you see some comedians. I'm quite amazed. of comedians with very poor material who do know it because the amount of acting sometimes you see someone and go, this guy has nothing, Jesus, what's more, those are the best comedians he has to do, that every night is going to say Newcastle and you're afraid to imagine the energy behind you imagining I don't know, but there are some extraordinary talents out there, so what do you seem a lot happier now?

Because in that world I like to think that I'm responsible for your misery, but I get into something that you know, making fun of the weekend and becoming a touring

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-up artist and you know in the two DVDs that you've made and those kinds of things you've come out on the other side of that now that you're doing it seems like you're doing less on television now you seem a lot happier with yourself. I'm yes, a lot, you really call that, it may be in process, the workload. I mean, no one likes to hear about how hard people work, but it was really depressing, like how much.

A lot of effort was put into it and now I can. I've done other things that I enjoy. I'm doing a comic strip and I hope to write more comics and things that I know and it's harder for me. I mean, it's much more challenging. a way of just writing lines, but I certainly enjoy it and, but you're doing it and yet, you're going on tour again, you're going on another tour, yeah, but I'm literally doing it half - I liked it I just have enough money to withdraw from a conference they just stopped in Carlisle or something, but there are like thirty-three appointments at the moment, no, you know it won't go, it won't be huge, although it's kind of interesting, you know the way. that you talk about that, you know, I've known Frankie for ten years, since we did it, you know, actually, together, I've known you for a long time and you know you're a very kind and friendly man and that person. in the scenario of really holding the audience with nothing but contempt and yet you care so much about how good the show is, you care about every joke that works and it being a good show, it's kind of perverse because I've seen a There are a lot of comedians who do shows just to make a profit and it's just a poor show and yours is very bad.

If you like those kinds of brutal jokes about a broken world, you're in luck. I don't see the point. of doing something if you don't do it correctly, so the whole idea of ​​people doing things for pay seems to me absolutely why would you bother them, why wouldn't you go do something else, you know, but I We've reached the end of How far can I go? It's the witch's turn and the other day of what you end up with, what you can do live compared to what you can do on TV and obviously there are limitations.

TV from producers and channel controllers, but also limitations on if you're on TV, ultimately you're a guest in someone's house and there are certain things you can get away with and certain things you know you feel are too much. and So the DVDs over the years and the book certainly, when people literally buy your stuff, I find you can take it a lot further. I mean, there's also something that I say, because we've always done a lot. a tailor for the explosion of five years or something, it consumes a lot of your cleanest stuff, so people watch your DVD and obviously the things that you're doing on the DVDs are often the things that don't make it to the television and, often, reason. doesn't mean it's much harder so people look at you if I didn't go completely crazy this guy is absolutely crazy it's that idea that I like more brutal things because obviously the other things come into play if I write a two. two-hour show, I think I have a variety of ten-minute rules set in that two-hour show of like a couple clean bits where I go, oh, I couldn't swear in that bit and maybe those bad jokes, okay, it's kind of a bit rapist but not massively, it feels like a friendly thing, I mean even the clips for something like in the installation tonight because obviously there will be some younger people so the installation we have to be more clips clean. from the show, well, we'll show the clip when we can, we'll do it right after, let's do a touching summary of what homosexual life is like, not dancing at all because they like it, well, this is your joke, it would be about haha, yeah, you can't watching it, it would involve a sauna, excuse me, I have a theory of British

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which is that it's all about the voice, so the British start on Saturdays with the voice of the establishment, so it's like you start even with the bullies, They have all this kind of fancy food. people we see doing ridiculous things going well, don't we, Sir Chris Morris?

Know? What you just saw with those more murderous things is a newscast and things like that and I think you like the off-duty voice, you know you're the other one. One of those that you like if you have an army officer there and in colonial times talking to his companions, right? I mean, it's more like this, this is where it would be between friends, there's actually something weird. Talking about, you know, art class and most British comedies are about class and the fact that it would sound quite posh, I mean, I'm not saying I'm from Slough, but I think the idea resonates much more with me. easy than you. do in terms of offensive material because when you make an offensive joke it sounds more brutal because you're Scottish, yeah, and there's no escaping that fact, Frankie, there's no dressing up, it's like your working class too or maybe you're an idiot, Maybe I didn't mean that yesterday.

I got on the train in Glasgow and there are some French people who behave properly and speak French and try to ask directions and a walkie that is working on the side of the platform Tonto and answers. them in French and I find it really impressive, I mean, although I'm Scottish and I know that some sailors will speak French, but it seemed to me that why, let's know, they told me that it's kind of the way things come from a The point of comics' view of who tells the joke is a very important thing for a lot of people like that.

You know, when people get offended by things, they don't get offended. Bonneli, the joke is who tells it. I've heard you talk about people. wishing you were a character, the most ridiculous thing, like saying, yeah, but if you wore funny hats, yeah, I feel better about this, but in the end we're kind of characters on stage, it's not like the real thing, uh, You know, it's not like that. that's how I'm in front of 2,000 people telling jokes and you, that's the character of it all, you know when you're nice to your girlfriend's parents, that's the character, there's an essential you that you've overcome, that comes from the essence of your spirit I know they talk like possessions there's also one thing there is you can't really defend it because at that point you'll defend and it's not a joke so jokes are something that people laugh at in a hoop you know it's a contract between people, when is it that you will try to defend it, it is something equally unacceptable that someone has said that it is something strange.

I like it often too. Sometimes I feel a little envious of musicians because their musicians could be here and this this transportation store the art the Apple Store could be empty and they could sing a song beautifully and it would still work with comics there needs to be an audience it's like you're the keyboard other we're just doing that on a bit of a table, unless there's an audience to deal with that feedback loop is essential, so think like I'm writing a new show at the time I'm writing the new tour and before telling the audience the idea, it's not a joke it's kind of an idea for a joke and it's the audience who ultimately regulates the comedy because if they don't laugh at a joke it's nothing and how many times that the actual joke is something I had left out because of his energy.

Its audience is fifty percent or something to me, yeah, probably most of the writing is done on stage. I think you can get the idea of ​​the idea before you go on stage and then, and then actually how brutal you get with it and the audience reactions are that those kind of warm-up gigs are really interesting, I think because you write in different ways, your show is different this time because it's not the cuts of a week's teases because the last two tours have There have been things that didn't make the cut, yeah, it actually kept fast, a big list of aquarium, so I'm going to link it there, lighten it up a little bit as I can, but yeah, well, that's the book I'm referring to. gloomy and dark, but I don't know if someone's read work was consumed dying, the book is Frankie's columns from the Sun, like last year, the lot loaded the garrix of what is really ordered, a really good level of quality it's really funny and then the central premise is that you have to maintain a certain level of fame otherwise you're screwed in a literal sense yeah that's why you're a professional Jimmy and I'm here in a t-shirt it's really because it's not everything as a kind of, I mean, something of, it's a kind of literary work.

I meant, he has a little break and says, "Okay, I'll talk about the royal family for a couple of pages and do something." -lines about that or the chapter about the war and the chapter about the disability and then it's and then this kind of direct line that talks about a kind of analogy of being in comedy and constantly being abused, which I think maybe it's your experience about it, yes, well. I guess it's a form of yeah, it's also nice to have a little bit of variety in the type of jokes you can write because it's really kind of a comedy, love, Spike Milligan and the gun show and when it flies.

I've been on panel shows and things like that, so it's been a little difficult to rate, although Kanojo is kind of like after moments or not, it's telling me the other thing, I don't know how many people have read it, but the other one, I want I mean, it's kind of like Naked Lunch, the parts about it are quite mind-blowing and quite interesting, you know, it's an interesting piece of literature, as well as a very different style of writing. I think how did you do it? How did you write it? Oh, it's not like that, it's not like shorthand little eyes, it's like in Acid Man, no, you wrote in Acid, right, that looks cool, oh, but I might as well read that great Stephen King thing.

Well, he said what he tries to do is protect the first draft and often you can make something much more polished and much more of our product, but you lose it and it can have a neurology. Oh, there was the first draft. He was really conscious. Rating it to try to keep the B flavor as sour and not make itToo much Chef Pro. I can't let the criminals in the culture know why everyone is trying to fix things and saying, "Oh, here we go, this is not an acceptable product for you, we've missed the edges and you know it's getting worse." getting a little boring in some things". that's what's always caught my attention, oh, breaking these things down into this, yeah, these kinds of jokes are like 300 jokes, but they're presented in different ways to keep the pace right.

I think the difficult thing is DVDs are like a live show, you get that immediate feedback of being in front of a group of people and you know that when people get bored, there is a feeling that you can notice in the room and on a DVD trying it. to get the Eddy right so you have to do some

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ing stuff in those ten minutes from the beginning and then do some visual stuff and then I do a lot of the audience stuff bringing people up on stage. We're playing around and trying to mix the energy in the room trying to make it more of a show to feel like it has a bit of a narrative and in some ways you can never know what you want as an audience but you know when it's right and when it's not, any Maybe you feel frustrated or because you can come up with something that is an incredible joke and turn out well, that is not understanding what I should because I just told 40 incredible jokes and so on? that saw that would never happen on my show now the level of amazing jokes is kind of weird, we're getting the order of the jokes is really kind of weird, I love that idea that I don't know how many people I've seen on DVD or live shows, but the idea that I could tell a joke after two hours that I could never tell from the beginning if I went out and tried to tell that joke first, the audience would say no, I don't do that.

I don't like it, but there's this weird thing where it's almost like making friends with an audience, it's almost like there's some kind of relationship built over the course of two hours on this kind of trust where you and it becomes like that intimacy. that friends have where you can tell a really brutal, horrible joke and you know your friend is just joking, okay, that's your move, yeah, how's it going? I can't believe you're retired, oh. I find it strange that you don't like them because, because comedy is so much about ego, you know it's about what you know, the subtext of every comedy show you've ever seen is please like, You know it and yet you don't.

He doesn't seem so concerned about whether people like you, it's a very strange thing, he's very kind, it's more the ear, not the ego, that you work with, yes, absolutely, and he The last show was supposed to be about them, they don't even watch that video. but here I come at the beginning and I show you life for the mind, you know the character of John Goodman from Barton Fink and the idea was what would we do if, what would I do if there were no distractions? the superego says oh, I'm not saying you know there's rarely stuff anyway, but I think so, we definitely lost that guy, well, me and the superego, so what would you say what's in it once?

Frankie says the show would be that you look totally lost, man. I'm just telling you what Frankie says, what the show would be, what the stand-up show would be if you didn't care what people thought of you and most comics are obsessed. for approval then there is something horrible missing in our lives difficult childhood something horrible happened so we desperately need to please strangers in a store I believe what I think Monday you explain that how it made them finally understand I definitely have the look If you apply your gender, you could getting skin cancer from a crazy moon.

I thought he cares, what we're saying is he's high on shortbread and heroin. Okay, I admit that a little late, so comedies can be a bit narcissistic, but in a way we have to leave that Israel and get away from being a narcissistic list, forget about the ego, it's probably the Eagle as we have developed, no that's why it's probably something we should get rid of, yeah I don't. I know, I mean, I think it's a really important thing in the sense of why I'm, it's a strange thing that the work that we do is not only well paid and we know that people come to the concerts and it's a very important thing. -up until now I would like the status to seem totally at odds with what we do for a living, we only write jokes, they're just silly, all you know, makes the only reason for doing shows is to release endorphins and make people happy people for two hours if they come to see us and there's something strange written about in the Guardian you think it's a waste of ink we're just trying to make people laugh yeah I never read reviews like you do.

You should read something of mine, man, that's what I do, I always fade out, it's a little late if you know it's some comedy. Craig didn't like it? It's like someone has seen it. My dog ​​barked when you appeared on television. I came to life. He was with some guys, some guy, I don't know what, maybe you should open up to questions, what do you think of yourself? Any questions, any ideas, like who gives us examples of people you couldn't care less about in comedy, yeah, pretty. many of them, I mean the current company excluded, of course, my opinion, the world, what trade I really love, I really love Doug Stanhope.

American stand ups like that, maybe people haven't heard of them because there's no point in us recommending people who you already know are good. but there's a guy in America called Anthony Jeselnik who I think is extraordinary, he's in Charlie Sheen's roast, he only does a little bit in that, but if you get the chance, he's a Comedy Central special, he's exceptional, he's just a comedian brilliant and yeah like the kind of thing that Frankie and I do, it's that kind of rough idea, foot pump, that he's American and he's just extraordinary, yeah, and she does a lot of voices and a lot of plays, but I mean, if he you remove something.

From today she downloads some Maria Bamford and some Jeselnik. I mean, this is extraordinary. Tell us that Louis C.K irate is also one of the best in the world. I mean, I think a lot of people are already at that party, but if you haven't seen it. he's amazing and Belle bar, if you haven't seen Boat Bar, he actually does a free podcast every week like this, well, he's absolutely, he's like an angry redhead, how do you like him? Yeah, any other, any other crime, I mean, you can ask us. Anything, Spider-Man, you have a question, has either of you ever regretted telling a joke?

I don't think I mean, I haven't really regretted some things, but they're not what you imagine. things like you can never be quite perfect when thinking about rape, but then I did that TV show and I try to install it and rate it, and at the time there was an idea that it was a health Ivan Scotland, his sin, talk to your children more . Me and I took that stupid advice from a governess, right? And I actually stated them in a much better way because that's exactly the advice that people need exactly five poems, one of the big problems and probably some guys steal a bunch of meetings, that's what we have to do and then just I'm speechless, you know, I realize that I don't really regret another feeling, you know, I don't know, boy, I think that's okay because even if you make a joke, it's more awareness of it you wouldn't know I think it's just that there are things out there in the ether to talk about these things I mean in terms of regret I don't think so because it's a strange thing where you can choose the joke I could choose a joke that I had problems with in the press and I wish I hadn't told it , but it could have been.

There are probably 10 or 20 jokes on the DVD of the new one that could be. front pages of The Daily Express if they decided to come after me if they said look, I know this guy, it's his turn, let's catch him there are a lot of jokes they could choose and they know they didn't choose the reasonable ones, the ones they chose or a fair summary of the type of work they I do and I think you have to back it up, well that's the kind of thing I say, if you don't like it, I'm fine with that, I literally got picked any joke, you know, and they said that particular thing, it's not mine, yeah , the DVD you have, yeah I did something, it's weird, those who can't be bothered about something, sometimes you tell the joke and you think I might get in on it.

Problems with this but I choose to laugh to myself so I don't care anyway and then there is nothing. I did something about Jimmy Savile the other day like he was literally dead for two hours and I said Jimmy Savile, the present of geomorphic, says he died, I guess. finally got to read my letter, nothing, they don't care at all, it's just weird, sometimes the units are never what you expect and oh, aren't they? We have another question, oh yeah, okay, yeah, from there, Jimmy, obviously, you really enjoy it. On the live performance side and for the last few years you've been touring pretty tirelessly, is there anything you plan to do over the next 20 or 30 years where you're going to be working on other things?

Otherwise, I mean, I think so. I really like the comments that I really am some kind of spy, I mean George Carlin who we just mentioned, but George Carlin someone like that or Billy Connolly someone who is to me a kind of comedian that type of traveler to go so well this It's my job and I will continue doing this and uploading shows as long as I can. I will do that. I mean, he's the polar opposite of Frankie. I mean, I guess I don't know what the motivation is there, I guess. There is a strange personality disorder that I have exploited.

I'd like to keep doing it, so I'd like to keep doing it and I've found a core audience. Now I think I can offend fewer people. now because there's a core audience that goes, I'll just go, I'll go see the show, they come and watch it once every 12 months and they buy the DVD every year and it's once you get that kind of cool. to relax a little bit, people come back and you're preaching to the choir, so to speak, people understand that it's a joke and they understand that you're just joking and it's one note, you tear yourself apart because I feel like I'm halfway there. through those tours and I'm absolutely a physical wreck and I kinda never get not so much, I mean I don't really know, I don't have kids so I think that's really big so I could, I just want to say, I'd rather live to work instead of waiting, even though I have nothing else to do, this is, yeah, I just have some jokes, please like it, it's tragic when you sound like that, isn't it?

It is not like this? That's the way it is, it's just cheap therapy for us, so your article was your question basically, when are you going to stop, please, for the love of God, stop touring enough? I already set dates for Christmas 2013, the other week I basically set them. Going forward, any other questions we may have, what need does the country have to change its routines rather than where it is? Would you do anything differently in Wales than in Scotland, not in Scotland? At least, I've never found you to change anyone. People have different areas of why they're okay and not accepting, but I make very similar shows and write some jokes about it.

I think it's week nights, there's nothing to do. With where you are in the country, I think, you know, on Friday nights people tend to be super rowdy because they're out after work, maybe at 6 o'clock they're watching a show that got together. With some friends. I've had a few drinks and when the show starts, when I'm on stage 8, they're pretty full and ready to party on Saturday nights, there's a bit of trading in the notes, probably the best Sunday nights are great. Tuesday nights have clearly been reserved for him. I'm going to go see it on the 29th.

Great, we'll get great tickets and they come and go, it's Tuesday and I think, well, I want to see CSI, what we're doing now. Kinda like I'm not sure how to react, they need a little more heating, but I think it's surprisingly even. What I find really strange is that an audience of this size is probably 100 people here, it's not that many people, but you like as an approach, the audience has this kind of strange audience intelligence, what if a joke works even in a small warm up room with capacity for 50 people where we do tests for tours, if it works with 50 people, will it work? two thousand five hundred people and there is something strange.

I find it very strange how the British public has a kind of identity, that kind of intelligence, you know, when I said that comics, the regular public regulates comedy, you decide what it is and what it isn't. Acceptable and is quite universal. The reaction is from the warming of fifty years ago, but they will have the same great laughs, laughs and floors. Everything will have the same kind of rhythm as if you were in a huge room. Oh, you. I have a question, a lady, hello lady, kind of going off of that question, do you have a favorite place and couldn't there be a place to play?

Yeah, I probably don't know, it's probably somewhere, I mean I really like Liverpool because there's always a slight sense of advantage, it's got a real reputation for being a tough place to play and if they love you, they really love you. and if they hate you, they can be quite harsh. I mean,I made a DVD in Glasgow because the people are aggressive and boo a lot and I really like the interaction with the audience on the DVD, so you can guarantee you'll get booed a lot. I mean, they're all good. I think the city, the better is the answer.

There is a stranger. What happens when that feeling of even chitti like in Vanessa is a beautiful city you know on Loch Ness is beautiful. If you go there as a comedian, there's an icy feeling. Come here, we don't have to travel for hours to see you at the SECC. there's like people, a cloud or you go and play Clacton, you know, somewhere, you just or pick up plankton, yeah, it's nice, but it's kind of weird. In that job, you go to a small place like I do quite a few, even less than a thousand. lights or 900 seats in front of those little regional theaters like if you go to Dudley, so I play a lot.

I recorded this DVD in Birmingham, but I performed in Dudley, which is only seven miles away, but I played to about a thousand people there at the town hall and they're so glad you came because a lot of them are young people who don't drive or people who drive. the ones that you know are easier to get to and I think they appreciate that there is a strange feeling, but people want to go out, but some people also have the means to travel, so any other, oh yes, there is a problem, oh, there it is you have, yeah, so why not their microphones right next to you?

Do you have a Binet moment in comedy when you watched I Am? funny and then they come out of it even though I'm really looking forward to it, will it be where I went, oh I've done it, something like that, not really, I think if you watch the live Don Seven DVD Now, and if you watch the first one, I look like I have a stick up my butt. I mean, I'm very tense and nervous, and you know, performance-wise, you feel like you're getting better every year or I certainly feel like my performance changes a little bit.

I'm a little bit more relaxed than I was and a little bit more myself and my character on stage, all kinds of characters are getting closer to who I really am and that's something without words, you know, and I hope you're you. I just get better all the time, but I don't think I'm, you know, no, I wouldn't have thought that I'm already there in terms of you know, when you look, you know, you look at someone like you know. As easy as George Carlin, you say a little WOW, what's the point of me? I've been updating a lot and then I added, sure, Eden, but I called the voice of black America and bought a pink suit and just tried to make a black American. guy with and we in turn became Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock are like stand-ups who are just on stage and have a certain way of being at a moment, especially Dave Chappelle.

I think Scott has incredible stage presence and charisma. and just have fun with it, I mean, have fun with it, it's really the thing, sometimes it becomes a job, sometimes you find yourself in the air counting to ten or something that goes well, I have to write these jokes about this topic this week and You're very, you know, compelled to do something and remind yourself to be grateful that it's such a fun thing to do just to have a week of laughter. Basically, your job is to have fun, yes, and not take it as stupid. It's ridiculous, but so is the status it's given and I think that partly has to do with the nature of fame in our society.

I don't know how you feel about that. I don't know if anyone read Jonathan France there and anything about Pain, did you read that short article he wrote about how you know? Fame is kind of a superseded religion in our society, this idea that people think if I'm lighting the way, that heaven used to be something people used to want to go to. to hell now people want to be famous, it's kind of replaced as I think more people think, well I'll be fine if that happens, it's this weird thing where you get a lot of status just for being a guy who says rude things.

On TV, it's strange, you really feel like you're inert too. I think that's part of the reason I taught so much, but you do it because it gives you a sense of value, like everything I'm working on, I'm doing something even though it's a stupid thing, I'm doing a lot. if you just did that terrible thing. Any other question. Anything else you want to know. You have your hand up. That's right, I'll give you a microphone, give him a microphone, it seems. C Ischia Scalia you think it's taboo and you wouldn't do it it's very yeah I think they're definitely bad I don't know about you but yeah it's really hard for me to make airplane food fun it just feels like someone I would have done it more.

I got there before the floor is a very difficult area. I have always found a flat that you could. I think there's a joke about Hispanics and the base that you could maybe put together, but I'm with you on that, yeah, yeah, it's like you know that. There are two birds but the question is do you want to respect them? I guess I'm not interested, yeah, sorry man, how are you going to use it? I don't see the man behind you, as if they were like that. Yes, one thing mom is fabulous. I said one of the three strangest things that has happened to someone whose work you are enjoying.

How bad is this going, but not only was that guy looking at a cameraman, but I laughed a lot. It's going as bad as now I can't wait until you come home tonight and see your wife, the cameraman was particularly good, what, what, sorry, your colleague's beep, him, your colleague's pimp, you're my new human being Favorite please can I bring it? "You're from the Apple store. Can I come to Washington and bring me to my room? I'm joking, don't wash it, definitely one of yours, take Taylor, take care of the rover, yeah, hello and good night, I don't know if you ".

I have a slogan, but be careful, if you learn something tonight, take care of the rover, yes, you need something. Didn't anyone else enjoy the work of the technical team? How do you feel about hecklers? I mean, in particular, you say about friendship. With the crowd they used to boo me a lot in the clubs you know, especially when I played in the stands in Glasgow or something like when I play in tough cities and you really need to visit other shades in the west of Scotland. Jimmy no, I don't. "I don't have to actively say now, we can have a little timeout and if you want to interrupt something aggressive, we'll do some hassle, I'll have some humiliation, it'll be a lot of fun, but I literally have to say it now because people, once you've come to a show, you paid 25 quid to come to a show, you don't ruin the night for yourself, all the people around you, you don't want to be like that guy, you want to feel like you're in a safe place, but sometimes it's fun to yell at your. mom, sometimes it's fun to show it and also what's in the room is that I like the idea that I don't have a monopoly on being funny it's because we're the comics, you're not on a pedestal, I mean we're literally on a. pedestal, like I said, look at us the same way as if I were a musician up here or a movie star they're in awe of their talent like, oh wow, they're amazing at comics, you sit there and go, yeah, funny, but.

I like that type of car. I have the same kind of sense of humor. There's more here. I love it, we laugh like that. our peers, the most common conversation I have in a meeple after shows, he goes. I have a partner who is very funny, you should too and I want those people to join the program and sometimes I rinse it. a little but not too much, I'm beyond a doubt a smile, it seems like it became your first two concerts, yes the main one went very, very well and then I let her discover that the crowd had lied to me and my performance was that they just I went straight away when I started my career and yeah, I had a really good, really good first gig, five minutes upstairs in a pub, what people don't really talk about in Britain?

People talk about people playing the O2 and the Comedy Store and we play in their theaters, but they're not on the stand-up circuit. They're like people who, over pubs, try out five minutes of material. We have the best circuit in the world. It's very easy to get stage time here compared to anywhere else in the world and at those early gigs, people are very supportive of that kind of social stuff. If anyone is thinking about doing stand-up, I would highly recommend them to try it because even if you try it once and it's a disaster. As a result, you will enjoy stand-up a lot more, but mine was okay, the second one was terrible tomorrow and I would really like you to save me, tomorrow is your birthday, well I can't ask your age because you are a lady.

How much do you weigh? Come on, open a stone, yes, congratulate that one, what's your name? Amanda. Should we wish Amanda a happy birthday? Seven Stone, he made my year, thank you. Thank you so much.