TRIGGERnometry - Cancelled Comic Makes Huge Comeback

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00:00:24.940 I remember when we did Trigger Nobody last year, you said to me that you thought something good would come from it.

00:00:39.480 I can't actually believe, well I can actually. 0.81

00:00:43.500 Now you can, back then you didn't fucking believe me did you? 0.81

00:00:46.460 Well, when you said that, there was no way in this world I could have envisaged what came. 0.93

00:00:54.940 Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

00:01:03.000 I'm Constantine Kissin.

00:01:04.200 And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

00:01:09.620 This doesn't get any more honest or fascinating than the returning guest we have for you today.

00:01:13.700 I can't tell you how happy we are to have him back.

00:01:15.600 Chris McGlade, the comedian, actor, and all sorts of other great things.

00:01:19.060 Welcome back, man.

00:01:19.960 Welcome. Yeah, it's been great to be asked back.

00:01:22.640 Well, it's an absolute pleasure. I'll remind people.

00:01:25.940 Looking like Laurence Lowell in Boyne.

00:01:27.780 You do, mate. You bang on about the working class, but you've come dressed very, very middle class today.

00:01:33.340 Wow. You see, the thing is, I've just been in this bowser up the road from Millwall, right?

00:01:38.940 And I've only been to Millwall once with a borough, like many years ago.

00:01:42.360 And if you would have said to me when I was in Millwall with a borough match before that parts of this area of London would end up being gentrified, right? 0.99

00:01:52.100 And I said, go on, fuck off, right? 0.98

00:01:54.360 But I was in this bowser there and it's all your main, like middle class, super middle class, Tabithas and Joshes with the half-masked jeans and the fucking trainers and all that, you know what I mean? 1.00

00:02:05.980 And I thought to myself, wow, Millwall's becoming the Isle of Dogs, you're going to become gentrified. Can you believe that?

00:02:12.600 The world has changed, my friend. But it has changed in good ways as well.

00:02:16.020 One of the reasons we wanted to have you back is, I'll remind people, last time you were on the show, we got such incredible feedback.

00:02:22.820 People really loved what you had to say.

00:02:25.340 It was because you'd had a show cancelled from the Soho Theatre and you really were kind of your wit's end in terms of trying to get your voice out there, get your message out there, get your comedy out there.

00:02:38.180 Quite a lot has changed since.

00:02:40.540 Right, so like, I'm a spiritual bloke, me, right?

00:02:46.320 And I work on art.

00:02:48.560 And I honestly think, right, like, years and years ago, this actually happened to me, years and years ago when I was living in a place called Hinderwell, near Whitby, I was at the absolute, well, I thought that was the absolute bottom.

00:03:10.620 I couldn't get a gig. I was like six, seven months in between gigs and all this.

00:03:14.340 And I run off this, like, inner clock, do you know what I mean, like an inner voice all the time.

00:03:20.440 And I just, like, follow it, really.

00:03:22.300 And call it intuition or whatever.

00:03:25.320 But this thing said, like, you know, these times when you haven't got anything, right, don't kick back, embrace it.

00:03:32.380 Because when your break comes, and it will come, right, it will make it even more unbelievable.

00:03:40.580 And that is the position that I found myself in last year.

00:03:48.040 You know, I mean, last year was, I've had some hard times.

00:03:53.540 Maybe it's not as hard as other people in their lives, you know.

00:03:56.940 But last year for me was me scraping the bottom of my, like, existence, do you know what I mean?

00:04:03.260 And, like, I completely let myself go.

00:04:10.400 After the first lockdown, I had a little break, and then we went into the second lockdown,

00:04:14.900 and I really went to a place that I'll never go back to again.

00:04:19.340 Hence why I've got to think, I'm never going to go back there again.

00:04:23.720 I let myself go.

00:04:25.020 I was drinking three or four bottles of whiskey a week.

00:04:27.680 I'd grown this massive beard.

00:04:29.060 My hair was like Moses.

00:04:30.220 I mean, fair enough, I couldn't get into a hairdresser.

00:04:31.860 Nobody could.

00:04:33.260 But I'd lost my motivation.

00:04:35.300 I'd lost everything, you know.

00:04:37.320 And it got to the point where I woke up one night, and I was quite sober, actually.

00:04:43.920 And it was two in the morning, and I put a belt around my neck, right?

00:04:49.760 Not to actually do it, right?

00:04:52.360 I just wanted to see what it felt like.

00:04:54.460 I mean, in 2019, I tried to do it when my wife and I parted company, and I actually tried it that time.

00:05:03.560 But this time, when I put the belt around my neck last year, I didn't want to do it.

00:05:10.240 I just wanted to see what it felt like.

00:05:13.740 And I think that was scary, because it was like I was going down a tunnel.

00:05:18.240 I was like slipping further and further into it, and I was like, it was like slippy on the inside.

00:05:23.620 I couldn't get out.

00:05:24.700 And I spoke to this lad of power end, who had actually done it.

00:05:29.360 And he'd actually done it, and God was good, and he was found.

00:05:32.020 And he said to me, if you've done that, then you've got a massive problem.

00:05:38.020 And I said, why is that like?

00:05:39.240 And he said, because I did the exact same thing.

00:05:41.500 I tried it.

00:05:42.140 Well, just tightened it to see what it felt like at the same time of night, you know.

00:05:47.980 And so I thought, right, okay, there's a problem there.

00:05:51.060 Obviously, there's a problem there.

00:05:53.780 And I thought that was the lowest point of my life.

00:05:56.420 The lowest point of my life actually wasn't then.

00:05:58.900 The lowest point of my life, I have one daughter and two step-sons.

00:06:05.480 But my daughter is like my blood, and she's my world.

00:06:10.700 And I went on to her house, and her partner's grandma, who sadly passed away a week ago,

00:06:20.360 I mean, obviously, I know her well, knew her well.

00:06:23.660 And she came in the kitchen. 1.00

00:06:24.620 She didn't recognize me for a couple of seconds.

00:06:27.080 I said, it's me, like, you know.

00:06:28.900 And she said, well, I didn't even recognize you, Chris, you know.

00:06:34.040 So we had a cup of tea and everything.

00:06:35.340 And then as I was leaving my daughter's house, about half an hour later,

00:06:38.920 I was close to the front door, and in the kitchen, I heard my daughter say 0.90

00:06:42.280 to her partner's grandma, I'm ever so sorry about my dad.

00:06:46.680 You know, he's just having a few problems.

00:06:48.360 Well, I absolutely, I left the house, and I got into the car, 0.99

00:06:51.920 and I broke my fucking heart. 0.97

00:06:55.060 I absolutely broke my heart that my daughter had had to make an apology for me. 0.99

00:07:03.880 I mean, I always wanted to be like the dad that, you know.

00:07:11.060 I mean, you can say, there's two ways of saying that's my dad, isn't there?

00:07:14.640 You can have somebody say, that's my dad.

00:07:17.820 Do you know what I mean?

00:07:18.140 Like, that's my dad.

00:07:19.980 Do you know what I mean?

00:07:21.320 And I always wanted the first.

00:07:22.980 I always wanted to be, that's my dad.

00:07:24.760 And to think that my daughter was making excuses for me,

00:07:29.160 it just broke my heart.

00:07:31.800 I mean, I can control, because I'm in a good place now,

00:07:34.780 I can control the emotion where, like last year when we did this thing,

00:07:38.100 I was in a really hard position, and I couldn't control the emotion.

00:07:44.100 And I was in the car, and I always remember I was crying.

00:07:46.660 And this has happened to me once before,

00:07:49.200 when my daughter was about five.

00:07:51.540 I had no money, I had no gigs.

00:07:54.760 I was absolutely at my wits' end.

00:07:58.000 And I was in bed with my girlfriend at the time,

00:08:00.600 and I was breaking my heart, like absolutely breaking my heart, crying.

00:08:04.580 And in the tiniest voice, I just said, please, God, help me.

00:08:08.920 And in an instant, I stopped crying.

00:08:15.580 And I just sat up, and I said, everything's going to be all right.

00:08:18.060 And the following day, an agent phoned and said,

00:08:21.140 I've got a couple of gigs for you.

00:08:22.300 And off I went again.

00:08:23.080 And it was that kind of moment, again, last year,

00:08:27.100 when I was in my car outside my daughter's house.

00:08:30.160 I was breaking my heart, and I just said,

00:08:32.900 just in a tiny voice, please, God, help me.

00:08:35.940 And I realised, no,

00:08:37.980 that was the absolute bottom for me, personally.

00:08:42.680 That was the bottom of my life.

00:08:43.880 Because I'd had everything taken away from me.

00:08:47.380 My wife had left me.

00:08:48.920 Dad had been murdered.

00:08:51.920 I was in his house with only a chair and a bed and everything, right?

00:08:56.460 Nothing.

00:08:57.180 No money, no gigs.

00:08:58.480 No doubt.

00:09:00.060 And about two or three minutes later, 1.00

00:09:03.080 all of a sudden I thought, fuck this. 0.99

00:09:04.620 Get yourself off to contemporary hairdressers in Whitby for a cut and colour, right? 1.00

00:09:12.080 Because I get the old band.

00:09:13.120 It's Paul McCartney Brown at the moment, like, you know.

00:09:16.040 But I get, like, a base five, they call it.

00:09:19.220 And I phoned up the hairdressers, and I said,

00:09:20.760 right, book me in for a haircut.

00:09:21.840 And I go there for the crack as much as anything else,

00:09:26.560 because I get on great with all the lashes.

00:09:28.980 And that's what started the bounce back.

00:09:34.100 I remember putting a post on Facebook about it.

00:09:37.760 You know, this is my new barnet.

00:09:40.120 This is my new haircut.

00:09:41.620 I'm back, kind of thing.

00:09:43.260 And strangely enough, that's how it started.

00:09:45.840 It started with a haircut and a shave.

00:09:49.040 They wouldn't shave me in the hairdressers,

00:09:51.620 because of the COVID and stuff.

00:09:53.480 But I went to my daughter's house,

00:09:54.500 and I shaved all my whiskers.

00:09:55.580 She was playing foot,

00:09:56.260 because it was there all clogging the sink and everything, you know.

00:09:59.940 And then the Soho Theatre,

00:10:02.540 they cancelled me out.

00:10:05.960 And I did the live thing on Facebook,

00:10:08.820 much to the annoyance of the promoter and his team.

00:10:13.700 But I felt as though I had to say something. 0.98

00:10:15.300 I didn't do it to sort of shit stare or, you know, anything like that. 0.97

00:10:17.740 And, of course, that's when Comedy Unleashed came in for me. 0.97

00:10:24.360 And so they said, well, we'll put you in the backyard.

00:10:27.960 Well, that sort of, like, ushered in the next phase,

00:10:33.800 because I'd cleaned myself up.

00:10:35.960 And the next phase was me starting to rehearse Forgiveness again.

00:10:43.440 Your show.

00:10:44.140 Yeah, because that was the show that I was going to put on

00:10:47.140 at the Soho Theatre.

00:10:48.560 They cancelled me out.

00:10:50.540 Comedy Unleashed said, we'll do it at Backyard.

00:10:53.320 So I thought, right, it's got to be ready.

00:10:55.520 Especially when, and I couldn't believe this, right,

00:10:58.060 we sold out in two days, 300 tickets, boom, gone.

00:11:00.620 And I'm like, wow, you know what I mean?

00:11:02.960 I was, like, the biggest comedy night in London on the,

00:11:06.320 I think it was the 3rd of October.

00:11:07.940 Or 12th of October, I can't remember.

00:11:09.440 No, 11th of October.

00:11:11.920 And so it had to be right.

00:11:15.640 And so I started walking again, because I hadn't walked for a while.

00:11:19.020 I'd been doing a lot of walking when I walked to London

00:11:21.060 and everything, you know, against lockdown.

00:11:23.360 And I started walking again and going, talking to myself,

00:11:26.540 walking around the streets, a red car and stuff,

00:11:28.280 going through the gig, going through the gig.

00:11:29.440 So that was it.

00:11:30.100 And then a couple of little spots came in.

00:11:33.820 They got my confidence back, you know.

00:11:35.380 They did one instead of comedy for John Fentman.

00:11:39.560 It's a good guy, John.

00:11:40.560 Yeah, he's a smashing lad.

00:11:41.920 I've got a lot of time for him.

00:11:43.800 And so that happened.

00:11:46.780 And then we actually did the gig at Backyard.

00:11:53.080 And, well, you little lads were there.

00:11:54.500 I mean, it was off the scale, you know.

00:11:56.900 There's a lot of trigonometry fans that had seen you interview with us.

00:12:00.720 Well, for me, I mean, I remember when we did trigonometry last year,

00:12:05.060 you said to me that you thought something good would come from it.

00:12:10.600 I can't actually believe.

00:12:14.240 Well, I can actually.

00:12:15.940 Now you can. 0.95

00:12:16.880 Back then you didn't fucking believe me, did you? 0.97

00:12:18.820 Well, see, this is the essence of faith, isn't it? 0.96

00:12:22.740 Do you know what I mean?

00:12:23.120 The essence of belief as a spiritual man, I realise.

00:12:25.680 Because my faith and belief in a lot of things has been tested.

00:12:31.260 It's like an elastic band, like pull, pull, pull, pull.

00:12:34.400 Is it going to snap?

00:12:36.920 But when you said that, there was no way in this world

00:12:41.400 I could have envisaged what came.

00:12:43.840 After we did Backyard, I did another performance at the Albany

00:12:48.420 for my agent, Michael.

00:12:50.920 And that was great.

00:12:52.260 People who had been to Backyard the night before came again.

00:12:55.680 Fantastic.

00:12:57.840 I went home and I thought, right, what am I going to do now? 1.00

00:13:00.920 Sick of living like a fucking tramp. 0.99

00:13:03.580 I was living like a homeless person in this house, do you know what I mean? 1.00

00:13:06.280 And I thought, right, and I took the money from the Comedy Unleashed gig.

00:13:12.860 I thought, right, I'm going to buy some stuff for my house

00:13:16.340 because all he had was a chair and a bed, right, a wardrobe.

00:13:20.920 And it was minging.

00:13:22.880 I hadn't cleaned it or anything.

00:13:24.760 Absolutely minging.

00:13:26.740 So I started that process off.

00:13:28.940 And that took a couple of months, two and a half months.

00:13:30.980 And come December, I had my house back on Blob.

00:13:41.480 It was, like, immaculate, do you know what I mean?

00:13:43.340 Carpets down.

00:13:44.120 People were great.

00:13:44.760 I'd put a post on Facebook.

00:13:46.280 I'd put a post on Twitter just saying, look, I need to buy some things cheap.

00:13:50.220 I've got the money from Backyard.

00:13:53.080 People were saying, hey, Chris, have this fridge-freezer.

00:13:55.700 It's been in my garage years.

00:13:56.840 It just needs a freezer light.

00:13:58.240 Chris, have this microwave.

00:13:59.200 Hey, Chris, my mum died.

00:14:02.280 I've got a memory foam mattress and bed for when your grandkids come.

00:14:05.940 The kindness was unbelievable.

00:14:09.120 Didn't want anything for it, you know.

00:14:11.420 And that just, like, blew me away.

00:14:13.260 So my house was up and running.

00:14:18.960 My comedy was up and running.

00:14:21.860 I was, like, back in the land of the living.

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00:14:39.020 I had my grandchildren stay with me, with a mum, halfway through December. 0.98

00:14:48.620 That was just the fucking best. 0.98

00:14:50.720 We all had Christmas hats on and we had Naughty Elf and all this, you know. 0.99

00:14:55.000 That was unbelievable.

00:14:56.000 My best mate, Mags, came down to the house. 1.00

00:15:00.680 Margaret called her Nino.

00:15:01.640 She cried when she saw the house.

00:15:02.880 She said, I'm so proud of you. 1.00

00:15:06.100 And then, fuck me. 1.00

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00:16:29.120 The day before Christmas Eve, I got a call from Comedy Unleashed.

00:16:36.440 How are you doing?

00:16:38.280 I said, I'm all right, like.

00:16:39.920 Have you got anything planned for forgiveness?

00:16:42.140 No.

00:16:43.420 Oh, well, we'd like to take you on a tour.

00:16:46.860 I'm like, you're joking, aren't you?

00:16:48.120 He said, no, no, maybe it's just a small tour, six nights.

00:16:51.620 I said, okay then.

00:16:53.500 Well, we'll line us up with your agent, Michael, and we'll get it sorted.

00:16:56.400 So I said, okay.

00:16:59.040 So the following day, I thought they'd leave it after Christmas.

00:17:02.320 Christmas Eve, Michael phoned.

00:17:04.740 Comedy Unleashed had been in touch.

00:17:06.300 They want to put you on a tour, six nights, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham,

00:17:11.400 London.

00:17:12.440 That sounds great.

00:17:13.320 That's fantastic.

00:17:14.120 You know what I mean?

00:17:15.260 What a Christmas present.

00:17:16.900 But that wasn't it.

00:17:18.800 Because on Christmas Day, I never go on Twitter, but I went on Twitter on Christmas Day, and

00:17:25.480 somebody had sent me a message.

00:17:27.900 And this person said, I like what you say.

00:17:34.080 And I'm like, do you?

00:17:36.740 And they said, yeah, I do, yeah.

00:17:38.760 And I'd like to make you a donation.

00:17:41.600 So they said, I'd like to make you a donation.

00:17:48.160 Have you got a PayPal account?

00:17:49.340 I said, no.

00:17:49.940 Well, I have, but I don't use it.

00:17:53.320 So I gave them on Christmas Day my bank details, right?

00:17:58.380 And I went for my Christmas dinner at my daughter's house, and I was playing football with my grandson

00:18:02.280 in the front garden. 1.00

00:18:03.120 I was thinking, you fucking dickhead. 1.00

00:18:04.460 You've given somebody, right? 1.00

00:18:06.160 It's complete strange.

00:18:07.520 Like your bank details, what's going on?

00:18:09.260 So I got back in touch, and I said, look, I don't know who you are.

00:18:15.540 And they said, oh, I'm going to put this much money in your account.

00:18:18.420 And I'm like, all right, okay then.

00:18:20.820 Because it was, you know, quite an hefty sum.

00:18:25.440 Got to have to bank all day Monday, nothing going on in the account.

00:18:29.040 I said, look, yeah.

00:18:30.240 Now, I know that social media is full of twats, really, right? 1.00

00:18:35.520 And I know people take the piss, right? 0.94

00:18:37.420 So they sent me this screenshot, right, of the bank transfer.

00:18:44.160 Well, I got up on a Wednesday morning, I checked my account, and it had gone in.

00:18:49.640 So I messaged back, and I was at Dunelm buying a frying pan, right?

00:18:56.580 And I said...

00:18:57.420 You know how to party.

00:18:58.560 Yeah.

00:18:58.720 Absolutely.

00:19:00.700 Finally got money, get a frying pan.

00:19:02.420 Get a frying pan.

00:19:03.220 And I said, look, I'm never so sorry for doubting you, right?

00:19:10.740 But the money's gone in, and I can't thank you enough.

00:19:14.800 So this person said, well, it's time for me to come forward now.

00:19:19.300 So I'm like, okay.

00:19:21.000 And basically, this person is in the medical profession in a foreign country.

00:19:26.800 And they'd seen me on trigonometry.

00:19:31.380 And they said, I love your message of forgiveness.

00:19:36.260 And I want to put you on a tour, right?

00:19:40.220 Well, it wasn't going to be a six-night tour.

00:19:43.320 They said, I want to put you on a 30-night tour of forgiveness.

00:19:47.220 And I'm going to pay for everything.

00:19:50.620 And I'm going to make sure that you get an allowance every night

00:19:59.040 to pay for your travel and everything else.

00:20:02.360 And I have all the faith and belief in you in the world.

00:20:08.600 And I'm sat with Sardine Elm, right? 0.99

00:20:11.320 With my fucking frying pan in my hand. 1.00

00:20:16.420 Right? 1.00

00:20:17.220 And I'm thinking, Michael ain't going to believe this.

00:20:21.500 So I phoned Michael, and I told him, right?

00:20:25.240 Long story short, within about five days, six days,

00:20:32.940 like a five-figure sum had gone into my agent's account

00:20:37.400 and my account to pay for this tour and everything that we needed.

00:20:43.020 And for me, like, that's just, these things don't happen.

00:20:51.520 But they do happen.

00:20:54.240 And I realised, when it happened, that that little inner voice that I had,

00:21:01.720 maybe it's about 2014, 2015, when I was like a gig once every six or seven months,

00:21:08.240 when it said, you know, embrace these times now when you haven't got anything,

00:21:11.460 because when it comes, it's going to make it even more unbelievable. 0.98

00:21:15.480 Well, it fucking was. 0.97

00:21:16.780 And I mean, we're going on a 30-night tour. 0.99

00:21:21.080 There's 30 dates.

00:21:22.080 And it's going to be England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

00:21:27.400 Can't wait to do Belfast, because that's where my dad's side of the family were.

00:21:35.780 And, of course, taking the message of forgiveness to Belfast,

00:21:39.920 where they've had all the troubles, for me, it's just a massive thing.

00:21:44.680 Do you know what I mean?

00:21:45.800 And I'm going on tour.

00:21:50.260 It's just everything.

00:21:53.700 What an incredible story.

00:21:55.780 Absolutely.

00:21:57.180 And you see, I don't have any expectations of it, you know.

00:21:59.280 I don't have one expectation of that tour, because let's be real.

00:22:07.320 I'm a nobody, right?

00:22:09.040 I haven't had any television credits.

00:22:11.320 I don't have any great following.

00:22:15.040 I don't have, like, fans or, you know, like, massive.

00:22:19.240 I mean, I have my Facebook friends and everything.

00:22:23.100 5,000 people on one account, and I think 5,000 people on the comedy thing.

00:22:27.760 But, I mean, you know, I haven't got, like, a massive following.

00:22:31.300 I mean, there's people with television profile struggling to sell out tours and stuff.

00:22:37.040 So, I have hopes, but I have no expectations of the tour.

00:22:43.220 But there again, you see, it's almost like it doesn't matter.

00:22:51.640 Do you know what I mean?

00:22:52.840 Yeah.

00:22:53.100 Whether each show gets one person in, and obviously I would want more than that,

00:23:00.340 but if it gets one person in or the room's sold out, it's almost like it doesn't matter.

00:23:05.720 Because I've realised when I wrote Forgiveness, I can see now, right,

00:23:11.500 that the whole thing was kind of like, it's almost like meant to be, if you know what I mean.

00:23:17.760 I mean, when I first wrote Forgiveness, I'd written, like, a two-hour show,

00:23:20.620 and I realised I'd written a two-hour show.

00:23:23.160 And my friends had said to me, Andy and Maggie had said,

00:23:25.940 well, you know, what are you going to do?

00:23:26.900 Because you've only got, like, 55 minutes at Edinburgh.

00:23:30.900 And I just said, well, you know, hopefully I'll take it into a theatre

00:23:34.440 and, like, do the full thing.

00:23:37.160 And that's what's happening.

00:23:39.120 Do you know what I mean?

00:23:39.620 So all the stuff that I'd written that, for me, is very pertinent to the story

00:23:42.840 and everything else, make it a two-hour show with a break.

00:23:47.020 It's now starting to happen.

00:23:48.560 And I just feel as though whatever happens with the tour, 0.98

00:23:52.820 it's meant to fucking happen. 0.97

00:23:55.900 Do you know what I mean? 0.97

00:23:56.520 And I don't think it's going to be the end of it.

00:23:59.100 I think it's, I just think it's going to get bigger and bigger, you know.

00:24:06.820 And I, just by virtue of the fact, the way things have gone, you know.

00:24:13.480 Yep.

00:24:14.060 Just coming straight out the blue, you know.

00:24:17.540 What are the chances of somebody in the medical profession,

00:24:20.900 in a foreign country, watching your programme, thinking,

00:24:23.600 I like this man and what he has to say.

00:24:27.880 And, yeah, the world does need more forgiveness.

00:24:31.120 And, you see, the person who's backed me financially for the tour,

00:24:34.260 they said to me, just two days ago,

00:24:37.740 they don't have any financial expectations at all.

00:24:41.880 They're not bothered.

00:24:43.860 You know, I want them to have their money back.

00:24:46.140 I want to make it, you know, get enough people in to pay this person back.

00:24:52.680 But they have no expectations of that.

00:24:54.600 They said, all they're bothered about is the message of forgiveness.

00:24:58.300 You know, and I, and I look at the way the world is at the moment.

00:25:05.460 And, and I think that's, that's what's needed most of all.

00:25:10.960 Do you know what I mean?

00:25:12.000 To me, you know what it shows?

00:25:13.940 It shows the power of honesty, Chris.

00:25:16.900 Because when I, I saw your show,

00:25:19.240 it was one of the first previews you ever did at John Fentiman's gig.

00:25:22.980 Yeah.

00:25:23.080 He once said comedy.

00:25:24.120 And Constantine took me along and said, you've got to go to this.

00:25:26.520 You've got to watch this.

00:25:27.320 This is brilliant.

00:25:28.300 And you, you weren't exactly going out and seeing loads of shows at the time.

00:25:31.980 No, because I was gigging six nights a week.

00:25:33.840 Yeah, busy.

00:25:34.200 Yeah, I was busy.

00:25:34.960 I was, and he went, no, no, but you've got to see it.

00:25:37.080 And it was the third, I think it was the third preview that you did.

00:25:40.240 Third or fourth, certainly no more than that.

00:25:42.480 And what struck me was the power of your words,

00:25:45.240 the honesty, the integrity behind it.

00:25:48.140 And in our industry, let's be honest,

00:25:50.320 we don't really get a lot of that.

00:25:51.720 No.

00:25:52.380 Well, I think the industry,

00:25:54.140 I would never slag any comedian off ever. 0.99

00:25:57.680 I fucking would. 0.99

00:25:58.660 No. 1.00

00:25:59.560 Do you want to know why?

00:26:00.500 Do you want to know why I would never slag any comedian off?

00:26:02.680 It's because it's too hard a job.

00:26:05.520 It is a hard job.

00:26:06.360 It's too hard a job.

00:26:08.220 And for me, anybody,

00:26:09.480 whether they've been going 30 years, 40 years, five weeks, right, 0.96

00:26:13.420 you have the balls to stand up in front of an audience 0.93

00:26:17.080 and try and make them laugh, right? 0.89

00:26:19.920 And you've got my respect.

00:26:21.680 End of.

00:26:23.300 You know, Laurence Olivier,

00:26:24.380 I remember seeing him on Parkinson years and years ago.

00:26:27.680 And Parkinson said,

00:26:28.660 if you hadn't been an actor,

00:26:30.460 what would you have been?

00:26:31.600 He said, I would love to be in a stand up comedian.

00:26:34.400 Do you know what I mean?

00:26:35.120 Because of all the entertainment genres,

00:26:38.740 stand up comedy is the most difficult.

00:26:40.800 Because you go into a room

00:26:43.020 and you don't know what people have done that day

00:26:46.500 or what kind of lives they've got or whatever, you know.

00:26:49.560 And yet, you know,

00:26:50.280 to make people who are in a low frame of mind laugh

00:26:53.620 is a massive thing.

00:26:55.760 It's a very powerful thing.

00:26:57.660 And so I wouldn't,

00:26:58.600 I wouldn't sort of like decry or denounce any comedian.

00:27:03.640 Do you know what I mean?

00:27:03.900 There's certain comedians I like,

00:27:05.520 like to watch and there's other ones.

00:27:08.020 Granted, my interest in comedy isn't the same as

00:27:11.320 when there was people like Mortimer and Wise on the go and stuff.

00:27:14.740 And Tommy Cooper,

00:27:16.140 they were like comedy heroes of mine.

00:27:18.800 I could watch Eddie Izzard all day long,

00:27:20.880 but not laugh, but love him.

00:27:23.000 Do you know what I mean?

00:27:23.340 I said that to him.

00:27:25.320 When he came,

00:27:26.640 he took me for supper,

00:27:28.460 went for supper,

00:27:29.280 he's got part shares in his club in London.

00:27:32.260 And after me,

00:27:32.700 last night at the Soho Theatre,

00:27:34.460 I got invited along to see his gig.

00:27:36.580 He'd been running all these marathons

00:27:37.960 and he'd done this show

00:27:38.980 in the Leicester Square Theatre.

00:27:42.360 And we had the same promoter, Mick.

00:27:44.080 And we sat down and ate and everything.

00:27:47.860 And I said,

00:27:49.880 like,

00:27:50.540 I don't laugh really at you.

00:27:53.440 And he got that

00:27:54.400 because he said,

00:27:54.880 well,

00:27:54.900 you're a comedian yourself.

00:27:55.920 And he got that.

00:27:56.500 He understood.

00:27:56.900 I wasn't being rude,

00:27:57.620 but I said like,

00:27:59.180 you know,

00:27:59.540 I could watch you all night.

00:28:01.920 I could actually,

00:28:02.840 you know what I mean?

00:28:03.280 But I feel as though

00:28:05.740 there's a lot of comedians

00:28:07.500 these days,

00:28:08.320 they don't,

00:28:09.340 they don't use comedy

00:28:12.080 perhaps as they should be.

00:28:13.560 There's so many things

00:28:14.840 that we should be speaking out against.

00:28:19.360 And

00:28:19.960 it seems like a lot of comedians

00:28:22.880 are all too

00:28:23.740 bothered about

00:28:26.220 just being safe

00:28:28.440 in case it affects

00:28:30.060 the work.

00:28:32.000 The career.

00:28:33.000 Or their ability to get up.

00:28:34.800 And you see,

00:28:35.380 that's the thing

00:28:36.120 with me.

00:28:38.240 I mean,

00:28:38.480 the comedy circuit's done me,

00:28:40.140 I mean,

00:28:40.540 basically I'm a working

00:28:41.580 men's club comedian

00:28:42.460 following the talk double

00:28:44.160 and the bingo

00:28:44.700 and strippers 1.00

00:28:45.560 and all this,

00:28:46.160 you know,

00:28:46.540 and stag do's

00:28:47.480 and stuff like that,

00:28:48.500 you know.

00:28:49.440 The glam stuff.

00:28:50.500 Yeah,

00:28:50.960 absolutely.

00:28:51.400 It's so much

00:28:52.420 where I let me trade

00:28:56.540 and stuff,

00:28:57.020 you know,

00:28:57.180 but I've always

00:28:59.160 sort of like

00:28:59.640 pushed myself

00:29:00.500 as a comedian.

00:29:01.960 Yes.

00:29:02.600 And I've always 0.99

00:29:03.140 got off my arse 0.99

00:29:03.900 and I've gone on 0.99

00:29:04.860 the comedy circuit

00:29:05.600 and I've always

00:29:06.240 gone down great

00:29:07.400 on the comedy circuit

00:29:08.160 but it's never been

00:29:08.960 really more than

00:29:10.340 open mic spots

00:29:11.420 and,

00:29:12.920 you know,

00:29:13.560 like 10 minutes here

00:29:15.200 or five minutes here.

00:29:16.220 I mean,

00:29:16.440 it's crackers really,

00:29:19.480 you know what I mean?

00:29:20.520 For me,

00:29:21.440 it's exploitation

00:29:22.560 in a way.

00:29:23.660 I mean,

00:29:23.820 I remember being

00:29:24.380 at Camden Comedy

00:29:25.260 for Iverden Beaner

00:29:26.180 a few years back now

00:29:27.120 and there was

00:29:27.420 a young lad there,

00:29:28.340 a young comedian.

00:29:29.060 He was trying to get

00:29:29.900 a comedian's union going

00:29:33.940 because he said

00:29:35.800 it was exploitative

00:29:36.560 and I agree.

00:29:37.840 Do you know what I mean?

00:29:38.300 It is.

00:29:38.780 You know,

00:29:39.220 you get like two comedians

00:29:40.640 like in the middle

00:29:42.200 doing 10 minutes each

00:29:43.380 for an out.

00:29:44.000 You got like,

00:29:44.680 you got like a comedian

00:29:45.620 at the start

00:29:46.240 doing maybe 80 quid

00:29:47.540 or 100 quid

00:29:48.200 and you got your headliner

00:29:49.620 wherever he gets 200 quid

00:29:52.180 or whatever it is.

00:29:52.840 You know what I mean?

00:29:53.320 And so I think

00:29:57.960 it's exploitative

00:29:58.700 and a lot of comedians

00:30:00.040 would actually,

00:30:02.720 like to get in the store

00:30:03.640 and stuff,

00:30:04.280 the comedy store

00:30:05.060 or whatever,

00:30:05.580 they'd actually

00:30:06.020 probably pay

00:30:07.020 if they were to get

00:30:08.240 a decent spot

00:30:08.980 at the comedy store,

00:30:09.800 you know?

00:30:11.840 But they're not,

00:30:12.940 comedies,

00:30:13.460 I don't feel as though

00:30:14.140 comedy's

00:30:14.760 like challenging

00:30:16.920 as it should.

00:30:18.700 But you know why that is?

00:30:19.680 I mean,

00:30:19.840 look at your own story.

00:30:21.080 You were just telling us

00:30:22.080 what life can be

00:30:24.000 for somebody

00:30:24.580 who wants to

00:30:26.000 talk about things,

00:30:27.960 who wants to push

00:30:28.780 that envelope

00:30:29.400 one gig every seven months.

00:30:31.620 Yeah.

00:30:31.960 That's why they're not

00:30:32.740 doing it, man.

00:30:33.860 Yeah, but I mean...

00:30:35.440 You know I agree with you.

00:30:36.980 Well,

00:30:37.220 but you see,

00:30:37.760 the thing is that

00:30:38.240 this is another thing.

00:30:38.840 I mean,

00:30:39.360 I reached my end point

00:30:44.160 with the comedy circuit

00:30:45.840 in 2019.

00:30:48.320 I mean,

00:30:48.660 I was,

00:30:49.200 I've been in comedy

00:30:50.240 now for 34 years.

00:30:52.920 I've been in,

00:30:53.720 like,

00:30:54.540 I was in the main

00:30:55.360 comedic part

00:30:56.240 in Billy Elliot

00:30:57.260 in the West End,

00:30:58.520 right?

00:30:59.580 I played at the comedy

00:31:00.480 store in Hollywood

00:31:01.460 on the main stage

00:31:03.000 with Dane Cook

00:31:04.180 and Harlan Williams

00:31:05.120 and Bobby Lee

00:31:06.360 and all these guys,

00:31:07.360 right?

00:31:11.560 I've done, like,

00:31:12.460 loads of things

00:31:13.320 in comedy.

00:31:14.380 Played every kind

00:31:15.040 of audience

00:31:15.460 that you can think of.

00:31:16.180 Not just, like,

00:31:18.660 that comedy circuit,

00:31:19.980 you know?

00:31:20.340 I remember working

00:31:20.980 with Alfie Brown

00:31:21.720 one time.

00:31:23.320 Got a lot of time

00:31:24.000 for Alfie.

00:31:24.480 I think he's a great

00:31:25.080 comedian,

00:31:25.620 do you know what I mean?

00:31:26.100 I worked with him,

00:31:26.980 we did it,

00:31:27.340 I'd been working

00:31:28.040 for the Black Watch

00:31:28.780 over in Scotland

00:31:29.480 and I flew back

00:31:30.980 and on the Sunday

00:31:31.980 him and I

00:31:32.740 went to Exeter

00:31:33.920 to do a gig,

00:31:35.600 like, you know.

00:31:36.860 And I mean,

00:31:37.440 he was everything

00:31:38.640 that I'm,

00:31:39.460 I'm not in comedy,

00:31:40.540 really,

00:31:41.540 but, like,

00:31:41.920 he watched me

00:31:42.700 and we got back

00:31:43.460 in,

00:31:43.600 because he was

00:31:43.920 driving,

00:31:44.320 he got back

00:31:44.660 in the car

00:31:45.200 after the gig

00:31:47.600 and I did a great

00:31:48.320 gig and

00:31:49.560 he said,

00:31:51.220 I've got something 0.99

00:31:51.720 to fucking say 0.99

00:31:52.540 before I set off. 0.99

00:31:54.680 I thought,

00:31:54.960 here we go. 0.99

00:31:56.300 Here we fucking go. 1.00

00:31:57.540 And he went, 0.99

00:31:58.640 that was seriously 0.98

00:31:59.560 fucking brilliant, 0.99

00:32:00.580 Chris, right? 0.99

00:32:01.360 You know what I mean?

00:32:01.800 And you shouldn't be

00:32:02.400 in that position.

00:32:03.220 And I was like,

00:32:04.000 wow,

00:32:04.480 you know what I mean?

00:32:04.960 Because he was

00:32:06.060 with a big agent

00:32:07.580 and stuff like that,

00:32:08.180 you know,

00:32:08.360 it was a massive

00:32:08.860 compliment for me.

00:32:11.420 But this is what

00:32:12.280 Francis was trying

00:32:13.260 to say,

00:32:13.660 Chris,

00:32:13.940 is we've had

00:32:15.040 however many hundred

00:32:16.440 people on the show now.

00:32:18.720 People don't get

00:32:19.720 that response

00:32:20.440 that you got.

00:32:22.040 And that's what

00:32:23.020 he was talking about

00:32:23.820 when he was talking

00:32:24.460 about your honesty

00:32:25.900 and your authenticity,

00:32:26.600 which also comes

00:32:27.500 through in a comedy

00:32:28.020 because we went

00:32:28.520 to see your show

00:32:29.240 once you'd come

00:32:30.580 on the show

00:32:31.120 and there was a load

00:32:31.980 of trigonometry fans

00:32:32.940 there and whatever.

00:32:34.500 And that's what

00:32:35.240 people are responding

00:32:36.000 to because you're

00:32:36.860 being honest.

00:32:37.440 Yeah,

00:32:38.140 but I mean,

00:32:38.460 that's just how

00:32:39.800 I am.

00:32:41.040 Yeah.

00:32:41.420 Yeah.

00:32:42.380 But in a world

00:32:43.580 where very few people

00:32:44.740 are that way,

00:32:45.520 it stands out.

00:32:46.180 Is that what you were?

00:32:46.860 I was going to say,

00:32:47.680 but that's not how

00:32:48.320 most comedians are,

00:32:49.400 Chris.

00:32:49.860 You know,

00:32:50.220 it's that old

00:32:50.740 David Mamet line.

00:32:51.940 You know,

00:32:52.220 you love the theatre

00:32:53.300 so I'm sure you love Mamet.

00:32:54.720 Words that come

00:32:55.320 from the heart

00:32:55.820 go to the heart.

00:32:56.800 They hit.

00:32:57.620 They hit hard.

00:32:58.600 Whilst words

00:32:59.380 that have no meaning

00:33:01.160 or are disingenuous,

00:33:03.380 they don't hit

00:33:04.060 because there's

00:33:05.040 no emotion behind them.

00:33:06.220 There's no truth.

00:33:07.480 The thing is,

00:33:08.240 when I write something

00:33:10.620 and I perform it,

00:33:11.700 then it has to make me laugh

00:33:13.660 first and foremost.

00:33:15.080 Or I have to feel it.

00:33:16.080 And if I don't feel it,

00:33:17.060 I can't.

00:33:17.700 That's the thing with me.

00:33:18.700 For me to put my comedy

00:33:19.980 across properly,

00:33:20.820 I have to feel it.

00:33:21.620 If I don't feel it,

00:33:23.180 then I can't,

00:33:24.080 I can't put it across.

00:33:25.200 I can't be like fake.

00:33:26.440 Do you know what I mean?

00:33:26.780 Probably my best pal

00:33:30.880 on the circuit of ever

00:33:32.260 on the comedy circuit

00:33:33.660 was a guy called

00:33:34.320 Bobby Knoxall

00:33:35.000 who in the 60s and 70s

00:33:36.840 was tipped to be

00:33:37.700 like massive,

00:33:38.460 you know.

00:33:40.020 Like he was

00:33:41.000 Sunderland's answer

00:33:41.960 to Bobby Thompson.

00:33:43.920 And he always said to me,

00:33:45.160 the most important thing

00:33:46.520 in comedy

00:33:47.320 is to be honest.

00:33:50.340 because an audience 1.00

00:33:51.640 can spot a fucking fake 1.00

00:33:53.420 a mile off. 1.00

00:33:55.260 You know what I mean?

00:33:55.960 And that's basically

00:33:57.360 what I've tried to do

00:33:58.280 my whole career.

00:33:59.800 You know,

00:34:00.080 some people,

00:34:00.680 that might piss

00:34:01.220 some people off.

00:34:03.740 But my,

00:34:04.260 my,

00:34:06.260 my cut off line

00:34:07.760 like I was always saying

00:34:08.440 was 2019.

00:34:10.440 Because I'd done all,

00:34:11.860 I'd written to all

00:34:13.340 and emailed

00:34:13.940 all the top agencies

00:34:15.960 the Off the Curbs

00:34:17.520 and the Avalons.

00:34:19.060 And you get the same,

00:34:20.660 you know,

00:34:21.180 thanks but no thanks.

00:34:22.420 And then you,

00:34:22.760 you know,

00:34:23.120 and then you get back,

00:34:23.860 you get back again.

00:34:25.580 No,

00:34:26.100 no,

00:34:26.560 it's okay,

00:34:27.280 we don't want to.

00:34:28.200 Yeah,

00:34:28.420 but I've done this

00:34:28.920 and it doesn't,

00:34:29.920 it doesn't matter

00:34:30.300 what you've done.

00:34:30.840 We're not interested.

00:34:31.600 Like,

00:34:31.640 you know.

00:34:33.400 And I've done all

00:34:34.160 the open spots

00:34:34.960 and then the open spots again

00:34:36.440 and I'm thinking 0.98

00:34:37.480 fucking hell yeah, 0.99

00:34:38.160 you know, 0.99

00:34:38.440 like you're doing

00:34:39.620 like an hour

00:34:40.020 and 45 minute

00:34:41.020 spot improvised

00:34:43.240 like comedy

00:34:44.060 and they don't want to know

00:34:45.740 and it plays

00:34:47.040 like a massive mind game

00:34:48.100 and it,

00:34:49.060 you're trying to impress

00:34:49.740 these people all the time,

00:34:50.780 the different promoters

00:34:51.540 around the country

00:34:52.120 they still don't want to know.

00:34:53.900 That's fair enough,

00:34:54.560 that's up to them.

00:34:55.440 You know,

00:34:55.880 they book who they want to book

00:34:57.400 and that,

00:34:58.380 but it makes you think

00:34:59.220 well what,

00:34:59.580 what am I doing wrong?

00:35:01.340 Do you know what I mean?

00:35:01.640 I'm storming my audiences,

00:35:03.320 what am I doing wrong?

00:35:04.780 So you carry on doing

00:35:05.700 the five minute open spots

00:35:07.240 down in Peterborough 1.00

00:35:07.980 for fuck all, 1.00

00:35:08.660 you know, 1.00

00:35:09.220 you're doing like

00:35:09.680 an opening spot

00:35:11.940 down in Bristol.

00:35:13.040 I did one Friday night,

00:35:14.640 drove all the way to Bristol

00:35:15.500 for like 110 quid.

00:35:18.020 It cost me 95

00:35:19.020 in petrol and food 0.99

00:35:20.360 and fucking drink. 1.00

00:35:21.360 But, 1.00

00:35:21.580 you know what I mean?

00:35:21.960 I thought to myself,

00:35:22.480 well rather than me 0.99

00:35:23.100 sitting on my arse 0.99

00:35:23.860 in our house, 1.00

00:35:24.960 get off your arse 1.00

00:35:25.640 and do your trade 1.00

00:35:26.300 and you never know

00:35:27.320 what can come from it.

00:35:28.240 No.

00:35:29.160 And that's what I basically

00:35:30.320 I've been doing.

00:35:31.460 And then the absolute bottom came

00:35:34.300 in 2019.

00:35:36.320 I'd written Forgiveness,

00:35:37.660 I'd rehearsed Forgiveness

00:35:38.720 and I'd done

00:35:39.360 a couple of previews of it

00:35:42.280 and this promoter

00:35:44.560 from down south in Essex,

00:35:46.620 I think it was,

00:35:47.180 he asked me to go

00:35:47.880 and take part

00:35:49.160 in this comedy competition

00:35:50.900 at this really like

00:35:52.540 low level

00:35:53.400 festival

00:35:58.820 in Chelmsford,

00:36:00.680 I think it was.

00:36:01.900 E-Lod, 0.99

00:36:02.220 it was fucking awful. 0.99

00:36:03.920 Do you know what I mean? 0.99

00:36:04.740 And

00:36:04.960 there was no fee on it,

00:36:09.640 just the promise

00:36:10.840 that if you won this competition

00:36:12.500 you'd get 200 quid.

00:36:14.560 And the way

00:36:15.000 he was

00:36:16.080 putting it across to me

00:36:17.600 was like

00:36:18.160 We've all been there, man.

00:36:19.580 We've all been there.

00:36:20.260 Yeah, but I mean

00:36:20.740 I'd be like

00:36:21.100 But you've been doing it

00:36:22.020 for 30 years.

00:36:22.740 30 odd years.

00:36:23.400 And so I went there

00:36:27.380 and I came nowhere.

00:36:30.460 And the two lads,

00:36:31.400 there was a joint thing

00:36:33.120 and the two lads

00:36:35.680 who won it was.

00:36:36.300 One lad,

00:36:38.540 he was a comedian,

00:36:40.700 but he'd actually come

00:36:42.040 to see me

00:36:42.580 the year before

00:36:43.460 in Edinburgh

00:36:43.880 when I did

00:36:44.500 Northern Monkey

00:36:45.240 and he told me

00:36:48.080 that I'd inspired him

00:36:49.100 to start comedy again,

00:36:50.600 right?

00:36:51.260 And the other lad,

00:36:52.300 bless him,

00:36:52.580 was he was autistic

00:36:53.660 and he'd only been

00:36:55.400 doing comedy five weeks.

00:36:58.100 And I thought to myself, 1.00

00:36:58.840 fuck me, 1.00

00:36:59.300 I can't beat somebody 1.00

00:37:01.140 who's been going five weeks

00:37:02.400 and I can't beat somebody

00:37:04.520 who I'd inspired

00:37:05.240 to start comedy again.

00:37:06.920 And I got on the train

00:37:07.880 to go home

00:37:08.260 the following day

00:37:08.980 and I thought,

00:37:10.640 this madness 0.99

00:37:11.060 has to fucking stop, man. 0.99

00:37:12.300 you know, 0.99

00:37:13.900 the circuit isn't humiliating you.

00:37:16.820 You're humiliating you.

00:37:18.580 I'm humiliating myself.

00:37:21.300 And it was strange

00:37:22.300 because

00:37:22.800 I made that decision,

00:37:25.280 that's it,

00:37:25.840 I'm not going to,

00:37:26.560 you know, 0.99

00:37:26.880 I've got off my arse 0.99

00:37:29.060 and I've proved 0.99

00:37:30.400 how much this job

00:37:31.240 means to me

00:37:31.880 and none of them

00:37:32.540 want to know

00:37:33.080 and I can't

00:37:34.040 get a gig

00:37:34.880 on the comedy circuit

00:37:35.800 and I can't get a gig

00:37:37.140 in the main clubs

00:37:37.900 like the

00:37:38.480 Top Secret

00:37:41.160 or

00:37:41.520 the Comedy Store

00:37:43.360 or whatever.

00:37:44.180 You know what I mean?

00:37:45.040 And I just thought,

00:37:46.620 no, enough.

00:37:47.720 Just enough.

00:37:49.500 Do you know what I mean?

00:37:51.160 And strangely enough,

00:37:53.120 as I was on that train

00:37:54.140 going home,

00:37:55.960 I

00:37:56.080 I just

00:37:58.920 got this thing

00:38:00.900 on Facebook,

00:38:01.780 a notification

00:38:02.440 and it was

00:38:03.360 The Right to Hate.

00:38:05.460 And

00:38:05.940 it had been on like

00:38:07.880 9,000 views

00:38:09.000 for about a year.

00:38:09.920 Your poem?

00:38:10.760 Yeah.

00:38:11.860 9,000 views

00:38:12.820 for a year

00:38:13.320 and then all of a sudden

00:38:14.180 I looked,

00:38:15.100 it had gone up to 15,000

00:38:16.260 in about an hour

00:38:16.980 and by the time

00:38:18.440 I got off the train

00:38:19.060 at Redker,

00:38:20.280 it was like

00:38:20.640 25,000,

00:38:22.100 right?

00:38:23.100 And then it was off

00:38:24.120 and for like

00:38:25.520 two weeks or whatever,

00:38:26.700 three weeks before Edinburgh,

00:38:27.760 it had like nearly

00:38:28.300 a million views

00:38:29.140 because it went viral twice.

00:38:30.960 That was the first time

00:38:31.680 it went viral

00:38:32.080 and I thought to myself,

00:38:32.800 no.

00:38:33.400 And it was weird.

00:38:35.660 Once again,

00:38:36.600 it's based in the spiritual

00:38:37.780 but like once

00:38:38.840 I made the decision

00:38:40.460 that that was it,

00:38:41.980 I wasn't

00:38:42.520 going to humiliate myself 0.72

00:38:44.600 by doing these

00:38:46.780 five and seven

00:38:48.080 and ten minute spots

00:38:49.180 for nothing

00:38:49.680 or 15 minutes

00:38:51.100 at the start

00:38:52.100 for 50 quid,

00:38:53.440 like you know,

00:38:53.960 150 miles away.

00:38:55.260 Once I'd made that decision

00:38:56.200 not to do that,

00:38:56.800 all of a sudden

00:38:57.280 the Right to Hate

00:38:58.420 just started to build up

00:39:00.420 a dynamic of its own

00:39:01.340 and then enough

00:39:02.020 we went to Edinburgh

00:39:02.640 and then of course

00:39:03.320 after

00:39:03.820 when I took forgiveness

00:39:06.160 to Edinburgh that year

00:39:07.000 and it was just

00:39:08.000 critically acclaimed

00:39:08.720 across the board

00:39:09.320 and now I feel

00:39:12.280 as though

00:39:12.680 like I'm not bothered

00:39:15.600 whether I do

00:39:16.700 the comedy circuit

00:39:17.580 or not now.

00:39:19.300 Do you know what I mean?

00:39:19.540 Because it's never

00:39:20.300 given me anything.

00:39:22.040 Some people

00:39:22.900 have been downright

00:39:25.180 awful,

00:39:26.980 you know,

00:39:27.980 and said bad things

00:39:30.160 but I'm not bothered

00:39:31.780 about that

00:39:32.320 because I don't,

00:39:34.980 I try not to concentrate

00:39:36.040 on the people

00:39:37.220 who knock

00:39:38.440 although as comedians

00:39:39.400 you'll know yourself

00:39:40.120 you do,

00:39:40.560 don't you?

00:39:41.320 Do you know what I mean?

00:39:42.720 You always concentrate

00:39:43.980 on,

00:39:45.180 you could have like

00:39:45.680 a room full of people

00:39:47.360 loving you

00:39:47.840 and then one or two

00:39:49.340 people not laughing

00:39:50.120 and you'll concentrate

00:39:50.860 on those two

00:39:51.640 rather than all the rest

00:39:53.460 but I try not to

00:39:54.760 concentrate on

00:39:55.600 the negatives

00:39:56.760 and just

00:39:58.560 concentrate

00:40:00.760 on the positives

00:40:02.240 and now I feel

00:40:03.760 as though

00:40:04.220 well,

00:40:04.880 you know,

00:40:05.900 I've got a

00:40:06.840 tour

00:40:07.980 but it's even more

00:40:10.100 than that you see

00:40:10.700 because like last August

00:40:11.840 I got a phone call

00:40:14.760 off my agent

00:40:15.380 Michael

00:40:15.960 he'd come back

00:40:17.360 into the

00:40:17.800 frame

00:40:18.900 and

00:40:20.240 he said

00:40:22.140 I'll put you in

00:40:22.760 for this

00:40:23.220 movie

00:40:24.220 for the lead role

00:40:25.960 have you?

00:40:26.760 I can't say

00:40:29.160 at this moment

00:40:29.740 in time

00:40:30.260 right

00:40:30.520 who the director

00:40:32.420 is right

00:40:33.000 he's one of the

00:40:34.380 most iconic

00:40:35.040 British directors

00:40:36.360 ever

00:40:37.480 are putting him

00:40:39.000 for the lead role

00:40:39.720 so we got the

00:40:42.120 feedback

00:40:42.460 oh yeah

00:40:42.900 you know

00:40:43.340 so and so

00:40:44.020 so and so

00:40:44.480 knows what he can

00:40:45.080 do

00:40:45.320 blah blah blah

00:40:46.200 we're not really

00:40:47.520 bothered

00:40:47.720 and then all of a

00:40:48.280 sudden it just

00:40:48.720 changed

00:40:49.220 my mate

00:40:51.260 he's a

00:40:51.720 a psychic

00:40:52.620 Tony Kohler

00:40:54.120 call him

00:40:54.540 who was armed

00:40:55.540 robber

00:40:56.100 right

00:40:56.340 from Middlesbrough

00:40:56.960 psychic

00:40:57.340 a psychic

00:40:58.660 taxi driver 1.00

00:40:59.400 fucking 1.00

00:41:00.400 unbelievable 0.99

00:41:01.100 right

00:41:01.460 and this is

00:41:02.680 no I don't

00:41:03.140 allow you

00:41:03.440 but you laugh

00:41:03.940 right

00:41:04.200 he's as funny 1.00

00:41:04.920 as fuck 1.00

00:41:05.220 anyway 1.00

00:41:05.500 right

00:41:06.040 proper

00:41:06.800 rough arsed

00:41:07.820 smoggy

00:41:09.100 borough taxi

00:41:09.860 driver

00:41:10.300 armed robber

00:41:11.380 got put away

00:41:11.920 for armed robbery

00:41:12.520 right

00:41:12.760 and he started

00:41:14.620 hearing these

00:41:15.140 things

00:41:15.420 and when I was

00:41:16.740 at Edinburgh

00:41:17.120 he was saying

00:41:17.740 you're going to

00:41:17.980 have an Hollywood

00:41:18.360 film director

00:41:18.980 and contact you

00:41:19.880 and I did

00:41:20.540 right

00:41:21.040 so he was

00:41:23.160 telling me

00:41:23.620 it doesn't

00:41:25.340 matter

00:41:25.500 when I got

00:41:26.520 this

00:41:26.700 Michael told

00:41:27.880 me I was

00:41:28.160 up for this

00:41:28.540 movie

00:41:28.900 Tony was

00:41:31.000 saying

00:41:31.360 it doesn't

00:41:33.080 matter

00:41:33.240 they're going

00:41:33.660 to want

00:41:33.960 you

00:41:34.200 right

00:41:35.200 this other

00:41:35.840 Irish fellow

00:41:36.420 called Eddie

00:41:37.280 he was

00:41:37.700 saying they're

00:41:38.320 going to

00:41:38.500 want you

00:41:38.840 long story

00:41:39.980 short

00:41:40.360 right

00:41:40.620 just

00:41:42.460 before

00:41:43.200 I got the

00:41:44.140 phone call

00:41:44.760 from

00:41:45.720 Comedy

00:41:46.260 Unleashed

00:41:46.780 I went

00:41:49.760 for the

00:41:50.380 last casting

00:41:51.020 and I've

00:41:51.860 got a part

00:41:52.320 in this 1.00

00:41:52.620 fucking 1.00

00:41:52.860 movie 1.00

00:41:53.240 this

00:41:54.280 major

00:41:54.620 British

00:41:54.940 movie

00:41:55.360 so I've

00:41:57.260 got like

00:41:57.700 I tidied

00:41:58.660 myself up

00:41:59.420 I'd rehearsed

00:42:00.480 my act

00:42:00.900 I'd started

00:42:01.320 getting

00:42:01.620 small spots

00:42:03.300 and stuff

00:42:03.920 just leading

00:42:04.900 up to

00:42:05.320 backyard

00:42:06.300 comedy

00:42:06.740 did

00:42:07.460 backyard

00:42:07.880 comedy

00:42:08.380 got a

00:42:09.500 standard

00:42:09.740 innovation

00:42:10.160 for about

00:42:11.380 a minute

00:42:11.720 and a half

00:42:12.260 got on

00:42:13.640 my ocean

00:42:14.000 yeah I got 0.97

00:42:14.340 fucking tired 0.97

00:42:14.880 of standing 0.99

00:42:15.260 it down

00:42:15.660 there I'll

00:42:15.960 tell you

00:42:16.260 that's what

00:42:16.860 you get

00:42:17.060 with talents

00:42:17.500 got all

00:42:19.560 my house

00:42:19.960 sorted

00:42:20.400 landed

00:42:21.600 a part

00:42:22.020 in a 1.00

00:42:22.260 fucking 1.00

00:42:22.560 major 1.00

00:42:23.180 British

00:42:23.480 movie

00:42:23.740 that we

00:42:24.000 start

00:42:24.280 filming

00:42:24.680 this

00:42:25.940 month

00:42:26.280 and now

00:42:27.900 I'm on

00:42:28.340 a 30

00:42:28.700 date

00:42:28.940 to it

00:42:29.260 and it's

00:42:29.600 just 1.00

00:42:30.020 fucking 0.99

00:42:30.800 unbelievable 1.00

00:42:32.040 and I

00:42:32.420 think

00:42:32.580 myself

00:42:32.980 well

00:42:33.260 I'm not

00:42:35.680 saying I'm

00:42:36.020 bigger than

00:42:36.380 the comedy

00:42:36.740 circuit

00:42:37.120 but do

00:42:38.180 I need 1.00

00:42:38.520 that shit 1.00

00:42:39.040 do I 1.00

00:42:40.260 need

00:42:40.480 the five

00:42:41.200 do I

00:42:41.580 need to

00:42:41.860 try and

00:42:42.260 prove

00:42:42.680 myself

00:42:43.160 you know

00:42:44.940 on five

00:42:45.700 and ten

00:42:46.060 minute

00:42:46.240 open

00:42:46.520 spots

00:42:47.040 trying to

00:42:47.820 get

00:42:47.980 please give

00:42:48.900 me a gig

00:42:49.380 please give

00:42:50.240 me a gig 1.00

00:42:50.620 I'll suck 1.00

00:42:51.220 your dick 1.00

00:42:51.660 for a gig 1.00

00:42:52.180 please

00:42:52.580 you never

00:42:54.200 did that to

00:42:54.720 me mate

00:42:55.120 no I know

00:42:56.000 I know

00:42:56.560 well that's why

00:42:57.180 I was a comedy

00:42:57.800 promoter

00:42:58.140 I don't want to

00:42:58.880 I don't want to

00:43:00.720 rush a nuclear

00:43:01.280 missile

00:43:01.660 do you know

00:43:04.020 and I just

00:43:04.400 think myself

00:43:05.040 you know

00:43:06.020 in all the

00:43:08.820 years leading

00:43:09.520 up to this

00:43:10.280 they gave me

00:43:11.480 nothing

00:43:11.880 Chris you don't

00:43:13.080 even need to

00:43:13.540 think about it

00:43:14.080 anymore man

00:43:14.660 well I do

00:43:15.740 you see

00:43:16.080 because I'm

00:43:16.460 this is your

00:43:18.360 shot

00:43:18.680 yeah but

00:43:19.200 this is your

00:43:19.680 shot

00:43:19.940 and you've 0.58

00:43:20.220 just got to 0.99

00:43:20.460 fucking take 0.99

00:43:20.920 it 1.00

00:43:21.020 it is my

00:43:21.420 shot

00:43:21.660 and it

00:43:22.040 is my

00:43:22.420 shot

00:43:22.600 I mean

00:43:22.840 I mean

00:43:23.500 this is

00:43:23.820 honestly right

00:43:24.960 I'm not

00:43:25.560 kidding you

00:43:25.980 right

00:43:26.140 you won't

00:43:26.720 believe this

00:43:27.180 right

00:43:27.380 Eric Clapton 0.99

00:43:29.140 fucking emailed 0.99

00:43:29.980 me 0.99

00:43:30.720 I got like 1.00

00:43:32.080 fuck me 1.00

00:43:32.840 do you know 1.00

00:43:33.980 what when I

00:43:34.720 heard about

00:43:35.160 that because

00:43:35.720 he watches

00:43:36.380 trigonometry

00:43:37.040 I was obviously

00:43:38.180 delighted with it

00:43:38.980 for you I was

00:43:39.520 like what the 0.99

00:43:40.000 fuck hasn't 0.99

00:43:40.440 emailed me 0.99

00:43:41.080 I don't think

00:43:42.080 he watches

00:43:42.420 trigonometry

00:43:43.140 thanks mate

00:43:44.400 just watches

00:43:45.440 Chris McGlade

00:43:46.200 no there's a

00:43:47.900 there's a guy

00:43:48.820 believable mate

00:43:49.680 there's a

00:43:50.560 no gratitude

00:43:51.480 these days

00:43:52.140 there's an

00:43:52.540 acquaintance

00:43:53.200 right

00:43:53.700 I have

00:43:54.380 and he liked

00:43:56.120 my stuff

00:43:56.660 so he's

00:43:58.000 on

00:43:58.280 what's that

00:44:00.780 what's that

00:44:01.400 other social

00:44:02.460 network

00:44:02.920 forum

00:44:03.420 TikTok

00:44:05.320 no not

00:44:06.180 TikTok

00:44:06.500 Instagram

00:44:06.960 no it's

00:44:08.520 not Parler

00:44:09.120 Telegram

00:44:09.800 Telegram

00:44:10.460 he's big on

00:44:11.480 Telegram he has

00:44:12.040 a massive

00:44:12.400 following he's

00:44:13.200 a free speech

00:44:14.040 advocate and

00:44:14.620 all this you

00:44:15.080 know

00:44:15.300 and I sent

00:44:18.460 him I'd seen

00:44:19.460 Clapton do

00:44:20.080 this interview

00:44:21.400 right and he

00:44:23.620 was telling

00:44:24.060 people how

00:44:24.940 the jab

00:44:26.060 the COVID

00:44:26.540 jab had

00:44:27.060 affected his

00:44:27.680 hands

00:44:28.040 and he got

00:44:29.300 really emotional

00:44:30.020 and he

00:44:30.300 mentioned this

00:44:30.800 chap

00:44:31.040 so I

00:44:32.320 thought

00:44:32.940 well okay

00:44:33.300 now I'll

00:44:33.880 because this

00:44:34.540 chap is big

00:44:35.620 on Telegram

00:44:36.120 and he's

00:44:36.500 you know

00:44:36.820 an advocate

00:44:37.240 he likes

00:44:37.720 free speech

00:44:38.080 he came

00:44:38.420 in the backyard

00:44:38.960 on the night

00:44:39.960 you and

00:44:40.760 Anton did

00:44:41.180 so I sent

00:44:45.040 him some

00:44:45.300 of my stuff

00:44:45.640 and he

00:44:45.820 loved it

00:44:46.380 and like

00:44:47.960 Clapton

00:44:48.300 liked it

00:44:48.680 as well

00:44:48.940 you see

00:44:49.260 so I

00:44:50.680 said

00:44:50.900 would you

00:44:51.660 ask Eric

00:44:52.080 if he

00:44:52.320 wanted to

00:44:52.660 come to

00:44:52.880 the gig

00:44:53.060 well he

00:44:53.980 messaged me

00:44:54.560 back and

00:44:55.160 he said

00:44:55.540 Eric said

00:44:56.280 he'd be

00:44:56.520 absolutely

00:44:56.880 honoured to

00:44:57.320 come to

00:44:57.560 your gig

00:44:58.000 I'm like 1.00

00:44:58.800 fucking Eric 0.99

00:44:59.240 Clapton 0.99

00:44:59.480 would be

00:44:59.640 honoured to

00:45:00.080 come to

00:45:00.320 my gig

00:45:00.720 I'm like

00:45:01.140 you know 0.98

00:45:01.360 wanking

00:45:01.640 slow hand

00:45:03.560 you know

00:45:03.820 like smart

00:45:05.080 stuff

00:45:05.500 and it's

00:45:06.860 like

00:45:07.180 and on the

00:45:08.420 night of

00:45:08.680 the gig

00:45:09.000 or the

00:45:09.220 day of

00:45:09.440 the gig

00:45:09.760 Clapton

00:45:10.740 messaged

00:45:11.120 me

00:45:11.380 emailed me

00:45:12.280 and said

00:45:13.060 because of

00:45:14.560 the Covid

00:45:14.900 and everything

00:45:15.560 he didn't

00:45:16.700 want to

00:45:16.920 take the

00:45:17.180 risk of

00:45:17.700 coming to

00:45:18.340 a packed

00:45:19.440 comedy thing

00:45:20.320 fair enough

00:45:21.400 but he said

00:45:22.400 we'll definitely

00:45:22.820 meet further

00:45:23.380 on down the

00:45:23.800 road

00:45:23.940 which is

00:45:24.240 one of

00:45:24.440 his songs

00:45:24.900 and like

00:45:26.080 I'm thinking

00:45:26.600 like all

00:45:27.340 this doesn't

00:45:27.840 happen to

00:45:28.240 me

00:45:28.460 and so

00:45:29.800 it's like

00:45:30.300 like my

00:45:32.080 dad died

00:45:32.540 and I

00:45:33.100 finished in

00:45:33.520 Billy Elliot

00:45:33.960 in

00:45:34.560 2011

00:45:37.320 my dad

00:45:40.080 had been

00:45:41.740 murdered in

00:45:42.340 2011

00:45:44.540 and I'd

00:45:47.580 finished his

00:45:49.360 political campaign

00:45:50.360 in Redcar

00:45:51.020 and everything

00:45:52.440 and I'd

00:45:55.120 come up

00:45:55.360 and Billy

00:45:55.600 Elliot

00:45:55.840 and all

00:45:56.120 that

00:45:56.300 and there

00:45:56.920 was nothing

00:45:57.380 and that's

00:45:58.300 when I'd

00:45:58.880 spent all

00:45:59.380 those years

00:45:59.900 12 years

00:46:00.520 begging

00:46:00.980 top agents

00:46:01.900 and all

00:46:02.380 these people

00:46:02.820 please

00:46:03.300 come and

00:46:03.860 see me

00:46:04.160 and all

00:46:04.440 this

00:46:04.640 and I

00:46:05.780 came close

00:46:06.440 to off

00:46:06.700 the curb

00:46:07.180 offering me

00:46:07.920 a spot

00:46:08.280 somewhere

00:46:08.580 in Essex

00:46:09.120 and then

00:46:10.220 they pulled

00:46:10.520 it and

00:46:10.720 put this

00:46:11.000 Irish chap

00:46:11.820 in instead

00:46:12.500 and I'd

00:46:15.880 done all

00:46:16.220 that for

00:46:16.500 the best

00:46:16.800 part of

00:46:17.120 12 years

00:46:17.760 right

00:46:18.020 and then

00:46:19.840 after all

00:46:21.060 these things

00:46:21.480 happened

00:46:21.980 last year

00:46:23.180 I don't

00:46:25.240 feel as

00:46:25.600 I have

00:46:26.440 to sort

00:46:27.180 of like

00:46:27.440 humble

00:46:27.780 myself

00:46:28.300 or Beck

00:46:29.560 anymore

00:46:30.120 I mean

00:46:31.040 like

00:46:31.200 I don't

00:46:32.620 know

00:46:32.880 if the

00:46:33.300 tour

00:46:33.480 is

00:46:33.640 going

00:46:33.820 to

00:46:34.300 do

00:46:34.980 anything

00:46:35.300 I mean

00:46:35.620 you've

00:46:36.280 got like

00:46:36.640 300,000

00:46:37.460 people

00:46:37.840 subscribing to

00:46:39.040 your channel

00:46:39.480 if 7,000

00:46:41.200 of those

00:46:41.620 people

00:46:42.120 decided

00:46:44.480 they like

00:46:45.080 what they

00:46:45.420 see

00:46:45.660 and they

00:46:47.000 want to

00:46:47.300 buy tickets

00:46:47.900 that's great

00:46:48.540 that's job

00:46:49.400 done

00:46:49.620 this interview

00:46:50.240 that's great

00:46:51.060 you know what

00:46:51.300 I mean

00:46:51.420 it's like

00:46:51.940 every time

00:46:52.400 you see

00:46:52.720 a celebrity

00:46:53.280 on a telly

00:46:53.900 on Jonathan

00:46:54.760 Russell

00:46:55.040 they're always 0.99

00:46:55.600 fucking selling 1.00

00:46:56.260 something 1.00

00:46:56.520 and I suppose

00:46:57.800 that's what I'm

00:46:58.280 doing here

00:46:58.680 today

00:46:58.900 I'm trying

00:46:59.260 to sell

00:46:59.600 the show

00:46:59.940 but I

00:47:00.240 want people

00:47:00.700 to know

00:47:01.240 that no matter

00:47:04.620 how bad

00:47:05.320 you think

00:47:05.840 things are

00:47:06.680 if you

00:47:08.660 keep

00:47:09.080 that belief

00:47:11.780 it might be

00:47:13.420 in God

00:47:13.840 it might be

00:47:14.520 in spirit

00:47:14.980 it might be

00:47:17.480 just in you

00:47:18.160 right

00:47:19.720 it might just

00:47:20.180 be in yourself

00:47:21.080 but if you

00:47:22.940 keep that

00:47:23.460 faith and

00:47:24.340 belief in

00:47:24.740 yourself 1.00

00:47:25.020 and fuck 1.00

00:47:25.420 me 1.00

00:47:25.600 I'll tell

00:47:25.860 you what

00:47:26.040 it was

00:47:26.380 my hand

00:47:26.720 was like

00:47:27.060 this

00:47:27.300 like

00:47:27.560 stretched

00:47:27.900 to the

00:47:28.140 limit

00:47:28.340 and I

00:47:29.840 almost

00:47:30.160 lost it

00:47:30.840 but I

00:47:32.420 didn't lose

00:47:32.820 it quite

00:47:33.220 and if

00:47:33.640 you just

00:47:33.920 keep it

00:47:34.540 then you

00:47:36.580 never know

00:47:37.000 what's

00:47:37.400 right

00:47:37.900 and I

00:47:39.620 am living

00:47:40.060 proof of

00:47:40.500 that

00:47:40.640 you know

00:47:40.840 what I

00:47:40.980 mean

00:47:41.140 and so

00:47:41.500 that's

00:47:41.760 why

00:47:41.920 I've

00:47:42.140 I've

00:47:43.380 come

00:47:43.540 I mean

00:47:43.840 I love

00:47:44.300 you to

00:47:44.540 it to

00:47:44.700 bits

00:47:44.880 but that's

00:47:45.400 why

00:47:45.620 I've

00:47:45.900 come on

00:47:46.340 to this

00:47:46.840 thing

00:47:47.020 again

00:47:47.340 because

00:47:47.760 I want

00:47:48.040 I've

00:47:49.740 built up

00:47:50.300 this like

00:47:50.640 social media

00:47:51.460 following now

00:47:52.160 and people

00:47:52.740 say oh

00:47:53.080 yeah

00:47:53.200 I've inspired

00:47:53.900 me

00:47:54.080 through my

00:47:54.400 darkest

00:47:54.700 days

00:47:55.040 and all

00:47:55.340 of this

00:47:55.580 you know

00:47:55.880 through

00:47:56.420 lockdown

00:47:56.800 you're making

00:47:57.240 those live

00:47:57.720 videos

00:47:58.120 and they

00:47:58.420 made sense

00:47:58.920 to me

00:47:59.220 and you

00:47:59.460 know

00:47:59.540 you didn't

00:48:00.420 mind

00:48:00.680 laying yourself

00:48:01.420 bare

00:48:01.800 and showing

00:48:02.220 us what's

00:48:03.080 and all

00:48:03.360 like you

00:48:03.740 say that

00:48:04.200 comes down

00:48:04.660 to being

00:48:04.980 honest

00:48:05.300 I suppose

00:48:05.940 and people

00:48:07.140 have gained

00:48:07.480 comfort from

00:48:08.040 that and

00:48:08.300 that makes

00:48:09.180 me feel

00:48:09.600 very proud

00:48:10.140 you know

00:48:10.360 what I

00:48:10.520 mean

00:48:10.680 so if

00:48:12.340 I can

00:48:12.680 inspire

00:48:13.080 people

00:48:13.620 you know

00:48:14.760 to carry

00:48:15.140 on going

00:48:15.680 through my

00:48:16.600 story

00:48:17.080 you know

00:48:18.240 and I

00:48:18.920 have you

00:48:19.300 know I've

00:48:20.020 scraped

00:48:20.320 the bottom

00:48:20.980 of the

00:48:21.220 barrel and

00:48:21.640 stuff

00:48:21.940 but if

00:48:23.220 I can

00:48:23.960 inspire

00:48:24.480 people

00:48:24.800 to carry

00:48:25.140 on

00:48:25.380 through my

00:48:25.860 story

00:48:26.240 then

00:48:26.540 that's

00:48:28.260 all fair

00:48:28.700 and well

00:48:28.960 you know

00:48:29.240 and it's

00:48:30.160 not about

00:48:30.440 the comedy

00:48:30.820 circuit

00:48:31.220 beating me

00:48:32.520 or me 0.93

00:48:33.040 beating the

00:48:33.480 comedy

00:48:33.700 circuit

00:48:34.100 it's just

00:48:34.680 you know

00:48:35.040 Chris

00:48:35.660 Francis will

00:48:37.120 tell you a

00:48:37.480 story about

00:48:37.800 a mutual

00:48:38.120 friend of

00:48:38.560 ours

00:48:38.780 a comedian

00:48:39.300 who summed

00:48:40.500 up the

00:48:40.800 comedy

00:48:41.060 circuit

00:48:41.520 perfectly

00:48:42.480 do you

00:48:42.680 remember

00:48:42.920 Javier 0.93

00:48:44.080 yeah

00:48:45.440 yeah

00:48:45.980 yeah

00:48:46.220 I'm gonna

00:48:47.280 talk about

00:48:47.900 that

00:48:48.100 you know

00:48:48.420 what your

00:48:49.060 story reminds

00:48:49.720 me of

00:48:50.040 I remember

00:48:50.420 reading

00:48:50.920 Stephen Fry's

00:48:51.780 autobiography

00:48:52.380 have you seen

00:48:52.860 it

00:48:53.060 no

00:48:53.460 have you

00:48:53.720 read it

00:48:54.000 he talks

00:48:54.920 about

00:48:55.300 Star Trek

00:48:55.880 because he's a huge

00:48:56.380 Star Trek fan

00:48:57.080 and he relates

00:48:57.580 a story from

00:48:58.160 Star Trek

00:48:58.720 where Spock

00:49:00.160 and Captain

00:49:01.920 Kirk were

00:49:02.320 looking out

00:49:02.780 over the

00:49:03.400 galaxy

00:49:03.720 and Kirk

00:49:05.380 looked at

00:49:05.820 Spock

00:49:06.100 and he said

00:49:06.600 you know

00:49:06.900 something

00:49:07.300 Spock

00:49:09.120 there is

00:49:09.580 somebody at

00:49:10.220 this point

00:49:10.680 in the

00:49:10.940 galaxy

00:49:11.260 saying

00:49:11.680 the three

00:49:12.440 most beautiful

00:49:13.120 words in

00:49:13.880 the world

00:49:14.260 please help

00:49:15.760 me

00:49:15.980 yeah

00:49:16.520 and that's

00:49:17.620 it

00:49:17.840 the moment

00:49:18.800 where you

00:49:19.240 reach out

00:49:19.940 and you go

00:49:20.460 things have

00:49:21.040 got to

00:49:21.320 change

00:49:21.680 I can't

00:49:22.680 carry on

00:49:23.120 like this

00:49:23.540 I can't

00:49:24.500 do this

00:49:24.920 any longer

00:49:25.500 I want

00:49:26.480 to change

00:49:27.100 things change

00:49:29.120 honestly

00:49:30.280 and that's

00:49:30.880 like I

00:49:32.680 resonate with

00:49:33.240 that massively

00:49:33.820 because I

00:49:34.460 mean like

00:49:35.260 you said

00:49:35.460 that's happened

00:49:35.840 to me twice

00:49:36.400 in my life

00:49:36.840 I mean I

00:49:37.160 had a massive

00:49:37.560 spiritual

00:49:37.960 experience in

00:49:38.600 Gran Canaria

00:49:39.100 I'm not

00:49:41.260 going to go

00:49:41.580 into it

00:49:42.160 now because

00:49:43.060 I'd be

00:49:44.240 here for

00:49:44.460 five days

00:49:45.060 talking about

00:49:45.700 it

00:49:45.900 the ramifications

00:49:47.100 of it

00:49:47.620 like

00:49:49.200 have left

00:49:52.080 its mark

00:49:52.500 on my

00:49:52.780 life

00:49:53.160 like massively

00:49:54.900 people can

00:49:56.940 people can

00:49:59.360 scoff

00:49:59.900 about

00:50:03.680 all things

00:50:04.760 spiritual

00:50:05.320 and I get

00:50:07.280 that

00:50:07.640 do you know

00:50:08.480 what I mean

00:50:08.740 I get

00:50:09.740 that most

00:50:10.100 people go

00:50:10.960 with how

00:50:11.400 you know

00:50:12.240 I can

00:50:12.740 touch this

00:50:13.320 and it's

00:50:13.640 below it

00:50:14.240 and I can

00:50:14.980 drink this

00:50:15.420 tea and

00:50:15.880 it's nice

00:50:16.440 and you

00:50:17.240 know I

00:50:17.640 can see

00:50:18.060 you and

00:50:18.580 I can

00:50:18.840 taste this

00:50:19.560 but like

00:50:22.820 when

00:50:23.420 something

00:50:24.620 happens that

00:50:25.340 you can't

00:50:25.800 see touch

00:50:26.360 feel hear

00:50:27.020 smell or

00:50:27.560 whatever

00:50:27.820 right but

00:50:28.700 you know

00:50:29.100 it's

00:50:29.320 happened

00:50:29.760 the only

00:50:35.420 way I can

00:50:35.840 describe it

00:50:36.500 to you

00:50:36.700 it's like

00:50:37.240 it's like

00:50:38.600 your clock's

00:50:40.200 ticking like

00:50:41.240 this and

00:50:42.300 all of a

00:50:42.540 sudden it

00:50:42.760 stops and

00:50:44.400 then it

00:50:44.660 starts ticking

00:50:45.920 like that

00:50:46.440 do you know

00:50:47.220 what I mean

00:50:47.360 and everything

00:50:48.180 but everything

00:50:48.760 is different

00:50:50.200 and that's

00:50:51.800 what happened

00:50:52.580 to me

00:50:52.920 and I

00:50:53.800 have got

00:50:54.620 this

00:50:55.000 spirituality

00:50:56.580 and I

00:50:58.280 have been

00:50:58.840 in that

00:50:59.940 position twice

00:51:00.680 in my life

00:51:01.260 where I

00:51:01.980 have asked

00:51:03.140 something that

00:51:03.780 I can't see

00:51:04.520 feel hear

00:51:05.200 or whatever

00:51:05.720 just

00:51:08.800 help me

00:51:10.400 yeah

00:51:11.100 and

00:51:11.920 and

00:51:12.540 on both

00:51:13.420 occasions

00:51:14.180 it's come

00:51:17.900 up trumps

00:51:18.480 it's come

00:51:24.180 up trumps

00:51:24.720 and I

00:51:28.400 can't

00:51:28.780 I'm not

00:51:29.100 going to

00:51:29.280 turn my

00:51:29.560 back on

00:51:29.860 it

00:51:30.120 and I'm

00:51:32.420 not going

00:51:32.680 to deny

00:51:33.000 it

00:51:33.360 it's very

00:51:38.200 personal to

00:51:38.900 me

00:51:39.140 it's based

00:51:42.640 in

00:51:42.880 a lot

00:51:44.300 of things

00:51:44.780 it's based

00:51:45.880 in the love

00:51:46.300 of my

00:51:46.780 family

00:51:47.060 my

00:51:47.240 grandchildren

00:51:47.720 I look

00:51:51.240 at it

00:51:51.400 now you

00:51:51.680 know

00:51:51.900 and my

00:51:52.760 grandchildren's

00:51:53.600 great

00:51:53.800 grandma

00:51:54.120 like I

00:51:54.420 say she

00:51:54.740 passed

00:51:55.000 away

00:51:55.180 last

00:51:55.480 week

00:51:55.780 and my

00:51:57.540 grandchildren

00:51:58.040 were upset

00:52:01.500 about it

00:52:02.000 and they

00:52:03.600 saw like

00:52:03.960 once a

00:52:04.660 week

00:52:04.880 or whatever

00:52:05.340 and they

00:52:07.360 see me

00:52:07.620 nearly every

00:52:08.040 day

00:52:08.360 and last

00:52:10.140 week I

00:52:10.480 thought to

00:52:10.760 myself 1.00

00:52:11.060 you bastard 1.00

00:52:11.700 if you 1.00

00:52:12.920 had to 1.00

00:52:13.160 kill yourself 0.99

00:52:13.820 how upset 1.00

00:52:16.100 would the

00:52:16.360 grandkids

00:52:16.760 have been

00:52:17.160 and I

00:52:18.880 thought to

00:52:19.280 myself

00:52:19.600 yesterday

00:52:20.120 no I

00:52:20.940 want to

00:52:21.240 live

00:52:21.580 I want to 1.00

00:52:23.900 fucking 0.99

00:52:24.140 live 1.00

00:52:24.520 I don't

00:52:26.380 want to

00:52:26.600 die no

00:52:26.920 more

00:52:27.220 and I

00:52:28.740 don't want to

00:52:29.080 go and

00:52:29.440 shaving

00:52:29.720 anymore

00:52:30.160 and I

00:52:31.060 don't want

00:52:31.360 to go

00:52:31.580 scruffy

00:52:32.060 anymore

00:52:32.440 and I

00:52:35.100 don't want

00:52:35.500 to

00:52:35.680 like you

00:52:36.760 know

00:52:36.980 let myself

00:52:38.880 go and

00:52:39.300 neglect

00:52:39.560 things

00:52:39.980 anymore

00:52:40.320 I want

00:52:41.500 to live

00:52:41.920 because you've

00:52:42.960 got things

00:52:43.280 to do

00:52:43.600 man

00:52:43.800 this is

00:52:44.440 what I

00:52:44.640 was going

00:52:44.860 to say

00:52:45.080 to you

00:52:45.280 about the

00:52:45.600 circuit

00:52:45.920 it's like

00:52:46.340 a friend

00:52:46.640 of ours

00:52:46.920 said to

00:52:47.260 us

00:52:47.460 this is

00:52:47.860 why it

00:52:48.100 matters

00:52:48.400 because

00:52:48.620 there's

00:52:48.820 a lot

00:52:49.020 of people

00:52:49.240 watching

00:52:49.580 this

00:52:49.760 in the

00:52:50.220 comedy

00:52:50.460 world

00:52:50.660 but it's

00:52:50.920 not just

00:52:51.220 the comedy

00:52:51.580 world

00:52:51.820 it applies

00:52:52.300 everywhere

00:52:52.660 in life

00:52:53.120 to the

00:52:54.300 circuit

00:52:54.660 you've

00:52:55.360 seen

00:52:55.780 Batman

00:52:56.240 it's like

00:52:57.340 that pit

00:52:57.860 that no

00:52:59.220 one's ever

00:52:59.620 climbed out

00:53:00.160 of

00:53:00.460 Bane was

00:53:02.040 the one

00:53:02.520 and he

00:53:03.060 said you

00:53:03.480 guys are

00:53:04.320 one of

00:53:04.620 the few

00:53:04.900 people that

00:53:05.400 ever get

00:53:05.800 to climb

00:53:06.180 out of

00:53:06.500 it

00:53:11.920 you had

00:53:12.220 the chance

00:53:12.620 to practice

00:53:13.220 to get

00:53:13.980 better

00:53:14.200 the comedy

00:53:14.460 circuit

00:53:14.840 didn't give

00:53:15.240 me

00:53:15.340 the

00:53:16.020 the

00:53:16.180 doing

00:53:16.440 the

00:53:16.620 comedy

00:53:16.820 because

00:53:17.100 you see

00:53:17.360 there's

00:53:17.800 two

00:53:18.000 there's

00:53:18.380 two

00:53:18.660 there's

00:53:19.840 two

00:53:20.040 circuits

00:53:20.540 isn't

00:53:20.800 there

00:53:20.960 yes

00:53:21.300 there's

00:53:22.000 the

00:53:22.420 circuit

00:53:22.800 I

00:53:24.800 learnt

00:53:25.060 my

00:53:25.340 trade

00:53:25.820 in

00:53:28.660 stag

00:53:29.400 shows

00:53:29.960 working

00:53:30.920 men's

00:53:31.320 clubs 0.68

00:53:31.680 strippers

00:53:32.440 some

00:53:33.520 of the

00:53:33.720 things

00:53:33.940 I've 0.99

00:53:34.140 fucking 1.00

00:53:34.380 seen 1.00

00:53:34.880 and done

00:53:35.700 on the

00:53:35.980 circuit

00:53:36.260 I

00:53:36.460 remember

00:53:36.940 working

00:53:37.300 in

00:53:37.520 this

00:53:37.800 place

00:53:39.800 they made

00:53:40.200 Marion

00:53:40.540 Centre in

00:53:41.100 Nottingham

00:53:41.480 right

00:53:42.260 or the

00:53:43.940 Robin

00:53:44.140 Hudson

00:53:44.400 it was

00:53:44.660 the

00:53:44.760 made

00:53:44.920 Marion

00:53:45.220 suite

00:53:45.680 I

00:53:46.460 worked

00:53:46.640 with

00:53:46.780 two

00:53:46.980 strippers

00:53:47.440 on a

00:53:49.440 wedding

00:53:49.640 tonight

00:53:50.040 it was 0.99

00:53:50.880 fucking 1.00

00:53:51.180 awful 1.00

00:53:51.560 they left

00:53:53.140 all the

00:53:53.460 sex toys 0.66

00:53:53.940 on the 1.00

00:53:54.260 fucking 1.00

00:53:54.480 floor 1.00

00:53:54.860 and it

00:53:55.860 was like

00:53:56.100 a scene

00:53:56.440 from

00:53:56.600 horror film

00:53:57.040 like this 0.97

00:53:57.400 black 1.00

00:53:57.780 dildo 0.98

00:53:58.220 was 1.00

00:53:58.380 fucking 1.00

00:53:58.700 like a 1.00

00:53:59.100 finger

00:53:59.320 was crawling

00:53:59.820 across the

00:54:00.380 stage

00:54:00.660 like that

00:54:01.040 you know

00:54:01.260 I remember

00:54:04.100 doing a

00:54:05.140 stag

00:54:05.520 do in

00:54:06.920 Doncaster

00:54:07.820 on a

00:54:08.220 Sunday

00:54:08.460 night

00:54:08.820 and I'm

00:54:10.580 not lying

00:54:11.020 to you

00:54:11.300 at the

00:54:12.180 end of

00:54:12.460 the

00:54:12.580 thing

00:54:12.920 all the

00:54:13.740 lads

00:54:13.900 have a

00:54:14.120 whip

00:54:14.260 round

00:54:14.540 to get

00:54:15.020 one of

00:54:15.260 the

00:54:15.340 lads

00:54:15.520 up

00:54:15.660 right

00:54:15.860 and

00:54:17.160 the

00:54:17.420 strippers

00:54:17.660 make a bit

00:54:18.080 of an 1.00

00:54:18.280 ass 1.00

00:54:18.520 of him 0.97

00:54:18.720 like

00:54:18.860 you know

00:54:19.020 what I

00:54:19.160 mean

00:54:19.340 and

00:54:21.340 they got

00:54:21.820 this

00:54:22.000 gadget

00:54:22.260 up

00:54:22.540 started

00:54:23.360 stripping

00:54:23.700 him 0.95

00:54:23.820 off

00:54:23.980 you know

00:54:24.420 they're all

00:54:24.940 dancing

00:54:25.520 around

00:54:25.880 you know

00:54:26.120 what I

00:54:26.200 mean

00:54:26.300 taking

00:54:26.520 his

00:54:26.700 shirt

00:54:26.920 off

00:54:27.080 and all

00:54:27.340 that

00:54:27.480 all

00:54:27.680 the

00:54:27.780 lads

00:54:27.960 going

00:54:28.620 crazy

00:54:29.020 one 0.99

00:54:30.960 stripper

00:54:31.200 got

00:54:31.700 this

00:54:31.900 leg

00:54:32.160 like

00:54:32.480 that

00:54:32.680 and the

00:54:33.220 stripper

00:54:33.460 got

00:54:33.680 that

00:54:33.860 leg

00:54:34.000 like

00:54:34.140 that

00:54:34.320 and

00:54:34.620 like

00:54:34.940 that

00:54:35.480 you know

00:54:35.720 what I mean

00:54:35.960 pulling

00:54:36.640 his shirt

00:54:37.140 and stuff

00:54:38.340 off

00:54:38.580 his shoes

00:54:39.580 and socks

00:54:40.020 off

00:54:40.240 the first

00:54:41.320 stripper

00:54:41.640 grabbed all

00:54:43.260 this bloke's

00:54:43.900 shoe

00:54:44.140 pulled it

00:54:44.880 and the 1.00

00:54:45.180 fucking leg 1.00

00:54:45.640 came with 1.00

00:54:46.080 it right

00:54:46.420 he had a

00:54:46.860 prosthetic

00:54:47.380 leg

00:54:47.700 so she

00:54:49.540 stood

00:54:49.920 right

00:54:50.860 with this

00:54:52.000 gadget's

00:54:52.500 leg 0.97

00:54:52.680 with a 1.00

00:54:52.940 fucking 1.00

00:54:53.160 shoe 1.00

00:54:53.440 on it

00:54:53.680 and a

00:54:53.920 sock

00:54:54.160 right

00:54:54.440 well

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00:54:55.600 were

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00:56:17.240 and it

00:56:18.500 was

00:56:18.640 absolutely

00:56:19.120 I mean

00:56:19.480 I was

00:56:19.760 awful

00:56:20.360 I wasn't

00:56:21.560 ready for

00:56:21.940 it at

00:56:22.220 all

00:56:22.460 do you

00:56:22.600 know what

00:56:22.760 I mean

00:56:22.960 you know

00:56:23.860 like when

00:56:24.080 you see

00:56:24.340 these

00:56:24.700 these football

00:56:26.040 pundits and

00:56:26.620 they're talking

00:56:26.980 about you

00:56:27.380 know

00:56:27.560 should this

00:56:29.100 club go up

00:56:29.640 from the

00:56:29.920 championship

00:56:30.380 into the

00:56:30.820 premier league

00:56:31.540 and all the

00:56:31.960 rest of it

00:56:32.340 right

00:56:32.540 and you

00:56:33.460 think well

00:56:33.780 no you

00:56:34.080 want to

00:56:34.300 go in the

00:56:35.360 premier league

00:56:35.920 you know

00:56:36.120 well that's

00:56:37.300 where I

00:56:37.680 was like

00:56:38.060 well I

00:56:38.780 wasn't even

00:56:39.260 like

00:56:39.520 championship

00:56:40.160 you know

00:56:40.540 what I

00:56:40.660 mean

00:56:40.800 I was

00:56:41.120 like

00:56:41.340 maybe

00:56:41.640 third or

00:56:42.120 fourth

00:56:42.360 division

00:56:42.800 and I

00:56:44.680 suppose

00:56:44.940 this video

00:56:45.420 company

00:56:45.700 were trying

00:56:46.060 to put

00:56:46.360 me in

00:56:46.620 the top

00:56:46.920 flight

00:56:47.280 and when

00:56:48.260 I look

00:56:48.500 at it

00:56:48.720 I was

00:56:49.060 nowhere

00:56:49.340 near ready

00:56:50.160 and it

00:56:51.540 I mean

00:56:52.800 you've got to

00:56:54.480 understand on

00:56:55.120 that stag

00:56:55.660 circuit

00:56:56.160 the one

00:56:57.140 as racist 0.97

00:56:57.880 as you can 0.53

00:56:58.360 possibly be

00:56:59.020 the one

00:56:59.280 as sexist 0.98

00:57:00.160 as misogynistic 1.00

00:57:01.080 as sick 1.00

00:57:01.680 the fucking 1.00

00:57:02.220 lot 1.00

00:57:02.480 do you know

00:57:02.760 what I

00:57:02.780 mean

00:57:02.920 because it's

00:57:03.320 hard

00:57:03.620 whether the

00:57:04.380 audience is

00:57:05.320 black or

00:57:05.740 white

00:57:05.980 that's

00:57:06.500 the nature

00:57:08.040 of a stag

00:57:08.740 comedian

00:57:09.300 do you know

00:57:09.620 what I

00:57:09.700 mean

00:57:09.880 and that's

00:57:10.760 what it

00:57:11.080 was

00:57:11.320 and it 1.00

00:57:11.520 was fucking 0.99

00:57:12.020 awful 1.00

00:57:12.340 and they

00:57:13.200 wanted

00:57:13.500 they wanted

00:57:14.620 to do

00:57:15.180 this video

00:57:16.560 in a theatre

00:57:17.440 in London

00:57:17.960 and they

00:57:18.280 wanted

00:57:18.500 it was

00:57:19.420 alien to me

00:57:20.000 that would

00:57:20.380 be quite a 1.00

00:57:21.140 fucking show 1.00

00:57:21.880 they wanted 1.00

00:57:22.420 they wanted

00:57:22.980 to bus an

00:57:23.540 audience in

00:57:24.280 right

00:57:24.520 they wanted

00:57:25.060 to bus an

00:57:25.580 audience in

00:57:26.240 let's get

00:57:26.560 some northerners

00:57:27.280 in

00:57:27.520 and I

00:57:30.020 had this

00:57:30.440 I had this

00:57:31.000 like mad

00:57:31.500 well I still

00:57:32.160 got it

00:57:32.520 because I

00:57:32.820 love

00:57:33.120 Teesside

00:57:34.720 do you know

00:57:35.960 what I mean

00:57:36.080 I love 0.99

00:57:36.740 fucking 1.00

00:57:37.700 Borough 1.00

00:57:38.120 and Redca

00:57:39.320 where I

00:57:40.000 live

00:57:40.240 I just

00:57:40.580 love them

00:57:41.040 do you

00:57:41.500 know what I

00:57:41.600 mean

00:57:41.720 it's my

00:57:42.000 home

00:57:42.320 well I

00:57:43.700 said no I

00:57:44.120 want to do

00:57:44.420 it at the

00:57:44.660 Dormans

00:57:45.000 club in

00:57:45.400 Middlesbrough

00:57:45.880 the Dormans

00:57:47.080 club

00:57:47.380 what do you

00:57:49.980 call it

00:57:50.360 Bob

00:57:51.240 Monkhouse

00:57:52.620 and other

00:57:53.780 people there

00:57:54.400 that's what

00:57:54.940 I'm going to

00:57:55.180 so we did

00:57:56.480 it there

00:57:56.980 and all

00:57:58.680 it was like

00:57:59.040 two coaches

00:57:59.640 from Redca

00:58:00.120 came over

00:58:00.520 to Middlesbrough

00:58:01.120 they went

00:58:02.040 in this

00:58:02.340 club

00:58:02.680 the people

00:58:03.820 from Middlesbrough

00:58:04.300 took an

00:58:04.640 exception

00:58:04.960 well two

00:58:05.440 coaches

00:58:06.180 from Redca

00:58:06.820 it was the

00:58:07.500 first time

00:58:07.940 it was a

00:58:08.240 full scale

00:58:08.840 ride

00:58:09.320 and it was

00:58:10.520 the first

00:58:10.900 time that

00:58:11.480 CS gas

00:58:12.000 had been

00:58:12.260 used in

00:58:12.680 Teesside

00:58:13.140 at my 1.00

00:58:13.680 fucking 1.00

00:58:13.920 video 1.00

00:58:14.240 shooting

00:58:14.680 and we

00:58:16.840 had to

00:58:17.160 cobble it

00:58:17.620 up and we

00:58:18.060 did it again

00:58:18.600 because my

00:58:19.300 agent at the

00:58:19.780 time was from

00:58:20.200 South Wales

00:58:20.620 and we

00:58:20.860 cobbled it

00:58:21.200 up

00:58:21.320 we did it

00:58:21.920 again this

00:58:22.320 place

00:58:22.700 down in

00:58:24.560 South Wales

00:58:26.580 and it was

00:58:26.940 just awful

00:58:27.400 the video was 0.99

00:58:27.980 fucking awful 0.99

00:58:28.600 I'm not 1.00

00:58:30.060 proud of

00:58:30.400 I'm not proud

00:58:31.360 but I

00:58:32.220 wasn't ready

00:58:33.040 for it

00:58:33.280 but that's

00:58:33.620 my background

00:58:34.420 then you

00:58:35.980 got the

00:58:36.280 comedy

00:58:36.600 circuit

00:58:37.020 what you

00:58:37.800 would call

00:58:39.020 the comedy

00:58:39.740 circuit

00:58:40.120 do you

00:58:41.060 know what I

00:58:41.220 mean

00:58:41.420 like five

00:58:42.960 comedians

00:58:43.480 or four

00:58:43.940 comedians

00:58:44.520 and an

00:58:44.800 MC

00:58:45.140 and this

00:58:45.600 and that

00:58:45.800 and the

00:58:45.940 other

00:58:46.080 people echo

00:58:47.600 but if they

00:58:48.080 do then

00:58:48.500 echo too

00:58:49.340 much

00:58:49.540 you get

00:58:49.760 chucked out

00:58:50.180 and all

00:58:50.420 the rest

00:58:50.660 of it

00:58:50.820 it's a

00:58:52.420 complete

00:58:52.860 different

00:58:53.820 beast

00:58:54.320 where I'm

00:58:55.600 from

00:58:55.840 I mean

00:58:56.080 I went to

00:58:57.180 the gig

00:58:57.480 with Alfie

00:58:58.080 all those

00:58:58.900 years ago

00:58:59.320 down to

00:58:59.680 Exeter

00:59:00.100 he had

00:59:02.200 this like

00:59:02.580 television

00:59:03.140 theme

00:59:04.200 idea

00:59:04.860 about me

00:59:06.220 and him

00:59:06.580 like swapping

00:59:07.620 so like

00:59:08.780 I'd go on

00:59:09.380 that circuit

00:59:10.260 that he did

00:59:10.900 in London

00:59:11.600 in the

00:59:11.920 south east

00:59:12.420 or whatever

00:59:12.780 and he'd

00:59:13.700 do like

00:59:14.240 the clubs

00:59:14.620 in the

00:59:14.900 north east

00:59:15.260 I thought

00:59:15.600 it was a

00:59:15.800 great idea

00:59:16.300 I mean

00:59:16.520 I would

00:59:17.180 love to

00:59:17.460 see him

00:59:17.720 I've

00:59:18.480 seen

00:59:18.880 comedians

00:59:19.660 on that

00:59:20.300 comedy

00:59:20.680 circuit

00:59:22.000 the London

00:59:22.480 like London

00:59:23.180 esque

00:59:23.500 kind of

00:59:23.940 comedy

00:59:24.160 circuit

00:59:24.600 because

00:59:25.440 they're

00:59:25.600 putting

00:59:25.820 more and

00:59:27.000 more of

00:59:27.240 these

00:59:27.380 comedy

00:59:27.700 nights

00:59:27.980 on

00:59:28.220 in

00:59:28.940 working

00:59:29.200 men's

00:59:29.540 clubs

00:59:29.760 now

00:59:29.980 in

00:59:30.100 the

00:59:30.200 north

00:59:30.500 and

00:59:31.200 I've

00:59:31.340 seen

00:59:31.600 some

00:59:31.820 of

00:59:31.960 these

00:59:32.140 circuit

00:59:32.960 comedians

00:59:33.560 coming to

00:59:33.940 working

00:59:34.160 men's

00:59:34.440 club

00:59:34.600 and you

00:59:34.820 can see

00:59:35.180 the colour

00:59:35.920 drain out

00:59:36.780 of them 0.67

00:59:37.000 you know

00:59:38.620 because

00:59:39.160 they're really

00:59:40.360 uncompromising

00:59:41.300 like you

00:59:42.960 know

00:59:43.100 places to

00:59:44.560 work

00:59:44.960 my point

00:59:45.960 is

00:59:46.260 you've

00:59:46.880 done

00:59:47.040 all that

00:59:47.420 you've

00:59:48.420 done

00:59:48.600 all that

00:59:48.940 and now

00:59:51.160 you've

00:59:51.320 got your

00:59:51.580 shot

00:59:51.780 and you've

00:59:53.360 got a

00:59:53.620 30 day

00:59:54.120 tour

00:59:54.440 and you've

00:59:54.760 got a

00:59:55.020 part in

00:59:55.340 the movie

00:59:55.660 and I

00:59:55.960 couldn't be

00:59:56.400 happier for

00:59:56.880 you

00:59:57.100 well

00:59:57.880 listen

00:59:58.680 as I said

01:00:01.120 to you before

01:00:01.640 when we did

01:00:02.380 Trigger Number 3

01:00:03.060 last year

01:00:03.640 at that time

01:00:07.620 I had the show

01:00:08.460 in front of me

01:00:09.160 and

01:00:10.460 and that was it

01:00:11.720 I didn't

01:00:12.480 we didn't have any

01:00:13.360 more plans

01:00:14.020 to do forgiveness

01:00:15.000 anywhere else

01:00:15.900 right

01:00:16.780 and that was that

01:00:18.140 and then we

01:00:19.460 did it

01:00:19.820 and now

01:00:20.420 I've got the

01:00:20.720 opportunity

01:00:21.180 now

01:00:22.140 all I know

01:00:23.100 is

01:00:23.320 I've got a

01:00:24.300 part in a

01:00:24.880 major British

01:00:25.360 movie

01:00:25.700 with an

01:00:27.340 iconic British

01:00:28.060 director

01:00:28.580 and I'm on a

01:00:30.180 30 day tour

01:00:31.000 and I've got some

01:00:32.500 other little bits

01:00:33.440 and pieces coming

01:00:34.200 in on the

01:00:34.780 after dinner

01:00:35.200 speaking circuit

01:00:36.080 so I've got

01:00:37.280 money coming in

01:00:38.080 job done

01:00:39.080 thank the lord

01:00:39.800 do you know

01:00:40.140 what I mean

01:00:40.380 yeah

01:00:40.740 you know

01:00:41.360 I've got a

01:00:41.800 fly's appetite

01:00:42.320 at the best

01:00:42.780 of times

01:00:43.080 but I do

01:00:43.460 like to eat

01:00:43.980 do you know

01:00:44.440 what I mean

01:00:44.660 beyond that

01:00:47.220 I don't know

01:00:49.640 I don't know

01:00:50.780 I don't know

01:00:51.420 if the part

01:00:52.360 in the movie

01:00:52.800 is going to

01:00:53.140 lead to anything

01:00:53.620 I don't know

01:00:54.600 if the 30 day tour

01:00:55.700 is going to

01:00:56.320 lead to anything

01:00:57.240 but

01:00:58.320 as I say

01:01:00.240 because it came

01:01:01.280 out of the blue

01:01:02.060 I just feel

01:01:05.080 as though

01:01:05.520 all of this

01:01:06.780 if I was to

01:01:08.560 talk

01:01:11.120 from a

01:01:11.980 spiritual

01:01:12.320 point of view

01:01:12.980 I feel

01:01:13.940 all of this

01:01:14.640 is meant

01:01:15.920 to be

01:01:16.460 and I

01:01:17.920 honestly feel

01:01:19.040 as though

01:01:19.780 it's not the

01:01:21.120 end

01:01:21.340 this person

01:01:22.180 this medical

01:01:23.280 person

01:01:23.820 from abroad

01:01:25.100 who's

01:01:25.520 you know

01:01:26.680 who's come in

01:01:28.920 and give me

01:01:29.680 this opportunity

01:01:31.000 financially

01:01:32.220 I think

01:01:34.280 they want me

01:01:34.720 to take it

01:01:36.440 to America

01:01:36.980 they want me

01:01:38.440 to take it

01:01:38.940 to

01:01:39.260 Australia

01:01:41.620 and New Zealand

01:01:42.680 you know

01:01:43.780 and I mean

01:01:44.480 I'll do

01:01:46.320 those things

01:01:47.060 do you know

01:01:47.780 what I mean

01:01:48.000 of course

01:01:48.960 I'll do

01:01:49.260 those things

01:01:49.920 but that's

01:01:52.180 in the future

01:01:52.860 you know

01:01:53.860 I just want

01:01:54.820 to get back

01:01:55.320 to performing

01:01:55.940 regularly

01:01:56.480 to writing

01:01:58.000 because

01:01:58.680 when I'm not

01:01:59.980 doing anything

01:02:00.380 I can't see

01:02:00.820 the point

01:02:01.120 in writing

01:02:01.520 you know

01:02:02.240 it's like

01:02:05.080 being a ship

01:02:06.400 in the doldrums

01:02:07.080 you've got no

01:02:07.420 wind in your

01:02:07.920 sails

01:02:08.160 but once

01:02:09.060 you get

01:02:09.260 the wind

01:02:09.540 in your

01:02:09.780 sails

01:02:10.000 and you're

01:02:10.300 off

01:02:10.520 then

01:02:10.720 you're

01:02:11.960 more

01:02:12.120 creative

01:02:12.540 aren't you

01:02:12.960 so I

01:02:13.720 just want

01:02:13.980 to

01:02:14.720 do these

01:02:17.640 things

01:02:18.080 get my

01:02:19.320 creativity

01:02:19.820 back

01:02:20.260 and

01:02:20.760 let's take

01:02:22.320 it from

01:02:22.540 there

01:02:22.820 and I

01:02:24.120 hope

01:02:24.860 this was

01:02:26.200 the thing

01:02:27.100 Middlesbrough

01:02:28.600 had a football

01:02:29.220 striker

01:02:29.680 called

01:02:30.100 Bernie

01:02:30.400 Slavin

01:02:30.800 and he

01:02:31.380 came to

01:02:31.680 see the

01:02:31.980 show

01:02:32.200 I've only

01:02:33.140 had five

01:02:33.600 gigs

01:02:33.820 a share

01:02:34.200 and one

01:02:36.020 of them

01:02:36.280 I did

01:02:36.640 a performance

01:02:37.140 of

01:02:37.720 forgiveness

01:02:38.820 in my

01:02:39.180 own town

01:02:39.600 in Red

01:02:39.860 Can

01:02:40.080 and raised

01:02:40.460 money for

01:02:41.200 these two

01:02:43.840 homeless

01:02:44.140 charities

01:02:44.680 Bernie

01:02:45.700 Slavin

01:02:46.000 came and

01:02:46.600 he said

01:02:46.860 to me

01:02:47.080 after the

01:02:47.440 show

01:02:47.600 have you

01:02:48.420 seen

01:02:48.680 Ricky Gervais

01:02:49.320 Afterlife

01:02:50.020 and I

01:02:51.020 said

01:02:51.160 no I

01:02:51.500 haven't

01:02:51.680 I don't

01:02:52.120 watch

01:02:52.320 telly

01:02:52.660 never

01:02:53.580 watched

01:02:53.820 telly

01:02:54.280 and he

01:02:55.040 said

01:02:55.280 well I

01:02:55.540 watched

01:02:55.780 your

01:02:56.040 show

01:02:56.400 and he

01:02:57.700 said

01:02:58.040 and it

01:02:58.900 was very

01:02:59.260 similar

01:02:59.640 to that

01:02:59.960 you know

01:03:00.240 well I

01:03:00.560 I'd never

01:03:01.460 seen

01:03:01.680 Afterlife

01:03:01.960 I don't

01:03:02.160 even know

01:03:02.560 what it

01:03:02.740 is

01:03:02.960 and then

01:03:04.000 this other

01:03:04.300 chap came

01:03:04.680 over and

01:03:04.960 he went

01:03:05.080 oh yo

01:03:05.460 Chris

01:03:05.780 I said

01:03:06.000 well

01:03:06.140 he went

01:03:06.500 your 1.00

01:03:07.000 fucking 1.00

01:03:07.420 your 1.00

01:03:07.840 fucking 1.00

01:03:08.220 Teesside's 1.00

01:03:08.840 Ricky

01:03:09.040 Gervais

01:03:09.480 he said

01:03:10.500 have you

01:03:10.740 seen 1.00

01:03:10.940 fucking 1.00

01:03:11.220 Afterlife 1.00

01:03:11.740 I said

01:03:12.240 no I

01:03:12.540 haven't

01:03:12.720 he said

01:03:13.460 that's

01:03:13.860 what it's

01:03:14.060 like

01:03:14.180 you said

01:03:14.360 it's 1.00

01:03:14.500 fucking 0.99

01:03:14.720 wonderful 0.99

01:03:15.140 right

01:03:15.400 and that

01:03:17.460 meant a

01:03:17.760 lot to

01:03:18.020 me

01:03:18.260 because I

01:03:18.740 mean

01:03:18.900 I have

01:03:20.300 a lot

01:03:20.480 I don't

01:03:20.960 think

01:03:21.120 Ricky

01:03:21.540 Gervais

01:03:21.900 is a

01:03:22.200 better

01:03:22.340 comedian

01:03:22.680 than me

01:03:23.060 he's got

01:03:23.540 more

01:03:23.720 profile

01:03:24.100 obviously

01:03:24.460 he's

01:03:25.940 outspoken

01:03:26.480 and I

01:03:26.840 love that

01:03:27.260 I love

01:03:27.840 the fact

01:03:28.140 that he

01:03:28.380 champions

01:03:28.820 common

01:03:29.160 sense

01:03:29.580 that he

01:03:30.600 won't bow

01:03:31.560 down to

01:03:32.300 the walk

01:03:33.060 brigade

01:03:33.400 or the

01:03:33.640 PC

01:03:33.900 brigade

01:03:34.280 but then

01:03:34.580 again

01:03:34.780 he's

01:03:34.960 big

01:03:35.120 enough

01:03:35.320 not to

01:03:37.260 worry

01:03:38.080 or bother

01:03:38.480 about that

01:03:38.880 but I

01:03:40.000 would love

01:03:40.280 somebody

01:03:42.040 like that

01:03:42.640 to come

01:03:43.020 and see

01:03:43.860 or

01:03:45.340 I was

01:03:45.900 in this

01:03:46.160 article

01:03:46.480 in the

01:03:47.060 Telegraph

01:03:47.620 on Christmas

01:03:49.640 just before

01:03:50.160 Christmas

01:03:50.500 last year

01:03:51.040 and

01:03:52.020 I was

01:03:53.200 like

01:03:53.760 sandwiched

01:03:54.260 in between

01:03:54.680 Johnny Depp

01:03:55.380 Ellen DeGeneres

01:03:56.780 John Cleese

01:03:57.520 and J.K. Rowland

01:03:58.660 these are all

01:03:59.560 people who have

01:04:00.000 been censored

01:04:00.680 right

01:04:01.440 in 2021

01:04:02.960 and I thought

01:04:04.340 wouldn't be great

01:04:05.100 if John Cleese

01:04:05.900 or J.K. Rowland

01:04:07.280 thought

01:04:07.600 I want to do

01:04:08.180 this person

01:04:08.660 I'll go and

01:04:09.460 see this show

01:04:10.180 because all it

01:04:10.960 takes

01:04:11.260 what I'm saying

01:04:12.380 to you is

01:04:12.640 all it would

01:04:13.160 take is

01:04:13.540 for one

01:04:13.900 of these

01:04:14.160 people

01:04:14.600 to see

01:04:15.900 it

01:04:16.180 and think

01:04:17.240 hang on

01:04:17.580 I can do

01:04:18.680 this with it

01:04:19.260 or I can

01:04:20.120 do that

01:04:20.480 with it

01:04:20.880 you know

01:04:21.600 maybe take it

01:04:22.340 to another

01:04:22.660 level

01:04:23.000 you just

01:04:23.860 never know

01:04:24.740 do you

01:04:25.000 and so

01:04:26.000 that's

01:04:27.420 something I'm

01:04:29.100 hoping but

01:04:29.740 I have no

01:04:30.100 expectations

01:04:30.760 for it

01:04:31.380 because I

01:04:32.120 just think

01:04:32.540 the way

01:04:32.840 it's all

01:04:33.140 happened

01:04:33.560 it'll just

01:04:34.940 be what

01:04:35.280 it'll be

01:04:35.700 and I'm

01:04:36.380 happy for

01:04:36.880 it to be

01:04:37.240 what it'll

01:04:37.580 be

01:04:37.840 Chris

01:04:38.460 this is

01:04:39.420 all

01:04:39.620 incredible

01:04:40.180 but I

01:04:41.620 think

01:04:42.100 you're

01:04:42.640 discounting

01:04:43.400 the power

01:04:44.540 of that

01:04:44.900 decision

01:04:45.340 you made

01:04:45.960 where you

01:04:47.100 said

01:04:47.520 no more

01:04:49.060 that's where

01:04:50.560 it all

01:04:50.860 comes from

01:04:51.460 to me

01:04:52.480 and that's

01:04:53.960 the really

01:04:54.260 powerful thing

01:04:55.020 about this

01:04:55.480 story

01:04:55.860 is someone

01:04:56.640 who was

01:04:58.300 at the

01:04:58.580 bottom

01:04:58.880 who felt

01:04:59.360 they had

01:04:59.620 no way

01:05:00.100 out

01:05:00.460 realised

01:05:01.400 that they

01:05:01.900 were doing

01:05:02.340 it to

01:05:02.820 themselves

01:05:03.300 and making

01:05:04.660 a choice

01:05:05.480 that it

01:05:05.900 wasn't going

01:05:06.500 to be like

01:05:07.040 that anymore

01:05:07.880 so if you

01:05:09.440 keep committing

01:05:10.140 to that

01:05:10.540 choice

01:05:11.000 I get that

01:05:12.000 I get that

01:05:12.580 completely

01:05:13.080 right

01:05:13.360 but no

01:05:15.580 no amount

01:05:17.280 of shaving

01:05:18.660 and getting

01:05:19.200 your hair

01:05:19.540 cut and coloured

01:05:20.140 right is

01:05:20.760 going to make

01:05:21.220 a doctor

01:05:21.580 from a foreign

01:05:22.100 country give

01:05:22.640 you a five

01:05:23.180 now that's

01:05:24.200 trigonometry

01:05:24.720 mate

01:05:24.980 we're being

01:05:27.400 cryptic about

01:05:28.500 this person

01:05:29.020 by the way

01:05:29.420 because they've

01:05:29.780 asked not to

01:05:30.260 be identified

01:05:30.900 look

01:05:31.280 you're in a

01:05:32.140 great place

01:05:32.740 it's absolutely 0.97

01:05:33.520 fucking brilliant 0.96

01:05:34.180 to see 0.99

01:05:34.540 I'm so proud

01:05:35.220 of you

01:05:35.380 I'm so happy

01:05:35.960 for you

01:05:36.380 you're going

01:05:36.960 to smash

01:05:37.340 the tour

01:05:37.680 everybody go

01:05:38.280 and make

01:05:38.580 sure you buy

01:05:39.040 a ticket

01:05:39.340 we'll put

01:05:39.700 the link

01:05:39.980 in the

01:05:40.220 description

01:05:40.640 Chris

01:05:42.160 McGlade

01:05:42.600 the tickets

01:05:45.020 are at

01:05:45.480 I don't

01:05:46.420 even know

01:05:46.800 this is our

01:05:49.240 professional

01:05:49.720 he is

01:05:50.000 he's a great

01:05:51.900 comedian

01:05:52.400 tech wise

01:05:53.100 not so much

01:05:53.580 tell him

01:05:54.700 Michael said

01:05:57.140 because he's

01:05:57.960 drummed it

01:05:58.220 into me

01:05:58.500 Michael said

01:06:00.500 the tickets

01:06:00.940 are at

01:06:01.440 chrismcglade

01:06:02.500 comedy

01:06:02.820 dot com

01:06:03.540 perfect

01:06:04.100 and if

01:06:04.660 you want

01:06:04.960 to

01:06:05.120 and if

01:06:06.180 you want

01:06:06.420 to

01:06:06.600 click

01:06:06.960 and if

01:06:07.160 they're not

01:06:07.520 we'll put

01:06:07.880 the correct

01:06:08.420 link in the

01:06:08.940 description

01:06:09.380 and if you

01:06:09.800 want to

01:06:10.060 click and

01:06:10.440 subscribe

01:06:11.200 I'm back

01:06:11.920 on Facebook

01:06:12.380 two accounts

01:06:13.080 and I'm on

01:06:13.460 Twitter

01:06:13.720 but I don't

01:06:14.220 do Instagram

01:06:14.760 perfect

01:06:16.300 Chris

01:06:16.800 we've always

01:06:18.200 got one

01:06:18.580 question at

01:06:19.080 the end

01:06:19.420 we'll ask

01:06:20.000 you a couple

01:06:20.380 of questions

01:06:20.860 from our

01:06:21.280 supporters

01:06:21.780 from our

01:06:22.880 supporters

01:06:23.260 for our

01:06:23.700 supporters

01:06:24.100 but before

01:06:25.140 we do

01:06:25.460 what is

01:06:25.960 the one

01:06:26.220 thing we're

01:06:26.560 not talking

01:06:26.960 about that

01:06:27.320 we really

01:06:27.600 should be

01:06:28.000 once again

01:06:29.280 class

01:06:29.780 you know

01:06:31.640 because you

01:06:32.740 see I look

01:06:33.340 at it this

01:06:33.640 way

01:06:33.840 I am a

01:06:37.120 very working

01:06:37.660 class comedian

01:06:38.820 and a working

01:06:39.400 class man

01:06:40.040 and I

01:06:41.080 don't

01:06:41.900 I don't

01:06:43.940 think that

01:06:44.440 working class

01:06:45.220 comedians

01:06:46.740 of that

01:06:47.340 working class

01:06:48.000 style

01:06:48.560 right

01:06:49.320 get a

01:06:50.440 a fair

01:06:51.660 rub of

01:06:53.540 the green

01:06:53.860 when we

01:06:54.700 done

01:06:55.060 Backyard

01:06:56.640 last year

01:06:57.980 the guys

01:06:59.400 at Comedy

01:07:00.000 Unleashed

01:07:00.740 said we

01:07:02.880 want to

01:07:03.260 put like

01:07:03.800 a northern

01:07:04.280 working

01:07:04.720 men's

01:07:05.140 club

01:07:05.360 night

01:07:05.640 on

01:07:05.980 at

01:07:07.340 Backyard

01:07:07.860 can you

01:07:08.260 sort of

01:07:08.560 like

01:07:08.780 five

01:07:09.280 four or

01:07:09.760 five

01:07:09.940 comedians

01:07:10.500 and an

01:07:10.820 MC

01:07:11.100 and I

01:07:11.480 said yeah

01:07:11.900 great

01:07:12.260 and I

01:07:12.620 said to

01:07:13.140 some of

01:07:13.400 the lads

01:07:13.580 on the

01:07:13.840 circuit

01:07:14.080 do you

01:07:14.580 want to

01:07:14.760 be a

01:07:15.020 part

01:07:15.220 of this

01:07:15.480 let's

01:07:16.300 see if

01:07:16.620 we can

01:07:16.900 change

01:07:17.280 things

01:07:17.620 because it

01:07:19.100 seems to

01:07:19.580 me that

01:07:19.880 the only

01:07:20.420 kind of

01:07:21.000 comedy

01:07:21.300 that these

01:07:21.920 people who

01:07:22.600 dominate and

01:07:23.360 control comedy

01:07:24.460 want to

01:07:25.460 put on

01:07:25.860 is

01:07:26.500 their version

01:07:28.400 of comedy

01:07:28.840 and there's

01:07:29.260 millions of

01:07:30.000 people out

01:07:30.500 there

01:07:30.840 who don't

01:07:31.880 subscribe to

01:07:32.620 that point

01:07:33.140 of view

01:07:33.540 or that

01:07:34.140 taste in

01:07:34.660 comedy

01:07:34.980 do you

01:07:35.180 know what

01:07:35.300 I mean

01:07:35.540 and for

01:07:37.160 me it

01:07:37.700 comes down

01:07:38.420 to

01:07:39.580 discrimination

01:07:40.180 of that

01:07:41.480 working class

01:07:42.300 style

01:07:42.900 of comedy

01:07:44.420 so that's

01:07:44.880 and Pete

01:07:45.600 like I said

01:07:45.960 to you

01:07:46.060 before

01:07:46.320 the last

01:07:46.860 and I

01:07:47.460 went into

01:07:48.040 the fine

01:07:48.360 ends of a

01:07:48.760 fart about

01:07:49.280 class last

01:07:50.540 time

01:07:50.740 but

01:07:50.920 like nobody

01:07:54.080 likes to talk

01:07:54.660 about class

01:07:55.120 do they

01:07:55.360 they get

01:07:55.640 embarrassed

01:07:56.060 about it

01:07:56.500 they feel

01:07:56.820 uncomfortable

01:07:57.260 about it

01:07:58.000 you know

01:07:59.340 one of the

01:07:59.820 things that I

01:08:00.300 was really

01:08:00.660 proud of

01:08:01.140 with

01:08:01.340 forgiveness

01:08:02.980 went into

01:08:03.380 the Soho

01:08:03.880 theater

01:08:04.160 it

01:08:04.760 went across

01:08:06.680 everything

01:08:07.200 it cut

01:08:07.620 across

01:08:07.980 class divide

01:08:09.120 race divide

01:08:09.860 religion

01:08:10.320 everything

01:08:10.820 do you know

01:08:11.100 what I mean

01:08:11.320 until it was

01:08:11.940 cancelled

01:08:12.280 but even so

01:08:14.240 I mean

01:08:14.420 when we

01:08:14.720 but that's

01:08:15.680 the point

01:08:16.000 you're

01:08:16.200 making

01:08:16.440 that's

01:08:16.720 the only

01:08:16.900 reason

01:08:17.080 I made

01:08:17.420 that

01:08:17.600 quip

01:08:17.840 is that

01:08:18.300 yes it

01:08:19.040 was

01:08:19.300 until it

01:08:19.800 came across

01:08:20.400 the tastemakers

01:08:21.280 of that

01:08:21.980 world

01:08:22.380 who because

01:08:23.660 of those

01:08:24.040 reasons

01:08:24.340 didn't want to

01:08:24.860 carry on

01:08:25.260 I've got to

01:08:25.680 say this

01:08:26.080 though

01:08:26.360 because the

01:08:28.320 Soho

01:08:28.700 theater

01:08:29.120 cancelled me

01:08:30.100 out because

01:08:30.540 they said

01:08:31.000 oh it's

01:08:31.320 anti-semitic

01:08:32.060 you know

01:08:32.840 the poem

01:08:34.920 the right to

01:08:35.440 hate

01:08:35.640 I was

01:08:36.800 contacted

01:08:37.520 by these

01:08:38.960 two chaps

01:08:39.560 and we

01:08:40.240 become

01:08:40.480 friends

01:08:40.940 and

01:08:43.160 one of

01:08:44.240 them

01:08:44.400 he founded

01:08:45.840 the campaign

01:08:46.480 against

01:08:46.880 anti-semitism

01:08:47.640 and

01:08:49.220 and then

01:08:50.220 he founded

01:08:50.580 this movement

01:08:51.520 called the

01:08:52.040 Israel

01:08:52.520 advocacy

01:08:53.220 movement

01:08:53.700 and the

01:08:54.860 other chap

01:08:55.300 Alexander

01:08:55.880 he's like

01:08:57.560 like he's

01:08:58.440 I don't know

01:08:58.980 if it's

01:08:59.200 second in

01:08:59.620 command

01:08:59.820 I don't

01:09:00.020 know if

01:09:00.160 that's

01:09:00.320 the right

01:09:00.500 term

01:09:00.780 but the

01:09:01.280 word

01:09:01.540 hand in

01:09:02.120 glove

01:09:02.340 kind of

01:09:02.660 thing

01:09:02.780 you know

01:09:03.080 they hound

01:09:05.040 like these

01:09:06.700 these guys

01:09:07.700 are like

01:09:08.020 proper

01:09:08.500 well Israeli

01:09:10.280 advocates

01:09:10.920 and the

01:09:11.540 Zionists 1.00

01:09:12.100 and Jewish

01:09:12.980 obviously

01:09:13.460 you know

01:09:13.780 and just

01:09:15.300 leading up to

01:09:15.860 me doing

01:09:16.360 the

01:09:16.840 backyard

01:09:19.020 they'd seen

01:09:21.000 the stuff

01:09:21.440 about you

01:09:21.920 know this

01:09:22.360 anti-semitic

01:09:23.020 so they'd

01:09:23.480 done all

01:09:23.800 the thing

01:09:24.100 and they'd

01:09:24.300 gone through

01:09:24.600 all the

01:09:24.900 tweets

01:09:25.160 and blah

01:09:25.520 blah

01:09:25.700 blah

01:09:25.940 you know

01:09:26.340 and they'd

01:09:28.080 seen the

01:09:28.440 stuff I'd

01:09:28.760 put about

01:09:29.100 the Rothschilds 0.80

01:09:29.800 and banking

01:09:30.220 and all this

01:09:30.740 you know

01:09:31.000 so they wanted

01:09:32.920 to do this

01:09:33.440 interview with

01:09:33.960 me

01:09:34.200 right

01:09:34.660 and I will

01:09:36.300 get emotional

01:09:37.080 over this

01:09:37.500 one

01:09:37.720 they wanted

01:09:40.380 to do this

01:09:40.860 interview with

01:09:41.360 me

01:09:41.560 and I said

01:09:42.260 right

01:09:42.440 okay

01:09:42.740 I'll do

01:09:43.220 the interview

01:09:43.600 right

01:09:43.900 and then

01:09:44.360 we're having

01:09:44.680 trouble

01:09:44.980 the logistics

01:09:45.540 of either

01:09:45.840 me going

01:09:46.320 on to

01:09:46.560 London

01:09:46.740 or them

01:09:47.060 coming up

01:09:47.700 to

01:09:47.860 Redcar

01:09:48.500 so I said

01:09:51.400 right

01:09:51.640 I'll tell you

01:09:53.060 what we'll do

01:09:53.560 come and see

01:09:55.200 the show

01:09:55.600 come and see

01:09:57.100 the show

01:09:57.440 backyard

01:09:57.900 when forgiveness

01:09:58.940 goes in

01:09:59.480 and then we'll

01:10:00.120 do you an

01:10:00.440 interview

01:10:00.680 right

01:10:01.580 so they came

01:10:02.760 along to the

01:10:03.140 show

01:10:03.400 and with

01:10:05.260 like 300

01:10:05.940 other people

01:10:06.680 that stood

01:10:07.320 and applauded

01:10:07.900 at the end

01:10:08.400 wonderful

01:10:09.880 after the

01:10:11.740 show

01:10:12.040 the top

01:10:14.220 guy

01:10:14.580 Joseph

01:10:15.320 he said

01:10:16.880 to me

01:10:17.280 that was

01:10:18.560 absolutely

01:10:18.900 amazing

01:10:19.340 he said

01:10:20.740 you've actually

01:10:21.240 changed the

01:10:22.240 way I look

01:10:23.620 at things

01:10:24.100 and I said

01:10:25.700 in what

01:10:25.940 way

01:10:26.240 and he said

01:10:27.380 well

01:10:27.640 it made me

01:10:28.720 realise

01:10:29.320 that people

01:10:30.480 can say

01:10:31.020 anti-semitic

01:10:31.780 things

01:10:32.300 right

01:10:33.500 but not be

01:10:34.960 anti-semitic

01:10:35.600 they can say

01:10:36.900 them out of

01:10:37.180 ignorance

01:10:37.580 they can say 0.94

01:10:38.340 them out of

01:10:38.580 a lack of

01:10:38.900 education

01:10:39.380 I said

01:10:39.840 well I'm

01:10:40.060 glad you

01:10:40.260 appreciate

01:10:40.640 that

01:10:40.960 I said

01:10:41.940 you know

01:10:42.160 I'm a

01:10:42.820 very intelligent

01:10:43.320 man

01:10:43.660 probably not

01:10:44.940 the most

01:10:45.280 educated

01:10:45.720 of people

01:10:46.040 I left

01:10:46.320 school

01:10:46.620 when I was

01:10:47.080 16 years

01:10:47.620 old

01:10:47.760 went straight

01:10:48.160 into a

01:10:48.400 steel mill

01:10:48.780 do you

01:10:49.560 know what I mean

01:10:49.800 my professors

01:10:52.220 and my

01:10:52.700 lecturers

01:10:53.300 were people

01:10:54.360 like Ernie

01:10:54.780 Buckton

01:10:55.100 and Colin

01:10:55.480 Arley

01:10:55.760 and Terry

01:10:56.120 Taggart

01:10:56.480 you know

01:10:56.980 making

01:10:57.220 stock takers

01:10:57.880 rough

01:10:58.740 arsed

01:10:59.200 steel men

01:10:59.740 you know

01:10:59.920 what I mean

01:11:00.200 I said

01:11:01.840 but I've

01:11:02.240 tried to

01:11:02.500 educate

01:11:02.800 myself

01:11:03.160 over the

01:11:03.500 course

01:11:03.720 of my

01:11:03.920 life

01:11:04.220 and I've

01:11:05.120 had

01:11:05.220 questions

01:11:05.660 and all

01:11:05.980 this

01:11:06.140 you know

01:11:06.340 and I've

01:11:06.680 tried to

01:11:07.140 answer the

01:11:07.700 questions

01:11:07.960 in my

01:11:08.280 own

01:11:08.480 mind

01:11:08.740 and

01:11:09.000 and he

01:11:10.300 explained

01:11:10.600 that to

01:11:10.900 him

01:11:11.000 and he

01:11:11.320 said

01:11:11.560 well that's

01:11:12.300 what I

01:11:12.500 mean

01:11:12.740 but then

01:11:13.640 the other

01:11:13.900 guy

01:11:14.100 with him

01:11:14.320 Alexander

01:11:14.780 he said

01:11:16.400 to me

01:11:16.820 well I

01:11:17.520 was sat

01:11:17.800 there

01:11:18.100 and I

01:11:19.300 thought to

01:11:19.620 myself

01:11:20.120 but there's

01:11:21.620 another aspect

01:11:22.260 to this

01:11:22.580 as well

01:11:22.940 and I

01:11:23.900 said

01:11:23.980 what's

01:11:24.220 that

01:11:24.420 and he

01:11:25.040 went

01:11:25.260 shouldn't

01:11:27.380 we

01:11:27.540 forgive

01:11:27.880 the

01:11:28.060 anti-Semites

01:11:28.840 and that

01:11:32.740 was like 1.00

01:11:33.120 fucking 1.00

01:11:33.620 hell 1.00

01:11:34.020 like these 0.99

01:11:37.380 people

01:11:37.940 are like

01:11:40.540 committed

01:11:41.080 to the

01:11:42.400 cause of

01:11:42.820 Israel

01:11:43.180 they've

01:11:44.800 bashed

01:11:45.240 and attacked 0.91

01:11:46.640 anybody who

01:11:47.640 they think

01:11:48.280 is anti-Semitic

01:11:49.780 and yet

01:11:50.840 I'd kind of

01:11:52.060 like

01:11:52.300 cut through

01:11:53.540 that

01:11:53.960 and made

01:11:55.160 them

01:11:55.520 see things

01:11:56.680 in a

01:11:57.100 different

01:11:57.300 way

01:11:57.640 and we've

01:11:59.160 become

01:11:59.560 friends

01:12:00.040 now

01:12:00.340 Alexander

01:12:01.420 offered me

01:12:03.060 to come

01:12:03.460 down to

01:12:03.840 London

01:12:04.120 and have

01:12:05.320 dinner with

01:12:05.720 him and

01:12:05.940 his family

01:12:06.500 for the

01:12:07.560 Sabbath

01:12:07.800 they're going

01:12:10.240 to get me

01:12:10.540 what they

01:12:10.900 call a

01:12:11.200 yid lid

01:12:11.600 I want an

01:12:13.200 orange one

01:12:13.640 though

01:12:13.840 because orange

01:12:14.380 is my

01:12:14.580 favourite colour

01:12:15.120 and they've

01:12:16.720 endorsed my

01:12:17.460 show

01:12:17.780 on Twitter

01:12:20.100 telling everybody

01:12:21.400 to come and

01:12:21.880 see the

01:12:22.180 show

01:12:22.440 now

01:12:23.500 the show

01:12:24.800 has cut

01:12:26.000 has like

01:12:27.020 cut through

01:12:27.640 a lot of

01:12:28.000 things

01:12:28.400 and it's

01:12:29.600 encouraged

01:12:29.920 people to

01:12:30.440 forgive

01:12:30.840 and it's

01:12:32.180 encouraged

01:12:32.580 people to

01:12:33.040 forgive

01:12:33.260 themselves

01:12:33.680 and it's

01:12:35.180 kind of

01:12:35.440 like you

01:12:35.660 know

01:12:35.840 built

01:12:36.620 bridges

01:12:37.000 again

01:12:37.440 but now

01:12:39.240 it's like

01:12:39.660 changing

01:12:40.120 things

01:12:40.720 on like a

01:12:42.900 massive

01:12:43.140 political level

01:12:43.980 as well

01:12:44.440 you know

01:12:45.960 these guys

01:12:46.580 realise

01:12:47.080 I'm not

01:12:47.460 anti-Semitic

01:12:48.240 they realise

01:12:50.300 that you

01:12:51.060 know

01:12:51.220 I'm

01:12:51.520 growing

01:12:51.860 evolving

01:12:52.480 changing

01:12:53.220 I said

01:12:53.520 to them

01:12:53.740 you know

01:12:54.480 I hope

01:12:54.700 I'm still

01:12:55.200 growing

01:12:55.560 and evolving

01:12:56.060 and changing

01:12:56.600 on the day

01:12:56.980 I die 0.79

01:12:57.440 I hope 0.93

01:12:58.300 I'm still

01:12:58.620 learning

01:12:58.980 stuff

01:12:59.260 on my

01:12:59.760 last breath

01:13:00.380 I hope

01:13:00.720 I've

01:13:00.900 learnt

01:13:01.140 something

01:13:01.580 do you

01:13:02.300 know

01:13:02.360 what I

01:13:02.440 mean

01:13:02.680 yep

01:13:03.420 and so

01:13:04.620 they

01:13:04.880 realised

01:13:05.860 I might

01:13:07.160 have said

01:13:07.460 stuff

01:13:07.740 that's

01:13:08.020 anti-Semitic

01:13:08.800 on Twitter

01:13:10.020 but then

01:13:10.360 again

01:13:10.560 we're

01:13:11.080 encouraged

01:13:11.520 our

01:13:11.840 thoughts

01:13:12.380 and

01:13:12.620 feelings

01:13:13.140 on social

01:13:14.920 media

01:13:15.220 conversations

01:13:15.860 that you'd

01:13:16.200 have over

01:13:16.500 the back

01:13:17.720 fence

01:13:18.020 or when

01:13:18.260 you're

01:13:18.380 washing

01:13:18.580 the

01:13:18.760 car

01:13:18.960 with

01:13:19.080 your

01:13:19.200 neighbour

01:13:19.440 or in

01:13:20.900 the

01:13:21.020 shop

01:13:21.280 the

01:13:21.480 queue

01:13:21.740 you're

01:13:23.000 encouraged

01:13:23.420 to have

01:13:23.660 all those

01:13:24.040 throwaway

01:13:24.480 conversations

01:13:25.160 on social

01:13:26.640 media

01:13:27.000 where they're

01:13:27.580 all stored

01:13:28.100 and people

01:13:28.620 can think

01:13:29.020 he said

01:13:29.760 this in

01:13:30.680 2009

01:13:31.720 but all

01:13:33.980 you're

01:13:34.160 doing

01:13:34.380 is using

01:13:35.240 social

01:13:37.380 media

01:13:37.740 as a

01:13:38.060 soundboard

01:13:38.480 for the

01:13:38.800 things

01:13:39.000 you're

01:13:39.340 thinking

01:13:39.600 in that

01:13:39.880 particular

01:13:40.300 time

01:13:40.680 and these

01:13:41.280 two

01:13:41.520 guys

01:13:41.880 saw

01:13:42.260 that

01:13:42.480 and they

01:13:43.240 realised

01:13:43.840 there was

01:13:44.760 no

01:13:44.960 malice

01:13:45.240 in

01:13:45.360 so

01:13:45.620 when

01:13:45.820 Alex

01:13:46.780 put that

01:13:47.200 tweet

01:13:47.480 on

01:13:47.700 twitter

01:13:48.200 I

01:13:49.380 sent

01:13:49.600 it

01:13:49.720 to

01:13:49.820 the

01:13:49.960 director

01:13:50.380 of

01:13:50.600 the

01:13:50.720 theatre

01:13:51.040 at the

01:13:51.480 Soho

01:13:51.960 theatre

01:13:52.360 do you

01:13:52.660 know what I mean

01:13:53.000 not to be clever 0.85

01:13:54.260 or to piss up his back 0.70

01:13:55.920 or anything like that

01:13:57.220 do you know what I mean

01:13:57.680 but to say look

01:13:58.600 and I said to him

01:14:00.760 look if we can work together

01:14:02.520 in future

01:14:03.600 get it on

01:14:05.020 because these are two

01:14:06.380 guys

01:14:07.100 are massive in the

01:14:08.740 Jewish community

01:14:09.380 they're massive in that

01:14:10.200 thing

01:14:10.420 they know that it's

01:14:11.140 you know

01:14:11.620 that it's not

01:14:12.480 anti-semitic

01:14:13.160 they've seen the show

01:14:14.060 you know

01:14:15.160 don't

01:14:15.540 don't

01:14:16.000 let

01:14:16.440 that progressive

01:14:18.580 cancel culture

01:14:20.140 stop because

01:14:21.300 you see

01:14:21.660 and this is the

01:14:22.540 crux of it all

01:14:23.540 that cancel culture

01:14:26.740 and that political

01:14:29.080 correctness

01:14:29.680 is dividing

01:14:30.460 people

01:14:30.900 and ultimately

01:14:31.580 conquering them 0.99

01:14:32.420 has to fucking 0.99

01:14:33.920 stop 0.99

01:14:34.360 right

01:14:35.680 because otherwise

01:14:36.500 we're going to be at each

01:14:37.260 other's throats 0.94

01:14:37.860 all the time

01:14:39.060 and if

01:14:41.540 and if my show

01:14:42.600 can go somewhere

01:14:43.600 to dismantling

01:14:45.060 that cancel culture

01:14:46.200 and to be

01:14:48.100 and to make people

01:14:49.180 like Joseph

01:14:49.820 and Alexander

01:14:50.640 look at things

01:14:52.340 in a different way

01:14:53.120 do you know what I mean

01:14:53.620 then I think 0.99

01:14:54.880 that's a fucking 0.99

01:14:55.580 even more than 0.98

01:14:58.360 making people

01:14:58.920 forgive

01:14:59.380 that's a massive

01:15:02.000 thing you know

01:15:02.720 a massive

01:15:03.780 massive thing

01:15:04.500 all power to you Chris

01:15:05.700 God bless you man

01:15:07.300 thanks for coming back on

01:15:08.600 thank you for watching

01:15:09.680 and listening

01:15:10.320 we'll see you very soon

01:15:11.540 I mean it probably

01:15:12.300 won't be quite like this

01:15:13.340 but it will be another episode

01:15:14.780 or or show

01:15:15.940 they all go out

01:15:16.660 at 7pm UK time

01:15:17.860 and for those of you

01:15:18.640 who do like your

01:15:19.360 trigonometry

01:15:19.920 on the go

01:15:20.780 it's also available

01:15:21.720 as a podcast

01:15:22.380 take care

01:15:23.720 and see you soon guys

01:15:25.280 honestly right

01:15:29.800 I set up that

01:15:30.700 because I was desperate

01:15:31.840 for finances

01:15:32.600 in 2020

01:15:33.640 and then I thought

01:15:34.740 to myself 1.00

01:15:35.080 what the fuck 1.00

01:15:36.620 are you doing 1.00

01:15:37.160 and then

01:15:38.560 I hate it

01:15:40.900 I hope it happens 0.59

01:15:42.020 to myself

01:15:42.180 and see you

01:15:43.520 again

01:15:45.000 as far as I

01:15:45.520 would be

01:15:46.200 in,

01:15:48.480 it's more exciting

01:15:49.040 I wish

01:15:49.360 that

01:15:50.440 I have to

01:15:51.640 and then

01:15:52.620 go

01:15:55.280 and go

01:15:57.840 and then

01:15:58.660 let me

01:15:59.720 see you

01:16:01.720 and

01:16:02.840 say

TRIGGERnometry - April 21, 2022

Cancelled Comic Makes Huge Comeback

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