Breakfast Bonus: Ed Byrne

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Ahead of his Tragedy Plus Time shows in New Zealand, we chat to Ed Byrne about how he acclimates to new countries on tour and his success on The Chase!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason, Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today we're
talking to a really special guest, Ed Burn. He's a comedian.
He's been on all sorts of TV shows. He's been
on Graham Norton's couch a few times. That sounds dodgy.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello, how are you going?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're right thing. You've appeared on TV shows like Father Tied, on,
heaps of celebrity panel shows, celebrity cooking shows, celebrity Chase,
which you want?

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Actually, I feel like I should cut in here because
this is a terrible time for you to be on
for Jason, because we do our version of the Chase
quiz post and today he crashed and burned and what
you got? A two out of five I think it was,
and he gave away twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Can I get some of that action? Some question in
this interview into into a bit more of a quiz
things for us. Listen. Ticket sales are down everywhere, so
I can cream some some quiz you guys that would
really beat this week worry break even. I did the

(01:00):
Chase twice and the first time I actually brought a
record at the time amount of money back to the table,
but it was just me and Dark's player Eric Bristow,
so we didn't actually win the final chase. Unfortunately, at
one point he buzzed in on a golf question and
then stood there blinking and I'm I'm next going past, dude,
and he didn't do it. So yeah, so I didn't

(01:22):
win the first time, and then the second time it
was all four of us got through and I did
go for the high offer fairly fairly sizable.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Were you a smart guy at schoolding? Like?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Have you well educated?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
As what?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I don't know that I ever excelled academically, but I'm
I was a nerdy and still okay as I talked
about it, like, I proved that I'm a nerd. My
my actual name, ed Burn is an anagram of b nerdy,
of course, which on its own doesn't prove that I'm
a nerd. But the fact that I worked it out.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Do you know how many zeros are.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
In a million?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
There are six, obviously, Jason, I seed six, you seed seven.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
There's seven numbers.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Anyway, so trenchly plus time.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean, I just look at my check that's what
I remember.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's exactly trenchy plus time New Zealand haisting tomorrow night.
You're famous for your observational comedy. So you've been in
New Zealand a few times? Now, what do you observe
when you come to New Zealand?

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Do you know what?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
There's no better way of getting under the skin of
a culture and a country than performing standard for them.
That's one thing. It's wonderful. It's better than any other
guided tour or anything like that is figuring out what
makes people laugh. I find the big difference between New
Zealand and anywhere else is if you ask a general
question of an audience, like anybody here, just anybody here?

(02:51):
Broken up with somebody? Or is anybody here, uh name
their car or anything like that, ki, audiences will not
fess up. They don't want to join in. You want
if you want to get something that you have got
to pick somebody and go to them and go you
what is the name of your car? Or do you
have gets whatever it is you get and then you
can have a conversation. But if you if you waiting

(03:11):
for somebody to just volunteer information, when you ask as
a group collectively, you will get staring because we.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Have a thing called tall poppy syndrome. So if you
say anything, everyone will go.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh, who do you think joining in?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah? Exactly? Does They actually make it quite difficult because
we are notorious, even because we've got some great sports
teams in this country, that we are notorious for being
like low buzz cheers as crowd. You know, that's embarrassing
a bit I.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Feel as well. Sometimes you guys just think even if
you're being complimented, you take it as an insult. I've
seen that. First time I ever came here, I was
on the radio somebody and I made a joke about
rugby because don't want about rugby. But I only said
was that where I'm from, football is the thing. And
the difference between football and rugby is that in football
it's it's generally the smaller, faster guys at the front

(04:00):
and the bigger, heavier guys were at the back. And
in rugby the slower, bigger guys at the front and
the smaller, faster guys are at the back. Unless you
play for New Zealand, everybody's massive and really fast, right,
which is just a compliment. And she acted like she went, well,
at least one that's reactors. If I was slagging or

(04:22):
slagging off, I think when actually I was trying to
point out how you guys, but yes it was that
is there just like a national insecurity or something you
you're so used to people are slagging you off that
you can't take a million.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Maybe we just don't get it. And that was proven
with Jace today, it's proven with.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Thanks not to stick around out of time.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
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