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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many were gone? We only got one, Okay, caddies
with us Caddy, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, hey, congrets on a fabulous interview with Liam Lawson.
I know you're excited because you've got to speak to him.
And while I would love to stay in chat, as
you know, we've got a house full of builders and electricians,
it's all got's a bit noisy here, and I do
understand Sammy's organized just a wee surprise for you to
take my place. So I think walking into the studio
any moment should be a little treat for you in
(00:27):
the audience for after eight.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So good luck with that, no frickin' way. How exciting
is that?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
That is made mignificent. Heed.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I've missed you. I worry about you exactly, a man
of your age.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Come and have a see just sorry, So what was
your name? Begin? Oh David Williams. I remember now remember
Kate's but not you? No exactly do you want to Well,
we'll get them some hitdphones because Katie will want you. No, no, no, Kate,
Katy's on the machine and.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's still marriage.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh she's gone, So we just the whole segments off.
It's just you and I.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, we are still married.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's still married, very happily.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes
when I saw her.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Is that a tom Ford jack?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It is? Actually?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You know, that's how I can do it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That's so relatable.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, do you know how long has this been set up?
Because I was asking yesterday, I said, I said, what's
going on with Williams? I said, how is he's.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Not what's done with?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What's up with waiting?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
How come he's not in the How can he's not
on the program? Because you're here tonight for a show tonight,
and you've got your thing over the weekend as well,
Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We've been working on this for years. The surprise, well,
they wanted a surprise because I think they know that
you have a really huge crush on me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes I do, and that it would be exciting for you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And if they told you in advance, you know, you
might get just a bit too jittery.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You know, it's probably it's probably true.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know, it's been.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's been a very exciting morning for me. You won't know,
You won't know the name Lean law. You don't follow
if one do you Formula one.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I went to Silverston although you actually but I don't
really follow it that much. But I went to Silverston.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because Liam Wawson, who's a New Zealander. He's just been
appointed this morning for one of the Bee Cup for
the Red Bull racing teams. He's got his own seat,
so he's we've been following him, so we had him
this morning as a world exclusive Post Urban.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay, well enough about him. Yeah he needs any promotion.
He seems to be doing fine. He is.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And then now now you may, I know, look at us.
It's incredible. We were watching When I say we're mainly
my wife because she's on social media, we were watching
you the other night in your Australian tour. Yeah, seems
to have gone down extremely.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, it's been great. It's been fantastic. I've been in Australia.
Starts off in Sydney and been touring around. So right now,
as your listeners will know because you're in Auckland, I'm
in Auckland also and at the Kiri to Kanawha Theater
tonight tonight and tomorrow we so and also I'm doing
two children's shows tomorrow, yes, well children family eleven am
(03:18):
and three pm anyway. But basically I've been so so
popular in Auckland that we added this show tonight, so
anyone who can't get into tomorrow night can come to.
Are you going to come? Well, of course when you're
going to.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Come, I can't remember because I think it's tonight Friday day.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean, I know what's happening tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You have no idea how Missy my domestic life is.
I think we were coming tomorrow, but then we rang
them up and see can we come tonight? And they
see there's a cancelation policy and a fee. Associated really
didn't get free tickets. I didn't, well know, because it's
my other thing. She said, what if he gives us
free tickets? I said, Williams is not that sort of person.
He's tight.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's not true at all. I like I like making people.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Because you see it in London when we last meet
a year ago, there'd be tickets for us, and of
course we've seen nothing, so we had to pay for
right right up the front.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You're right, you're in the front row.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Did you pay for the meet and greet?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, no, we'll meet and grit you should have done
something more.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You've greeted me. Well, some people like to come and
have a photo with me after, because if it's a
couple of thousand people, you can't have a photo with everybody. No,
that's true, and so some people come, which is very nice.
Actually to the family show.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
How do you handle meeting? I mean you're you're a natural,
but I've met people who aren't naturals with people you know,
and they go because people get very nervous.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes, or if you were say a K pop band,
apparently the person having the photostache and doesn't stop walking something.
They just stand still and you kind of walk. And
at some point when you're passing them, where does chat
to everybody? That's really nice.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It's really nice and everyone's got a kind of different story. Also,
I me and Matt Lucas toured Australia in two thousand
and seven. We didn't come to New Zealand, which was
remissive us. So actually in this show, this will be
because I do some little Briton characters on stage brilliant yes,
and and it will be the first time ever done
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these live on stage. Was quite exciting. But yes, so
we we came to Australia and what the point of
the story was. There was people who came to see
us in two thousand and seven who were in the audience,
including there was a joke where Matt as Marjorie d'ores
the Fat Fighters lady get someone out of the audience
at the end, gave them a T shirt. But it's
like a massive T shirt, enough for like fit three
people and going there you are, darling, You've got a
(05:41):
T shirt might be a bit tight for you, you know.
And these women turned up wearing the T shirt that
they'd got into. Yeah, I mean I'd have thrown it
away by now. Besides, because you know, it takes up
a lot of space of the wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Hey, listen, I've got to I've got to go to
an a break. Are are you being pushed off to
somewhere else or can you stay?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm not being pulled off?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, just can you stay?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Very early?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It is can you can? Can you stay for a moment,
stay the entire show? I can stay for your entire lifetime?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Me you and Kate making a go of it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Fantastic. David Williams is our surprise gift is it. As
it turns out, this.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Swing wonderful surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It is a wonderful surprise. Did you sell your house
by the beach?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh, you haven't sold it?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, why should I?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Well I thought it was for sale.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well why are you buying it? Well?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Just funnily enough, we talked about it because it was
a beautiful Where is it? Tell me?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Where can we not talk about?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Where?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I live in Brighton in the United Kingdom, and it
looked beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yes, well I thought you were selling it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, I was thinking about it, but there's tours going well,
so I don't have to attacks Billas base exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
How much of your show? Once again, we were looking
at this the other night on the old social media's
How much of it's made up spontaneous?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, the thing is, obviously I've got my funny stories
that i'm They're all you know. I thought about what
they are and I'm telling them because over two hours
doing a show, you've got to deliver, so you know,
it's not all just made up on the spot. But
at the same time, the audiences have been so great
in Australia, I'm sure they'd be even better in New Zealand.
(07:29):
Is this will give you permission to kind of I
don't know, what would I say, just kind of push
it further and further and further, and just be spontaneous.
Because once you've got a room full of people all laughing,
you feel like you're kind of surfing those laughs as
if they're waves. And then all of a sudden, you,
I don't know, you just grow in confidence and you
feel you lose any inhibitions. And so the shows have
(07:53):
been getting better and better. I think, you know, partly
you just feed off the audience, and obviously I get
more relaxed and so I kind of can be funnier
and everything. So so yeah, it's been it's been great.
And as I was saying when the news was on,
or was it an ad break break, you know, it's
been really restored my faith in the in in sort
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of performing comedy. Just because the audience had been so good,
I felt like I felt like, oh, yeah, when we
all get together in a room, what we really want
is a laugh and we shouldn't worried, and you know,
and it's spontaneous. I've been saying pretty rude things.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That was the concern for my wife, because she's married
to you.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The leastes.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Is that she doesn't want to be sitting up the
front and you would?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I would? Would you not to you? What would you
like it? You're not like the kind of man who'd
like attention.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No, what are.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You going to be wearing tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know? Sort of like this? Something similar?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Great trendy?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, she would you like to.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Be part of?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No? I don't want to be part of why well,
because she doesn't want to be part of it. I
just want to enjoy your telling me well so.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
But there is a point, there is a part of
the show where people get to ask me anything they want,
and that is the part of the show I actually
enjoy the most because I know I've got to think
at my feet. Yeah, come up with something in the
spur of the moment, and then the audience know that
this is a completely spontaneous thing that hasn't happened another night.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Has it gone off the rails yet?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I got a great question for this, girl says, ah,
my mum actually bought the tickets, but then she couldn't
come in the end, So I'm twenty one. I just
have a question for you. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I love it? Hey, listen. Thank you. You won't believe this,
But was it yesterday? It was yesterday in that very
room next door. I said, you were the nicest person
I've ever met when I was have been on the
road during tours and stuff. And there was another Graham Norton.
You remember Graham Norton. Oh yeah, but I'm nicer, but
(10:00):
you were nicer. And I said that in front of them.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And you've interviewed Donald Trump. You've met a lot of
nice people.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All the nice people, and I said you were the
nicest person of well.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I wish I could say the same, But why lie?
You can't lie about these things. You're one of the nicest,
You're one of the top sort of thousands.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, well you are very nice, very well. So you're
going to come and see me the I don't know
which you don't want to let your listeners know it's
not there. They'll be a riot, I don't know. The
police will have barricades anyway. Let him pass and he's
very tight trousers. Uh yeah, Carrie to kind of were
(10:47):
theater tonight. It's still some tickets available because we just
added this and then we've got a kids show at
eleven am. One at three pm, and then I'll see
you at seven thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Do you ever halftime?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yes, there's an it's called an interval in the theater.
Have you ever been to the theater? It's called an interval.
And in the interval you can buy a wildly overpriced
program or in ice cream fantastic, or you can change
your genes if you want, spray on a new pair.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Goodbye, and I have to go on. David Williams, get
out of here, David WALLI.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Geez, I'm wasting my time's don't forget to take the medications.
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