British comedian David Walliams is heading to Perth later this year and he called Clairsy & Lisa where they talked about what we can expect from his show, the Little Britain character he’ll be dressed as and the pitfalls of fame.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We can catch an audience with David Wolliums at the
Riverside Theater Saturday, October twelve. Tickets are available through Ticke Tech.
David Williams is with us now. Good morning, David, welcome,
good morning, Thank you for having me, Thank you for
being with us. An audience with David Walliams. Tell us
how this works. Will we get a bit of a
peek behind the curtains. There will be some storytelling, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Mean it's a Q and A show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The audience will have a chance to ask me anything
they want in the second half. But it's basically the
story of my life in terms of funny stories and
then tell us money funny stories as I possibly can
talk through lots of clips no one's ever seen talk
about the Little Britain characters, comply with Me characters time
on talent shows, and what I want it to be
(00:49):
is as sort of rioteously entertaining couple of hours and
also for people to get a chance, you know, to
get to know me a little bit better. I'm you know,
it's not going to be like depressing. I think just
just you know, because I think people want to come
away with a little bit of sense of who you
are as well. And as a special surprise, I'm going
(01:10):
to be performing as one of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Little Britain characters.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Can't say which one, okay, because it is the prize too,
don't want to blow it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Has a surprise one of the ones that hasn't been canceled.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
One you can find one you can that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
The fans of Little Britain they like Harry are they
Harry Potter esk in the way how much they they
love and obsess over things, because they're the ones you'll
be asking your questions, David.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, there's not as many as there are Harry Potter
that sadly Little Britain World at Universal Studios in Florida.
But yeah, I mean the thing is you often notice
is that people know the show better than you do,
even though me and Matt wrote the whole thing. But
on everything obviously we don't watch it, you know, all
(02:02):
the time. We don't have any occasion to watch it.
Because the thing is, I kind of think people often saying, oh,
do you watch your old stuff? And you think, well,
either you're sat at home on your own watching yourself
on television, which means you're really bonkers or you invite
people over and then say let's watch me on TV,
(02:23):
like quite crazy things to do. So but me and
Matt were like posting because it was actually twenty years
of Britain and we were sort of posting some sketches
from the first series online and we had to look
through it and I was like, you know, it's different
because obviously we're in you know, there's a comedy bun thing,
but also we've all got like certain happy memories of
the night we were, you know, recording this in front
(02:44):
of an audience, our mum's being there, whatever it was,
and so it was quite emotional actually, and I was proud,
you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We were watching it again and I was thinking, yeah,
this is actually pretty funny it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We were proud of it, and it was enjoyable seeing
the reaction again because there isn't anything quite like.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That on TV anymore. Very much become a bit more split,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You've got you've got stand up, and that stand up
is very big, and there's panel shows and things, but
there's not many kind of people doing characters anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm not surprised to be too scared.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, well you need to be pretty fearless.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think you do even just feel this, as in,
you know that it's it's scary to even try to
make people. I think if you're fearful, it's one of
those things. I mean a lot of things, but I
mean you have to go on stage and try me
for laugh. So if you're full of fear, it would
be impossible.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I've never read a Harry Potter book, but I don't
think I ever missed an episode of Little Britain.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I have sheared.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I like you, I mean, come on, it was a
moment in time of just I shed so many tears
laughing at this show. And you talk about you've got
to be fearless. Now, don't you think it's a shame
that the idea of making people laugh comes with you know,
you scared.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
To do it. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, interestingly, I saw an interview with John Clees and he.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Said classic example. Yeah yeah, yeah, but he said interest
in that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He said that people are very literal minded, and I
mean people who sort of don't like comedy very much.
We're literal minded, and I think they don't maybe understand
that it's just playful. I mean, there's a moment in
forty towers where a bazz or faulty because Manuel can't
understand English, well something, he attacks Manuel with a spoon
(04:40):
and hits him.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Over the head. So now it was real as if
you have someone, you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Know, an immigrant working in your hotel, and because they
didn't speak English you attack them with the spoon, it
wouldn't be funny.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But it is funny in the context of the show.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So I kind of think we've maybe got a little
bit confus used about what's real and what's not we're playing,
you know. I mean, he makes a lot of bad
taste jokes, and he says, well, there's a difference between
the thing you might make a joke about, which is
like horrible, you know, if it's something really dark, and
the joke, And I think.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, and the sort of that you tend to share
with people, you know, like your close friends.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Maybe it's some what but you know, it used to
be jokes you tell down the pub often used to
be quite bad taste.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But well that's fine. It's a show.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Also, I think something set out to shock and offend,
and I think, well, again, that's it's quite fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do you know the photographer Robert Maple thought the name.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes, absolutely, yeah, he took.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
These very extreme, actual photographs. Now some people say, I
like it, but I wouldn't take.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
My mum, that's it. You don't have to go, you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, yeah, So I think we need to sort
of Probably there's going to be a bit more a
sort of rebalance with.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Lockdown.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I think lockdown made people quite crazy, all looking at
our phones all the time and isolated and getting kind
of very agitated by everything we saw. And I look
at the world now and it does seem quite different.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
People. It's very polarized now, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You get the people people can't find middle ground, you know,
once dialogue it's like everything is just spinery, isn't it.
You force something or against something and shouting each other
whole time, and it feels like people's moods.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
In a sort of bad place.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
We talked about that lot and in comments we're seeing
on social media now, and it's even people, even people
doing good things, it gets slammed really quite quickly, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Weird. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I think probably the anonymity of being online.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's awful, A bit like I thought it
was a bit like you know when people drive really irresponsibly,
like you know, you're seeing the road or something and
you can see someone like speeding up, you know, coming
towards you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think social media's a bit like that, isn't it.
Because you've got the bubble of the car, you do
something that you never actually did and encourage it is
like you wouldn't actually run at someone, would you know, Well,
they'll run.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Out of my way, you know. Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
With social media you're sort of just there in your
little bubble and you can kind of write whatever you
want and it's never going to come back.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
To you social media as a car crash. It's a
great analogy. Bubble.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Wouldn't say it to someone in real life? No, then
probably you shouldn't write it.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, you've sold more than thirty seven million children's books?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
How many?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Thirty seven million?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Fifty seven million? Last time I was sorry that people
don't make the copies back to the shop.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you know that I don't I'm sorry? Twenty
million photo copied. Yeah, that was a specsaver.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, one person who bought all fifty seven million copies?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Was it relative? It was a relative wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it was my mom. It's nice. It's nice. I
can tell that many books. It's nice.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
For it.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, I happily got more.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Did just have that rapport with kids that they just
drawn to you do? You know, in general, not just
in the books.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, I sort of.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I mean, I've got eleven year old son, and I've
got nephews who were twelve and I was seventeen and
stuff like that. So you know, I feel like I'm
kind of no how to sort of entertain kids. And
and obviously writing books makes you someone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That they'd like to meet.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And so I always try, and and I'm doing signings
or something, always try and have some proper communication and
make them laugh a little bit or or something, you know,
because interestingly, I sometimes can see out the corner of
my eye someone's waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
To sort of say hello to me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You know, maybe I'm someone and you can see someone's
recommends me. And it's weird how sort of nervous people are.
And I think, and especially children, because they don't really know.
They think it might go like that, and of course
you're not doing it. And so yeah, just to try
and make it funny and lie is that. I mean,
you can say the same thing to everybody. I always say,
(09:40):
you know, yes, it's a pound per photo or something
like that, and people laugh at that and they don't
realize I've said it to its person doesn't really matter,
and people want you to do voices and stuff like that,
and it's actually really nice because I mean people say, oh,
you know what, what's it like being famous? And I say,
but the one thing about it that's really nice is
you you just make people happy. Yeah, you know, like
(10:03):
great joy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I mean, you know, if they want to.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Come and say hello to you and they like what
you do, and you know, you can make them happy,
or you can visit people who are in a bad
situation and make them happy, and it's like, you know,
make a video for someone and people are happy.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It's you know, it's quite easy, you know photo.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Do they want to autographs any more? David, is it
all pretty much selfies?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well? I think because of books, people like you to
sign their books.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm always happy to sign a book because if you
sign a book, it can't be taken back to the shop. Yes,
there was things that Dame Joan Collins, which is a
signed book is a sold book.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes to remember.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, because she really sold cookie.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, signed twenty thousand Gods. I love that besteller.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'm happy to sign a many books as in fact,
if I'm passing going through like an airport or station
or or a bookshop, I always go, I'll sign the
covers of my book.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That way, I know they can't return into the publisher's
brilliant love.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I can I ask you about your OBA you received
in twenty seventeen. You received the OBA from Princess Anne. Now,
she's always been my favorite royal. I've always thought I
reckon Princess Anne has a wicked sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Can you shed any light on Princess.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Said that if you were She said that you were
her favorite DJ.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah, mutual society. I knew it was.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I only talked to her for about you know, minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, I can't what she was like.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I met and then most of the others and
they're quite I mean, Harry you was always the funniest.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, go for the same gym as him. And when
he was living in London and so I see him
all the time. He was such a half and there
were nowheres embraces for them, yeah, and I was he
was going to the pool and I was going to
stupid and he went, wait for me.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Alliams, we need to chat like that and it would
be very very nice guy.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Me and my mom went to Wimbledon to watch the
tennis and we were very lucky to be invited into
the row box and we were sat behind William.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And Kate photografts and everything, and it was one of course.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
My mom has dined out tells everybody. You mentioned one
of the the job you do, but you talked about fame.
What are the things that annoy you the most of
you try and get away? Is that the pepper, is
that the dude in the garden hiding there, trying to
get another snap of view as you go for a
jog or something. The things about fame you really disliked that.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't go for jobs, So that one, No, there's
no market for photos. I know it's not really bad.
But you get to do exactly what you like in
the life in terms of you know, you're getting to
do your job that you love, acting and writing, and
(13:12):
if you're successful at these things, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So I you know, there are occasionally thinks, you know, like,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Know, if something untrue and unkind is written about you,
you feel a little hurt, But you have to remember
that most people will never read it, will never care,
will never remember it. So it's best to just let
it pass, especially with the news cycle being like it is. Yeah,
you think there's something it's not true, it's not nice.
Should I do anything about it? Should I say something?
(13:41):
And you just think, oh, just forget about it. And
in twenty four hours probably no one has read it,
really does And then in twenty five, twenty four hours
and no one remember. I mean during Donald Trump's presidency
he said something about every forty eight hours that should
have gotten the SAP.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
For some reason, we did forget about it.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And if you're to the next thing, I'll not compare
itself to Donald Trump, but I'm just saying that the
news cycles so far, you just have to brush those
things off. Yeah, sometimes you just feel I don't know,
it just makes you feel uncomfortable because you think, well,
that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah, Yeah, there's a temptation to fight back on it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
October twelve is the date we have an audience with
David Williams at the Riverside Theater. Tickets are available through
ticket Tech. We look forward to having you here in October.
You might want to hang around swim to rot Nest.
We know you love a channel swim.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'd love to come into the studio live to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, this post COVID world, we'd love to have you in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd like to guess one of your grooming tips.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Grooming tips, we can work on that.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And we were wearing either either you're wearing a lot
of makeup or you've had a lot of work done,
which is.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Of course clary.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Great.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Are you married? You maybe not talking to me? Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
No, No, I'm not anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You that you have a secret crush on each other, You.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Made to be married to each other in a work sence.
You know each other forever forever.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah. Yeah, And there's an attention, there's a sort of
tension between you. Yeah, there is. I picked up. I
picked up on that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
You definitely need to come in when you're in town.
I think you should.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I need to throw out all of your issues.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well, we need to celebrate, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, I will see you then, and I'll see you
in October
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Lad, it's been a pleasure you guys
We can catch an audience with David Wolliums at the
Riverside Theater Saturday, October twelve. Tickets are available through Ticke Tech.
David Williams is with us now. Good morning, David, welcome,
good morning, Thank you for having me, Thank you for
being with us. An audience with David Walliams. Tell us
how this works. Will we get a bit of a
peek behind the curtains. There will be some storytelling, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Mean it's a Q and A show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The audience will have a chance to ask me anything
they want in the second half. But it's basically the
story of my life in terms of funny stories and
then tell us money funny stories as I possibly can
talk through lots of clips no one's ever seen talk
about the Little Britain characters, comply with Me characters time
on talent shows, and what I want it to be
(00:49):
is as sort of rioteously entertaining couple of hours and
also for people to get a chance, you know, to
get to know me a little bit better. I'm you know,
it's not going to be like depressing. I think just
just you know, because I think people want to come
away with a little bit of sense of who you
are as well. And as a special surprise, I'm going
(01:10):
to be performing as one of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Little Britain characters.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Can't say which one, okay, because it is the prize too,
don't want to blow it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Has a surprise one of the ones that hasn't been canceled.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
One you can find one you can that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
The fans of Little Britain they like Harry are they
Harry Potter esk in the way how much they they
love and obsess over things, because they're the ones you'll
be asking your questions, David.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, there's not as many as there are Harry Potter
that sadly Little Britain World at Universal Studios in Florida.
But yeah, I mean the thing is you often notice
is that people know the show better than you do,
even though me and Matt wrote the whole thing. But
on everything obviously we don't watch it, you know, all
(02:02):
the time. We don't have any occasion to watch it.
Because the thing is, I kind of think people often saying, oh,
do you watch your old stuff? And you think, well,
either you're sat at home on your own watching yourself
on television, which means you're really bonkers or you invite
people over and then say let's watch me on TV,
(02:23):
like quite crazy things to do. So but me and
Matt were like posting because it was actually twenty years
of Britain and we were sort of posting some sketches
from the first series online and we had to look
through it and I was like, you know, it's different
because obviously we're in you know, there's a comedy bun thing,
but also we've all got like certain happy memories of
the night we were, you know, recording this in front
(02:44):
of an audience, our mum's being there, whatever it was,
and so it was quite emotional actually, and I was proud,
you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We were watching it again and I was thinking, yeah,
this is actually pretty funny it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We were proud of it, and it was enjoyable seeing
the reaction again because there isn't anything quite like.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That on TV anymore. Very much become a bit more split,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You've got you've got stand up, and that stand up
is very big, and there's panel shows and things, but
there's not many kind of people doing characters anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm not surprised to be too scared.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, well you need to be pretty fearless.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think you do even just feel this, as in,
you know that it's it's scary to even try to
make people. I think if you're fearful, it's one of
those things. I mean a lot of things, but I
mean you have to go on stage and try me
for laugh. So if you're full of fear, it would
be impossible.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I've never read a Harry Potter book, but I don't
think I ever missed an episode of Little Britain.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I have sheared.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I like you, I mean, come on, it was a
moment in time of just I shed so many tears
laughing at this show. And you talk about you've got
to be fearless. Now, don't you think it's a shame
that the idea of making people laugh comes with you know,
you scared.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
To do it. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well, interestingly, I saw an interview with John Clees and he.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Said classic example. Yeah yeah, yeah, but he said interest
in that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He said that people are very literal minded, and I
mean people who sort of don't like comedy very much.
We're literal minded, and I think they don't maybe understand
that it's just playful. I mean, there's a moment in
forty towers where a bazz or faulty because Manuel can't
understand English, well something, he attacks Manuel with a spoon
(04:40):
and hits him.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Over the head. So now it was real as if
you have someone, you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Know, an immigrant working in your hotel, and because they
didn't speak English you attack them with the spoon, it
wouldn't be funny.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But it is funny in the context of the show.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So I kind of think we've maybe got a little
bit confus used about what's real and what's not we're playing,
you know. I mean, he makes a lot of bad
taste jokes, and he says, well, there's a difference between
the thing you might make a joke about, which is
like horrible, you know, if it's something really dark, and
the joke, And I think.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, and the sort of that you tend to share
with people, you know, like your close friends.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Maybe it's some what but you know, it used to
be jokes you tell down the pub often used to
be quite bad taste.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But well that's fine. It's a show.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Also, I think something set out to shock and offend,
and I think, well, again, that's it's quite fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do you know the photographer Robert Maple thought the name.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes, absolutely, yeah, he took.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
These very extreme, actual photographs. Now some people say, I
like it, but I wouldn't take.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
My mum, that's it. You don't have to go, you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, yeah, So I think we need to sort
of Probably there's going to be a bit more a
sort of rebalance with.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Lockdown.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I think lockdown made people quite crazy, all looking at
our phones all the time and isolated and getting kind
of very agitated by everything we saw. And I look
at the world now and it does seem quite different.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
People. It's very polarized now, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You get the people people can't find middle ground, you know,
once dialogue it's like everything is just spinery, isn't it.
You force something or against something and shouting each other
whole time, and it feels like people's moods.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
In a sort of bad place.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
We talked about that lot and in comments we're seeing
on social media now, and it's even people, even people
doing good things, it gets slammed really quite quickly, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Weird. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And I think probably the anonymity of being online.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's awful, A bit like I thought it
was a bit like you know when people drive really irresponsibly,
like you know, you're seeing the road or something and
you can see someone like speeding up, you know, coming
towards you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think social media's a bit like that, isn't it.
Because you've got the bubble of the car, you do
something that you never actually did and encourage it is
like you wouldn't actually run at someone, would you know, Well,
they'll run.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Out of my way, you know. Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
With social media you're sort of just there in your
little bubble and you can kind of write whatever you
want and it's never going to come back.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
To you social media as a car crash. It's a
great analogy. Bubble.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Wouldn't say it to someone in real life? No, then
probably you shouldn't write it.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, you've sold more than thirty seven million children's books?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
How many?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Thirty seven million?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Fifty seven million? Last time I was sorry that people
don't make the copies back to the shop.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you know that I don't I'm sorry? Twenty
million photo copied. Yeah, that was a specsaver.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, one person who bought all fifty seven million copies?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Was it relative? It was a relative wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it was my mom. It's nice. It's nice. I
can tell that many books. It's nice.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
For it.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, I happily got more.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Did just have that rapport with kids that they just
drawn to you do? You know, in general, not just
in the books.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, I sort of.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I mean, I've got eleven year old son, and I've
got nephews who were twelve and I was seventeen and
stuff like that. So you know, I feel like I'm
kind of no how to sort of entertain kids. And
and obviously writing books makes you someone.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That they'd like to meet.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And so I always try, and and I'm doing signings
or something, always try and have some proper communication and
make them laugh a little bit or or something, you know,
because interestingly, I sometimes can see out the corner of
my eye someone's waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
To sort of say hello to me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You know, maybe I'm someone and you can see someone's
recommends me. And it's weird how sort of nervous people are.
And I think, and especially children, because they don't really know.
They think it might go like that, and of course
you're not doing it. And so yeah, just to try
and make it funny and lie is that. I mean,
you can say the same thing to everybody. I always say,
(09:40):
you know, yes, it's a pound per photo or something
like that, and people laugh at that and they don't
realize I've said it to its person doesn't really matter,
and people want you to do voices and stuff like that,
and it's actually really nice because I mean people say, oh,
you know what, what's it like being famous? And I say,
but the one thing about it that's really nice is
you you just make people happy. Yeah, you know, like
(10:03):
great joy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I mean, you know, if they want to.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Come and say hello to you and they like what
you do, and you know, you can make them happy,
or you can visit people who are in a bad
situation and make them happy, and it's like, you know,
make a video for someone and people are happy.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It's you know, it's quite easy, you know photo.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Do they want to autographs any more? David, is it
all pretty much selfies?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well? I think because of books, people like you to
sign their books.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm always happy to sign a book because if you
sign a book, it can't be taken back to the shop. Yes,
there was things that Dame Joan Collins, which is a
signed book is a sold book.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes to remember.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, because she really sold cookie.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, signed twenty thousand Gods. I love that besteller.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'm happy to sign a many books as in fact,
if I'm passing going through like an airport or station
or or a bookshop, I always go, I'll sign the
covers of my book.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That way, I know they can't return into the publisher's
brilliant love.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I can I ask you about your OBA you received
in twenty seventeen. You received the OBA from Princess Anne. Now,
she's always been my favorite royal. I've always thought I
reckon Princess Anne has a wicked sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Can you shed any light on Princess.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Said that if you were She said that you were
her favorite DJ.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah, mutual society. I knew it was.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I only talked to her for about you know, minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, I can't what she was like.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I met and then most of the others and
they're quite I mean, Harry you was always the funniest.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, go for the same gym as him. And when
he was living in London and so I see him
all the time. He was such a half and there
were nowheres embraces for them, yeah, and I was he
was going to the pool and I was going to
stupid and he went, wait for me.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Alliams, we need to chat like that and it would
be very very nice guy.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Me and my mom went to Wimbledon to watch the
tennis and we were very lucky to be invited into
the row box and we were sat behind William.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And Kate photografts and everything, and it was one of course.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
My mom has dined out tells everybody. You mentioned one
of the the job you do, but you talked about fame.
What are the things that annoy you the most of
you try and get away? Is that the pepper, is
that the dude in the garden hiding there, trying to
get another snap of view as you go for a
jog or something. The things about fame you really disliked that.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't go for jobs, So that one, No, there's
no market for photos. I know it's not really bad.
But you get to do exactly what you like in
the life in terms of you know, you're getting to
do your job that you love, acting and writing, and
(13:12):
if you're successful at these things, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So I you know, there are occasionally thinks, you know, like,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Know, if something untrue and unkind is written about you,
you feel a little hurt, But you have to remember
that most people will never read it, will never care,
will never remember it. So it's best to just let
it pass, especially with the news cycle being like it is. Yeah,
you think there's something it's not true, it's not nice.
Should I do anything about it? Should I say something?
(13:41):
And you just think, oh, just forget about it. And
in twenty four hours probably no one has read it,
really does And then in twenty five, twenty four hours
and no one remember. I mean during Donald Trump's presidency
he said something about every forty eight hours that should
have gotten the SAP.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
For some reason, we did forget about it.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And if you're to the next thing, I'll not compare
itself to Donald Trump, but I'm just saying that the
news cycles so far, you just have to brush those
things off. Yeah, sometimes you just feel I don't know,
it just makes you feel uncomfortable because you think, well,
that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah, Yeah, there's a temptation to fight back on it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
October twelve is the date we have an audience with
David Williams at the Riverside Theater. Tickets are available through
ticket Tech. We look forward to having you here in October.
You might want to hang around swim to rot Nest.
We know you love a channel swim.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'd love to come into the studio live to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, this post COVID world, we'd love to have you in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'd like to guess one of your grooming tips.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Grooming tips, we can work on that.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And we were wearing either either you're wearing a lot
of makeup or you've had a lot of work done,
which is.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Of course clary.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Great.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Are you married? You maybe not talking to me? Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
No, No, I'm not anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You that you have a secret crush on each other, You.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Made to be married to each other in a work sence.
You know each other forever forever.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah. Yeah, And there's an attention, there's a sort of
tension between you. Yeah, there is. I picked up. I
picked up on that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
You definitely need to come in when you're in town.
I think you should.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I need to throw out all of your issues.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well, we need to celebrate, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, I will see you then, and I'll see you
in October
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Lad, it's been a pleasure you guys
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