Rod and Gabi VS Comedian Rob Beckett BONUS

After calling out Canberra on his socials, Rob Beckett joined Rod and Gabi to chat about what he calls... low ticket sales.

But little does he know leaving things to the last minute is just how Canberra rolls.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next guest is fantastic. He's a huge TV star

(00:02):
in the UK. He hosts all these all these shows. Yeah,
and he got on social media the other day because
he's on his way to Australia and he said he
said this.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
He got a call from the office, Rob, can you
do some PR interviews for Australia.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
A good news is it? He's to do extra PR?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Looks at it actually sounds like that bad A couple
of low ones camera. I don't know what your clo
app but put your finger outs that I've been to camera.
Let's face that. There's not a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
So all right, now hold on a second, there I
have by the way, oh god, this tactic goes one
of two ways. So you get a lot of ticket
sales that you get nun, let's cross to the UK.
Nowbeca good eye.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Good eye? I rolled the dice from that one, didn't I?
How did it go for?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You? Do you reckon? Well?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I don't know. There was more. I love Australia. I
love coming to Canbra you know I did. I did
Canberra last time I came. I went looking for one.
Bat told me Jackie CHANGI used to live there. Nice
curry at a great time. So I'm a big fan
of camera. Just I was surprised on the sales camera
no one, no one had really bought any tickets, but

(01:11):
everywhere else has bought tickets. And I couldn't well count
upset people or if they're just slow to five tickets?
What is it? Is it me? Or is it just
every one's childer hurt and camera?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
It is a fantastic camera tradition, but I guess you've
got to be here for a little while to get
your head around it. We we are later rivers, and
even if we do have this will be really interesting. Actually,
we must chat to you after the gig because in
in AFL, in the AFL forty four quarters, we arrive
at quarter time. We you know, we start queuing at

(01:43):
the start of the game. We are just we turn
off as something's meant to start. Then we get mad,
so we don't get in with furious start furious.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I would on my show starts at eight o'clock
when I'm in camera, well, could people be arriving halfway
through and that just what happens.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's a solid chance. But when it's a comedian, we
are a little more cautious about showing up late right.
We don't want you to be. And we noticed in
your call out, your reverse psychology to Cambra, you cast
the net a little wider to a Woolengong suburb called Tyrrel,
which was honestly, it's you put Tyrell on the map
because we didn't even know where it was, as Australians

(02:23):
are like this, so I had to.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Look that up. It me Australians nowhere it was there.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
But apparently it's a great fear. I've spoke to Jimmy
Carr about it and who also speak about the Russian
obulls being there, and Jim Jeffrey, so it does exist.
They confirmed it exists and it's a great fear, and
I'm excited to go there to Canberra, but hopefully hopefully
that I didn't want to insult anyone with the pr

(02:54):
shout out on my Instagram, but I just thought I've
got to do something here because at the moment, no
one's coming in camera and I'm going into a place
that doesn't exists.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Actually, I mean, I'm intrigued and I'm reassured that some
famous comedic names you mentioned there had played Tyrrell there is.
There's a response to your post on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
From someone I've been told. I've been told a number
of times.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
You tell us we don't know a girl named Cassie,
who we assume is from the Rule has said quote
or got my Thorrule ticket, And I'm bloody excited. Can't
wait to hear the additional shade you throw at the crowd. Also,
the theater is hectic. It was previously a roller skating rink.
So what's amazing your nervousness around the all in spite

(03:40):
of the rule is you have to come out on
stage in roller skates.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right, It's got to happen. I mean, don't worry that.
I'm well prepared. In the UK, I played a venue
called the Skipton cattle Market, right, and I thought it
was a theater that had been built on the site
of an old cattle market. No, no, no, no, it is
an active, working cuttle market. When I arrived at five o'clock,
they were jet washing cow poo off the floor and

(04:08):
brushing it before they took the stage out, and then
all the audience sat where the farmers would sit to
buy the cattle. You've made it in comedy, you've never
made it. You're just treading water until you either climb
out or think that comedy.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Perspective for life. However, forget the rule Camera Llewellyn Hall.
It's October two. We have time, which and by the way,
I shouldn't have been mentioned that because as cad miraans,
we hear we have time. We have time, we don't
go time is what I meant. The Australian to a
giraffe coming to camera October two and Robine have to

(04:45):
reverse psychology this again it's worked, by the way. We
can't wait to see.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It, oh, Andrew, I hope so we'll see what the
ticket sounds. But I can't wait to STI my love
come to Australia, genuinely. The clouds in Britain they're a
little bit snobby, the crowd sometimes so Ozzie's a way
more chilled and welcome in and rel and they're good
for a chat when you do I go and do
Cambridge and they're also posh and awkward now what they
all laugh inwards it's a nightmare. In Australia it's a
lot more giving, so I'm well up for it.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Inward, laugh is a comedic's a nightmare as a brit
perpetuating stereotypes as we that's what we expect. We we
figure that they're giving you golf collaps if you're you know,
a hilarious in Cambridge.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
They're so posh, they laugh inwards, and they're so middle
class that they don't want to make a fuss by
enjoying themselves. You just want to grab them and go
line that up.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right, my travel safe on your way here. We
can't wait to see you again. We appreciate the time.
Dinner time for you, eight o'clock over there. You better
go and have some dinner.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm gonna go and have some dinner, go and have
some breakfast to have a good show. Guys, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Good mat