June 2, 2025 • 16 mins
Urzila Carlson joins the show! And we put Laura's Bird Knowledge to the test.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I Heard podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist and listen
live on the Free iHeart App. Good Pickup with Britt
Hockley and Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bed Bady your work, our windows done, that's my world.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Reason the dust only good fabs are all down. I've
done March No, but yeah, I know our big get
and what I want.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It don't matter where rad This.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is the pick up, Hi, guys, It's the pick up
with Britt Harckley and Laura Bed Happy Monday. Oh Britt,
do you know what I mean? I don't know if
you're in like WhatsApp group chats. Of course you're in them,
but like not in yours. No, You'm We're in work one.
People have them for all different things. You might have
a gym one. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I got a family one that goes off like, yeah,
hundreds of messages today.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The one I'm still getting used to at the moment,
and it's multiple of them, it's not just the one
is like the school WhatsApp groups, So like we've got
dak ones, we've got school ones. There's a lot, Like
there's one one that's like for the generic school, there's
one for the specific classes and then there's one that's
for the moms that's made a separate group so that
they don't have to talk to all the other people
that are in the main one.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know who I am in the group.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In every WhatsApp group, like my observer, my.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Family was like all of our immediate family, the six
of us and everyone's partners are in it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
There's a big chat goes off.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm the person that contributes from a file, like once
every couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I read it all, but then I just throw a
loll in loll helpful just to reform to people. You're
still here, read it, Yeah, I read something. Well. Look,
I mean we've got this group WhatsApp for school, and
like it's a whole class one, right, and there's mostly
mums in there and a couple of dads. Like a
lot of the dads are not very proactive in there.
It's literally mums being like can I send them school
(01:54):
with peanut butter? Sarah lost a hat. Like it's just
a generic running monologue what the kids are doing. And
we had just recently, like a mom's soccer day that
it was on for the kids and the mums we're
all talking about I don't know I'm a mom. The
mums we're all talking about it and had posters up
for this mum's soccer day at school. And one of
the mums had mentioned and said, is the mum's soccer day?
(02:14):
Is it the mum's competing or are the kids competing?
The mums are watching like what is the dynamic here?
And she was like, because I just want to know,
do I need to bring joggers for this? And one
of the dads, who has been completely silent until this point,
he's never said a single thing. Alan just goes, oh, yeah,
I saw the posters up the other day at school,
but actually you have to wear high heels. Clearly a joke.
(02:35):
I bet that cleared the room out, quicksmar Not one
person realized he was kidding, and everyone in there started
firing up, being like, how dare they make us? And
I was sitting there and poor Alan Paul Allen will
never ever message in that group again. It's like that
little thing Alan has left the group Chiens just trying
to fit in. Alan just wants he just wants to
chime in. He doesn't know what he's doing. Sw his
(02:56):
opportunity there was sport. He knows sports, just trying to
navigate the absolute treachery that is the school WhatsApp group chat.
You everyone put your heels out for Alan Hey.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Recently we caught up with one of the funniest people,
Ursula Carlson. We did an interview with her on Life
un Cut podcast and can I just say, I can't
remember the last time.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I have laughed this hard. There is nothing that she
won't say, like, she is genuinely the type of person
when you get in a room with her. Some of
the stuff that comes out of her mouth, I'm like,
you're like, that could be private, but I love that
you're sharing it with us. Not that could be, that
should be.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you might have seen her, and have you been
paying attention, you might have seen her at one of
her very many stand up live shows.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's a brilliant chat. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Now we interview you about a bunch of stuff three
years ago, but you've done a lot in the interim.
You've become a Hollywood star alongside Amy Schumer in Almost Pregnant,
which kind of pregnant, sorry, kind of pregnant, That might
be almost pregnant, Almost kind of pregnant, which had like
twenty five million streams on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It was I think it was one of the highest
grossing yeah films.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think at the last count when I stopped opening emails,
it was just over fifteen million nuts. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I either you get to a point where you're like,
I don't bother to open the email.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because it's like, I don't you know what. It's not
even that I get arrogant about it. It's because I
don't understand what it means.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, fat, I mean you're uber famous. No, I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But it's like, also, you have to count in people's
facility to main tie that attention span because people just
look at me and I can tell they're like, they're
not you from and you can see it in their eyes.
And you can't say to someone at the daily counter, yeah,
I was in a movie. I don't don'try.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If you've been viewed.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Fifty million times, that is the biggest flex.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
If someone looks.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Sideways at me, I'd be like, yeah, almost kind of pregnant.
I'd be like, no, can you just pass me the tuner?
I'd be seen it left right and center.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's a lot more merit to that than people looking
at you like they have some vague recognition and you're like, yeah,
I was on The Bachelor seven years ago. So this
is what we have to do with is more embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I mean when you say it like that, I hear
you and I take it on board.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, you've just also finished your successful run of Melbourne
International Comedy Festival shows and you are at the start
of your tour.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We were just talking.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You're going to North America, your.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Australia. You've also had a divorce
in interim.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, the divorce comes through would have been
about two thort of years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, no, what happened. I mean something you guys don't
know from listening to the last interview that we did
give Ursula. So we sat down, we had this great chat,
talked about your childhood. There was a lot going on
in that show. And at the end of that episode
you said, we stopped recording now, and I was like, yep,
and you go, I couldn't say it, but yeah, I'm
in the middle of a divorce at the moment. You're like,
it's not really well known, but I've got a comedy
(05:43):
show coming out about it soon, so le everyone all
know yes, how do you find turning that then into
comedy or is everything like, is there anything that's off limits?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I honestly think like I talk about my divorce, I
talk about my relationship filing, I talk about my weight,
I talk about everything that's happening in my life. I
talk about because I think we all can relate to everything.
My mom just got diagnosed with us all times I've
chucked that in I talk about that and the show,
but I did ask. I said to her, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
She doesn't remember you talk about it. You're allowed. No,
you'd hope she.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Forgets everything, but no, she's still she because she can
hype and fixate on some stuff. So when I did
the previous show, I said to it, can I because
some of this stuff is so funny. And I said
to it, can I use this stuff? So she said, yeah,
you can use that and that, but not that, not
that too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Of the stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She's like, absolutely not, So I got I use it.
But she goes, you can tell your friends. So I
tell the audience. Now I say, I want to tell you.
I said, there's two other things that I think is
the funniest bits, but I'm not allowed to tell you
because mom said, I said, but you have to make
friends with me. In about five to seven years, I'll
tell you the Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I'm back in five to seven years. Yeah, playing
a hard, long game.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah. I just think because there's so many people who
come to the show every year, and so they knew
when I got engaged, I told him, when I got married,
I told him when we're having babies. It's in my material.
So now, of course the vorce is part of it.
We all go through it, you know, if you're lucky enough.
And I'm not married yet, but I look for the lesson.
It's a good time. It's a good time. So yeah,
(07:12):
So then I got divorced, and I sat, I'm going
to tell them. I can't lie to my audience. I think, Yeah,
people know they can sense bullshit. Yeah, what am I
going to do for the next five years talk about
a wife I don't have.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But it's also where you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Mine your content from, right, Like you have to get
the content from what you're living every single day. We
do it the same year, like Laura did her gender
reveal for her new baby on.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Air live, Like that's what you got to do. You've
got to give him something, right, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's like, well you're going to talk about it. You're
going to talk about it down.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The track totally as well. If someone who has worked
on like all different because you've done the small screen,
you've now done the big screen, you've done on stage,
you've kind of done it all. What is your favorite
and always stand up? Yeah, it's so interesting to me
because stand up seems to be such an incredible vehicle
for so many people, and even especially in like Australian TV,
(08:01):
which I know is small fry in comparison to like
what is happening in the States, but we get so
much about talent from talent stand up comedians and it
seems like you know, that pool that we use in Australia,
it's relatively small, but they're all incredibly talented stand up comedians.
They kind of get pulled in.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah. New Zealand's the same. It's like, well, we were
just talking about it before. You get stand up comics
who want to get into television and then you get
the stand up comics who do television to get more
people to these stand up shows. Yeah, and so that's
the the two genres really that you get. But there's
a lot of people as soon as they get into
TV that never do stand up again. And it's like
(08:39):
that's your you know, that's like never training for a
marathon and just running a marathon once a year. If
you just do television and don't stand up, is the
training that's the thing that keeps that muscle alive. It's
just what your preferences, I guess, But I just love
how immediate stand up is.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Is there an art in how you craft your jokes?
Like do you think that it's a learned trait that
you can love, that you can get better at? And
is that how it works for you? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, you know, like you don't even know some numbers
are funnier than others. Like if I say to you, like,
you've got two kids or two and a half. But
then if you say, like our neighbors have seven children,
seven is funnier than five. I don't know why, but
just sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That sounds insane.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It is insane. No, I actually grew up next to
people who had seven children. Yeah, Like it's like they
never stopped coming out of the house. We couldn't fight them.
We're like this to me, overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Here, these are things that you learn along the way
that you can craft and turn into.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I don't realize or like the first year that I
was in Common, maybe even the first two years, I
thought I had to be this persona on stage. And
then I realized the audience can tell when you're bullshitting.
That's when I was like, I'm going very honest with
my audience from now on. I'm just going to be
who I am. Maybe a little heightened, but that's who
I am for me.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And I know everyone's perception of like sound up comedy
is very differ, but I think it's a really amazing
craft when comedians can turn the mundane, like a really
simple task that we all do that we all have
to experience, into something that is incredibly funny. But the
funny comes from the relatability of it. I remember at
your show something about folding towels, and it was so
(10:27):
funny because I was like, that's what every couple has
had an argument about or something. It's it's taking those
small moments and really finding like, what's the relatability piece
in it?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know what, even when something happens and I go,
it's not really funny, Like on the movie they Struggled
to keep my hair to color a gray because my
hair just wants to go warm the whole time, right,
And so I had to go through this heair dresser,
and I just told Initially I was like this, nothing
funny happened, But then I just described every moment of
(10:59):
me being picked up in the car and feeling like
as soon as the car got there, because they said
they were going to send a car, and then I
just assumed it would be Uber. So I'm waiting for
a Prius and then a brand new Mercedes pulls up
and I was like, oh, this is a lot, because
I'm just in tracks of pants and a puffer jacket
and then the puffer. I'm struggling to get out of
the car because I want to zip up the puffer.
And how we struggle, you know, like because it's I've
(11:21):
had a big year, so I can't get the puffer
over this part. You know, this part is the hardest part,
you know, to get the zipper because it's no give
on a puffer. So what I thought was just nothing
like a blip, became like a twenty five minute bit.
At the beginning of the show. We're just talk about
having my hair colored at the salon.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Trying to get a puffer jacket on. Yeah, it just.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Becomes this massive thing and people go that puffer jacket.
Hair color store is my favorite. And I'm like, honestly,
when it just happened, it was literally I used it
as a throwaway in the first show, and then I realized,
why there's more there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now, Britt Have you seen the new TV show The Floor.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's like, I haven't sat down and gotten into it yet,
but I heard a lot about it, mainly from you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To be honest, If you haven't seen it, it's on
channel and I was watching it the other night with
my mother in law. And if you haven't seen it, look,
this is the concept. You have like a square of floor,
so stupid to explain. It's such a stupid game. Okay,
so we're on the floor, got it. So you're an
expert in whatever field. For example, I could say I'm
an expert in kids books because I read so many
(12:26):
of them. And then you pick your little You have
like a little square on the ground, and everyone who's
on the floor has a square of their expertise, right,
and the person next to you could have an expertise
in flags or I don't know. Chocolate brands could be anything,
and you go and you jewel them basically just show
an image of it, and you've got to like quickly
say the name of whatever it is. Who are you
(12:47):
jeweling the person next to you to get their piece
of square so that you can get more of the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A chocolate person could hypothetically take a book persons.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, God, exactly, thank you, Oh my god, stay with me, everyone, Sorry,
it's very convoised.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I know probably no one cares about this, but I
discovered something the other night. Because I'm I am a
self proclaimed I'm very bad at trivia, Like you do know,
want me on your trivia team. I don't know anything.
I don't know where anything is. I don't know a
single thing about nothing. But I learned something that I'm
quite good at from watching the floor. So somebody had
their their area of expertise was birds. Okay, now we
(13:25):
were talking about birds the other day, and I know
what you're gonna bring up, but let me tell you,
I got every single one of those bird names right
when we were watching the floor. And I think that
maybe my new grandma hobby that I'm going to take
on should be bird watching, Well, I am a bird connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Just to get people up to date, Laura has been
bragging about how much he knows about birds so much,
I just want to play you this grab from a couple.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Of days ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Here's my one and only trivia fact that I know
is guess what the kookabar is the world's biggest kingfish.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Everyone, don't say you don't come in to learn anything.
It's a kingfisher. Kingfisher. You said kingfish, which is a
fish in that?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Okay, so kingfish is what you said you're an expert in,
which is in fact not a bird.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And then kingfisher. You all know what I meant. I
was close enough.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, you've been bragging about this non stop, this little
bird obsession.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm not bragging. I'm just like really proud of myself
because I know that being savvy in bird names is
not particularly cool, or knowing what birds are is not
particularly cool. But for some reason, I just think that, like,
as Australians, a lot of us have a knack for
knowing bird names. Well, we all need a skill in life. Yeah,
some people's is more important than mine.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, we're gonna hold our own little game show here
at the pick up our own little bird watching the
floor game show. I actually have printed off eight birds, Laura,
and I'm gonna quick fire hold them up to you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I have the pictures in front of me. This is
quick fire, rapid fire. That's yes, Laura, thank you. That
is what quick fire means.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I am going to hold up for birds and you
are going to say what it is straight away if
you don't know it.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I feel like the time is up, I will
be going on to the next bird. Okay, are you ready? Yeah,
let's play this properly though, Guys, what do I win?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Respect on hundred thousand dollars like the floor. I'm ready
for Will and Woody perspect from Willem Woody, Will Woody,
you're hearing this all right?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes, and pick up the four bird watching Extravaganza starts now.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Flamingo, magpie, eagle. We'll kind crusted eagle. No wrong, big
wing deal, No not okay, that's not a point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Next one. It is an eagle though. Oh it's a rosella.
What what direction? What do you mean direction? It's facing
it's a kind of direction. Okay, it's actually an eastern
rosella hummingbird yep, oh, Cassuary castlewarry, yup? Easy? Oh I
don't know what that is. It looks like a No,
(15:47):
it's big.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a gala.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh that's it mate. Six point five? No, I got
seven out of eight. Who are you taking a point
off for? You didn't know what kind of eagle it was?
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's a balled eagle?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not bad? Is I think?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Maybe this is my I'm gonna I'm gonna work on
this and just to be clear, and I think the
ell is eastern. This should become a benchmark because I
think we should do this weekly. I am exciting. That
was for the people in the car, For everyone out
there who is a birdwatcher, I'm here for you. I
think I've just isolated the rest of the Australian audience,
but I'm okay with you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I would like to figure out an animal that I
have an expertise in and do a quiz myself.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
All right, we'll coming to you next week. All right,
let's get out of here.
I Heard podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist and listen
live on the Free iHeart App. Good Pickup with Britt
Hockley and Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bed Bady your work, our windows done, that's my world.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Reason the dust only good fabs are all down. I've
done March No, but yeah, I know our big get
and what I want.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It don't matter where rad This.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is the pick up, Hi, guys, It's the pick up
with Britt Harckley and Laura Bed Happy Monday. Oh Britt,
do you know what I mean? I don't know if
you're in like WhatsApp group chats. Of course you're in them,
but like not in yours. No, You'm We're in work one.
People have them for all different things. You might have
a gym one. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I got a family one that goes off like, yeah,
hundreds of messages today.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The one I'm still getting used to at the moment,
and it's multiple of them, it's not just the one
is like the school WhatsApp groups, So like we've got
dak ones, we've got school ones. There's a lot, Like
there's one one that's like for the generic school, there's
one for the specific classes and then there's one that's
for the moms that's made a separate group so that
they don't have to talk to all the other people
that are in the main one.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know who I am in the group.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In every WhatsApp group, like my observer, my.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Family was like all of our immediate family, the six
of us and everyone's partners are in it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
There's a big chat goes off.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm the person that contributes from a file, like once
every couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I read it all, but then I just throw a
loll in loll helpful just to reform to people. You're
still here, read it, Yeah, I read something. Well. Look,
I mean we've got this group WhatsApp for school, and
like it's a whole class one, right, and there's mostly
mums in there and a couple of dads. Like a
lot of the dads are not very proactive in there.
It's literally mums being like can I send them school
(01:54):
with peanut butter? Sarah lost a hat. Like it's just
a generic running monologue what the kids are doing. And
we had just recently, like a mom's soccer day that
it was on for the kids and the mums we're
all talking about I don't know I'm a mom. The
mums we're all talking about it and had posters up
for this mum's soccer day at school. And one of
the mums had mentioned and said, is the mum's soccer day?
(02:14):
Is it the mum's competing or are the kids competing?
The mums are watching like what is the dynamic here?
And she was like, because I just want to know,
do I need to bring joggers for this? And one
of the dads, who has been completely silent until this point,
he's never said a single thing. Alan just goes, oh, yeah,
I saw the posters up the other day at school,
but actually you have to wear high heels. Clearly a joke.
(02:35):
I bet that cleared the room out, quicksmar Not one
person realized he was kidding, and everyone in there started
firing up, being like, how dare they make us? And
I was sitting there and poor Alan Paul Allen will
never ever message in that group again. It's like that
little thing Alan has left the group Chiens just trying
to fit in. Alan just wants he just wants to
chime in. He doesn't know what he's doing. Sw his
(02:56):
opportunity there was sport. He knows sports, just trying to
navigate the absolute treachery that is the school WhatsApp group chat.
You everyone put your heels out for Alan Hey.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Recently we caught up with one of the funniest people,
Ursula Carlson. We did an interview with her on Life
un Cut podcast and can I just say, I can't
remember the last time.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I have laughed this hard. There is nothing that she
won't say, like, she is genuinely the type of person
when you get in a room with her. Some of
the stuff that comes out of her mouth, I'm like,
you're like, that could be private, but I love that
you're sharing it with us. Not that could be, that
should be.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you might have seen her, and have you been
paying attention, you might have seen her at one of
her very many stand up live shows.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's a brilliant chat. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Now we interview you about a bunch of stuff three
years ago, but you've done a lot in the interim.
You've become a Hollywood star alongside Amy Schumer in Almost Pregnant,
which kind of pregnant, sorry, kind of pregnant, That might
be almost pregnant, Almost kind of pregnant, which had like
twenty five million streams on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It was I think it was one of the highest
grossing yeah films.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think at the last count when I stopped opening emails,
it was just over fifteen million nuts. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I either you get to a point where you're like,
I don't bother to open the email.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because it's like, I don't you know what. It's not
even that I get arrogant about it. It's because I
don't understand what it means.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, fat, I mean you're uber famous. No, I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But it's like, also, you have to count in people's
facility to main tie that attention span because people just
look at me and I can tell they're like, they're
not you from and you can see it in their eyes.
And you can't say to someone at the daily counter, yeah,
I was in a movie. I don't don'try.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If you've been viewed.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Fifty million times, that is the biggest flex.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
If someone looks.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Sideways at me, I'd be like, yeah, almost kind of pregnant.
I'd be like, no, can you just pass me the tuner?
I'd be seen it left right and center.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's a lot more merit to that than people looking
at you like they have some vague recognition and you're like, yeah,
I was on The Bachelor seven years ago. So this
is what we have to do with is more embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I mean when you say it like that, I hear
you and I take it on board.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, you've just also finished your successful run of Melbourne
International Comedy Festival shows and you are at the start
of your tour.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We were just talking.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You're going to North America, your.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Australia. You've also had a divorce
in interim.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, the divorce comes through would have been
about two thort of years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, no, what happened. I mean something you guys don't
know from listening to the last interview that we did
give Ursula. So we sat down, we had this great chat,
talked about your childhood. There was a lot going on
in that show. And at the end of that episode
you said, we stopped recording now, and I was like, yep,
and you go, I couldn't say it, but yeah, I'm
in the middle of a divorce at the moment. You're like,
it's not really well known, but I've got a comedy
(05:43):
show coming out about it soon, so le everyone all
know yes, how do you find turning that then into
comedy or is everything like, is there anything that's off limits?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I honestly think like I talk about my divorce, I
talk about my relationship filing, I talk about my weight,
I talk about everything that's happening in my life. I
talk about because I think we all can relate to everything.
My mom just got diagnosed with us all times I've
chucked that in I talk about that and the show,
but I did ask. I said to her, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
She doesn't remember you talk about it. You're allowed. No,
you'd hope she.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Forgets everything, but no, she's still she because she can
hype and fixate on some stuff. So when I did
the previous show, I said to it, can I because
some of this stuff is so funny. And I said
to it, can I use this stuff? So she said, yeah,
you can use that and that, but not that, not
that too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Of the stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She's like, absolutely not, So I got I use it.
But she goes, you can tell your friends. So I
tell the audience. Now I say, I want to tell you.
I said, there's two other things that I think is
the funniest bits, but I'm not allowed to tell you
because mom said, I said, but you have to make
friends with me. In about five to seven years, I'll
tell you the Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So I'm back in five to seven years. Yeah, playing
a hard, long game.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah. I just think because there's so many people who
come to the show every year, and so they knew
when I got engaged, I told him, when I got married,
I told him when we're having babies. It's in my material.
So now, of course the vorce is part of it.
We all go through it, you know, if you're lucky enough.
And I'm not married yet, but I look for the lesson.
It's a good time. It's a good time. So yeah,
(07:12):
So then I got divorced, and I sat, I'm going
to tell them. I can't lie to my audience. I think, Yeah,
people know they can sense bullshit. Yeah, what am I
going to do for the next five years talk about
a wife I don't have.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But it's also where you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Mine your content from, right, Like you have to get
the content from what you're living every single day. We
do it the same year, like Laura did her gender
reveal for her new baby on.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Air live, Like that's what you got to do. You've
got to give him something, right, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's like, well you're going to talk about it. You're
going to talk about it down.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The track totally as well. If someone who has worked
on like all different because you've done the small screen,
you've now done the big screen, you've done on stage,
you've kind of done it all. What is your favorite
and always stand up? Yeah, it's so interesting to me
because stand up seems to be such an incredible vehicle
for so many people, and even especially in like Australian TV,
(08:01):
which I know is small fry in comparison to like
what is happening in the States, but we get so
much about talent from talent stand up comedians and it
seems like you know, that pool that we use in Australia,
it's relatively small, but they're all incredibly talented stand up comedians.
They kind of get pulled in.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah. New Zealand's the same. It's like, well, we were
just talking about it before. You get stand up comics
who want to get into television and then you get
the stand up comics who do television to get more
people to these stand up shows. Yeah, and so that's
the the two genres really that you get. But there's
a lot of people as soon as they get into
TV that never do stand up again. And it's like
(08:39):
that's your you know, that's like never training for a
marathon and just running a marathon once a year. If
you just do television and don't stand up, is the
training that's the thing that keeps that muscle alive. It's
just what your preferences, I guess, But I just love
how immediate stand up is.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Is there an art in how you craft your jokes?
Like do you think that it's a learned trait that
you can love, that you can get better at? And
is that how it works for you? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, you know, like you don't even know some numbers
are funnier than others. Like if I say to you, like,
you've got two kids or two and a half. But
then if you say, like our neighbors have seven children,
seven is funnier than five. I don't know why, but
just sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That sounds insane.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It is insane. No, I actually grew up next to
people who had seven children. Yeah, Like it's like they
never stopped coming out of the house. We couldn't fight them.
We're like this to me, overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Here, these are things that you learn along the way
that you can craft and turn into.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I don't realize or like the first year that I
was in Common, maybe even the first two years, I
thought I had to be this persona on stage. And
then I realized the audience can tell when you're bullshitting.
That's when I was like, I'm going very honest with
my audience from now on. I'm just going to be
who I am. Maybe a little heightened, but that's who
I am for me.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And I know everyone's perception of like sound up comedy
is very differ, but I think it's a really amazing
craft when comedians can turn the mundane, like a really
simple task that we all do that we all have
to experience, into something that is incredibly funny. But the
funny comes from the relatability of it. I remember at
your show something about folding towels, and it was so
(10:27):
funny because I was like, that's what every couple has
had an argument about or something. It's it's taking those
small moments and really finding like, what's the relatability piece
in it?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know what, even when something happens and I go,
it's not really funny, Like on the movie they Struggled
to keep my hair to color a gray because my
hair just wants to go warm the whole time, right,
And so I had to go through this heair dresser,
and I just told Initially I was like this, nothing
funny happened, But then I just described every moment of
(10:59):
me being picked up in the car and feeling like
as soon as the car got there, because they said
they were going to send a car, and then I
just assumed it would be Uber. So I'm waiting for
a Prius and then a brand new Mercedes pulls up
and I was like, oh, this is a lot, because
I'm just in tracks of pants and a puffer jacket
and then the puffer. I'm struggling to get out of
the car because I want to zip up the puffer.
And how we struggle, you know, like because it's I've
(11:21):
had a big year, so I can't get the puffer
over this part. You know, this part is the hardest part,
you know, to get the zipper because it's no give
on a puffer. So what I thought was just nothing
like a blip, became like a twenty five minute bit.
At the beginning of the show. We're just talk about
having my hair colored at the salon.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Trying to get a puffer jacket on. Yeah, it just.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Becomes this massive thing and people go that puffer jacket.
Hair color store is my favorite. And I'm like, honestly,
when it just happened, it was literally I used it
as a throwaway in the first show, and then I realized,
why there's more there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now, Britt Have you seen the new TV show The Floor.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's like, I haven't sat down and gotten into it yet,
but I heard a lot about it, mainly from you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To be honest, If you haven't seen it, it's on
channel and I was watching it the other night with
my mother in law. And if you haven't seen it, look,
this is the concept. You have like a square of floor,
so stupid to explain. It's such a stupid game. Okay,
so we're on the floor, got it. So you're an
expert in whatever field. For example, I could say I'm
an expert in kids books because I read so many
(12:26):
of them. And then you pick your little You have
like a little square on the ground, and everyone who's
on the floor has a square of their expertise, right,
and the person next to you could have an expertise
in flags or I don't know. Chocolate brands could be anything,
and you go and you jewel them basically just show
an image of it, and you've got to like quickly
say the name of whatever it is. Who are you
(12:47):
jeweling the person next to you to get their piece
of square so that you can get more of the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A chocolate person could hypothetically take a book persons.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, God, exactly, thank you, Oh my god, stay with me, everyone, Sorry,
it's very convoised.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I know probably no one cares about this, but I
discovered something the other night. Because I'm I am a
self proclaimed I'm very bad at trivia, Like you do know,
want me on your trivia team. I don't know anything.
I don't know where anything is. I don't know a
single thing about nothing. But I learned something that I'm
quite good at from watching the floor. So somebody had
their their area of expertise was birds. Okay, now we
(13:25):
were talking about birds the other day, and I know
what you're gonna bring up, but let me tell you,
I got every single one of those bird names right
when we were watching the floor. And I think that
maybe my new grandma hobby that I'm going to take
on should be bird watching, Well, I am a bird connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Just to get people up to date, Laura has been
bragging about how much he knows about birds so much,
I just want to play you this grab from a couple.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Of days ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Here's my one and only trivia fact that I know
is guess what the kookabar is the world's biggest kingfish.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Everyone, don't say you don't come in to learn anything.
It's a kingfisher. Kingfisher. You said kingfish, which is a
fish in that?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Okay, so kingfish is what you said you're an expert in,
which is in fact not a bird.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And then kingfisher. You all know what I meant. I
was close enough.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, you've been bragging about this non stop, this little
bird obsession.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm not bragging. I'm just like really proud of myself
because I know that being savvy in bird names is
not particularly cool, or knowing what birds are is not
particularly cool. But for some reason, I just think that, like,
as Australians, a lot of us have a knack for
knowing bird names. Well, we all need a skill in life. Yeah,
some people's is more important than mine.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, we're gonna hold our own little game show here
at the pick up our own little bird watching the
floor game show. I actually have printed off eight birds, Laura,
and I'm gonna quick fire hold them up to you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I have the pictures in front of me. This is
quick fire, rapid fire. That's yes, Laura, thank you. That
is what quick fire means.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I am going to hold up for birds and you
are going to say what it is straight away if
you don't know it.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I feel like the time is up, I will
be going on to the next bird. Okay, are you ready? Yeah,
let's play this properly though, Guys, what do I win?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Respect on hundred thousand dollars like the floor. I'm ready
for Will and Woody perspect from Willem Woody, Will Woody,
you're hearing this all right?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes, and pick up the four bird watching Extravaganza starts now.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Flamingo, magpie, eagle. We'll kind crusted eagle. No wrong, big
wing deal, No not okay, that's not a point.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Next one. It is an eagle though. Oh it's a rosella.
What what direction? What do you mean direction? It's facing
it's a kind of direction. Okay, it's actually an eastern
rosella hummingbird yep, oh, Cassuary castlewarry, yup? Easy? Oh I
don't know what that is. It looks like a No,
(15:47):
it's big.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a gala.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh that's it mate. Six point five? No, I got
seven out of eight. Who are you taking a point
off for? You didn't know what kind of eagle it was?
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's a balled eagle?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not bad? Is I think?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Maybe this is my I'm gonna I'm gonna work on
this and just to be clear, and I think the
ell is eastern. This should become a benchmark because I
think we should do this weekly. I am exciting. That
was for the people in the car, For everyone out
there who is a birdwatcher, I'm here for you. I
think I've just isolated the rest of the Australian audience,
but I'm okay with you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I would like to figure out an animal that I
have an expertise in and do a quiz myself.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
All right, we'll coming to you next week. All right,
let's get out of here.
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