May 30, 2023 • 41 mins
Welcome to the Crown & Anchor, Greyhounds! In this episode Marisa, Christian, and Brett have a conversation with KG, who is known for his portrayal of beloved pub crew member Paul on Ted Lasso.
Kevin ‘KG’ Garry is here, there, and everywhere when it comes to creative projects. He's got his own YouTube channel, he’s the co-host of the boxing-focused Undefeated Podcast with fellow comedian and collaborator Travis Jay, and he frequently appears on the massive Manchester United YouTube channel The United Stand.
In addition to staying very busy online, KG works as a comedian and actor, and has appeared on shows like the paramedic comedy Bloods on Sky One, the sketch comedy show Famalam on BBC, and the Black Stories edition of Drunk History on Comedy Central.
He’s also a huge sports fan and an integral part of our favorite show, and we are so excited to share this conversation with y'all, Greyhounds!
For those of you who aren't caught up on season 3 of Ted Lasso - this is your official spoiler alert, as there are some light spoilers through the first four episodes of season 3.
More extensive show notes can be found on our website: https://www.tedlassopod.com/kg-tha-comedian-paul-ted-lasso
Richmond Til We Die is an episode-by-episode conversation about the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso, where we explore the characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us laugh until we can hardly breathe one moment and then feel with the deepest parts of our hearts the next. When you're here, you're a greyhound!
Kevin ‘KG’ Garry is here, there, and everywhere when it comes to creative projects. He's got his own YouTube channel, he’s the co-host of the boxing-focused Undefeated Podcast with fellow comedian and collaborator Travis Jay, and he frequently appears on the massive Manchester United YouTube channel The United Stand.
In addition to staying very busy online, KG works as a comedian and actor, and has appeared on shows like the paramedic comedy Bloods on Sky One, the sketch comedy show Famalam on BBC, and the Black Stories edition of Drunk History on Comedy Central.
He’s also a huge sports fan and an integral part of our favorite show, and we are so excited to share this conversation with y'all, Greyhounds!
For those of you who aren't caught up on season 3 of Ted Lasso - this is your official spoiler alert, as there are some light spoilers through the first four episodes of season 3.
More extensive show notes can be found on our website: https://www.tedlassopod.com/kg-tha-comedian-paul-ted-lasso
Richmond Til We Die is an episode-by-episode conversation about the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso, where we explore the characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us laugh until we can hardly breathe one moment and then feel with the deepest parts of our hearts the next. When you're here, you're a greyhound!
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Welcome to the Crown and Anchor Greyhounds. This is Richmond Till We Die,
a conversation about the Apple TV Plusshow ted Lasso, where we explore the
characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us
laugh until we can hardly breathe onemoment and then feel with the deepest parts
of our hearts the next. I'mMarissa, and I'm feeling all right.
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I'm Christian. I'm a flat brimmedhat connoisseur who unfortunately is always on a
quest for the next great hat thatwill fit my unusually large velgin. I'm
Brett, and I am so excitedto introduce our guest. Our guest today
is actor, comedian, presenter andYouTuber KG. The comedian. Y'all know
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KG for his work as Paul onted Lasso, the gentle giant among the
pub trio, but KG is here, there, and everywhere when it comes
to creative projects. He's got hisown YouTube channel where he hosts multiple projects.
He's the co host of the boxingfocused Undefeated podcast with fellow comedian and
collaborator Travis j and he frequently appearson the Massive Manchester United YouTube channel.
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The United Stand. In addition tostaying very busy online, KG works as
a comedian and actor and has appearedon shows like the paramedic comedy Bloods on
Sky One, the sketch comedy showFamily Am on BBC, and the Black
Stories edition of Drunk History on ComedyCentral. He's also a huge sports fan
and an integral part of our favoriteshow, and we are so excited that
he's here to chat with us today. So Greyhounds please join us as we
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give a warm welcome to KG.Thanks for being on the show. KG,
It's so nice to meet you.Yeah, I'm really happy to be
here. I'm tooking to official peopleKansas. That feels good. I feel
yeah, that's right, I feellike, well, we're thrilled that you're
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here with us. Thank you somuch. KG. Could you share a
little bit about how you came tobe involved with Ted Lasso? Maddest.
You know, it's the maddest storybecause I wasn't supposed to the character that
I am. I wasn't supposed tobe that character, so I actually read
for um. I was supposed topick him up and take him to my
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family's restaurant. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
then obviously he said that yeah itwas supposed in it said like you know,
um Indian and stuff. I wasthinking, wow, this is gonna
be tough taking them to my family'sIndian restaurant. Being Nigerian. I think,
yeah, I just kind of riffedit. I played around with it
and I just, um, yeah, I took him back to my Ninegerian
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family restaurant, um, and yeah, just go to They let me kind
of freestyle a bit because it wasa funny situation. It's like this doesn't
make sense for let's go. Andthen randomly, um, I ended up
as a pub boy, like Idon't know literally, like it went from
that audition as this guy, andI think everyone else kind of knew their
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roles there was quite secure, andmine I was kind of last minute.
So it's like I got the roleand then two weeks later I think I
was a part of the cast filming. So mad story, really grateful because
I've stayed in it the whole time, which has been fun. So yeah,
oh my goodness. Yeah. Iwas looking at just the number of
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episodes on IMDb, and I knewit was a lot, but I was
like, yeah, like the Triohave been featured in a lot of episodes.
There's a handful where you guys don'tshow up, but like you really
do make one or two appearances andmost episodes, which is fantastic, And
it's almost always y'all with May,which is just a yeah, she's all
good, mom, She's she's themain one kind of keeps us in line.
So it's quite funny to just it'sreally funny to just think I wasn't
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supposed to be in this many episodes, Like I didn't expect to be a
part of something it's huge, right, And then it's like I had these
moments and I'm like, wow,you're really in this show, you know,
and he and then they keeping alldifferent things to your character to do
and you're like really, so yeah, it's been it's been a it's been
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amazing. And then you ended upbeing a huge part of the Beard Bottle
episode in season two. What wasyour reaction the first time you read that
script. I couldn't believe it,Like, so we obviously we have the
group. It's it's it's us,yeah, and with me in the group,
right, we have a little what'sthat group? And I think it
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mean I was like, have youseen this yet? Someone it was like
a big the group. I waslike, well, and I'm thinking,
you know, and there's no way, there's no way they're gonna like do
it. There was a whole episoderight you start reading, You're like,
no way, we're getting out thepub. We are escaping yeh, because
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it's a bit funny. We findit so hilarious, Like we're super fans,
but we love the pub. That'swhere we watch all our games.
So we're like, oh my goodness, we're we're getting out. And then
you start reading more and literally likeif you could just see the emojis that
we use, like fire emojis,and like, yeah, there was loads
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of that. And then, um, I think the greatest the greatest day
was recording that. I think that'sthe greatest day I've ever had on that
show. And I was just sothankful. I hugged everyone. I cried
in my I cried in my traileron the final night of it because it
was just I couldn't believe that theygiven us that much, trust us that
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much. Um, you know,they really believed in us, and they
it's been that way from the beginning. But to a whole effort. You
have to understand. It's like andthey let us do stuff. It was
like, what do you guys thinkcoming back? Jason be like, yeah,
I like this. Brett will belike because he was involved in that
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one as well, He's like,yeah, we could do this, but
maybe he should. It was Yeah, I never felt like I felt like
an actor that day. It wasone of those days because they had the
huge have the drones were playing footballwere totally unfit. It doesn't surprise me
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that Annette was the first one todo the homemark assignment and get that reading
knocked down. She said, however, that one of your superpowers on the
set, especially with that pub crew, is that you're the one that's the
biggest football fan. You're a hugeman Chester United fan, and that you
kind of tutor and teach them someof the stuff that they might not know
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about football. Do you, uh, Do you remember any particularly funny stories
or funny things that you had tocoach the rest of the pub crew in
when it comes to football. Yeah. So I just like, oh,
he won't even mind me saying thisis not like a football fan. So
he's one of the greatest actors ever. So he's the leader of the group,
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always giving it to always giving itto Ted. You know what I
mean, he's coming over, He'sfrom on it. Right. So,
because Adam's not into football at all, like for season one, we had
to do a lot of explaining.But I have to just whatever I have
to do is I had to linkit to RuPaul's drag race. I go,
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so right now, just where weare, right, I'm like,
they're dancing for their lives. Yeah, and this person you you really like
this person on the show. Youdon't want them to leave? Yeah,
this is the share. I wantyou to go there, like, this
is what this means? Right,if we win this, they're in the
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Main Life Final. I've got it, Like this is this is where this
is where Bob the Drag Queen becomesBob the Drag Queen. Yeah, this
is it. This is the breakoutmoment, right that would be like penalty
kicks are like equal to death dropsabsolutely and then um mid scene because it
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gets so funny, like see likewhat we finished the take. You know
there's that bit where a repuls dragrace where they start talking to each other
and they're at there they're taking Ithink they're putting their makeup on, but
it's a really quick brush. Yeah, and we'll talk about each other's performance.
Who're like, I didn't really believeyou. I don't have to think
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you went. I didn't really believeyou. Oh yeah, now you know.
It's a lot of fun. Yeah, and that's really good going for
the team. But for me,this is the type of football fan I
am. So sometimes I feel likea fraud because I'm not. I'm really
quiet. I always believe that myteam might win, so when I'm trying
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to go for it, I'm like, how I support Richmond is very similar
to how I support Man United.So it's like, um, I'm being
myself really yeah, it's it's it'sI'm very lucky to pay a guy that
is glass half full at most times. Yeah. I'm interested to know because
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you're you're kind of the most positiveand friendly of the of the crew.
Is that something that was kind ofwritten in or did you feel like you
could kind of make that your ownand that that was your own personality bringing
to that that role, you know, I was I think I was really
lucky. It was one of thoseones where because I would say, um,
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there's a lot of similarities. Iwould say he's very kind, He's
like next of all kind. I'mmore like I'm like here, I'm more
chill with it, Like I believehe has these little moments when he's like
they always made me go into myhigher registered life. Yeah, and I
like that team, yes, Likeso I don't really find that register amongst
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my friends when I'm out with thelads, like drinking beer and stuff.
I always believe, like so inour worst Manny United, my football team
are like they're in a bad way. Yeah, they haven't been good for
a long time, and I believeevery season that we're going to be successful.
Now, we haven't won the leaguefor about seven, seven or eight
years, but each year I stillbelieve we can do it. So that
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just gives you a sign of howsome people call it a delusional I just
call it like really hopeful. Howdid you become a Manchester United fan?
You grew up was a South LondonIs that right? Yeah? Yeah,
so I really interesting, really interested. I'll give you this water story.
I really love Cantona Ryan Giggs.The other story is I was like in
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Foster care early in my life andI was grew up in Manchester in the
beginning early years of my life witha lady called Missus Wiggins. She was
the lady I looked after us.And then how did you get into boxing?
Because you're a huge boxing fan.You do boxing podcast, boxing media,
a podcast? Yeah, you know, you know what's really funny?
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Guy, So um, it coincideswith my football team being rubbish. I
needed something else. It's gonna makeit work. I needed something else,
just make because it was just everyweekend. You're just like, I'm sad
my team plays, we haven't won, and it's it's crazy because we used
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to be good. I don't knowif there's a if there's an NFL equivalent
for you guys in the Cowboy DallasCowboys, Yep, there you go.
It's literally united and like halfway fans. Basically we believe every season and we're
not going We're not gonna get there. Yeah, and it's painful to admit.
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We're spending lots of money, we'reseeing really okay results and it feels
like it's gonna it feels like it'sgonna be our year as well. At
the beginning, it feels good andthen you quickly realize it's not a year,
so know what happens. Um,what happens is I said, look,
I'm gonna go on a hunt andI'm gonna find a sport that I'm
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into. I did try NFL.I couldn't really find a team, so
I haven't I haven't found myself situatedyet with it with the NFL team.
I looked at NBA, I waslike, oh, the players they always
move a lot, like they don'tstay where they Yeah, And I was
like, oh, that doesn't workfor me. And then I was like
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boxing actually and luckily um, justbecause Anthony Joshua and Ningerian as well,
you know English Nigerian, I couldjust relate to his story. So it
was really Ajum like has a casualboxing van before. But I think a
j piqued my interest because we sharesimilar like a similar life story right in
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terms of upbringing. And then afterthat was it France I learned about him.
I just went backwards and I hadto go into the history books and
found like if Van Dah like umLennox, you know, like real like
real fighters you know. So justwent on a journey and what's cool is
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I wish I was there when Iwish I was watching when it was live.
But it's still quite fun to goback and learn about these great fighters.
Sugary Leonard like, now you knowwhich is really good? Speaking of
funny in history, you did abit of drunk history speaking about a boxer,
(13:54):
Yeah, Len Johnson, Len Johnson, well that's what I was gonna
say. Yeah, you clearly area student of boxing because you can have
several drinks and still tell a convincingstory about a famous UK boxer. My
question was going to be, ifyou were able to do drunk history again,
is there what other athlete would youchoose to talk about or other famous
I don't think I could ever dotrunk history again because I thought it was
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a joke. Like I didn't thinklike it was clear right, It's like,
no, you're gonna be drunk.Yeah, and it's like you get
there and it's not it's not moviemagic, no movie magic. No,
we were broken, right, weplea see it gets we got there and
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it's like, oh wow, thisis so nice. Someone just they asked
you what your drink is before youget there? Right, So I like
a Roman culte, Right, okay, this is interesting. Get there and
it feels like you're on one ofthose holidays where you know where, like
an all inclusive holiday. We've gota wristband and they just as soon as
your drink is getting a bit low, they're back. Yeah. And then
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after like you realize you've been therefor like two I was They're waiting for
you to be talking about stuff.I'm just laughing for no reason. Then
they're like, all right, let'sdo it. Wait what how this happened?
I was broken. I've never beenso I remember, like, um,
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and I don't like drink crazy likethat. I lost time I drink
like that was uni like with theMissus bropas side stands involved, like I
can't believe it came out so good. That's the part that I watched.
I'm like, and it really did. I laughed so hard. I learned
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a lot. And one of theother things I learned in that episode was
that you have a voice, likeyou can sing. You you sing a
little bit and your stand up,but you kind of have this like sonic
signature thing. Will you could youdo it? Yeah? Okay, alright,
alright, yeah, alright that's theone. Where did that come from?
Because I'm obsessed with it, youknow, I don't know, like
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obviously we again American artists and justAmerican like groups. Yeah, growing up
is all I would listen to kidso, like you know, when you're
like tiny and you're listening to Joethis scene, you don't really realize that
these guys are fully talking about havingsex like proper song, and you'd be
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like me and you were like,wait, wait, why is that kids
thinking about that? But yeah,I grew up listening to that and it's
it's just like the gyration music init. But every now and then you
hit him all right, just forno reason. They'd have to let you
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know that girls all right, andI'll just thought um. Once we so
once I started doing comedy, wedid this characters. We did this group
called Caramel, and they're basically twoR and B artists, Aison and Dejan
right, and they basically show up. They basically show up in situation.
For instance, we had one calledno Chicken. So girl goes to the
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chicken shop and she tries to buysome chicken wings and there's none, you
know, and then we turn upand we give them the R and B
voice. Sometimes in life you can'tget what you want we start and the
greatest my claim to famous. Imeant for it one year from Boys to
Men and he had the song ohyeah yeah yeah yeah he had the songs.
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He's like, yeah yeah, y'allgot that chicken joint song right because
it was improper? Yeah yeah,yeah, yes, that's fine. That's
the full circle moment. Yeah,Like it was like I couldn't see look
like, I know we're taking thepiss, but I'm so happy at it.
What you refer to in England asgyration music, I believe over here
we call making babies music. That'syeah, yeah, yeah, a lot
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of babies can be born to thatmusic. Look how close they say,
look at them? Now, lookhow close? As they're like, they're
gonna play the job to see laterin Marissa was like, it's it's on
the background. I'm ready alright.You were looking more than alright on the
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blue carpet. I couldn't Can youtell us what that was like with co
workers and friends? Okay, soyou need to understand this. Yeah,
I've never done any of this beforein terms of like they're all these experiences.
So I'm not a fan, butI just happened to get to do
this as well, if that makessense. As a normal fan, I'm
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having proper fan moments, but Ihave to hold it in kind of like
an act, like I've been herebefore, but I'm not, even though
i want to get another job.Sorry, I'm a good actor, but
let me see for this moment,I'm not the best active when cool things
happening. So for reasons going togoing to the Air Force. In my
head, I was like, Okay, you've never really thrown business before.
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This is a new experience for you. So I was like, let me
get there early. I'm probably gonnago to like Giraffe. That's like one
of those spots that you can goto and have a little breakfast. It's
that and the other. Anyway,turns out you get to go to a
lounge. Never done that before.I'm like, even even the airport journey
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was great because then after I'm inI'm in the lounge and I'm seeing people
from House of Dragons and I lovethat show. Oh, I'm like in
there and I'm like, I'm like, I'm really excited, right and he
and the guy comes over. He'slike, I recognize you, and I'm
I forget you're an actor as well. So I'm like, I'm leading with
all the other stuff. I'm like, yeah, I did some football commentary,
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this to any of us. Andthen after he goes off, but
he comes back and he's like,you're in ted Lasso. I'm not.
Oh yeah, yeah, you shouldhave left with that. I'm an actor.
I'm actually getting I'm going I'm doingit right now anywhere on the plane,
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I'm lying down. Never done thatbefore. Who knew they give out
real cutlery on the plane? Didyou look away? Clink clink clink.
I think there's different amountments over thereas well. Now, it was a
great moment. But then at thesame time, just to give you guys
like because life isn't always ups init. So it was in the plane.
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And then my team were playing Liverpool. Now that's like Dallas Cowboys playing
the Eagles Washington yeas, and that'slike the Eagles beat in the Dallas Cowboys
fifty nothing, that's like that happened. What happened to my team? We
lost seven neil to Liverpool. Oh, yes, that was the day.
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So I'm on the fly and I'mlike, you're getting the Ted last So
but your bit sad now but youknow what, you've never been in a
situation before My Cousins show, andeveryone knows what you do. As soon
as I landed in La landed inthe hotel or of all of the team,
and all the Greyhounds ran over sevenup, how are you doing?
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Seven to meet you? You know, there was like I don't want to
talk about football, but you realizeyou're on a football show, literally,
like I couldn't escape it. Butthen m as a as an experience,
like it's so amazing to see howAmericans have just connected with the show.
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And that was the part that wasIt's different to here because over here it's
like a good secret, right alot of people know about it, but
when you get there, everyone knows, you know. So I was taken
aback by people like wow, canI have a picture of you? The
premiere was insane, just the itjust felt like you're part of something historic.
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I can't believe I get to bea part of something this amazing,
like people chairing when they see certaincharacters on the big screen. The whole
thing was a movie, you know. Um, I just felt embarrassed about
me and Tim Cook with my Sampsonphone and my Samson, um My,
Samson wat So I felt like Ifelt like a dis great spot. I
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saw that bet on your on yourInstagram and I cracked me up. You're
like, hey, I'm gonna takeit. And it's the worst one because
to Samson case on the back,it could be and it's the folding one.
It's like like it's clearly the rival, clearly the enemy, you know.
But yeah, I mean they couldhave just given everybody free phones.
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So in some ways it was theirchoice. This is it, this is
it. So Brett mentioned that youwere hilarious on Twitter and Instagram. You've
done stand up, you do podcasting, You've done sketch comedy, you've done
like some individual bits and now withtell Last. I don't know if you
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would call it like a sitcom ora show or whatever, but you've been
participating in all of these different genresof comedy. Do you have a favorite
comedy medium? A man as abecause I'm a middle child, Yeah,
I just lack attention, Like there'ssomething about you know how some people say,
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oh, how gd that you know, people like I could never do
stand up, Like I just wouldbe mortified people looking at me. I'm
completely different it's like I wouldn't empty, you know, like I see a
light and I'm like, I wantto stand there, you know what I
mean, And I know that's reallyit's really good. It's just like my
personality is like I want to entertain, and there's there's something about stand up
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because I think stand up is myfirst love really and I don't want to
do it as much, but there'ssomething about being on stage and you know
straight away how everyone feels. Seetell a joke and they're ever gonna laugh
or they won't love. But whenthey love that first time, when you
hear like the audiences with you,there's I don't think there's nothing that can
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nothing compares to it really because it'sjust you and Mike spotlight. There's I
don't know, it's just like it'sa suit. It's a super feeling.
Now. Don't get me wrong though, because everyone's like if I have to
choose, if they said you can'tdo any of these things ever again,
I wouldn't be able to choose one. I wouldn't be able to say,
well, I'll stop doing that andnever be never act again, or I'll
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stopped doing that and never talk aboutsports again. I'm kind of just lucky
that I don't have to really pick, you know, like and I can
I get to do I get todo all of it, which is like
really fun. And I've always Ialways knew that I wanted to do this,
even when I was going to getsigned earlier, like an agent spoke
to me, is that so,what's your thing? I said, wow,
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I like a lot of things.And then she was like, no,
I think something and I was like, oh, I said I could.
I could? She said who doyou find yourself similar to? And
that goes well, could James Cordingit? He does like some serious act.
Yes, yeah, yeah, he'slike he's quite broad in his like
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in just what he does, right, I said, yeah, I think
that guy. And then she didn'tsign me, by the way, that's
yeah her law definitely. I bringit up now. Hopefully she's watching like
she should assigned him. I don'tknow if you've seen the bits over in
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England, but um, over here, James Cordon does this carpool karaoke bit
and it would be amazing to seethe pub crew do carpool karaoke, either
on their own or with James Gordon. I would totally be there for that
thousand percent. We need it.James say up, yeah, you just
started a new dream in my heart. I would just be in the back
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all right, singing, singing Joeto say Marista every now and then there
for no reason, yes please,Oh I would literally die. We actually
speaking of like getting cool points forbeing on the show. You know when
you when you get to it,when you came to America. Um So,
I'm a professor at a college andone of my students came over last
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night and we were watching an episodeand I was like, hey, we're
actually talking to him tomorrow. Andshe was like, oh my god,
you guys are like so famous.I was like, no, we're not,
but this is really cool. Yes, so we're getting cool points.
I'm scoring cool points with my collegekids just talking. Listen. Listen to
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listen to your lecturer. She knowswhat she's talking about, and if you
don't, she's gonna fail you.That's right, that's right. I don't
know why I went. So that'sthe clip of all your stand up gigs.
I'd have to imagine that one ofthe coolest may have been opening for
Gina is Sure. Yeah, itwas that experience, like to be able
to open just for an absolute comedylegend. Well, she's a legend,
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and she she's one of the reasonswhere I jumped into stand up. Really,
you know, Gina as such aand I rate I respect her story
she's had to do. She startedhere and she's done a lot here.
But I think she's really gone toAmerica to let them know who she is
really because she she's such a bigcomedian to be under that light, and
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she's a bit of a troll blazer. So Genie, actually, I've got
so much respect for he about beingunder doing a show for her. Um.
I remembers in Birmingham the drum.I was early in my comedy,
really early, and she was hilariousthat night. Right, I got a
picture of hers. It's a goodmoment. I don't I don't know if
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she will remember as much as Iremembered it because it meant the most to
me. But I was good.I knew I was good that night because
they invited me to go with themto um where they was again Holland to
do a show out there. Rightyeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
But it's so such a random andnow when I think back, I'm
like, you're such an idiot.I was teaching Sunday school on the next
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day, so I said, no, I don't know. I don't know.
When you go back and you thinkwhy you made them that decision,
like I hate you know, andas a lecture or something, you know,
when you just think, I'm reallygonna leave the kids in the lurch
right now, just for like,and it's like, no, you can't
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do that. So then after youmake a decision for their kids when he
shouldn't have been, like forget thosekids. And I know you can't say
that right now, but you know, sometimes you think that could be somewhere
else. So yeah, incredible,Jesus will remember when I die, I'm
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gonna be like listening, remember thatone time. Yeah, I've done some
bad things, but that was notone time. This could balance out your
appearance on Listen. I know,okay, but listen. Gina was someone
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who we mentioned on our show andwe encouraged our listeners to go check out
as Sam's storyline was playing out intwo because of how she describes kind of
that um like growing up in aNigerian British family and her self identity and
whatnot. What was how did youfeel as you saw season two play out
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and Sam went from you know,a character who was Nigerian to like a
Nigerian character. You know what it'sit's it's funny and I love having Sam,
Like Sam's a good representative of likethe experience really because there is that
feeding Like even I say it tothis point, like my dad still doesn't
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watch the show. He's still hatingfor me to be Like I think Nigerian
parents, they they have these loftyexpectations of their children and they're not it's
not really in the in the artsin a sense. Like so even my
life, my one of my cousins, he was a really good football player,
but his mom just wanting to goto UNI. But he was good,
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like really incredibly good, right,And it's that it's that thing of
I think, and it is thething with parents. I will break it
down and say that it's the thingof they just want their children to be
okay and they feel that education willalways cover that. So where it comes
from, it's just you know what, if something happens to us, I
know, with a degree, you'regonna be fine, right, And that's
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that's the I think that's the thinkingbehind it. So sometimes you're as the
kid going through it, you're lookingthinking raw, just being more invested in
this thing, but it's not really. They just want to invest in something
they know and trust, you know, because a lot of like my parents
came here or my dad got herein a scholarship to UM and a lot
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of a lot of them, scholarshipsin education is the way out, you
know, or a way to reallyexcel and develop a family. Right.
So it's it's cool watching like acharacter, Sam's character. Every there's there's
no way, as a as asomeone being born here you can watch that
and not relate in some way towhat you're seeing on screen. So I
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felt it's I felt authentic is thebest way to describe that. Yeah,
the writing for Sam and then thewriting of the Nigeria Ghana relationship, both
of those aspects were just so smartand so funny. Did you get a
feel when you were on set asto um, who was who they were
talking to to get that so right, or who they were listening to who
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was doing the writing for those twoaspects? You know, Well, I
think there's I think it's the onething that is good and the one thing
that is there is it's it's kindof open. The feedback is very open,
you know, even like I gota lot of respect for Jason,
I got a little respect for thewhole team everyone that writes on the show,
because they always have these moments andI'm not in all these scenes together,
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right, but it seems that I'min the pub right a moment where
they will do one and you go, Jason come over and he has to
low for yeah, so you guyscan what do you think? You just
you know, it's like a reallylow whisper, right, you're listening in
like, ah, this is important, we need to hear this, and
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he's like, halong with it.You just say that's the last thing you'll
say, flicking the hand, andthen you go back and you do one,
and then it's like and it's whenyou see someone walking towards you and
then he goes like when that bumsup, you're like, oh, we're
good. So there's always that thingwhere it's kind of they leave this space
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but just for it to be kindof open. But then I think as
a family, it's definitely a familycrew, if that makes sense. And
that's the whole way around. Whenyou even if you think about it,
like there was everyone that flew intofor the premiere. You had makeup,
you had art department, you hadall the department. You literally everyone was
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represented. And this is a showthat it's been gaining for years. But
it's the same people behind the camera. So it's not like starting a new
relationship. I'm on other shows whereyou're just always meeting new people. This
is like you get back and you'rewith your family again. So that's why
it's always like, well, it'sfun. But it's like even when you
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say goodbye or say like at theend of the filming, you're like,
oh wow, guys, see youlater. You know, it's one of
those kind of feelings. It's likeyou're saying by your family because you spend
so much time together. And Ithink that's been the cause of I mean,
that plays a big part in whatthis thing is. Right, it's
a nat it's a beautiful feeling onscreen to watch, but it's just as
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beautiful being in the cast. Whereveryou play, wherever you are in it.
It is that show. It's afamily thing. Well, I would
imagine we've gotten that vibe from alot of the cast and crew, creative
folks that we've talked to who workon the show, like that really is
something that seems to shine through isthat you guys really like making this thing
together, which is awesome. Sowhen you have some down time in between
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shots, what's the pub crew doingtogether? Tell you I'm the nerd of
the group. I ain't gonna lieto you. Like sometimes I turned out
with my um with my colors andI got my coloring book, you know,
my adult coloring book. Sometimes I'mdoing that. Yeah, other times,
you know, when there was atime was filming where we weren't allowed
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to be around each other, likeit was COVID protocol and stuff. At
that time, I really got intothis thing called on the Nintendo where you
build your like your island. Whatis it? Oh? Any more?
Crossing a crossing? I'm cutting downtrees, cat getting fish, mashing up
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my neck, waiting for the sceneto start. Um. And then after
I realized I wasn't getting that muchrespect playing that game, so I moved.
I moved. I wanted to meeta Pokemon because that's really where I
wanted to be at, But Imoved to Mario car I realized I went
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up in the rankings of just howthe cast like other people felt about me?
Um nt me just like we singa lot. We're just silly.
We're like we like to rest around. I like to mess around with um
a net like and we eat alot, so we'll all try We're always
trying different food. But Bronson thinkshe's a chef. So Bronson will get
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a meal and he tried to guessthe ingredients and stuff. Bronson's ridiculous.
You can cook. But it's likehe always yeah, he's always talking about
he's always talking about cooking, orhe's gonna buy something online. But something
random like you'll turn up people likeI need a new couch, like Bronson,
like he would like look like Iwas thinking of a carpet because like
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who wakes up today and says,yeah, you know, I fancy a
new carpet. No one does sorandom things like that really really random.
Um but just a lot of sillytime together basically more who's the best?
Who? More champion of the pubcasOh, I feel like it's not you,
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but you want to say it's you. I want to say to me,
how did you know? Because it'sit's me that create this is the
problem. I create the games andthen I don't win them, like so
like like a lot of games whenwe didn't, I'm like, guys,
let's play, Oh, what's theother game that I like to play?
When we go through like we say, movies A to B look robbish,
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and I'm trying to start with aA movie. Hold on, let's play
hold on Apocalypse. Go on someoneelse's B movie Apocalypse? Now anyone B?
Yeah? Go on? Oh,then you do like A B C,
Cats, Cinderella, and you startto realize people's look at the shows
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Cinderellary, Cats, You guys shouldbe like removed to trust these Yeah,
and then we'll do that. Ihaven't won, as you can see when
I struggled with the A movie.Lets you understand level of my games,
my brains, because what you haveon a high level is fashion. I'm
a particularly big fan of the flatbrimmed Greyhounds hats that you wear on the
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show. Did they have those foryou when you showed up or did you
show up and have to just kindlysuggest that you weren't gonna wear an old
man dad hat and they should findsomething that had a little bit more credibility
to it, you know what,They back up to the costume department because
they know what they're doing, right, Like I never yeah, they gave
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me that hat. Yeah, Andit's crazy because I always tried to take
one of those hats home, right, always, like like every season,
I'm like, I'm taking it right. Um, It's just perfect because everyone
else Literally, I think they're tryingto differentiate our characters. And if you
see, my character is just alwaysin a hat, He's always got his
hat on. He's that's him,right. So it's like, I think
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you just can tell when you putus all together, because I couldn't imagine
when they're costing us together like thatpub crew. It looks weird, but
it feels that that's how it shouldbe. Does that mean does that make
sense? It's absolutely together. Thechemistry is absolutely that. Yeah, you
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know that's the That's the best wayI can describe it, just like all
of us are meant to be together. Man, KG, it was such
a pleasure to meet you, tohave you on the show and to talk
about ted Lasso and all the otherprojects you've got going on. Thanks for
coming on the show, and that'sour show. We had a great time
chatting with Kg about his work onted Lasso, sports, comedy, and
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everything else he's got going on.You can find links to Kg's podcast,
YouTube channel, social media, andmore in the show notes on our website
ted lassopod dot com. We'll beback soon with more ted Lasso goodness,
but you can keep the conversation goingwith us on Twitter and Instagram in the
meantime. Our handle on both platformsis at ted Lasso Pod. This episode
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of Richmond Till We Die is broughtto you by Jen and Kerosene Productions.
It was produced by Me Christian,Me Marissa and Me Brett. If you're
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As always, we appreciate the waysyou share your love and support for the
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pod. Okay, I'm Christian signingoff for Brett and Marissa and KG the
Comedian. Thanks for listening. Untilnext time, Cheers y'all. Hi,
core I Court
Welcome to the Crown and Anchor Greyhounds. This is Richmond Till We Die,
a conversation about the Apple TV Plusshow ted Lasso, where we explore the
characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us
laugh until we can hardly breathe onemoment and then feel with the deepest parts
of our hearts the next. I'mMarissa, and I'm feeling all right.
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I'm Christian. I'm a flat brimmedhat connoisseur who unfortunately is always on a
quest for the next great hat thatwill fit my unusually large velgin. I'm
Brett, and I am so excitedto introduce our guest. Our guest today
is actor, comedian, presenter andYouTuber KG. The comedian. Y'all know
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KG for his work as Paul onted Lasso, the gentle giant among the
pub trio, but KG is here, there, and everywhere when it comes
to creative projects. He's got hisown YouTube channel where he hosts multiple projects.
He's the co host of the boxingfocused Undefeated podcast with fellow comedian and
collaborator Travis j and he frequently appearson the Massive Manchester United YouTube channel.
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The United Stand. In addition tostaying very busy online, KG works as
a comedian and actor and has appearedon shows like the paramedic comedy Bloods on
Sky One, the sketch comedy showFamily Am on BBC, and the Black
Stories edition of Drunk History on ComedyCentral. He's also a huge sports fan
and an integral part of our favoriteshow, and we are so excited that
he's here to chat with us today. So Greyhounds please join us as we
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give a warm welcome to KG.Thanks for being on the show. KG,
It's so nice to meet you.Yeah, I'm really happy to be
here. I'm tooking to official peopleKansas. That feels good. I feel
yeah, that's right, I feellike, well, we're thrilled that you're
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here with us. Thank you somuch. KG. Could you share a
little bit about how you came tobe involved with Ted Lasso? Maddest.
You know, it's the maddest storybecause I wasn't supposed to the character that
I am. I wasn't supposed tobe that character, so I actually read
for um. I was supposed topick him up and take him to my
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family's restaurant. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
then obviously he said that yeah itwas supposed in it said like you know,
um Indian and stuff. I wasthinking, wow, this is gonna
be tough taking them to my family'sIndian restaurant. Being Nigerian. I think,
yeah, I just kind of riffedit. I played around with it
and I just, um, yeah, I took him back to my Ninegerian
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family restaurant, um, and yeah, just go to They let me kind
of freestyle a bit because it wasa funny situation. It's like this doesn't
make sense for let's go. Andthen randomly, um, I ended up
as a pub boy, like Idon't know literally, like it went from
that audition as this guy, andI think everyone else kind of knew their
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roles there was quite secure, andmine I was kind of last minute.
So it's like I got the roleand then two weeks later I think I
was a part of the cast filming. So mad story, really grateful because
I've stayed in it the whole time, which has been fun. So yeah,
oh my goodness. Yeah. Iwas looking at just the number of
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episodes on IMDb, and I knewit was a lot, but I was
like, yeah, like the Triohave been featured in a lot of episodes.
There's a handful where you guys don'tshow up, but like you really
do make one or two appearances andmost episodes, which is fantastic, And
it's almost always y'all with May,which is just a yeah, she's all
good, mom, She's she's themain one kind of keeps us in line.
So it's quite funny to just it'sreally funny to just think I wasn't
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supposed to be in this many episodes, Like I didn't expect to be a
part of something it's huge, right, And then it's like I had these
moments and I'm like, wow,you're really in this show, you know,
and he and then they keeping alldifferent things to your character to do
and you're like really, so yeah, it's been it's been a it's been
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amazing. And then you ended upbeing a huge part of the Beard Bottle
episode in season two. What wasyour reaction the first time you read that
script. I couldn't believe it,Like, so we obviously we have the
group. It's it's it's us,yeah, and with me in the group,
right, we have a little what'sthat group? And I think it
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mean I was like, have youseen this yet? Someone it was like
a big the group. I waslike, well, and I'm thinking,
you know, and there's no way, there's no way they're gonna like do
it. There was a whole episoderight you start reading, You're like,
no way, we're getting out thepub. We are escaping yeh, because
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it's a bit funny. We findit so hilarious, Like we're super fans,
but we love the pub. That'swhere we watch all our games.
So we're like, oh my goodness, we're we're getting out. And then
you start reading more and literally likeif you could just see the emojis that
we use, like fire emojis,and like, yeah, there was loads
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of that. And then, um, I think the greatest the greatest day
was recording that. I think that'sthe greatest day I've ever had on that
show. And I was just sothankful. I hugged everyone. I cried
in my I cried in my traileron the final night of it because it
was just I couldn't believe that theygiven us that much, trust us that
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much. Um, you know,they really believed in us, and they
it's been that way from the beginning. But to a whole effort. You
have to understand. It's like andthey let us do stuff. It was
like, what do you guys thinkcoming back? Jason be like, yeah,
I like this. Brett will belike because he was involved in that
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one as well, He's like,yeah, we could do this, but
maybe he should. It was Yeah, I never felt like I felt like
an actor that day. It wasone of those days because they had the
huge have the drones were playing footballwere totally unfit. It doesn't surprise me
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that Annette was the first one todo the homemark assignment and get that reading
knocked down. She said, however, that one of your superpowers on the
set, especially with that pub crew, is that you're the one that's the
biggest football fan. You're a hugeman Chester United fan, and that you
kind of tutor and teach them someof the stuff that they might not know
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about football. Do you, uh, Do you remember any particularly funny stories
or funny things that you had tocoach the rest of the pub crew in
when it comes to football. Yeah. So I just like, oh,
he won't even mind me saying thisis not like a football fan. So
he's one of the greatest actors ever. So he's the leader of the group,
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always giving it to always giving itto Ted. You know what I
mean, he's coming over, He'sfrom on it. Right. So,
because Adam's not into football at all, like for season one, we had
to do a lot of explaining.But I have to just whatever I have
to do is I had to linkit to RuPaul's drag race. I go,
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so right now, just where weare, right, I'm like,
they're dancing for their lives. Yeah, and this person you you really like
this person on the show. Youdon't want them to leave? Yeah,
this is the share. I wantyou to go there, like, this
is what this means? Right,if we win this, they're in the
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Main Life Final. I've got it, Like this is this is where this
is where Bob the Drag Queen becomesBob the Drag Queen. Yeah, this
is it. This is the breakoutmoment, right that would be like penalty
kicks are like equal to death dropsabsolutely and then um mid scene because it
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gets so funny, like see likewhat we finished the take. You know
there's that bit where a repuls dragrace where they start talking to each other
and they're at there they're taking Ithink they're putting their makeup on, but
it's a really quick brush. Yeah, and we'll talk about each other's performance.
Who're like, I didn't really believeyou. I don't have to think
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you went. I didn't really believeyou. Oh yeah, now you know.
It's a lot of fun. Yeah, and that's really good going for
the team. But for me,this is the type of football fan I
am. So sometimes I feel likea fraud because I'm not. I'm really
quiet. I always believe that myteam might win, so when I'm trying
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to go for it, I'm like, how I support Richmond is very similar
to how I support Man United.So it's like, um, I'm being
myself really yeah, it's it's it'sI'm very lucky to pay a guy that
is glass half full at most times. Yeah. I'm interested to know because
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you're you're kind of the most positiveand friendly of the of the crew.
Is that something that was kind ofwritten in or did you feel like you
could kind of make that your ownand that that was your own personality bringing
to that that role, you know, I was I think I was really
lucky. It was one of thoseones where because I would say, um,
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there's a lot of similarities. Iwould say he's very kind, He's
like next of all kind. I'mmore like I'm like here, I'm more
chill with it, Like I believehe has these little moments when he's like
they always made me go into myhigher registered life. Yeah, and I
like that team, yes, Likeso I don't really find that register amongst
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my friends when I'm out with thelads, like drinking beer and stuff.
I always believe, like so inour worst Manny United, my football team
are like they're in a bad way. Yeah, they haven't been good for
a long time, and I believeevery season that we're going to be successful.
Now, we haven't won the leaguefor about seven, seven or eight
years, but each year I stillbelieve we can do it. So that
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just gives you a sign of howsome people call it a delusional I just
call it like really hopeful. Howdid you become a Manchester United fan?
You grew up was a South LondonIs that right? Yeah? Yeah,
so I really interesting, really interested. I'll give you this water story.
I really love Cantona Ryan Giggs.The other story is I was like in
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Foster care early in my life andI was grew up in Manchester in the
beginning early years of my life witha lady called Missus Wiggins. She was
the lady I looked after us.And then how did you get into boxing?
Because you're a huge boxing fan.You do boxing podcast, boxing media,
a podcast? Yeah, you know, you know what's really funny?
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Guy, So um, it coincideswith my football team being rubbish. I
needed something else. It's gonna makeit work. I needed something else,
just make because it was just everyweekend. You're just like, I'm sad
my team plays, we haven't won, and it's it's crazy because we used
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to be good. I don't knowif there's a if there's an NFL equivalent
for you guys in the Cowboy DallasCowboys, Yep, there you go.
It's literally united and like halfway fans. Basically we believe every season and we're
not going We're not gonna get there. Yeah, and it's painful to admit.
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We're spending lots of money, we'reseeing really okay results and it feels
like it's gonna it feels like it'sgonna be our year as well. At
the beginning, it feels good andthen you quickly realize it's not a year,
so know what happens. Um,what happens is I said, look,
I'm gonna go on a hunt andI'm gonna find a sport that I'm
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into. I did try NFL.I couldn't really find a team, so
I haven't I haven't found myself situatedyet with it with the NFL team.
I looked at NBA, I waslike, oh, the players they always
move a lot, like they don'tstay where they Yeah, And I was
like, oh, that doesn't workfor me. And then I was like
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boxing actually and luckily um, justbecause Anthony Joshua and Ningerian as well,
you know English Nigerian, I couldjust relate to his story. So it
was really Ajum like has a casualboxing van before. But I think a
j piqued my interest because we sharesimilar like a similar life story right in
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terms of upbringing. And then afterthat was it France I learned about him.
I just went backwards and I hadto go into the history books and
found like if Van Dah like umLennox, you know, like real like
real fighters you know. So justwent on a journey and what's cool is
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I wish I was there when Iwish I was watching when it was live.
But it's still quite fun to goback and learn about these great fighters.
Sugary Leonard like, now you knowwhich is really good? Speaking of
funny in history, you did abit of drunk history speaking about a boxer,
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Yeah, Len Johnson, Len Johnson, well that's what I was gonna
say. Yeah, you clearly area student of boxing because you can have
several drinks and still tell a convincingstory about a famous UK boxer. My
question was going to be, ifyou were able to do drunk history again,
is there what other athlete would youchoose to talk about or other famous
I don't think I could ever dotrunk history again because I thought it was
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a joke. Like I didn't thinklike it was clear right, It's like,
no, you're gonna be drunk.Yeah, and it's like you get
there and it's not it's not moviemagic, no movie magic. No,
we were broken, right, weplea see it gets we got there and
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it's like, oh wow, thisis so nice. Someone just they asked
you what your drink is before youget there? Right, So I like
a Roman culte, Right, okay, this is interesting. Get there and
it feels like you're on one ofthose holidays where you know where, like
an all inclusive holiday. We've gota wristband and they just as soon as
your drink is getting a bit low, they're back. Yeah. And then
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after like you realize you've been therefor like two I was They're waiting for
you to be talking about stuff.I'm just laughing for no reason. Then
they're like, all right, let'sdo it. Wait what how this happened?
I was broken. I've never beenso I remember, like, um,
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and I don't like drink crazy likethat. I lost time I drink
like that was uni like with theMissus bropas side stands involved, like I
can't believe it came out so good. That's the part that I watched.
I'm like, and it really did. I laughed so hard. I learned
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a lot. And one of theother things I learned in that episode was
that you have a voice, likeyou can sing. You you sing a
little bit and your stand up,but you kind of have this like sonic
signature thing. Will you could youdo it? Yeah? Okay, alright,
alright, yeah, alright that's theone. Where did that come from?
Because I'm obsessed with it, youknow, I don't know, like
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obviously we again American artists and justAmerican like groups. Yeah, growing up
is all I would listen to kidso, like you know, when you're
like tiny and you're listening to Joethis scene, you don't really realize that
these guys are fully talking about havingsex like proper song, and you'd be
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like me and you were like,wait, wait, why is that kids
thinking about that? But yeah,I grew up listening to that and it's
it's just like the gyration music init. But every now and then you
hit him all right, just forno reason. They'd have to let you
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know that girls all right, andI'll just thought um. Once we so
once I started doing comedy, wedid this characters. We did this group
called Caramel, and they're basically twoR and B artists, Aison and Dejan
right, and they basically show up. They basically show up in situation.
For instance, we had one calledno Chicken. So girl goes to the
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chicken shop and she tries to buysome chicken wings and there's none, you
know, and then we turn upand we give them the R and B
voice. Sometimes in life you can'tget what you want we start and the
greatest my claim to famous. Imeant for it one year from Boys to
Men and he had the song ohyeah yeah yeah yeah he had the songs.
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He's like, yeah yeah, y'allgot that chicken joint song right because
it was improper? Yeah yeah,yeah, yes, that's fine. That's
the full circle moment. Yeah,Like it was like I couldn't see look
like, I know we're taking thepiss, but I'm so happy at it.
What you refer to in England asgyration music, I believe over here
we call making babies music. That'syeah, yeah, yeah, a lot
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of babies can be born to thatmusic. Look how close they say,
look at them? Now, lookhow close? As they're like, they're
gonna play the job to see laterin Marissa was like, it's it's on
the background. I'm ready alright.You were looking more than alright on the
(18:15):
blue carpet. I couldn't Can youtell us what that was like with co
workers and friends? Okay, soyou need to understand this. Yeah,
I've never done any of this beforein terms of like they're all these experiences.
So I'm not a fan, butI just happened to get to do
this as well, if that makessense. As a normal fan, I'm
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having proper fan moments, but Ihave to hold it in kind of like
an act, like I've been herebefore, but I'm not, even though
i want to get another job.Sorry, I'm a good actor, but
let me see for this moment,I'm not the best active when cool things
happening. So for reasons going togoing to the Air Force. In my
head, I was like, Okay, you've never really thrown business before.
(19:00):
This is a new experience for you. So I was like, let me
get there early. I'm probably gonnago to like Giraffe. That's like one
of those spots that you can goto and have a little breakfast. It's
that and the other. Anyway,turns out you get to go to a
lounge. Never done that before.I'm like, even even the airport journey
(19:22):
was great because then after I'm inI'm in the lounge and I'm seeing people
from House of Dragons and I lovethat show. Oh, I'm like in
there and I'm like, I'm like, I'm really excited, right and he
and the guy comes over. He'slike, I recognize you, and I'm
I forget you're an actor as well. So I'm like, I'm leading with
all the other stuff. I'm like, yeah, I did some football commentary,
(19:45):
this to any of us. Andthen after he goes off, but
he comes back and he's like,you're in ted Lasso. I'm not.
Oh yeah, yeah, you shouldhave left with that. I'm an actor.
I'm actually getting I'm going I'm doingit right now anywhere on the plane,
(20:06):
I'm lying down. Never done thatbefore. Who knew they give out
real cutlery on the plane? Didyou look away? Clink clink clink.
I think there's different amountments over thereas well. Now, it was a
great moment. But then at thesame time, just to give you guys
like because life isn't always ups init. So it was in the plane.
(20:27):
And then my team were playing Liverpool. Now that's like Dallas Cowboys playing
the Eagles Washington yeas, and that'slike the Eagles beat in the Dallas Cowboys
fifty nothing, that's like that happened. What happened to my team? We
lost seven neil to Liverpool. Oh, yes, that was the day.
(20:51):
So I'm on the fly and I'mlike, you're getting the Ted last So
but your bit sad now but youknow what, you've never been in a
situation before My Cousins show, andeveryone knows what you do. As soon
as I landed in La landed inthe hotel or of all of the team,
and all the Greyhounds ran over sevenup, how are you doing?
(21:11):
Seven to meet you? You know, there was like I don't want to
talk about football, but you realizeyou're on a football show, literally,
like I couldn't escape it. Butthen m as a as an experience,
like it's so amazing to see howAmericans have just connected with the show.
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And that was the part that wasIt's different to here because over here it's
like a good secret, right alot of people know about it, but
when you get there, everyone knows, you know. So I was taken
aback by people like wow, canI have a picture of you? The
premiere was insane, just the itjust felt like you're part of something historic.
(22:00):
I can't believe I get to bea part of something this amazing,
like people chairing when they see certaincharacters on the big screen. The whole
thing was a movie, you know. Um, I just felt embarrassed about
me and Tim Cook with my Sampsonphone and my Samson, um My,
Samson wat So I felt like Ifelt like a dis great spot. I
(22:25):
saw that bet on your on yourInstagram and I cracked me up. You're
like, hey, I'm gonna takeit. And it's the worst one because
to Samson case on the back,it could be and it's the folding one.
It's like like it's clearly the rival, clearly the enemy, you know.
But yeah, I mean they couldhave just given everybody free phones.
(22:48):
So in some ways it was theirchoice. This is it, this is
it. So Brett mentioned that youwere hilarious on Twitter and Instagram. You've
done stand up, you do podcasting, You've done sketch comedy, you've done
like some individual bits and now withtell Last. I don't know if you
(23:11):
would call it like a sitcom ora show or whatever, but you've been
participating in all of these different genresof comedy. Do you have a favorite
comedy medium? A man as abecause I'm a middle child, Yeah,
I just lack attention, Like there'ssomething about you know how some people say,
(23:33):
oh, how gd that you know, people like I could never do
stand up, Like I just wouldbe mortified people looking at me. I'm
completely different it's like I wouldn't empty, you know, like I see a
light and I'm like, I wantto stand there, you know what I
mean, And I know that's reallyit's really good. It's just like my
personality is like I want to entertain, and there's there's something about stand up
(23:56):
because I think stand up is myfirst love really and I don't want to
do it as much, but there'ssomething about being on stage and you know
straight away how everyone feels. Seetell a joke and they're ever gonna laugh
or they won't love. But whenthey love that first time, when you
hear like the audiences with you,there's I don't think there's nothing that can
(24:22):
nothing compares to it really because it'sjust you and Mike spotlight. There's I
don't know, it's just like it'sa suit. It's a super feeling.
Now. Don't get me wrong though, because everyone's like if I have to
choose, if they said you can'tdo any of these things ever again,
I wouldn't be able to choose one. I wouldn't be able to say,
well, I'll stop doing that andnever be never act again, or I'll
(24:45):
stopped doing that and never talk aboutsports again. I'm kind of just lucky
that I don't have to really pick, you know, like and I can
I get to do I get todo all of it, which is like
really fun. And I've always Ialways knew that I wanted to do this,
even when I was going to getsigned earlier, like an agent spoke
to me, is that so,what's your thing? I said, wow,
(25:10):
I like a lot of things.And then she was like, no,
I think something and I was like, oh, I said I could.
I could? She said who doyou find yourself similar to? And
that goes well, could James Cordingit? He does like some serious act.
Yes, yeah, yeah, he'slike he's quite broad in his like
(25:34):
in just what he does, right, I said, yeah, I think
that guy. And then she didn'tsign me, by the way, that's
yeah her law definitely. I bringit up now. Hopefully she's watching like
she should assigned him. I don'tknow if you've seen the bits over in
(25:55):
England, but um, over here, James Cordon does this carpool karaoke bit
and it would be amazing to seethe pub crew do carpool karaoke, either
on their own or with James Gordon. I would totally be there for that
thousand percent. We need it.James say up, yeah, you just
started a new dream in my heart. I would just be in the back
(26:17):
all right, singing, singing Joeto say Marista every now and then there
for no reason, yes please,Oh I would literally die. We actually
speaking of like getting cool points forbeing on the show. You know when
you when you get to it,when you came to America. Um So,
I'm a professor at a college andone of my students came over last
(26:40):
night and we were watching an episodeand I was like, hey, we're
actually talking to him tomorrow. Andshe was like, oh my god,
you guys are like so famous.I was like, no, we're not,
but this is really cool. Yes, so we're getting cool points.
I'm scoring cool points with my collegekids just talking. Listen. Listen to
(27:00):
listen to your lecturer. She knowswhat she's talking about, and if you
don't, she's gonna fail you.That's right, that's right. I don't
know why I went. So that'sthe clip of all your stand up gigs.
I'd have to imagine that one ofthe coolest may have been opening for
Gina is Sure. Yeah, itwas that experience, like to be able
to open just for an absolute comedylegend. Well, she's a legend,
(27:23):
and she she's one of the reasonswhere I jumped into stand up. Really,
you know, Gina as such aand I rate I respect her story
she's had to do. She startedhere and she's done a lot here.
But I think she's really gone toAmerica to let them know who she is
really because she she's such a bigcomedian to be under that light, and
(27:45):
she's a bit of a troll blazer. So Genie, actually, I've got
so much respect for he about beingunder doing a show for her. Um.
I remembers in Birmingham the drum.I was early in my comedy,
really early, and she was hilariousthat night. Right, I got a
picture of hers. It's a goodmoment. I don't I don't know if
(28:06):
she will remember as much as Iremembered it because it meant the most to
me. But I was good.I knew I was good that night because
they invited me to go with themto um where they was again Holland to
do a show out there. Rightyeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
But it's so such a random andnow when I think back, I'm
like, you're such an idiot.I was teaching Sunday school on the next
(28:29):
day, so I said, no, I don't know. I don't know.
When you go back and you thinkwhy you made them that decision,
like I hate you know, andas a lecture or something, you know,
when you just think, I'm reallygonna leave the kids in the lurch
right now, just for like,and it's like, no, you can't
(28:51):
do that. So then after youmake a decision for their kids when he
shouldn't have been, like forget thosekids. And I know you can't say
that right now, but you know, sometimes you think that could be somewhere
else. So yeah, incredible,Jesus will remember when I die, I'm
(29:14):
gonna be like listening, remember thatone time. Yeah, I've done some
bad things, but that was notone time. This could balance out your
appearance on Listen. I know,okay, but listen. Gina was someone
(29:37):
who we mentioned on our show andwe encouraged our listeners to go check out
as Sam's storyline was playing out intwo because of how she describes kind of
that um like growing up in aNigerian British family and her self identity and
whatnot. What was how did youfeel as you saw season two play out
(30:03):
and Sam went from you know,a character who was Nigerian to like a
Nigerian character. You know what it'sit's it's funny and I love having Sam,
Like Sam's a good representative of likethe experience really because there is that
feeding Like even I say it tothis point, like my dad still doesn't
(30:26):
watch the show. He's still hatingfor me to be Like I think Nigerian
parents, they they have these loftyexpectations of their children and they're not it's
not really in the in the artsin a sense. Like so even my
life, my one of my cousins, he was a really good football player,
but his mom just wanting to goto UNI. But he was good,
(30:48):
like really incredibly good, right,And it's that it's that thing of
I think, and it is thething with parents. I will break it
down and say that it's the thingof they just want their children to be
okay and they feel that education willalways cover that. So where it comes
from, it's just you know what, if something happens to us, I
know, with a degree, you'regonna be fine, right, And that's
(31:11):
that's the I think that's the thinkingbehind it. So sometimes you're as the
kid going through it, you're lookingthinking raw, just being more invested in
this thing, but it's not really. They just want to invest in something
they know and trust, you know, because a lot of like my parents
came here or my dad got herein a scholarship to UM and a lot
(31:32):
of a lot of them, scholarshipsin education is the way out, you
know, or a way to reallyexcel and develop a family. Right.
So it's it's cool watching like acharacter, Sam's character. Every there's there's
no way, as a as asomeone being born here you can watch that
and not relate in some way towhat you're seeing on screen. So I
(31:56):
felt it's I felt authentic is thebest way to describe that. Yeah,
the writing for Sam and then thewriting of the Nigeria Ghana relationship, both
of those aspects were just so smartand so funny. Did you get a
feel when you were on set asto um, who was who they were
talking to to get that so right, or who they were listening to who
(32:20):
was doing the writing for those twoaspects? You know, Well, I
think there's I think it's the onething that is good and the one thing
that is there is it's it's kindof open. The feedback is very open,
you know, even like I gota lot of respect for Jason,
I got a little respect for thewhole team everyone that writes on the show,
because they always have these moments andI'm not in all these scenes together,
(32:42):
right, but it seems that I'min the pub right a moment where
they will do one and you go, Jason come over and he has to
low for yeah, so you guyscan what do you think? You just
you know, it's like a reallylow whisper, right, you're listening in
like, ah, this is important, we need to hear this, and
(33:02):
he's like, halong with it.You just say that's the last thing you'll
say, flicking the hand, andthen you go back and you do one,
and then it's like and it's whenyou see someone walking towards you and
then he goes like when that bumsup, you're like, oh, we're
good. So there's always that thingwhere it's kind of they leave this space
(33:27):
but just for it to be kindof open. But then I think as
a family, it's definitely a familycrew, if that makes sense. And
that's the whole way around. Whenyou even if you think about it,
like there was everyone that flew intofor the premiere. You had makeup,
you had art department, you hadall the department. You literally everyone was
(33:49):
represented. And this is a showthat it's been gaining for years. But
it's the same people behind the camera. So it's not like starting a new
relationship. I'm on other shows whereyou're just always meeting new people. This
is like you get back and you'rewith your family again. So that's why
it's always like, well, it'sfun. But it's like even when you
(34:10):
say goodbye or say like at theend of the filming, you're like,
oh wow, guys, see youlater. You know, it's one of
those kind of feelings. It's likeyou're saying by your family because you spend
so much time together. And Ithink that's been the cause of I mean,
that plays a big part in whatthis thing is. Right, it's
a nat it's a beautiful feeling onscreen to watch, but it's just as
(34:35):
beautiful being in the cast. Whereveryou play, wherever you are in it.
It is that show. It's afamily thing. Well, I would
imagine we've gotten that vibe from alot of the cast and crew, creative
folks that we've talked to who workon the show, like that really is
something that seems to shine through isthat you guys really like making this thing
together, which is awesome. Sowhen you have some down time in between
(35:00):
shots, what's the pub crew doingtogether? Tell you I'm the nerd of
the group. I ain't gonna lieto you. Like sometimes I turned out
with my um with my colors andI got my coloring book, you know,
my adult coloring book. Sometimes I'mdoing that. Yeah, other times,
you know, when there was atime was filming where we weren't allowed
(35:22):
to be around each other, likeit was COVID protocol and stuff. At
that time, I really got intothis thing called on the Nintendo where you
build your like your island. Whatis it? Oh? Any more?
Crossing a crossing? I'm cutting downtrees, cat getting fish, mashing up
(35:45):
my neck, waiting for the sceneto start. Um. And then after
I realized I wasn't getting that muchrespect playing that game, so I moved.
I moved. I wanted to meeta Pokemon because that's really where I
wanted to be at, But Imoved to Mario car I realized I went
(36:05):
up in the rankings of just howthe cast like other people felt about me?
Um nt me just like we singa lot. We're just silly.
We're like we like to rest around. I like to mess around with um
a net like and we eat alot, so we'll all try We're always
trying different food. But Bronson thinkshe's a chef. So Bronson will get
(36:28):
a meal and he tried to guessthe ingredients and stuff. Bronson's ridiculous.
You can cook. But it's likehe always yeah, he's always talking about
he's always talking about cooking, orhe's gonna buy something online. But something
random like you'll turn up people likeI need a new couch, like Bronson,
like he would like look like Iwas thinking of a carpet because like
(36:52):
who wakes up today and says,yeah, you know, I fancy a
new carpet. No one does sorandom things like that really really random.
Um but just a lot of sillytime together basically more who's the best?
Who? More champion of the pubcasOh, I feel like it's not you,
(37:15):
but you want to say it's you. I want to say to me,
how did you know? Because it'sit's me that create this is the
problem. I create the games andthen I don't win them, like so
like like a lot of games whenwe didn't, I'm like, guys,
let's play, Oh, what's theother game that I like to play?
When we go through like we say, movies A to B look robbish,
(37:38):
and I'm trying to start with aA movie. Hold on, let's play
hold on Apocalypse. Go on someoneelse's B movie Apocalypse? Now anyone B?
Yeah? Go on? Oh,then you do like A B C,
Cats, Cinderella, and you startto realize people's look at the shows
(38:05):
Cinderellary, Cats, You guys shouldbe like removed to trust these Yeah,
and then we'll do that. Ihaven't won, as you can see when
I struggled with the A movie.Lets you understand level of my games,
my brains, because what you haveon a high level is fashion. I'm
a particularly big fan of the flatbrimmed Greyhounds hats that you wear on the
(38:29):
show. Did they have those foryou when you showed up or did you
show up and have to just kindlysuggest that you weren't gonna wear an old
man dad hat and they should findsomething that had a little bit more credibility
to it, you know what,They back up to the costume department because
they know what they're doing, right, Like I never yeah, they gave
(38:50):
me that hat. Yeah, Andit's crazy because I always tried to take
one of those hats home, right, always, like like every season,
I'm like, I'm taking it right. Um, It's just perfect because everyone
else Literally, I think they're tryingto differentiate our characters. And if you
see, my character is just alwaysin a hat, He's always got his
hat on. He's that's him,right. So it's like, I think
(39:15):
you just can tell when you putus all together, because I couldn't imagine
when they're costing us together like thatpub crew. It looks weird, but
it feels that that's how it shouldbe. Does that mean does that make
sense? It's absolutely together. Thechemistry is absolutely that. Yeah, you
(39:35):
know that's the That's the best wayI can describe it, just like all
of us are meant to be together. Man, KG, it was such
a pleasure to meet you, tohave you on the show and to talk
about ted Lasso and all the otherprojects you've got going on. Thanks for
coming on the show, and that'sour show. We had a great time
chatting with Kg about his work onted Lasso, sports, comedy, and
(39:58):
everything else he's got going on.You can find links to Kg's podcast,
YouTube channel, social media, andmore in the show notes on our website
ted lassopod dot com. We'll beback soon with more ted Lasso goodness,
but you can keep the conversation goingwith us on Twitter and Instagram in the
meantime. Our handle on both platformsis at ted Lasso Pod. This episode
(40:20):
of Richmond Till We Die is broughtto you by Jen and Kerosene Productions.
It was produced by Me Christian,Me Marissa and Me Brett. If you're
enjoying the podcast, please take thirtyseconds to subscribe to our feed and give
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As always, we appreciate the waysyou share your love and support for the
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Comedian. Thanks for listening. Untilnext time, Cheers y'all. Hi,
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