January 27, 2026 • 13 mins
Today on the podcast Jerry and Manaia talk to stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and TV personality, Alan Davies.
He's on his way for a massive New Zealand tour in July and August 2026, with his brand-new show, Think Ahead. It marks his first visit to our shores in a decade!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daly Us spoke content that you won't find on the
radio show The HURDARKI Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Actor, comedian, writer, TV personality Ellen Davies joins us, Ellen,
what a pleasure is to talk to you. Thank you
so much for your time this morning. Where do we
find you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, I'm in London and I'm at home, so yeah,
it's dark, it's the evening.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
And the dips of winter are presumer as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How has that been, Yeah, yeah, it is the depth
of winter, and there are storms. We keep getting storms.
We didn't used to have storms with names, and now
we've had three already in about a month. Well, this
one's called Chandra. I mean, they're really spreading the names
around now. Scary. They're scary the storms. But we're just
getting wind and rain where I live. But some people
(00:49):
on the coast are in a fair old go of it. Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We get the tropical cyclones, the x tropical cyclones here
in New Zealand, and I like the fact that they've
got names. But recently, we just had an event the
other day that was nameless, and there's something terrifying about
the nameless event. And this nameless event was worse than
the ex tropical cyclones.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's cowardly from these tropical cyclones not to you know,
at least step forward and announce themselves and give us
a name that we can blame them on.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, well I could do. I think they should up
the names up. The anti call them things like megadon,
so you can call it.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
They called it Luise or something. It doesn't feel so
he's just blown the trees.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You're coming down to New Zealand, Sown. What will we
expect from your show? Is it stand up comedy or
is it stories about your.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Out, straight out stand up? It's going really well the show.
I can happily plug myself safe in the knowledge. I've
toured the UK and Australia and the response has been good.
It's called thinkerhead, which is what I'm having to do
as I approached sixty, and the byeline is I'm spending
more time in the pharmacy than the gym. That's really
(02:00):
where we are. So yeah, it's the first stand up
to have done for ten years. I don't quite know
how it took that long, but it's been really good fun.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It's been great getting back on the stage.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I find as I get older, Alan I might mentally
I stayed the same age. I still think I'm sort
of somewhere in the twenty three twenty four region. Is
that one of the themes in your show how old
do you feel versus how old you are?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Oh? Well, yeah, exactly, I mean how old do you
think you are? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean really what you think you're doing, and then
compared to what you're actually like, how long it takes you,
for example, to get in and out of.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
A chair, what to put on a sock? These things
have slowed. Right, that's a great note. I opening a
bottle of wine, so explain that.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Oh, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I know, exec. I mean, I'm not quite as
old as you, but I'm on the way. I'm between
and I and you, and I'm finding the standing up.
I'm almost needing to put a cheer and I don't
eve enough room in my bom, but I need to
put a cheer in my bathroom. To put on my
clothes now, particularly in the morning, early morning socks I'm
finding very very difficult on one leg.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, I found that any room that I go in
now I'm immediately sussing out the seating arrangements as soon
as I get in a room. If I go in
a room, there isn't a chair, I'm plotting to leave
staying here? Why not where to sit? I ys a bank?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I mean, I'm I'm thirty four, and it's starting to
happen for me. I started making noises as I sat
down and got out of chairs as a joke. But
I can't tell any more whether that's still a joke
or whether I'm actually genuinely making those noises.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Beanbags.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Need to turn that around. Yeah, no, turn that around,
my friend. At your time of life.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's the first stage. I reckon you start grunting. That's
the first thing is you start grunting when you sit down,
and then you start.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Too I do I name body parts as I'm skating
up and going down. I'll say things like, oh please, back, shoulder?
For whose benefit? I've got no idea. I haven't got
a physio with me on call ellen.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Are you still a piscatarian?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's what they call me. I mean, it's not something
I chose. Yes, I don't eat me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I haven't eaten meat since nineteen eighty six, but I
do still indulge in the seafood from time to time,
especially in restaurants.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, because I'm not sure you haven't been to New
Zealand for a week while. But kim Ijuana is the
mighty word for food from the sea, and New Zealand
full of kimeuana signage, and you could almost do yourself
for full kime ijuana trip around New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind that at all.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The only thing you got to watch out for is
gout at that point, because you get stuck into too
much of the kaimwana and all of a sudden the
ankles lock up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's been my experience.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Really, you've got a heuric acid problem, Ellen.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I've got a what problem?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Your problem with uric acid?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That scout the build up of uric acid?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't think so well. I mean, I might have
you make me think I'm going to google it.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You'll find out if once you get over here and
get stuck into the seafood. I see that you've got
about one, two, three for about ten shows lined up.
It's a pretty extensive tour of New Zealand. You've been
here before. I presume what are you looking for to
much about coming to New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I've been here to New Zealand many times, and this
is a kind of a this is a working vacation.
I've got a couple of days off, but yeah, I'm
whizzing around in two weeks doing ten or nine cities
and ten shows.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So while I'm there, I.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Think I'm right saying that the International Film Festival's on,
and I know there is going to be a bit winterry,
so I might be seeking out some of the excellent programming.
I was there ten years ago or so and it
was on and it was great, So I do a
bit of that. I might try and take in a
little bit of rugby league if I can find some,
and then the rest of the time I'll be gigging.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm just having a lock back on of your career
and I've followed it closely over the years, but when
when it's thritten down, it's crazy. It's so extensive. I mean,
the fact that you were doing Jonathan Creek for it
says in nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, yeah, I was always We started in nineteen ninety
six shooting it and the last one was shot in
twenty sixteen, so it was twenty years. Really, it's hard
to believe. It wasn't every year. We had a gap
of about five years in the middle, and then we reconvened.
But yes, it was a I played that role for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
That's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And then QI has been a great gig for you
because Stan tell me if I'm wrong, But have you
been on every show? Because obviously Stephen Fry was on
at the beginning when you're on and then the host change,
But have you been on the whole time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've been on the whole time. I was on a pilot. Yeah,
Stephen and I did thirteen years together and it was
a joy. It was an absolute joy. And now we
do a different letter of the alphabet every year, and
we'ved up to W and I just keep in my
head down trying to get to Z.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I mean, I'm sure I keep thinking someone's.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Going to tap me on the shoulder and say, all right,
you're done, But surely they won't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
When I'm on X. No, when I'm so close.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, I've just had a look at you said you
wanted to catch buit of rugby league? Are you over here?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Are you a you watch a bit of the Super
League over there in the UK?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
There?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well, I can't say I keep up with it, but
I do when I'm in New Zealand because I can't.
If you don't understand a little bit about rugby, how
can you talk to strangers in that country?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, you know, the big concern over here at the
moment is that we've just sacked our coach because it's
two years until the Rugby World Cup, so we're looking
for for a new coaches.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That news reached the UK.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Ye not no, I mean it okay, Yeah, I'm up
for it.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Lads, do you know what to do?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You know it's about I think that's what they're asking.
That's what the last one was doing.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, that's about.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I mean, this is your You're good at this.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Ellen tell us Stephen Fry another wonderful British television personality, comedian, author.
What's it like working with Stephen Fry? You would have
got to known very well over the years.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'm very fun of Stephen. Yeah, he's fantastic and it
really was. It was a very special thing. When q
I began, we did all those years together and nowadays
we sort of keep in touch mainly by text message.
He's a massive cricket fan, so we're always whenever the
cricket's on, and that he likes a snooker, so with
(09:01):
this snookron, he's got this an eclectic mix. And so yeah,
we're still in touch. And I'm turning sixty soon. I'm
having a party in them. I've invited him and it
said he's going to come, so I mean I might
even see him in the flesh, I hope.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So are you a fan of Brenda Mccallaumu's coach. Are
you a bearsball fan as a cricket fan.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, yes and no. I mean it's like anything in
sport when it works. Yeah, but well I'm not a
fan of with cricket is just throwing your wicket away.
You can only be out once. That seems to have
passed some of them by and I and I absolutely
hate that. I mean I hate that. I watch my
ten year old playing and it drives you mad when
(09:44):
someone gets run out for no reason and they're ten.
So yes and no, I would say I haven't said
that Ingham played had a fantastic, massive total in a
One day International against Sri Lanka with hundreds Joe Rue
and Harry Brooke and.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
That's a little bit of bass ball. But the Ashes
was a fiasco. So you know it's a mixture, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He us talking to a friend of mine who's involved
in it, and he was saying that bears ball as
fantastic against pretty much every side in the world other
than Australia. So basically, your bears ball's going to get
you some really good results against pretty much every other
team and be entertaining at the same time, but it
possibly won't win you're the Ashes.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, maybe I don't really know why though.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, we had a great series England against India
back in our summer, just gone really amazing series. All
the games went to five days, it finished two to
two over five tests. Really it was very exciting and
all round and both teams were in it and we
thought that's what the Ashes would be like. But they
appeared to do no preparation and they just went in
(10:53):
half cooked and Australia really just seemed to play sort
of basic test cricket, doing all the things that have
been done for decades.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
So you don't believe Brenda McCallum when he says that
they were over prepared.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If anything, I think you need to have a couple
of practice matches in the conditions, right, I mean, it's
that's this. People have been doing this for a long time,
this test cricket. It's not a recent invention. So yeah,
it was awful And the worst thing for me was
I I was over there, and I was in Australia,
(11:25):
and I had tickets for day three in Melbourne. Leg
took the whole family and it was over in two days,
and I took my ten year old on a tour
of the mcg and every person on the tour I
took its for the third day. Oh yeah, it was
a bit of a shame, A bit of a shame.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I was reading yesterday that one stage, amongst the other
millions and millions of things that you've done in your life, Ellen,
that you held a Guinness World record at one stage.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh yes, I did know.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That was on the QI and it was for pulling
the most Christmas crackers in I think it was a minute.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
What are we talking about. I pulled a lot of
crackers three hundred and eighty six.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, it was about thirty five or I mean, it
really does depend how quickly you can get your hands
on the next cracker.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And as there's so many things in life, I.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
See Joel Corry, he has overtaken your record. He achieved Yeah,
you head thirty five, he achieved forty one.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah. Did he have the TV studio six hundred people
out chin going out in front of millions? I mean,
come on, probably did it in his kitchen.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
So should we bring fifty crackers down to your tour
when you come over here?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
No, I never want to see another one.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Alan Davies, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate it. Look forward to seeing you when you come down.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Oh please come, it'd be great.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
And Ellen Davies, thinking he'd alter.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Twenty twenty six tour kicks off in Wakato on Friday,
the thirty first of July the Kiddy Takanawa Theatre in
Auckland on Saiday August one, Baycourt Addison Theatre and Totong
on Monday August three, we read all.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
These and Tuesday August fourth, Yeah, we've hung up on
him so we can read through them. All Napier, Wellington,
New Plymouth, past the North Krashuch and Dunners all the
way through August, so make sure that you get your
tickets for that which are on sale now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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radio show The HURDARKI Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Actor, comedian, writer, TV personality Ellen Davies joins us, Ellen,
what a pleasure is to talk to you. Thank you
so much for your time this morning. Where do we
find you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, I'm in London and I'm at home, so yeah,
it's dark, it's the evening.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
And the dips of winter are presumer as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How has that been, Yeah, yeah, it is the depth
of winter, and there are storms. We keep getting storms.
We didn't used to have storms with names, and now
we've had three already in about a month. Well, this
one's called Chandra. I mean, they're really spreading the names
around now. Scary. They're scary the storms. But we're just
getting wind and rain where I live. But some people
(00:49):
on the coast are in a fair old go of it. Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We get the tropical cyclones, the x tropical cyclones here
in New Zealand, and I like the fact that they've
got names. But recently, we just had an event the
other day that was nameless, and there's something terrifying about
the nameless event. And this nameless event was worse than
the ex tropical cyclones.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's cowardly from these tropical cyclones not to you know,
at least step forward and announce themselves and give us
a name that we can blame them on.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, well I could do. I think they should up
the names up. The anti call them things like megadon,
so you can call it.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
They called it Luise or something. It doesn't feel so
he's just blown the trees.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You're coming down to New Zealand, Sown. What will we
expect from your show? Is it stand up comedy or
is it stories about your.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Out, straight out stand up? It's going really well the show.
I can happily plug myself safe in the knowledge. I've
toured the UK and Australia and the response has been good.
It's called thinkerhead, which is what I'm having to do
as I approached sixty, and the byeline is I'm spending
more time in the pharmacy than the gym. That's really
(02:00):
where we are. So yeah, it's the first stand up
to have done for ten years. I don't quite know
how it took that long, but it's been really good fun.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It's been great getting back on the stage.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I find as I get older, Alan I might mentally
I stayed the same age. I still think I'm sort
of somewhere in the twenty three twenty four region. Is
that one of the themes in your show how old
do you feel versus how old you are?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Oh? Well, yeah, exactly, I mean how old do you
think you are? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean really what you think you're doing, and then
compared to what you're actually like, how long it takes you,
for example, to get in and out of.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
A chair, what to put on a sock? These things
have slowed. Right, that's a great note. I opening a
bottle of wine, so explain that.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Oh, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I know, exec. I mean, I'm not quite as
old as you, but I'm on the way. I'm between
and I and you, and I'm finding the standing up.
I'm almost needing to put a cheer and I don't
eve enough room in my bom, but I need to
put a cheer in my bathroom. To put on my
clothes now, particularly in the morning, early morning socks I'm
finding very very difficult on one leg.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, I found that any room that I go in
now I'm immediately sussing out the seating arrangements as soon
as I get in a room. If I go in
a room, there isn't a chair, I'm plotting to leave
staying here? Why not where to sit? I ys a bank?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I mean, I'm I'm thirty four, and it's starting to
happen for me. I started making noises as I sat
down and got out of chairs as a joke. But
I can't tell any more whether that's still a joke
or whether I'm actually genuinely making those noises.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Beanbags.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Need to turn that around. Yeah, no, turn that around,
my friend. At your time of life.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's the first stage. I reckon you start grunting. That's
the first thing is you start grunting when you sit down,
and then you start.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Too I do I name body parts as I'm skating
up and going down. I'll say things like, oh please, back, shoulder?
For whose benefit? I've got no idea. I haven't got
a physio with me on call ellen.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Are you still a piscatarian?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's what they call me. I mean, it's not something
I chose. Yes, I don't eat me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I haven't eaten meat since nineteen eighty six, but I
do still indulge in the seafood from time to time,
especially in restaurants.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, because I'm not sure you haven't been to New
Zealand for a week while. But kim Ijuana is the
mighty word for food from the sea, and New Zealand
full of kimeuana signage, and you could almost do yourself
for full kime ijuana trip around New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind that at all.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The only thing you got to watch out for is
gout at that point, because you get stuck into too
much of the kaimwana and all of a sudden the
ankles lock up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's been my experience.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Really, you've got a heuric acid problem, Ellen.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I've got a what problem?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Your problem with uric acid?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That scout the build up of uric acid?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't think so well. I mean, I might have
you make me think I'm going to google it.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You'll find out if once you get over here and
get stuck into the seafood. I see that you've got
about one, two, three for about ten shows lined up.
It's a pretty extensive tour of New Zealand. You've been
here before. I presume what are you looking for to
much about coming to New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I've been here to New Zealand many times, and this
is a kind of a this is a working vacation.
I've got a couple of days off, but yeah, I'm
whizzing around in two weeks doing ten or nine cities
and ten shows.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So while I'm there, I.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Think I'm right saying that the International Film Festival's on,
and I know there is going to be a bit winterry,
so I might be seeking out some of the excellent programming.
I was there ten years ago or so and it
was on and it was great, So I do a
bit of that. I might try and take in a
little bit of rugby league if I can find some,
and then the rest of the time I'll be gigging.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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group on Facebook. For more Jerry and Mania, catch the
radio show from six twelenteen weekdays, The Hidarcky Breakfast.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm just having a lock back on of your career
and I've followed it closely over the years, but when
when it's thritten down, it's crazy. It's so extensive. I mean,
the fact that you were doing Jonathan Creek for it
says in nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, yeah, I was always We started in nineteen ninety
six shooting it and the last one was shot in
twenty sixteen, so it was twenty years. Really, it's hard
to believe. It wasn't every year. We had a gap
of about five years in the middle, and then we reconvened.
But yes, it was a I played that role for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
That's a great gig.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And then QI has been a great gig for you
because Stan tell me if I'm wrong, But have you
been on every show? Because obviously Stephen Fry was on
at the beginning when you're on and then the host change,
But have you been on the whole time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've been on the whole time. I was on a pilot. Yeah,
Stephen and I did thirteen years together and it was
a joy. It was an absolute joy. And now we
do a different letter of the alphabet every year, and
we'ved up to W and I just keep in my
head down trying to get to Z.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I mean, I'm sure I keep thinking someone's.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Going to tap me on the shoulder and say, all right,
you're done, But surely they won't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
When I'm on X. No, when I'm so close.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, I've just had a look at you said you
wanted to catch buit of rugby league? Are you over here?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Are you a you watch a bit of the Super
League over there in the UK?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
There?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well, I can't say I keep up with it, but
I do when I'm in New Zealand because I can't.
If you don't understand a little bit about rugby, how
can you talk to strangers in that country?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, you know, the big concern over here at the
moment is that we've just sacked our coach because it's
two years until the Rugby World Cup, so we're looking
for for a new coaches.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That news reached the UK.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Ye not no, I mean it okay, Yeah, I'm up
for it.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Lads, do you know what to do?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You know it's about I think that's what they're asking.
That's what the last one was doing.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, that's about.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I mean, this is your You're good at this.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Ellen tell us Stephen Fry another wonderful British television personality, comedian, author.
What's it like working with Stephen Fry? You would have
got to known very well over the years.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'm very fun of Stephen. Yeah, he's fantastic and it
really was. It was a very special thing. When q
I began, we did all those years together and nowadays
we sort of keep in touch mainly by text message.
He's a massive cricket fan, so we're always whenever the
cricket's on, and that he likes a snooker, so with
(09:01):
this snookron, he's got this an eclectic mix. And so yeah,
we're still in touch. And I'm turning sixty soon. I'm
having a party in them. I've invited him and it
said he's going to come, so I mean I might
even see him in the flesh, I hope.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So are you a fan of Brenda Mccallaumu's coach. Are
you a bearsball fan as a cricket fan.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, yes and no. I mean it's like anything in
sport when it works. Yeah, but well I'm not a
fan of with cricket is just throwing your wicket away.
You can only be out once. That seems to have
passed some of them by and I and I absolutely
hate that. I mean I hate that. I watch my
ten year old playing and it drives you mad when
(09:44):
someone gets run out for no reason and they're ten.
So yes and no, I would say I haven't said
that Ingham played had a fantastic, massive total in a
One day International against Sri Lanka with hundreds Joe Rue
and Harry Brooke and.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
That's a little bit of bass ball. But the Ashes
was a fiasco. So you know it's a mixture, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He us talking to a friend of mine who's involved
in it, and he was saying that bears ball as
fantastic against pretty much every side in the world other
than Australia. So basically, your bears ball's going to get
you some really good results against pretty much every other
team and be entertaining at the same time, but it
possibly won't win you're the Ashes.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, maybe I don't really know why though.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, we had a great series England against India
back in our summer, just gone really amazing series. All
the games went to five days, it finished two to
two over five tests. Really it was very exciting and
all round and both teams were in it and we
thought that's what the Ashes would be like. But they
appeared to do no preparation and they just went in
(10:53):
half cooked and Australia really just seemed to play sort
of basic test cricket, doing all the things that have
been done for decades.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
So you don't believe Brenda McCallum when he says that
they were over prepared.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If anything, I think you need to have a couple
of practice matches in the conditions, right, I mean, it's
that's this. People have been doing this for a long time,
this test cricket. It's not a recent invention. So yeah,
it was awful And the worst thing for me was
I I was over there, and I was in Australia,
(11:25):
and I had tickets for day three in Melbourne. Leg
took the whole family and it was over in two days,
and I took my ten year old on a tour
of the mcg and every person on the tour I
took its for the third day. Oh yeah, it was
a bit of a shame, A bit of a shame.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I was reading yesterday that one stage, amongst the other
millions and millions of things that you've done in your life, Ellen,
that you held a Guinness World record at one stage.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh yes, I did know.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That was on the QI and it was for pulling
the most Christmas crackers in I think it was a minute.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
What are we talking about. I pulled a lot of
crackers three hundred and eighty six.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, it was about thirty five or I mean, it
really does depend how quickly you can get your hands
on the next cracker.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And as there's so many things in life, I.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
See Joel Corry, he has overtaken your record. He achieved Yeah,
you head thirty five, he achieved forty one.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah. Did he have the TV studio six hundred people
out chin going out in front of millions? I mean,
come on, probably did it in his kitchen.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
So should we bring fifty crackers down to your tour
when you come over here?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
No, I never want to see another one.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Alan Davies, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate it. Look forward to seeing you when you come down.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Oh please come, it'd be great.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
And Ellen Davies, thinking he'd alter.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Twenty twenty six tour kicks off in Wakato on Friday,
the thirty first of July the Kiddy Takanawa Theatre in
Auckland on Saiday August one, Baycourt Addison Theatre and Totong
on Monday August three, we read all.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
These and Tuesday August fourth, Yeah, we've hung up on
him so we can read through them. All Napier, Wellington,
New Plymouth, past the North Krashuch and Dunners all the
way through August, so make sure that you get your
tickets for that which are on sale now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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