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Episode Transcript

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Well, what's the crack everybody?How are you getting on? Welcome to
another episode of the Tomo Manny Show. It is Friday, the twenty first
of April twenty twenty three, ayou Kip and Quick one the twenty ninth
of April. There's a handful oftakes the left for Fred Cook at my
comedy club, The Hill Comedy Clubin care County, Tipperary, and we
have put on sale for next month. I think it's the twenty seventh of

(00:20):
May. It's the last Saturday anywayMay. Jaredth Reagan and Mike Morgan is
going to be joining me from Cock. Mike Morgan actually going to have him
on the podcast fairly soon, andwe have a rake of absolute belters lined
up. I'm in the process ofputting together my tour show for later on
in the year. Hey, it'sgoing to be called Taking Off and it's

(00:43):
going to be on. There's acouple of places locked in, like they
like Support Leash, Limerick, Wexford, Cork are locked in. But I'm
gonna wait to have a couple ofmore and then we'll go a full throttle
at it. So TA Kids willbe available very handy in the next.
I suppose the next ten days totwo weeks we'll have tickets available. Of
course, Patreons would have gotten thisad free last night, along with the

(01:03):
video and all the rest of it, and that's what they get. They
get it early AD free, andthey get the video as well as that,
they get the ramble Pot in themiddle of the week they get which
is exclusive to Patreons. A course, we're answer questions and I go to
town on things that I can't reallybe saying over the airwaves normally. Are
we still on airwaves? I don'tthink we are. And this Sunday,

(01:26):
if you're a Patreon, we havea live ramble pot. We're going to
have a live one on Sunday,even at eight o'clock. So if you're
not a Patreon and you go,and you know, I think it sounds
like a bit of crack, I'lljump on that. Three dollars. There
you go. Three dollars will getyou in. Some people pay more because
they field it's more them, butthree dollars minimum gets the in the gate.
You can jump on, you canstay in the background, you can

(01:47):
join in, have the crack withus. We normally pick a subject or
whatever or we just shoot the shit, have a couple of drinks, drink
some tea and we have a goodtime for a while. You know,
it's a good one. It's agood one. Some go for the A
few good two people have come forthe full year. I think you get
a month or two free if yougo for the full just pay out the
full year. I think you doanyway, It's up to you. It's

(02:08):
there for you if you want it. That's awful really the housekeeping. Of
course, there is Banana and BearRugby podcast which is trucking on nicely.
We are into our second season.We started immediately because the women's sixth Nations
started immediately with myself and a capelessIt is a very fun podcast. People
are really really liking it because it'sjust the good buzz. You don't have

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to be overly into rugby. It'sjust a good old buzz. Myself and
Nanna we're going to do together one, a proper together one next week because
she's back home from Spain from playingrugby in Spain. I'm trying to convince
her to put her boots on andput her hand up for Harland again because
she's still got the animal instinct inher and she's an animal of a back
roade who can do a job.Why not, why not at this stage

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throw her in there for the lastmatch. It's a last match against Scotland,
I think it is, and ohno it's not with too more much,
too more much after that and thenwe're going to do a series of
episodes called How the Rugby Rugby,which will be in time for the Rugby
World Cup. Because if you don'tend about it, we'll put her arm
around Jen give you enough phrases thatyou won't sound like a box down the

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Pope watching the Rugby World Cup.That is that. Oh, the Tom
and Jerry Show is almost in production, almost in production. We're very very
close, so we will be comingback with season eight. I think we're
on. And for those of youwho are lovers of the Tom and Jerry
Show, which I meet a lotof at Gold, if you haven't heard
what I'm talking about, go havea listen. Go have a listened to

(03:34):
the Tom and Jerry Show. It'sin the link in the bio or link
underneath this actually will take you throughand go into the bit that says omni
podcasts and head in there. TheTom and Jerry Show. There is no
end seven McBride. The last twoseasons I've been a lot of fun,
a lot of work, put alot of fun in putting them together.
So I'm looking forward to this onehanging out with McBride again, so that

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it's around the corner. For anybodywho's wondering, it's just a case of
we get this Rugby one wrapped upbecause this this as drama manny show.
It's it's never ending, it's evergreen. I've been said. Moving on to
today's guest, it's a long timeso I got to hang with this guy
on a podcast. We hang allthe time with comedy clubs and stuff,
but the last time I think itwas with him and Sean Walsh. So

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if you want to go back throughthe archives, which there's two hundred and
sixty odd episodes of, go backand find the Sean Walsh one. And
it was we're all very hungover.It was during the middle of the Vodafone
Festival upstairs in the International Comedy Club, so this one was less hungover and
there was a lot of fun.Please sit back and enjoy the bringing.
Fred Cook, You're in, You'rein. We're off. Yeah, it

(04:41):
sounds like the Eurovision. I wouldgive anything for you to host the Eurovision.
They're like, but even even tolike hosted one thing, but you
could double down, you'd go,oh, you don't want me hosting,
Fine, I'll just be the entry, so fine, yeah fine, I'll
mean I mean the middle act beforethey announced, like the urbanout space whatever.

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Every gig they had I was likea middle street again, like yeah,
one hundred foot stage and there's frayedout with the melodics. Name the
song Germany, France, anyone.It's made for somebody like you, though

(05:28):
it doesn't know who because there's nothere's no there's no putting a lid on
on your vision like you can yeah, yeah, whatever. It seems to
be. The more or naugh themore you can put your finger on something,
the better chance song it need hasto be completely naugh. Are are
completely slow and sentimental to your visionsto be something like soulscure or there's no

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middle ground. No Oasis will neverwin this. Yeah, yeah exactly.
But yeah, I imagine I'd lovethe notion of you doing I walk through
Ireland. Do you know that kindof way in a song. Yeah,
yeah, you know, like justtotally now, like you Cultry video,

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you know that stuff was so pondering, but you know that, you know,
you see it's amazing. But likethe nineties Decline learning videos. Oh
the most funny I like because thevideo about them is they're not trying to
be in any way, fully,are not trying to be. It's just
those moment in time, you knowwhat I mean, when it's almost kind
of a lovely country. Naively didthe whole thing blue jeans, My girl,

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you are my world. You knowthat's brilliant, like brilliant stuff.
One of the greatest highlights of mylife was being hugged by him when I
came off stage. Decline. Ohyeah it was I thought that was yeah.
I said, that was amazing,tomb it was just Jesus Christ.
You walk off stage and declin Erniehuggs, Yes, this is just I
to go and have a sit downafter it to be it wasn't well,

(07:00):
it was like she's square, fringestrong. Do you know what there was?
That's a great question. Nobody's everasked me that. And I noticed
there was strengthen his in his forearmsas they went around me. I was
like Okay, this is definitely ahook. It wasn't a watery one because
he looks he looks like a slightman. But then there's nobody. There's

(07:21):
nobody's slight from Longford. They're normallywiry terrier style people like do you know
that kind of weigh? Is itrumblish's from? Oh yeah, she's it's
got a song goes in the netive. I love the on the nosiness of

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some of some of those are like, there's no dancing around the issue,
there's no list. It's to thepoint with absolutely no shame whatsoever. Like
I mean, the most cryptic songyou ever had was Stopped the World and
let Me Off. It's like,wow, that's deep man, what's that?
What's that? Without Big Tom?He made it, favors he made,

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he took, took it and runwith it. It went out.
I stand absolutely to be corrected byI don't know, I don't know.
I think it could be him.Yeah, and music of ficionado like ourselves,
I tell you, though there's somemoney in it. There's so much
yea yeah, like I remember doingYou're down to Clarney or down in Kerry
now, but I remember doing themost the one like the most mental gig

(08:28):
of my life in the kind ofmiddle bar in Clarney in the I and
I did it had no place,do you know what? Comedy has no
place? Like, there's no placewhere we were at night. We were
assaulting people with comedy in the barbasically is what we were doing. But
there the entire i DC main roomwas full of country fans and it was

(08:50):
like five singers were from Tipperary Ithink. And there was like one hundred
and twenty quid for two nights ofthis and it was the same same bands,
like just singing other people's fucking songs. It's like what full full full?
Yeah, what the hell? SoI think Peter Akin says that with
the tickets for guard Brooks over thewhat seven nights are five nights he did?

(09:13):
I think forty five percent of themtickets were from on him answer to
God, like thest we know theremust be there must know one him.
If you do the numbers on itlike that night, like you start going,
yeah, you start going, youstart going north of of of you
even in kills and stuff, youstart going north of their all a shamed

(09:35):
levels of blue jeans and oh yeah, but it kind of and it seems
to be like these to always putforward whoever's behind it in the industry,
to put forward like a thirteen yearold or a fourteen year old who's got
a nice fight and they put himin jeans and he end up late.
But it's always like from Arma ordo you know. And the skill in

(09:56):
all these kinds of players. Ilove country actually Miami that and all those
sounds go like this, I aimingit by the field, and they never
The more southern you go, thelest chance you have in becoming a country
singer. You know, like theminute you're going to loud, let the
country by, you know, yeah, yeah, there's yeah, you're right.

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By the time you get to Cork, forget about it. You're not
like you're singing in the country.A car accident that's not happening, like
there's moniting it up. This isnot moniting it up. That's that seems
to be they of a country beforeany of them around here, to the
country singers. That's where they applymost their trade. Yeah, I've never
I've never seen anything like it.We were at we were rather winding,

(10:45):
get us, get us, getus a winding, and he headed out
near the village he lives near.Boy, that's only a village, like
there's no, yeah, it's agood shaped village. It's like a small
town. But they had this dancehall that was like a dance hole,
Like what is that? But itwas new. You know, you see
dance halls and they probably are justa furniture store, storehouse, like you

(11:05):
know, there's nothing anymore. They'rejust it's where somebody keeps trucks. But
this was like a new dance hall. And I was like who. At
the following morning, we were havingbreakfast in the B and b old couple
heard their accents and right, oh, were you up to see Jimmy Buckley
and Jimmy Buckleys from up the roadhere? I was like, fucking,
who is Jimmy Buckley the sing onHe's from your nicke of the woods.

(11:28):
And I was like what, No, we were at a winding and they
looked at us like we were fuckingagents. Like put he was up there
and he put maybe five six hundredpeople in this little village teat they all
came to see Jimmy Buckley singing songs. And you're like and they said,
travel from all over the art.Yeah, and we'll go see him the
following nights somewhere else as well,and just dance their holes off this like

(11:52):
it's it's do you know what thecountry, especially late later, they're talking
about there's a family in it isthere between the the performers and the people
goal through it. It's all that. I remember one night I was on
the country special with the Late latehoand because a new a new, a
new cleone hagging from Downs with theStars. Yes, oh she's she's my
way in. So she introduced meto Daniel Dodonod and I met that a

(12:15):
lovely chat. But the minute Imet Daniel, I was accepted across the
country scene. Really, he's likethe main man. You have to go
through him, you know, andthe PABs you're talking about him, but
then you're you're in the totally sopranoslash dolly parton of yeah yeah, yeah
legend. So but you're back,are you Kerry carry now all the time?

(12:41):
Yeah? Yeah, we're basically carryand I'll wait here or four days
or my wife Julie as well,we were saying I was saying to I
was saying recently that you know,like marriage is well compromised, isn't it
finding the middle ground? You knowall the time? And so I grew
up in Kel's, County Meath,and she grew up in Dingle, so

(13:01):
to marriage and compromise. We're nowliving in Dingle. I guess we're not
all the way right to her frontdoor, like we're you know, we're
out the road a bit like exactly, yeah, not even not even a
dare, not even Limerick. Youto go straight to the I might as

(13:22):
well be last yea, how howyou find it? Because so many lads
like you, like me, likeChris Kent, like Gordon, so many
lads have just gone to the windlike and just went now we're okay,
we don't need Dublin. It's fine, it's fine. Yeah, yeah,
I think you were always like that, But weren't you. I mean,

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I probably gave off that image,but I was always in Dublin. But
it was definitely it wasn't. Itwasn't Maybe it wasn't in built fucking ignorance
that I just wasn't going to conform, you know that kind of way,
like just I didn't ever feel theneed to conform anywhere ever. Went Alright,
you know what's the point because Iwould be very good as pretended to
be that or whatever, but itwas actually Natasha, who's like Jordan Govid,

(14:07):
went, oh, Tom, weshould move to tip. Yeah.
I was like, right back upthe barbecue, We're off to do well.
I needed. I needed to beplanned, doubt because I was killing
me, I guess, but Iwas back in my single days, like
it was just what I would do. And you see, I mean I
go through a pub and I knowa lot of the people in pubs managing

(14:28):
stuff, and I drink and thenI'll have a lock and do you know
that, I'll go through lock untiltill later nine in the morning. I
could sometimes I'll do this three timesa week. Like it was literally do
you know, I was killing myself? So you know, so it just
needed to I needed to kind ofkind of get out of that situation.
It's and to be fair, like, there's no there'sn't any Irish person listen

(14:50):
to this. There's not one ofthem would have to be convinced that what
you were doing wasn't class. Youknow what I mean? Yeah, there's
I don't know them. It isclass and the one off a few times
it's nothing better than it's like it'sjust awfo crack, you know. And
it's when you when you when youwhen you when you smell cigarettes or Jesus
lass or suthing diesel. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah the hell

(15:16):
when the figs the astroist about thefigs get lit up. You're like,
yeah, but as you say likethat, I suppose to know, che
I've never done three in a month, let alone three in one week.
Oh yeah, like to be festivals. I like to go from Thursday to
Sunday. And I would for onewill be better load for one for better
matter. For I shoot my loadtoo early on the turlest day, the

(15:39):
Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Youknow, it's just kind of uh,
you know, so if that's thething, I'm kind of a time to
a wall or nothing. So I'mmuch better now than forty two. But
like Jesus, back then, itwas like kind of trying to you know.
Even so, but you know,I wouldn't change the day. I
wouldn't change a day of it either. You know. I think I'm still
gigging. I think I'm still travelingand on the old stuff that yeah you

(16:00):
didn't you didn't do that burn me, burn tardy ourselves, and burn yourself
out. And then now you haveto you know, you're working at an
office suwhere because just can't come backto comedy. Just I just I did
all the comedy I can do.Likes, I've done all the comedy.
That's it, Jesus Christ with thespoken wordsier. But like it's interesting how

(16:23):
somebody lads dispersed and like that,like and nobody seems to be feeling any
ill effects, like you know whatI mean. No, no, well
like for for us. So Iknow I mentioned this to you as well,
Like we didn't nothing was planned,but we just kind of we just
kind of went with it, likewe we came, we came to carry
the second third two weeks before lockdown, not knowing anything, you know,

(16:47):
and uh, and we just endedup here and then we had a child
and then so like we just kindof, you know, ted hung around
and so like it's obviously and I'mfucking out of here, you guys exactly.
So it was so it's just athing of but we'll see, you

(17:10):
know, we'll see what happens toroad. Nothing solid. Yeah, I
get I get it, but Isuppose especially free raising a youngster too,
Like there's so much more. Isuppose he's a mind. We're like,
oh there'll be grand here, youknow, Like that's not saying that they
wouldn't. You can't be a wildchild anywhere. Like but yeah, I
know what you're saying. Yeah,I feel the guilty off and did take
him out of Kerry because he's somany friends just stage, you know what

(17:30):
I mean? Like, so behard starting again. I could be very
It's almost be traumatic for a childat that age, wouldn't it be?
Think we just okay, we're goingto just slowly. But like I don't
know what you do. You knowthe way when you get a new dog
and you have an old dog,you're supposed to get him to meet halfway
up the road, so you stopat a petro station. It's like,

(17:52):
don't do stuff at Junction fourteen andtake out around the sniffy air. We
would be that vicious with maybe theObama plaza yea, because they put the
latest thing. I didn't. Ididn't know these things passed me by.

(18:12):
Like I said, I just I'mbrutal, but I didn't realize you were
actually good, good at irish likeyou seem to be good good. I
loved Irish at all. I'm okay, I got I got much better at
it. I mean when I didthat show ruts in the game, you're
learning Irish and like the only reasonwhy the univers why I did that is
because like Ten is speaking a bitof Irish and his childminders, you know,

(18:37):
and it's probably Jenie. Genie's alreadyfluent. But said, if they
start talking Irish to each other,I'll be completely alienated when need to just
to do something, it's gasp.When he was to eastanly was you know,
in the winter, he was makingup every morning and and he looked
at the window and instead of sayingfluck, it's a's say fluck. But
he wasn't. He wasn't putting inthe el. Yeah. No, so

(18:59):
you're looking at me going a dad, fuck fuck fuck And here you're talent?
Who your talent? I say,he was stay exactly. Yeah,
what is it to two years andseven months? It so yeah, it's
hard to believe, isn't it bizarre? And funny? Like because did you

(19:21):
know what about kids at all?Because I didn't know, and when we
had we'd know, we'd know realexperienced it's not that we did not support.
We did, but a lot ofthe stuff with incredible support from Natasha
do you know, like six monthspart of it. She's unbelievable. It
makes statastic and so so that thatreally had Julie do you know what I

(19:42):
mean? You know, like becauseI'll be quite an actives person as well.
Like so that was it was aconcept. Really was just had to
throw all that stuff and with thehypno worth kind of situation and you know,
so that well after that, youknow, I was kind of looking
at stuff on YouTube, like myalgorithms. They ended up looking at Radiohead

(20:07):
the night before the first But itis because I like and it's it's the
different stages, because I had noidea like and these different stages now I
found that I find out post thestages of and at the minute, now
he's in preschool and you don't he'dbe four in August, so he but

(20:29):
what it is, you don't youdon't know the people, the kids,
other kids is going to be hangingout with, and you never I never
thought about, oh there's there's painin the holes. He'll be hanging all
right, and you know he'll likehe's sitting at the table the other day
and just started rain. He lookedout and just that's why it reminded me
of the flock thing. He lookedat me, he genuinely put his hand
his face went fucking rain. We'rejust we're looking at each other, going

(20:56):
okay. And you know where hegot it from, Like you gotta who
looked out rain? And it's allthat and there's these are the stages and
you can't make it big apparently becauseI was ready to go here now because
of course he'll run around saying fuckingrain for the rest of the day,
like you know, yeah, yeah. A lady and trim, a lad

(21:18):
trim and I know I mentioned onstage which came up to me once tell
me about what her child said toher and said, you can have this
as material. I was in costthat in trim to me me taxes and
this lady come up to me andgoals didn't tell you this. Let's stop
me if I told you this,No, no, it doesn't. Your
child said that her child was sayingthe word abortion and she doesn't the word
you heard it's head to go tryingto say and then this is true,

(21:41):
right, And then the mom goeswhat do you mean abortion and the child
abortion, the chips. It's notamazing us, but yeah, there has

(22:03):
there's going to be more of it. I know, there's going to be
more of a place. Yeah,it's the stages that I'm not every time
I get shocked, and I shouldstop getting shocked at this stage, like
like the course and attachs like ohno, this is the stage where they
do the thing and what why ishe? Why is he nude all the
time, like like oh yeah,yeah, nudity is high end. But
the only thing about it is thatI kind of gave it and appreciate it

(22:26):
and kind of love that he's sopresent, do you know what I mean.
There's no exterior anxiety or focks givenabout anything, just like I'm going
to walk around, yeah yeah,to live like that, and there's such
a the such reward in himself likeif he you know, a potty treading
and stuff like that. Even mynephew when he had his first pool the

(22:48):
toilets, like my my my sisterand her husband I guess brother law.
They want to make a big thingof it and they're all clapping, you
know, looking at the pool ofthe toilets, and he was the lightness
and and then Joanna went to flushthe toilet and the poo went. He
started crying like, don't Yeah,that's such a moment. May he shipping

(23:12):
under the parade? It is?It is? And now another one on
the way, another one. Yeah, it's amazing. How quick you know,
August the twenty two o'clock, youhave it, you have it down
time. I got the one oClouck bus from being hopefully, but yeah,

(23:36):
the scan as well, and everything'severything's thankfully, everything's you know,
happy like thank gold and and andyou know they were saying that, they
were saying, do you know,we don't know, we don't know what
to know what it is and theywould find out on the day. And
so so when we were doing thescar and then when you when she went
down to the kidneys and deliver,she was like, look, don't look

(24:00):
now because I might give it away. Right. It wasn't looking but the
head right, I see. Ithought I seen it massive, rights massive,
And I was like and I waslike, all the apple doesn't fall
too far from the tree. Andthen she was like, that's the and
then she was like basketball the center, Yeah, that's what I call it

(24:25):
well because nowhere I did in aroundthose people because in fairness, their job
is very serious. Oh but thepressure on them because you know what I
mean, you could be given badnews good news, but you're trying to
make cause you know, this iswhat we do and we nearly revel in

(24:48):
awkward moments. But you kind offind yourself coming out with that shit like
that's what she said, do youknow? God? Oh God? And
this one was just people say tome, and you probably get this as
well. I don't know how youdo it. I don't know how you
do it. And then I waslike, I'm not you know, my
sister works to ali and go away. I'll take I'll take chunks in it.
And then the other thing as wellis I do always think I wouldn't

(25:12):
do it. I will say this, you wouldn't see meio comedy, and
I'm like, thank God, he'sasking me to do it. So let
me know's asking to do it fora reason. I know one. And
I guess they're trying to make itabout themselves. Yes, you know that's
the way of making something about themselves, like they're bringing back in themselves or
I couldn't do it right, youcouldn't. I suppose that's an Irish conversational

(25:36):
thing, isn't it too? Youare something or you say something, and
they're the ways to follow it back, right, Whereas I like to sit
back and if I'm chatting to somebody, like even if they're really really into
their job, bin man, Igo tell everything about that and they see
the discomfort. They're like, oh, no, I'll tell you something and
then you oh no, it doesn'twork at all. No, No,

(25:56):
she don't need to know it aboutme. It's fine, it's fine.
What could I possibly tell you thatwould make any fucking sense to you?
You know what I mean, likeit would make any sense? I don't
genuinely interested. Yeah, it's thesame. I use it on stage when
like I said to someone, whoare you? And there's that say it
back to me like good, howare you? And I will say,
yeah, I'm kind of busy conversation, you know. But it is it's

(26:21):
throwing the back, isn't it.It just don't want to I don't think.
I don't think it's a rudeness thing. I think it's I don't think
it's a rudeness thing. But itseems to be an Irish conversation. Thing
was like, so we just gotit and we'll try and outdo each other
a bit. A little bit started. It started with Geish hus worded,
she'll just kind of taken God marriedme with you. It's just back of

(26:45):
each other and you're talking about theroad rising before them and everything else.
You're like, grama can just sayI don't I find I find those and
what I also find is with comedy. Obviously you get the God I couldn't
do it again. You're thinking,yeah, maybe you could be all right,

(27:08):
but you have you ever found yourselfas a wedding or some locked in
scenario where there's not there can bean element nearly of aggression sometimes kind of
gone. I'm guessed too. I'mlike, yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
It's just an odd, odd oddscenarios like I didn't you love this
one? You looked like it's hostage. I wouldn't say a hosted situations.

(27:33):
He says you got, says hard. She said she's good, and she
says as well, Oh dear,I think that's French themselves. Hold on

(28:03):
one second, hold on one seconds. So that's zealing there and that's that's
all Big Green screen thing there withstuff hanging. No, it's a teddy.
It's a teddy hedge teddy. Andmy my strange brother in law from
who lives in Brussels, sends mebizarre things like that. And he sent
me this from Brussels, so Ican't Tom, I can just lay the

(28:29):
hand actions. It's actually a greatpodcast. Now it's like, actually Fred
not not relaying anything to Julie's hilariousthat you're you're both getting two different things
from this chat, like don't mindthem, don't mind them, Julie,
don't mind him, No need tosay that, don't mind them, control

(28:56):
them. That's probably controlling, isn'tit like this? Yeah? But yeah,
yeah, you get that a fairbut with the especially after a club
like you find yourself getting pulled aside. But it was only and this is
not comparing us to professional fighters,but I mean, I'm kind of comparing
us to But then, but thenall the people have talked to things like

(29:22):
that. The pro fighters are theonly people I've ever spoken to get a
kind of a similar team. Isuppose it makes sense that being funny or
being hard as nails are kind oftwo things that people assume you're just born
with rather than you could actually learnor get good at it kind of way
dancing. But then nobody very rarelywhen you get a table full of blokey

(29:45):
blokes going yeah, I'm a classdancer too, you know what I mean?
Like yeah, yeah, if youcan bust a move on the floor,
then all of a sudden people arelike, oh shit, yeah that
is kind of a cool thing tobe able to do, all right,
like yeah, yeah, fucker footballsomething that people might take very like yeah,
yeah, I wonder on a personallevel, like I wonder would that

(30:06):
be the case where they go,he's a class soccer player. I'm class
did a bit of a bit ofa bould myself in my day, Like
you know, it's did put thedance? Like if ever, if ever
there was somebody I've often people askedme like what's Fred? You know when
people know who you know, what'swhat's Fred? Like my description has always
been the same as like if evera man was born to just make you

(30:30):
happy, Like if Fred was mysolicitor, I'd get worried though, do
you know that kind of exactly?Yeah, you know, you walk into
court like I'm getting ten years oflife if You're like, I'm definitely very
lucky with that I've managed to create. I'm lucky with stand up comedy and
the industry that I get to liveinside my own head, you know what

(30:51):
I mean. It's it's like panot percent or something, because it's like
it's very lucky with it. Andyou know, I don't chick, and
I'm so far into comedy now.I don't know if I'll be able to
do another job like I have theeI shouldn't say this professional suicide was you
know, if I'll have the disciplinefor its comedy. I can't picture as

(31:17):
anything else, as anything else,like I mean, can you imagine,
like you know, because nowadays theydo a background check, like and they'll
just type in your name, likeif you were going for a job there
a serious job like an insurance brokeror something like that. They just said,
that's just so, is it?Fred? Just Fred cooks. Let's
you can solve it, yeah sparad comes up prices on the floor,

(31:41):
let me do America good luck.Isn't that amazing how certain ads like Jesus,
Yeah, how that ad has ads? If I say your name bang
the association people can and that admust be watched fifteen years old, is
it? Yeah, it's mad nowyeah yeah money, Yeah I showed that.
Like I just tell the people Iwas a full time comedian, but

(32:02):
I wasn't really I was just livingoff the spare ads. I became a
full time comedian, you know,like Drewett was. Uh, you know,
if I shoually kept working, Ishould have kept working at a job
like do you know at the time, like so yeah, but it's Jason
Jason there and also like who wantsto be the guy you know who's now
famous for telling everybody the comedian knownfor being a comedian because he played somebody

(32:23):
in the real world. And thenall of that, they go into spar
and you're actually work, although thatwould be kind of class if you were
just talking what was going into spar? Like after that grand like I got
I've never gonna people always I thinkgot shipped for free, you know,
I never did, and like Inever like like there's always you know it

(32:47):
was, it's always a bit acrack with it. But now like you
never remember Brian comdon once you knowthe managers the comedy venue in Quark City
limits. Yes, people posters upran quark as the pictures me from the
spar Ard with the Spars symbol onthe posters, and they actually put them
in spar so it looked like Spieractually sponsoring the gig. So I got

(33:13):
close to do the comedy thing withthem, and it just didn't happen,
you know, doing it tour,it would be great, you know,
like a multiple spar and so that'swhat I was trying to kind of,
you know, trying to make itwork for me. How can so?
But you know, they were great, h there was awful crop and it
was you know, those the oddswere there were that demanding the tall like

(33:35):
you know what I mean, Likeit's almost like there's the odd facial expression.
So you're kind of hanging around andthey look after you. And so
but I actually got it because thatuh, there was the needed castings for
ads and so those the McDonald's addbefore that. It's the same company.
I think we're called Red Apple orsomething like that. And I actually got
the McDonald's at you got the McDonald'sad and then the spar Aard came forward

(34:00):
and they're kind of looking, Ican actually know what we can put this
guy in the spare On instead,even though you know, as world kind
of seated. So I walked into do the castle for the spar and
the director he said to me,he said that I looked like someone who's
never done the day's work in hislife. I even walked the latest.
It's all over the place, youknow, He goes, Yeah, they

(34:21):
haven't. It's all over the place. Is what other what other fucking environment
would that be a scenario were?And I walks in for a job and
the guy looks at him, whocould give him the job and said,
definitely got him. Yeah, he'sperfect. It's a way. It's a
win forrest club situation, isn't itlike following into something by accidental? Oh

(34:46):
yeah, Jesus Christ. And thenlike the bizarrest when you go for those
ads and you're all sitting there fillingout for him, and you know,
ninety eight percent of the leads andyou're all comics kind of going right right,
yeah, we're all white, whiteIrish guys. Yeah, I know.
I remember doing an add once castingand this guy guarded who I doe

(35:08):
and he and the ads as agreat money gig. And then this is
like, honestly, this can betwenty years ago now and the gigs are
one of the islands are An islands, and they had to go over.
I don't even know what the aldalwas. Well he was he was in
the fight the night before and actuallyand he rived the breezes of his face

(35:30):
and everything like that. I thinksomebody else what bits, Yeah, yeah,
but it's it's it's funny how likeit's the softest number you'll ever get,
like an ad like but yeah,I did. I've done a couple
of ads, but there's always onlytiny little bits. But I never forget
because I've worked in horrible jobs,like hard out, sore and cold jobs.

(35:53):
Yeah, I'll never forget. Thiswoman she was the agency or whatever.
She was so delighted. She goes, I got you into this ad.
They really like you. That isa few now she didn't never mentioned
she got a rake of people intothis ad. It was an ad for
Guinness. She just now, likeyour man likes to lucky, all right,
And it basically if you end upbeing the featured guy. And this

(36:14):
basically comes down to just editing inthe end, like it's if you're the
featured guy, there's ten granded thisfatime it's like fuck a lovely. So
we were all kind of lined upat the bar. It was this guy
was he was a Canadian. Thecamera oh like the elbow and going on
from everybody like, but it waswe were all kind of lined up,
but your man was going along andhe was just this felam made such a

(36:35):
who have about a very basic fuckingthing, like and it had all been
done before what he was doing,but he made it sound artistic. He
was there with the index. Youknow, they're making the fucking square and
the ad it got shot or whatever. We would you weren't to find out
for two weeks and you want rangme like damn near in tears because she
was so sad and upset for me. I said, what is it?

(36:58):
She's like you. We were sureyou were going to be the feature,
but your man just didn't like yourface in the end. Wow. Yeah,
she didn't have to say it,but I kind of went, oh
okay, but I kind of figuredthe fucker didn't like my face the way
he was looking at me. Hedidn't like the head on me, I
think. Yet one point I overheardhim say, your man's forehead is too
square, which is to be fairto the man, he's fairy like,

(37:22):
like if he said something like opinionbased, the fact is there is corners
on my head. So I justkind of went with it. But it
was when your one went yeah,the only pay five quid. Yeah,
I know the churches. Yeah,yeah, this is class. I was

(37:45):
in loads of actions for that,Like you know, I was in an
actual voter phone where I had todress up as a builder and all I
had to do was walk from oneside of the room to the other,
and it was I got like onehundred and yeah yeah yeah, but had
nothing to do, like I wasjust drinking coffee all day, having shots,
you know. And I did anad for Budweiser and it was actually

(38:07):
I turned up when I was tooyoung. I was too young to be
in it. But they they justhad one around it and drank coffee anyway,
and they sent up paid for it. It was cast like, so
I paid for literally doing nothing.Like you know, remember they meet your
at. This is gasts. Youremember that there's a meet your at.
This is another twenty years ago.Now it needs to be a brunette and
a blonde haired lady. And thenthere were the two people in all the

(38:28):
ads and like this. There's thisone specific ad where the whole group text
was becoming very popular in the poeand they were trying to promote they were
trying to promote the restaurant to packetand then they arrived, they sat out
of the text and by the timethey ride to the restaurant, all their
friends were in the restaurant already.That's how popular meter was. That's that's
the whole ad. And so Iwas in that. I was was,

(38:52):
I got a clear but I was. I was sitting on the table like
they had been sitting on the table, as if I'm on the date.
But this girl was completely like outof my league, you know what I
mean, like like stony didn't makesense a totally. So it's like wotching
my counselor or something. And thenit was so funny most and I got
more attention on the that than thespar out because I was. I remember

(39:15):
to be football matches and calls andI've been there watching the match with my
brother and the big streams, bigCeltic Tiger screams and pubs, and and
then and then that would come on, and then only beyond it, I
don't beyond it for like five secondsat the very end, you know,
swided at these two girls and thewhole public and start clapping like the bother.

(39:37):
It's also the yeah, well don'ttread you're loaded now, and then
we asked the revised the drink withoutyour her money. You know, all
this kind of crack. So whatyou got for today for hanging around?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'vedone. I don't add and I remember
I do. I did a TVshow. It was so fake. It

(39:58):
was about ghosts and it was supposedto huntings, and I think I kind
of lost the remit somewhere. Iwas just being me and kind of pulling
the piss a bit. But itwas I was supposed to be in character,
and it was supposed to be adocumentary. It was a documentary and
they shot it very well. Wewent down to off this all. I
kept on forgetting that I was supposedto be serious. Oh I was.

(40:22):
I was just to be I wasto be Toma mahoney. But brought along
really into ghosts and stuff like that, and I really wanted to go to
the experts, but I kept on. I literally turned into a fucking teenager.
I kept on going we've ever seena sexy ghost, you know,
saying stupid sit And they left itin because they were obviously stuck for content

(40:45):
like it just but the weird thingwas that it was just stupid shit.
I remember event he was so serious, the guy, he was so into
it. I never forget and Icouldn't believe they left it in virgin made
it like and I could driving upalong or whatever he was, and it
was all, you know, mysticalmusic playing. I said something about,

(41:06):
wow, that's a really like wewere pulled up to the off the salt.
It's fucking huge. He said,well, guys, this one's gonna
be a big one. Because I'mfive. I would that's who she said,
just like a bank. I couldn'tbelieve it. They didn't put it
out there, kept stop and nobodyleft in the car either. But like

(41:31):
I think they did the cutaway ofthe two in the bank from like ten
minutes previous. So was utter silencelike it was, I remember, I
remember, I don't remember. Iremember when I was in first class and
I went to boarding school in Calvinand it was it wasn't like a post
school at all, Like the priestspaid for the electricity, and and so

(41:51):
we paid for food. The educationwas free, and they couldn't even afford
the people's in the face out theborders. And remember the first night,
Julie, it needs to be thiswranking sound that you do with your cheek
like this. Remember that he didit off into a joke. I'm sure
remember this guy, Vincent Free hewas one. Said I didn't know that.

(42:14):
Well, I was night now,good night now Vincent, yeah night,
and then jokingly like this wasn't doingit for ten seconds like like that
right then he stop right and nohe didn't laugh. And I'm like,
oh god, he actually teach somewanking. He actually sad some wanking nights,
you know. And I don't know. I don't know should I bring
it up with him. I don'tknow who should bring it up. Remember

(42:35):
I'll sit aside for breakfast next morning. And I know I wasn't liking that
night. I wasn't doing that withstupid joke. SILS horribly wrong. Put
you to line the bed for thewhole night, gone shit, exactly.
I just gotta tell everyone. Ijust gonna tell everyone now, ship see

(42:57):
you guys, Why why sent youto board school wasn't. I don't know.
My dad went there and my unclewent there with two uncles and but
I don't know. I don't knowwhy I tell you trade. I think
she won. My parents sent melike the summers to sent me to each
them and then like they send meto like boarding skills. I was already
at home like you, there's alwaysother people looking after me and there's something

(43:19):
something, it's a problem child.And it was cheaper. It was cheaper
that actually cheap was in that schoolthan the houses at home, Like oh
yeah, it's not so so Idon't know, Like I sort of like
just three hours study every night.Looking back, Yeah, I should be
a doctor. Now what do theydo for those three always like study on
a Saturday? I don't know,just looking at the window, Like remember

(43:45):
one nurse. That was the funniestthing it was you'd have two hundred lads
two fifty looking in the same directionwith their and a winter's night. You
know these kind of skills are they'rekind of they're cliometer out in their own
fields arounded by trees. Yeah,you know those kind of buildings. The
principle came in and he says thatthere's a guy in the fuse sports,

(44:07):
so there's going to be an electricitycutch for half an hour, for half
a minute, thirty seconds and soand then he roked away and then maybe
time minutes later the place just wentblack like you couldn't see a chain because
it's so old country and I swearto go for those thirty seconds like it
was surfergally the fittest. It's thefunniest thing out for Like it was just

(44:29):
I've never seen so much chaos inthirty seconds of like do you know lads
and the headlocks and lads starting ontop of their lads on the top of
their darts, a lighters banging theirbanging their feet and then you know,
lads getting the hit and then youknow when the lights came back on,
which just went But it was sofunny and stupid, like you know,

(44:49):
being like those chaos literally in literallyless than less than towards half a second,
you went furl and tward lord ofthe flies, like that's apocalypse time,
lads, fine people are people werewaiting for the word targets going on
and that like goes off. I'mgonna get that ladder, you know,
I'm gonna knock on the black ofthe head and stuff like that. So

(45:10):
and and the supervisor quiet, quiet, quiet, like he had no hope.
You know, it was nothing.It was the telling stuff to be
watching in the evening. What yeah, there's a TV room, so like
so we'd all sit and watch thesame TV, which was which is so
annoying because because on a Saturday,study would start. So study was started

(45:34):
half five, the first hour ofhalf five the half sticks and Baywatch,
but started record of House five.So we had like we had like ten
minutes of Baywatch before we all hadto go to the study hall. And
it was never you ever started Baywatch. It was always like a fucking a
music video or something like that studywall plug. People said, oh god,
this is just a taser completely likethat's been throwing each other. So

(46:15):
coming back on, like you've gotJulia the headlock because like their old friend
no only bit of crack. Theyhad the notion that you had the first
ten minutes to bay watched five minutesunder need the fucking started it, and
heaven forbid, like the opening sceneis like two criminals cracking into something because
they're like I don't need to seemore, or the son. Did you

(46:36):
ever did you ever hear your man? Your man is an incredible story,
you know, the son, Mitch'sson and whole. Yeah, the most
mental if you look for his There'sa guy called Andy Rope. He's a
great podcast and he's got just youknow, X S as he's got he
has this this guy on looks nothinglike just got a big beard. Now.

(47:00):
So when he went off the blackI think it was the black haired
guy, the original, but likethis guy he was saying, it was
just the most bizarre type. Likehe was there on set like the ones,
like the the actresses would flash himfor the crack. Like when he
was maybe twelve, he says,Jesus Christ, I was driven around the

(47:20):
fucking bend like and then he justbefore you know what, you're fifteen and
you're allowed into clubs because it's justthe biggest show in the world. He
like he was on Heroin. Hehomeless. Yeah, and now he's like
yeah, yeah, like any themoney. He's talking about blowing and stuff
like that. But it's just andhe was a counselor. He goes right
this morning, it's like late lastnight. She actually went with a mother

(47:44):
to meet her son in the localjail, like at four in the morning.
Like, but the stories that gofrom that lifestyle. But I mean
probably carlates with yourself in you know, in Cavn at the time. I
would take everyone. Now, let'sjust to get through this one, this
study. Like, but the notionI don't know, like the notion of

(48:07):
sending the young flow way to boardingand not seeing him. But no,
I don't. I think we're probablygot home. We were getting home every
weekend because couldn't afford The first twoyears we stayed in every second weekend,
right and after that we got homeevery weekend. You couldn't aford peoples in
for the weekend, so it wasit would fly, you know. I

(48:29):
suppose I like the notion we couldkeep us in like you were, you
were wild heard of young fullis justkeep you held in for the weekend.
Yeah, they the Tommy showed becausethis is the one one everybody brings up.
Do you know who's coming on orhave you find out it around I
find out like we start filming inaround seven, yeah, and I'll find

(48:50):
out around half five, six quarterssix, right, yeah, I mean,
and I won't I won't be incontact with Tommy at all. I
hid him and let a quick chatand then he stays in the same room.
You know, we get to makeup. Was closed all brought to
him and just moved that at road. But you know I've got my own
room thankfully, and that you know, I put the suit on them when
I got to make up sometimes likeI you know, I lost the U.

(49:13):
It's funny, like a play agame with the with the producer.
We'll go who is it and thenlike I'll Din says yes or no,
and I'll always go like is ita man? Yeah, Paul mescal though
and so and then but Jillian,you'll find out as well before you ask,

(49:35):
Like I know you've got to makeup and have sex. We're gonna
have to make up. It wouldalways happen, and I gave you and
Burnley decide you to see the side. You get this make up done and
you're like that Land. That Land'snot you know, doing mass for someday
morning, like you know what Imean, like cool? How or you
think Keen was amazing like I couldn'tbelieve it, like when it's only Roy
Keene like so, you know,but for me, like Steve Colgan,
that was unbelievable. You yeah,you know, I don't. You can

(50:00):
go out of my way like I'llmeet the guest I'll meet tomorrow. I
can like Neil Hannon from the VineCounty. You know, I decided that
it's on my love the mis.Yes, so that was kind of cool.
And you know, like Michael deHigans. So there's just just like
you know what. The other thingas well, I feel like I have
to kind of keep it the samewell interested all mental for Roy King,
Roy King, you know what Imean. A lot of the time,

(50:24):
you know, I'm introducing people whomight have you see, I can't say
too much. I can't give toomuch because then told me, if I
laugh, then Tommy Loads the comedianyou know, comedian anywhere, you know,
So it's uh, why somebody's gotthe mencia or fucking Altzheider's or Parkinson.
So you know you have to bekind of me, won't you.

(50:47):
But but the other thing is Ido much more than what you see on
the team television. I know,I know a lot of people, a
lot of people think my home timeto be a cross border too much.
But Jazz, you have it handy, don't. Yeah, And that birth
say, because I knew the worldwork as well. You know, look

(51:08):
I meet the guests, you kindof talk to yourself and just to just
to make them feel comfortable and inlockdown, I know those targets to stop
it forwards I had. I feltso guilty because I had a lot of
permission to lead carry to do theTommy Jourdan show. And this wasn't the
high this isn't something. This isthe best bit. So you know,

(51:30):
I drove and it was like,oh, like my start was only four
months old, so it's like inthe Disneyland, do you know what I
mean? Like just those nights andnights away life and it was but i'd
meet the subbing closed you see thatyou never have to start the guards and
the limit ground about like the guard. The cards in front to me,
the reasons why they were driving wereso different. To me, I felt

(51:51):
so guilty. Like the first cardwere like the first card like, oh,
I'm delivering this blood to their children'shospital, crumming, all well done,
You're you're a wonderful person. Beforethe front line stop of land and
then the second person be like,I'm delivering these gallons of oxygen to their
old folks hospice and from count World, done World, I come along and
I'm like, I pulled the curtaintwo jobbies might do like Arl needs me,

(52:15):
needs me and the guy break.Oh you're a wonderful front line staff.
I felt so guilty about it,but I was lucky to have it.
Yeah, do you don't much likeyou'd be Yeah, I can see
how you'd be great at TV warmup, Like it can be a thankless
job, all right, because you'veprobably done a bunch of shows like,

(52:37):
but I think so much easier todo than others. And like when I
did I used to do the RepublicItalian it was it was incredible fun.
Now Podgon rog Yeah, and thatwas a great great crack, you know,
the me that so years ago Idid. I did the Late Late
Show and it was ugly starting offwith a friend of mine got me the

(52:58):
gig and the strange to late PolardGrady was there as well. He was
lovely, he was very encouraged.He spoke away to me and Tom Jones
and said, to be read,it was an amazing night like and and
and I found I wasn't ready forit, you know what I mean.
I just wasn't as the young lad. You know, I'm not not not
not not the new with age,but I just had at no stage time
behind me or anything. We're gonnaspontaneously hoping for the best. So but

(53:20):
the Tommy Shows a dream because I'mkind of in the middle. I do
warm up on the start, butthen I'll go out in the middle of
it when they're coming back from thetoilet and I kind of equipment of the
process because the roll back to thetoilets because they don't be made fun of.
Yeah, you're literally making fun ofpeople, right and that whoever wants
to buy me bang bang bang.It was gonna make street performance beautiful,
I guess, you know, likethat kind of crack, and it's so

(53:42):
it's it's awful crack. You know, it's a joke. You see,
you're established now, is like you'reestablished. Everybody knows, like, aside
from everybody knowing Fred Cook, it'sthe Tommy Show. And you know what
I mean, it's stiff. It'salmost like dy to to Con O'Brien in
a way, like he comes outwith zingers and you're like your persons.
But as you know, it's notthe Tommy I can just hang you know
what I mean, and like Iwon't take over, you know what I

(54:05):
mean? Like that's those those thosethe feeling and yeah I would Tommy.
It's all ultimately, it's all aboutthe beauty and the engine. It shows
the power conversation. Yes, andyou know so you kind of and like
at the early days, I guessTommy had to fight to make the show
simple and effective, you know,like because it's kind of a place for
public Attenny and he's like, youknow, so it would have been you

(54:28):
have to fight it. It's almostlike about whacky or something like this,
and it wasn't you know what Imean, it was it was a simple
chat. And Joe needs to bethe sketch group on it as well,
who are great, like the Gustabrothers as well, but the clear and
it just got more simple, moresimple and now like they just have a
perfect life. So it's it's it'swhen it's TV, I understand, you
see, you can understand TV comedianwarm up for the Tommy Show for yeah,

(54:52):
and then late lead could be abit of a sticky one even with
with watch, but I remember Idid a few but and the last one
I did was for the cutting edge. Yeah, and this comedy, This
comedy had no place in this They'renot there for they absolutely, we're not
there for me, like and Iused to do a bit about it and

(55:15):
how Brentan O'Connor actually went out andaddressed them first, so he was the
guy that they were all hot for, like, and they've clearly come from
misery and I swear and this iswhere where you're talking about the kid with
a portion of chips and they aboard, he says. So we'll be covering
two major subjects to night. AndI'm standing. I'm standing to the side
and for anybody wonder what it's like. You literally walk out of this big

(55:37):
flat floor where it's brightly lit,and all the people they've come to see
and this this this stage and setthat they've come to see behind where you've
been standing. So there's it's notlike a stage curtain where that's that you
know, not And O'Connor comes outand this is we'll be talking about assisted
suicide. I'm looking around, ofmy fucking god, and it's all it

(56:00):
seems to be all old ones inthe audience and they're loving it because they're
like, yeah, I've thought,yeah, this is a great this is
gonna be a great night. Andthen he drops it. He says and
abortion, and they were like,yes, oh fucking tank, Yes this
is two singers, but this isbut first we're gonna have this. We're
gonna have this. Fella. Heactually called me this fella, tell you,

(56:22):
tell you a few jokes and nah, I'm like, oh my god,
and I like and it was that'sunbelievable. And how long did you
have to do? I was supposedto do ten? Right, I'm supposed
to do just do ten minutes,which is grand, but we're talking seconds
before O'Connor walked out. Your man, the producer turns around, this can

(56:44):
you do about four and a halfto four and forty five? Went,
what the fuck does that mean?How? How do I possibly? What
do I do with that? LikeI'm not a one liner? Like yeah,
And then you tried to talk tothem and none of them, Like
the thing is, none of themlook any different, you know, when
you're you're having the banter with theaudience walking back in and they're like,

(57:04):
oh, there she is now withthe red hair, fair plater, you
know, or lovely lovely shoes Ihave a pair of him myself. They
all look like the same person.There's no cloud work to be done here
either, because even if you look, none of them want to talk to
me. They're all literally looking overmy shoulder at smart people checking their notes
and I'm talking about the artist andfucking a Oh my god, this is

(57:29):
horrendous. But I can see howlike then I see the likes of like
Quinnans and on the edge of thescanner show absolutely makes sense. She's thrown
out three bars the chocolate to people. It's like, yes, this all
makes perfect sense because it's it's slightharder than absolutely. I guess that's the
way you want, isn't it?Like yeah, God, I can't remember.

(57:52):
I remember doing I used to workon the Rugby Show and just doing
the warm up and I did abit of TV shlf out as well,
and as surprise, that's what todo because I have the too Rugby.
You know, look, I haven'tnot just that, but the show will
go out live. But something hasme out. Once I did forty five
minutes before the show happened, fourto five minutes. I was just interacting

(58:12):
in chapter fourty five minutes and thenjust because they were so late getting stuff
ready that had me out there,you know what I mean. And the
show, this one wasn't live,but it was recorded as live. So
I did forty five minutes and thenthe show was twenty minutes. That's what
they got the audience. So peoplewere like, this is just like the
Friend Cook Show for forty five minutes. And the problem was it went okay,

(58:35):
went grand because you're just kind ofyou're just you're connected off and you
know, you're just fighting for anythingto you got to get it working like
and but then I came back thenext week and it's exact same people exactly
incredly there Philippi at this stage like, yeah, you've burned through forty five
minutes. Oh Jesus, yeah yeah. But it like, in all fairness,

(58:55):
the comedy should should work. Butit's like I said that Barron in
the Glen Eagles that night, comedationjust won't work in places. The only
time it never works is when it'swhere it should never be. Nobody wrong,
it's just a situation. I won'tkeep here for too much stuff,

(59:17):
but I wanted to know, likeyou're how you felt, and I want
to put I want to put FredCook in the school that Enoch work was
hanging around outside. I want becauseyou have an unbelievable memory for your time
at school. But if you're inthat boarding school right, thank Gavin and

(59:38):
Enoch, how you name it,hopefully enoing not expect the fucking bed results.
Like but like, what what's yourtake on, sir, Sir Hanger.
I think he's got I think Iactually think he's just It's problem is
he just loves school. He lovesit too much. I'd say, I'd
say the last the last day offine, the last day. I was

(01:00:00):
finally leaving a certain exam. Everyonewas walking out the door, and he's
like, I'm just gonna hang outin the canteen for a few more weeks.
It's going to be closed. Alook and I look at the fish.
I'll stop the fridge something. It'sa complete opposite to me when it
comes to you know, it islow for school. Like I'm actually saying

(01:00:22):
recently that the geographer teacher asked mewhat's the capital of Jordan? And I
said Jay. But you know whatthough it all fair, yes, okay,
as a geographer teacher, I'd haveto I'd have to tip my cap
to that moment like for a secondago that's that's yeah, anyway to the

(01:00:43):
next lad, because there's be nopoint in going back to you because to
be fair, you own the roomand you crushed with that line like you
know what I mean, there's nolike the last thought me, the serious
that I'd say, my hitnish teacherwas still like it we're making great point.
Yeah, but I still have igineyou standing up and taking about like
oh yeah it's yeah. God,I only wish we had an enoch work

(01:01:10):
in the school I went to,like it was rough as folk. Like
it was like if you were,if you were a week a person of
weak temperament in our school, youjust got eaten alive. Like if if
it wasn't by us, it wasby the lads who actually did bite people.
You know. There was a wholeclassic yeah yeah head low like you
weren't. Confidence didn't flourish, no, no, like it was just kind

(01:01:35):
of I was saying that the friendof mine as well, like schooling now
and like lads will just give youdead arms and stuff. Was there were
a place I'll finding you are indeveloping back the best That was the thing,
Like it was I thought I rememberthat, like it was like lads
fucking slap and sunburn on the backof your neck and cheat. Yeah,

(01:01:58):
if somebody did the things lads didto each other now as adults, likes
like exactly into the wheely bin,which come here, you're coming down as
part of the tour the right saidFreddie tour. You're coming down to us
in care I can't wait. It'sthe same place around twelve years ago.

(01:02:22):
No it's not, it's not,it's not it's up the road. This
is a proper comedy club, comedycomedy. Yes, this is this is
uh No that was yeah, thatwas the hotel up the road. No,
this is going to be the thisis the they given my own club.
Basically, this is fantastic. It'sit's fucking amazing. Put in proper

(01:02:43):
stage, curtains, stage and everything. It's a proper And they're to say
that these are your kind of people, Fred, but no, but you
know, like they're they're nearly likethey live in the present more than city
folk to a degree. You know, Like I saw, like Deater was
down last month and I saw agear, a gear that I did I

(01:03:06):
just had never seen from from deadbefore she went into an overdrive. She
nearly blew the fucking mic and likeit was in incredible just because she was
just in feeling the moment, likedo you know when she went down?
Yeah yeah. And it's such avariance of the audience. You're going to
absolutely I can't waiting to be clips. Yeah yeah Jesus, yeah we will.

(01:03:30):
But where where else are you gotwhere else? Because I know it
didn't even sell out or we're justyeah, well there's thereund tent tickets left
right now. Yeah. Yeah,so that's a that's a that's swarm light
and uh and then do as well. And I'm also Cavalism port Leash class
and the town Hall and goal class. Yeah yeah, yes they so they

(01:03:52):
and whence they the Dolins one becausethis will go out on Friday morning.
Oh it's a it's a June ohgrand perfect stuff, right, I mean
people will be well able to getticket. I'll put up any any ticket
links and all the rest of itin the hospital. But Fred has always

(01:04:13):
this is see next week exactly seeit. Yeah, it literally gets to
see you next week. Yeah,we have an absolute glass Fred Cook,
thank you very very much. You'reall good look and thank you very much
to Fred. Fred. Like Isaid, there's a couple of tickets left
for Fred on the twenty ninth,he's coming to the Hill Comedy Club and

(01:04:34):
he is on the road of courseas well. And if you look down
below, I will have put alink to tickets and whatnot you can get
to see for his brand new show. But he is going to be doing
it as the Hill Comedy Club onthe twenty ninth, so I would I
would have you there's a handful oftickets left. I think there's about twelve
tickets left or something like that.Until we start pushing out walls and stuff,

(01:04:55):
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the last time for last month fortheater, so it could be something similar
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