271 - Chris Kent - Cork Pod Festival

The always tremendous Chris Kent joined me for a live pod for The Cork Podcast Festival at the CoCo Club.

(The sound isn't hectic but I cleaned it up as best I could (it was their tech not mine)


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Episode Transcript

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Well, what's the crack everybody?How you getting on? Welcome to another
episode of The Tumba Man Show.It is Friday, the second of September.
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all free. So moving on totoday's guest. Of course you know who
it is. It is my veryvery very very good friend, Chris Kent.
We were gigging three times together overthe weekend. This was just one
of them. It was great crack. As part of the Cork Podcast Festival,

(02:51):
Sounds started going all over the placeat certain times, but I'm after
getting it pretty much consistently right.So I wasn't in charge of it.
I brought my own gear. I'mjust saying I wasn't in charge of it,
but still all the same with greatcrack, big getting of people showed
up. It was absolutely beautiful tosit back and enjoy the live podcast with
Chris Kent's the host on the Tomo'money Show, Tom oh money, Oh

(03:20):
Harry y'all, Thank you all,thank you very much, thank you very
much they're having played to you ona Friday. Even give yourself a run
of aplause. Everybody, very welcometo of course the Tom Omney Shows part
of the Court Podcast Festival. I'mTom O'manney because that will be fucking weird
if I was somebody else, butfair play a team. If if it's
a brand new and you haven't heardof the podcast before and you becoming because
of the guests, that's completely understandable. Doesn't rake of episodes there, so

(03:44):
go have a listen if you want. There's all it's all the kind of
shite you're about to see, andI think Chris shows up about seventeen times
during it. So without any furtherado, would you please welcome to the
stagement of the finest gentlemen I knowfrom car and from anywhere in the country.
It's Chris Kent. Everybody. Thereyou are, Bye, there you

(04:05):
are, there, you are,you go, There we go. Fantastic
stuff, fantastic stuff. As wesaid we would, we wouldn't do any
crowd work because people are We allcame up right up the front, fair
fucking lady. But don't worry,don't worry. You can just watch in
as we we chat aways each other. So hey, thank you very very
much for coming. Thanks thanks forhaving Tomas again. I'm sure look at

(04:28):
look at all. Look at this. That's a pro outfit. Now that's
a pro outfit. Yeah. Hello, there we are. We're back on
fast smooth altogirl. Isn't it thejeez? How long it's at fourteen years
since we met each other first andnever once had a fallen out. No,
no, And that's odd things forcomedy. You don't realize that is
an odd thing for comedians to neveronce have a single block of fallen out.

(04:51):
Yeah, fourteen years. Would itbe crack house back into the crack
house, back in the genuinely.There was a comedy club that we well
I cut my teeth for in aplace called the Crackhouse, was in the
park. It was called LV overthe curtain strick curtain strip, you remember
it. You go there, noway, that's where you watch gigs.
They're like, you're two, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my older

(05:15):
sister shouting over there by the way. That's there was there was a breakdancing.
Okay, all right, I'd feelfucking secondary now we started just telling
dick jokes in the back of theLV. But in all fairness, and
this is for the insight when yougo in long distance drives with people comedians

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and there's a lot maybe there's probablyeighten on the scene that the first thing
you sit in, you literally sitinto the car and they don't say hello,
they don't say gee's class With along fucking drive, the first thing
that goes, do you know who'sa count? Yeah? And Chris Kent
has never once come up ever.I'm bet I have I bet I have
a Chris Kent. You've stayed betweenthe ditches. Yeah? Is it a

(06:03):
kind of an undertone of fear youthink you put in people? Or yeah,
are you genuinely sound. I hopeit's a bit of boat. I
don't know, I don't know.I'm just I'm happy. I'm happy.
No one thinks I'm a count,that's great. But I think someone does
out there all for sure, forsure, I mean statistically, somebody does.

(06:23):
My mother's caught me a count afew times. Don't worry. The
world is going to keep being saidthroughout the hour. But you're just back
from Edinburgh. You're like, you'reone hundred and fifteen, time in Edinburgh
at the Fringe Festival. Yeah,good time, this time, great time,
great time generally Edinburgh Festival. Yeah, yeah, it's brilliant. Yeah,
it's I was there. I dida half to run this time,

(06:44):
I'm done a half at next chair, like I'm warming up. I'll take
a half an now and a halflater, just to get myself back into
it. Like, so what wasthe top because typically you are mister Edinburgh
like, you'll do the full monthanybody wanted. Like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
it's comedians take a show over andrun it every single fucking day and
they come back and it's Polish andit's ready to take on tour. Back
in the home country, but youwent two weeks. Do you bring the

(07:05):
family and never in this time?Yeah, mister family, ys bring him,
always bring him, I'd say,I don't say in Edinburgh, lest
they outside of Edinburgh place called dumbBlaine family or every day because the first
couple of years in Edinburgh took avery seriously fear seriously altogether. It's just
in there living with other comedians,no offense, like but fuck me,
living with other comedians. How's yourshow? How's your show? It never

(07:27):
stops? Twenty four seven comedy Likeyou know, I know over here talking
about comedy now, but do youknow what I mean? Like it never
and it's hard. It's you're ina bubble. You're walking down the street
as post as everywhere of all theother comedians. And I love Edinburgh,
but the whole fucking all the comedians, it gets a bit, It gets
a bit much like yeah, noI get people send him after this.

(07:50):
Yeah, hell, I lived withhim. He was sound for a month,
sick. I was sound. Butit's just it is hard, man,
because when I was drinking over thereas well, you're drinking a lot,
You're having a great time, havinga party. You know what I
mean, but it's rich with thefamily. Then you're like, fucking,
I'll take a handylight. You gotto keep it on top because you famously
got an awful dose of Edinburgh.Yeah, one time I did. For

(08:11):
anybody who's wondering, is that myI can hear my sister over there louder
than anybody else. Now she she'sa lecture. She chew you out of
it now talking at the bee.So she shouldn't know better. I know
what she should summer holidays, that'swhat happens. But for anybody who's never
heard of the story of your doseof Edinburgh, and dose of Edinburgh is

(08:31):
a real thing, like yeah itis, yeah, and you caught a
fair fucking bed I did, yeah, But I mean it is a fair
thing. But people that have realjobs like it's nuttingt. It's like people
to be going on. It's reallyhard. Yeah, I have to do
Edinburgh. I have to do agig every day for an hour, like
people people have got jobs they dotwelve hours a day on the building site.

(08:52):
And I've been to those people aswell, you know what I mean.
So it's hard. But also it'shard the more seriously to take it
the harder it is, and Itook it very seriously the first couple of
years. That's why it's hard.Whereas now I don't care. I'll just
go on and do it. Ihave a great time, a family holiday,
doing stuff with the kids, justbeforehand going do the gig come up?
That's all their control off is doingthe gigs, having a laugh,

(09:13):
do you know what I mean?Like, so there's no point in getting
wrapped up with everything else. Butwhat is it brings on Edinburgh? Because
I've got a bit of a doseof it the first year as well.
It's it's it's a stress well Igot the mumps, but it was Edinburgh.
I was mixed in with Edinburgh,like you know. But what brings
it on is you're in small,sweaty, horrible rooms. People sweater up

(09:33):
and off the ceiling. There's there'stwenty fucking you know what I mean,
they shoulders going on a day insideyour room alone. They're shaking hands with
everyone, You're you're mixing a lotor Edinburgh is kind of a grimy fucking
place anyway, and then people arejust getting stressed out because they're working too
hard. And then and then everyonejust gets sick. So that's it.

(09:54):
So Edinburgh missed your and August LEDs. I would have told people to actually
go to your show, but somemoney down, go go go to the
tour because it's finished then and it'sgreat to the tour where great money is
going to be made exactly exactly.But you're like, Rack costs your money,
by the way, so that's maybeyeah, do go do go?
Actually, yeah, Edinburgh costs him, like the comedians are the only people

(10:16):
and then but they don't make money. I don't know if anyone knows this,
but they're the only people over therethat don't want to make any money.
Like, you know, you'd bevery lucky to make money over there,
as you know, it's not.Some people come home in fifteen grands
worth of debts because they believed theiragent. Their agents said okay, their
agents at okay, mate, I'lltell you what we need. We need
seventy five thousand joint posters. Don'tworry. We look after it. But

(10:39):
by what they say they look afterthis is we're going to charge you as
soon as the month has finished fifteenthousand pounds for posters like and You're white?
Would you ever pay fifteen thousand poundsfor posters to get posters put up.
You're playing in a thirty seater venue. If you set it out every
fucking day, you may have paidfor two posters, you know what I
mean. Yeah, but you needto be seen, you need to be

(11:01):
fucking and they'll they'll get we needto pay our company. That's another five
grand. And they're all like kindof And I know loads of people as
those comedians I know, and they'restill did this day. They're in debt
because they did Edinburgh once or twicewith a big company and there came home
twenty five grand in debt. Honestly, God, no mental money. Someone
said to me twenty five I swearsomeone said to me they were going I'm

(11:22):
doing Edinburgh, and they were like, I think I got a good deal.
If I sell all my tickets that'sone hundred percent of tickets for this
is twenty eight days in a row. I'll only owe them five grands keeping
them there. At that sentence wasI think I got a good deal,
and I think he did compare tosome people. But I don't pay for
any pr, any post or anythinglike that. I'd just go there to

(11:43):
try and hit a show and doyou know what I mean, get people
in myself and the reality of itis if you were going their business minded,
it's the worst idea of business minded, like a fucking ridiculous the ten
thousand other committee comedians selling the sameshit. Yeah, new Land ongoing A
mine is different, nine is differentto be perfect. Yeah, but you
because you like I saw you puta post off the other day and this

(12:05):
is kind of the It's hilarious likethe Rise and Rise of Chris Kent.
I mean people, now you're playingmy club tomorrow night. We're like a
comedy couple. We played where allBlarney last night, we're here tonight.
We're back in all the fucking allthe highlights by Blarney care Care and the
one in the one year, likefucking hell in the one weekend ma I
mean, it's the bogus of SouthTipperary and to slow down sort it doesn't

(12:30):
get much more rock and roll thanthat, doesn't where we're going to snort
and coke off the band tractor.So it's going to be on Saturday.
It's it's hilarious that I talk withpeople now and they're like, I'm that
huge fucking Chris kind of fan andyou're Chris Kent fan. I'm done you
only are you sure there were?I'm like, when did you? When
did you last? I've never seenhim, yeah, never seen him and

(12:52):
they talk like surely just came onthe scene. I'm like, mother fuck,
he's been doing this for He's beenclass forever. Yeah, there's this
ridiculous notion of the overnight success thatpeople think you are. It's like you
joking me, I'm doing it eighteenyears or something, nineteen years or nineteen
five years, something like that.What age am I now? Yeah?
Nineteen years, eighteen years. Yeah, so it they'll give her take an

(13:15):
overnight success. So but it soundsof things. Yeah, yeah, we
were taking old pandemic like you know, would you cousin? You know it's
there, might like it should inthe bed now as well. We might
just Well. The great thing aboutcomedians we view great qualities. But when
tech shits debate, we just shout, it's this. It's embarrassing to show
up sometimes. If people could youwant to do a sound check and check

(13:35):
with owner, like does it isit on? We probably we probably should
have done a sound check, andnow thinking about it, I said no,
I needed a charger from my college. Sucked up for a charger.
I tried to do my best caraccident into that one. I fucking broke
it. That's what Yeah, yeah, right right, But instant that I

(13:58):
want to get to the quickly getsbecause we only got to chat briefly last
night. But when I get tothe bottom of how how did you?
How is that perception now in people'sheads, because I'm sure a lot of
people here, I like, giveme a cheer if you've known Chris for
more than ten years, cheer ifyou've known him for more than five years.
Okay, okay, so we've gotabout half the room and relatively recent

(14:20):
people. Yeah. So the riseand rise and something you never did,
and I took I took bright andthat I was like you that I didn't
do the sketch comedy thing I didbecause it didn't have it in me.
I didn't have the will nor wantto do it either. I just kept
on wanting to go, can Ido a stand up? And he just
fucking come see me. That's easy. Yeah, I'm no business acument when
it comes to it at all.Yeah, and you were kind of similar,
but then all of a sudden,like you put up a post the

(14:41):
other day saying you jacked your jobin a year ago, A year ago,
a year ago today, give uswell just about a year ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, shippingmyself. I was telling them about it,
but if it took me back afterten years, and I was like,
fuck, I don't know if Ican give up, and I'm no,
you're not. But I had tohave you think about that. You
go off, quit what you're doingright now, and you go off chase

(15:01):
the dream for ten years and thenall of a sudden, you go,
fuck, can I come back?Yeah? That's a literally need to go
back to him. Yeah. Theygave me back the job to be fair
to him. As the sparks,Yeah, fuck ten years old of a
buy and I'll gamp in and I'llgap in the CV. Let's say.
Even even as I said sparks there, I genuinely saw people's eyebrows raising,
going, I wonder what you wirethe extension at home? Yeah? Dad

(15:24):
will never leave, man, Idon't care how well the comedy goes.
I lamed some are, so I'llask me about a socket in the porch,
you know what I mean. Itwouldn't matter man, you could be
in the new horse of the latestand if you like, you know,
I was wanting to put a Christmastree in the porch. Actually, oh
god, there's a there's a theYeah, I have a job for him,

(15:45):
alright, Yeah, I have ajob for him, alright. Yeah.
And the people that pay you nothingas well. You know the people
that you're you're turning up with gearand everything and they're going thanks a million,
and they're just looking at you like, yeah, you're like, it
cost me to come here. Ibought I purchased the sockets and the cables.
She's just like telling job sending fivehours in your house. Thanks,
I know her mother. That's aboutit. Like you know what trans days

(16:10):
the microphone work? Which share amicrophone? Yeah, I don't know what's
in my voice. I'd say,we'll never go back to this club anyway.
Oh, I'm actually doing a spothere later on. Actually then the
club kicks off. What I wasgoing to get around to, what I
was trying to get to a longand short of was that, so you
jacked the job in a year ago. You've been at this eighteen years,
but still to this day only aquarter to the crowd probably have heard of

(16:32):
you beyond five year mark. Yeah, what was What the fuck did you
do in the last year that hasmade people now know how good of a
comedian you are and sell out yourfucking tour. If your tour is practically
sold out right now, what didyou do? What's the secret? I
hat given her the credit, andI'd never give her a credit to her
face. But it was actually mywife. She taught me. She taught

(16:53):
me to give up my work.She taught me give up the job.
She was there. Give it up, Chris, and put up a video
every single day. If you canput up all your fucking stand up online,
put everything up. And I didit when I put up videos every
single day for about a month anda half, and then I started getting
a bit of growth online. Soit was really knives. It's unto nath
Yeah you know, don't fucking tellher. I sat down, all right,

(17:15):
I'll never hear the end of it. Cloud so as it was our
genuinely, like I mean, Idid try, but I was always putting
no videos. But the way itstarted changing, No, like TikTok Man,
the Chinese God bless the Chinese.They're like you know, their algorithm
is like, we'll fucking show itto everybody, whereas before it was Facebook
and even if you have a thousandfollowers, oh, pay me money and
I might show at the fucking halfof them, you know. Of course,
TikTok then was like her, Look, I drove it on TikTok and

(17:37):
it was like, oh, fuckinghalf a million views in a day or
something like. I never got anythinglike that before, but TikTok. And
then Instagram and Facebook start a copyon TikTok, So that's kind of it
was a bit of ash the newsocial media platform. And I was also
a bit of like, it's definitelymy wife going give up the job because
I was Harry. Yeah, shewas like, give up the job.

(17:57):
At the same time, she waslike, if you're up the job,
your fucking comedies, your proper newjob, you're gonna launch into it and
do stuff every single day. Andthen that's what I've done, and I
kind of paid off new microphones.Are we back? We're back? Also
something that wanted bit a sell ittape on this one. Hold on,
I might need to sell it tabeone one seconds. You've got one fucking

(18:23):
paperweight you've got one microphone. Butyeah, that's what I'm go The sell
it tape didn't work leads. That'safficient comedy example as well. Fucking sticky
to I didn't work with all.It's a knives the tank suppose Yeah,
I mean fine Tipperary woman too fairblade work to be fair? Yeah,
yeah, the because in fairness youwent you went after whatnot? And like

(18:45):
has it been? Have you?Is it? What wasn't a moment when
it starts selling that what you went? Fucking right? Or right? Is
there a kind of an imposter syndrome? Keep going on? Absolutely no,
impossibly perfect? Fuck that long timecoming doing the twenty fucking years. Do
you know what I mean? What'sthe opposite of imposter syndrome? I don't
know. That's on what I have, you know what I mean? Like,

(19:07):
it's about fucking time. So butjoined it, like joined the lockdown
and all we were told we weren'tallowed to tell jokes ever again. Yeah,
and you went that was tough.That was tough. That's fucking tough.
And all of a sudden that onemorning, Yeah, we all had
one hundred gigs bulls or look Iwas fucking yeah, I was in England.
I was on my way to thetrain station. I was coming back
here to tour my future. Youremember the pandemic And I was in the

(19:30):
middle of a tour then, andI thought it was on the way up.
Like I mean, I had theevery man, I had Vicar Street.
There were big my big gigs,and I had another couple and I
was heading home. I was inDeffecting at the time. The whole talk
was anything over five hundreds being pulledas that was the room with time.
So I only had two gigs.Really, I thought I lose the two
of them and that's it, likeand then I was on my way to
I was living in London and Iwas on my way to I was in

(19:52):
the train station actually, and Leomade these little speech over and fucking Chicago
trap and next thing my age andtext means like there's no point coming home,
don't bother coming back. I was. I was flying to Ireland that
weekend for shows, and it waslike everything is pulled, and I was
like, ah, sure, I'dbe a week or two, and I
like, you know, before thisthing blows over. But I've been honest,
I fucking loved it. In thebeginning of the Corona thing. Oh

(20:15):
yeah, yeah, yeah great.At the beginning I started getting a bit
of money over there, and Iwas like kitchen, I was lovely,
sunny weather, are not working,loads of time with the family. But
then after a while it was like, fuck, it is this comedy shit
ever going to come back? Like, you know, so you go back,
you moved back to Ireland, moveback to Ireland, and then you
wind back the clock you become aSparks again. Yeah, ten years out

(20:38):
of it, man, let's say, six six months into being a Sparks
steady wage coming in, you're fightingfor every fucking penny invoicing people on a
weekly basis, fucking hunting, hustling. Yeah, you're actually now pay somebody's
giving you cash. Yeah for justshowing up to fucking work. Absolutely no
fighting for your money. Was therea moment where you're kind of gone,
that was nice? Fuck this?Sorry? Yeah, I have to say

(21:00):
no, that was nice. Also, I was very worried about going back
ten years out of the trade.Electrician is a fairly das trade as well,
Like there's a lot in it,like industry electrician and pharmaceuticals and stuff.
Film. I was really worried aboutit, and then I met some
of the fellas that never even gaveup, and they gave me hope again.
You know. They were coming upto me asking me questions, and

(21:22):
I was like, are you fuckingserious? Man? I was kind of
nervous, and I was like,holy fuck man, there's some bad fuckers
out there. I'm like, howare you alive? Would you not try
something else? You know, theseare qualified fellas. And I was like,
okay, I'm nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about. Was
there at a point at the sixyou need to actually start out this mike

(21:45):
if you wouldn't normal Now that's wire, that's that's not an electricians? Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, Ilove that. No, I don't see
a cable out of that. NotI can't start that song. Was there
a point at any stage sixty sevenmonths in you're gone, fuck it.
I could be all right if comedydidn't come back. Absolutely? Yeah,
yeah, both. I tell youwhat fucking it's when you get a bit

(22:07):
of comedy, then by a little, a little teas the comedy comedy by
when the virus started lifting and theyleft to start doing sneaky jokes gigs and
Carparks. Yeah, you think he'sjoking. You think he's joking, we'll
get rain. I remember being ina car apart with me and Dell and
my own callings up in the fuckingbeer garden. Could see my breath after

(22:30):
every punchline, you know what Imean, And I was like, this
is good, freezingly bollocks off,like you know, telling jokes. But
I was like, this is good, this is where it's at. I
don't mind. Actually, the bestthing I ever do was go back and
work as the Sparks because I loveI genuinely loved it, and it became
better at it as well. Iwent. I just learned more than the
two years there being the Sparks,and I did my whole apprenticeship. I

(22:51):
was just thrown into the deep endson all different jobs and I genuinely loved
it. But then comedy, I'dsay the differences. I'm passionate about comedy,
I like, you know, I'mnot passionate about conjut or game,
do you know what I mean?Like sockets, I don't mind it.
I like doing it. I getsome kind of enjoyment out of it.
But I genuine I love nothing morethan writing a brand new show having nothing.

(23:14):
For me, the biggest buzz ishaving zero, Like we've all had
this when they come back from Edinburghnow, you know, and you have
zero, You've nothing. And it'sa small of a different this year because
I'm going out on tour with thisshow. But normally you're nothing when you
come back, zero, no ideasand you but you also have an hour
show that works so well inside out, you know what inside out? You

(23:37):
know all the jokes, you're improvisingbits and everything, and you have nothing.
There's no bigger buzz than fucking juststarting again from zero and coming in
here, coming into car, cominginto the Coco Club, going around the
place, trying your little five minuteswriting down ideas and you're building and building
and building and building it and bringingit back to Edinburgh and getting out the
other side and then having another show, having another big hour at of something.
I just I get a great buzzout of that, Like evil,

(24:00):
isn't it? Like where the fuckdid that come from? Exactly? Yeah?
Did that come from? You know? Don't you know where they came
from? Fucking getting the train intoLondon, you know what I mean?
On a Wednesday night and to tryfucking three minutes and you end up forgetting
fucking two minutes of it. Andthey're going back on the train and going
I learned something. Anyway, Ineed to probably prepare a small bit more,
do you know. But that's wherethat's where it came from. I

(24:22):
think, where did it come from? It cames from like I'm doing all
I fucking you know, even overhere driving up the fucking Dublin to do
three gigs and one night when I'mtrying to write a show up, I'm
going from one club to the nextclub to the next club that I can
know, doing good, doing asmall bit better, and doing bad,
but do it all work? Yeah, Because that's the thing you can get
for the inside how jokes come aboutis exactly that is that you go,

(24:45):
this could be pure another shit,This could be pure another ship, but
it's fun inside my head right now, exactly. Try it and you go,
oh, right enough, that waspure shit? Ye yeah, yeah,
that was pure shit. Absolutely.Or you get you get spoiled in
a room like this, this isa gorgeous comedy club that or you come
in and you're trying a new bitand all of a sudden, I can
still hear you talking over there.Savon, Hey, I can still hear

(25:07):
you talking drinking. Is she olderthan you? Yeah, she's been drinking
since noon. It's okay, it'sall right. The gros, the kids
are in the car class. It'sfine. But the like the inside is
that is that you try it,and you try it and then you then
you get spoiled. Though the otherthe trick, the track that can happen

(25:29):
is you get spoiled. You cometo a room like this is everybody's actually
always in great form, and itreally put it on for the jokes.
They're like, like, I washere the last night, and I swear
there must have been a ladder,must be his first every time, either
out of the house or in acomedy club. But every time I hit
anything that was remotely funny, hegoes, come on, tom bye,
laughter, come man tom By.And I after a while I was like,

(25:52):
yeah, I am a fucking goodman, but I was I was
trying some new bits in between.I was going, fuck, that is
ready for the roads. But Iknow for a fact that ballot sent me
down in the fucking wrong way becausethey were all piping it. They were
all going, yeah, he's good. Yeah, he's right. Shouldn't hear
a fucking word hardly what I wassaid. Yes, I came away driving
up the road going, put thatone in the can with the other.

(26:15):
Forty five minutes we're ready to go. Not at all. I know for
a fact, if I tried againto night, somebody will go that could
have been better. You know.It's the joys and the thought. Yeah,
it is the joys when you craftthat bit out the other end.
But I love the notion that yousaid, there's you weren't passionate about sucking
being electrician. I love the notionof some Filippenis marks. Yeah, and
fucking loving that they're there? Arethey? Yeah, loads of and they're

(26:40):
amazing. They take such trying intheir work and they're quite fucking oh CD,
I would say about all things that'sgood for being electrician. I would
have been a little bit like thatabout things even still, no one,
I'm going backstage at gigs, man, I'm even this ship here now,
that's annoying the out of me,the way they ran the cables go there.

(27:00):
I'm gonna turn the camera around forthat. I have a smile.
But a fucking cop a, youknow, what I mean, that's just
fucking so that has been sitting inyour heart for twenty five minutes seconds.
I can't even say in the backof the room just how manute messy it
is. They are like the cablemanagement. It's not a hard job either,
are you know? It's not afucking skill. It's very hard.

(27:22):
It's very easy to make stuff loveneat and tidies, you know what I
mean. No passion, no passion, no passion. I love that passion,
man, I love and I hada bit like that when I was
a sparks like run even if youcan't see it. I was the kind
of person above ceilings to be fineat fucking leave it door. I'm like,
no, no, no, we'llmake it fucking look nice for the

(27:44):
mice or whatever. Like you know, I'll make it look I love everything
in a straight line. Do thewhole course. Where where is it London?
Okay? Yeah, you can pickup with different legs in London.
Sorry, I can't help you know, I'm not in short because there,
yeah, there is that notion.I can't see it from my house.
Yeah it was, Yeah, itwas a couple of times. I can't
see it from my fucking house.You go, you feel like it's life

(28:07):
and it's probably going to kill somebody, you know. Yeah, I still
can't see it from my house.It's okay, Yeah, because I had,
I had. There was an emotionnearly not post, but there was.
It doesn't tell you to give mea briefense that I opened at the
top of the show saying how nobodydislikes Chris ken and it's this is case
in point. This is a perfectexample of how there is nobody has a

(28:30):
bad word to say about him,and comedians have fucking loads of bad words
to say. Yeah, but itwas your first Vicor Street. I don't
know if you know this. Itwas your first Vicor Street you were doing,
and it was it was close tosetting out like it was. It
was close maybe a couple of weeksout and a gang of comedians who don't
it would not all be friendly formore friendly, but would not want to
hang out with each other. Weall mess each other to blanket bomb all

(28:52):
our all our fucking all our socialmedias with your ticket link. You have
to go see Chris King. Youhave to just go see Chris Kent.
I've never seen that done before.I haven't seen it done since. Just
say, I was emotional about that. Man, you knew about it,
so I mean he didn't thank meone about all thank you I got about

(29:18):
I got about an eighty mentions andstories, and I was like, fucking
hell was happening there? It wasall comedians and go to the show.
Yeah, I'm very happy about it. Did it work? It did work?
Yeah? So long. Yeah itdidn't sell out. No, no,
victory didn't sell out last year,but this year is so all out,
so nearly. This one is doinga second one, which I like.
I just like, when my anxietygoes down, I'll have to ramp
it up. I just sucking.Let's see if we can do it.

(29:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, justyeah, yeah. Let's try and sell
another Towes and seats theirs or fuckit one ive ever forbid, you'd have
at least one full night of That'sone thing that going back to work actually
fucking help. I'm not afraid ofit anymore. I don't give a shit
if worst comes to the worst,if I have to go back, Honest
to god, I was only talkingto a fellow from my job this morning.
I get working two weeks. IfI had to do. You know
what I mean, I'd be backa site in two weeks, so that's

(30:00):
very free for me and comedy togo. I love it and I want
to make it work. But atthe same time, if I have to
go back to work, I haveto go back to work. It doesn't
bother me anymore, doesn't bother meat all going back. Obviously I'd rather
do this, do you know whatI mean? But it doesn't bother me
anymore. I think I can doit and taking chances. Now I'm a
bit more like fuck it. Inthe past, I would have been like
or Jesus Christ remembered them be everyman, and they asked me to be

(30:22):
every man my agent and I waslike, fuck like I was doing.
I did like fucking the small roomat the Opera House, which is eighty
seats, and I did some otherand it sold out. And then I
did something over in the Crane Namewhich is like one hundred seats. Yes,
And then my fucking agent was like, try to every man. I
was like, you're fucking having alaugh, like and it nearly sold out.
It was like there was only sixhundred people there or something. The
first time around, a sudden Iwas like, Okay, this is a

(30:42):
couple of years ago. Maybe there'ssomething, but I'd still be a small
bit like one thing since I wentback from work. As soon as they
mentioned anything to me, I go, yeah, trod on, trod on,
I think there's another vicatry there.Put it on, fucking what's the
worst that can happen? They go, a, fuck, that didn't sell
We have to move over there withthe pullet like, that's really the worst
that can happen, like you,and it'll never It'll never happen. If

(31:03):
you don't let it happen, itwill never, you know what I mean.
That's one way it's definitely not goingto sell out. As if you
go, fuck it, don't botherputting it on. Yeah, you're guaranteed
not to sell out. That's someinspirational ship right there. That's yeah,
one hundred percent at a time,it won't sell out if it's not fucking
on, you know what I mean. And you can't you can't look at
the seats are not there, thepeople that come to see you, like,
you know, I don't know somecomedians. I've played the fucking two

(31:26):
people a couple of times. Fourpeople, me and on their turn and
the gig. The two fucking peoplein London a couple and we were like,
we kind of had to know,it's not you've changed. So if
they were back, it isn't wasthey weren't Irish. They were Irish Irish
that okay. Sorry, I hadan accident earlier. I was kiwi.

(31:48):
I was going to guess looking tolaugh, Yeah, I can't see,
but there don't show it to meanybody. Oh yeah, cause your Maori
descent on yeah, not in thehealing and my Irish, my Irish on
my arm and my my Maory.That was a bad isn't that? That's

(32:08):
bad? But I'm trying to getthat covered up. Let's put another fucking
Malory tattoo? Yeah yeah, tobring your needles with you? Yeah yeah,
yeah, I know that one's bad. That was bad. Anyway,
that's another podcast it is, butno, genuine that's what the way I'm
looking the things on. Man,I'm fucking going for everything, absolutely everything,

(32:29):
and I'm just saying, yeah,put it on, fuck it,
go out for it. I knowwe're literally gigging another were three different wheel
things and then this is out.You know that's class because they like they
be. There seems to be amystique sometimes around comedians, like the from
a from a comedian's point of view, two, you kind of see comedians
you know, how what the fuck? Where did the how does? But
would you you're the most transparent person. You will turn around and just go,

(32:52):
I'll tell you exactly how I did. I have no problem to help
and and like I said this toyou last night, you're on about fucking
you know anything at all that Ilearned from social media or anything that I
you know, I learned, orany rooms I've been in, even more
than happy to pass on the knowledgebecause there is a bit of a it's
a bit of that industry. Thecomedy is a bit like it's a very

(33:12):
pull the ladder up there, justfucking when they get up here, it's
fucking really cool up here. Getthe ladder up, like you know,
but the wire glass up here,and I'm like, fucking come up,
by come up, come on up, And if they're not, I'll fucking
push him off here like fucking justbecause you're up here doesn't mean I can't
punch you, like you know,so there's no point and I'm being down

(33:35):
there. I don't get that mentalityat all. And I'm not obviously I'm
not a fan of everyone's comedy andI wouldn't be like, you know what
I mean, But the core comedyis subjective and all that, and that's
probably another thing, to be honestwith you that you said it's the social
media and what made what made thedifference? I think it was fucking someone's
wank, you know, but properlybelieving in myself for the first ones since
I did it, always did it, always did the gigs, always had

(33:57):
loads of praise from other comedians andTommy Tare and James air cast quotes,
but really, deep down, Iwas like, fucking, I'm not going
to do that. I'm not goingto sell that out. I'm not going
to do that. And that's mymind changed. I just went, fucking
why wouldn't you like, why wouldn'tyou be able to what was that?
Snapping? What changed your mind?Two years working a little bit of that
like and a little bit of fuckit, Like what's the point And do
you know thinking you're thinking yourself outand stuff like you're blocking yourself You're going

(34:21):
fucking do you know what I mean? Like, what is it ages,
Well, yeah, absolutely, youcare. That's one of the people think
because in the past you're like,fucking could I do just difference And I'm
doing a big gig and fucking waterfor now this time around and doing it
like a couple of years A gottago. I'm not play. Say if
go back to this, you knowwhat I mean, the one that we
sell out the hundred seat to goback to that, keep going back to

(34:43):
that. And then I was like, because I'd be afraid of going into
the big one and fucking seventy peopleturning up and looking like an asshole and
a big, huge room. Butno, I wouldn't I'd be delighted.
No, I wouldn't care if someof the people turn up. I wouldn't
care what other comedians think about it. I got to make a joke about
it, and I do. Thetime when I go to the theater and
there's fucking no one in it,I'd be like, She's like, I'm

(35:04):
at the end of the game.I guess who here, man, But
all the fucking all the fucking seatsI'm after flicking down, you know what
I mean? Perfect, I getto know the rest of you make a
joke about it and pointed out likeyeah, yeah, yeah, but that's
a bit of it. I waskind of listening to a bit of fucking
just like I like Ekartle, He'svery about being in the moment and yeah
yeah and just believe in and andyeah, that's kind of it. Really,
I reckon if we actually record likeyou just telling believe in yourself by

(35:29):
yeah, I'd reckoned the car.I don't know at the Cork when we
could sell us them just mindful andshit like we just set it all over
the world because there's a dust Idon't want in this and more I don't
know all my vices and motivated enoughto do that. Oh God, I
think it is you see you,and this is what I wanted to get
around to do. And I've knownyou, Dslan, I've never once every
person from your neck of the woodsand Cork speaks quite harshly and strongly and

(35:50):
quickly. What happened to say that? You speak very like there is not
a misplaced fucking vowel. Was theresomebody be in you in school? How
did it come about? Like I'lltell you he was a was my mom
and dad where I was like Jesushe's very fucking laid back. Altogether.
I was a kind of a thingabout me, like, and I'm very

(36:12):
laid back, where they were anass and all that. But also when
I started doing comment in Cork,I actually looked back at an old video
of me and God and I'm speakingway faster than the video. But I
think what happened was I started basicallywhen I was gigging in Dublin. I
was very paradid, and in Londonand places like that, I was very
paradid about him not understanding my accentbecause I believe it was very strong,

(36:35):
and I did talk a bit,it would have been the same, but
I talked faster, yes, youknow what I mean. Yeah, So
I was paradid about that. Andthen I started slowing down a bit.
I started slowing down a bit onstage, and then that just became my
fucking style. And then I alsoI was up and down to fucking Dublin.
At a comedian called Jason Coughland wornout brilliant and we would just share
them stories in the car and hewas like, fuck Jeff to tell that

(36:57):
on stage man, And I waslike, I don't know, that's not
really a Joe looked up. It'slike, you fucking have to tell that
story, man, and then he'dtell the other guy in car Brian from
said Limits. He goes, hehas this great story about his fucking dad
or his man, man, gethim to tell it. And then Brian
was like, you're telling that story. And then I tried to tell the
story, didn't even add any jokesto it, and it's just kind of
people laughed at it was like thisis fucking great, Like I just tell

(37:17):
I'll just tell the stories. Andthat's kind of how I just started talking
slowly and you know what I mean, the style or whatever. But also
not everyone and not GONNAINI talks likethat. That's that's one thing I will
say. Only you know the yourreason you only remember the other people because
they're so fucking memorable. Like andmy mom and dad don't talk like that.
My brother doesn't really talk like that, like you're not. And I'm

(37:38):
like, I never talked like thateven when I was from that area,
Like you know, when I livedthere, I never talked like that.
Maybe my accent got a small butless harsh from move to England and Dublin.
But also like I in material aboutthis before, but people thinking that
you're hard because you're from Nanahini,Like you know, people assuming I can
fight because I'm from Nkanahini, likelaughing, he said, off, down

(38:00):
right, where are you from?Blancolic? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. But you know what, people make an assumption that you're hard.
And what insulted me was I usedthe box for years and they didn't
take that into a concret and Iwas okay at boxing, but like they
were like, no, he's fromthat lean, that's the thing, you
know. Yeah, but also I'mnot hard because I'm from that Naini blah

(38:22):
blah. I'm aware of that.But there's an other side of the coin
fighting, and not just not Hi. I'm using it as an example.
There's another side of the coin orI think it's even more dangerous where people
up there and people from disadvantage areasand are walking around believe in that okay
and themselves it's a very dangerous placeand they're not. And it's like it's

(38:43):
like a persona I didn't have toput on and they're walking around till like
that and they're getting fucking stocking falasand do you know what I mean like
they will get battered one of thesenights because a persona can't fight, you
know what I mean, you can'ttry and set it out an ax and
can't hurt you like you know whatI mean. So I am able to
look after myself like you know Ican. I can like you can box.

(39:06):
Yeah, I used to box,and I'm not very successfully. But
for a couple of years. Ilove that as well. I was genuinely
passionate about that as well. Iloved it. But yeah, I think
that's more that's a more dangerous sideof the kind. It's people from these
young fellows. I see them outthere. Look, I wouldn't go there.
I'm out at the same time.But they're all probably a bit mad,
some of them. But there's someof them that have to go.
I better be mad, Yeah,I better pretend I'm mad. So I'm

(39:29):
walking around this fucking you know whatI mean, And that must be exhaust
the next day, to be honest, How do you keep because I mean
there's so many lads have come throughthe Cork scene or whatever, and there's
always seemed to be when they goabroad or go abroad, they go to
you know, water and Dublin likethese kind of places. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, but they absolutelybang the cork drum like nobody's fucking

(39:49):
business. Yeah for some reason.You I mean, you're technically interracial with
a wife from Tipperary, like youknow, yeah, but I'm saying you'd
never like, there's no mistaking whatof the country from. At the same
time, you've never banged the corkcork. I like that, and I
like as well in ourland when I'mgigging away as well, like I do,
I do have a material that wouldbe in Irish and stuff like that.
We all have to dress run intoit. But I don't like I

(40:13):
prefer not addressing it at all ifI can and talk. But that does
leave for the English people confused alot of the time they're not I don't
know, okay, yeah, he'snot telling me. I think he's from
a different place. But I don'tfeel like I need to fucking tell everybody,
like, you know what I mean. So we're all here, I
don't have to explain why I'm youknow what I mean, why I'm here

(40:36):
and where I'm from and all that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
but in all fairness that like we'reyour parents Cork, pure Cork, yeah
yeah, yeah yeah, and mymom and out of pure Cork. My
mom is born in England and shestill has kind of family in England,
but she's pure Cork, likes overhere, and she was a kid pretty
much like you know im as they'reall pure Cark. They don't like leaving
Cork. That new road is tiedto me nicely out there too. I

(40:58):
used to come up like sugar Bebasically living in Apple computers. No,
I don't know if you've been upto the arts side, like fucking Apple
is just getting bigger and bigger appearanceand living text free up there as mother
supposed to be in the fucking canteenat this point. But they love Cark
Man and they used to come andvisit me in Dublin. Every time they
come visit me in Dublins, likeMAM's Dublin's grand and they're from knocking the
he need have seen I've seen outmy fucking window. Shit, They're like,

(41:21):
you know, that's why it's likeI used to have a bit about
that, like you don't need aTV around here, but I just fucking
look out the window. There's somethinghappening all the time, you know,
and she'd been like she's not goingto Dublin and all fuck that. I'm
like, Dublin's grand man, Dublinis grand. You lived in rap Mines.
I lived in Mines, posh partof Dublin exactly. But then they
bought my mom and dad to rapMines. Right, it's greatn't there's a
cheese there's a cheese mongers, doyou know what I mean? Like,

(41:43):
yeah, yeah, but I waslike, Mama's grand. I never leaving
Ram, We're walking into town.This fell across the road is going fucking
bisart shown the shopping everywhere. Fuckthe chicken over the own the fucking my
mother. My mother was like asgrand as it. Yeah, it's grand,
Like every time they've been up there. I say it in the laughter
around apartment, which is a fuckingokay, Dan's fucking rope. People had

(42:04):
my mom and that in that place, and that was like, all right,
there's people that's addicts sitting in yourstep when you go home. You
start, but there's always been arow or a fight or something or something
mad going on. I get it. Yeah, we talked about your lovely
gigs because I'm aware we only havea finite existence. You're on streage.
So but the lovely gigs obviously vigorstreets selling out, the every man selling

(42:25):
out. Hell, you're going tosell out is the Royal Theater and Watford
as well, I hope. So, yeah, I know you will.
Yeah, I make that happen.I just make a call. Yeah,
I'll make a call. But there'snothing nobody in this room wants to hear
about you selling out. No gorgeoustheaters, amazing audience members, standing ovations,
flowers getting thrown on stage, becausethat happens all the time to you,

(42:47):
doesn't know. Yeah, tell mea fucking mental gig, a ship
couple of the mental gig. Yeah, give me a mental gig just for
everybody here. So also the touringdoesn't This is about my fifth or something
like that, and it's my eighthshow or ninth show that I wrote.
So, by the way, that'sfucking incredible. They've fellas in their nineties
don't have fucking eight solid hours writtenand produce that gets around of the blouse.

(43:13):
It's a but it's it's a learninggurb. You know. My first
tour was eight dates long, eightdays. You wouldn't call it a tour,
but I just wanted to dry.It was fucking and two of them
got pulled right. Yeah, I'lltell you, And I like you turning
up to some venues and they're like, oh, you've just forgot to sell
any tickets. Yeah, yeah,A physically sell them and then you turn

(43:37):
them. No, you give yourposter to some venues and you leave a
little blank space down the bottom toyou feel that. I no, like
that's a really fucking easy thing todo. You turn up, man kill
Kenny's plaster on the posters, manblank space, and every they just didn't
bother filling in the fucking blank each. You know, Chris Kent is somewhere,
I don't know where. Sometimes fuckingguessing game, like you know,

(43:58):
bad's bad gigs. I've a fewbad gigs, man, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you one or two.Jason coughlind one hundred percent from me
under the bus one day. Sobasically there was some some kind of benefit
or charity gig in town. Can'texactly remember it was. He goes,
Lugu, want me might be awkward. I said, yeah, I'll do
a spot, which a man.I was fairly green at the time,

(44:19):
I was going yet no problem.So basically I turn up Jason. Isn't
there no sign of Jason. There'sa band there, and I'm like,
okay, there's a sparse mud peoplein the room and will you go on?
Before Jay said she's not here,You'll have to go on. I
went on and tried to do thegigs. Wasn't going very well. Remember
doing it. I used to dojoke but Bonna at the time forgive the
joke. No, But it wassomething like, do you know I fucking

(44:42):
hate Bonnah. I hate him somuch I've stopped sponsoring a child in Africa.
It's not bad. That was myjoke. Right. I heard one
person laughing at the back of herown and it was Jason Coughlin, right,
and I got off the stage man, and I don't know, oh
what happened, but they were playinglike it was the charity was for something.

(45:04):
They were playing like a feature lent. I didn't know, but I
was standing on the stage and itwas like basically, I was like it
was it was like a troker adwas happening, like you know, so
I was like I was in atrough ad. I was in a trougher
ad telling that joke, you know, But I didn't know. I just
thought the lights on me. Ithought that the fucking lights are but bright
here. And I came down andit was some kind of appeal ad and

(45:25):
there was just it was being blastedon. I was in the fucking thing,
like you know. So that wasone gig that wasn't great. I've
done another few. I did onein another one in the Silver Springs Hotel,
carpor Motor Brian Colin, all theCollins, actually no, it was
Cockland and Colin. It's the samename, the same name, same Jason

(45:47):
Coughland and Brian Colin. Right,but Brian lovely Man runs a comedy club
and Cark. I went right tryingto do benefit cake, another benefit cake
for men's health. It was anivvatisticular cancer thing, Silver Springs Hotel,
about three hundred people in the room. Never played for that many people in
my life. George Hook was postinga kind of a chat show, n

(46:09):
tell me anah. He had fuckingRay Houghton on right before I went on.
He had Ray Houghton on and RayHolton you were following the two but
yeah, exactly exactly, We're wrongalready, all right. So he had
Ray Houghton on and fucking three hundredmen in the room, no laughing,
fucking talking about scoring against England,talking about playing for Celtic, and they

(46:31):
were like you're up no next,like you're going up no after them,
And I wasn't been interviewed. Iwas just doing straight stand up. And
then George Hull before before he Georgewas like, before you go, Ray,
tell us about Hellsborough. Yeah,the darkest day in football history.

(46:52):
Okay for anybody own, I don'tknow about football. A lot of people
died at a game. A lotof people died, and they told a
harrowing story. He was there onthe days step and I was like,
I never saw an emotion flip soquickly in a room, like there's men
nearly crying. And then and thenthat fucking Jarge Truck was like I had
a comleion and I was walking upfrom the back of the room and I

(47:14):
said, Jesus is great to bein the patrom And I didn't mean that
as a joke, but it tookit as a joke. They actually laughed,
to be fair, but it wasjust an awkward gig, you know,
like standing on a clough and atthe funeral telling jokes. So that
was an awful and awful gig.Do you ever get offered like those kind
of gigs? I got a messageall the day to do a wedding and

(47:35):
I was like, no, Ineed to stay. I need to tattoo
that somewhere on my fucking face andput it in my profile picture that I
would never do a wedding because comedyonly falls completely asunder where comedy has no
fun visions. Yeah, you knowwhat I mean. You need to be
what you need to want to watchpesticular cancer, yeah, troll crack.
Yeah, there's another one. Now. I did actually jokes about this.

(47:57):
This is probably the worst death I'veever had in my life. And it
was when I was living in Dublinin rapt minds, and I was like,
all day, now one of themwriting jokes all day at a new
show coming up. I was like, I'm trying all these fucking jokes now
tonight. Man, I don't givea shit what happens. I'm trying them
all. And I was fairly that'sone thing. I would die in my
arm for fifteen minutes. I wouldn'tgo back to an old joke ever,
you know what I mean, I'drather do that. But anyway, I

(48:19):
went in on this particular night andHapenny Bridge, Dublin, Simon la Keiths
hosting fucking fourteen fifteen people in theaudience, maybe maybe more bush four of
them had English. But I'm stillthinking double blaming myself, like you know,
I'm still gonna fuck that they're toughtonight, Like you know, like
I didn't have another language to hand, you know what I mean. But

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I remember a lady explaining when I'mlike, she was looking at me and
she was like translated. She wasshe was translating to her friend, and
her friend was like fucking rolling hereyes back at me, like you know,
that's being unfunny. And two languagesthere Tom in a matter of moments,
and I was the most devastating heckI've ever got in my life,

(49:05):
and I'll never forget it in mylife as long as I live. So
towards the end of the game,it's like, I'm fucking I don't have
to do anymore less. I justadmitted the feet out loud and the stage
and I was like to the promoterat the back of the room. I
was like, Simon, I don'tknow all my what to do now anymore?
My moat was gone all dry,and I was like, I don't
know, I don't know. Anda lady just she stood up to make

(49:29):
the heckle, which was worse,you know, Lord, she stood up
and she was like, can somebodyplease help him? That's the joke that
happens. That gig happened. Yeah, I was so devastated about I didn't
normally like I was. I couldn'teven I'd put my jacket on and go

(49:49):
home. I couldn't talk to anybody. I couldn't sleep and went home.
Actually it was such a deathly death. Yeah, no, with experience,
I go Chris. No one wasspeaking any It's like you're probably all right,
you know what I mean. ButI was contemplating my fucking comedy career
and I went to them and Icouldn't fucking sleep. I was I'd love
the DVDs. I watched Michael Fastpender'sHunger for some reason, that was just

(50:12):
honest. For some reason, Istuffed my face for the whole thing as
well. I was just watching this. I stayed away ut about four o'clock
in the morning, and it tookme two or three fucking weeks to just
stop the memory of that gig happening. And I've done countless corporates that were
horrible for people, whereas no,if I do them, no today some

(50:35):
pace of a corp, I knowmyself straight away. If this is not
good, the settings aren't great,you can take it, you can.
I'm much better now. It's separatemyself from it. Yes, it's fucking
water off a duck's back. Ifsomeone asks me to come and do a
gig and you're like, all right, ja, the room was on fire.
Actually was probably one of the mainproblems as a massive fire. While
I was on you know where Iwas like years ago, I'd be like,

(50:57):
fuck, they didn't get that,bitch, you know, I like
buyer wouldn't even occur to me,like you know, But no, I'm
way better at separating myself from I'mlike you know, And you know,
for the corporate gigs I've than corporategigs in the past. You think it's
good money, You're going, thisis fucking brilliant, this is fucking a
couple of weeks wage. It's hereto do twenty minutes from a load of
builders from London who build they outfittednear Up to know, near Up near

(51:20):
Up Coffee. They met me inthe morning of the gig ten o'clock in
the morning and two of the landsmet me and were like, the boys
are in the pub. And Iwas like, okay, the larm bells
are ringing here now they're in thepub ten in the morning. They're they're
in the pub in the air,but they're all flying over to Ireland near
O Coffee, fucking fiddlet arsolves Andthey were like and they were like,
I'm not I wasn't a roasty comedianback then. They were like, can

(51:42):
you say to Day if he's gotgout, ask him about his gout?
When I'm like, all right,you know, and Johnny's wife has left
him, if you could mention that, He's like I was just pretty fucking
louzy and john like, you know, and Frank anything you want, you
go to Frank Oko, anything youwant, Frank you good, you anything.
I remember dying on my r andtaking it personally. But I was
in a room in a pub.No one was looking at me. Those

(52:05):
people sitting at tables talking to eachother. What I mean, like fucking
in boots, and there was asobviously our sols. They were out of
the fucking minds. And I'm therewith a microphone trying to do fucking comedy
to him, you know what Imean, And you're going, You're just
at that point, you're going,I need to get paid. I have
to do twenty minutes here. That'smy kind of goal. I'm the fuck
I am. I'm going to twenty. But you're dying inside, like because
it's going so badly, you know. But the pride is that you're taking

(52:29):
their money. I remember, Iremember just saying, yeah, the pride
is you're taking their money. ButI there was times where I was like,
I'd give you back twice the moneynow to take the memory out of
my head. You know that thatmoney that it's not it doesn't it doesn't
warrant the effects that it has onmy mental health, you know what I
mean. But no, and Iremember at the end of that kid just
going fuck Costa and everybody laughed.You know that was like that was that

(52:52):
was how easy it was. Reallyit was overthinking it. You know.
The one the one that springs tomind is cause I'm in Cork. It
was I was doing the LV andthe crackhouse put it. It had moved,
they'd moved it to a room upstairs, and was still nice in the
woman that was running it. Sheand Marie do remember Anrie and Marie.
She was fucking great. She sheactually had a world famous laugh. And

(53:13):
Marie Lewis she was, yeah,it was ludicrous, ludicrous impression there.
But Anne Marie the bollocks. Shesaid, you're coming down, sure,
come down a bit earlier. Anothergig out in Douglas for you hungry young
comedians start double bubble two gigs onthe one. Fucking even this is tremendous.
And she kind of said it outsideof her mouth, And you know,

(53:34):
if you were more aware of bodylanguage and not as hungry, I
would have spotted that she was beingthe total bollocks because I was going I
didn't even ask where in Douglas thiscould be because there is no venue,
there is no well. We rockup and my girlfriend now wife at the
time, we went I smeller ather time. Yeah, I know when
a woman's acting the bollocks, andshe's acting the bollocks because she's laughing her

(53:57):
fucking head off incessantly at nothing atall. But that's and Marie anyway,
like yeah, but she knew whatshe was doing. She probably the sneaky
little hall that was hidden in behindlike the fucking bushes, somewhere inductless,
and just like pulled it back likesomething out of the fucking Quest for the
Only Grade. And it was.It was the AGM for the ICA,
the Irish Countrywomen's Association of Ireland.And how I knew she was worth marrying

(54:24):
at that point is that my wife'sface turned fucking beetroot laughing and a vein
the size of a hydraulic hose asshe did that silent lash. She went,
oh, this is going to bea fucking disgusting who's gig aga?
This is for a Marie Lewis.But it was for the ICA. And
there was fucking two hundred fucking bluerins, fucking perms. They had a

(54:46):
bark up boiler taken over in theback there was and I looked on and
there was a there was a spoonplaying father and daughter couple on stage and
I was to go on between themand this woman they and they rocked it.
They ripped the fucking roof off theplace. They were fucked and I

(55:06):
and I was only doing comedy aboutfucking two years at this stage, she
went, right, just go upand do twenty minutes. Fucking one minute
would have been enough for these people. I should I hardly had twenty minutes.
And my wife is holding onto thewall at this stage, the sweat
coming out of her fucking ears.She goes, go get him, to
go get him, and I wentto and I this. The pain is

(55:29):
still to this day, I'm sayingthis, and we're all having a great
laugh. But it's there's a there'sthe actual hairs on my fucking chest.
They're standing up right now. It'sI had to walk the full length of
the hall. You could hear myshoes because these these didn't come for comedy.
They came for spoon playing and thelike. And I tipped to and
I suppose they heard comedy and theyfigured it'd be a bit of Brendan Graze

(55:50):
talking about them. Yeah, yeah, fucking hell Roads talking about the modern
law. I get up there andI'm straight into dickt jokes. I'm straight
into Oh, I'm awe, Ilast six minutes, six last at it,
and I'm going fuck you I'm fuckinghere. I'm getting paid. I
looked down. I see my wifeand a Maria the back like it's something

(56:12):
apocalyptic is happening on their faces,and I swear my life, there's a
family, a family a banjo playerscoming on next. They're lined up against
along the wall, kind of gonefoxs say, looking at the watch ground,
who's this count Diane up here?Like right? The six year old
who had the face of a fortysix year old, slung his banjo around
his back and walked up and went, fair play tom. I swear it's

(56:37):
got tapped one shoulder and put itback into my stand. I shook hands,
I geneflected in front of me.I don't know what. And to
this day I can't shake it becauseI never ever, I haven't met a
Marie, since I haven't met theIca, since I cannot bend so wait.
So I take some comfort in that. Yeah, the parcop Boilers still

(56:59):
fucking going. It doesn't matter,Amanda Barca Bilas days you go. We
we have a mutual We have amutual love and respect for one man,
the late great Billy Anderson. Hegave he gave me my start in stand
up comedy. Fucking one of thegreatest people you could have ever met,
American Chap. He's gave me astart in stand up comedy in the crack

(57:21):
house. I got led to itby work colleagues such and I had it
in my notion like maybe people thinkyou get brought to a comedy club jokely
and there's open micy, you getup to do it, do you fuck?
You can wait and do six weeksof workforce and then you'd be allowed
on the stage. And that's basicallywhat Billy told me on the night.
But we became He became a mentorreally because he knew. He's such a
fucking back catalog of comedy, likea comedy nerd. He's studied comedy actually

(57:45):
in Atlanta and everything. And butlike like in all the high intelligence of
that brilliant man fuck made the sillythings he used to fuck like for he
was here about eleven years and hewas such an American. Every time I
go to give him a been anywhere, he'd always sit on my lap because
he had more left than right ofthe yeah starts telling me hey, and

(58:07):
I okay, I'm not going okay, all right, but yeah, I
know for a fact, because youhung out with him even more as well.
Yeah, give me for the memoryof the great man, give us,
give us one of your billy.And this was just a great friend
of ours. He he looked,and this is his own self description,
was fat Michael Jay Fox. That'swhat he was. If Michael Jay Fox
just went, that was him.It really was. He the heir let

(58:28):
go here. Yeah, he hadthe fucking oh my god, but everything
was at two hundred and fifty milesan hour. Yeah, great energy and
great energy. Credible bloke. Yeah, but like that now with the whole
car thing. I've been in tripsto him and I'm like fucking about the
pullout and I'm like, I'm allright there, Billy. This side,
no, this side to side,the side with the footpath actually, you
know, okay, So lovely man, lovely man. I had a trip

(58:51):
to America with him, beautiful tripto America with him. Just gorgeous gigs.
He'd set up a gig in aplace in carolinea tea for ninety nine.
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you weren't over there.
He knows Jason, with Jason andand and and and fucking Gordon rocharlish.
Yeah, brilliant Gig could have fuckingfilled place three or four times,

(59:13):
you know, Patty's Day Irish Invasion. I got got speeding over the loads
of times, getting pulled over thecops looking at my big fucking Irish fucking
pamphlish, you know. Yeah,And that's genuine that's genuinely happened. This
guy opened up the big book,was like the pink book. Yeah,
yeah, you're not an Iceland andno bar, that's not Iceland, that's

(59:36):
Ireland. But he left me alone. He left me alone. Billy Billy
was there. God arrest him andI remember Billy. I don't know why.
So Billy was lovely. There weresome people over there are friends of
friends that were not so lovely,A little bit, a little bit racist,
that's a say, the slightest becausethey were saying terribly racist things to
us. That tends to be it, all right. You had a bit

(59:57):
of a clue that these guys mightbe racist, you know, but all
the racists talk, so it wasthey were trying to out. They were
trying. I don't know what they'retaught about Ireland, these guys. So,
first of all, beautiful Gig NorthCarolina. Then we drop out the
place called Wimbledon Wilmington, and thenI was another amazing gig. We drove
home. I went over there forthe Knights of Columbus, which he is
kind of weird fucking mad like theMason's but the Irish. Yeah, and

(01:00:22):
so I did we did the payit back then because they flew me over.
It was I do a gig forthem in the in the in the
in the facing Irish at the center. Was the weirdest, one of the
widest gigs I've ever done. Guywalking around beforehand with a sword doing a
lap, when a child following him, and everyone now from aged fucking four
to debt in the crowds, youknow, oxygen tanks and fucking pushchairs.

(01:00:43):
So I mean and and Billy waslike, I can't host. I can't
host my geography teachers here. I'mlike, he's a geography teacher. The
geography teacher was there. I waslike, he left school like twenty fo
years ago, like, you know, give us a fuck watching geography teacher.
So he wouldn't do the gig.Jason Coughlin had to hold it.
They were all kind of going orthe priests and be careful, and it

(01:01:04):
was all kind of going a littlebit weird. Let's just say okay,
but everyone, they were playing ittoo attentively. This is the problem.
They were playing it to attentively.And then that's I had the I had
the advantage of reading the room.I was like, fuck, these continent
absolutely swear more to the dirtiest stuffyou can. They have no respect at

(01:01:25):
all for the gig. There respawnsgoing off hello and not even addressing it.
And I was like, you knowwhat, now, fuck this,
I'll never forget it. Man.I was up and I was on stage
about two minutes. Man, thephone rang again, and I took the
sword off the men and said,to see that. Now, I'm gonna
fuck that. Shove them up.Someone's cock off that phone doesn't And there

(01:01:45):
was a tricky thing to do asyeah yeah, and they laughed. And
anyway, it was a good gig. But that day, that was Paddy's
Day and those of Irish in Charleston. So he took us out with these
guys that were lovely guys, veryracist. They were telling us these stories
I won't repeat on fear I won'ttell you what they were. And we're
drinking all day with them. We'renot drinking all day, but we're drinking

(01:02:07):
all day and they're telling they're tryingto impress us. I don't know what
they think about Ireland. They maybethink Ireland's a bit of a backwards country
or something. They're trying to showoff to us. So this get horrible,
looked like a racist. His carwas a racist. I'm pretty sure
it drop a big gep and glasseswith a big band on him. You
know. Anyway, he was horriblefucker. So he's telling us all these
stories, trying to entertain us,you know. And I was going to

(01:02:29):
nudge in Jason Coughland at the time, and Billy was there, and Jason
was there, and I was like, actually, sorry, man, my
mother's black, like you know,like clearly she isn't right. But he
said yeah, but she ain'ta andhe said another word, and I was
like, it's nice time they getaway from these people. Billy was not

(01:02:49):
the target of my comment, butBilly took it upon himself and somehow believed
that my mother, probably knowing youa five years, he pulled Jason cockle
him aside, and I was like, oh fuck, I got the wrong
person. But I've got to Billywith this. For some reason, I
saw Billy looking over with Jason andlike, and he came over to like,

(01:03:12):
I'm so sorry, man, Idid not know your mom what's black?
And I was like, why wouldyou be sorry that my mom was
black? You know, this wenton all night, like him pulling me
aside. Gun, I'm so sorryman, I did not have those guys.
I'm so sorry about those guys.But it was a beautiful little prank.
But eventually he kind of put himout of his misery and I was
like, I was only joking,man, he was only joking. She's

(01:03:35):
not amazing, but a lovely man. God rest him, an amazing man.
He'd be missed forever more forever.And we're gonna do We're gonna do
it. There's been a benefit alreadythis year, but we're gonna probably get
properly involved next, I think,so yeah, Yeah, I've got to
meet his fucking dad. He wedid a big gig from in Wexford,
got to meet his dad. Hisdad a couple of months ago, went
for dinner with him the next day, talk about Billy all day with his

(01:03:58):
dad and he and his partner andI was just like beautiful, lovely to
share the memory. It's already emotionalas well, right of course, you
know. And we made some podcasts, me and Billy, so send them
onto his dad, and you knowthat's class. That's class one of the
grades. And we're almost done.And I know we said you don't bound
the cork drumm and all the restof it. But for entertainment purposes,

(01:04:19):
I have found ten facts about Cork. I'll just check out. My wife
might be outside. She's collecting me. So they're running a small but over.
But that's all right, don't worry. I have ten facts about Cork.
I don't want anybody shouting them outbecause you pay possibly do know him.
But I want nothing but for purelyentertainment purposes. I want nothing but
absolutely fucking wrong answers as fast asyou can. We're gonna somebody time a

(01:04:44):
minute and a half, a minuteand a half, ninety seconds, ninety
seconds, orry, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well what's her name?
Orla? Has it ready to rock? God bless your Orla. You give
me the shout and we will seeexactly okay, wrong answers only go la.
The first potato in Ireland was plantedhere by Sir Walter Rally around fifteen

(01:05:05):
eighty eight where in Cork County,though we're in the county. The fantas
tomato was no petal. Yeah yousay if they get a wrong not mhini.
It was not no, it wasn'tit was y'all. It was y'all.
It was was Saint Colman's Catholic Cathedrallit in Cove is the largest number
of what stores Apparently it's Krillian bills. I have no idea what that is.

(01:05:33):
Rondogar was born where Mallow Close,America. Anyway, The Jack Lynch
Tunnel was named after who Paul McGrathclass The Fastnet Rock, Ireland's most southerly
point, was at the last pointof Ireland's immigrants from Cove to USA would

(01:05:54):
see known as what what do theycall fastinat fastinat? Yeah in there sick
call of the deer drop, butfair play. Kissing the Blarney stone is
sad to bestow a fellow, butwhat an std class It says, gifts
to the gap. But the realityis Chris is probably closer to the fucking
truth. Anybody kisses Yeah, weknow what the locals doh shit, Dorsey

(01:06:20):
Island, off the coast of theBearer Peninsula, has Ireland's only cable car
license to carry three people and one. What that's not bad. It's a
goal. No, it's not asa cow. It's a cow. Fuck.
It never will plow on or thatwill plow on carcass The oldest what
club? Swingers Club, That's whatI was. I wrote swingers down,

(01:06:45):
hoping you would say sings. Yeah, it's actually yacht club. It's the
rcy icy Alton can say or no, cross Haven, cross Haven, the
last one. Case Season's closed,Casey's Chippers out and Douglass is closed on
Mondays for what reason? Every Monday? Lazy cons Yeah, the over witnesses.
Yeah. So I'll take all ofthose answers absolutely perfect and we're putting

(01:07:09):
them on Wikipedia tomorrow and that's whatit's going to be. Listen one more
time from my guests, the incredible, very much, thank you, thank
you. We have don't know whatto do. Follow. If you don't
follow us, both follow everything,you can go back and find you if
we lied about any of those gigsin the older podcast. So we did

(01:07:30):
together, Chris, we watch.You've got about seven tickets left for your
nation of my tour. I'd say, ah, yeah, a couple of
more than that. But if youif you can't get to the cart or
anywhere else, go fill out theRoyal Theater and water is beautiful. That's
a good one. It's a goodone. Yeah, take a trip up
to Dublin, Mirrid, mortgage thehouse and go to Dublin for the weekend.
Part of my tour on a slightlysmaller case is over in Cocklins slash

(01:07:53):
Collins. Go and see that.That's amazing over in Collins. That'll be
be ripped it last night and I'mJoan. I'm doing a short set here
later I'll brand new material and ifyou want to watch my mouth go dry
and possibly a French woman have toexplain it to our family what the fuck
is why that man has been sostupid on stage. I'll be around here
to come one more time. Thatone club and the amazing Chris Kent.

(01:08:15):
Thank thank you, thank you,thank you very very very much to Chris
Kent. Cool Cady. That's whyI like that guy so much. We
had an absolute belter on Saturday nightat the Hill. Oh my Lord was

(01:08:39):
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