Kermode & Mayo’s Take - The Art of Failing Gracefully: How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

Hey listeners! Get ready for a delightful detour from the cinema and our chats to the candid world of failure. We're thrilled to announce a brand-new season of the podcast How to Fail featuring the incredible Elizabeth Day. The new season has started with none other than the incomparable and multi-award-winning Dan Levy as her first guest! Check it out now – wherever you get your podcasts.   An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Original Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark, I have some exciting news to share with you. You watched The Exorcist over the weekend. Isn't that your favourite film, right? Not quite. It's even more exciting than that. How to fail with Elizabeth Day is back with her 20th season of the hit podcast. That is exciting. Tell me more.

It's a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven't gone right, and what we might learn from those mishaps along the way. Every week, Elizabeth's guest explores three failures and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed. What kind of guests are we talking about? We're talking about the likes of Phoebe Wallerbridge,

Jamie Dornan, Dawn French, and Gillian Anderson, to name but a very few. Those are very heavy hitting names. What's kicking off the new season? It's only Schitt's Creek's Dan Levy. Wow, I'd love to hear some of it. Well, you're in luck as you are, dear listener, because here's a taste of what you can expect

from how to fail with Elizabeth Day. Enjoy. Hello, I'm Elizabeth Day and season 20, yes, you heard that right, season 20 of my podcast, How to Fail is coming out on January 24th. I always love curating the best possible lineup of guests for you, and this season is no different. You're here from a diverse range of voices, including actors, directors, musicians, politicians, broadcasters, authors, and many more, all of whom will, as ever, be sharing what they've learned

through failure. For those of you that might be new here, welcome! How to Fail celebrates the things in life that haven't gone right and what, if anything, we've learned from those mistakes that might help us succeed better. Every week my guests share three failures, sparking intimate, thought-provoking and funny conversations. You can go back and listen to previous guests I've had on from Phoebe Waller Bridge. I felt like I hit the edges of something during Killing Eve and also because I was filming Stiles at the same time and you feel so lucky so you do push yourself. I also probably should have said I need to take a week because I can't think straight

because I'm so tired. But unless you really demand that, no one's really going to say that for you because everyone's just like, should we find, get on with it? To Bernie Sanders. You get upset when you hear your parents arguing all the time. And they did. My father came to the United States with no money at all. My mother was born in the United States.

She had dreams, expectations, I think, that were greater than my father's. He was very content to make the living that he made. We lived in a rent, what was called a rent control department for lower income families. And my mother wanted more and there was a constant friction in the house. And I think that impacts a young child.

And Stephen Bartlett. That was compounded with the fact that I was the only black kid in my school, other than my brothers and sisters. And I was the youngest of was compounded with the fact that I was the only black kid in my school other than my brothers and sisters and I was the youngest of those so they all left eventually. My hair's curly, everyone else's hair's straight, we're super poor, I can never bring someone home to like meet my family or none of my friends ever came in my house in the whole 18 years that I was there, never had a girlfriend come back. I was always lying and I was lying

because you know in that age on the playground all you want to do is fear. For those of you that have been with me for the journey so far, thank you. And you might have noticed that podcast is back with a new look, new studio, and our very own YouTube channel. I know, it's exciting, right? Search for How to Fail podcast on YouTube, and if you want to join the conversation, find How to Fail on socials including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X. Join me on Wednesdays for a new episode each week. This is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment original podcast.

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