Memory Lane with Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister - S04 E10: Ed Night

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

"And then I got into parkour and I tripped and landed on my head and was knocked out for 2mins... Immediately afterwards I became much more outgoing and the class clown..." We have the brilliant stand-up comedian Ed Night on the podcast this week talking about his change in personality, his grandad's 9 lives and waterfowl... WHAT A LEGEND! It's the final record when Kerry got food poisoning just before we record so it's all up to the brilliant Jen to hold the fort. Ed is on tour in May so go buy tickets now to avoid disappointment - https://linktr.ee/ednightshows Plus... Kerry and Jen introduce the show by discussing Jen's turn of fortune on the bowling lanes of Brighton and Kerry's Ben is having a bad day. JEN & KERRY STAND-UP TOURS Kerry's 2025 tour is on sale now - https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/kerry-godliman-tickets/artist/1866728 Jen's 2025 tour is on sale now - https://www.jenbrister.co.uk/tour/ PHOTOS PHOTO 1: Grandad PHOTO 2: Cat PHOTO 3: Waterfowl PHOTO 4: Girlfriend PICS & MORE - https://www.instagram.com/memory_lane_podcast/ A Dot Dot Dot Production produced by Joel Porter Hosted by Jen Brister & Kerry Godliman Distributed by Keep It Light Media Sales and advertising enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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they're on the episode image and you can also see them a little bit more clearly on our Instagram page. So have a little look at Memory Lane podcast. Come on, we can all be nosy together. Can I just, can you just overhear me giving Ben domestic instructions? just bear with me for one second.

Ben, I'm just going to do five more, five, ten more minutes more, but if you can be asshole to chop up those veg, I'm happy to make a minestroneous soup. Oh no, he's not answering me. He's not answering me. He's not answering you? He's not looking at me. He's not looking at me. Ben's... Ben's got his earphones in?

Ben, are you not talking to me? No, he's in a bad mood. Oh, he's in a bad mood. He's in a bad mood. I know. No one believes. I can't believe, Ben. No, I don't believe it. I think I've missed. I think they might have been argy-bargy.

I think they might have had argy-bargy. Okay, argy-bargy. All right. That's a phrase I'm bringing back. No, they just came in together. What, you mean Frank and Ben have had argy-bargy? Maybe. Okay.

The testosterone settle. Okay. What was I saying? Who are you talking to? Oh, you were talking to me? Who was I talking to you? What should we talk about? Let's see.

What else has happened? What did you do at the weekend? Did you do anything nice that wasn't work in progress? Did you have a nice Sunday? We went bowling. What? What do you mean what?

These kind of activities, like just on a normal Sunday. What's it's special? On a normal Sunday? I think of that as a birthday treat. Oh, really? Is it a birthday treat? That's a birthday treat.

This is what Brighton's like, isn't it? You just do these things. We go out, we go bowling. In a bowl place where they've got balls and skittles? Just the four of you? Or do you go in a gang? You like knocking about in a gang, don't you?

I don't like knocking about in a gang. We just happen to have a gang. Look, I don't want to get into it. We met some other friends. We weren't in a gang. A friend of mine. It's like a lifestyle magazine. I mean, I don't.

We just hung with some friends down on a bowling alley. Yeah, we did. I like it. Had some nachos. Yeah? I brought my Gaza cola with me because I've refused to buy the children Coca-Cola. They have to drink Gaza Cola.

They don't seem to be embarrassed yet. I give it five. I give it another couple of years. What are they going up in bright? Mom, why are we the only ones with Gaza Cola? Because you've got a very thoughtful and right-on parent, that's why. They're never going to push back. No.

No, they better not. Anyway, look, here's the thing with bowling. What? This is, in fact, actually, this is very exciting, okay? Are you good at it? No, strap yourself in for this. We did two games. I don't know why I'm putting four fingers up.

We did two games, okay? Yeah, yeah. First game, I am. appalling. It's like nobody can believe how bad I am. The kids are like rinsing me. Everyone's like for laughs. I mean, I'm actually really giving it everything

I've got. I was like, really focused. It was like, you put your thumb, the thumb wherever your thumb is, that's where it goes. I was like, I think there's something wrong with this ball. That's what I said. I said this ball. Wow. Kerry. Blaming the ball.

Look, wait for it. I mean, now you're saying, oh, here I am like blaming the ball. Like there's something. Wait until the end of this anecdote, right? Yeah. So the first game, I come last, of course I do. Everybody's like, you're a loser. And that's just the adults.

That's just Chloe and Lisa, right? Then we get to the second game. First two, I get zero. Then I get a three. So you're consistently shit. Yeah, people are just like... There was no trajectory of improvement. People were just like, didn't even bother looking at me

while I was bowling. They were like, oh, that loser. Then Kerry changed my ball. I've said there's something wrong with this ball. It's given me bad Jujis. Jujis. And? Juju.

I don't say Jujus. Please take that out. It's given me bad Jugee. Whatever it is, it's given me bad stuff, okay? I pick up this other ball. I can feel it. I'm like, this is gonna, this is it. This is where my fortune will change.

Yeah. First time, spare. Then. What do you mean? Spare. Is that jargon, bowling? You get you get you get you get you get you get you get it's good. Yeah. Second. Yeah. Second. Oh, so what's the ball? Then strike. Then. Then. Spare. Then strike. I am literally a god. I come first. I come first. I mean. It's a good story. I was a ball. It was a ball. It was a good story. I was highfiving the children. Changed the ball. I mean the children. I mean, the children are all.

I bet you were absolutely awful. Honestly, the kids who only enjoy it if they win were like throwing things. One of them was in the corner with his head in his knees. I was high-fiving myself around the bowling alley. There's a lot of tragedy in this anecdote. But never mind that the children didn't enjoy it. I won.

Yes, I sense that you're happy about that. Yeah. I get that you're happy about that. The whole, it all turns. Did you sort of facepalmed some kids in glory? I sort of like used my elbow, came in with an elbow. Yeah. When one of them was crying, I said, don't cry to me.

Loser! And then I just carried on. Wow. Gave myself a Mexican wave just alone. It doesn't count, actually, if you do it by yourself. It looks weird. You just stand up. I wonder what was wrong with that first ball?

This is the part of the story that I'm quite fixed on. I told you. It gave me the bad, it gave me the hebi-jee-jee-be-jee's. the doobies. You've got to get the right ball, right hole, right weight. You've got to get the right hole and the right ball. Otherwise, you could get arrested. Yeah.

And they don't make you wear those shoes anymore? Why did we stop wearing shoes? Oh, no, you don't have to wear the shoes. It's mad. So what's that all about? I don't know, but the whole of the 80s and the 90s, you have to wear those stupid bloody shoes. Yes, that's a big part of it.

Why are we doing this to people? You don't need to do that, actually. Maybe it's because camper is quite a big industry. of basically bowling shoes, which is the vibe of camper. Oh, camper is bowling shoes. Yeah. Yeah. So they're like, oh, look, campers run with this now.

We can stand out. We don't need to, yeah. I mean, there was a couple of people that had their own bowling shoes on. Oh, well, those people, who are they? You know, they've got the shirts, they've got the bowling shoes on, they've got the balls. They've got their own balls. Yeah, I mean, it's good to have a hobby, isn't it? I must say.

Yeah. I mean, why not? Why not? I mean, now that you're brilliant at it. Might you go down that road? It's going to be bowling or darts? I've got a dartboard. I've got a new dartboard.

My brother came around for lunch yesterday and he bought me a dartboard. I've got a proper dartboard. Tomorrow night, mate. Tomorrow night, we're going to shoot some arrows. Are we, though? Yeah. Are you joking? No.

I'd love to shoot some. Is that where we do it? Is that what they call it? Shooting arrows. I want to shoot arrows. Arras. Oh, arras. I want to shoot arrows.

Yeah, we'll shoot arrows tomorrow night. You've got to wear the darts hat. I don't think they wear hats. I know, but we eat. Oh, do you? Yeah. Okay, I'll wear the hat. Yeah, cool.

All right. Okay. I'll get some fags in. Get some fags in. Get some warm lager in. I'll get some regals and some pale ale. Some regals. Oh, my God.

Or some Rothmans. Yes, some Rothmans. Yeah. I'm looking forward to that now. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. Oh, got to let the dog in. Right, so it's another one of you alone, Jen, this week.

You're talking to our lovely guest. alone again because it's still the record where I had the goat's cheese food poisoning. So who are you talking to? This episode, I personally, individually, as a person that wasn't with Kerry Godleman, had the absolute joy and pleasure to talk to the brilliant Ed night. Ed, I have seen progress doing stand-up comedy for many years. When I first saw him, he was a teenager and I was like, this kid is really bloody good, like, off the bat.

Yeah. And that is rare. Yeah, it is rare to be so fully formed so young. Yes. I certainly wasn't. No. Yeah, fair. Not you.

I mean, me too. He's just really funny. He's really thoughtful. And I had a really lovely chat. And this is me talking to Ed Knight. Ed, what's with the shades? Because I've got my very focus on and you've got shades on, which actually really sums up where we are generationally.

But you've come here. with your cool shows. I've got that zillennial swag. You are so zine, man. I'm so ex. I got that, me and my girlfriend went to a friend's party and they had this amazing idea

which I've never seen at a party before. They had a massive pile of these sunglasses on the table and they said anyone could take a pair but they also had special pens that you write on glass and they said, you can write whatever or draw whatever you want on your sunglasses that you take. So I took one, My nice, the pair that I like to wear recently smashed in my pocket.

And so I took two pairs, one to just wear normally. And one that I drew like a big bulging pair of cartoon eyes on. Okay. And I walked around the party. We got there really late. Everyone was already like smashed and having a really good time. And I didn't know anyone there. And I was walking around the party with these cartoon eyes on going,

wow, like pretending I'd just seen something really shocking. And everyone was like, you know, I just haven't. Having a nice time. There's some real mushrooms, dude. You need to back off a bit. Pretending I've just seen something. I think to see Moiley Coe or something. Do not wear them during the, when there is sunshine,

because they will burn a hole into your eyeballs. Oh, yeah, I've tried that a couple of times already. I've gone, let me just see if I can have a quick look. And you're like, no, no, no. But what you can't do with, like, really good quality sunglasses that block out the sun is draw on them, like a big pair of cartoon eyes that make it look like you've seen something shocking. Like it, like an an anvil's about to drop on my head.

Yeah. Like that. I think when you get to, your 50s or your late 40s, it is all parties are you either in a kitchen or sitting around a table and at some point someone will go, I don't know if you've ever tried mushrooms. And then that's how the evening ends. Really? Yeah. Literally everyone's microdosing. None of us can metabolise booze anymore, Ed. So we've all gone very much into the microdosing. And everyone says it's microdosing and then it's like, I can see a tree. Like, mate, that's not microdosing. You're macrodosing.

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It's quite sweet, isn't it? And it's Christmas. It's Christmas, yeah. Tell me who's in this picture. That's me and my granddad Ken. Oh, granddad. That's Granddad Ken. Oh, my God.

I love that his shirt is matching whatever's happening in the back of the sofa. He was an extremely sartorial guy. He looks sartorial. That is one shirt. Full suit every day. Really? He was a real. He would have been, I suppose, what would you call?

Like a teddy boy back? in the 50s. All the old photos you see him, really sharp. This guy, he knew how to dress. Where did he grow up? He grew up in, he was, I could tell you this actually. Was it West London? No, it was not West London.

It was, I actually listened to an interview he gave to a load of primary school children recently. And he starts it off by saying that he was born in a council flat in Kings Cross. And he'd sort of spent a bit of his childhood day. And he did most of his growing up in Carl Shorten in South London. Carl Shulton. Car Shulton. Yeah, yeah. Sort of southwest, Sutton.

Kelso Road, Car Short. Chal. Yeah. Your Wollington's. Near Wadden's. Yes. Yes, yes. No, well.

Yeah, grew up there during the war and then spent the vast majority of his life in Tooting. Like, it's kind of annoying when I tell people that he was my granddad because it's like, it doesn't conjure up the correct relationship in people's minds. What do you mean? We were thick as thieves in him. Like, he lived with us. for, he lived around the, his flat was around the corner from my secondary school. So I used to see him every day and go around and my nan. And then after the last 10 years or whatever before he died, he lived with us basically.

So yeah, he's a very important figure in my life and an extremely funny guy. And I included that photograph because I like, I think I look very funny in it. I look like a crazy, some kind of crazy bug. You look cute. Well, to be, oh my God. I'm staring at him. I was about to say you can't really see your face, but if you zoom in, You do look like a little bug.

The biggest eye you've ever seen on a baby. But it's also your profile. Because you're like, well, as all babies do, because babies don't have chins. Yeah. You just like, you're all cheeks and nose and one bug eye. Also, it's quite an interesting, like dynamically the photo is quite interesting. It's really cute.

Like when do you ever see a baby photo side on, completely side on? Yeah, a baby profile. Yeah. And your granddad looks. very much in love with you. Yeah, he did a lot looking after me when I was a little kid as well. So, yeah, he was involved. Bless him, he was a good guy.

And, yeah, really, really kind of crazy with it. And I sort of, I think about him obviously a lot all the time. And so that's like a, he's like a looming giant in all of my memories. And now this is the podcast about memories. So it would be like, it'd be crazy not to mention. He's like the messy of my memory. I had to answer a Q&A to plug my tour recently and I had this memory. I'd completely forgotten about when I was maybe about 12, 13, maybe 14.

I said, I told him that I wanted to be a doctor because me and my best friend at the time in school had been watching a lot of scrubs, the TV show. I was obsessed with Scrubs as well. So I was like, I think I want to be a doctor, granddad. He was like, you know, brilliant. And at the time, a very distant relative of ours, worked in a medical supply shop in strutum so we went he walked me down there from his flat in toting

and um and got we sort of wangled a scalpel off them and then uh and then he walked me down to the butcher and he said do you have any like off cuts you can give me for free and I don't really remember what it was but we there was like a big chunk of liver and about half a dozen like sheep's eyeballs and I carried them back to his place in like a wet plastic bag and then we got there and he gave me the scalpel and all the organs and said

you know like you you can dissect those for doctor practice oh that's so I mean like it's really sweet and I was like thoughtful and sweet but also eyeballs yeah it's like sitting there like dissecting eyeballs on his floor not like just dissecting them I'm like just like stabbing them with a scalpel and all that black stuff coming out yeah I don't think I really want to be a doctor actually but um but it's nice how proud he was and like how supportive he was you know it's like it like it's really nice that he was like, you know. And it made sense to me as well. We were very much on the same kind of mental, mental plane, you know. I took him for his dementia test and I got more questions wrong than he did, you know. We were like, we were in sync. But yeah, he was sound as hell. He was

really like, yeah, really crazy with it. He had loads of near-death experiences. And his brother-in-law was a spiritual medium who told him it was the ghost of his twin who died in the woman protecting him from dying. Okay. And you can't check that. So I believe it. He got hit in the head with a brick or a paving stone. I can't remember. Hit by a car, shipwreck, munitions explosion. Can we go back a bit?

Can we just go back? But what about the shipwreck? So he was in the merchant navy. And he said on Christmas one year there was like a massive storm and the ship was about to go over but it didn't. For his national service, he was in the army. And he was in charge of disposing of, rounds and munitions and stuff.

Where? Just like, so what you had to do is like, like, I suppose, like when, in a barracks or something, when people were like, what do they call it, like a de-arming after the war, I don't know. Anyway, his job was to get a load of bullets and stuff, put them in a big pile and then blow them up. That sounds like the ideal job if you're going to be in the army.

Blow stuff up and no people. Whatever the equivalent of C4 at the time was. And he would like, anyway, he said that he dropped it because he'd been blowing everything up in the same place. The ground was really hot and he dropped a load of explosives on the really hot ground and they all just exploded and knocked him like 10 feet backwards or whatever. He's going through his nine lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pavingstone dropped on head, hit by car, fallen off ladder. And Thatcher, obviously. The war. Yeah, yeah. Bro was invincible. Yeah, man. And he sounds like he had a life. He had a, yeah, he had a very interesting.

Like being in the Merchant Navy was not. That's not a job for the faint-hearted. I mean, that's a tough job. He also, he joined the Merchant Navy because his best mate joined the Merchant Navy. And he was like, well, I'm not really doing anything else, you know. It sounds romantic, but from the stories, it sounds actually horrific. Yeah, on the first day, the, um, his mate. Those boats sing all the time.

And just before they left, his mate got discharged from misbehavior or whatever. So the whole point was to go on jolly with his mate and his mate wasn't even there. How long did he do that for? Like two years. I'll tell me mad. That's too long. Yeah, he's like, I found, when I was clearing out his flat, I found his ID card for the Merchant Navy. And he's got like a black eye and a fat lip in his ID father.

And I'm like, what did you? There's so much you didn't tell. He's awesome. Tell me. about this, I'm assuming this is a very special cat. That's just my cat. I like that. I was just going through loads of pictures.

Like old, I didn't go through, like, my phone for pictures. I went through one's older than my current phone. Yeah. Because it's memory lane, not present lane. And I decided to, you know, like, I think in this career, especially after everything that's happened, you know, the gigs were, me, gigs went away in the pandemic for a bit. and it's all so precarious, you know.

I took that a picture of my cat when she sat in a shopping bag because she likes to sit on and in different things. And she just looks so heartbroken and sad. I think that picture just serves as a good reminder that even if you get what you want, it won't necessarily make it happy. Yeah, that does serve as a... That's a photo for life, isn't it? A sobering thought.

Because this is the thing. When I look at a cat, I always think the cat's thinking, but when I look at a dog and I think, you're not thinking anything. Yeah, head empty. Yeah. But my cat, I'm like, what's you, it's like, you know, it's like a, just like an ancient Greek philosopher in there, I know. And what kind of kid were you when you were growing up?

As a kid, I was quite a wallflower. I was quite shy. And then, like, I was quite studious. Yeah. And I really liked my, like, stem subjects and stuff like that. And my, my goal was to do some kind of, was to go to, you know, university like outside of the UK somewhere. Why outside of the UK?

Because that would have cost a fortune. Yeah, but just to like, when I'm talking about maybe when I was like 15, 16 here, and I didn't really like. No, that you had to pay to go to university. Yeah, but everyone's telling you've got to think about what you want to do with your life. And you feel like a bit more of a grown up. And so you start thinking about stuff, you know. Yeah, going abroad.

Yeah. So I was like, well, it would be nice to travel. And what I really wanted to do anyway was some kind of have some kind of future. in like science or like being electrical engineer or something like that. Anyway, and then I got into parkour and I tripped on a wall and landed on my head and like I knocked myself out for two minutes and like they had to take me out of school because I couldn't read and write for two months and immediately. No, Ed, I did not know that about you.

Me neither. I'd forgotten it. And immediately afterwards, immediately afterwards I like was like really outgoing and like the class clown and wanted to be a stand-up comedian. had some of frontal lobe trauma that changed your personality. That's the reason I'm a stand-up comedian is because I have tremendous brain damage. That makes a lot of sense. In another universe where I didn't buy the video game Mirrors Edge, I'm like a Nobel Prize winning scientist. I mean, parkour as well.

So far. What teenage boy doesn't go through a parkour face? It is brilliant. It is brilliant parkour. And the worst bit about it was I called my. My mum. Oh, yeah, that's pretty bad as well. But I called my mum outside to watch me do this trick because I've been practicing it so much.

So the one where I caught my, yeah, the one where I caught my foot. Did she see you do it? She saw me do it, yeah. She saw me like land on my head. My head's bleeding. I'm like, all that stuff. She had to take me to hospital. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm so glad that you called me out to watch you knock yourself unconscious and change your personality. She was like, imagine, imagine your son. Imagine your son like, cause you go out to the street. And then he just like, like, nearly. She was like, he's so. He's so fucking sick. I've got to carry this boy to hospital now

because he's tried to do a parkour jump. Ed, that is the mother of every son. Spoiler. When I, because the first time I met you, like, I think you had not long started stand up and I thought you were brilliant. I think I did tell you that. But you were, how old were you when you started?

Because in my head, you were really young. I was 19 when I did my first. gig. I feel like there's something about being 19 and deciding that you want comedy to be your job because you are not seeing the bigger picture of how hard it is. You know what I mean? Yeah. Also, it's just like, I don't think I would have had the career I've had or maybe felt as if I could take as big a leap if I'd started later on maybe. Because you just hold all those safety nets around, do you know? Yeah. And I suppose what if like if you've done it later, like I did, like I did it in my late 20s so I was having to pay rent and all of that and then it just the the pressure of it was

well maybe the pressure of it kind of makes you go harder because you're like I've got got to pay my rent at the end of the month and I can't yes not but I do think there's something about being able to concentrate on the creativity of it which I didn't do very much I was like really focused on getting gigs and not on being good at comedy I had that I had that as well I was booked to do a work Christmas party. This is a story I have told a million times, but it's just so funny to me that I was booked to a work Christmas party. And I was like, everyone that was organised,

it was really nice, like had a call with the person that booked me and talked about like what the vibe would be and asked me questions about my comedy. And it was all really nice and straightforward. And then I got there. And it was like a bar, in Clapham

just like a normal bar where there's a Christmas party happening they've rented out and I was like oh there must be like a just so in denial

I was like there must be a quiet room behind the bar where anyone who wants to leave the Christmas party to go and watch to solemnly watch

half an hour of stand up comedy can just sort of dip in and out of and I walked in in the doorway of this bar and they gave me

a wireless mic and said like I just start whenever you're ready. And, but like to, but just like people standing in a bottle. Like no one sitting, no one sat down like looking at me or whatever. I'm standing there in the doorway with the mic. And they turn the mic home with the pick.

They like shut the music off. And they get everyone in the bar to like look at me stood in the door with my, my bag still on them. And I'm like, and they're like, this is the comedian's here. And everyone looks at me. And I'm like, how we're doing everybody? Good to be here. And then the microphone runs out of batteries.

and so everyone just sort of like turns back around to their conversations and stuff and like just starts ignoring me and then we I chatted to the organisers for a few minutes what are you doing and we really we sort talked about it and we came to I don't know why I said that because they were like we were we paid for comedy so the solution to the walk around we found was that I would just do it without the mic and I just walked around the party like going up to groups and doing like crowd work like a close-up magician no going up to the CTO and like, where did you get that shirt from you, you can't? It's like, try to catch up with my team before we break through.

You know, I was like, I wrote jokes about it. I wrote jokes like topical jokes. I was like, oh, in a way, you know, like, if you think about it, like Jesus Christ was a recruiter. And they're like, we're not a recruitment company. I'm like, well, I was told you were. I'm like, well, we're not. That is like literally every minute. Did you do it?

Yeah. For 40 minutes? I did it for the whole time. I did my whole time. Oh my God, Ed. I would have walked out. I would have walked out. Spice alive.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's me and some pelicans in St. Is that you? Is that you? Ed, that does not look like you. That's weird, isn't it? That does not look like you. Are you looking at one of the pelicans?

Yeah, you've got such a big beak in this one. and quite a big ass actually. By the way, I brought you guys some fish. So where is this? Is this in... St. James Park in London. Okay. And why have you chosen this photo?

I don't know. I just saw it. I was scrolling past it. I can't get over that. Does that... I just can't see that. It doesn't look like you. None of these photos are like singularly special photos.

But this one, I was... It's just a really... I spent a really nice day in St. James's Park with a good friend. of mine called Christopher MacArthur Boyd is a comedian. Yeah, I know Christopher. He does a podcast with Frankie and Susan McCabe, isn't he? Yeah, very funny podcast.

It's really good. And he came down to London and we hung out and I really like, ever since I was a kid, I've really liked waterbirds, like geese and ducks and things. I really love them. What's the... I don't know, but I think there was like, I remember going on a school trip to... long necks. The long necks.

Not all of them have long necks. Your ducks, you know, like mallards, you know. Your coots. Your moor hens. Yeah, your shovelers. Your tufted ducks. You're tufted ducks. No one talks about them.

I love. Your mandarins. Oh, come on. The tufted ducks, you've never seen a tough like it, I'm telling you. And all of them have one. It's amazing. And I remember going on a trip to the wetlands in Barnes on a school trip and thinking it was unbelievable.

And then every weekend I'd be begging my parents like, take me to the wetlands, take me to the wetlands. I want to go to the wetlands, you know. And like I had like the intro movie when you go there like memorized because I watched it so many times. And I just love, I love these things. This is a wholly world into you that I did not know about. I'm not a huge sort of bird watcher.

Like I don't go to the hides. I don't know that much about them. I makes me so peaceful. Because I'm like, you know, I have a thinking disorder which gives me too many memories of anything. I'm trapped in the past. And I'm trapped, you know, if my hand brushes against, if my hand brushes against, you know, a brick wall,

that'll be a memory that I want to stop thinking about for 10 years. I'll be like my hand is unclear. I have OCD. I'll be like a hand sanitising. Remember that brick wall at your time? So that picture's nice because not only was it a nice day with my friend Christopher, it was a nice day with all my friends of the Pelicans. And that's really special.

because they don't normally go there. I don't think I've seen pelicans at St James's Park. I'll be honest with you. Normally, if you go around the side to where the little cottage is and you look onto the water, there's like a big rock in the middle that they all sit on. So normally you're seeing them from quite far away, but in that picture they're right next to the railing, pruning, you know,

and I'm sat on the railing like a foot away from these guys, and I'm chilling with them, and that's really special to me. I mean, you look very, I'm quite pleased with myself. You look very happy with yourself, like, I cannot believe I'm getting this. close to my boys. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, really special.

I really, really like that. It was a nice day out. So that photograph represents a powerful memory for me. Ed, I lied. We have missed a photograph, and this one is with you. Me and my girlfriend, yeah. I like all the photographs of your friends, you've like, I'm going to hide their...

Anonymity. Yeah, of course. That's important. I'm such a last minute, Larry, that I probably sent these photos in too little time to ask for a reply of him. it was okay to have the photos on the cover up. Okay, that's fair.

So I decided to just put images on them just in case. But yeah, that's just a nice picture. Me and my girlfriend went on our first date right before the first lockdown. And I think certainly for me, like the only reason I was even in the country was because all my work had started to get cancelled. I think I was meant to be in Belfast or maybe Melbourne when we went on our first day. That would have been about the time Melbourne Comedy Festival happened. It was, yeah.

Yeah, so it was like a nice surprise thing that wasn't meant to happen. And I think that's a photo from the first, like just after the first lockdown of us hanging out. So that's just that, that's all that is. That's a nice memory. That is a nice memory. So you guys got together just before everything locked down. Right before we went on one date right before and then we just like. Staying contact.

Yeah. Like, FaceTimed a bit during the lockdowns because we both have nothing else on. And you can't lie about having something else on. I mean. So I can't be like, oh, I'm at a busy tonight, you know. Yeah, but then also that that's great. Yeah. Because also then she's like, well, he's interested then.

Yeah, so we're both, it was quite sweet. You can't hide and just go. We also got a lot of time to sort of get to know each other in a way that you don't really get to know someone like when you're starting to get to know them because we're just sort of chatting for hours at a time, you know, it's quite sweet. Yeah, and also you can literally chat for hours because there's nothing else to do. It's not like I've got to get my bus. Yeah.

Well, you don't have to get your bus, babe, because we're just resuming. Yeah, especially for, yeah, for the first, like, lockdown that was really intense. And sort of, you know, I sort of seemed to think my head was going to explode if I even looked out of the window. Yeah, yeah. So it was a weird, weird time. I mean, I think actually a lot, I think we've kind of partly forgotten how bad shit that was. Yeah. And all of us in our own individual, some of my friends were like, I loved lockdown.

I was like, don't speak to me. but I at times thought am I having just a very slow mental breakdown that am I going to get when this is all over who am I going to be at the end of it because I feel like as the onion unravels what's in the middle

Yeah I'm saying genuinely I had like what I now know is like a couple of like acute mind spells especially with the sort of the way like with like it would never really been a massive thing before that, like a OCD thing, but the germ thing flat, was huge then, obviously.

But I think I'm quite lucky because as the years kind of tick on, I think all the anxiety and stuff will kind of become obscured and forgotten. But my lasting memory of that period of time will be that I met my girlfriend. And I think that's a very lovely thing. I'm extremely lucky for that. Ed, thank you so much for coming in. And tell us, you're on tour. I'm on tour at the moment or are you starting?

Starting soon. What's your show called? My show's called The Plunge. The Plunge. The plunge. The best thing about touring is just every time you're on stage, you're like, I cannot believe you've come out to see me. That is mad.

Yeah. Well, catch Ed. Ed, where can people find out about tickets? Oh, yeah, on my Instagram at underscore Ed night. I'm sure it will be in the description or something. The tickets are in my bio and all of that stuff. It should be, yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be really fun.

I'm excited about this tour. Great. Thanks, Ed. Thank you very much, Jim. Thanks for having me. I'm Max Rushden. I'm David O'Dardy. And we'd like to invite you to listen to our new podcast. What Did You Do Yesterday?

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