Memory Lane with Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister - S04 E35: Bridget Christie

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Memory Lane. I'm Jen Brister and I'm Kerry Godleman. Each week we'll be taking a trip down Memory Lane with our very special guest as they bring in four photos from their lives to talk about. To check out the photos we'd be having a natter with them about, 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. Ben came to see you the other day. Yes. Oh my God, he loved it so much. Oh, did he?

He did send me a lovely message, actually. He loved it. How did he go? Now you're up and running. Well, I will be very critical of anything that I do. Come on, let's work on that. I think the show, the audience were lovely. The room couldn't have been nicer.

People were... You sold out the dome. The big man. Yeah, yeah. No, and all of it was absolutely amazing. But of course, when I'm performing it, I'm analysing what I'm hypercritical. I'm hypercritical of everything that I'm doing. So there was a couple of bits where I thought I probably should take that bit out now. That's got to go. That's got to go. And then I stupidly vocalised that to a couple of people. And they were like, oh, no, you can't leave. You can't take that bit out. You've got to leave that bit in. And I'm like, it's got to go. It's got to go. Okay. Well, you're your own director on this one, aren't you? So yeah, because I don't have a director. I'm like, I've got to do. this i've got to be ruthless and something's got to go so this bit's got to go yeah i feel it i feel it and then later on i don't know if you can see behind me here can you see these boxes oh i thought i was looking at the lovely posters go on the boxes what are they you see these oh yeah big boxes yeah these are big boxes what's in there this is merch oh ben told me about

the merch now um thought okay so i've got i've got a lot of merch some might say Too much, much. No way. You don't think so? I don't know if you can see these boxes. It's a big tool, mate. It's a big tool. However, I'm beginning to realize that a lot of the designs I've chosen,

whilst they amuse me greatly, probably nobody will want to wear them. Can I speculate as to which ones that is? I mean, you can, yeah, go for it. Which one do you think it is? The Tits one, yeah. The Tits one's not going to sell. And I've got 150 of those. So if anyone listening to this,

And remember all of the profits are going to Gaza. Okay, so it's all very worthwhile. I think that's really unreasonable to manipulate people in that way. Sh, Kerry, it's really, what I will say, it's a white T-shirt. What I will say is I will sign some of them. On the tits. On the tits, near the tits, behind the tits, around the tits. Whatever you want me to do with these tits, okay?

As an incentive, that's what we're going to start doing. I'm going to actually stay behind. This is how incentivised I am to get rid of these tits. I'm going to stay behind after the show, which is all I'm already like, the show's done. To sign things for people so they'll buy it. That's what I'm going to have to do. Because I've realised no, I was going to buy it otherwise.

No, that's a good shout. I think you should do a bit. You should do a bit at the end when you finished your show, maybe even an encore where you come out and go, An encore. Yeah, one hondo. One hondo. You can't say one.

And if you're going to say one hondo, you've got to say one hondo P. 100p, 1HP, 100. Listen, it has, you come out. That sounds so wrong from you, by the way. Really? 100, 100. The new me. You can't.

It's the new me. It's the new me. Okay. You come out. You've finished your show. You've taken your curtain call. You go away. You come back.

I come back. Guys, I've got some merch that I can't shift because it's got tits on it. So I'm going to stay behind and I'm going to stay behind. and I'm going to sign the tits because the money goes to Gaza, I'm here, you're in the room, I'm in the room, I want to fuck off now, I'm tired, I want to go home. I do, I want to go. I'm going to stay for 20 minutes and I'm going to sign these t-shirts. It's never 20 minutes.

It's about two hours. No, come on, really? Really? Yeah. That's why I hate sticking around. Boundaries. You get a massive alarm clock. Gaza, Gaza, Gaza.

I know. You get a clock that rings a bell and you go, I'm going now, bye. a clock that rings the bell that's not a bad idea so i go everybody if you want something signed you've got a certain amount of time and we can't chitch out and i don't want to know what you're up to for christmas and i sign it thank you very much boom next person sign it boom next person and then the bell goes and you go that's me done by that's me done by yeah i will i'm going to take on all of that apart from the the hondo peepit going away and coming back oh okay you're not going to do an uncle well yeah because if like well you can't just do it

an encore, it's the audience of the people that dictate the encore, because they're still clapping after you've got off stage. When I go off stage, people stop clapping. No one's still clapping after. There's an engine, you can engineer it. You can engineer it. I've seen people do it. They do it in a way where it's implied and then. They do it

in the theatre because everyone knows that there's an encore. Well, audiences can do a very Pavlovian thing where audiences can be quite obedient. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. And as I walk off, just briefly come straight back on. Oh! I can't believe you're still clapping. Exactly, that's hilarious. A split second after I've stepped off the stage

as people are fucking leaving. No, you go, oh, you want more of me. Oh, go on then. And then you crack on with the tits. You crack on with the tits. Okay. All right. All right, I'm going to do it.

Because I don't know if you've seen those boxes. That's a lot of boxes, mate. I know. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Wow. I'm just going to have to drip feed my merch. But Kerry, I want you to know, and Joel, Christmas is coming.

And we, sometimes we don't know what to get each other for Christmas as a gift. Yeah, dinner is for dinner. Everyone's getting one of them. I, uh, I've got, I've got yours, both of yours already saved. Well, that's weird because I've got you, yours, which is one of your own acorns. Well, I haven't ordered the aprons yet. It's actually a tea towel, Kerry. It's actually a teetow, tea towel.

We talked about aprons, but I'm not, I'm not doing any more fucking merch. No, fair. I think, you know, given that we've got to sell 150 skip the tits. I can't do any more than that. You're going to end up down at Wembley Market doing Skip the T-shirts at the back of the band. I will be. I'll be at Wembley Market. I'll be at Notting Hill Market.

I'll be at Camden Market. Skip the tits. You'll see me at all the markets. I'll be like, Jen's lost her mind. She's on tour, but on her days off, she's just going down the markets selling Skip the Tits T-Tie shirts. Yeah. Some of them aren't even signed. Just that's how desperate.

Or optimistic I am that anyone's going to buy them. Also, the tits bit, and I didn't even realize this was going to happen, sits on your tits. Yeah, that's what I saw that. I did see. Yeah, that's, I hadn't anticipated that. And, hang on, when did you think the tits would sit? Well, I just thought, with the logo, I think it would look even weird. Because you'd have your real tits and then some t-shirt tits underneath your tits.

Well, I thought the logo was going to be smaller, but the logo is really big. So it's about, and also they sort of are almost like the size of my tits, which is kind of, but I suppose they would be because the T-shirt stretches to your T-X. Exactly. They're like those weird aprons that middle-aged men find amusing where they wear lingerie bra and panties and suspender. But you know those sort of retro 70s. I mean, I can see that this isn't a T-shirt that anyone could wear outside. Well, there you go.

That's your selling point, isn't it? It's like this is your indoor T-shirt situation. Yeah, we all need indoor T-shirts, don't we? Yeah. I've got loads of those. Yeah, a load of them. Kerry, please tell us who are we talking to in this week's episode. Oh, this week, we finally got her.

We're talking to Bridget Christie. Oh, my days. We are Bridget Christy Stans. We are Bridget Christy fans. Yeah. We're Bridget Christy friends. Oh. And this was really...

It's not easy to get Bridget. It's not easy to get Bridget. And we have been trying to get Bridget for quite a long time. And finally, Actually, Bridget suggested it and came and what a lot of fun. Oh, it's just, you know, you know when people say, oh, you have to have a podcast to see your friends. And there is a bit of that. And that was a real example of it.

It's like I hardly ever see Bridget. I've had to have, we've had to have this podcast for two or three years to get Bridget to finally see Bridget. I know. But I've had, I've been really lucky because this summer we did have run a gigs together. And so we've seen quite a bit of each other this summer, which has been really fun. So, and then when we got to the end of our run, we were like, oh, now, when are we going to see each other again? And then that's when the podcast finally came into fruition. Yes, exactly.

So, yeah, this chat was absolutely wonderful. We had a great time with Bridget. It's just three mates having a chinwag, really. So I hope you enjoy me and Kerry talking to the absolutely hilarious Bridget Christie. If I had to think back to some of my favorite moments as a performer, as a punter of stand-up, I'd say you doing that aunt is right up there for me. Well, a lot of people, only comics liked it. Well, Bridget the Joy.

It was weird out of context when you did the ant, but it wasn't in the show. Yeah, on a mixed bill. On a mixed bill. I did a mixed bill with you. Yeah, yeah. And you were dressed as an ant. And I remember you coming out as an ant. And I said, what's, what's Bridge doing?

They're like, oh, this is her show, which I never saw. I never saw. That's one of a few shows I never saw. Yeah. But just you coming out as an aunt was one of the, like, literally comedians were, there were rivers of we. Rivers of wee. People were laughing so much. I think they were laughing because I was dying and I was dressed as an aunt.

But how are we defying dying? Silence. But there are silences and then pure hysteria that I don't think of. I think it's an environmental hysteria whereby you know me as a mate. I'm dressed as an aunt. No, no. I knew you as a comic before I knew you as a mate. I knew your work before I knew you, I'm sure.

Apparently, did the ant at Camden comedy, you know, the little room up the stairs? Et cetera. No. Camden. Camden Head. Camden Head. And there was me, John Kearns, somebody else, and Mark Maron, who was over. and apparently he was, it made him so angry.

Who, Maron? Yeah. He was absolutely furious. And that made John Kearns laugh a lot. Yeah, you see, that's like, I get around. I can imagine Maron being really angry about the aunt. I can imagine him just being like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, but also.

I came over to London and I, this shit. But also chill out, mate. Yeah. Oh, totally. It's just an ant. Yeah. We need to talk about pictures. Oh, God.

We could just talk and talk and talk. Let's look at this one. Is this the confirmation? Yes. Is that the first one? I thought we'd have baby ones. Communion. Is that communion or is that confirmation?

Communion is when you're lit seven or something. That's confirmation. You wear a wedding dress. That's confirmation. Yeah, that's your confirmation. So how old are you there? What's going on with your fringe? I had a fringe until very recently my whole...

That's the big thing. biggest fringe i've ever seen on anyone let alone a child did you crimped did you crimp it at the back i crimped at the back the whole head was crimped oh is it all crimped wouldn't just crimp the fringe why would i just crimped the fringe oh it's just there's so much going on in that hair um very thick hair yes and amazing maind you've always had an incredible name thank you um you know bridge how old are you in this photograph at 13 i think yeah 12 13 i think i got confirmed at 15 did you yeah i was i really oh maybe it was 50 No, no, I don't.

I think I was quite old to do it. God, I'm not sure. Do you remember it? A little bit. I remember being self-conscious. Right. And a bit, a bit. What was your name that you chose?

And I'll tell you mine. Anna. Oh, my middle name's Anna. Isn't it? Yeah. But this is different. Same Anna. Who's she?

My sister, I named her after my name. I took my sister's name. Oh, right. Well, I thought you had to take a saint's name. Oh. I took. I, why, otherwise, why have I got Theresa? Why did you choose that?

I don't know, it was like, of all the names, Mother Teresa. Of all the names, I thought, oh, no. She's up there. I thought Teresa, yeah, I went with Teresa. I'm going to call you Teresa now. You can. I think why I wanted to talk about it was, was because I find the idea of rituals really fascinating.

And I didn't think that it was a part of my life until a journalist interviewed me about the change. Yeah. and said, you know, there's a lot of ceremony and ritual in it. And I went, yeah. And he went, is that because of your Catholic upbringing? I had literally not made that connection between costumes and rituals. But of course, I had it.

You always, I mean, again, one of my other favourite moments was when you had that little Jesus on a pulley and your dad's saying, he just went up. And then Jesus is going on that. Yes, it's going up. Well, I was stopped at Belfast Airport because I had a show in Belfast with that show. And, you know, I used, it was on attached to a fishing wall. Yeah. Oh my God, it was one of the best things I've ever seen. It was so, it was so funny.

Yeah, it was so funny. So I would hoik little Jesus up on a fishing wire. But of course, I'd got on a plane with a, you can take somebody out with the fishing word. Well, they got to skated it. Well, I got stopped at customs. And she said, you've got a fishing rod, you know, with a wire. But it was attached to the little Jesus. and I said

she was like explain that it was Northern Ireland as well and I said well please don't confiscate it because I'm on my way to a show

and then I won't be able to and she was like what do you do with it and I said I reenact the ascension of Christ into heaven to to Arvo pair

I think the music was I think you're right and she went and she got her a colleague over and they were like like, oh, go on there, off on your way. And I went, oh, my God, thank you so much. But I just didn't think about having wire.

No, I wouldn't have thought that. It wouldn't have occurred to me. So until that journalist said to you this realization that ritual and ceremony was a sort of ongoing theme of your work. He put it together, yeah, of all your, like, he was like all your shows where you're dressing up and, you know, and now the change with all the Eon Festival. And I think, and also, when I'm... I think about lockdown, like so many things are rituals. Like, I think the appeal of smoking

is that it allows people to stop and sit. And the act of doing that is, in a way, a small ritual, you know, and we like bang, bang, banged, banged, banged, banged. It's not bunged, it's banged, it's banged. Banged is a really hard word. Banged. No, it's because it sounds wrong. Banged. But there's a G in the middle. Banged. But you don't pronounce it? You don't go banged. No, but you don't say banned.

You say banged? Banged. I'm saying banged. Yeah, you said banged. Banged. I've said it all right now as well. Also, regarding the smoking, it's a commute. It's a little congregation.

Because I remember giving up smoking when I was at college and I was like, oh, but I don't get to hang out with all the cool smokers. So I used to just go out and sort of pretend to smoke. Yeah. That's the thing. And also you get to skyve off as well. Well, that's it. And slag everyone off. Well, have a little thing.

Yeah. It's a shame that you have to fuck up your lungs to have all that stuff. Isn't it a shame? Yeah, but that is part of why sometimes people find it so difficult to give up smoking as well. Is all of that ritual? As much as the nicotine. And the lovely box and the, like you say, it's all the, yeah, that first. But I think on a human level, I do think that these, oh Christ,

begins with G in our life. Generation? No, not generation. No, when you, like, going to school, getting married. Milestones? I think they are really, no, there's another word. It's the same thing. I want to know what that G word is now. What is it? There will be, but it does exist. I know. I think they are important to document in one's life. And I think that we don't do that in this country really enough. No, I agree. I think the religious communities, the Aboriginal is really problematic.

The absence of ritual is problematic. Well, I think that's because we are in a capitalist, secular, individualist society. But we've ritualised bollets. We've ritualised shopping. Well, that's it. And I was going to say, and so what we've done is we've projected those rituals onto other things that aren't grounded in any kind of history. I think about this in terms of art. And I think it's so disgusting how, like, the Tories.

like value something it's purely on financial value. I feel like we're living in times where and in the execution of it where that is like that's the like the first point at which we're judging ourselves. Yeah. Now the one thing that causes me

the most amount of stress is selling tickets on tour. Because then it's a commodity. Then it's business. But then that has to There has to be some balance between the three of us. You know, this is how we make our, this is how we pay the bills, right? Yeah. Yeah, of course.

Because I've no income coming from anywhere else. And so it does have to be financially viable as well. In fact, that is why I wrote a bit for her. Because I wasn't making any money. I was making all these costumes. Well, it's not the making of the costume. But that's not going to be a popular, that's not going to be popular enough. for me to say I'm making a living from stand-up.

So when you wrote a bit for her, which for anyone who doesn't know, was a huge success for you, you won Edinburgh. I don't know what the prize was called at that point. Edinburgh, Edinburgh Comedy Award, I think. Edinburgh Comedy Award, I still think of it as the Perrier. I think it had some, like, really weird, it was sponsored by, wasn't this one, my trip, I-I. Mine was Foster's, I think.

But it's the big Edinburgh Award. Yeah, yeah. And then you went on to, you filmed that show as we were just talking about it on Netflix. So it was a huge success. So you're saying that. you consciously decided to go in a different direction and that show became huge. I deliberately wrote a show in which I only needed a microphone. Right.

But the content I thought would absolutely bomb. Really? Yeah, because me and Danielle Ward were on Prince Street in Edinburgh the year before. We had both written routines about, you know, feminism or something that was going to on. I can't remember what it was at the time. And we talked about how we'd gotten really bad reviews and that the female journalists had said, they are funny, but what a shame they have to be banging on about this stuff. And I remember Dan saying, you know, it really pissed both of us off that we'd been marked down for talking about something that we were. Like at school. Yeah, yeah. Marked down. You do get, I feel like you tell you do get marked down. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do too. And then I said, well, I'm going to write a whole shirt. show about it. I remember when you were writing it. I remember talking to you around the time. Did you? Yeah, because it was like, I just remember you saying, I've written a show about being an aunt and I've written a show about what was the one with the hands when you had the hairy hat? You were a gorilla maybe? That was the one before, wasn't it? There was one. There was one where you had the big hairy hands. Oh yeah. What was that? Anyway, you've done a lot of shows about, you know, like I say allegories for feminism or whatever. And then it was like, well, why not just do a stand up? Yeah, just do it as you. You're two beats away from the thing. Do the thing. Yeah.

Because I thought it would be easier for audiences to tolerate feminist material from the perspective of an insect than from the perspective. I love the word tolerate, just to discuss. Okay, can you bear to tolerate? It's true. It's true. We all remember those times where you couldn't mention anything. You were a woman on stage. And yet, when you did a slightly more traditional stand-up hour, people loved it.

It took off. Yeah. I mean, you were already a very established prior to that, but that show was massive. In terms of commercially, in terms of whatever the industry, which I never really understand what the industry is, but whatever the industry. Getting an epic special is, yeah, that's a week. You had that first bit of commercial success, which, let's be honest, in this business, is, if you're trying to deliver a message, it's quite, it's a tolerable message.

A tolerable message, it's hard to do, do I mean, it's hard to get that commercial success. And you actually had something that was comedy and you were being really funny but you're actually saying something that women, all of us, we could watch and go oh fuck yeah, Jesus Christ but that was 20, that's 12 years ago. Is he God?

But I feel like it started a tsunami of feminist stuff. Everyone was like, oh what? Oh, do we all say that now? Okay, oh finally. I don't think that happened. Well, it's definitely different now, in it? I feel like it definitely was a milestone for women in comedy.

Let's talk about your fabulous pictures Oh Bobby I remember that day Okay so What do you want Bobby? You're calling Bob Geldof Bobby Are you mate? No, I only met him at once

Okay I love it that you calling Bobby Bobby Bobby So Bob Look at that Oh that middle and bank check.

Tell us about this. 1987, is it? Oh my God. Tell us about... You should see loads of those big old checks on things. Didn't you? Like on our efforts and stuff? I knew.

You only thought that was a very... I thought that was a proper check. Checks on a thing now. No one's doing checks in off. No, it's for sure. I had a clear out recently and threw out some old check books. I'm like, these are done, aren't they? Yeah, I know.

We're Apple Pay now, isn't it? Look at how young Bob Gildof is there. Look at you. You're so glamorous. What? Look how glamorous are you wearing a suit. Is that you? Yeah.

That is hilarious. Let's look at you, Bridgett. Bridgett. You look like a French model. Oh, stop, come on. Right, tell us about this picture. So I left school very young and started working in a paper at a greetings card factory with my sister who worked there. Live I, and it was around all that time.

85? Yeah, 85. Wasn't it? No, 86. What? There's a date on the check. First of July. Oh, yeah, you're right, 87.

And so we. The company had raised that money And so me and Oh God, I can't remember the Well, it was 30 years ago It's being my sister, my sister Sarah's on the far right Next to Bob That's my lovely beautiful sister

And my colleague next to me Lovely hairdo she's rocking an 80s Wow, I remember that look, spiky on top And then kind of Like a muley And you know the colours mullet Is it a little bit mullity Oh but it's sort of ladies

die, mullet. You know what, though? It's because it's a shame it's black and white because my suit was bright red. Get out. I'd have red woolen suit, yeah, that was a nice suit. Because you and your sister look identical. Do we? You look so young. That's crazy. 15.

You'd left school? Yeah. My birthday's in August. How did you get school so young? Well, because Because she would have been 16 in August. I would have been 16 in August. Yeah. So you finished school? Yeah, yeah. And how come Bob?

Worked in a factory. No. So we drove with a journalist from the Gloucester Citizen up on the M4. I remember he drove so fast I thought I was going to die. And then we went to Bob, the live aid offices on Fleet Street. Paula was there and they had a little dog that was running around. And then we went, hello, I was so shy. I don't think I could speak.

And then we were there for the day and we got a picture taken. And then we went back to Gloucester. The hell in the day? Hung out with Bobby. And Paula and the dog. It was a real like hubbub. The offices were really busy. I bet it was.

It was. It was. Have you watched that recent documentary about the whole? No. Yeah, it's like a live aid documentary. Did you see me? Wish I had. You just look so glamorous, Bridget.

Oh, that's so sweet. No. Look at you. Only 15. Yeah. Baby. When you left school, did you know what you wanted to do? Well, it's context, isn't it?

Again, we keep talking about this. I think if you're the youngest of nine, nine. Your mum's dad, don't give a shit. Your mum's tired. They did. Well, I said to my auntie on the phone on my fourth birthday, I'm going to be a comedy actress. And, guy, this makes, Jen, I tell this story a lot

because you, to this day, and I'm still auditioning a lot, the only job acting job I have ever got is Linda from an or is I haven't got from the change from an audition yeah that is my only

the only other acting parts I've done is Jim Howick asked me to be in ghost so I didn't audition for that what about that um sex pistol sketch Kevin Eldon asked me right I didn't audition

right I haven't got a job So I graduated This is true This is true Again, I'm just thinking of your routines About doing that yoghurt The yogurt

Oh I don't remember having to do that Is it was it? That one The Muller Oh no Muller like Was it It was the man in the fridge Full of comedians

And yeah See I'm glad I know it's cruel But I'm glad You never got any of Because then I wouldn't have Got these routines That I just find

Do you know what Has anyone got a pen I'm going to I've got a pen. I'm going to do that routine at my next gig and clip it. Oh, shit. No, I haven't. I lied.

I don't have to. Oh, it's so funny. I, um, that is a point, actually. I should get some bits together. I love it. I love it that we just got on camera, you discovering the value of the internet that we just filmed. Yeah, I should get some bits together. That's what everyone's doing.

That's what everyone's doing. Everyone's doing it, Bridgett. How long was that train ride back down from that? Okay, I've got, guys, when did you both start putting clips up? A couple of years already now. A couple of years. And I'm not brilliant at it, but I have been doing it a couple of years. Does it make a difference?

Yes. You have to harness you on there. And people like you. Like the people that, those people that already follow you like you. Believe it or not. They're like, oh yeah, I like Brick. You've got to just do it. And then, you know, and some of them still don't know you're on tour.

No, they won't. Just think of all the people that don't know your work. Didn't know that the change had come out, and they follow me. I think we just assume that people know things. They don't. No one knows anything. Nobody knows. I had people coming saying to me going, where can I see you?

When are you playing next? I'm like, I'm literally about to go on tour. Oh, what are you? Also, things don't connect up with things. So like, like you just said, your special is how many years old now? Nine. Right. Just think of all the people that have only discovered you since Taskmaster or since the change.

They haven't. They don't know your special. I've never seen it. So it's brand new material to them. Let alone the ant. Get the ant out. God. Oh, what about Charles II?

Oh my God, you've got a cannon. That was filmed. Was it? Oh, Bridget. For Christ's sake. Let's talk about Charles II. Let's talk about Charles II because there's a picture. Charles II, one of my favourite of your shows.

I remember seeing, I remember seeing you doing it. I remember Claire Ward. We went about three times. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I haven't. Yeah, we saw it about three times.

I think the last time we went to see it was in Edinburgh. I think it was your final show or near the final show of the run. And there was two then. Steve Bennett was in the audience. No, this was Charles the second. This was not Charles the first. No, I did two Charles. I did Charles the second and then Charles the second the second.

Oh, this is Charles the second and second. Sorry. I always get those mixed. Yeah, Charles of the second, this was Charles of the second. Yeah, it was the second show. This is the second of the second. When are we talking? When was this?

Because Charles II the second the first, I only saw a preview at the Henley chickens. Wow. This picture is so magnificent. I did, did my back in on that day. Oh, how did you do that in? Because that is all a costume. That's not CGI. That's not been filtered or CGI or anything.

It looks like a painting. This is me. It's amazing. It was when. Who mistook you for being the actual Charles the second? Daily Mail. Daily Mail. Oh, the Daily Mail.

It's on here. Sorry. I used to photograph. Well, I can show you, I should have given you that picture actually. Tell us the story anyway. The story is I was writing in my bedroom and Izzy Sutty said, Bridge, my sister has just emailed me from Hong Kong where she was living at the time. This is hilarious. That is just me for a photo shoot.

I mean, yeah, go on. And then what? You've got to quickly look at the Daily Mail website before they realize what they've done and take it down. Then my phone was just going, ping, ping, ping, ping. which which made me think Christ I know a lot of people

that read the Daily Mail online they had used my poster for Edinburgh that year where Steve Allerthorne is the photographer I was sat on a stool

like that and then he took the stool away and put that you know that photo on top of like a photo of the horse the male had used

that photograph that's insane And then put a caption underneath Charles II fighting the parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester. There's a lot to unpack. They had thought that me was a painting. Where'd they got it? Where'd they just go googled it up? The picture editor had obviously just done a search on Charles II and picked the first picture that came up.

Are you joking? That's completely mad, isn't it? Yeah. And then, but they then had... How long did it stay there for? The whole morning. Oh, great. Did you screen grab it?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, of course. Did her whole bloody 20 minutes about it make. Which is in her language, a screen grab. I got it. I got a 20 minute. It's so mad that that happened.

So funny, isn't it? But it is such a great poster. I mean, like, from a distance. Like, I mean, obviously I can tell it's you, but from a distance. You can see the mistake. No, that's not. That is a photo shoot for the Guardian. So do you want me to find the...

Oh, go on show me the actual picture? Oh, the actual picture. Yes. That's it there. I mean, this looks even less like Charles is it. Well, that looks like me, right? I mean, I would go so far as... For fuck sake, that is...

Well, they're just idiots, aren't they? That's nuts. People are stupid. Oh, I love that picture. I remember that poster. Just your nostrils. Just the pleasure of your nostrils. Honestly, Bridger, that is so hilarious that they thought that

Charles the second. I know, right. Is this when you're filming the change? Is that on set? I learnt how to climb a tree for a stand-up show because I was so sick of Ricky Jervais and Dave Chappelle and everyone going, oh, I'm risky this and I'm risky that.

What I did was I climbed to the top of this rope and it was very dangerous because there was no mat or anything like that and then did a joke from the top of the from the top of the rope and then said that's a dangerous joke but it was so the money involved

in that one I admire your commitment to that oh my god that tree is beautiful I thought that was the tree that's in the change sorry I'm because the tree is a big part of the change that's like quite again you know the forest tree is important

that whole forest of Dean is just yeah you couldn't make the change without the forest of Dean no this is what I want you to do can you do it just for me is make a film of the change. I want it to be, what? Well, I'm going to try.

Yeah, for you, Kerry. Yeah. I only just said it and she's doing it. I wanted to be a film. Yeah. I need it to be a film. With an end because they actually... But it's just so beautiful.

It's so beautiful. And all those things you're talking about ritual and ethereal themes, mythical themes, whatever. Telly wants something. I mean, it was brilliant. I loved it. But I could see that Telly wanted something from it. That you're like,

can we just because you love theatre and I think film would hold it it would just hold it in a cinematic it's already quite cinematic I know

but we get caught up in like seconds here and then it's got to have closure and then we got a da da and it's like and when I saw you last you was like you know it didn't get a third

and then we get into thinking that we need more and da da da and it's like it just feels like a film yeah yeah I want it to exist as a movie and I think not enough people watched it for that to be an issue

right so I think it could absolutely exist as a film. It's so good. Yeah. With an ending, you know. Yeah. It was so beautiful. Thank you.

I loved the beauty of it. I just loved the tree and just the, like your headdress in that parade at the end. It was stunning. They did such a great job. So are you going to, so is that happening? I'm going to try. I don't like the idea of we got some, this sounds very, very horribly boastful. But the messages that we got from women saying,

I just feel seen and heard for the for the first time on TV and that's nothing to do with me it's more about you know somebody's story a woman of our age having sort of an adventure and not being kind of I really wanted it to not be about a marriage breakdown or someone just having loads of sex everywhere I wanted it to exist on a much sort of deeper

like our relationships with ourselves and who we think we need. are and what is our identity all kind of mixed up with and stuff like that. And so I feel like I have a duty to a lot of people that got in touch to finish her story. Oh wow, that's really great. No, but I do them. Because that's a clarity of intention, isn't it? Well, I want to do this. Well, I felt very creatively frustrated by not finishing that story because I feel like that story isn't told enough. Right. Yeah. And I feel like people wanted to know what happened, you know. And people are invested in her. They were. They are. They are. They still are. You know, there was so

much in the change where people, where you articulated or you visualised something that hasn't been said, like her diary, like a list of all the things that she does. The ledger, yeah. The ledger of all the things that she does in a day. I mean, it was hilarious, but it was also really, it was actually quite poignant. It was quite sad that this woman, women who do all of these things that go unnoticed every single day and are just taken for granted all that

mental load, all that, you know, that happens every day. And for you to have that in that ledger, it just, I think it really sparked something a connection where women went, fucking hell! What, if I did my own ledger, what would I find? Yeah. Well, you'd find that you had

years and years that you'd spunked away doing things that Not only nobody knew you were doing them, you didn't get thanked for them either. Oh, God, no. And there's nothing coming back for all that stuff that we've done. There's no. No, and also what I loved about it, and that's okay, because that's just being alive and washing your socks. But there comes a point when you go, oh, do you know what, I'm going to have a sabbatical.

I'm going to do something else for a few months. And there used to be a kind of like people would call it a midlife crisis. People would say, oh, she's gone on a retreat. You know, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, I'm just going to do it. She's gone mad. Yeah, she's gone mad. She's riding a bicycle.

You know, it's all these things where you go, I'm just going to do it, but I'm going to tell you this story. It's usually kind of whispered and you're like, no, no, I'm showing you it. I'm going to show you it. And we're going to go with Linda now on her bike into the woods. On her bike. Yeah. And it's nice that it's, it's that whole thing of, you know, that time in our lives where, you know,

estrogen drops and, yeah, we do forget things and, you know, we get those. menopausal blanks or we get the hot flushes or we get fucking moody or whatever it is but we're not mad I have to read the same like chapter eight times before it's gone in and I can't remember maybe you're a comedian with ADHD I bet that's

taken off is that a symptom not being able to remember book what you've just read concentrate not concentration attention deficit oh god attention deficit I need to get myself this is great this is gold this

Shall I get myself tested? Oh, no, don't bother. Are you bothered about it? No. I would like to be able to remember things. It's not going to help you remember things. It won't make any difference. Just, look, if you're worried, take some kind of amphetamine.

If you feel much calmer, you've probably got ADHD. You didn't do the HRT, did you? No. Or maybe try a bit of that. No, it's too late now. Is it? Is it? Is it doesn't help with brain fog.

Oh, hell me. Everything's sharpened up. Everything? Did it? No. Oh, 100%. What? How much you're taking?

How do you pumps? Three pumps, mate. Stop crying. Remembered shit. Got shit done. Well, you couldn't quite get that out then. Yeah, I know, but you should have seen me before. There's one more picture here because that's the other thing.

So here you are in a leather jacket. Yes. But I always forget that you ride a motorbike. I do ride a motorbike. You're a biker. She's a biker. You're a biker. A massive motorbike I've got.

Oh my God. Bridgett. If only you were a lesbian, you would clean up. You would totally clean up, mate. I think I have all the hallmarks. You have all the hallmarks apart from being attracted, not being attracted to women, but in every other way. No, I am. But it's just never, well, no, people have always thought I was a lesbian.

Right. Yeah. Well, I'm not surprised, Judge you about this photograph. You actually probably confused a lot of lesbian. And then they were like, oh no, is she, no. What you've always done, I remember this early on, you, you rock some different looks because that look doesn't tie up with the girl in the red suit with Bobby. No, but it's the same person.

It's the same person. How old are you in this picture? But you've always adopted different sartorial, like you can rock some different looks. I can rock five different looks on the same day. I like that. Yeah. Hot pants, leggings. Yeah.

And then, and then something. Completely different. With loads of like jewellery. Yeah. Yeah. Or like a tie and a shirt and a suit jacket. Yeah. Great.

All different. Did you date one of these biker men? My ex is taking the photograph. But he's not in the mirror. I thought his reflection might be in the mirror, but it's not. You don't like Bonnie Tyler. He's all got Bonnie Tyler vibes. Bonnie Tyler?

Yeah, it's just that like, I'm out of a hero. He's got that. It's a channeling that for me. It's like the wind in your hair. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, I got a bike on my 50th birthday and then I don't use it enough so I've sold it again now.

Have you? Yeah. Do you know what I noticed? So I hadn't ridden since the early 90s, late 80s, early 90s. It's the phones, isn't it? No, it is. The, where the world is hotter,

roads, so the tarmac, the buses melt the tarmac. So on roads now you have all these massive grooves and ridges that you get stuck in on a motorcycle Oh shit And it's terrifying Oh that's awful The other thing is I know every council scrapped But the amount of injuries that we have from potholes

In the road now It's just It's just not actually not worth anything up Well he was saying to me the other thing was phones He said between the gap of being on a bike and not being a He couldn't believe how people are driving on their phone Like, it's fucking terrified. Yeah.

People driving around. Oh, crossing the road. Yeah. It's just not worth the risk. No. Horse and cart. Oh, I would love. Do you all get horse and cart?

I'd go back to it, yeah. I would go back to that. I'd go back to paper, you know, all pens and paper. Definitely. Horse and carts. Yeah. Olden times. Is that a telephone mine?

That's a telephone. It's like your new acts. Yep, that's it. I'm going to get an ad suit. Bridge, you're all going to be on tour from January. I'm flippin'am, and I'm going to put some clips up for people to see. Yes, please do that. I'm going to.

I feel like that, I feel like if there's a thing that comes out of this today is you putting up clips. I am going to. I really want you to do that. I want you to do it as a punter. I want to see your clips. Me too. told us too that I'm going to be non-stop

clipping and if you can't deal with it just get someone else to do it she said she'll be your bitch yeah babe you know this bitch business what does that mean like like being

I mean there's so many regrets as soon as I said it out loud I was like oh god that's my whole comedy that's my whole comedy life down everything I say I'm like I said that

I got in last I'll just keep it in yeah you know you say something you're like let's not bring it up again thank you so much Oh God, guys Were you in our fart WhatsApp group?

What am I never in the best WhatsApp group? Jesus, what the fuck is this? That's the only comics WhatsApp group that I've been a part of. Oh, fuck! Who's in this WhatsApp group? Me, Sarah Kendall, Jess Foster Q, Joseph and we would just send each other fart. No, send each other fart. You would like, oh yeah, Jess has told me about this, where you record your fart and you send it.

And just send it, yeah. Oh my! God. But there's no chat. We just send each other. Oh my God. You're just saying the best thing I've ever heard in my life.

Sorry. That's the best thing I've ever heard. Can I make you feel better? No one's sent a fart for a long time. I just, I'm so happy that it existed in the world. I think it started off as the female comics walking group and we never went on a walk,

but we farted at each other. I can't remember if I love that. You would wait until you had one brewing and then you would just go, quick, record it. Yeah, it was a lot of fun for a while.