Perfect Day with Jessica Knappett - EP26: Maisie Adam

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

The wonderful Maisie Adam joins Jess this week to share her most perfect day. The duo discuss a whole variety of things including (but absolutely not limited to) the aerodynamics of sledding, wok-playing, fancy dress, Bill Nighy, blackmail and Maisie’s first ever stand up gig - in Ilkley! Like and subscribe for brand-new episodes every Thursday. Follow us on Instagram @perfectdaycast. And, why not get in touch? Email us at [e-mail] A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Self-appointed as the Paul Mescal of comedy, you'll soon see, we discuss all sorts of things including the aerodynamics of sledding, walk playing, fancy dress, Bill Nighy, blackmail and the perfection of a night off. So sit back and enjoy. This is Maisie Adams' perfect day. Well Bill Nighy dressed me this morning. There's my perfect morning. All right then. Maisie, Adam, thank you so much for joining Perfect Day and we know you're on tour in the middle of an epic tour. I was just looking at the dates.

I mean, it just goes, it goes on and on and on and on. It's a long slog. But a very enjoyable one. Sure. How was the Leeds Playhouse quarry? Genuinely my favourite one. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Massive. Because I went to the youth theatre at the Playhouse. Did you? So it was like really buzzing to do like a full circle moment. Also that

space, you've done it right, that space is massive. It's massive. So it feels, and you're on the floor, you know, where people are like, you're not on a stage, you're on the floor, it's quite gladiatorial. Oh, is that a big word? Yeah, very big word. You were impressed with that. I was impressed, but I also thought, why is she comparing doing stand-up to fighting? Is that what it feels like? It can feel like it sometimes. It can feel like it. And also, I think I'm famously the Paul Mescal of comedy.

Yes. It's been said, right? That's what I was thinking about you, actually. That's where you were drawing the... The top comes off. Yeah. where you were drawing the top comes off. And so still to come, and by the time this goes out, we're looking at, I mean, maybe there's no point in saying it because perhaps these dates are all sold out.

Oh, believe you me, some of them are not. Isle of Man, we're talking Dublin, we're talking Bangor. Yeah, yeah. Am I saying that right? I think it's Bangor. Right. I think that sounded like an instruction. You said. I think they prefer it that way. Aberystwyth, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Norwich, Cheltenham, Aberdeen, Whitehaven, Ilkley. Ilkley. Ilkley. Ilkley. You're

very excited about this. I'm very excited to see you there on 1st of March. King's Hall, no less. I am actually going to put that in my diary right now. King's Hall, big boy room. It's a lovely room, that. Do you know it? Is it? No, no. My first gig was in ILCLY, but it was at the Playhouse. The amateur dramatics Playhouse. The amateur dramatics Playhouse. Oh my god, tell me all about that. I can come to that gig by the way and I will be there. Oh yeah, let me know. But we, when I graduated uni, I moved back home to Pannell. Harrogate, shout out. Yeah, and I wanted to pursue stand up, but there wasn't much of a scene around Harrogate.

In Pannell? pursue stand-up, but there wasn't much of a scene around Harrogate. In panel. Well, certainly not in panel. Definitely pretty much not in Harrogate. And Leeds was like, they had little like pro mixed bill nights, but there wasn't like open mic. It's still quite quiet. Yeah, it is.

Leeds for stand-up. It is. For getting into it anyway. Yeah. But then to like keep my sort of money coming in, I got a job at Ilkley Literature Festival. Oh my god, yeah. And I was just doing ushering and box office for these events around Ilkley. And then they had, as part of their literature festival, an Ilkley Fringe, and it was asking for local artists to apply for it. And it said, you could do a poetry night, you could do spoken word,

you could do dance, you could put on a play, you could do all of this stuff. And then I was like, oh, this is my chance to try stand-up. So I applied, they emailed back and they were like, yep, sure, here's your slot. It's Thursday, the 13th of October, 8 till 9pm. An hour! Just you! But Jess, I didn't know that that was not normal. Because when I'd gone to see comedy as a kid, like at Harrogate Theatre or at Leeds Playhouse, it was comedians with their shows or like if I got a comedy DVD,

they were like 90 minutes or something. And they're just talking for an hour. How hard can it be? So I was like, great, thank you so much. I'll be there. So my first gig was an hour. What did you do? I had all these bits of till roll from when I'd worked at Fatface and had little like ideas and I just memorized them all, tried to like draw it together. It was free as well the night so... Were there lots of people there? Yeah. People that you knew? Lots of people that I knew actually who couldn't believe I'd been so stupid as to try stand up with an hour. But I did it.

I mean I think if we watched it back now Jess, I think if we watched it back now, Jess, I think objectively we would both... Is there a recording of it? There is, but it's not online. Oh my god, please, please release it. I think we would both objectively go that's a strong 10 stretched over 58. I know there'll be people out there who would pay good money to download that. I think you should, I think you have to make it available on a website.

There is not enough money in the world that would make me distribute that, that clip. The worst it was on YouTube for a bit, because I was like, oh, great. That went well. I'm going to put my first hour on YouTube. Yeah. And I was like, but also I remember afterwards, like it was a proper buzz and I was like, that's what I want to do now. I want to do that. So I was like, how old were you? 22, 23. But I

was then like emailing all these promoters in London. And you know, when they come back and they're like, yeah, if you've got a clip, I would just then be like, like, I would have to drop box it because it was too big a file. But I also thought that they probably thought, oh my God, she's doing an hour. She's doing an Edinburgh. Yeah, yeah, I'll give her a middle five. So it kind of worked in my favour. It must have been good. No, no, no. I think it was just, you know, open mic bookers are like, well, if you're

doing an hour, no one's that delusional to be starting with an hour. Oh my god, that's so funny. So just purely by fluke. Yes. The pure bravado of being a twenty-something. The naivety really of it. The naivety. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I have the admin team of Ilkley Fringe, shut to both thank and blame. Oh my god. And I don't think there is an Ilkley Fringe anymore, so you must have shut it down. It was that good. I've always thought that it was actually... They just thought, we can't keep using public money to fund this.

No, if this keeps happening, there's absolutely no way. God, how brilliant. And so you'll be returning to where it all began. Not the same venue, but... No, I've gone one up to the Ilkley Playhouse the same venue, but that's where it all started. I've gone one up from Ilkley Playhouse, the dizzy heights of King's Hall. Please can you do one of your jokes from your foot? Not now. I mean like when you play Ilkley again I really think you should... You've got to tell everyone.

But also if you do come to this gig you would be like, I think I know which one was the joke, do you know what I mean? Was it the bit where no one laughed? No, but tell people that that's what, that, no? Okay, I don't know. I just would love to hear Maisie Adams first ever hour. It's so funny because in my head at the time I was like, oh wow, that, you know, I think that went alright. But I know for a fact, if we watched it now. Do you think you have a thick skin still in that same way? Like, does it bother you? Criticism, a bad gig or anything?

Maybe you don't never have a bad gig. A bad gig, not so much, but I've definitely like learned not to read reviews. I don't bother with them. I think especially because as well, I think when you start out in something like that, where you're getting local people to come out to this amateur dramatic playhouse, it isn't a hub of comedy. It sounds like I'm being snooty about these reviewers, but then when some Oxbridge educatededucated bloke who gets to go to, you know, 10 free gigs a week all within London Zone 1. And call it a career.

Yeah. When they then have something to say about it, I kind of don't... I've had to tell myself not to give a monkey's about what that person thinks. Because at the end of the day, like, that's not who you're trying to impress. You're trying to get the day, like, that's not who you're trying to impress. You're trying to get people to spend money and come out to see you. You're trying to connect with those people on some level, you know, with relatable material that reflects their lives as well as yours. I'm not here to impress that, you know, those sorts of other reviewing type people who very rarely go outside of the M25 to go and see anything in the arts.

So I remember like with my first Edinburgh, everyone was like, top tip, don't read reviews. I think day two I'd read a review. And then the second- You can't help it in Edinburgh because they stick them on your post. Your walk to work is just full of your colleagues with stars strapped across their face. So then you do get curious being like, well, have I got stars? Have I got, you know? And then my second Edinburgh, I think I lasted like a week.

And then my third, I was really strict with myself and I was like, don't read them. And it was my favourite one by far. And it's the same with a tour. I know that my tour is connecting with people. I know that my shows have been going well. I know that I'm enjoying it. And I know that it would be affected by that would be affected by reading an opinion of somebody who I don't, I shouldn't be trying to impress. Your tours called appraisal.

Yeah. It's so is that it? Tell me about it. Basically, I call it appraisal because we don't we don't really have appraisals, do we? We know like, I have one on Christmas Day, actually. Did you? Yeah, from my sister-in-law. Oh, okay. Wow. Tense. But I think like, you know, we we don't get called in by the same boss to have a chat about doing the same job every day. Get an annual really every gig is an appraisal, you know, you know, that thing of like, you're only as good as your last gig? It's kind of true, but also like, that is the way we find how we are with our job. It's not through, say, reviews, as I've mentioned, it's through

how you do in the room that night with those people. So it's kind of off of that idea, because I've been able to be a pro comedian for five years now. And you have obviously in every other job, you have like a five year appraisal. Right. So this is your own. So it was born from that idea. Where do you see yourself in five years time? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, your strengths and weaknesses, you're a good team player. But also like, I think it's just become a show that's about reflecting on how things are going, both work-wise, but home, you know,

home life and friendships and what all like, it's just a taking stock show really. Oh, nice. What a nice place to have found yourself in that you can just like, you can just stop and take stock because you've had a really good run of it. Do you feel like you came quite quickly into the industry and then... I think it's really tricky to answer that because people always go to me, it's been really quick, it's been a fast rise, but that's all I've known. So I don't know, I know that, don't get me wrong, I'm very aware that there's other people who've been on, take a great example, Chris McCaulstausland who's now enjoying this huge explosion but he'd been gigging away on the circuit for years so I do

understand it but also does it feel quick or slow or at pace to me? It's very right. Time is relative. Time is relative. I heard Richard Osmond say on the rest is entertainment, you know what I'm going to say? Yeah, I haven't heard this, but I got about 10 texts from various comedians going, oh, you're the, something about the grabbing the hat as Indiana Jones went under the, when the hat was coming down. It was something about, yeah, like, yeah, the last one, you're the last one in basically

before the industry collapses. Before the TV industry collapses. It's a theme here, isn't it? I did Ilkley Fringe and then it collapsed. I've gone on the telly and now TV's like gone forever. Yeah. Yeah. What could be? I don't think this podcast is going to last. The connecting material. I don't think you'll get another. Don't say that. Sorry, this is the kiss of death having me on. Oh my God. OK, Maisie, on that note, let's start. Yes, before we must end. Ha ha ha ha.

Maisie, what's your perfect morning? Perfect morning? This is like any perfect, right? It's like I can go full dream here. You can do whatever you want, yeah. Okay. So I know we've just said about time is relative, but this morning I'm going to tell you is not going to coincide with probably afternoons and evenings.

But my dream morning would be when my husband and I, we got engaged, we were on holiday in Prague and we got engaged on this like really nice sunny day on the bridge on the river and then literally the next morning I woke up and I thought I was still drunk from partying the night before because I opened the curtains and it was like snow everywhere. It was so beautiful. I cried but I think I cried because I was hung over but it was still very, very, very beautiful. I just, I've very, I think it's the only time in my life where I've felt like I was like on a movie set, like it just didn't look real. So magical. I'm also aware that probably like all the fields were running through as well,

but that's definitely more like a fairy tale landscape. Like it's so beautiful. It looks like you know the provincial town she lives in in Beauty and the Beast. I knew you were going to say that. I felt like I should be running through holding my books. Yeah, it was, it was, it's such a beautiful town, but like when it was dusted with all this snow everywhere and it was glistening in the sunlight, I literally was like, the world could explode tomorrow and I wouldn't mind actually, because this is as good as it gets. It was so nice. What was the, what was the proposal like? Were you proposed to or was it a decision that you made? I was proposed to. Yes, I was propositioned. It was so sweet because I didn't know it was going

to happen. But also, and I've done stand-up about this since, but I, of course, but upon reflection, it's really obvious that it was because he went really weird and really jittery and kept wanting to be in a certain position of the bridge. So that the camera could... No, we didn't film it. But it was like we stopped at the bridge and I was like, you know, we were just like enjoying the view. And then he kept wanting to like move us along. And I was like, why not just enjoy it? And then, but obviously, now I look back, I'm like, yeah, because there was a school trip happening right next to us. There's all these kids running around in like, you know, those yellow caps, they've all got to wear so that

the teacher can keep track of where they are. Then we moved down and we were next to this person who was playing the wok upside down, like a steel drum, but it was a wok. But he was using those things you play a xylophone with just on his wok. And I just thought that was quite funny, but he was like, he was really angry about it. He was like, oh god, don't you just hate it when people are playing the wok in the street? You're very specifically angry about this walker. World's full of walkers. Yeah, it was really, I was like, God, just be in the moment. It's so beautiful. But obviously now I'm like, oh, he was really, he knew this was going to be a big moment and he didn't want to, fair enough to Mike, he didn't want to propose

to the walk, you know, nobody dreams of getting engaged to the sound of the dulcet tones of the wok. But yeah, it was so nice. So like we woke up in Prague that next morning and it's just beautiful everywhere. We went on this walk up around the park and it just felt like something out of a postcard. It just felt weirdly wholesome. It was December 2021 as well. So it was maybe like, I think the first time we'd been able to go away after COVID. So it was maybe like, I think the first time we'd been able to go away after COVID. So it was very like... Those days were so special actually, weren't they? When you were like, oh people... You just suddenly had an appreciation for being able to go away. It felt like, oh God,

we'd booked it before the pandemic anyway, but we didn't know if it was still going to get to happen. And then, I don't know know when you've been told to stay inside for however long it was I really don't know. Some days I think it was like a month and other times I'm like we lived inside. I think it was a year wasn't it a year? It was a year more or less. So it felt really special to be. Yeah so on your actual perfect morning is it that you're going back to that memory or is it that you're recreating, is it like that it's that, it's the snow again or is it that you're going back to that?

Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't have to go back in time. But if I could create my perfect morning, it would be in Prague and it would be that I don't know the snow outside. Oh, yeah. But that feeling when you open the curtains and it's like, oh, it's snowed! That would be it. I don't have to be newly engaged either. Okay. Is Mike there? Yes. He's saying no, after all that.

No, you can't. No, just checking. He's on business, but he's happy crucially. Yes, he is crucially. He's contractually obliged to be happy. So then what then? Well, we can go for the walk around the park. That would be nice. Yeah. You know, slow romantic. Oh, I still love sledging. I love sledging. Do you think there's an age limit on sledging of like, is it weird if you sledge without kids? Without kids? Oh, interesting. It's weird. No, I don't know because there's a sort of, we went skiing just after we had our baby,

without our baby. Yeah. As adults. And the thing is that in sort of snowy resorts, they just call it tobogganing, don't they? But it is sledging. It's absolutely sledging. It's just that they've formalized it into a, and they just call it tobogganing. Were you on a posh sledge? It was wooden. Yeah, that is posh. I tell you what, they're absolutely lethal. The wooden ones. I mean, like old school wooden sledge. Yeah. And so there's like the mountain that we were sledging down, just sort of, you know,

you kind of just ricocheting. You get to the end and you can't, if you haven't steered yourself around the corner, then you're just crashing. If you fall off on one of those wooden ones, that's brutal. But in answer to your question, that to me is not a children's sport. No, no. And so no, I don't think, but I think you're talking about informal casual sledging down the hill in a park. The hill in the park, yeah.

No, I don't think that there's an age limit on it. Do you know we used to, because we like, snow isn't that common anymore, but growing up, we obviously like, we didn't have a sledge. No, I mean, like in Yorkshire, it wasn't, we get snow days, but you'd never get it like fully. So we didn't have a sledge. No, I mean, like in Yorkshire, it wasn't, we'd get snow days, but you'd never get it like fully. So we didn't have a sledge just ready to go in the garage. Yeah. But when there was a snow day, my dad gave us this tip, which is you'd be like, put a pillow in a compost bag. Oh yeah, bin bag. Yeah. And then you sit on that and oh my God, do you fly. Oh my God. So I used to be a bit embarrassed turning up to this, there was a hill called All Saints Hill by Pannell. Stand aside. Right, but all these people would be there with like an actual plastic, you know, proper sledge or like

there was always a kid with like a big round one, you know, the circular sledge. Oh yeah, someone with a sleigh. Yeah, yeah. And reindeer. And then I'd turn up with this pillow in a bag and I'd be a bit embarrassed about it. But then everybody was soon having a go. Can I have a go on your pillow in a bag? Because it goes so fast. You fly. Oh my god, this is such a good tip because we've still got snow at time of recording. Pillow in a bag.

In Ilkley. Get a pillow, get a bag. Oh my god. Send your kid flying. All of our snow's frozen over at the moment. Is it? So it will thaw and then we'll have proper snow again. I'm hoping. There you go.

It doesn't thaw too quickly. So I am getting a pillow in a bath. You're gonna be like Eddie the Eagle. I cannot wait. Yeah. Anyway, any more to add to your perfect morning? Is that, or is that it? You're sledging. Well, I'm bringing a pillow in a bag. I've got a pillow in a bag in Prague. Absolutely. That's my perfect morning. And I was going to say, you know, how does

this compare to normal morning? Oh, I always say you can't start the day until you've put it in a bag. How do you think I got here today? Let's move on to your perfect afternoon. Maisie, what's your perfect afternoon, please? My perfect afternoon is I'm going Ellen Road. Oh, yay! I'm going to Ellen Road. I'm going to watch Leeds play and we win. Of course. We're like, but that isn't as common as I would like it to be. But oh my God, I cannot

tell you the way it improves my mood if we have a good game. That's what's so awful about football, isn't it? Yeah, honestly, I just wish we could fix it. I wish we could rig it. Do you know what I mean? I think people are trying. Yeah. Well, if you are, can I get in on it? Because I'd be bang up for that. When did that last happen that you had the experience of being at? When I went up north for, when I was on tour. So whenever I'm back and up north for a gig, I stay at my granny's who still lives in Pannell. So I will stay with granny and then go to Leeds the next day for the game. So me and Mike, we went to the Leeds game. I'm laughing because my granny still makes us sleep in separate

beds when we stay at hers. She's got twin beds. There is a room with a double bed in but we have to go in the twin. Even though you're married? Even though we're married. I don't know why but it's not really a conversation I'm ready to have with my 94 year old granny yet. Fantastic. Because it will involve discussing probably, look how nervous I'm getting now, just the idea of talking about reproduction with my

granny. Yeah, but not under her roof. No, because of the twin beds. I think she's worried that if it wasn't twin, we'd be. You know in old sitcoms, you know in old sitcoms where the bed, like the married couple sometimes would sleep in two single beds. And now it's making me think of it. I can't think what sitcom that is.

Are you asking, like, how did they...? I'm wondering. Did that happen because... No, but how accurate was that a portrayal? Were husband and wife couples? And you can write in and tell us. Are you asking all people to get in touch? Tell us how you used to shag. No, I'm not asking how you used to shag. Was it normal for husbands and wives to sleep side by side in single beds or was that just a portrayal because it was so risque to show two people in the same bed? Maybe.

I'm interested because I'd be quite up for sleeping in a single bed next to him. Would you? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I'm a roller though. Yeah, he snores and he, mind you, that wouldn't really help. But I quite like the idea of having my own space.

Yeah, but it's not your own space because it's single. So you roll you fall off. What does that happen to you? Yes. You fall out of bed. I only ever fall out of bed at Muriel's. I only ever fall out of bed. And it's your perfect afternoon. Yeah it's my perfect afternoon. So okay perfect afternoon we go to see Leeds United when then I go to bed that night and I don't fall out of bed. In a double bed. In a double bed. Crucially. Yeah.

Oh my God. Great. What, tell me about the experience of being at Elland. Like, why is it so... It's just like, I know everybody sort of says this about their own football team, but Elland Road does have, it's a reputation regardless of where you stand with your loyalties, it is super boisterous, it's very, very loud, it's very, very intense. I just, I really, really love it and I like that when we go, we get the train into Leeds and walk from the station, so you walk through Leeds and I like that feeling. It's a bit like when you go to a music concert of like, you start maybe clocking one or two other people who you think, oh, you're going as well. You see people in a similar shirt. Yeah. If football's not your cup of tea, imagine

you're going to see a Taylor Swift gig and you see someone wearing lots of wristbands and cowboy hats. You know, when you start like clocking it and then as you get closer and closer to the stadium, you're like, it just feels, I like the build up of it. Which is why the losses always really hurt because it's just all these sad faces spilling out of the stadium. Yeah. Yeah. But, but on your perfect one, we've won.

And do you go and celebrate somewhere when you're in Leeds? Do you go out for... If we've won, we'll go back into town and basically, you know, call Lane. Oh yeah. Just basically do that. Just go and have it. Yeah. Just go and have it on call Lane. I do love it. It's great. It's a great... I love Leeds because it's got such a good night life. The last birthday party I had before Covid, I did the Otley Run. Oh yeah. Right, you know this. I know about the Otley Run. So you start, we started at Hyde Park.

Not in Otley. No, well you're meant to start in Otley but nobody does. You start at Hyde Park. But were you in fancy dress? So I was like, come on, I want to do fancy dress to all my mates and they were like no we're not fancy dress we'll do it but we're not doing fancy dress I was like for god's sake. So the Otley run by the way we probably should just say is like a pub crawl, I was going to say it's a drinking competition, it's not a competition, it's a pub crawl on a particular strip in Leeds

which really is between Headingley. So you're meant to start in Otley and drink in every pub on the way to Leeds. Are you? Yeah. So it's Otley Road? You can't do that. You can't start in Otley. So a lot of people start at the Hyde Park pub and come in through, is it Woodla? Yeah, in the park.

And you have a drink at every pub, but it varies in terms of some pubs are great, some pubs are sketchy. Yeah. There's one that's just like the upstairs of somebody's house and it's an old couple behind the bar. No, no. Yeah. And it's like leather clapped out sofas.

It's really weird. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. And they'll give you like a cup of like a drink in like a mug. It's really weird Then I just feel like they're that's the point where they like you just you get rehydrated. Yeah Should have some water. Yeah, you probably go into some of the bedrooms. They've just put people to bed

But so I was like to my mates come on, we've got to go fancy dress. Everybody does fancy dress. They were like, no, no, no. It is carnage. And I turned up and they had all gone fancy dress as me. Oh my god. And I was. Burn. Right. So this is. Just a sea of Fred Perry's. Yes. They were all in Fred.

And the E-5501. They were all in Fred Perry's. Bill Nye was there. And then, and then they'd got, so this is like about five years ago now, yeah, because it's pre-pandemic. So I used to have like a dark Bob and they were all in dark Bob wigs. Like a Fred Perry. And the annoying thing was, Jess, is I had turned up obviously not thinking it was, obviously not thinking it was fancy dress.

And you just fit right in. I was in a Fred Perry. Yeah, I just looked. It was mortifying actually. Is it mortifying or is it just really cool that you've got a signature style? You could call it really cool that you've got a signature style or just woefully predictable. I think it's cool. How many Fred Pezzas have you got, Drekken? Maybe like...

Countless? Yeah, probably like 20, I think. It must be quite nice though in that sort of, you know, like all of those, I'm sure I've talked about this, I've talked about this on the podcast before and I couldn't remember his name last time either. Is it Bill Gates or is it the other guy who wears the same polo neck every day? It was someone like that and then Obama wore the same tie or something like that. Oh really?

You know and people and like successful people. Yeah. Brett Goldstein. Like myself, Bill Gates and Barack Obama. Some good company I'm keeping there. Wow. Don't. So they take the decision-making out of their clothes. I really, really admire it genuinely and I'm often thinking what can I do that's like takes the decision and it must just be quite nice that you've got a selection of Fred Pezzas.

I just like the fit, do you know what I mean? Like you know when you find like certain brands or certain like yeah that just always make you feel confident and good especially like on stage. And we were talking about it on the way as as you walked in, there's a clip circulating of Bill Nye describing the perfect outfit and it is everything that you wear. Right. You've got to find it. It's a pair of Levi 501s and a Fred Perry and maybe he does describe some shoes. Oh, and a Harrington jacket.

And a Harrington jacket. And that is you walked in wearing that. Well, Bill Nye dressed me this morning. There's my perfect morning. I wake up in a single bed. In the single bed next to me, Bill Nye. Has rolled out of the single bed in the night. She's on the floor saying, Maisie, let's find out what's your perfect night? Well, we already know it's obviously

it's at Muriel's in a double bed. But what's your other perfect night? I just never thought this would be the shout out my gran would get. Muriel, owner of two single birds. I really hope she listens to this episode and she can write it and let us know. I don't think she knows what a podcast is, but I will get this to her. Please do. Yeah, you might have to put it on cassette for her. We can make that happen to Muriel.

Thank you. We'll post it. We'll post a cassette to Muriel's house. That's quite dark dark isn't it? Yeah, does that? Is that sinister now? Cassettes are never posted in any other scenario than sinister. No. If you get a cassette in the post it's not going to contain something you want to hear is it? No. It's going to be something, what's it called, like in, no not indoctrinating, like in that, where you get, never mind, where it puts you framed for something in... Oh, um, incriminating.

Incriminating, thank you. God, that was quite stressful actually. We got there in the end. Yeah, there's something incriminating on that cassette that's been posted through my door again. I know it reminds me of Handmaid's Tale when they did it. Oh, I'm not up to date on Handmaid's Tale. I think I might have missed two series now. It's done one of those things where it's been too long since the last series.

Is that what it is? Yeah, like Stranger Things. I need to leave it long enough to the point where I've forgotten everything and then I'll just watch it again. All of it? Yeah. Who's got the time? Who's got the time? Maybe it's what's happening in your perfect night. Let's find out. What's your perfect night, please? My perfect night? It sounds, it sounds bad, but it's a night off. It's a night off from comedy.

I live in Brighton now, Jess, and I really, really love it. It's such a cool place to live. And there's just really, really nice places to go. I've lived there six years, and I feel like I'm still finding new little lovely restaurants and bars and pubs and stuff. So I think it would be a night off. There is a restaurant in Brighton called Burnt Orange. It's very very nice but it's pricey yet they do a special menu. Oh really? Tasting menu and you can take the girl out of Yorkshire but you can't take the girl out of Yorkshire. You get basically everything you would normally get but for about a third

of the price. If you go to Burnt Orange get the tasting for two menu. Really? Yes. Okay, so and what are you sort of? It's tapas, that's what you've got. So basically it's one of those nice restaurants but I went with my friend and you know when the waiters like, so we would advise like five to six plates per person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course you would. And then that's what we did. And the bill was so expensive. I think I'm sort of

still recovering from it emotionally. And then we got given as a gift, tasting menu for two. And me and Mike went and we were like, oh, you just get like everything you would have ordered anyway, but it's a set price. So you taste the bargain? Yeah, yeah, honestly. And it is sweet. I love that there has to be an element of a bargain. I will only die if I've got a voucher.

I will only die if I've got a voucher. So perfect evening, burn orange with the voucher. Then there's a great pub in Brighton called the Great Eastern and it's just, it's always got like a vibe of as if you've come in from the cold weather, you come in, it's low ceilings, they've always got like these candles lit everywhere. It feels kind of like a pub in like Game of Thrones kind of vibe, you know, when they're, they'd serve like a hearty stew Oh, it sounds great. Yeah, it's that kind of mead in a tankard. Yes. That is exactly it Mead in a tankard. Oh, like those like storm lanterns. Yes. Yes. It's not a barmaid. It's a wench

Oh my god. Yes. I know exactly what you mean. Beams? Beams. Can't get enough beams in a pub. I think it's because it's on the coast. There's something like Navy. It's like you can imagine some sailors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, they will be. I start a sea shanty. No one joins in. I'm doing all the parts. Yeah, I just I really value when you get a night off and you get to go and do. Yeah, because I, I really value when you get a night off and you get to go and do...

Yeah, because I bet you don't get that many nights off in your RGA. No, not at all. No. And especially... So when do you see your husband? Well, this is the mad thing is, like, my husband, when I met him, he was a, he ran a cocktail bar. So when we did have a night off, he was out, even when I was off, he was not in until 3am sometimes. So I feel like now, because he no longer works for the cocktail bar, he works from home now. It's so dreamy because now, if I've got a night off, we can definitely... And it still feels a bit like what I was saying about the holiday in Prague, when you've not

been able to do something for so long and then you get to do it, it feels special. Yeah. It feels special. I like that that's a necessary factor that you have to have been deprived of something. Yes. Yes, I think so. Like a double bed. It suddenly feels really spacious and luxurious. So are you going, so when, are you a bit sort of, is it just you and Mike? Is it a date

night? Yeah. So there's no, so hasn't been anyone else on your perfect date and night? No. Apart from a bit, there's been a touch of Muriel. There's a touch of Muriel. And the other spectators at Ellen Road. Maybe after Ellen Road, we go on Otley Run down Call Lane

and then when it gets to like seven. Yes, there are other people you're allowed, all your mates there that dressed up as you. Yeah, yeah and then maybe when it gets to like, what would that be like, seven, eight, when it gets to like nine o'clock maybe then we magically transport to Burnt Orange because I'll need some food by then. Yeah. So I probably will want five to six small plates per person. You certainly will. The waiter will be correct there.

And then, but I'll have a voucher so I won't mind. And then... And then you're going to go and top up. And then we'll go and top up at the Great Eastern. Great Eastern, but no one else is joining you. It's just the two of you. No. Do you have a proper laugh with Mike? Yeah.

I love this because he's enough. You don't need your mates. No, but also like, I think, I don't know if you feel like this, but with comedy when you're like around other comedically minded people. Exhausting. Thank you. It's fun for a bit, but then it's like, and don't get me wrong, my friends are great for it, but also there's an energy when there's a big group of you that is still kind of relentless and we're all kind of bouncing off each other in a way that's like, sometimes

it's nice to just have a one-on-one and a giggle about something really stupid that is kind of an in-joke and nobody else will really Yeah, just it's just a bit. It's like the relief of yeah, not having to be on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Do you feel that do you feel like you have to be on socially? Not with my not with my close mates. No, you still do you still have like a gang of mates from home? Yeah, yeah. Oh nice. So we all met up at Christmas and it's still the same. We've all been mates since we were 11 or 12.

But obviously they are mercilessly mocking you if they're dressing up as you. Yeah, yeah. And they all think it's ridiculous that I have this job. Which is totally fair enough. So they're there to enough. They have such serious proper jobs Jess. They've got actual job titles and they wear work uniforms and shirts and ties and brogues. Do you know what they do or is it sort of like a chandlery thing?

It genuinely is a chandlery thing. Mike will ask about some of my mates and I'm like, I can like name the rough industry, but I don't know exactly. No, but then also it gets to a point where you can't ask. Oh, I can't. Because it's been so long. No. And you don't really want to bring it up. Yeah. So then you it up. So you just have to ask about everything else. Yeah. My friend James, he used to work in Washington DC. And Mike was like, that's so cool. What did he used to do? And I was like, I think he was in the White House. He wasn't in the White House. He just worked in Washington DC. Yeah.

But I- You just sort of make that assumption because you've watched the West Wing. I just don't know. Like, even when we got married, Mike was like, oh, so who are your bridesmaids? And I was like going through them. And there was only one where I could say what they did, because they too don't have like a proper job. Like, you know, they're like in the arts.

So I know what it is. One of them I was like, I think it's, I think lives with the council, steps in events. And then Gabs, I want to say is like community outreach. Yeah, okay. But she's gonna, do you think she might listen to this? Do you think there's a chance she might listen to this? And just be like, that is, I'm actually a fully qualified solicitor. Yeah. Yeah. Which could be community outreach, you know. Yeah, community outreach. Yeah, just works with people.

That's what I always say, works with people. Your community outreach in a way. Works with people. Yeah, who isn't working with people? So under normal circumstances, are you gigging most nights? And if you're not on tour, do you still gig just to keep the going? Yeah, I feel like I have a lot of that thing of, you know when like you're starting out

and you're doing the Ilkley Playhouse? Oh you are, yeah. But you know when you start out and you start getting work that you say yes to everything and you kind of have this fear that if you don't say yes, that will be the only time you're asked. So you take it all in and then again, not to keep bringing it up, but like something like COVID happens as well. So I feel like I'm still very like, I book myself so far in advance because I get so worried that it's not going to stick around, especially when people like Richard Osmond are on podcasts going, she's

the last one. Last one in, first one out. It's really hard to say no to stuff, I find, because I think, you know, again, my friends have got proper jobs, they've got therefore a salary and they have set hours that they're expected and required to come into. This job is like, do you want to do this gig? And you can say no, but there's a part of you that still remembers going, you know, working in Fatface.

Yeah, and getting a Megabus down to London to do four gigs back to back and stay in a hostel in Camden so that you can do the gigs. Do you wear yourself out? Yeah, every single time. Every single time. I'll say to Mike, remind me not to take these sorts of gigs. And he'll be like, okay. And then he'll be like, I've seen... There's no such thing. I've had to start telling myself that there's no such thing as a little job. No. Because I keep, I treat, I like will take something, I don't even live in London and most of the work that I do is in London and I'll take a job and be like, okay, that's

just a little, that's just a little one that's just. Yeah. But then obviously I've got like the day to get there and then do it and then stay over and then the day to get. So actually it's three days. What you've done is take three days. You've taken three days to do one little job, but there's no such thing. No, no, no. And it's really hard. And you don't, you know, presumably most of your gigs are in London. Yeah.

And you live in Brighton. Yeah, exactly. It's not like it's not doable, but if you've got a late, like what do you do if you do a late London gig? Do you stay over in London? Oh my God. I can remember doing them. Yeah, most of the time. I mean, Brighton, you can get back quite late, but I remember, I think the last train back from Victoria is something

like quarter past one in the morning, something like that, or 2am. I can remember I did, you know, Top Secret Comedy Club. I opened for Ross Noble when he was doing a work in progress set, but he goes on first, does a little like ten and then brings me on. But his ten was not a ten. No, because he improvised. Yeah, yeah. And he was brilliant, obviously, but I was like, yeah, and I was still quite new and I was like, I have to do my twenty that I've been asked to do. I can't do ten because he's done half an hour. So I did my 20 and then was running back to Victoria Station. There was no train back until half

four in the morning. It was the first train of the day. So I sat in Victoria for three hours basically. Oh my god! Just sat, yeah, with my coat and these pigeons. And then I met a really nice girl who'd also missed her train and she was Canadian, she was trying to get to Gatwick Airport. Oh no. Yeah, still friends with her on Facebook. We didn't have much else to do except add each other on Facebook and chat about the differences between Britain and Canada. That pigeon and that pigeon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pigeons and Canada were the main topics of discussion.

Oh, that's great. Yeah. But that doesn't happen anymore, terribly. No, no, no. Now I will get a hotel. Twin room only. Roll out of bed. And go back to Bryton. Literally roll out of bed.

Maisie, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. And when I say us, I mean me. That was a fab, perfect day. Thank you and you can go and see Maisie on tour, so do it! See you in Ilkley, guys. See you in Ilkley. Big night out in Ilkley. Huge.

Do you want to come dressed as me? Yeah, actually. I've got six friends that have an outfit if you need to borrow it. Wow. Wow. I too would love to wake up to a snow-covered Prague and go sledding on a pillow covered in a bin bag. And can someone please debunk if old sitcom couples sleeping in separate single beds was an accurate representation of real life at the time? Every day a perfect day at gmail.com. Someone solve this mystery for me, I can't possibly Google it and my grandmother is dead. What a hilarious lady Maisie Adamis.

Thank you so much Maisie for coming on and remember Maisie is heading out on the second leg of her massive tour appraisal with dates running all the way to April. Special shout out to Wilklee. See you there. So make sure you head out to see her. I definitely will be. And of course we have some fabulous guests upcoming including Rosie Jones and Fatiya El Ghori. So like and subscribe and follow us on at Perfect Daycast for all your

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