THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST - EP.264 - DAVID O'DOHERTY (LIVE)

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

Adam talks with Irish comedian David O'Doherty in front of a live audience at the 2018 Dublin podcast festival, in an episode rescued from Adam's shamefully disorganised, dusty pod vault. As well as d...elicious vintage waffle about email scams, cycling, music, comedy inspirations and puking on stage, David sings a couple of songs and is generally terrific company. Plus Adam shares some cultural recommendations.Conversation recorded live at Vicar Street, Dublin on 3 October 2018WATCH OUT! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGEThanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production supportPodcast illustration by Helen GreenListen to Adam's album 'Buckle Up' Order Adam's book 'I Love You Byeee' Sign up for the newsletter on Adam's website (scroll down on homepage)RELATED LINKSDAVID O'DOHERTY WEBSITEDAVID ON CONAN SINGING ‘LIFE’ - 2015 (YOUTUBE)THE MODEST ADVENTURES OF DAVID O’DOHERTY EP.1  - 2006 (YOUTUBE)TIME TRUMPET - DRAGON'S DEN SKETCH - 2006 (YOUTUBE)SOUPY NORMAN EP. 1 by Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty - 2007 (YOUTUBE)KEVIN McALEER ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - 1987 (YOUTUBE)LADY GAGA VOMITS ON STAGE - 2012 (YOUTUBE)ADAM ON TALK 90s TO ME PODCAST WITH MIRANDA SAWYER - 2025 (YOUTUBE)THE RUNNING MAN (OFFICIAL TRAILER) - 2025 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening I took my microphone and found some human folk Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke My name is Adam Buxton I'm a man I want you to enjoy this that's the plan Hey, how you doing podcats?
Starting point is 00:00:34 It's Adam Buxton here. I'm reporting to you from the gloaming out here in a cold Norfolk field, early November 2025. I'm out here with my dog friend Rosie. How are you doing, though, podcats? I hope you're very well. Thank you so much for coming back and joining us for another. ludicrous conversational ramble. My ramble partner today is David O'Docchety. Here's some assorted O'Docoty facts for you. David was born on the 18th of December, 1975. He is an Irish comedian,
Starting point is 00:01:13 author, musician, actor and playwright, and the son of renowned jazz pianist Jim Doherty. He earned a place at Trinity College Dublin to study philosophy. And there he was a member of the Jazz Society and apparently a fake breakdancing society. It was while he was studying at Trinity that he began his comedy career. Early pre-comedy jobs included telemarketing and working in a bicycle shop, David, is a keen cyclist to this day.
Starting point is 00:01:43 He made his first appearance at Dublin's comedy cellar in 1998. By 2007, David had his own TV show on Ireland's RTE2, a six-part series called The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty. There's a link to an episode in the description. In 2008, David won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for his show Let's Comedy. He's had a show at the Edinburgh fringe every year since then, except, uh, pandemic year, and maybe the year after. And his extensive international touring also includes a couple of years when he supported Flight of the Concords. David is also a successful children's author, with the Danger is Everywhere,
Starting point is 00:02:27 series of books, and The Summer I Robbed a Bank, which won the Irish Children's Book of the Year award and was adapted for the stage. Music, of course, is a central part of David's life, and he describes his own comedic musical style as very low-energy musical whimsy. Since 2024, David has also co-hosted, along with Max Rushden, the podcast, What Did You Do Yesterday, wherein guests, including Adam Buxton, are asked to describe what the they did the day before recording, what did you do yesterday? The conversation with David that you're about to hear on this podcast was recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Dublin podcast festival in 2018. Now, I don't know if you realised, but that's quite a long time
Starting point is 00:03:15 ago. So earlier today, I sent David a voice message to ask how he felt about me unearthing this episode after all this time. Hey, Siri, you're not going to say hello I can do that hello thanks just keeps it a bit more friendly okay I'd like to send a voice message please
Starting point is 00:03:38 to who David O Doherty To David O Doherty in messages Go ahead Actually I think it's more like Doherty I think guttural Send it No that's not the message
Starting point is 00:03:49 I'm just correcting you on your pronunciation of Doherty I think I'm pronouncing it right Send it No I won't say Send it. Please don't send that one.
Starting point is 00:03:59 No. Send voice message to David O'Dockety, please. Go ahead. David O'Docotty, DoD, Doddells, the Doddman out, Snoop Dogg, Dodd, Dodd Future. Oh, this is lame. I won't send it. No, don't send that one, please. Record new voice message.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Sorry, sorry, I can't help with that. You can learn more about logging your health data with Siri at Apple.com. Oh, it's okay. Don't worry. I'll sort this out myself, Siri. Thank you. Bye. Okay. And that's the AI revolution, is it? Hey, David. Adam Buxton here. Hope you're very well. It was good fun being on what did you do yesterday earlier this year. And it reminded me, of course, that I am sitting on a great live episode of my podcast that we recorded in Dublin in 2018.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I don't know if you can remember back that far. I certainly have trouble. Now, why did I never get it together to put that episode out before now, you may well ask? Well, a combination of boring, technical and organizational reasons, but I listened to it again the other day, and it's really great.
Starting point is 00:05:14 I loved it. So I wanted to ask if you would be okay with me putting it out now. And if it did go out, it would have the distinction of being the longest gap between recording and transmission of an episode in the history of this podcast. Maybe in the history of any podcast.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Eight years. A lot has happened in eight years. Some things haven't changed the day we recorded our episode in Vicar Street. There had been protests in Dublin over the housing crisis in Ireland. That is sadly ongoing. Less sadly, though,
Starting point is 00:05:53 we talked about the joys of cycling and music, that hasn't gone away. You played a couple of your own timeless songs, although one of them was about going back in time to talk to your younger self. But mainly, we just laughed and enjoyed each other's company and had what I believe the Flintstones would have called a gay old time. So anyway, let me know how you feel about the world finally getting to enjoy that night with us. And if you want to let me know how you feel in a voice note, then I can include the voice note in this introduction, unless, of course, you're pissed off and you just leave a very bitter rant about what a disrespectful, disorganized, live podcast, twat I am.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Either way, thanks for a great night all those years ago. Lots of love. Speak soon. Bye. There we are. That's the message I sent to David. And just a few minutes ago, I got this reply. Hey Adam Buxton Greetings from CD of Row 4 on flight E.I.167 from Heathrow
Starting point is 00:06:59 to Dublin hasn't taken off yet. Thank you. E.I.167. Yes. I do remember our gig. I was 42 then. I'm 49 now. I don't think. I remember having been really
Starting point is 00:07:17 fun at the time and thinking oh yeah I can't wait for people to listen to this but Adam not only went on for five years I would say I don't know what I thought happened to our episode because it was a live one
Starting point is 00:07:33 I know they can be a bit weird sometimes and I thought maybe I'd been a bit too sassy or something on it but I say yes you may put out our chat from October 2018. Thank you very much, David. Very nice of him to get back to me. And I apologize to him and to
Starting point is 00:07:55 you, podcasts, for the delay to your service. If you like, you can pick up a delay repay form, fill it out, and absolutely nothing will happen. I don't think I need to explain too much in our conversation. Some of the more visual sections have been edited out that I hope you enjoy these selected chunks, including a little bit in the middle during the interval when myself and David carried on chatting in my dressing room before going back on stage. I'll be back at the end with a tiny bit more waffle, but right now, with 2018 David O'Docchety. Here we go. Rumble chat, that's of our ramble chat.
Starting point is 00:08:37 We'll focus first on this, then concentrate on that. Let's chew the vat and have a ramble chat. Put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat. Yes, yes, yeah. Whatever you want. Do you want to... Yeah, let's sit down. Let's sit down.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Hello. Huge number of bicycles. I cycle to the gig here this evening. Yes. And I'll say this about... What do we call the people who come to your live podcast? Podcasts.
Starting point is 00:09:34 The French for that is Rambled Chat. Yes. Yeah, yeah. The Rond... The Rond. A whole lot of cyclists here. I mean, I don't want to say that they're not a really successful group of people that come to your gigs. But it wasn't a whole lot of five-series BMWs out there.
Starting point is 00:09:57 There was a big rally about housing today here. I'd say a lot of the audience were at us, and they were like, the last thing we expected was to have these pricks. Oh, I didn't know. This was The Patriarchy Live. I think I saw that demonstration actually It was outside my hotel And I was standing in my bathrobe Looking out of them And I thought, good on you
Starting point is 00:10:26 Bloody good job Actually I did go I walked past them And as I walked past there was a photographer there And he was I swear to you saying to One of the protesters, a young woman short hair, kind of a moheican and radical look going on, shall we say.
Starting point is 00:10:48 And this photographer, who was kind of a middle-aged, cheesy photographer guy, no disrespect, he's apparently a genius, was saying, okay, let's get one more, this time chin up a tiny bit, and look sort of defiant, but with a bit of a smile. Sure, you've nowhere to live,
Starting point is 00:11:10 but on the upside it's quite a nice day today so not a bad time to be honest. You don't want to put people off. If you look angry the whole time, people won't listen. It's here. I got your present from London. I don't know if you've been to London. But this is a real... Wow.
Starting point is 00:11:29 London bear from London Airport. Thank you so much. There are the bears that protect your queen. Exactly. And this bear, I mean, he's dressed as, this is a strange bear, really, if you think about it, because he's dressed as a beef heater
Starting point is 00:11:48 and they protect the queen. And he's wearing on his head a bearskin hat. So he's a sick bear. He's a grotesque kind of Hannibal Lecter-style bear that they've got protecting the queen.
Starting point is 00:12:07 He's a grizzly with a black bear hat on his own head. Right. So there's, yeah, even within the bears, then, there's sort of hierarchy, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, fuck the Grizzlies. This is what I think of the Grizzlies.
Starting point is 00:12:22 I'm going to wear your whole body as a hat. And that still happens. I googled, do the beefeet to still wear bear skin hats? Because you would think, like, surely, 2018, someone must have sent a memo to the MOD. This is what the MOD says about the bear skin. Hats. The M-O-D...
Starting point is 00:12:41 No, what was that? Ministry of Defence. Yeah. That's right. Paul Weller runs. He protects the queen with his beady, angry eyes.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Have you ever met Paul Weller? And no, but I'm friends with Connor O'Brien, who would be villagers. He's my neighbor, and he has worked on a song on the new Paul Weller album. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:13:04 Which he says is really good then. He's one of those people who... He has been around for so long and continues to put out records that people like. I think that's the blandest statement I was looking at the blandest rock writing of all
Starting point is 00:13:21 so I'm obsessed with the most mild form of literature of all is in-flight magazine journalism okay? No, there's two mild sorts of literature for me. The one I'd love to write is in glossy magazines for ladies mid-30s plus
Starting point is 00:13:40 there'll be a letter from the editor at the start where she's like this swooshing her hair around like that and it'll be like hey gang boy do we have a great issue for you this week she's always happy about it that is a mild form of literature but it's not as mild as
Starting point is 00:13:56 rock reviews in Irish in flight in the Aer Lingus magazine it'll be like Ed Sheeran's back and he's done it again you're never You're never going to get one of those legendary NME reviews, which is just like,
Starting point is 00:14:11 what the fuck is this? Sharon, what are you doing? You absolute cunt. One star. I, but I like that. I will be sad the day that those in-flight mags get edgy. You know, because there'll be some toss pot who wants to, like,
Starting point is 00:14:31 let's really shake things up. I think that it's to create a comforting atmosphere on board. a big death machine. Yeah, there is that, but then there's the sort of awful mix of capitalism. You know, the golden rule in visiting any city is never do anything
Starting point is 00:14:47 that's recommended in an in-flight magazine or especially that's taken out an ad in-flight magazine. Have you ever, Irish people, have you ever looked at the ads in the Aer Lingus magazine? There are four of these places none of us have ever been.
Starting point is 00:15:03 It'll be like, darklyo-boxdies, you know. and it'll be something like Ireland's oldest pub since like 637 or something you're like what how is it possibly that old at midnight an English man will be ceremonially killed just as has happened since the 8th century all of that sounds good by the way is Dadlio Buxtis real
Starting point is 00:15:26 you got me a present I got you a present so I have a bicycle obsession particularly bicycles of the 19 and I enjoy everything that accompanies it. The real height of the blatant drugs era. I mean, everyone's still on drugs, but at least now the drugs they're taking are a little more complicated. I buy these ex-pro bikes.
Starting point is 00:15:51 You buy them on eBay for four or five hundred quid, where you can, like, it has ridden the Tour de France, running your nose along the saddle. You get a stench of EPO office or whatever. and then a big part of cycling, particularly in the 80s, was your bum that was to stop it getting, particularly in the mountain stages
Starting point is 00:16:15 with the cooling of shooting down the mountains where your sweat could potentially freeze on a cold day because you're going so fast and then sweating as you go back up again. So it was all about taking care of your butt. Of the Netherlands? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:32 And so with that in mind, a key product was le creme lubricante par excellence for le chamois. It's chamois buter. Oh, mate. So it's B-U-T-T comma R.
Starting point is 00:16:48 And even if you're just going to the shops because I know you like to cycle, I need you to smear half a tube of that down there now to prevent saddle sores. The ultimate skin lubricant. Now, do you say chamois or chamois? Yeah, I think we say chamois. but...
Starting point is 00:17:05 Shammie cream. Yeah. I filled it with jazz. This is soap. Especially if this does go up. Oh my God. He's lubing up to the listeners. Buxton is lubing.
Starting point is 00:17:24 I mean, now we can go as long as you want. Is it supposed to go right in? Yeah, it goes... I mean, that's where the infection starts. I mean, in a way you can send it down. from the other end just by swallowing it and then letting it all go straight through. So we'll do more meet and greet in a bit
Starting point is 00:17:42 and it'd be great to say hello. Thanks, man. I appreciate that. Well, I mean, this ties in with what you've just put on your butt. To the listeners, I'm wearing a T-shirt that appears to say I heart K-Y, as in K-Y jelly. Yes. But in fact, the heart, if you look carefully as a bicycle, and the K-Y is K-Y because
Starting point is 00:18:04 I went to Kerry for Kerry Bicycle Week. Oh. I was in Kerry a couple of weeks ago. Really? Yeah. Wow. Because my producer, Seamus, his family has a place there. And so I went to try and do some writing.
Starting point is 00:18:19 So I was wandering around the coast of Kerry, and it was, God, it's beautiful. Did you get any inspiration from it? Because, I mean, I've tried to do this myself. Yeah. But sometimes it's too, I mean, you're too worried about human survival sometimes in remote areas. It's the reason the Neanderthals aren't remembered for their great plays. No, I did. I had a bit of that.
Starting point is 00:18:44 The weather was quite severe, and I didn't want to be housebound the whole time I wanted to get some exercise, so I went out for a walk in this lashing wind and rain, wandering along. Then I came up against some cows. Oh, yeah. I didn't know what the situation was with the cows. You just got a lube-up, and hope for the best. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Cow deaths are quite, I don't know about in Ireland, but in the UK there's a lot of... No. No? I mean, in as much as bulls are... You know, like the Matador, I see a danger there. No, not just bulls. The cows get all trampoli.
Starting point is 00:19:23 I mean, what, were you trying to mount them? Was this your first rodeo, as to say it goes? No, because, so Granny O'Darady spent a lot of the years, living on Ackle, which I mean Kerry's great, but it's Manhattan compared to Ackle which is it's an
Starting point is 00:19:43 sort of island shaped like a handgun off the west coast off Mayo where there's like six trees on the island. You know a place that's too severe for fucking shrubbery.
Starting point is 00:20:01 If you leave your bike outside overnight in the morning just a pile of dust and written in the dust to fuck you go back to their city you prick I know what the deal is out here I don't want to get into trouble with the farmers
Starting point is 00:20:16 or the cows anyway so I went back but it's very difficult to stick to any kind of routine like when you're alone in a house and you're trying to write and especially with the internet obviously it's a total disaster area oh hang on well that's carry
Starting point is 00:20:33 You do not get that in Ackle. No way. It may be the most Celtic Prog Rock moment of my life. You get a bit more 3G now in Ackle just with the way
Starting point is 00:20:45 that the aerials have gotten better or whatever. But it's very much like weather dependent and stuff like that. And one time was waiting for emails to come in. I really need to check it
Starting point is 00:20:55 and I walked about a quarter of the way up Slevemore, the large mountain there, like all the time holding my phone skywards like He-Man at summoning the power
Starting point is 00:21:07 of Grayskill and I couldn't get it and I was getting a bit more and then I clambered up on some rocks and I got it and then I realized I was standing on a megalithic tomb like something that the
Starting point is 00:21:21 pre-Celtz had put there 4,000 years ago that now I was just using to I think you'll find that's why the Celts put it there I'm like, what has come in? Like, this is obviously going to be a message from like, David, I love you.
Starting point is 00:21:38 It's like, what is it? Oh, booking.com. I've got some new offers. Great. I've started getting cannabis infused gummy bear emails. Do you get those at all? No. I mean, you've obviously ordered something.
Starting point is 00:21:52 No. Is this the dark web? No. I swear to you, I've never done anything like that. I swear to you. But I've just out of the, the blues start, it's like I've thought about them and I've thought, yeah, if someone offers me one, I'll give it a go.
Starting point is 00:22:11 But getting them posted. But then they've been reading my thoughts and now I'm getting emails all the time and it's one of these, if you look down at the bottom and you click on unsubscribe, it's sort of burnt into the whole email and if you click on it, then you get launched off to the spam site that they want you to go to and then they start harvesting your data. I got a really good one from, I say really good. It was bad, but it was, it totally fooled me. It looked as if it was from Apple, and it was saying,
Starting point is 00:22:41 here's the receipt for your recent purchase of something or other, and they'd clearly, some algorithm had gone through the kind of things I buy and that my family buys. Like what, can you think of a thing? Yeah, well, it was, you know, my daughter's on the same account as me. She's only 10, so basically I pay for her purchases. She's supposed to clear them with me, but I'm always getting, like, oh, she's bought another 10 Percy Jackson books on her iPad, you know.
Starting point is 00:23:08 And so it was that kind of thing. And I thought, oh, damn it. This time, you know, I didn't order that. What's going on here? And so it said, if you did not make this purchase, fill in your detail. So I clicked on the thing. Wow. And I got halfway through before I was like, do it.
Starting point is 00:23:26 Yeah. I was literally just about to give them all my passwords and type in my, you know, because I was signing into iCloud. They're like, if you need to sort this out, you're going to need to sign into iCloud. So I do all that. And, oh, man, it was such a bad feeling. Have you ever had your identity stolen?
Starting point is 00:23:43 I mean, I had once I was involved, I won't put a time on this, but I was once involved in a very intimate act with a lady. Well done, by the way. Can I just say, that's great. Oh, thanks. Oh, that high five was too hard.
Starting point is 00:24:07 And Siri piped up. I don't know why you'd call me that. Or something, you know the way you can activate? I think you can activate. Yeah. In fact, possibly by me saying Siri now, I speak quite clearly. I mean, I would say I have a very clear speaking voice. Yeah, but I think the podcasts.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Hey, Siri. I'm listening. Yeah. Wow. It's that simple. People know how Siri works. Yeah, but I'm thinking, because you can be, Siri can arrive sometimes.
Starting point is 00:24:39 You've got man, Siri. That's interesting. You can, you can, you can have whatever you like. Irish Siri is a lady. I don't know there's any man Irish Siri. Is there? You can choose whatever Siri you want. No, I think that's English Siri.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Is it? Yeah. We're in the EU, mate. We've, uh. We're in favour of female series. Surely the big scandal in 10 years time is going to be all those absolute fools who've given spit samples to...
Starting point is 00:25:17 If ever there's a Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen, it's everyone who's gone for those ancestry tests and has basically now given all of their personal details, which is what you do, and your DNA as well. I mean, that is a murder waiting to happen. happen. A murder where at the crime scene is left, some of your DNA. And what's that? Oh, all
Starting point is 00:25:38 of your personal information as well. Let's get back to bikes for a second. That's a good segue. How do you find bike shop guys these days, or bike shop staff? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:57 Someone shouted out, it's bastards. It's the closest you'll get to black books. Right. But I was thinking that it had changed because they certainly used to be pricks. Ah, well, now, so in Dublin and Ireland
Starting point is 00:26:12 at the moment, there's a bike to work scheme that involves the government will pay half of the price of a new bike. So consequently, people buy quite fancy bikes like are buying 600, 700 Euro bikes and they really love if they see a bike to work
Starting point is 00:26:27 jump come in. It's an opportunity to set. Whereas I arrive, in and I'm like a point of information would you have a washer for 2003 Campic Nolo
Starting point is 00:26:41 super record rear derailer and they think one of us one of us so I think of it a lot if you're a very good chef but you work in a chipper you know I get that with
Starting point is 00:26:57 bike shops as in these are people who would really enjoy trying to do high-end repairs, but yet everyone comes in with a puncture. Yes. Or my chain has fallen off. Yeah. No, I know what you mean. And they can't bear it.
Starting point is 00:27:13 They're in it for the bike stuff, obviously. But you would think if you're going to work in the service industry, which is essentially what they're doing, then you would take some pleasure from interacting with other humans. But they haven't thought through that bit at all. Or at least they didn't used to. I think it's different now that you've got your chamois butter. Yes. Just go in there with.
Starting point is 00:27:31 that fully lubed from head to toe slide in across the floor on my bottom see for me you know i get very metaphysical when i start talking about bicycles i still get on my bike in the drizzle at half nine in the morning and i'm just like this shouldn't be happening yeah and then you mix that in with 80s uh my sporting heroes were cyclists who have pretty much without exception of being proven. Absolutely disgraced, yeah. But they were my first heroes
Starting point is 00:28:09 and I love everything about like it's just burned into my brain. You know, in 1987, Ireland by fluke and drugs had the number one and number two professional cyclists in the world and it's when I would have been 11 and so I decided
Starting point is 00:28:27 to dedicate my life to becoming the next world champion like these guys and I did I dedicated myself to it for certainly a month
Starting point is 00:28:40 I remember once reading that Sean Kelly used to eat eight slices of toast in the morning and so I started I thought yeah
Starting point is 00:28:51 I can do that year old slightly pudgy David like my mother going like what are you doing and then that's what you have to do these are the commitments. Before I cycle the mile and a half to school, mum,
Starting point is 00:29:07 I need to massively carb load. And then go into school, struggle through till small break, and then take a 15-minute shit as my body just tried to repel all of these sports nutrients that it didn't want. What's your favorite kind of bike pump?
Starting point is 00:29:30 Well, I enjoy. a track pump with a pressed a valve on it. Okay. Bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping. The pump that I like for my bike is a big one, because it gets the job done quick. Plus you've got the valve adapter to fit the fat boy and the skinny prick. And on the big pump, you got the pressure gauge if you're into numbers and shit, but if the needle drops while the tubes connected.
Starting point is 00:30:00 then you got a hole in it That is the exact pump that I was talking about And for Presta Valve Read Skinny Prick then Yeah I didn't know it's called the Presta Val Yeah there's a few different sorts of Valve I don't want to get into it in front of a muggle
Starting point is 00:30:25 That's a different podcast That's Valve chat I took a trip down the river of time. I took a trip, took a trip down the river of time. I packed some things for my trip down the river of time. I packed some things for my trip down the river of time. I took a camping chair and a fancy camera so I could sit and take pictures from my chair off the river of time, of the river of time.
Starting point is 00:30:57 of time, time, time, time, time. I also made sure I had my laptop there so I could use my photo manipulation software and tweak the river of time, time, time, time, oh, oh, oh, oh, the river of time, do-be-doo, the river of time. Ooh la la la, it's long and covered in slime. Okay, here we are. We're in the dressing room at Vicar Street. And we're on our break now.
Starting point is 00:31:38 And we were just talking about the fact that it is weird, like the change of gears that's required for the live podcast thing, especially when you're used to just sitting alone in a room. Yeah, and it is that thing. Because people are listening to it on headphones. It's like the most intimate thing. Yeah. So they want just you and someone else in their brain,
Starting point is 00:32:00 but then they have a thousand other people. Yeah, and it's all like, but I hope we're doing a good job of not shouting too much. I think so. No, I don't think, because also they're very warm the audience. They're very nice, yeah. Do you think they might be the least tough audience? Like I've seen Mastodon and people like that here. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:32:23 Audiences that would really. give, like, you know, I'd say there's a thousand of your of podcasts here. Yeah. I'd say 30 of Queens of the Stone Age's audience. You know what I mean? Would take out
Starting point is 00:32:37 if it was sort of a medieval war situation. My fear is that in a live situation that the audience isn't miced. Yeah. Because I recorded a gig
Starting point is 00:32:51 recently that I were trying out new material, but and gave a little machine to the person operating the desk. So they just recorded to the mic. And this was like a unidirectional Senheuser mic. So all it's getting is you. So it's just a man appears to be just shouting on his own, leaving pauses. And then the worst part was, if I'd try a new piece of material and it went well,
Starting point is 00:33:22 I would make this sound like, I'd be like, and then maybe that's what it will be like in the future and there'd be a pause and I'd go like mm-mm-mm-mm-mm it was some sort of... And you've never heard that before
Starting point is 00:33:41 you've probably never heard of making those noises. The audience are laughing a lot and it's basically me saying good band duttles or something that can go on the show, mate. The whimpers of pleasure.
Starting point is 00:34:03 So this is the two-half podcast as well. Yeah. I mean, that's a mammoth undertaking. What's the thinking there? We're going to go out in the second half. That was just something dictated by the venue. They just wanted to have it nice and long with a booze break in the middle
Starting point is 00:34:17 so that you sell some drinks. And I'm just like, yeah, okay, whatever. I don't mind because I don't do very many live podcasts and they invited me here and it's a lovely venue we did the Bowie
Starting point is 00:34:28 bug special I was at it that's what you were that was amazing it's fun and this I mean they're very very warm audience
Starting point is 00:34:35 it's a famous venue acoustically because it's quite new so it was designed by some famous acoustic architect and if you'll notice
Starting point is 00:34:45 the whole walls are coated in something that feels like hard shaving foam or something so it's zero bounce it's a real studio sound in it so you get all i saw neil young here did you yeah when he was doing a gig in an arena he'd heard about this place and then did a yeah he's a he's a real kind of acoustics queen yeah absolutely so that's probably why you chose this as well indeed you're all about i've heard some of your sonics some of your
Starting point is 00:35:17 podcast is where the main recording device breaks and it ends up being recorded by it ends up being this one this little guy that i've got here i know it's ludicrous thank you so much thank you so much yeah cheers that's caroline she works here at the venue and she's just supplied us with pints of booze i mean so now have you ever done the podcast under the influence of booze no i'm i'm i find it hard enough just to form sentences when I'm absolutely straight. And I'm absolutely off.
Starting point is 00:35:53 I don't know what I'm doing, having a pint now. I'm just thinking, whatever. But I'm no good. What about you? Are you funny when you're under the influence? No. And I start to slur words a little bit. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:08 And I've never done a gig super duper hammered. But I've certainly thinking I'll get away with this. and then just be slightly disappointed afterwards. Because I tour with, like, Concords and people like that. Yeah. It's not a rock and roll vibe.
Starting point is 00:36:25 You know, the vibe with Concords is get the road manager in here. I'm like, what tours can we do tomorrow morning? Yeah. You know, is the Mary Rose going to be open? Oh, they want to, right. They're getting as much as they can out of the experience. Oh, yeah. It's, uh, we sit around at the end. Might eat a little bit of cheese back at the hotel.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Then bed. Let's try and get a solid to eight hours. and we'll go to Bletchley Park the next day. That sounds like Richard Iowaddy. Yeah, I can imagine. I did Travel Man and he was very much like that. Like in between, and Crystal Mays as well when I do that show, he's in between takes, he's reading Dostoevsky
Starting point is 00:37:01 and nibbling on a carrot. I mean, literally. Yeah, people always ask you, where is the party tonight? As if, like, we've booked the top of some skyscraper in New York and we will be dance. until 6 a.m. Did you, as a younger man, ever go on a tour that was the opposite of that? That was a good old school blowout?
Starting point is 00:37:25 I was friends with people in bands and used to tag along with them sometimes. So it was the start of the collapse of the music industry era, where it was banned with four people, two double beds in a travel lodge. Everyone hating, everyone. And just going on the booze as much as to get to sleep. You know what I mean? you're staying in these incredibly grim places.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Yeah. I mean, the beauty of comedy is that, because it's just you and a sports bag with a miniature keyboard in it, you can generally find someone to stay with. So that would have been my first few years. You know, I never,
Starting point is 00:38:05 I think once or twice I did the, I stayed, went out partying with the audience to get the Ryan Air Flight at 545 or whatever. Oh. But, yeah, it's, in a band, you, If you're the bass player and you're hanging the next day, you can start to get away with it.
Starting point is 00:38:21 You just can't in comedy at all. There's nowhere to hide whatsoever. And the audience also hate if you come out and go like, hope we get away with this at a big one last night. They're like, you piece of shit. We have paid 15 quid for this. Yeah, exactly. We want you at your absolute best.
Starting point is 00:38:40 But what about in Melbourne? You must have done all those kinds of festivals where you go out to Australia. That sounds like a sort of non-stop party. I mean, there's a point at which a 42-year-old man has to... Yeah. I can base... If I go out, I ask Dr. Showbiz to let me away with the next gig. And Dr. Showbiz is like, okay, fine.
Starting point is 00:39:08 This once, you don't do this very often. You stayed out till, whatever, daylight. But I'll help you with this gig. Yeah. But then, if you happen to... it again. You're like, Dr. Shobis, I'm so sorry. Can I just get one more? And he's like, no. No, you can't. And you sweat, cold sweats, dying on stage and just general disappointment. Can you imagine how horrific it would be to actually have a real health crisis on stage?
Starting point is 00:39:37 You'd feel like you were going mad. I mean, you'd be traumatized if you survived it. I always think of Bowie having a heart attack. During a gig? Yeah. Did he? He did. Yeah, he collapsed in 2004, and he was playing really long shows around that time. That was the reason he retired. Wow. I've never had a heart attack, but I have puked myself during a gig in Aberdeen. The venue was a part-time cinema, the lemon tree in Aberdeen, and the pick and mix was to the side of the stage. It was sitting there in the sweets area, and the mic extended over to it. So I was, you know, I'm a bad boy.
Starting point is 00:40:16 So mid-gig, I'm taking, in the first half, taking handfuls of sweets and eating them. And, like, this is such fun. This is incredible. And then either it was food poisoning from that, or maybe it was just some sort of toxic shock from 6,000 cola bottles. Yeah. Which, either way, it's not a great rock and roll story. But I said, I think I might be about to puke to the audience. And the tech got a bucket at the side of the stage.
Starting point is 00:40:45 and I got it across the audience that this isn't a bit I am actually the chance I'll puke and then I was like oh shit here it comes and I put the mic down and everyone cheered and there was silence
Starting point is 00:40:58 and the bucket was at the side of the stage it was beside the off stage mic where you announce yourself on so they would have got this like Lucas sound special effect of like you know the set
Starting point is 00:41:12 imagine the sound of the puke hitting the bottom of the So the audience cheered me off. This is a sort of silence, hum, hum. And then actual, visceral, like, oh. They probably thought you were playing a sound effect. We took a five-minute break, and I came back on and did a song at the end with puke down. No.
Starting point is 00:41:34 T-shirt. Got a standing ovation, man. It's one of my only standing ovations ever. And it was, in Aberdeen, they appreciate someone who was performing with pukes. How long ago was that? that it's about four years ago that one yeah it's my go-to memory for Aberdeen still
Starting point is 00:41:51 it's quite a thing to see people puking on stage you ever see that footage of Lady Gaga puking no it's pretty good she's in the middle of a routine on stage like very physical and she just leans over and whoa it's just a column of vomit comes out
Starting point is 00:42:10 then she carries on high kicking and grooving around and then she pukes again I think Have the audience definitely seen us? I would say, it's very clear what's happening. It's not like a little trickle or, oh, she's spat. No, she is absolutely puking her guts out. It's really impressive. Right, now we should probably head back down again, I think.
Starting point is 00:42:32 We're halfway through the podcast. I think it's going really great. The conversation's flowing like it would between Agiza and his mate. Hello Giza, I'm pleased to see you There's so much chemistry It's like a science lab of talking I'm interested in what you said Thank you
Starting point is 00:42:54 There's fun chat and there's deep chat It's like Chris Evans is meeting Stephen Hawking So my father was the musical director On the Late Late Show Which is this show that's still running today So whoever was in Ireland would go on it It was one channel Ireland. Everyone watched it.
Starting point is 00:43:16 And I think in 1970 or 71, this is all since been taped over by RTE. Dad played in the same month. He played piano for Fred Astaire, and he played Hammond with Bob Marley. No way. Yeah. So it was that era where you were just a music man.
Starting point is 00:43:36 And Bob Marley, what? He was just visiting on his own without the way list. No, I think he was there. In the same way that in Letterman, the house band would just yeah go on let's give us some more sound whatever you've got there so yeah would just add in some bits then oh my god it's a it's a ridiculous career you know it's why i realize i'm so lucky doing this like playing a fucking children's keyboard from 1936 like my father has this lifetime of study and expertise with the greatest musicians of all
Starting point is 00:44:10 and he does gigs upstairs in Arthur's pub on Thomas Street between 26 and 35 people. Those are the best gigs, though. They are the best gigs, they are actually the... I mean, aren't they the ones that you really fall away and you think that was a very purely happy moment? I think about gigs like that way more immediately than I think about
Starting point is 00:44:33 going to see some band in a stadium or something like that. Yes, but they're not as financially... No. You don't sell quite so many t-shirts. When I'd be like, Dad, can I get Nike basketball boots? He'd be like, shut the fuck up. I'm working on an atonal piece for seven trumpets. Was he doing all sort of avant-garde stuff?
Starting point is 00:44:57 Yeah, well, he would have kind of gone through that whole era. I tweeted it recently. My father's first band was called The Memphis Five, but only three of them turned up for the photo. So it's this glorious picture where the drummers got Memphis 5. Like Memphis, none of them had ever been to Memphis. And when they were 15, so Dad was born in 39. So this is, we're talking mid-50s, like jazz.
Starting point is 00:45:24 This is an era when in this country, the government and the church were trying to ban jazz. What? Because it was going to make people pregnant. Yeah, there's an amazing article you'll find on the Googlies called the war on jazz. And when Sean McEntee, he was a minister who said that jazz
Starting point is 00:45:45 might be okay, after he died, and this is one of the coolest lines ever, I think McQuaid, the Archbishop of Dublin, said he was a man with the stain of jazz on his soul. That is all I want. When I die, if someone will
Starting point is 00:46:01 please say that. Are you sure he said jazz? It's one of the things to remember about Ireland, which has changed so much in the last 15 years, certainly, but very obviously has. But in fact, there was always weird shit going on. It was always just underground. There was the incredible music scene in the 80s going on at a time when no one had a penny and you couldn't buy fucking rubber johnnies. You know what I mean? I mean, that's the thing is you wouldn't necessarily choose to live in particularly repressive times, but there is always very interesting stuff going on in
Starting point is 00:46:39 those times, people pushing against that stuff and their subcultures forming, that end up being very influential. Yeah. Irish politics always reminds me of, don't ever take a shit in a port-in-loo at a festival that's blocked, but you go anyway. And as you leave, someone's coming in, and you say it was pretty much like that when I went in. Like, that has been Irish politics for my whole life. And then what's been... fascinating in the last few years brought to a head
Starting point is 00:47:14 with the two referendums what was that it wasn't political groups that got this through certainly some politicians helped but it was mostly these tiny grassroots little movements and it was people going
Starting point is 00:47:26 this is bullshit we have to change this and talking to their friends and their friends talking to the other friends so there's a massive housing crisis here at the moment and Parliament's not doing much to sort it out so it's really interesting to see like 15,000 people fucking turn up on a Wednesday
Starting point is 00:47:42 and disturb you in your dressing gown. David, it didn't ruin it at all. It was a wonderful moment for them and for me. So music-wise So music-wise, what's your wheelhouse? When you, if you, okay, I've thought of a new idea for a show. Like, if you were, say, on like a desert island and you were there for... Hang on, a dessert island, like full of, like, Profederal...
Starting point is 00:48:53 Yeah. Ice creams, Hagen-Dars. Desert Island is. Desert Island dis, exactly. It's just ice cream and caramel rocks. Yeah. I'm not going to carry in with this. give us three albums that you would need
Starting point is 00:49:10 that would sustain you out there I mean so we've got a serious issue here which is you don't want to go too deep into jazz nerd O'Dardy here but we'll go a little bit deep Give us accessible jazz nerd Oh my god Kind of blue, Miles Davis
Starting point is 00:49:31 I mean that is a good album That's a beautiful album I mean I might go What album do you pick to get people who... Yeah, to convert jazz doubters. I'm going to say... There's a Miles Davis record called Someday My Prince Will Come, which is the one before, kind of blue. What's the Cannonball Aderly album called?
Starting point is 00:49:53 We Love for Sale and Autumn Leaves on it. Something else by Cannonball Atherly. Yeah, it's the tune that... So... You might have heard that. that's the I can't believe I've just played an excerpt from one of the greatest jazz albums of all time
Starting point is 00:50:18 on a shit keyboard but that'd be a big one so I'm a massive steely Dan every waking moment the director of theirs called Katie Lide that is one of my favorite things one of my favorite lyrics ever is bad sneakers
Starting point is 00:50:36 which is the second song on that record. For me, the definitive steed-down lyric is at the start of that, which is five names that I can hardly stand to hear, including yours and mine and one more chimp who isn't here. And it's just, like, what, that's a short story there.
Starting point is 00:50:54 And then a Brad Meldow record, any of the Art of the Trio series, they're incredible. I mean, they're my top three, but Kirstie is going to fade those down very early on. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:51:07 Did you ever try and write serious songs, or were you always... How dare you? How very dare you? No, because with my Mickey Mouse psychology hat on, I would think that the son of a serious jazz musician writing avant-garde pieces for 20 clarinets would be thinking, hmm, either I'm going to have to be as good or better than dad.
Starting point is 00:51:35 Yes. Or I'm going to be silly. Yeah. I mean, Dad had another side to him, which was a comedy obsession. So Granny spent a lot of the air in Ackle. So we would drive, it used to be a five, six-hour drive. And it would always be with tapes of old goon shows or weird stand-up. There was people like Lord Buckley.
Starting point is 00:51:58 There were all these American comedians who used to perform in jazz club. The Majesty, the policeman. Yes, Buckley, isn't it? really, really odd stuff like that. And then that would have manifested itself from a stand-up point of view with Kevin McAleer
Starting point is 00:52:15 was probably of the new generation of Irish comedians just absolutely fucking mind-blowing who did a routine on the British Saturday Night Live or Friday Night Live show where he did a slideshow with pictures of owls
Starting point is 00:52:31 that just seared itself into. I remember that. my consciousness as... Because it was hit and miss that show and he was one of the ones who's like, who's this guy? Yeah, and it was what the fuck is this sort of comedy.
Starting point is 00:52:45 And he's Irish as well? Like, whoa! Yeah, we'd always had like Randy Newman and listened to a lot of that. A guy called Dave Frischberg. A few kind of forgotten really smart, jazzy piano players with really funny,
Starting point is 00:53:00 sometimes quite satirical songs. So my brother started taking me around the time when I was trying to get into pubs when I was 17 or 18, we worked out that you could get into comedy gigs in the city and they wouldn't try and ID you in this city. And this is a period when the comedy cellar in Dublin might be Dylan Moran, Ardlo Hanlon,
Starting point is 00:53:22 Barry Murphy, Tommy Tiernan. There's a line of Dylan Morin. The first time he went to a comedy gig in Dublin, he was expecting it to be shit, but it was like a Berlin cabaret in the 1930s. Someone would come on and kill a swan. someone else would play a chocolate piano and so that was the scene
Starting point is 00:53:41 that's from about the age of 17 onwards I was the absolute nerd guy sitting in the front of these gigs in front of 40 people and whoever the performer would be would be like you again I don't have any new material and I don't mind I'm trying to learn it off by heart so my brother
Starting point is 00:54:04 was a really out there comedian. My brother, the actor, guy. Who did stuff with Barry Murphy? Yeah, it would have crossed paths with you on Armandoi Annucci's stuff. Doing time trumpet. Doing time trumpet. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:18 They did that amazing series of sketches about Dragonsden. They did Dragonsden and then here they would be known for a series called Supi Norman. Oh my God. Soupy Norman is one of the first examples that I can think of
Starting point is 00:54:32 of people taking, it's like found footage, so they took a Polish soap. Yeah, it was like the Polish Emmerdale. They got permission to use, I think, one episode. And it was quite ambiguous to permission, which was, we're going to dub it, maybe with an emphasis on comedy. I don't have the Polish Emmerdale didn't realize
Starting point is 00:54:52 they were going to rewrite it six different ways. So they created a totally new narrative, and they dubbed it so that it fitted pretty well with what the mouths of the actors was doing. Well, you won't like me to bring this up, but some of my favorite YouTube clips is say I'm trying to woo a lady. I might bring up some of your work,
Starting point is 00:55:17 your re-subtitling of the songs of praise. Oh, yeah. Or your... Which was thanks to Amanda Ianucci, who he was, when we were doing Time Tumpet, or we were doing an earlier version of it, what turned into Time Tumpet. I think it was called
Starting point is 00:55:32 2004 the stupid version we did originally it was this thing for BBC 3 that's like the you know the Spanish name of Night Rider that's right exactly yes Carwich speaks and is exciting
Starting point is 00:55:45 the A team in Portugal is called the wonderful gentleman brackets one of which does not like to fly yeah that's right The holiday horn It goes to do-do Holiday time
Starting point is 00:56:11 Have a carrot Have two carrots Go to the toilet Take your time Holiday time Both of us love music And I think I wonder if this is fair to say
Starting point is 00:56:25 That both of us deep down Would love to be able to write a serious song About Fucking life But make it beautiful and move people to tears with it. But I certainly, I'm not going to speak for you, I certainly don't seem to have
Starting point is 00:56:38 it in me. So instead it comes out as these kind of wonky salvos. Yeah. We just listen to jazz music a lot and then kind of show tunes. Those like insane internal rhymes of Cole Porter like when love congeals, it
Starting point is 00:56:54 soon reveals the faint aroma of performing seals. Like these impossibly incredible and just immediately realized I never be able to do that. So I will go in a different direction. What's your favorite thing to sing now? I'll do a new song.
Starting point is 00:57:12 Oh yeah, great. This is sort of about Dublin. Yeah, I don't know what this is about. Let's see how it goes. Walking along, it feels. like I'm free. What's that sound? A cat purring in a tree. Hey, Mrs. Cat, why you meowing like that? I say, talking to a cat, what am I like? She runs away. I can't blame you, can't. On the night, I went out without my phone. I'm sitting on the bus.
Starting point is 00:58:02 But I'm not looking down. I'm staring at the windows, seeing the lights of the town. This is my town. And tonight I feel part of it. Hearing conversation from the strangers beside, Karen got back with Liam when his mother died. Poor Karen.
Starting point is 00:58:27 I hope she's not making a mistake. Also, sorry. you're troubled him. The guy behind me singing Eminem to himself but the only words he knows for sure are lose and yourself.
Starting point is 00:58:44 This is chaos, this is life but I bloody love it. Should always go out without my phone. I get to where I'm supposed to meet my friends I'm half an hour early but I'm happy to spend the time watching a busker.
Starting point is 00:59:01 she's doing the boys are back in town and I'm like I'm the boys and this is town and that is the greatest Irish rock song that's ever been real
Starting point is 00:59:16 and this is the best version of it I've ever heard and it's so good that I look down and like my feet are moving like I am spontaneous there's like six of us and we're all dancing
Starting point is 00:59:28 and I'm like at the top of Grafton Street in the drizzle never happens when you've got your mobile phone. And then I look over there, and some prick is filming us on his, yeah, go fuck yourself. An hour later, my friends still aren't there. There must have been a change of plan along the way somewhere. Not to worry.
Starting point is 00:59:50 I'll just go get some food of my own. I'll read my book. That's what I'll do. Read my book. That I've downloaded to M. Pollocks. But the first restaurant's full And they recommend another place
Starting point is 01:00:06 But I can't find it Because I don't have maps Tell you what I'll do Get a pint, that's what I'll do I'll go off, go to an old fella's pub I'll get a pint to stout I'll reconnect with the soul of this country Then a guy comes up to me
Starting point is 01:00:24 Outside the pub Says his coat's being robbed Asks if I can phone the cops But I say, Would you believe it tonight I actually and he calls me a miserable bollocks I'm sitting in the pub
Starting point is 01:00:39 and this old fella comes over because he says I look lonely starts telling me about his brother who lives in Tennessee says he can't come home because he doesn't have a visa and he misses him whenever Ireland have a match they listen to it together
Starting point is 01:00:55 on long wave and even though they can't speak they know they're both listening I'm like, this is so beautiful. This is what I need it right now. But then he moves on to how the country's full. There's no room for anybody else. We need a Trump to secure our borders. And you can't even tell who's Irish anymore.
Starting point is 01:01:18 And what do the women want? What do the women want? And I wish I'd brought out my mobile phone. I can't even book a taxi to get the fuck out of that. there walking home in the rain it's amazing
Starting point is 01:01:39 how much more you notice the smell of piss when you can't listen to the Adam Buxton podcast I get home I've got 12 missed calls my friends are like
Starting point is 01:01:55 where are you you're missing the greatest night they've started putting photos up on the WhatsApp group. My friends are waking up in like Auckland and Sydney and Buenos Aires
Starting point is 01:02:06 in L.A. and New York. They're like, oh, it's nights like this that I wish I still lived in Ireland. I'm like, to be honest, when you're actually here,
Starting point is 01:02:16 it's something of a mixed bag. Like, it's getting better. We're sorting it out. Year on year, it's getting a little bit. Give us a couple more years. I mean, it's all right. It's grass.
Starting point is 01:02:29 It's absolutely grand If you just remember to bring out your phone But don't check it too much While the audience While the audience While the audience was applauding, I was trying to think of something glib to say but I
Starting point is 01:03:02 think that's just such a great song and it's funny as well because I've been thinking for ages I've been making notes on my phone where I make all my notes for silly comedy things
Starting point is 01:03:13 I wanted to do a song about sort of counterintuitive about how much I love my phone you know because obviously I'm aware of all the shit things about modern technology and anyway you've done it much better than we both have friends who've done the worthy thing
Starting point is 01:03:28 of get I actually just use a Nokia, you know, for the weekends. And then put the SIM card into the smartphone for work or whatever the rest of the time. Right, okay. Which seems like a brilliant idea, but then you, like, suddenly you can't send a funny picture of two swans boning to that person. Would you be up for singing us one more song before we say goodnight? All right. Oh, there's...
Starting point is 01:03:59 Oh, yeah, they're good ones. Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, let me try and... Whank on a bike, was that? I don't know that one. I don't think I can do that. I think it might be my Elon Musk moment. If I...
Starting point is 01:04:17 In the current climate, can't even take a wank while you're cycling along anymore. What does the world come to? I'll do this one. Okay, yeah, I've got a song. Hello, 18-year-old me. This is you in the year of 2018, and I'm here to tell you so much stuff
Starting point is 01:04:49 about life, happiness, and love. David David take out your fucking headphones What the fuck is that noise This is you in the year 2018 Bullshit If this is me in the future
Starting point is 01:05:14 Tell me something about myself That only I would know Before the mathematics state exam You took and you were 14 years old you wrote the quadratic equation on your dick. And Matt's nerds in the room will realize something of a humble brag there. Thank you. To everyone else, it's not a short formula.
Starting point is 01:05:35 Yeah, that may be true, but I bet a lot of people do that. Tell me something else about myself. You haven't lost your virginity yet, but you will next summer. Sweet. What's it like in the future? Future, what's it like? No, I'm supposed to be giving you advice. I mean, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:05:52 How do you describe the future? Like, the stuff's different. You just feel the same. That's incredibly bleak. Here, uh, what do I do in the future? Yeah? Did football work out? Did the football?
Starting point is 01:06:11 Or my musician like that? Did I make it in music? My ultimate dream. Did I become a musician? Fuck. No. You do. comedy. Oh, that's not bad. Like, what do I do? Like, perfect one-liners, like Mitch
Starting point is 01:06:28 Hedberg or Stephen Wright, or like, well, like Seinfeld, real slick stuff in a suit, come out like, ching, shing, shing, absolutely not. You tried that for a while at the start, but you just don't have the right sort of brain to remember entire sentences. You do musical comedy. Oh, fuck. The lamest genre in all of comedy. Hang on. How do I do musical comedy? I can't sing. Yeah, we've actually found a way around that. What you do is more like melodic shouting.
Starting point is 01:07:03 Do you ever step in a dog in the dark at the bottom of the stairs? The dog's like, that's basically your career. Like what sort of stuff do I do songs about? What be an example of one of my songs? This wouldn't be a million miles from the sort of thing you might do a song about. What do I play? What instrument did I choose? From the pantheon of musical instruments.
Starting point is 01:07:33 Do I play the guitar like Bill Bailey or a Steinway concert grand piano like Victor Borga or Randy Newman? Which one did I choose? Ah, fuck. Do you know the shitty plastic keyboard in the attic you got for your confirmation? No, please.
Starting point is 01:07:53 Are you honestly telling me When I'm 42 years old I'll travel around With that piece of shit In an orange sports bag You can't be serious Fah Well this is bleak
Starting point is 01:08:14 Anyway what's this advice you've got for me To be honest I'm not really in the mood now Keep practicing football I suppose. Hang on, where are you going? I'm going up to the attic. I'm going to smash up that keyboard. You can't do that.
Starting point is 01:08:31 It's the number one rule of time travel. Hey! David O'Dogarty, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much, David. And thank you. Podcasts. Wait. Continue.
Starting point is 01:08:59 Hey, welcome back, podcats. That was David O'Dockerty, back in October 2018 at the Dublin podcast festival at Vicker Street. Thank you very much to David and to everyone. who came along that night. It was really fun. I'm glad. Finally, we've been able to share it with you. Apologies once again for the delay.
Starting point is 01:09:30 There's a few very enjoyable performances from David in the description, if you follow the links, as well as links to a few other things we spoke about, including that Dragon's Den sketch with David's brother, Mark Doherty and Barry Murphy, and their amazing dubbed series, Suppy Norman. You'll also find a link to an episode of Talk 90s to Me, Miranda Sawyer's highly entertaining 90s pop culture podcast, on which I appeared talking all about the Adam and Joe show. And of course, you can listen to that in audio only form, but the link I've put in the description is actually for the YouTube filmed version if you're someone that likes to watch podcasts and you want to see what color docker cap I'm wearing.
Starting point is 01:10:20 Anyway, it was a fun chat with Miranda and I do encourage you not only to listen to other episodes of Talk 90s to me but I also recommend Miranda's book about Brit Pop Common People which I very much enjoyed as a music fan and a 90s survivor I've been stuffing a lot into my eyes this week
Starting point is 01:10:41 Squid Game, the Challenge which I enjoy watching with the family I also watched with my wife the first couple of episodes of Pluribus which is a sort of a sci-fi, high concept, thriller, comedy, drama thing created by Vince Gilligan who did Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Starting point is 01:11:07 And it's about a sort of space virus that turns the population of the world into a kind of single hive mind, a bit like the Borg. from Star Trek Next Generation, except they're really happy. They're not like the Borg who are mainly into S&M and clubbing. Everyone in the world is assimilated into this hive mind,
Starting point is 01:11:32 except for a tiny handful of people, including a misanthropic writer who is played by Ria Seahorn. She played Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul. I love Ria Seahorn. She's a great actor. she's brilliant in this she's called Ria Seahorn
Starting point is 01:11:51 you need Apple TV to watch that I also went to see The Running Man the second film adaptation of a story by Stephen King this one is very different to the 1987 version starring Arnold Schwarzenegger not one of my favourite
Starting point is 01:12:09 Arnie films I have to admit this new one is directed by I'm sure many of you know Short of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver Director, Corn Balls Collaborator, a friend of mine, and the podcast, Edgar Wright. So perhaps I can't be trusted for a totally impartial assessment. But I really enjoyed it. If you're not familiar with the story, you're dealing with a sci-fi action romp. Set in everyone's favorite place, the dystopian future.
Starting point is 01:12:39 Where big budget reality entertainment shows exploit extreme wealth inequality. to recruit members of the public for a show that is basically like hunted on Channel 4 in which contestants are out in the world doing all they can
Starting point is 01:12:57 to evade a team of hunters except in the running man if you're caught you get killed and they show it in the program which I don't think they do on Channel 4 currently Edgar's version stars
Starting point is 01:13:11 Glenn Powell you know Glenn he's got very white teeth and a really lovely, toned, but very welcoming tummy that I would gladly rest my face on. You would have seen him in Top Gun Maverick and Twisters. In The Running Man, he plays a husband and father trying to get hold of money
Starting point is 01:13:32 so he can get some medical treatment for his sick daughter. He just wants to help his sick daughter, so he has to take on a sick society. And reluctantly, he becomes a contestant on the running man and along the way he gets into some very entertaining fights massive explosions, crashing cars and planes battles with Josh Brolin
Starting point is 01:13:56 who plays the show's unscrupulous deep fake using producer a lot of resonant current themes rattling around this film you've got a great supporting cast including Michael Serra Amelia Jones Kat O'Brien and even friend of the podcast Emma Ciddy. Yeah, she appears in some spoofs
Starting point is 01:14:19 of a Kardashian-style reality show that play in the background of a couple of scenes. In fact, as you'd expect from Edgar, there's quite a few funny moments in the film that reminded me of some of the media satires that Paul Verhoeven would incorporate into his films like RoboCopp and Starship Troopers. And there's also design-wise,
Starting point is 01:14:42 looks great the film, but it has a similar kind of brutalist architectural sense, I thought, to some of total recall. That was one of the Arnie films that we really enjoyed back in the day. Anyway, the Running Man is out, and it's good fun. All right, that's it for this week. Thank you very much indeed to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for his production support. Thanks to Helen Green, she does the beautiful artwork for this podcast. Thanks to everyone who works so hard at A-Cast for liaising with my sponsors.
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