The Gargle - Something we like

Episode Date: April 6, 2021

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Acast.com. Hello, garglers! No proper show this week. It is Easter. We've taken a week off. We will be back with a normal show next week. I'm in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival doing my show, Kronos, if you want to come and see that.

It's live there at 6pm at the Greek Centre. If you are not in Melbourne, I will be streaming live on Friday night from the Greek Centre via my Patreon. If you are not in Melbourne, I will be streaming live on Friday night from the Greek Centre via my Patreon. If you're a Patreon subscriber, patreon.com slash Alice Fraser. And now I have some news for you. My good friend, gargler, poster, bugler, Tiff Stevenson has a new show. It's called Tiny Revolutions. And in it, Tiff speaks with amazing funny people about how their worldview informs their work.

She's talking to people like Al Madrigal, Maisie Richardson Sellers, W Kamau Bell, Roisin Conaty and Armando Iannucci who's guest number one and the first episode comes out on the 7th of April. Here is a clip from it if you're interested which I know you are. That's all from me.

I'll talk to you again properly next week. Welcome to Tiny Revolutions. I'm your host, Tiff Stevenson, and we take a deep dive into what art and political movements have been tiny revolutions for our guests. And this week, I'm very excited. One of my heroes is on the pod i would say satirist icon comedian producer showrunner all-round great guy it's armando iannucci yay i'll self-applaud me there um yeah thank you i feel under a tremendous amount of pressure now good that's what i want i just want you on edge from the beginning. Yeah, okay. The podcast.

That's an interesting question, actually, off the top. How would you describe what you do? Well, I mean, every morning I get up and I say to myself, what will I satirise today? You know, it's just a sort of little exercise. Yes. How very French. I know.

I like to have a coffee in the morning and then take a pop at someone or something. And then, you know, I might, by lunchtime, I might skewer someone. Right. And then by the afternoon, I think it's just a complete kind of total attack and annihilation.

I like to annihilate some kind of institution or person by the end of each day. Sure, a decimation's quite good. Yeah, yeah. Or decimalisation, cut them into 10 parts. Yes, all those things, you know. So when we do get our blue passports, and, you know, if anything, it's been worth it just for that,

I would put, you know, satirist and decimator on my, on where it says occupation, even though it never actually did ever say that on your passport. For some reason, this myth has grown up that you put your occupation on your passport. I love it. I'm already satirising the institutions of passports. It's inherent. You can't help it. It's in your DNA.

It's in my DNA. Well, speaking of your DNA, how did you become this? Was this, because you're excellent and will dive into the work, but I want to know, was this by design or was it happy accident, this career of yours? Good heavens. I mean, I was always, it's this career of yours good heavens I mean I was always it's a number of things you know I was always a huge fan of radio comedy and I tended to go towards the topical comedy or like news quiz or or just bonkers comedy like H Hikers Guide to the Galaxy so I was always a radio comedy fan um but I think also I don't know whether there's an

element of you know growing up in a sort of an Italian in Scotland and being part of that are you are you part of the society you're in are you part of the culture and the country you're in or are you to one side of it that sense of being neither in or out, but halfway in, the hokey cokey approach to ethnicity, you know, so it kind of gave you a sense of being able to kind of step back from something at all times. So if I was at a very Scottish occasion, like a Cayley, like a, you know, Hogmanay or Cayley or something, part of me would be thinking, this is a bit odd. But also if I went to a very Italian occasion, like a big Italian wedding, part of me would be thinking, this is a bit odd.

You know, now I don't know whether that is part of, you know, just my upbringing or whether it's just me, whether, you know, just wherever I go, part of me is thinking, this is a bit odd. You know, but I always gravitated towards, I loved any film that had a big kind of satirical, you know, looked at the world as a whole and then analysed it, you know, things like Dr. Strangelove or Brazil and things like that. A new Bugle podcast production of Tiny Revolutions with me, Tiff Stevenson. Starts Wednesday, 7th of April. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts.