The Peacock and Gamble Podcast - The Peacock and Gamble Podcast: Edinburgh Fringe 2012 Episode 2 (Greg Davies Part 2)

Episode Date: September 20, 2020

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Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Pickle and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble. Because it's on air, Peacock and it's not play, Gambleville is Ray Peacock and it is out, Gamble. Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, Peacock and Gamble, here they are. Here we are again, everybody's pals, Peacock and Gamble, Edinburgh podcast. And that seemed like it was going to rhyme. And then didn't at the end. And then didn't pals and podcast don't rhyme. What does rhyme with pals?

Gals. Alright, here we are again, everybody's pals, Peacock. What does rhyme with pals? Gals. Alright, here we are again. Everybody's pals. Peacock and Gamble kissing all the gals. That's right, here we are. I am Ray Peacock. Hello, I'm Ed Gamble. And this is our second Edinburgh podcast.

Second one, number two, feeling good. Part two of the Greg Davis interview. Yeah, oh, I bet they've all been waiting for that, haven't they? Yep, I dare say they have. They're all waiting for the next bit to find out what happens. What is he going to say? You killed JR. You won't believe what happened. Now, for the next bit to find out what happens. What is he going to say? You killed JR. You won't believe what happened.

Now, what we should explain to you now as well, we're recording this a little bit earlier than real life. So today, I believe, will be the 2nd of August. I believe that is true. So we will have opened our show on the 1st of August. Yeah. But when we're recording this, it's the 31st of July. Yeah.

So just in case you think, well, they've not mentioned how the first show went. Yeah. It's not gone badly for that reason. We don't know. We don't know. I mean, there's a chance we might be dead.

Yeah. You might be listening to this on the news. Yeah, posthumously. This is what they recorded before they threw themselves out of their stupid eighth floor flat.

Yeah. Fourth floor. Eighth floor. So we've had a, hopefully we're not dead. No, thanks, Chris. Hopefully not. But if we are, hey, come on. We had a good we're not dead no thanks Chris but if we are

hey come on we had a good innings yeah two podcasts yeah thank you very much indeed so we did our tech last night which is when we go and basically do the sound and the lights

and set up what we're going to have yeah exciting yeah it was actually exciting wasn't it we should really apologise to our technician stage manager stage manager Sophie

who right that's not our fault yeah Sophie if you listen to this now that's not our fault Sophie if you listen to this now that's not our fault it's her fault for eating lots of veg

when she was younger that she is so well endowed up the front portion you can't you know what right Sophie right I think you're lovely

in that but you can't wear tops like that around us no absolutely not especially not when you're doing doing old wires on the floor I know it's warm in Edinburgh venues, but in future, Sophie,

right, this is for you, I know you're listening to this, right? Sophie, I know it's warm, right, love? Alright, darling. But you're going to have to wear a roll neck jumper for this thing. A roll neck jumper. And that's just when we're working. When we're not working, when we're out and about, again, this is a contrary criticism.

You cover up too much. You cover up too much when we're out. When we're out and about again this is this is a contrary criticism yeah you cover up too much you cover up too much when we're out when we're out and about you're wearing your jeans and you're wearing them t-shirts that you've got a beautiful body oh lovely body so you've got a lovely body on you lovely sweet little thing show them off a little bit get a bask on exactly so what we're saying is sophie roll neck jumper for indoors yeah bask for outdoors for outdoors when we're not doing the show thank you very much same goes for all women you're very good at your buttons and all that sort of thing hey Ed I tell you what

you're not coming across great in terms of how you deal with the ladies no I think this is my new my new persona really you're going to be like sexist

yeah I mean borderline misogyny but not quite there no I think just give me some things and I'll give you some opinions alright page three page three

ooh page three every page nice thank you very opinions. Alright, page three. Page three. Oh, page three every page. Thank you very much. Oh, boring news. Page three, page four, page five. Germaine Greer. Germaine Greer. Oi, don't spread your legs too far, your cock will pop back out.

That's a nice one, yeah. The Feminist, burning the bras. Oh, burn your bras, at least I get to see them. Oh, when you burn your bra bra don't put that back on lift your top up and show us your naked breasts

career women ladies who have wherever you're from no no career minded ladies

get down the doctors you've got a brain disease right there you go so that's Ed's new character

that he does not my new character it's my new personality so if you happen to come to the Edinburgh Fringe and see our show

Peacock and Gumball don't even want to be on telly anyway 9.40 at the Pleasant Stone done just Pleasant Stone then do come and meet us afterwards

come and meet me by all means if you're a lady and I'll say hello I'll be perfectly charming and that then go and enjoy Ed yeah come and have a chat

to me ladies because all the girls are going ooh he's right good looking that that Ed. Yeah, horrible sexist. I've seen it on the internet, on YouTube.

They all go, well, first of all, there's three pages of why has Ed lost weight? And then at the very end of it, it's the girls going, ooh, bloody hell, I would blooming well give a right kiss on Ed. Yeah, a lot of them do sound like you. Yeah. I'm starting to think you're going on there. That's me just trying to interrupt the chat about you. Yeah. I'm starting to think you're going on there. It's me. Yeah. That's me just trying to interrupt the chat about you losing weight. Just coming up.

Right. Listen. Right. Every time you say oh doesn't Ed look great. Right. Every time you say that what you are saying is

doesn't Ray still look fat and I'm not even that fat. Don't get grumpy now. I've got a muscle. You've got a muscle and I've seen it that day. I've got a big muscle on that bit. Yeah. I know. I've seen it that day. I've got a big muscle on that bit. Yeah.

And then... Right? And I could do an arm wrestle a bit. But my arms are too short and that's why I lose it sometimes. Yeah. But other than that, I'm a perfectly nice lad.

You're a lovely looking lad. And I'm a little bit older so that is why I'm not as attractive. But I tell you what, in my youth, I could have given Ed a run for his money. I tell you what,

if me and Ed were the same age, I'd have given him a blumming run for his money. I tell you what, if me and Edward were the same age, I'd have given him a blooming run for his money when we were down the park. Why? Can I just, just a little side note? Yeah. Why have you started saying blooming so much?

I think blooming's a great word. It is a good word, but it's weird that you've suddenly started saying blooming all the time. Why? I do it in Naughty Keith. We have a bit in our show with a puppet called Naughty Keith.

It's very Naughty Keith. You'll have to come to the show to find that out. Yeah. You see it on the set we've got a full set a full set it looks lovely

which we're not going to show any pictures of online because we're just you know we might do one day in years to come yeah

but just for the fringe we've got a full set yeah we've spent a stupid amount of money on it and it's not going to be on the tour yeah

no it's not it's going in it we've donated it to a student theatre company yeah after Edinburgh god knows what

they're going to have to do a very specific show. They are, aren't they? But that's the sort of people we are. Even before we have started our show, we have gone, now, let's support the youth of today who are the future tomorrow. And just get some kids that come and lift that set up at the end. So we don't have to wander about trying to find a skip.

The only show they'll be able to do with that set is if we franchise Peacock and Gamble don't even want to be on telly anyway. Or if they do just the top of Fraggle Rock. Yeah. That's what I reckon. Or an old episode of Live and Kicking. Well, anyway, we're giving too much away about it.

It's a secret, innit? But do come and see the show. They grew up in Edinburgh. And if you're not, then you can't. But, you know, you'll miss it. But if you're here and you don't come and see it... That wouldn't be nice. Shame on you and your family.

Yeah. A curse on your family, I'd say. A curse on your family. I put a curse on your family. That's Ray's new character. Evil Gypsy Lady. I mean, you're out of control here. Normally, in our double acts, it's me that's misbehaving.

You've come in, you've said, Oh, burn your bra so I can have a right good look at your breasts naked breasts naked breasts and now you're saying the only people that do curses are evil gypsies

evil being the operative word well you don't need to say gypsy then do you not yeah I do you're saying all evil people are gypsies aren't you no not at all I'm saying that you're

saying evil gypsies yeah specifying evil it could be evil anyone right who is it why did you assume mine was a gypsy because she's doing curses?

Because that's it's a stereotype sure but it's you know it's a short hand. It's a short hand. It is a short hand. Make it more

right I'll do my character again and now say what it is. Oh a curse on your family oh I'll bring my caravan round your house and burn a mattress. Right. What am I?

Don't assume. Evil just white woman. Middle class white woman who's got a good job. Affluent. Affluent.

She's gone a bit mad which is why she's putting curses on people. I mean, you could jump to conclusions with the caravan but it's actually an ape birth that's specifically

at a caravan parking place. It's a lovely caravan. She bought that. She's bought that and she's actually going to put some homeless people in it. It's more like a house. Yeah. She's not even evil. She's a fucking angel, mate. bought that. She's bought that and she's actually going to put some homeless people in it. It's more like an house.

Yeah. She's not even evil. She's a fucking angel, mate. So I don't know why she's putting a curse on people. Stop having a go at it. A curse so they'll shake themselves out

of their lives and look after people. Yeah. If the Olympics has taught us one thing, it's that. It's a hard one, that, isn't it?

Yeah. What I like about doing the Edinburgh podcast now is that if we just sort of trail off and we end up

getting stuck down a dead end with a gypsy we could just introduce Greg Davis we can just bring Greg back in that's what they're

waiting for a lot of them and also you might think oh hang on I've noticed a theme here they just do like 10 minutes at the beginning

and then the interview that I want to listen to I'll just start skipping that 10 minutes well no we're going to mix it up some days it'll start straight away then the interview that I want to listen to I just start skipping that 10 minutes well no we're going to change it we're going to mix it up some days it'll start

straight away with the interview some days we'll be halfway through a sentence and then the interview will come on so you'll have to listen and then we'll interrupt the interview

with a bit more of us so you've got to keep your blumming toes around us blumming idiots blumming blumming yeah blumming all the time the Olympics

I was watching the Olympics the other day and I saw it was diving diving love a bit of diving ladies naturally and I was watching that the Ukrainian won day, and I saw it was diving. Diving. I love a bit of diving. Ladies, naturally. Yeah.

And I was watching that. The Ukrainian one, one of them had a nice bump. One of the Ukrainian girls. Are you doing my personality now? No, I'm just saying she had a nice bump. I think you're sort of treading on my toes a little bit. Well, she's good at diving as well. Right.

But I was watching it, and it's so specific, isn't it? The diving. The diving. Yeah. Into water. It's like, oh, you've got to get it just right. Yeah. Oh, you've got to be exactly right, and then you get more. The diving. Yeah. Into water. It's like, oh, you've got to get it just right. Yeah. Oh, you've got to be exactly right

and then you get more points for it. Yeah. And it's a bit like the waste in their lives. No, but that's what sport is. That's no more difficult than getting good at Game Boy or getting good on your PS3.

Are you serious? Genuinely, yeah. You think that being an Olympic level diver Yeah. is as good as getting a top score on Bioshock.

Not necessarily top score, but getting better and better at that. It's just practice, isn't it? Practice, practice, practice. Practice, practice. For very specific little nuances. Yeah, but practice, practice, practice. But you also, I think, have to have a natural ability.

And also the dedication is probably more than it takes to get good at PS3. Fine, why is Angry Birds not in the Olympics? Because it's not a physical sport. But if you... Well, all right. How is football... All right, that's a bad example.

Well, there's probably a non-physical one in the Olympics. Probably. I don't think there is, mate. Archery. Archery's physical. How physical is that? Well, it's dexterity. It's depth perception.

Yeah, go on. It's aim. Yeah, go on. What have you just described? Angry Birds. Thank you. Thank you very much. you're literally doing nothing you're not

you've got you've got your dexterity you're moving your hand and getting it all right on the iPad or your iPhone or whatever you've got smartphone

there are other ones still available okay right it's aim it's aim aim it at the fat pig yeah

it's what was the last thing you said depth of depth perception depth of perception you said that yeah I did yeah I did say that

and you've got to like oh where is that green pig yeah I've got to work it out exactly where it is mate if you're willing to argue this yeah I'll back you on this

we'll start now perfect time to start this Olympics for next Olympics yeah this is the campaign Peacock and Gamble say next Olympics 2016

yeah get angry Birds into the Olympics. Do you know what? I'm not even saying it for comic effect. If archery's in it, then Angry Birds is as well. Okay. Or, it's either get Angry Birds into the Olympics, which should be what we stand by, and I'll stand by you with this. I'll stand by you through anything.

Thank you. Right. Or, it's replace the target in archery with a green pig. Right, fine. I will agree to either of those things. Right, okay. I mean, I don't even know if they've done the archery in the Olympics pig. Right fine. I will agree to either of those things. Right okay. I mean I don't even know if they've done the archery in the Olympic champ. I mean is it too late

to get it put in now? I think it's too late now for next time. Someone go away and make a poster with our faces. Yeah. Peacock and Gamble

say get Angry Birds into the 2016 Olympics. Thank you very much. If you're up in Edinburgh do come and see our show. Peacock and Gamble don't even want to be

on telly anyway. 9.40 at the Pleasant Dome Dome. And now if you think we've gone mad saying that. Just the dome. If you think we've gone mad saying that if you think we've gone

mad saying about pigs being in the Olympics get ready for this this is a TV celebrity having a breakdown this is the second part of our interview with Greg Davis

enjoy Peacock and Gamble Peacock and Gamble what I think would be a really nice thing is if just one year all people from television industry

and all reviewers were banned that'd be a really interesting festival in terms of performances. Yeah, literally about three performances, wouldn't it? Because everyone would be in London

where everyone else was. All the telly people are, they're going, well, this is a good time to get a scene. But the Edinburgh Festival didn't start off as a big shop window, did it? No, no.

It started off just as a festival, a theatre festival, didn't it? But that's what it now is. I mean, there's no getting away from it. No, of course. And that's why everyone pays the money as well. Yeah. Because there's no getting away from it of course and that's why everyone pays the money as well

because there's the opportunity to be seen by those people and to go on and do other stuff that you want to do if all industry and TV were banned

then all the paying for venues would have to be banned as well I'm just saying it would be in theory it would be interesting

wouldn't it it's not going to happen mate what happens if I take over as king of this country well then that's fine but you've got no

sway in Scotland have you what if I become the lord of the this country? Well, then that's fine, but you've got no sway in Scotland, have you? What if I become the lord of the UK, though? The lord of the UK? Look, there's all sorts of things happening in the world, Syria. Look, it's Syria, mate.

Mate, don't start saying there's all sorts of things happening in the world, Syria, because if I go, what's happening in Syria, Greg, you're going to be stumped. No, I'm not. I know what's happening in Syria.

Explain it now. Well, Assad, the country's leader, is under pressure to step down because of his awful treatment of his people. From who Assad, the country's leader, is under pressure to step down because of his awful treatment of his people. From who? From the anti-government forces.

I think that's what they're called on the news. What do you think they're called? I don't know anything about it. I'm not claiming this. You're the one who's giving it Mr. Big Martin Bashir. I think there's probably going to be, as there has been in Libya recently, a regime change over in Syria at some point. And what I'm saying is perhaps, just perhaps, there'll be a regime change in this country, in the United Kingdom, where I become Supreme Leader.

That's the bit. So I'm not arguing for a second that there couldn't be an uprising in the UK. In fact, I actually would put money on it in the next 10 years. What, in my name? No, no, that's the bit that I'm struggling with. Why? Why would people make that choice if people go, we're not happy with what we've got now.

Who do we want to institute in the power vacuum that's left behind when we kill all the royal family and we destroy the government? Who says the royal family have to be killed? Can I tell you, the royal family don't rule this country. Can I point that one out? No, no. They're always sat there going, oh, brilliant, we've overturned the state.

Right, now we need an authority figure who's still quite funny as well. Who was that teacher off here between us? Because that covers it, doesn't it? Yeah, but that presumes that the forces have sort of overturned the government and then subsequently are looking for a new leader. Exactly. So how can you become the leader? I suggested maybe I'll lead the rebellion. Oh, So how can you become the leader? I suggested maybe

I'll lead the rebellion. Oh, you're going to lead the rebellion in the first place? Yeah, right. Well, I'm going to give you the opportunity now, right? I'm going on tour. I'm playing to loads of people.

Maybe I'll do a little political thing at the end. I'll ask them if they'll join me. Then I'll have an army of them. Record it now. I think Russell Brand tried that and it didn't really work.

Did he try that? I thought he just rang up Man Well and said, rude stuff. Go on, do it now then. Rally the people now. We'll both shut up. No, I'm not going to...

What sort of leader are you? I'm not going to start outlining my plans just because you want me to do it now. I'll do it in my own good time. That's not because I want you to do it. I want to see how you're going to get from this point where you're addressing the nation that you're now ruling. Yeah.

How you're going to drop into your victory speech, oh, and by the way, Edinburgh Fringe next year, no reviewers. That's only one thing I'm going to do. I don't even think I'd have to tell people about that. It would just be something I would probably send a memo. I mean, you're sort of planning a dictatorship. A benign one. A benign one is still a dictatorship, isn't it?

Yeah, it's a dictatorship, dictatorship. A benign one. A benign one is still a dictatorship, isn't it? Yeah, it's a dictatorship, but it's benign in that I won't victimise people and human rights will be wonderful. It'll be great. We'll back you on it. Unless you work for BBC or a broadsheet newspaper. Well, I'm not stopping. In which case you can't go to Scotland.

Only on the Edinburgh Festival. You can do other stuff around the country. You can talk about how someone's fallen over in a ditch and stuff. Can people... All right, so... Let's look at it then. So, OK, no official reviews, but then people blog, don't they?

People do blogs and people do their own reviews that they submit to websites. Yeah, they're not allowed to this time, just for this one year. So you're censoring the internet as well? You're censoring speech? Yeah, I'm censoring everything. How is this a benign detention?

Other than free people going to watch some really great shows. No, but you can't... No, no, no. How can you do that? If you're censoring speech so that people can't go online and talk

about the Edinburgh Fringe that's right so how does anyone even know the Edinburgh Fringe is happening well there'll be

one single advert in all newspapers saying the Edinburgh Fringe is happening this year please come this happened with the Beijing

Fringe paid by and who's paying for these adverts well I'll probably just take it out of tax

I'll just don't put all the just take it out of tax I think that it's really important that people's shows get reviewed that's how other people find out it's amazing

and there are some really great writers in the reviewing community and I think that the industry picks up on really talented

people so I think it serves a function what I'm saying is for one year, under my regime, dictatorship, as a little experiment, we'll have no reviewers there

and see what that does to the shows. What do you think it will do? I don't know. I've lost interest. This is why you can't leave the country, really. We'll bat you on your dictatorship. What are we going to get out of it? Of the three of us,

who would be the best dictator for this country? Dictator? Yeah. Probably you. Probably you. Right, fine. You're a powerful physical presence. Who would be the best dictator for this country? Dictator? Yeah. Probably you. Probably you. Right, fine. You're a powerful physical presence. Who would you rather have running the country?

Me or Haylen Pace? Well, Haylen Pace, you've got two of them working, so at least we know there's one calling the other one on his bullshit. There's a discussion then, isn't there? Well, what at the moment is you just on your own, mad and crazed with power? I've got a deputy. I know, it wouldn't be Vince Cable

it would be another comic no it wouldn't, it would be someone of quiet authority, it would be Hugh Fernley Whittingstall how is Hugh Fernley Whittingstall got quiet authority I've met him, I've done a show with him

quiet authority, I thought he just had a lot of plans he's got quiet authority I mean I'm dreading this I've got a show with him. Quiet authority? I thought he just had a lot of pads. He's got quiet authority. I mean, I'm dreading this. I've got a lot of passport at the moment and I think I will need to get out. Why? Why? Because you haven't been stood on the steps of Buckingham Palace with their royal family all around you everywhere. I'm sorry, can I?

No clothes on, cross-eyed with your penis taped into it and you can't even remember why. And you're doing a speech about the Edinburgh Fringe is now no reviewers now no BBC because you urinate vitamin B piss all over yourself

and Hugh Foley Whittingstall just standing there saying nothing standing in the corner who says he's going to say nothing because he's got a quiet authority

he's got a quiet authority I don't think he's got a silent authority I wasn't suggesting Hugh Foley Whittingstall was a fucking mute I don't think you're the best man

for the job and I like you as a bloke but when you first said it maybe one year no reviewers no TV

you know what yeah that would be interesting so how come you've because what we've got because I've got

a perfectly reasonable suggestion wouldn't it be interesting to see what sort of jokes we had if people didn't feel the pressure

of reviews wouldn't that be an interesting experiment and then I've gone I've just taken a little stage further no that's it what you've done

you've done it as a distraction you've said to us hey for you this would benefit you wouldn't it and I'm going oh yeah yeah yeah

we all run off to Edinburgh and you're going right now I can rule the entire planet no come on Hugh this is about you this is about you

and Hugh sitting in River Cottage planning to take it over. Would you vote for me? I thought, is there voting? Maybe you could, mate. Do you know what?

It's a nice idea, isn't it? If the, whatever your title's going to be. Greg. No, but the equivalent of that is going to be equivalent of Prime Minister,

isn't it? You know, you're going to be the leader of the country. I'd like to have a name like those, like some of those African leaders have, like Good Luck Jonathan or something like that.

Good Luck Jonathan? Yeah, there's a leader called Good Luck Jonathan. Is there a Good Luck Jonathan? Good Look Greg. Good Decisions Greg. Yeah, Well Done Greg. Yeah. And then every time, even if they're trying to slag off your policies,

they'd have to say Well Done Greg and you'd just go, thank you very much, and then run off. That's it. Some of the decisions you've made have been catastrophic for this country. Well done, Craig. Thanks very much. Bye! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? Hitler was a fool if he called himself

well done adult. I've done some pretty bad stuff. Well done, Adolf. Hey! Every bird in party. Peacock and Gamble. Peacock and Gamble. some pretty bad stuff well done Adolf hey every bird in party pick up and gamble pick up and gamble how many enemies did you do Greg I

um Clang did three full shows and then we did a compilation package which had my favourite title

Dick Party a retrospective and um that was it and then I did one solo show so five I I suppose. So you've done five.

But we didn't do a full run with the compilation show. We just did... Okay. But you did some Edinburgh's before... Oh, and I... Oh, God, yeah. And I did a package stand-up show with Ed Peatree and Rob Gilbert and Stephen Hall.

Okay, that was the... Three Man Giant. Yeah, yeah. So you've done six. That was when Edinburgh was like... That was such a novelty. I didn't even really know anything about Edinburgh, and I was coming into it really old.

And it was just like a second university. I just spent the whole year out of my mind drunk. Just wandering under bridges. Seemed to find myself under bridges a lot. I'm wondering under the fucking bridge what's going on at four o'clock in the morning. There's still cartoon postcards

off you up there. You can get them. The big massive old troll. Of the old bridge. Super Troll. Super Troll 3000. Wow. So you've done six. That's going to be

my next Edinburgh show, actually. Yeah. Super Troll 3000. All bent over under an Edinburgh bridge. That's it. Do you have a visit going back there?

I don't know. You know, like I say, if you took that time there when it just seemed like a big party with loads of new friends, and I was performing stand-up for the first time in my life, having thought I'd never performed stand-up because I was too old, it was just beyond exciting.

Did you prefer doing Edinburgh with Clang, with other people, or as a solo act? I think in terms of having other people to take some of the hit, it's much better. It's much better to feel part of a team, isn't it? You know, us against them a bit. But I think probably when you do your own thing, just you standing on your own, you sort of feel all brave and grown up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You do, you do. But I think that's partly because of how, of the esteem that stand-up's held in, within the stand-up community particularly. But I think if I didn't do stand-up, do but i think if i didn't do stand-up do you not think that because you both do stand-up you know you've been more big and brave from growing up so you don't oh yeah i feel i would feel some some level of guilt if i'd never

done it on my own really i don't know because you always think well it's not just i don't think you've not proved yourself or maybe you tested yourself yeah maybe you maybe i'm not the important part in this well maybe yeah yeah that's true that's true yeah that's a strange eich hun neu eich bod wedi'i brofi eich hun. Efallai dwi ddim yn y rhan bwysig o'r hyn yma. Wel efallai, ie. Ie, ie, ie. Mae'n anodd, mae'n anodd. Nid wyf yn teimlo'n hynny. Mae hynny'n beth anodd, ond rwy'n gobeithio nad ydyn nhw'n teimlo'n ffynnu fel hynny. Rwy'n gobeithio nad ydyn nhw'n meddwl, wel, rwyf wedi chwarae Lady Macbeth a gwneud swydd gwych o hynny, ond nid ydw i'n mynd i fod yn actor yn hyfryd heb i mi wneud solo am Lady Macbeth pan fydd hi'n rhedeg seiliedig a gwneud hynny.

Ie, mae actrydd yn amlwg â'r egoau mwyaf hefyd, sy'n amwysol. yeah actors tend to have the biggest egos as well which is confusing they do but that sense of you being part of an ensemble there's no shame in it in the acting world is there

no but also there's not shame in it in the world of comedy but I do think certainly for me I do think well I'm not proper

until I've done my own Edinburgh show I did think that I think it might be also the stress thing as well would you say the stress was less did you feel like there was less riding on it when there were three of you was it sort of

that doesn't mean I wasn't insanely stressed when we were doing the Clank shows, we all were and we worked our arses off but I think probably when it's just you it's more frightening so maybe it's a masochistic thing that you feel like to be more proper and to be doing it properly, you need to be super stressed.

Maybe. So it's almost as if you have to punish yourself before you feel like you've done something to its highest level. I think it's, as Ray said, I think it's just a simple thing of maybe I'm just secretly not very good and I'm just on the coattails of yeah these other people yeah maybe I'm not the important one in this yeah yeah well so so you would you go that did you say yeah I think I probably would actually in principle yeah but I

don't think I could go I don't think I could go with my current mindset of thinking that of thinking that I'm going there for a purpose. I love performing. I love doing stand-up. It's just one of the few things where I've got nothing bad to say about it. It's really great when you're just doing it for the sake of doing it. So I don't know if I could go and go. When you know that there's a reason for performing this thing,

it's so hard to make the jump between doing it for the pure joy of it and doing it because it's a television gig for example like when i've done gigs on tv yeah you know i'm so psychologically weak than before that i'm like walking onto stage tense as fuck because there's a whole new agenda in your mind i suppose does it affect you as an act as in no i just get better at it don't you just get better at dealing with it and I think that the ultimate goal is that

wherever you are whoever you're performing to you just do your thing yeah someone said to me Logan Murray said to me very early on

you just do what you do yeah you don't try and tailor it let them come to you yeah you have to let them and it's a universal

it's an absolute truth in stand up people have to come to you otherwise you, you have to let them in and it's a universal, it's an absolute truth in stand-up. People have to come to you otherwise you don't do good stuff. Yeah, I think that is true as well in the double act.

Yeah, so that's what we're saying about our Edinburgh show. Yeah, if you don't like it it's because you've not come to us. Yeah,

and we will wait. We will stand and wait for a bit. We'll be here. It's true though, isn't it? I mean, if YouTube find it funny,

it goes in the show, right? Yeah, yeah. As simple as that. Yeah. But you still, you tailor, but you don't tailor for an audience. You tailor as you go on.

You don't know, that's just not working, which I guess is partly from an audience. Yeah. Because we'll... They've got that five nights running. Well, I suppose. Yeah, I suppose.

We'll drop stuff, even if we find it absolutely hilarious, if it's getting nothing and affecting the rhythm of the rest of the show yeah so there is a compromise then yeah there is a little compromise there

yeah but if it's just little and it's just a little line here and there and we think that's hilarious but it's not getting anything we'll still we'll still

we'll do that for the audience we're doing that that's for us though because that's the audience are guiding us on it yeah but we're doing it so that what we do

then works yeah yeah for us too I guess yeah I don't think you ever get your head around the idea that you find something The audience are guiding us on it, but we're doing it so that what we do then works for us too, I guess. Yeah. I don't think you ever get your head around the idea that you find something absolutely hilarious, you come up with it, and you go out to several different groups of people you perform it, and none of them laugh. Yeah.

I find that endlessly fascinating. Seriously, because this is genuinely hilarious. Yeah. But it's very easily sorted out because what it is is because as comics, specifically as comics, I think,

not just performers, as comics, we are a different breed. So we are the sort of people who will laugh at inappropriate things that other people would get appalled by. And that's the reason we can do the job,

ultimately, because we can come at things from a different angle or we can recognise things and pick things out. Or rather, we prioritise making people laugh. When other people are getting on with their lives. But not everything that works for us.

Will work for them. Because by definition we are different to them. Yeah. Because we're desperate attention seekers. We had a discussion Greg. About mentioning cancer in a joke or even if the joke's not about cancer it's not making fun of people who've got cancer

but as soon as people hear that word they'll switch off but the way we think about it is oh this is a good story, it's a really good story it involves cancer, that's no problem people will just be able to look at the story as a funny story but as soon as you mention that word people will they can't disengage from the power of that word yeah i told you recently i tried a whole routine using that

that dreaded word and that is such a hurdle to get over yeah because it's so in it's so locked in people's consciousness that word and the implications of it yes it's like literally as you're setting up building a routine you're also putting a massive wall in front of yourself yeah yeah but again this is the thing though again is we're saying people as if none of us have got

any first hand experiences of cancer no but it's audiences I know people who've had cancer and fought it successfully

and not successfully I'm sure you know between the three of us we all know people who that's affected but to us we don't know oh no we can't even say the word.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. That's because the priority is telling a funny story. But if we were watching... That's it. But if we were watching a comic, it wouldn't affect us. No, no, no. So if you were just sat in an audience watching something about cancer, or any illness that

you know, that would... No, because we're constantly exploring every conceivable route to make people laugh. So it wouldn't jar me as an audience member? No, of course not. So that's what I mean, we're a different breed. Unless the routine was, I saw that with Craig Davies the other day, he gets cancer and his legs fall off. That is funny.

If all his legs fall off. I think the way that the fictional comedian has phrased it is what's funny. If I just said, I hope his legs fall off, he would have said, I hope all his legs fall off. And that's why it's a brilliant joke. Who was it who said that? It's the allegorical singer of Bolsa.

Danny Wachowski. Oh, he sounds brilliant. American man. He is good. What the fuck? That's his opening catchphrase. What the fuck, my fucker. Out of Harlem.

Out of Harlem he is, that one. Yeah. I've got my ball bag stuck in a fucking... Got my ball... This is one of his things. I've got my ball bag stuck in a fucking

mincing thing. In a mincing thing? He's not even written the whole thing, is he? He hasn't even defined what the thing is in the mince.

Do you know why? Because when he starts doing that, everyone's screaming, laughing. So he just goes, in the mincing thing. It doesn't even matter what it is, you can't leave it anyway.

The audience actually mouths that he comes on stage. He goes, hey guys. And then they all just go, hey, I got my ball back stuck in a mincing thing. Yeah, he sounds staggering. He really does. Hey, I was driving a motherfucking forklift the other day. Oh, fuck. That's one of his weirdos.

He just drops the accent for a minute. And he never finishes a thought. He doesn't need to. He always trails off, doesn't he? He doesn't need to. He was driving a fucking forklift. Yeah. Where's he at?

Fucking NYC. Driving cop cars. There's that accent drop again. And he's just halfway through a sentence, you can just see him stop concentrating, can't you? And his eyes just wander off and look at his vitamins. Yeah, looking at his vitamins or his little treat. What was he called again?

From Manchester. Danny Wachowski. Danny Wachowski. Well, if you want to see Danny Wachowski, he's on at 9.40 at the Pleasant's Dome every night on the fringe. What's his show called this year? His show is called Peacock and Gamble, don't even want to be on telly night on the Fringe. What's his show called this year? His show is called

Begog and Gamble Don't Even Want to Be on Telly Anyway. I don't know actually what his show is called. Begog and Gamble Don't Even Want to Be on Telly Anyway. What is his show called? Frank and Beans I've heard.

Frank and Beans. I loved it last year. It was like he'd mocked up a poster where his head was like Frankenstein's but with like a

tin of beans Frankenbeans Frankenbeans absolutely amazing Frankenbeans is an amazing title Greg it's been an absolute pleasure speaking with you

part of me doesn't want to leave him on his own in his house. No. But we've got a girl to do it. Mother fucker. That's it. Hey, what's up with that fucking banana kid? You know that? You know that routine's amazing.

I've not heard that routine. I've not heard that routine. What's up with that banana kid? Banana kid, have you not? No, I'm not. Is that on his album? Get out of the time. No, it's a bootleg bit of it.

Oh, is that that bootleg? Yeah. Gibbon time No it's a bootleg bit of it Oh is that that? Bootleg? Gibbon feet What's that? Gibbon feet Gibbon feet Get fucking gibbon What's with that?

With the feet With all the hooks Feet aren't pointing inwards All the hooks On the toes Motherfuckers My wife's left me guys This is serious That was one of me guys this is serious

this is serious this is serious yeah he just talks about his real life and everyone's laughing so loudly because they're expecting

they expect a ball bag in the mincer and they're not even listening and he goes no seriously seriously guys stop laughing seriously I'm really ill

or picking it off or picking all the hundreds and thousands Off the cupcake Motherfucker That was a great one That was We've got to go now

Because Greg's I think he's dehydrated I think I'm going to get Some vitamins I have Greg Davis Thank you very much

Thank you for having me It's been very nice And good luck with your Edinburgh Festival run Yeah thank you And good luck with What are you doing What are you doing I'm doing Some filming On a sitcom I'm doing Thank you for having me. It's been very nice and good luck with your Edinburgh Festival run. Yeah, thank you and good luck with your... What are you doing?

What are you doing? I'm doing some filming on a sitcom. I'm doing... Then I'm going on a date. Then I'm doing a tour. I think you're ready, don't you? The Peacock and Gamble Edinburgh Podcast is a ready production

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to do it instead who am I hey you fucking you fucking potato face fuck him

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Today's guest... Today's guest was Greg Davis, and my show is... What's that mean? My show? I haven't got a show. No, no, but most of the guests that we have have got a show. Okay. So that's the reason you... Today's guest... I just think you could have adapted this handwritten form. what's that mean? my show? I haven't got a show no no most of the guests that we have have got a show ok so that's the only reason

today's guest I just think you could have adapted this handwritten form are you going on tour? alright yeah today's guest was Greg Davis and he isn't going to be

at the Edinburgh Festival but he is going on tour in October and the show is called The Back of My Mum's Head all music by Thomas Fun the Ray see you tomorrow.