The Worst Idea Of All Time - Overlooked and Undercooked: 07 "What's My Thing?" (w/ Carl Donnelly)

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

Rob is looking to invest in his own celebrity endorsed product and promises to get Ryan Gosling to appear at the opening of Patricia's male revue.Carl is British comedian man who can be found on Twitter and hosts a podcasts with Chris Martin. One is named the Carl and Chris Podcast and the other, Baby Sitting Trev. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to this episode 7 of Overlooked and Undercooked, a critical analysis of Rob Schneider's attempt to shake up the traditional television business model by self-producing, funding, writing, starring in and directing his semi-autobiographical series Real Rob. I'm Guy Montgomery. My name is Tim Baird, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce this episode's guest, British comedian Carl Donnelly. Hello. Hey, mate.

World. How are you? Yeah, that's right. We're broadcasting to the whole world, baby. I'm all right. Yeah. I was better before I got here. Oh, I see.

You didn't warn me what this podcast was. Not another nice... Do you know what you're walking into? I just... I didn't know what this new thing you're working on. You haven't listened me What this podcast was Not another nice Do you know what You're walking into I just I didn't know What this new Thing you're working on You haven't listened

To any of the previous episodes I haven't listened To the previous episodes I know your back catalogue And I know what your General vibe is But you just said Do you want to come over

And do a podcast I was like yeah And I got here And you made me do Go through what we just went through A couple of laid back Chilled out entertainers I thought it would just be

A lovely three way chat I didn't know we'd have to spend 24 minutes with a fourth heroic comedian in the form of Rob Schneider so the episode we just saw was called sorry I've got a hair in my mouth

for those of you at home I'm just taking the hair out What's My Thing and so what we'd quite like to do, Carl, is get some sort of plot summary from our guests. So could you maybe, for both those of us in the room and those listening along elsewhere, tell us what we just saw. So from what I know, obviously I had to catch up

because I've not watched the previous episodes. It's very important because, you know, everything's canon in the world of Real Rob. Rob's wife, she's currently building a strip club for women. Not for women to perform in, but for women to go and attend. Handsome men. Yes, very muscly men that she seems to be massaging now and again. And it makes Rob start.

Rob's trying to get a sitcom off the ground, but the studio want to change a lot of it. They want to add zombies, apparently. Then he also wants to find something that's really his thing. He decides if he's going to do it for the money. He wants to have a sort of, you know, a project of sort of love.

Yeah. And he decides that will be a health shop because apparently he's really into his health foods and vitamins he talks in passing a lot about the idea of gmos about organic juices yeah uh there's yeah i mean there's no way he talks about them in passing because he's not an intelligent man no i've come to realize there's a lot realise. He chucks a lot of facts out in the written, in the script, but it feels like a lot of it has been Googled.

Yes. And for good reason. Yeah. And then another little side bit, he decides to try and get Ryan Gosling to come to the opening of the strip club. It's going to cost him 300,000 cash. So he goes to the bank,

gets 150,000. We'll probably discuss the bank scene, I imagine. We're led to believe as well that this is no biggie. What, $300,000? He bristles at it, but it's no big deal. Getting $300,000. That's a recurring motif. He is insecure at the idea of people's perception of how much money he has.

He is constantly... He injects talking head style little moments to establish how much money he's worth. Yeah. I mean, a lot of this feels like it's made to sort of give us an idea of his life. That is correct. The fact that he's even having those meetings about making a sitcom. Everything is him.

It feels like this is the life that he thinks he is living can i tell you the ethos which sort of permeated the the set for the entirety of production what rob schneider said in an interview with deadline at the announcement of this show going forward is i want to do my own faulty towers oh and so i think in a lot of ways you can see that on on the screen isn't it that there's only ever ever like a very small number of episodes mate i think more it's not even true there's 16 he's already gone beyond so not even in that detail is the detail the way in which it is like 40 towers is that the operation not the show itself but the surrounding framework of the creation of the show was run with the same level of incompetence as faulty towers in torquay

and also with faulty towers in hindsight some of it's not doesn't not stand the test of time i don't think by and large this doesn't stand the test of time now of one second after watching the bits that That's right. This was made in 2015. And I think as a testament to how big of a swing and a miss this was, this is seven episodes now. So we've seen a lot of supporting talent being given various different levels of opportunity to shine comedically with the script that they have been dealt. And not one member of the supporting talent,

first of all, they're not recognizable which is insane because this is like three years ago now and so you'd think he'd hit on one so they're all rob schneider level talent which is either that he's a terrible forecaster of what will become oh so are you saying like all of the bit part people are kind of comedy people but they never took off after what are you saying no one's blown up off the back of it he must have been casting comic actors for these roles right so either he's got

a terrible eye for talent or he's a personality who everyone bristles at the idea of working with yeah

or he's only used good friends and family and they're all just happen to be bad actors production values and you I didn't realise this was 2015 because it does have that whiff of and they're all just happened to be bad actors. Production values. I didn't realise this was 2015

because it does have that whiff of a sitcom made just before the Me Too type. In the final, the fall of Rome, this feels like it was made during. I can't imagine Rob Schneider adjusting his behaviour for any sort of cause or ideology or broader understanding of how the world works. That said, though, in particular,

there's a scene that Jamie, his assistant, has in this ep, which is, you know, it's like, oh, this is at the lower end of the scale of exactly what Harvey Weinstein did. Yeah, but there's a couple. There's the one with the agent. That's right. There's a very grisly blowjob happening during a phone call

where an agent, to no comic effect. To no payoff. The scene felt finished. It didn't need a punchline. At all. The pullback and reveal was the agent was getting a blowjob. That was the gag, I think. And he was mean to the woman.

And then, well, then at the vitamin shop, when he's discovering his thing is to maybe peddle vitamins, he is talking to a lady because there's a sort of obstinate employee, and he says to the lady, he tries and gives her help, and then she says, you're really creepy, and she walks away. And you watch his eyeline follow her ass, and then he says, nice ass. To a woman he's just established, well, he doesn't know, thinks he's a creep and is pregnant

yes and he's all he's done is give her advice about buying organic apples because of their and then again before we get to the scene that you're describing with the assistant which you were saying we're going to get back to in the bank oh god they thrust an orgasm against one of the supporting members carl take us through the beats of that moment i mean actually because you said there's a scene at the end you didn't see coming. I didn't see the orgasm scene coming. I could not have predicted.

Oh, I did. Did you? No. Well, not like a mile away, but it was like as soon as we started to go down that path, it was like, okay. So he basically explains through some bad writing that the money he's withdrawing from the bank

is to give to Ryan Gosling. She says, you know ryan gosling he says yes and then she has a full-blown uh hands-free orgasm yeah just at the mere mention of ryan well i mean when you get to rob's age and sort of understanding of the ways of the world and the ways of the fear of sex he knows woman yeah can't argue with that the man understands woman yeah i mean it's one of them scenes it's like hey if you're gonna any sort of scene like that it's just gonna somebody's gonna say have you not seen when harry met sally yeah yeah but then to take the annie you know of the actual interesting part of that scene and just make it about one woman is so has so little self-control that she's going to hear the name of ryan gosling not a picture how can she know enough to be a fan

of ryan gosling if at the very mention of him she has an earth-shattering orgasm how can you watch a movie with ryan gosling and how can you see a picture of ryan gosling funny thing is as well in harry met sally which is a film that came out over 30 years ago or so the whole joke of that is that women are faking it for basically you know the the the pleasure of men essentially that they are so good at manipulating men that they can put on this act and they're utterly convincing and rob has taken like the surface level bit of that which is women have loud orgasms at the top of their head and missed the entire rest of the context of what that moment is about.

Yeah. And also, she's in a customer service role. Yeah. Let's not lose the fact that it's that, as if she would allow that herself. How poorly do you feel for this actor? They get an audition. They say, what's it for?

Rob Schneider's self-funding a sitcom. Oh my god I'll look at the scripts But that's all I'm telling you I do I'll look at the scripts I'm sleeping in my car at the moment So I guess this is modern day servitude In Hollywood

Can we quickly just point out how quickly she got the cash for that He takes out $150,000 cash And just to get into that as well He says I need to get a cashier's check to cash immediately that's just a withdrawal you don't need to get a check if you're turning it into cash immediately there is a weird little bit of info he gives

where he says he wants a cashier's check I think because he then thinks he might be able to write it off as a tax it's good for him To just throw that bit Of information Yeah business knowledge But that bit of information

I think is So he can say the name Ryan Gosling I think he's put all that Dumb information in But you can do that So he can cause her To have an orgasm

You can do that With a withdrawal You can put it If it's your account You can say I want $150,000 And put a note on the account It's for Ryan Gosling Put a note on the account

With the withdrawal That says Ryan Gosling Because that's what he's saying With the cashier's check Yes it is yeah It's the same fucking It's a very entertaining thing By which to be frustrated And amongst everything else

It's like at a minimum My guy Can we just get the basics of how you get money Out of a bank account She gets the money out About one foot away from her to the right Behind a screen. $150,000 cash.

I don't know how American banks work, but that would not even out of a drawer. That's coming out of a safe. You list celebrities' names until the cashier has an orgasm, and then they reach 30 centimeters to their right, and they give you $150,000. Carl, I'd like to quote you to you. This was about one minute into the show. This is bad, isn't it?

That was my gut reaction. And then we sat through the rest of the thing and it never changed. Do you know what it felt like? It felt like a first draft. You know what I mean? Well, if the three people in the room are the three stars of the show...

Well, one is... I mean, one's his wife, one is him, and one is... What's her background? She's Mexican. She does not have a background as a performer. This is her debut on screen. She's a writer.

No background as a writer, but she is writing and performing in this show. She was a producer, though, right? She was a producer in Mexico she was a producer in Mexico I think in Mexico okay she's got some background she should know what she's doing

yeah I think she's well she says she's 29 what like she and this she knows what she's doing in the same way if we go and watch a game of football

we could run out on the pitch and play with professional footballers and technically do it in the right way but I mean she holds her own in the scenes against rob well weirdly i don't think she's i think her acting wise is one of the stronger i'm with the group i mean the assistant in terms

of acting is where i think it really falls down the only fuck day he's absolutely he sort of looks like he's trying to act like a bad ben stiller uh character yeah i could see that she's the only person with one you know iota of charisma like the only person who it's possible even through her character is not by any means uh a good character like in terms of as a person oh i wouldn't say that she's got the same mean spirit that rob does it just manifests differently i don't think she's nice i think she's the nicest of the bunch yeah she's got like a lot of maternal instincts that that come out during the show and she tolerates the worst she's an enabler yeah she is yeah but that's color her i think your core personality is good well it's easy to warm to her because of this

i mean we're all on the same page here yeah i mean it's easy to warm somebody who's married to the world's biggest arsehole yeah I don't mean that in real life I don't know what he's like in real life but his character in this is an abomination not a million miles away he's horrible although I said something I think you were in the bathroom I said that his acting style

in this I don't know if that's how he actually tries to play it quite straight but it feels like he's trying to act like Michael Keaton in the sort of you know michael keaton's gone through this revolution in the last five years and become like it feels like he's watched michael keaton's renaissance and gone i'm gonna act exactly like michael keaton and he's doing he's doing his darndest yeah even dresses like him it's did you enjoy birdman i did enjoy birdman i love birdman i love a bit of drumming though So Weirdly

I watched it the same week As Whiplash Oh That's a weird two films I think I did too actually To watch in the same week Because obviously I watched Birdman

Loved it And obviously it's got that Real jazz undercurrent to it To the whole thing But then I watched Whiplash And was like I actually prefer Yeah

This much more simple film About just the power jazz I watched them in the same Week I also saw Juice Bigalow, European Gigolo that week, and I thought of the three, that was the one that really jumped out because what we have here is a man unafraid to explore different cultures,

different ways of life, and all encased in a well-structured and written comedy. Can I ask you a question, Guy? How are you fearing because we've watched five episodes of this today yeah yeah how are you going how's the mental health uh it's actually fine having different people come in and all of their reaction is to like uh they sort of buck up against you know like everyone kind of is has been quite shaken's not necessarily they get taken off guard by the wall I'm shaken

but I I feel like I've been holding pretty steady to be completely honest it's you don't both of you I mean yeah

I think Tim is you seem to be struggling more with it yep like you were getting angry during I was actually very restrained

I think Tim's sort of coming in and out of his sensibility I don't Guy's got a good ability to if something's really pissing him off, just sort of switch off to it. Well, he did at one point just go and put some cups away. So I think there is some undercurrents going on.

No, I had to put the cups away. I've got to leave after this recording. We've all got our coping mechanisms. I'm railing against it because I full-heartedly still believe somewhere in me that it will change if i can express my my anger yeah how many episodes are left one in the first season so so it's eight episodes and based on so with the netflix thing because obviously it just kicks into the new episode we've got the still frame from the first frame of the next episode we guy quickly press

pause before it kicked off and i think we're going to get treated to this sitcom that he keeps talking about as the final clip certainly we've got something to look forward to, the title of the 8th episode is Opening Night which would suggest we are about to watch Rob's version of comedy within Rob's version of comedy also the opening night of the strip club

oh yes and we get to see if Gosling makes an appearance he absolutely doesn't. It is so telling that we needed you to relay to us, the people who have watched seven episodes, that that's what's going to happen. Because the number of plot ideas or threads that these people open up and do not pursue...

Yeah. Hey, Carl, do you want to take a bet? Sorry, do you want to take a bet as to whether or not Gosling will turn up? I mean... And let's do the odds. I will make a bet with you, say, like eight to one odds. Okay. Eight in favour that he will not be there.

So if you want to take the bet that he's going to appear, I will pay you eight times the money. Right. You see what I'm saying? That's such a... It's a tempting bet, but I know he cannot physically be in it. Yeah, exactly.

Eight to one odds. One thing Gosling has is, you know, some level of quality control in the scripts. But he's in Hollywood. Put $5 down, man. And the weird thing is you never know. They might be old friends. So unlikely.

Put $5 down. You get $40 out of this. I'll put $5 in. If the universe implodes and Gosling turns up, I give you $40, but you've got to give me $5. I will take that bet. Fabulous. There is no way Ryan Gosling is going I give you $40 but you've got to give me five I will take that bet fabulous there is no way Ryan Gosling is gonna show up in

who all right here's another good let's who do you think he's going to get because that might I feel like I can get in his mind no I wasn't gonna make it I think he's gonna go for a replacement that will be bad Sandler no it's gonna be there's a plot device I've already used it's going to be a

Oh okay They're not going to go Yeah not this skillful show They're not going to Reuse a joke Or a format They've already done They're not

Doing Sandler would be More original than What they're going to do Which is going to be He's going to try and Palm it off the same way He did with the bear He's going to get some

Like He's just going to Put Jamie in a latex suit It's going to be a lookalike Yeah or like Some sort of person He finds on the street No I like this idea That he. Yeah, it's going to be a lookalike. Yeah, or like some sort of person he finds on the street. No, I like this idea that he'll get an impersonator.

He'll get a Ryan Gosling impersonator. Because obviously there was the money sort of issue at the end of that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sorry, take us through that car. What happened there? So obviously he gets $150,000. He puts it in a special... See, I thought he just puts it in a bag.

It looked like a handbag. It turns out he's put a anti-theft an anti-theft like ink cartridge he gives it to his assistant says don't open that his assistant then essentially tries to sexually assault a woman in his room yeah and when she tries to leave he wants to give her money for a taxi opens it it explodes in his face he's now ruined 150 000 yeah um so now obviously obviously, he physically cannot afford Gosling. So now we've actually... Gosling's obviously not going to be there.

I've just talked myself out of my bet. I've burnt $5 there. But the thing is that you're operating in a world where the TV show follows a logical one event after the other and there's consequence. And in this show, there isn't. So the episode ended so confusingly oh it's mental

we get the exploded $150,000 that Jamie's opened and ruined the money and then it just ends yeah that's it hard cut to credits and I was like

what the fuck and then the opening we can see the opening frame of the next episode and it looks like it's opening onto the sitcom. So I don't think it's going to get addressed. I think it's just like, well, that episode's world, you know,

it briefly existed. That can't be right. Time will tell. Carl, do you think that we're punching up? What, in the... By watching the show? The project, the podcast itself. Well, I think

there's so much wrong with it that I think he is a successful Hollywood... He's been around. How do you define success? Well, he's still working. He's obviously got enough money to self-fund this. He's paying himself. Is that still working?

Yeah, that's how economies work nowadays. Money's not real, is it? just it's created and then punched like pumped back in so i think i mean he has had a you would if you were a job in actor he you would say he's had a very successful career yeah so i think and i think he's put this out i think you are allowed to critique it and i think there are moral issues of what he's doing that allow this to be critiqued in quite a harsh manner

countless none more so than the fact that they place a Juice Bigelow male gigolo poster at the bed head of his assistant's apartment

yeah that is crazy stuff that's insane yeah I mean it's all there's so much wrong with this I I think. I don't think you can be accused of punching down on Schneider.

I appreciate that, Carl. You've made me feel better about the situation because I think you're right. Sometimes a moral wrong rises to the level where it's like, we actually do need to talk about this. I think so. I think this is, yeah. I didn't want this to just be us shitting on a show.

And that's why we don't want to. You did or you didn't? Did not. You have, it be us shitting on a show. And that's why we don't want to. You did or you didn't? Did not. You have, it turns, shit all over this show. But what I've tried to do so hard is to not colour anything. Because each episode we have a new guest. And we don't really brief them on anything. Not at all.

I do nothing. So you just come in and you get a take. And if there was one episode that was great, then that's what we would talk about. But it hasn't on about the third moment in the show where sort of it felt like they he when they were writing it they'd never met a woman before that was when i i think i said to you is it always like this and when you tell me it is i think that's when you realize that it this is open nearly always open season on what do you think of the stand-up in Distichels? Well, I've said, weirdly, he looked so unhappy while he was doing it. There was a real sadness to him.

Because he's performing to no one. No. Yeah, but I mean, even then, you just, you know, he's acting the rest of the show. Just give it a little bit of salt and pepper on the performance. He did have a cutaway to audience this time. Because we, every other time. Were they really there? Sorry?

Were they there? It's impossible to know. Well, it's true it's a good point it took six or seven episodes for him to figure out that people are going to get suspicious unless you have sort of silhouettes of heads in some sort of frame yeah i mean it's just and what's weird is he's done an impression of his wife in the routine but we've just met his wife the whole show and it's not how she talks exactly so there's so many there's weird little decision making things that have happened in this.

And it would sort of like, you could get away with that if you did the stand-up bit first. It wouldn't be good because you'd be proven wrong immediately, but you could enjoy the joke at the time when he's doing it on stage with this impersonation of his Mexican wife.

And then we meet her after that point and it's like, oh, okay, he's dialing her up. But to meet her first and then get the impersonation, which is the time he does it, you know, straight off the bat, after that point and it's like oh okay he's dialing her up yeah but to meet her first and then get the impersonation which is the time he does it you know yeah straight off the bat the opening frame of the series is a conversation between the two of them yeah so like you've removed your ability to do an impersonation of someone we've met when you're not adding anything to it's just a bad racist mexican and the little pieces to camera them cutaways they like those i hate you

like this yeah it's like it's such a shit plot device it's such a clear plot device of themes going like i didn't know how to move between these two scenes none of the techniques serve their purpose so none of them actually you know they don't move anything forward. They don't draw any lines between anything. They're just all sort of there. But, I've got to say, credit to the man.

For? Well, he did it, didn't he? What, for making it? Well, yeah.

How many shows have you, you know, self-funded, written, produced, started, and directed? I agree.

There's a, you know, there's a, you can't fault his work ethic. No. But you can't fault his work ethic no but you can fault his ethics true

I think I could fault his work ethic because you said I can't remember if this is when the mics were on or not it feels like a draft

the script feels like a first draft and I'm saying that to somebody who's never written a script so I mean if I'm saying that it's bad

that's what happens when you um insulate yourself from any critique which he's done by constructing a writer's room of himself his wife and jamie who i presume they have a similar dynamic off screen where he is his boss yes if not in a direct sense that he's paying his rent in a in a kind of professional career sense where he's riding the the train. What would you say to Rob Schneider if you could talk with him right now? Do you know

it wouldn't be so much I wouldn't give him advice. I have no one to give advice but I'd have a lot of questions about What do you want to ask him? I would like to know how he feels about this now after the last year, 18 months of the Me Too movement I think people in, especially in his world after the last sort of year, 18 months of the Me Too movement,

just, I think, like, people in, especially in his world, Hollywood, having, men having to have a little look at themselves and see about behaviour, would that make him look back at some of the choices he made professionally? I think you overestimate this guy's consciousness. I think he looks back on this, he reflects on it purely in comedic terms, and I think he's misguided enough to think that it's been a success. Well.

He said, why? What's the, I don't know anything about. Well, he did another season, didn't he? Season two. But did it get, so it's on Netflix. Both seasons. So it must have some fans.

I've got a theory he paid Netflix to put it on. Is that a thing you can do? I think that he just sold. That can't be real. I think he sold it back to Netflix for 50 cents on the dollar. You reckon? So, yeah sorry he lost money making it but he's still trying to recoup a little bit of the loss of production i think that's quite possible like truly when did the second season come out last year must have been 2017 yeah yeah i know so you haven't you haven't got onto that yet

well now we're doing it consecutively, aren't we? Out of respect for the craft. It'll be interesting to see what that's saying. You know? I mean, I'm now probably going to... Are you going to cane through this? No. There's no world in which you're going to touch this show again.

I'm probably going to have to watch the final episode of this series just to get the Gosling goss. I'm juiced. I am real juiced to watch the final episode. Not because of the bet, but just to watch it. The bet a little a little bit though because i'm a gambler i love gamble yeah i'd be i'd like to hear his proper thoughts on it is that is there any interviews online or any uh not that we've dug up i think that feels more like a retrospective to me it strikes me as somebody who's got a blog i think he reads a lot of them i don't know if if you're right, Tim. I couldn't do it.

I couldn't watch any press jacket interviews for this because it'll make me feel really sad about what we're doing, I think. Nah, it's all good, man. Because he'll say stuff like, this is what he'll say, I'm really proud of this.

You know, this is really me putting my life out there and what I really think about the world and my world view and my experiences being someone who's experienced, you know, a lot of success in their life professionally.

This is kind of the foibles that people might not be aware of in my life. And it's like I don't want to be critiquing something that is so close to your heart. Or it might all be a big joke. It might be a very self-conscious Carl like you know controlled Carl Donnelly measured thing look at my eyes

I know what are the odds on that I mean the odds are slim what bet would it take I mean the odds are worse than Gosling showing up in the last episode but

you know stranger things have happened Tommy Wiseau claims that his was like kind of a satirical work of comedy I mean yeah obviously we don't

believe it Rob Schneider could claim the same. Exactly. I am on the Real Rob Twitter stream. How many followers has that got, Guy? Guess. I reckon he's got loads. 6,000.

6,000 followers. The real him. The real person. No, Real Rob the TV show. Just the show. Oh, the show. Oh, that's probably not that much. 18,000.

3,812 that is low that is really low for a show I'm just checking out has he got one has he got a personal what's the behind the scenes

of our shoot there is a behind the scenes here oh my god this is something to look forward to well we'll watch that two retweets nine favourites

oh brutal oh who retweeted it as well? That's always a fun thing to look into for promo content. Yeah, it's fucking great. It'll be like him and his agent. Yeah, but he can't have a... Yeah, it's the Real Rob Twitter account

and Nicole Partiz who appears to work in PR. Yeah. Has Rob got a personal Twitter account? He does, and he's got like 700 he's got 712 000 followers nor mcdonald did he not even retweet it then no probably not as we spoke about in a previous in a previous tweet write this this is to suggest that rob schneider has done nor mcdonald a huge favor at some point in his life my friend friend Rob Schneider, one of the few comedy auteurs we have,

has created the hysterical Real Rob. And season two is now streaming on Netflix. Couldn't recommend anything more. That's a friend's message though, isn't it?

Friends don't let friends make real Rob. He has nailed himself to the wall with that. But yeah, you can't stop a friend making a thing. Yeah, right. Didn't they do

saturday night live together they go way back but norm doesn't have to be quite so effusive in his praise for this steaming pile of i know but i think norm likes winding people up oh there do you know what i think you're right he will know he would never like praise something that was like widely loved you're right he's much more likely to think of a friend who might be doing a show that's getting a bit slam and he'd do that just for a wink and a nod absolutely because i actually think he did that in his appearance as well he right fuck what does he say he says oh okay so in his cameo in the second episode um he he says to rob he's like hey listen man i really appreciate you coming here and talking to me and i fully read it as this is what you should be saying to me right now for being in

this show that's it that's that's definitely there's a bit of an in joke there yeah within the episode it was do you know what it was because of in the episode because Rob read on a blog that vasectomies give you dementia. Right. And Norm Macdonald had a vasectomy. Okay. And so simultaneously while denigrating Rob on his own show, he was also showing the signs of dementia as a comic vehicle.

But then he made his assistant Jamie get a vasectomy so he could have like a human experiment that he could watch. And after that, the storyline was never picked up or addressed ever again um we're just about done for time here but carl is there anything you would like to plug while we've got you plug um we do not know when this will be released um i suppose

just one of my podcasts i do one called the carl and chris podcast i do one called babysitting trevor which has just been nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the British Comedy... Congratulations. ...British Podcast Awards. And that is... It's a weird one. It's me and Chris Martin

and a very Australian man called Trevor Crook. We're trying to get Trevor to become a modern man because he's the most old-fashioned guy. This Trevor's a real bloody card. He's brilliant. But he's good when we'refashioned guy yeah this Trevor's a real bloody card he's brilliant but like he's good when we're working with him and keeping him busy but at the moment we have a little break in between seasons he just disappears into his cave and just comments on things online this we have basically I just it's us trying to stop him from going mad that sounds

great it's really fun like we took him we made him do yoga And we do We try and make him Do things to help He's got chronic OCD And some anxiety issues Oh that's awesome So there is a nice tone to it But it's also very funny Because he's also A bit of an old filth bag

And that is called Babysitting Trevor Thank you so much Babysitting Trev It's called Babysitting Trevor Oh my bad Online I think It's sort of

All our Twitter and that Are called Babysitting Trev Tim's called babysitting trevor but online i think it's sort of all i've tried to do anything else to say guys it's been such a pleasure and a joy because i don't have to watch any more of this right in this instance so carl thank you so much for joining us carl donnelly world's funniest man i would like to put it on record i would like to leave uh this episode with a quote from rob schneider actually from within the episode. He says, I like cutting in front of people in restaurants when they've been waiting in line a long time because I'm famous and they're not.