MO GILLIGAN! | EP 401 01:54:56

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Guys, girls, we're back again. We are indeed. We are cooking this year with the guesty guests. I'm excited. So am I. This one, I'm really, really excited. I know I say I'm always excited, of course, but this one, I'm very excited. So before we get started, I always like to do a nice introduction to our guests. I feel like this one is like top three easiest ones to do.

I agree. Yeah? I agree. Yeah, I agree. So, with us today, guys, we have a very, very, very, very special guest. The reason he's very, very, very, very, very special is because this gentleman has... And I'm going to use the word complimentary somehow. Okay. The word is somehow. Okay. Somehow managed to reach a certain feat that I don't think many people...

like acknowledge on a day to day basis. Especially people of our like age and culture. This brer came up through social media to take over an entire country's comedy scene. Also one time, funny story. First time we met this brer, we went to, it was one of his parties, right? Went to one of his parties.

- Baddies in there by the way. Full disclosure, for no reason bro. - It was a party. - Yeah.

I was like, damn, there's people in here. There's people in here. - He knows everyone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought, oh, he's gonna do like the fashion relate entrance, like suave, sleek. I was like, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I remember hearing a loud shout of excitement. I looked to my left and bro was running down a hallway covered in sweat. - Sweat. - Dripping. - Yeah, dripping in sweat, having more fun than I've ever seen a human being have. A man pulled up.

Spoke to us on a first name basis and I was like, raw, gang. Okay, cool. And then scurried on into the night to clash someone on the dance floor. In front of other celebrities. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was like, wow, he's really, really him. So admiration went through the roof. Another time, me and my boy, I think it was on the way to one of our live shows. There was traffic on the M1 and we got diverted and we were just driving through London through this barge.

buff area in London. - Oh, okay. - And then my boy was like, "I'm pretty sure Mo lives around here." And I was like, "That's funny." 'Cause I'm looking for a father figure. I'm looking for a father figure and a mentor and a friend. And we happen to be in the right area for it. So that's insane. So all of that considered, anyway guys, let's get back down to it. Please give a warm, warm, warm, warm, warm, very special, very honored welcome to Mo Gilligan. - Let's go. - Appreciate you, man.

- Thank you for coming, bro. - It was hard being quiet for all of that. But you lifted off like, oh, and I was like, yeah, that's, I don't know if that's me or is there someone else coming out here? But no, that party's mad. That's the first time we met. - I believe so, yeah. - It's mad 'cause I feel like I've known you longer. I don't know why. - Same, same. - But yeah, and I know we have a lot of friends in common as well. So that also feels a lot like why as well, but it's mad actually 'cause when you said I was sweating.

You were sweating, bro. Wow. You were sweating, bro. Full tuxedo. Sweating from head to toe. What part was that?

- Was that the one in the King's Cross? - Yes, it was. - Oh yeah, I was sweating, man. - It was. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like a Brits after party or one of them after parties. - Some after party for some prestigious hosting job we just finished. - That was an after party we done for the Brits. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, we had a Brits after party. You know what was mad because I knew it was the last time I was gonna do the Brits as well, innit? - Oh yeah. - Like in my head I was like, I got well tour next year and I feel like this might be the last time I do this thing, innit? So I wanna have the best party

Not ever, but it's like, I always make sure, even if like, when I have, I do my own parties, I want to enjoy people who are just like, good vibes. It's not like,

I hate going to stuff where people are very pretentious and cool and like, it's like, no, like just come. And I always try, we would try like the dress code is that all black, for example. So that way when you leave, you're like, I can just wear black jeans and a black t-shirt and converse. Cause no one can judge you wearing a dress code that's all black. Do you know what I mean? But I was sweating, man. I remember I was clashing. What's her name? America. She goes hard as well. That's not an easy opponent.

- On some You Got Served thing. - Yeah, she came specifically for that reason. - Yeah, she did. - Do you know what was mad, yeah? Because I remember saying to her, I invited her like quite like, like kind of last minute. And I was like, come man, come down man, it'll be a good vibe. She's like, oh, I'll come. And so she came and I can't remember what she was saying. I said something, I said, yeah, but be ready like on the dance floor, I'm a Clash of You. - Yeah, yeah. - And like, don't get me wrong, I feel like I can hold my own against the

the average in the party, do you see what I mean? But like when she started dancing, I was like, oh, right. - Yeah, she's about it. This is what she does. - Yeah, she's about it. - Yeah, bro, for no reason. - I remember doing some worm ting. - Oh my God. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That was your saving grace, dude. - I was sweating. People's looking at me like, come on, you're up, man. You're up. I was like, listen, this was Bantz, man.

- Yeah, no, what a great way to, I remember you lot coming as well, as well. And I remember when you lot come, you looked a bit like, oh, Rob, is this, Rob, these are really partying, man. - Yeah, fat. - Okay. - I was ready for a little clink, clink, snobby. - Clink, clink, yeah, like. - Clink, clink, snobby, snobby. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The walls are shaking. - Yeah, it was real London. - Yeah, it was real London, yeah, it was good. - That party was sick. - It was really good. - Yeah, man, but yeah, thank you for coming on, bro. - No, thanks for having me. - This has been like,

It's a weird one because we had a list probably like a year and a half ago of guests that we wanted to have on the show. And you were like damn near the top. And it was almost one of them like,

- It's not gonna happen. - You see, when it comes to, I like doing podcasts. If I've got something to promote or even just talk about, then I'm always willing to jump on and just like, 'cause it's just a conversation. Do you know what I mean? I never put myself in high regard of like, nah man, them ain't got enough views for me. 'Cause that's like, I remember when I done a podcast, when I was trying to, I remember like in COVID, I was like, let me try and do a podcast and stuff. And you ask people, you don't know if they wanna do it or not.

and you just realize this unless you ask you you don't ever know yeah i mean so um yeah man i'm always that

the podcast could be about anything as long as it's good vibes and I always find I just need something to talk about if I ain't got nothing to talk about and someone asks and I don't want to say the same thing on every other pod do you know what I mean I want it to be special for you lot as well do you know what I'm saying you don't want me doing the podcast run because you know when someone's doing promo you're like oh yeah it's come on now he's doing that one and that one okay

i feel like i feel like we've been hoodwinked here yeah yeah bro 100 it's dread i hate i i hate it for the other podcasters when there's people that have like i know there's people that have like messaged us or got in contact with like oh come to the uk can we come on and like more time we'll be like no no no we'll we'll pass it and it's not even because they're a bad person or anything like that it's just because it doesn't we don't know what the hell we're going to talk about yeah and then we'll see them do

all of our peers podcasts and word for word it's the exact same thing for every episode and I'm like thank god we didn't have to have that conversation because it's just bars bro you're obviously killing in the comedy game you're on tour you've been doing all these things but you decided to get into your acting bag 10 lives

How was that call for you when you received that message that, okay, you are going to be doing a voiceover? Do you know what I was more gassed about? Second picture on the cast list as well. Let's go, bro. We're there, bro. We're there. 10 lives. Talk to us about the feeling. Talk to us about the emotion. Talk to us about, yeah, how the whole experience went down for you. Do you know what it was? I think when I found out I'd be the lead, so

So I'm like, right, I'm going to be the lead. Oh, thank you very much. Oh, thank you so much, man. Yeah, it was like the first major thing in it, where it's like, you're going to be a lead and you play the cat and it all centers around the cat. Yeah. And I remember my first, you know, I'd read the script and I met

Chris Jenkins, who's the director of it. And you got to remember, like, this guy has worked on Lion King. He's worked on Little Mermaid. His accolades are mad. Yeah. So I'm already nervous beforehand. So I get to do the first day of recording.

And I'm kind of in my head like, I've got an idea of like, dude, what kind of cat voice do I do? Do you know what I mean? And I met him. I was like, how's it going, Chris? He's a short guy. He's only like five foot three. So humble. And he's like, he's from Wales originally, isn't it? He's from Wales, but he lived out in the States.

And he's like, yeah, but he's like, hey, buddy. Oh, man. Big fan of your stuff, man. I was like, thanks, man. And he mocked up one of my stand ups with the cat. He's like, we don't want to do the cat. And this is the cat. And I was like, wow, that's amazing. That's like, how long does it take to do that? He goes, you know, a couple of days with the team on it. So, you know, that's a couple of days for this. And it was just like you've seen something and someone

Again, his accolades are sensational, innit? It was just so nice, so humble, so cool. And I remember getting in the booth, first recording session. He's like, I'm going to show you it. And this is when it's still storyboard, so they haven't done the animation yet. But he was like, we're going to show you it. This is what the cat's going to be like. And he said, look, when you do the cat, do it as you. Be yourself. I want you to use the words that you would use. Bruv, cuz, yes, whatever. The way that you speak.

And that's what I want you to do with the cat. - That must have felt like ease. - Breath of fresh air. - Yeah, man. And then there was one scene where in the film where Beckett, the cat, he has to climb up a drain pipe because he's like, I think he's chasing a, no, I'm a rat, sorry. I got to climb up like a drain pipe or whatever to get back in the house. And he's like, yeah, imagine you're climbing up. So I'm like, .

Yeah. And I'm really imagining. Yeah. And then I think, I think like a hawk or something takes me or whatever. And then I start getting into it that first session. And he said to me, he goes, oh man, that was great, man.

you know you reminded me of when i worked with the late robin williams you know your improvisation and i was like whoa yeah i couldn't hear that but he was just so like so humble so calming in it yeah so then every like every time i got to do a record because we all done them by ourselves it was just fun do you know what it means it's fun and then when i got to watch it oh my god when i watched it like the

the whole thing done. 'Cause I'd seen the story bits. - Of course. - When they start putting it all together now. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And you watch it and you're like, "No, this is mad." Like, and then we went Sundance Film Festival and then we had to do like promo and then we got to watch the film the following day and there's people crying and stuff like that in the cinema towards the end of the film. You not seen the film? - Not yet. - Not yet, bro. - Not yet. - Not yet. - Not yet. - It's on the list.

- No! - He made us, he made us bro! - He was smiling before he even asked. - Yeah, 'cause he knew. - Before he asked! - No, he was a waste man. Why are you even thinking for that? - Oh my days. - Nah, I wasn't thinking for that. Bro, I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah.

- No, no, no, no. - No, goosebumps on my back. - Fuck sake. - No, yeah. - No, yeah. - Oh God. - Bro, it's crazy. Oh, my stomach's burning. - No, I'm sorry. I had to do that. I had to do that. - No, it's all good. It's all good. - Oh, waste man. - Bro. - Oh, Jesus. - No, yeah. No, yeah.

- My tingles are last. It's 'cause, yeah, yeah. - You're waiting for excuses. - No, it's 'cause the studio sessions have just been mad. They had it booked for yesterday, but. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just not yet. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Easiest. - Fuck, that's funny. - Oh, God. - Oh, is that so good? - It's all good. - No, it's fine, it's fine. My mom ain't even seen it, so don't worry, bro. It's all right, man. No, but like. - When you get to actually watch it. - Yeah.

You get to watch it and you see it all back. Then you're like, cause again, it's like, it's that thing where you're like, that film will last forever in it. Yeah. I mean, there'll be some kids who'd be like, that's like the first animation film that they seen or like parents that have watched it with their kids and stuff. So yeah, I think that's when it starts like setting in. Do you know what I mean? That you're like, you're like, you're in a motion picture. Do you know what I mean? Like, but,

I think as like a moment or anything I've done, it was like so removed from comedy. You're working with a cast and stuff and you go to Sundance and Sundance. I've never been Sundance in it. So they do it in like in Salt Lake City. Yeah. So like everyone's there. I'm walking past Lucy Lou, walk past, um,

I think that's all I've seen because I was jet lagged. So the rest of the time in the hotel, just sleeping. Good night. But no, it was, it was a good vibe, man. And then when it came out again, it's that thing where you're like, rah, like I'm in a, an actual motion picture. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, which was incredible, man. And I guess like, do you know what it is? That people always said like,

you should do acting and stuff and whatnot. And I definitely want to, but it's just like finding the right, the right time or the right thing. Do you know what I mean? Like, and I've always been a big believer. If it's like, if it's not for me,

then it's for someone else. And someone's really gonna appreciate that much more. If it's not my, that thing is not for me, give it to someone else. Someone else wants this and they're gonna appreciate it more. If I've got all of this on, it's probably better that I just gotta concentrate with this. Do you know what I'm saying? You know, you don't wanna take all the food at the buffet. Do you know what I mean? Leave some for someone else. Do you know what I mean? I'm a big believer in that. Do you know what I mean? But fun, man. So, so fun, man. So, so fun. Good to hear, man. Good to hear. Well, Ian, yeah.

- In, what's the word I'm looking for? - In true 10 lives fashion. - Yeah, in true 10 lives fashion, we've got a game for you. - Yeah, man. - Constructed by a lovely researcher, Anna. She, and it's called 10 lives. - Okay. - Based on the game. - Yeah, man. - And she's gonna explain how we're gonna play the game. - Yeah, so it's a little game called 10 lives.

Basically, it's based on obviously Mo's film debut. We're all going to start with 10 lives and then you'll take a turn to pick a category. So we've got musical instruments, animal sounds, song, film quotes, celebrity voices. So a little soundbite is going to play from my laptop and then...

write on your whiteboard what you think it's going to be and obviously everyone has 10 lives whoever gets the question wrong will lose one life for every person that got it right if that makes sense so you've got example you've got Kevin Hart playing and James Fuhad and Mo they all write Kevin Hart Ellis writes The Rock

You got it right, so that's three people got it right. So he's lost three lives. So he's on seven lives now. - I see. - Okay. - Okay, cool. - Mo, do you want to start with the category? So you've got musical instruments, animal sounds, song, film quotes, celebrity voice. - Let's go with animal sounds. - Okay, good choice. - It's tense in the studio, bro. - When it comes to games? - Yeah, we don't fuck around when it comes to games. - You might lose some, but trust me. - All right, ready? - Yeah. - I know what that is. - I know what that is.

- All right. - Can you play that one more time? - Nah. - No, no, no, no, no, no. - Is it a one take Drake? - It's one take Drake. We're doing it once. - Okay, reveal. - I didn't write it big enough, I can't lie, but. - That's calm. - Seal. - Oh, I did dolphin. I thought it was a dolphin. - I wrote sea lion. - Okay. - I just put pig, I was guessing. - Seal is the correct answer. - Yes! - You're wrong, bro. - So. ♪ Kiss from a rose and a hand ♪ - So we all get a wrong singer. We all have seven points. - Yeah, so you all lose three points.

- Shit. - If I get it right, do I gain any points? - I should be cut for the C line. C line's the same thing, no? - Nope. - Nah, sorry. - Seven points. - So you're staying on 10? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You're still staying on 10? - I got sealed. - Cool. - So we're gonna carry on until one person's lost all their lives. - Perfect. - All right, okay, I'm on seven. - Okay, Fuhad, categories. - Celebrity voice.

I'm in Paris for the first time again for movies and that's fufufu. Yeah. And so I was in like one of those cool Tom Ford dresses with the zips and everything. And I saw Francis Ford Coppola, but it actually was Francis Ford Coppola. And I was like, oh my God, it's Francis Ford Coppola. I think I know who that is. Yeah, I've got it. I've got it. Man. Okay, can we reveal? Three, two, one.

- Jennifer Lawrence. - I got the one from Bridesmaids. I thought it was her. - The woman from Bridesmaids. - Oh, fair play. I don't know her name. - Which one? The main one? - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - What is her name? - I need to know. Let me bring it up. - I thought you lot was gonna go niche. - I went Katherine Heigl. Jesus. - Who the fuck is that? - Yeah, that's what Grey's Anatomy drawn. - Is it Jennifer Lawrence? - Jennifer Lawrence. - Well played. - Ah, Jennifer Lawrence. - Yeah. - Yeah, so what? I lose three lives. - No, you lose two lives. - No, you lose two 'cause they both go right. - Okay, James category. - Film quote, please.

I thought you'd choose that. I need to name the film? Yeah, just the film. Okay. Okay. Okay, are we ready? Yeah. How about another joke, Murray? No, I think we've had enough of your jokes. What do you get when you cross a mentally ill donor with a society medicine that's made so much trash? Call the police, Gene. I'll tell you what you get. Call the police. Get what you fucking deserve. Locked. Jesus. Good. I'm terrible at this game. Strong scene.

- Strong scene. - Good scene. - Yeah, good scene. - Good scene. - Okay. - Mo, you're just saying that, aren't you? You think you got it? - I've got that one, definitely. - Yeah, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang. I'm telling you, let's get the hell out of here quick. - Okay, can we reveal? - I've written nothing down, so. - Oh, three, two, one. - "Joker". - "Joker". - Yep, correct. - Come on, man! - What are you on that for now? - You don't remember that one? What did you get? - I didn't write anything down. - You didn't write nothing? - Yeah. - You lose one point? - No. - Three. - Three points, 'cause everyone else got it right and I didn't write anything down. - Oh. - Yeah.

- Have you seen Joker for a while? - I've seen it twice. - Oh fair. - That's the scene where he kills Danny DeVito. - Oh, in the thingy. - Oh, Robert De Niro, sorry. - Yeah, yeah. - Robert De Niro. - About another joke, Murray. - It's probably 'cause I didn't hear that bit, maybe. - Two points? - Two left. - Fight back, bro. - All right, Ellis. - I'll go for movie quote. - You are too concerned with what was and what will be. - That's way too low. - Quiet, bro. - That's the loudest one, really. - Yesterday,

- I got it. - Can we have a clue? - It's animated. - I was gonna say it's given animation, yeah. - I knew it was animation. - That didn't help me fucking anything. - I think it's an animated film, it's definitely one I haven't seen, but you know it's one of those classic ones. - Yeah. - Ready to reveal? - Yeah. - Okay, one, two, three. - Kung Fu Panda. - Kung Fu Panda. - Oh, I bought Frozen. - Kung Fu Panda's the one. - Gang!

- Master Oogway. - Yeah, man, I like Master Oogway. - Fair play. I'm out. I'm lost. That's my 10 lives. - Yeah. - That game was strong. - Strong game. - That was very cool. - Strong game from you. - Strong game. - We have to run that back, you know? - We do have to run that back. - I like that game. You can play that like a drinking game. - Yeah, that's a sick game. - Very cool. - Right, we got another trivia game to play.

Not trivia. Oh, not trivia game. We've got the car thing, right? We've got a car game. Yes. Cool. Cool. So this is based off something you used to do back in like 2020 where there'll be a car, you put it on your story and you'll describe the type of person that drives this kind of car. So we're going to pull up some cars for you and you're just going to start in a row. Okay. Tell us what you think. Tell us what you think. Tell us what you feel. All right. I'll have a field day with this one. First one, Renault Clio. Ooh.

- Ooh, Renault Clio. Okay, this is the popular mum, the popular mum doing the, what's it called again? The, you drop off the kids in the morning. - Oh, school run. - School run. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The school run special car. The Renault Clio. Yeah, you know what's mad? I've always liked the Renault Clio because back in the day they used to have the honorary advert, the va-va-voom thing, innit? - Yes, yes, yes. - So I always had an appreciation for it, but it's definitely like,

Yeah, Tracy, you know what I mean? Kids, get in there. Get in the car. Hurry up. We've got to come on. Hurry up. Yeah.

- It's definitely the school run. You know, the school mom run car. Like it runs decent. It's not, it runs, it runs all right. - Yeah, reliable John. - If they're on the motorway, they're in the slow lane because they know what the car can do and what it can't do. Do you know what I mean? They're saying, listen, I'm keeping it 60. It's fine. If you've got the three door thing, it's stress. If you're in the back of that three door, your knees are screaming for its life.

Because in the back of those hatchbacks with those three doors, oh my God. But yeah, the school run's special, man. You can't beat a Renault Clio, man. Say less. That was my first car. Renault Clio, yeah. My first car, boy. Oh, he's a Renault Clio. Damn.

- Yeah, my dad bought it for me when I was younger. I was gassed, gassed. But yeah, that motorway ting, that's no joke, bro. Coming down the slip road, Donnie's were beeping, bro. Speed up. - I put my foot through the floor. - That's all she's got. - I'm sorry. - Oh, bruv, jokes, man. Fair play. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. What's next? - Ooh, a G-Wag. - Mercedes G-Wagon, boy.

Bye!

- Listen, let me tell you something, yeah. When I started doing well for myself, I said, listen, I need to get myself the car. This is my dream car, innit? So when I got this car here, I would pull up anywhere that was possible to pull up. You're gonna see me in it. Bro, I get dressed to get in this car, you know? I don't think you realize. - Statement. - Bro, I get dressed for the car. 'Cause when I step out, listen. - It's got a match. - Yeah, yeah, it's got a match. - It's got a match. - It's got a, ooh. - It's not a rental.

I can't lie, when I drive it, I know people look at me and they say, "He's a cunt." I know that. It's 100%, man. You look nervous as well, innit? They just look at you like, "Look at you, you piece of shit." I'm like, "What have I done, bruv?" "What man?" Nah. That's when it all starts, there's that, "Nah, man, Greta Thunberg wouldn't drive this." And you're like, "Yeah." But as a car, yeah, I can't lie. For me, it was one of my dreams, innit? I always said, "When I do well and I get myself

that's the car I want innit? So I've had mine for a little while now and I can't lie man. It was mad when I first got here, I know you lot done this, when you first got, when you lot got here, I know you done this. When you first get this here, you do unnecessary videos innit in the car.

- Come on, bro. - No, man, stop it, man. You're just smiling, glasses on. - 'Cause people can see the space. - Yeah, they need to. - They need to see the space in the car. People are like, "Oh, what? Is that you, yeah?" I used to laugh at, "Nah, bro, AliExpress, this ain't my thing, you know? This is not my, bro, your old car." But nah, I've had mine a little while.

Parking it, I swear to you, I probably park it and I'm like, I might never see you again, you know? So let me just look back on when I park it. But when I park it, yeah, I don't know if you do this, but I know you lot do this, yeah. You know, when you're walking up to it, you'll be far away, yeah, and someone will look at the car, but you'll click it. - Yeah! - Do you know how I do it? I never bring my keys out.

- Yeah, bro. - And you walk up to the car, click. 'Cause when it clicks, it makes so much noise, it goes clink. So people are like, "Oh, who's that?" - Yeah, bro. - They're like, "Yeah, that's me." - Who is it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Who owns it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, bro. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Who is that? Who is the owner of this car? It's just me, man, innit? It's just me. Chill, like, chill, chill. This is G-Wagon, innit? G-Wagon, calm down. Everyone chill, though. Everyone chill. - Bro. - Yeah, I can't lie.

Like Christmas time, I normally go to, I go Harrods at Christmas time innit, so I get points and I take my nephews like to spend the points and stuff innit. Nice. When I go, the first time I went Harrods this year, oh my god bro, even the Arabs were looking at me like, oh my god, Harbibti, Wallahi, very nice this time. It's alright bro, it's alright bro. Chill though, chill, chill, chill. Melody. Chill, chill, Mustafa, chill, chill, chill, chill. Oh bro. But yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny because it's

It's like, I've had mine for such a while now that I forget what car I have 'cause I'm so used to it. It's my daily car, innit? But like, it's funny 'cause like when me and the guys are in it, like the other day I was like, "I need to go to Sainsbury's, innit?" All the guys are like, "Yeah, I'm coming in, I'm coming in." And with the doors, you can really slam the doors, innit? - No, you have to slam it. - You have to slam the doors. - But people be slamming the doors, you know? I said, "Bro, are we the underworld? "You need to be slamming the doors like this, bro."

But yeah, it's the one thing that I've probably like, you know, people say like, what's been like your most excessive purchase of a thing and stuff? Probably that for me, because it was like my dream car. Do you know what I mean? I'm a car person. I do like my cars, but that for me, it was like, yeah, I can't lie. I remember I turned up at my mom's house. So my mom was in Peckham in it. So I turned up.

whole neighborhood i felt like i was coming back like like lebron yeah yeah what's good little man yeah it's good little man how much you want i want eight grand yeah you good man yeah no it was um yeah it's the one thing i i'm like you know like you see as your accomplishment do you know what i mean like well people do look at you and you're like yeah you're a pussy yeah yeah yeah 100 they love the environment when they see you in that car

They'd never cared before. - Did they saw you in that, do you reckon? - They didn't give a fuck about the atmosphere. Boy, fuck. I love that car. - I love that car. All right, next.

- Ooh. - Was TT. - Audi TT. Listen, this was my dream car when I was a kid. 'Cause SoSoli Crew had one of these. - Oh, yay. - I always had an admiration for Audi TT. But it's more that, now it's like, especially if you see a white one, that woman is a hairdresser. She's definitely a hairdresser. She does eyelashes somewhere. Holly.

The Holly in Essex Does eyelashes Microblading Probably I don't know Spray tans The Audi TT It's like the one up From like the Fiat 500 I do like Audi TT But I do feel like They feel like A car that feels like

Like the shape just feels a bit old school now. Do you know what I mean? In the early 2000s. But I'd always, I do appreciate it because it just reminds me of like so solid crew days. Do you know what I mean? But convertible cars, I would never get one again. I had a convertible once. It's horrible in this country. If you have a convertible like the States, yeah. It's amazing because it's sunny all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bruv, I had a convertible, yeah. I had a...

I had a C63 convertible, yeah? So the engine was mad and I took the top off one day and it was baking, bruv. I was getting cooked.

in the sun. And then I remember just parking up next to a bus and people just looking at me and the car felt so exposed. Like I got scared when people walk past and tasted the teeth of my phone. I was like, nah, it's not, yeah, convertibles just don't, I just don't feel like they work here. 'Cause we have so much rain, we ain't got enough sun to keep it always down. - Growing up, my dad had a convertible and he would put that roof down

And what I don't tell you is when you're driving the convertible, you don't get that wind. If you're in the back seat, all you get is the wind, bro. So me and my brother will be in the back like, "Dad, we're fucking freezing!" - Yeah, it's cold. - "Please, Dad, close it, close it, close it." And every time we kiss the seat, we're like, "I can't do anything to these fucking kids, bro." I'm trying to flex, big man. - Yeah, and it feels too exposed. Like, I feel like, it feels like I'm in a tin of beans, but like someone just took,

I just don't feel cool, bro. It's not cool, man. Yeah, bro. I'm like, someone just said, and I'm like, oh, everyone can see me. Because you don't realise when you're in your car, like, you know, you can be in your car, you can have like, eat crisper or whatever and stuff. But when you're in a convertible, the whole car is open. So everyone can see if there's dirt, if there's a t-shirt or hoodie there or trainers. And it's just...

I just don't think it works. Maybe outside of London, it might work in it, but I feel like you need to in like it's continuous like heat. Do you know what I mean? If you're down in Greece or Spain, you had a convertible, it'll be a vibe. I don't think they work in London. Not for me anyway. - Fair. All right. - All right, next up. - Ooh, the Audi. - That's a Ford. - The Ford RS thing, yeah? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - These man, yeah, this, the max power.

magazine collectors back in the day, 100%. It's always the Danny. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. It's got a new- That color as well. He definitely wears Nike TNs. Oh, 100%. 110s probably as well. Burberry hat. Do you know what I mean? Burberry hat. He's got one of those fleece tech track suits.

These guys go fast Like And they're always like You know like those drivers When you're like Why is this guy up my arse? Yeah It's always these lot These lot BMW drivers Stay revving bro What is their problem? These lot are BMW drivers I can't lie though When I see these man I'm like listen I'm not trying to race Because they are looking They can't wait For a race Yeah And I'm like listen I'm not here to race anyone I'm just trying to get to my destination At a decent time But these cars Are

- Yeah, the thing is I like smaller cars that are fast, but it does remind me of Colin McCrae's rally. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, do you know what I mean? Left, left, left, right, right, right. - Throwback. - Brake, brake, brake, brake, brake. So yeah, and that color is mad. - These ones. - That lime green. - That's flashy boy, you have to know this. - They love a Tesco car part these, man. - Yeah, they love donuts. - Donuts at a Tesco car, what? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - God forbid you pull up late, man. - Enfield McDonald's, you know about that one? - Nah, I don't know. - Enfield McDonald's. Oh yeah, if you go there late at night,

any day of the week. It's just not...

not predominantly those cars, but it's just people there in it. It's always like, you'll see some nice cars there, but these, yeah, these men don't race them. Cause you got to remember it looks like that and it's already a, but they always get it like chipped or kitted and they're like, yeah, see the car. Yeah, it does better. I done 150 on the other day. Yeah, 150. 150. Where are you going to go 150 miles an hour? You will die. Yeah. But again, I've always wanted a small fast car, but I don't think,

I don't know, bro. I can't. Once you get the G's, you can't really go back to the- - Bro, you can't sit down. - You can't sit down. - Yeah, you can't sit down. - It's lateral movement only. - Facts. - But yeah, definitely like a Danny, what's happening, bruv? Yeah, bruv. It's got like a fold in it. It's all right. It's got RS in that. Do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, my nan passed away and that gave me a bit of money. - That's facts.

- I used to work with a guy called Rob who said he bought that car and said the exact same story. Now just died, bit of an inheritance. - Because you can get a normal Ford, innit? But the RS is that, I've got a bit of money, do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, like my old man passed away and that. So obviously like, you know what I mean? Try and sell the ass. Got a bit of money, bought like a Ford RS to treat myself, do you know what I mean? Like treat myself. So I'm hard working. - I'm a hard working guy.

I'm a hard working boy, do you know what I mean? I didn't come from money or nothing like that. But like, you know what I mean? My nan died and my dad died, so I thought, do you know what I mean? - Fuck it. - I thought, fuck it. Fuck it, I'm going fast, bro. 'Cause you don't know though, do you? My real talk, you don't know when you're gonna die. So I thought if I'm gonna die, I'm going in the fucking full RS, bro. Do you know what I mean?

- That's jokes bro. - Wow. - Jesus. - That's hilarious. Is that all the cars? - All the cars? - Gang. - All right, cool. - That was hilarious bro. - I like that one. That's a fun game man. - Fun fact, these are all the whips from our team. - Oh sweet. - Whose whip is that one? - Who's got the RS? - Huh? - Ben has the RS. - Ben has the RS. - Who's got the TT? - Oh that's so cold. - Who's got the TT? - You! - You got out the TT? - No, I got the TT, I wish. - Who's got it? - Jack's got it. - Oh yeah, Jack got it. - Oh yeah, he did. He got it the other day, didn't he? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Who's got the RS?

- Farm designer. - Farm designer. - Farm designer, Ben. He's not here today. Fair play. Titi, who's that? Jake, obviously. - Who's got a Renault Clio? I'm so sorry. - Is it you? - Yeah, but you don't strike me as a driver though. You just like- - You've only just passed me. - I've only just passed you. - Fair. - Oh, okay, fair enough, man. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Get your no claims up, my brother. - Yeah, yeah. - Hit me, bro. - Fair play. - Low insurance, you know. - Yeah, man, smart. - But that's what I mean. When I say you don't strike me as a driver, you're just like, "Well, I've gotta get somewhere." And I've got a car.

- Well, I don't really, I'd rather cycle if I could. I just like to get where I've got to go. - That's jealous. - But it's good to be an A to B driver because do you get road rage for example? - Nah, man, not at all. - That's what I mean, man. - Not at all. - 'Cause like, why I say you're an A to B driver, it's just like, look, I've just passed, I've got the car, I'm not bothered, I'm not trying to flex on no one, I've got to get from here to here. Road rage, you know what I love about you non-road rage people, yeah? 'Cause you guys will just do the maddest maneuvers and be like,

I'm gonna do a U-turn here. And you're like, what? And you'll be looking like,

- I don't care. - And you're beeping like, you're like, what the fuck is this guy doing, man? Sorry. And then they'll pause you and go, sorry, man. - It's that hot. - My bad. - Sorry about that, man. - All right, it's all right, bro. No way, man. It's all right. - Jokes. - It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. - Oh, funny. - By the way, good game, man. That was nice. - So, right, this part, this is gonna be an interesting one for you. So I'm gonna phrase it slightly different.

to what we do everyone else because I know like your kind of like rise to fame and like popularity and success is has been one that like everyone's had the the privilege of being kind of like privy to privy to yeah like we've seen like a lot of your like early stuff and we've seen it grow and develop and everyone's just like how you've become like a household name so when I said earlier about like you've done this this this this this and I don't really feel like people are paying attention I think it feels like

Everyone just knows you. So it's almost like you were so popular to a point where it was almost like a given. So everything that we saw you do, it was like, yeah, makes sense. I'd agree with that in some way. Because I think everything I was always doing was always like a...

Like myself and my manager, Polly, like there was never a plan, but when things started happening, there was a certain plan, if that makes sense. Do you know what I mean? So obviously once you start getting into that world of TV, you're kind of like, oh, raw, like I do TV, but you don't know where that's going to take you, but you still have an objective of what the end goal is going to be somewhere. Do you see what I'm saying? So I feel like when I started to do more stuff,

it was like, oh, it makes sense for you to do that. Like for me to go on and like, let's say the Brits, for example, to do the Brits made sense because of like, oh, well, we've seen them on TV and presenting and, you know, your name kind of gets mentioned if like, oh, who's going to be the next person to do the Brits and stuff and your name gets mentioned. So I think once you step over to do those things, it's like, oh yeah, well, that makes sense why you're doing those things as opposed to if I'd just done

social media videos and then took the leap, you'd be like, oh my God, I am shocked. Do you know what I mean? So, yeah, no, I'd agree on that in some senses as well. So like, from your perspective, so this is the part where we do like the origin story. From your perspective, obviously like we've seen it the way we've seen it. From your perspective, coming from doing

like social media videos and like skits and characters and all this kind of stuff to the point where you're like on Jimmy Fallon doing like world tours all that kind of stuff like what's like how do you view the story like how what's it been like for you it's interesting man because I feel like I've done stand-up for a long time so I started standing when I was like 19 just like it's the bravest thing I've heard wow yeah like when I was like in comedy clubs and stuff like comedy small comedy clubs trying to get my name out there just being remembered I remember like

anyone who came to some of the early shows I used to do, because my whole thing was Facebook was the main gateway to get on to a show. But going to a comedy club wasn't, I couldn't just turn up and be like, can I do comedy? Because they're like, I didn't even know how it worked. So I would message maybe like, there might be a comedy club who have like an open that. I would message them on Facebook. And then I would message like,

comedy shows so you had like a Sunday show for example so that was one of the first ones which was like young people had music comedy poetry had a DJ there the

The first one that I remember performing at was in Slug and Lettuce in Soho, believe it or not. They used to have a Slug and Lettuce there. - Mad. - And it was mad because you walk, when you walk in, everyone's just having food and drinks and stuff. But downstairs was where you had the comedy show. So people would just be like, "Oh, look at these young black people coming in." But we're all going downstairs.

And the guy used to run the show. I remember just messaging him and he said, "Look, yeah, just come down." That kind of thing. So I came down, I had a friend of mine called Conrad and I was like, "I'm gonna go and do the show. Can you come support?" So he came, but he was running late. So sometimes it helps when you got a friend there when you're going, 'cause you got, but I was,

on my ones so I went there and I remember getting to the door and I'm like hey what's up I'm here to do the you know the first 10 minute open section I remember the girl on the door was like okay cool you need to pay and I was like uh what what's going on here and I didn't

no money so I was like no I'm performing and the girl's like okay Marvin who's this guy so Marvin was one of the guys Marvin Harrison used to run it with do you guys remember Napa MC so he had the song he was on the track Pow so his lyric was oh crack your skull so like

It was interesting because Marvin was more like the business side of stuff, like kind of the back of the house of stuff. And then Napa was like the guy everyone knew. So you'd be like, oh bro, I know this guy. And he was hench as well, innit? So I remember getting in there and it's just like all these people that are my age. And then they was like, yeah, oh yeah, cool. You're good to perform. I think I done probably like 10 minutes. Went all right. Never forget I was shaking, bruv.

My hands were shaking doing comedy and it went okay. And that's all I needed at that stage of my career of just doing shows that went, I just didn't want to get booed. But all the shows I would get the last one I needed to went okay. I used to have this thing where I would wear like a red top with baggy blue jeans. You guys remember Blue Ink? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Wow. - You used to work in blue. - You were folding them drawers. - With a free belt. Hey!

The boot cuts with a free belt, you know? The rope looking belt. That belt was disgusting. - Wow, what a time. - Yeah, man. I remember I used to wear out these times. I was probably waist 30. And because one of my friends went to America at the time and just got loads of Averex and Echo stuff. He started wearing baggy gums. So we copied him. So I was wearing like waist 36 bag boot cuts as well, you know, with Vans.

So I wear red vans and a red top. I just have this Elmo top, just have the eyes and mouth jeans. And I used to, that used to be like my thing where people could remember me because at that stage, no one knew who I was. So it would be like performing again. I'd go to another, I'd message the universities, the ACS shows, like, can I do comedy here? Because I knew like performing to my peers is where I'm going to get my laughs. Cause all I was talking about was,

I think at the time was just like, going out raving was like my main thing of like, that was what I could talk about. Do you know what I mean? And I tried other jokes. I remember having this beatbox joke. I thought I could be one of those beatbox comedians who can have material, but it was so shit. Like when I listen, when I watch my old stuff back and I'm like,

nah man you weren't that funny bruv like but then I think with that I was able to just crack on and just like the more you start it's just I always say with comedy you don't it's not about being the funniest it's about being the most confident in telling your material because if you have the confidence in it the audience believe that and I think then they believe the truth of of the material telling do you know what I mean like

So I think like early on, I was able to just churn out, like start working on a five and a 10 minute set and a 20 minute set.

And then I done the Sunday show for about three years. I got to, I got, I didn't got to host it. So everyone used to come Sunday show back then. Again, it's like the hood didn't started coming in. And when the hood comes, it's different because you get this like thing that I call hood love in it. So hood love is like, well, you see the road is of road men. Yeah. I'm talking, this is a real shooter. Yeah. Like a guy who don't, who don't laugh or nothing, but I'll go to the toilet and be like, Hey brother, Hey brother,

Can't lie, it was kind of funny how they did it.

And then I'm looking at him like, I know who you are. You're a bad person, bro. - A bad person. - You are a bad man, you know? But again, he's just like, but I like your ting, keep doing your ting, you know that. And I think once again, like hood love is something that's, it's not a real thing essentially, but once you go barbershop and stuff, a man will say, oh right, I see your ting at that comedy show. And I've always said being a comic is one of the coolest things because

no one sees you as threatening. Do you see what I'm saying? There's times I've, I remember going to cinema once in wood green. My friend was like, brother, don't go wood green cinema, bruv. Are you mad? You can't go to wood green view. And I'm like, bro, I just wanted to see, I just wanted, I wanted to watch the film in it. Do you know what I mean? Like,

But I think that's the difference, is that I guess that people from my age group had seen like, oh yeah, you just seem like one of my mates. You're not an op as such, do you know what I mean? I think it's different if you do music because then there's that thing where it's like, can you back up what you talk about? - Yeah, you're playing a persona. - With comedy, you're almost seen as that, oh yeah, he's a funny guy, man. He's all right, he's cool, innit? Do you know what I mean? So I think like performing, I started realizing that

these are my peers who I'm performing to. Do you know what I mean? But then I had to get out of that mold because again, I'm performing at Sunday show week in, week out. I'm the main host essentially. And the amount of people that came through there that would perform, I remember George, the poet, he came and performed. Back then his name was called Shaolin. That was his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think his name was called Shaolin. But you would see these people and you're like,

this guy is going to be sensational. Like, do you know what I mean? I remember Ed Sheeran coming one time and Ed Sheeran come and this was when we had a, like the biggest shows would always be when it'd be like a bank holiday, like it used to Sunday. And I remember Ed coming on this Easter Sunday again, you know, ginger hair. He had like baggy jeans on and stuff. And he's like, Oh, what's up, man? Nice to meet you, man. How's it going, man? And he's like, yeah, I'm a bit nervous. I'm like, bro, you'll be all right, man. You got to remember when it's a bank holiday show, I,

on a Sunday, everyone's coming. You got man from North, East, South, West, North, West. Everyone's coming to Sunday show and it's packed.

And like, again, don't get me wrong. There's some people that would do comedy and would get booed in it. Like it was like that in it. That's how it was. But like everyone knew that like the guys were coming 'cause the girls were there, girls were coming 'cause the guys were there. Blackberry was the phone. So everyone was just like, you knew he was on because people would broadcast it and say, oh, this person's on Sunday show. Everyone would flock down.

And I remember Ed being there and he was saying, I'm really, really nervous. I remember saying to him, dude, you'll be fine, man. You'll be all right. He performed and he had his loop pedal. And I always say, you know, you've got to remember, black people don't really listen to folk music like that. But we want to see something that's a bit different, innit? So the fact he had his loop pedal, yeah. And I remember he done a...

And it's on the loop head. - I would have screamed. - Black people was like, oh my God, what's this bro? This guy's a magician man. What's he doing? And then he started performing his song. I think it's one of his songs. It's that one. ♪ Who needs me man, I don't need you ♪ So he was doing that. - Oh dang. - Brother, you got real shooters in the crowd, yeah? And they all humming like, hmm.

- Bro. - That's sick. - And then he just, you remember like he had the whole crowd like captivated. Like, and again, me seizing the opportunity, I was like, I want to get in on this man. So then he started rapping, like he started doing like a, doing some rapping. Again, you got to remember when a white guy starts rapping in front of a black audience, that's it, we've taken you in now. - Yeah, 100. - And he was, you know, he's Ed Sheeran now, innit? But back then, like he was good, innit?

So I was like, yeah, man. So for no reason, I got on the mic. I was like, yeah, I can spit too. So I started spitting bars with him. And it was like, every part of me was like, Moan, it's not by force. You need to know.

You need to perform with this guy. But again, I would always just seize opportunities. And then I think I knew like I was safe there in it. Like performing there was safe. I was the host, but I then left and just wanted to do comedy everywhere else. Do you know what I mean? Because, you know, you start hearing like, oh, Mo is only good at hosting a Sunday show. Do you know what I mean? So I think that was like, okay, cool. Well, I'll leave and I'll just do comedy everywhere else. And then through that time, I just...

Retail I was working in the day Comedy at night And then how the videos came about I tried to be a purist didn't I? I tried to be one of those Yeah man comedy The real comedy is on the stage Not on Keek Keek Wow I tried to be this fake purist I was like what is this man? Vine? No You want to be on the stage making people Because I just I don't know in my head it felt like But then at the same time

I would try things on camera and it would never really translate. But then I just had these ideas where I was like, oh, you know, different types of people you went to school with or like characters or like how and that things that I would try and do in standard. But I knew I would never have the time if I had a 20 minute set. Yeah. So when I done like different types of MCs, that was me just messing around.

I went to cinema, turned off my phone and then I could see everyone shared it. So I think I started realizing early on from social media, I was like, oh, this is the thing. And let me carry on with this thing. I got excited. I was like, cool, you guys want a part two. If you want a part two, give me a thousand likes on this post.

And then people give me a thousand likes, but I'd already recorded it. So I was working at Levi at the time. So I'd already recorded it and I put it up at like eight o'clock. Part two is coming. I thought I was dropping a real like Kendrick versus Drake diss track.

The next one is coming up at eight o'clock. Make sure you tune in. But I just knew that at that stage of social media, viral clips could last about a week. So if you had like a GRM Daily or LinkUp, they would get your clip and they would put it up and that would last for like a week. And as time has gone on, like a clip can be viral for a day and then there's the next thing. Do you know what I mean? But I kind of seen that pattern of like,

cool let's try this and then the characters came out so I think with the character the Giza one happened by accident it was just like what it's like when it's 17 degrees outside and then I think through that I started my socials were growing and growing and growing and growing and then through that I just realised I was like this is cool I'm getting this audience now but comedy is the thing that kind of got me here so I've got to go back to that and then after that the TV happened and stuff and then more tours and more TV and then

we're here where we are today a little bit. Do you know what I mean, bro? - Fucking hell, bro. - That is a journey. - Well played, bro. - Jesus. - I've got a question for you.

Obviously you said you started around that 17, 19 age, right? Yeah, man. Yeah. Would you say comedy was always your bag? Would you say that that was the journey you knew you were going to go on? Or was there other dreams and aspirations before comedy? It was the only thing that I knew I was good at by myself. Interesting. Do you know what I mean? Because I went uni and I've done performing arts and theatre production. That's different because you're doing it as a group. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And the...

the roles I wanted to do was the fun stuff. The minute you got to start doing Shakespeare and you're like, yo, I'm dyslexic. I can't read this stuff, you know? This is wild. And then I'm trying to remix it. And they're like, so if that would give me a pound of flesh and I'm like, no.

That's not, you know, the real actors like that's not the line. - Yeah, okay. - So like, I started realizing that comedy was more, I was in control of it. - Yeah. - So I was in control of it when it failed. I was also in control of it when it went well. And I was okay of taking on the pressure of if it didn't work. So if I'd done a show and I didn't get laughs, I was comfortable with it because it's like, well, I've worked on this. Now I can work on it to make it better. So I think that's where comedy came from. In school, I was a class clown as well. Do you know what I mean? But I guess in school, like,

I think once I got to like year 10, I knew this is what I wanted to do. Everything else, I was like not bothered. I was saying to my nephew the other day, because he's doing his GCSEs, and he's just like, oh, how was GCSEs for you? I said, listen, I failed everything. I didn't pick up my grades, bruv. I remember watching everyone on the news, like, bro, look at these...

idiot scumbags, bro. Meanwhile, I'm in my bed. But I think that for me was like a pride thing. Do you know what I mean? Like I knew I had failed. So I thought there's no point in me turning up where the teacher's like, so how did you get on then? And I'm like, so, you know. So I knew, but I just knew that the route of acting

was where I wanted to kind of, that was the path I wanted to follow. Do you know what I mean? Like I enjoyed things like science, but once I had to do the written stuff, I was like, I don't know man, let's just get the Bunsen burners out. - Yeah. - Give me the practical. - Yeah, give me the practical. - Yeah, I've always been a massive practical learner. Do you know what I mean? Like, I remember picking,

You get to pick your subjects. I think I picked geography because I just liked knowing about the country and worlds, innit? And then they're like, yeah, cool. Now we're going to talk about, you know, the wind change and rainfall. I'm like, hold on, wait, wait, wait. You lot have lied to me. I want to start talking about like the countries and stuff and whatnot. So I feel like I've always been a practical learner and I've always been able to

what I learned, especially when it came to drama, like the practical, and then I can convert it onto something in screen straight away. Do you see what I mean? It's only changed probably in the last probably six, seven years where you have to like, you know, you start learning how to write a script and all the other stuff and whatnot. Because then you're like, it starts getting real, isn't it? So, but I've always been a practical hands-on learner. Do you know what I mean? But yeah, in school, I was like the class clown, essentially. I don't know if people, you know, I don't know if,

I couldn't say I wanted to be a comic when I was like 14. I liked comedy, but I knew I was like, yeah, but if you go up and you don't work, you don't work. Do you know what I mean? That's one thing I would say as well. Like I was going to ask like, for one, where do you find the goal? Because I'm not getting up there and getting booed. For one thing, that's not happening. For two, one running theme I've always like, because I admire comedy and I love comedy.

But like one running theme about all like successful comedians is always that, like what you said at the beginning in terms of like just getting proactive and just like I had to call this person and I had to turn up here and I had to do that and I had to do that. And I always found that like the one safety blanket when we started doing this was a case of like, I'm not kicking down anyone's door. Like we're just going to record it and it's out there. And if people watch it, sick. If they don't, don't. But like, I don't understand what, what is it in you that like had the,

I don't know the confidence and the like drive to literally start like kicking down doors and be like, I want to come in here and do this. And then I want to come in here and do this. I don't want to come in here and do that. Like, where does that come from? - I think, do you know what it was? It's like, it was the one thing I was good at. And you know when you just know you're good at this thing. Like, I just knew I was good at it. So I just was like, I want to perform because I need to, I know I'm good at it, but they don't know, the audience don't know. So I just want to perform to as many people as possible.

to show that I'm good at this thing. Do you know what I mean? - Bro, I hear that to be fair. - And I think it's the same like with your podcast, with you guys, you guys knew you're like, "Bro, we're good together, innit? Like we can record and just have fun together and we're good." And it's like, you know, if you do the thing, people will come. Do you know what I mean? So essentially you have to like, you know, you have to knock on the doors, you know, it's that knock on the door, "Hello,

I'm selling, I don't know, I'm selling curtains. You want a curtain? No, I don't want a curtain. It's cool. You keep knocking the doors. Eventually someone will buy the curtain and tell their friends about, yo, bruv, these curtains are great. You know, they block out the light. Where are you getting them from? It's one guy. And I've always seen comedy like that in some ways where you're like, cool, you just keep going on, keep going on.

and it's like if one person laughed they'll be like yeah i think this guy is really funny i might go to his other show and then they bring their wife and then their wife brings i don't know sister-in-law whatever and that's how it kind of spreads it takes long and it's very slow but you know when you're good because it's like they've all laughed at something do you know what i mean social media massively helped though because social media was like now it lasts i think when you're in a comedy club it lasts for 20 minutes when you're on stage they go home

that's their weekend if they had a great weekend is everyone gonna follow you after that you don't know innit do you know what I mean and I would never know before social media how many people was like oh like I've seen you at this gig and I'm coming back again I used to make a point of like you know check me out I'm on Instagram and stuff but you don't know how many of those people stay they might do it because it's a friendly thing to do at the time but I always knew I was good at this thing do you know what I mean like

other things. Like, I loved playing football, but I knew I weren't going to go and play for Arsenal. Do you know what I mean? Like, and I just knew that. Do you know what I mean? When you grow up in the end, you're like, he's going to play professional football. Yeah. Like, and there's other people around that you're like, no, you're good, but you're not him in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

he's just effortless with it like you're good he's exceptional and i think that's the difference that other things i wasn't i didn't feel exceptional like i thought i was good at football but i weren't the exceptional one do you know what i mean when you're the exceptional one is when you've got the man them like hey brother this guy yeah he's cold you know i'm good too you know

I can cross with my left foot now. Yeah, but you're not him though, bro. And it's always like, you know, that guy, he was always like a Crystal Palace at young and stuff. And I'm still playing Sunday League football and that's all right. But I think the difference was when I was able to do stand-up, I was able to like perfect it and get better and get better. And you try a call back and you get to try things and see how it works. And, you know, I just believe that I was like,

I never wanted to be famous when I don't stand out. I just wanted to be good. I was just like, I want to be able to do this thing and I can earn a living from it. And however I earn that living, that's all just making me happy. Do you know what I mean? So if I, like the first time I done a show, I got paid, I got paid 50 pounds.

And I remember after that show I went to get pizza And I treated some of my friends And that feeling felt so good Because I was like I just done What I love And I've got to share it Yeah With my mates My close friends Do you see what I mean? Yeah Once you're able to convert that

it makes it like, I went to, I was in LA recently and I popped into the Laugh Factory. I've done two nights there. The Thursday was good and the Friday, it was all right. I could have done better. But again, I was just like, that's part of the craft, isn't it? I have great ones. But I'm not going to be in the audience like, guys, do you know who I am back home? Why are you not laughing at me? Like,

It's like, there would have been a time in my career I would have felt like that. - Okay. - When I'm young. - Yeah. - He's gone. - Sorry bro, that one caught me. - No, because when you're young, you care about that. Oh, he's finished. - Sorry bro, sorry, sorry, sorry. - No, no, get out bro, get out man.

But comedy does come with that ego, innit? You know what I'm saying, man? Especially, it's more like when my close friends and stuff come and they're like, nah, man, I didn't really like the way that they were talking for your set. And I'm like, it's all right. I'm here to, this is the training, innit? I've got to have a gig where sometimes people talk or they'll be like, I'm not, you know, you got to have that.

Because it's like, now I'm in a different place of doing standup. I think when I was younger, I would have took it more personal. Do you know what I mean? But now I'm in a different place where I'm like, oh, it's all right.

I've got my own show here next month. Do you know what I mean? I've just popped in. I'm not getting paid. I just wanted to, I asked to do it. So I'm jumping on stage. I'm trying out some new stuff and that's it. That's how, that's the life. This is a paid advertisement for BetterHelp. Bro. Talk to me. Real quick. Ask me what my self-care non-negotiables are. What? Grounding. Grounding.

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Betterhelp.com slash gigs pod today to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp.com slash gigs pod. I've kind of created in some ways. That's perfect, man. That's unreal. And I can imagine as well, like you will go through that because like I can only imagine from outside looking in like, yeah, like you said, like you've got your own show here in a couple months. So now everything else is just...

whatever it's just vibes yeah and it's just like cool if you have a bad day we have a bad day we have a good day we have a good day because like you've cemented yourself enough now that's like if i need laughs i've got a few thousand people that are just bopping through on thursday and then the rest of it is just practice um but what i want to speak about speaking on tour stuff so first of all congrats on this tour that you got cooking in a minute oh big guys man big guys bro the amount of dates

- I have to zoom in to see what city it is. - Oh yeah. - There's so many on this page, bro. This guy's doing stuff. - Thank you so much, man. - So bro, congrats on that. And like, I would say- - And likewise, man, you guys doing dates as well, man. - Yeah, we got a couple here and there. - We saw all your dates as well, innit? - Yeah, that's right. - A couple here and there.

- I'm trying not to laugh. - That's huge man. Especially across the pond as well. - We're stupidly gassed by it. Yeah, we put some more dates up yesterday and they went and it's just like crazy, crazy surreal. But what I would say is like,

- We need coaching tips. - Yeah. - Yeah, man. - So I'm stressed. - Come on, man. Whatever you need, man. - I'm stressed about sleep. - Yeah. - I'm stressed about food. - Okay. - I'm stressed about... - Is this on tour you're talking about? - On tour. - On tour. - Okay, okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I need a veteran in the game. - Okay. - Teach us how to be on tour. - Okay, so the first tour, I can't lie. We done the first tour, a couple of cans tour, and we was going out every other show. We'd be like, "All right, do the show." Like, I remember it was Liverpool. First, one of the first night, we were in Liverpool on a, I think it's like a Thursday.

it was summer like a friday friday night in liverpool it was in manchester on saturday and we were like cool do the show we're going out yeah and this was at a time where like my social media buzz was just rising in it so i went to this club in liverpool i think it's called ink club i think i'm not too sure and the club were like oh yeah you can have a table on us and we'll give you a free bottle this has never happened to me before this thing yeah of course yes with this big bottle of grey goose like

And it's weird because at that moment it feels like you've made it. You know, we've got a bottle of Grey Goose, my friends are here. And then we went out the next night, I think in Manchester,

And I'll never forget by Sunday we were finished. And then you start realizing we got a job to do, man. Do you know what I mean? But it's new. You got to remember we're all boys from South London who effectively, this is a moment where our lives in this little bubble is changing right now. We don't know it though, but our lives are changing. This will happen once in our lifetime on our first tour that we get to experience this.

And then it was fun. You know, you go out, you go Newcastle and that's what the tour was basically like. We do the show and then afterwards we would go out. But burnout happens quickly. It's where your body says, bro, I can't do this no more. And you're like, no, we're doing it again. And again, I can't lie. I don't regret it because the shows went well. Second tour was a little bit different because it was just after COVID.

but it was much bigger rooms, if that makes sense. So I kind of stopped going out. So instead I used to go casino in it. - Oh, God. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Where you from? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's your own life. - Hey, hey, hey, hey. - That's his vice. - Grover knows nothing about me. Listen, so I was on this whole like, no, I'm not going out. But I still wanted, the thing is when, you will get this when you go on tour, right?

is once you finish the show, I get this a lot. My adrenaline is so high. So I can't switch off. Like, cause I'm on such a high that the thing that I've been planning and sometimes in your head, you're like, oh, the ticket sold. Is the show going well? This is happening. So my adrenaline is so high. I can't switch off in it. And I didn't have a switch off mechanism. So I thought I replaced going out with then going to the casino. And the only game I would play would be like roulette basically in it.

And it's mad because I'm going with the guys. The guys are like, nah, I'm not going out. And this time we had security as well, innit? So my guy Richard. So like, we'd go to like a Grosvenor's in like, I don't know, Portsmouth, baby. Southampton, I'm not too sure, innit? Because it's 24 hours. So you're like, cool, we can have a drink. We get some food. I can play some casino games, innit? But the man, they're not gambling. And if they are, they're like, they're all like, hey.

I got 20 pounds. Meanwhile, I'm like, oh man, I just lost three bills. Let me take out another five. And it's weird. My friends will tell you, my luck in casinos is crazy good in it. To the point where there's times where my friends are like, bro, didn't you just lose all your money? And I'm like, yeah. How are you up? And I'm like, I don't know. I've got a theory that Donnie's who have

like the most money do the best in casino. We went, when I, when I used to, we used to like one of like our boys, well, our mutual friend, he had cake when we didn't have cake. So I would be the bread and there was 20 pound like, please fucking please. And then,

bro he's winning hand hand because there's no fear it doesn't matter to him it doesn't fucking matter bro i used to hate it you know why though because i think when i when i was going i wasn't ever trying to win money i'm just playing the game and i have money so i think the difference was is that when you go then you're like i got 20 pound and i want to double this i need to come out with something yeah because you're already going to lose it so i was going in there like oh you know

I'm not being superstitious of like, don't put it on 13. Or you're just like, oh, put it on 13. You know, here to have fun, innit? And my streak was mad. I'd always come out winning. I remember once we went to one and I can't remember where it might have been. We'd done a show in Portsmouth.

And we went in there and we was on tour and I think I had done a show in Sheffield. So like, and I used my card and they was like, "You can't use this card here." And I was like, "Why? It's my name." And they're like, "Yeah." Then they was like, "It's fine. It's okay." Done the show in Portsmouth and I was like, "Oh, can I withdraw my name in this card?" They was like, "Yeah, you can't use the card." And I was like, "I've used it. I used it last week in Sheffield." They was like, "Okay, we're going to call up Sheffield." I was like, "Cool."

He called up Sheffield and he came back to my car. He goes, I'm so sorry, Mr. Gilligan. I'm really sorry about that. It's fine to use this card in here now. And then, and I remember, I remember I lost money. This was the first time I'd lost money. So I was like, all right, cool. It is what it is, isn't it? And then my friend, I remember I gave him like 50 pounds. I was like, here's 50 pounds. You go and bet. Rich,

Ricardo actually. - Oh yeah. - And then again, I was just like, cool, I've sponsored you at this point. So I'm not really playing in it. So I was just on like a, bruv, I'm telling you, it's gonna land on 19. He was like, nah, I'm telling you, put it on 19 bruv. I can't remember how much he put and then he won. And he was like, what? I was like, I told you. - I was like that before. - I get my sponsorship money back. You keep that money. Then my other friend was betting

And then I said, oh yeah, I'll put it on 23. And then you can see the people in the casino. When the manager comes over, he's like, oh, how's it going? I'm like, yeah, watch it. Watch 23. You know what, don't believe me. 23. Pow, I landed on 23. And my friend's like, rawr. Is that what you did? I was like, so you gotta do something. How much? How much? You man, have a 15. But then I think what I was doing, I was replacing one high with another high. So I'm replacing the high of being on stage with then the high of

like going to a casino. Do you know what I mean? And I'll be honest, I wasn't one of those people where I didn't need help with it. Like I'm not, I'm not like an addictive person. It just felt like I want to have a drink and I want to eat some food, but really and truly my adrenaline is going to last like this till 4am. And I'm with my Richard, my security guy. And he's like, bro, I'm tired, man. Like, so again, it's like, I started realizing that again, everyone's with me now with the rest of the team. And,

I'm out because they're out. And we just, again, you get a different type of burnout because you wake up in the morning, everyone's tired. We've got to check out 11 to go to the next destination. But now on this tour, bro, like do the shows now. Go home, man. Go home and sleep because I'm not chasing that. You end up chasing the high, innit? So first of all, eating wise,

Enjoy the food in that first week. Eat all your rubbish. Because after like the second week, you start feeling it. But I always say, eat in the first week. So you want to get your salads. Take gym stuff, running shoes. If you have to go for a walk, um...

- Where else do we do? I would, I don't, I'd be lying if I said take a book 'cause my book's been on tour around the world and not read one page. - One of them, LeBron James dons. - I swear to you, bro, I'll take the best book as well, you know? - It's gonna be me. - Malcolm X, bro. - Matt Finish cover, bro.

reading there the memoirs the memoirs of Gandhi yes but no man I think like especially for tour like like enjoy the moment in it yeah but it's also hard because you're in another country and in some of those countries you're gonna do tour like you're on tour and you got to do promo and you got essentially live there in it yeah yeah so it's like you kind of have to just like essentially pack essentials like I used to go on tour with like

two suitcases, one suitcase full of just like trainers. And I'm like, I'm not wearing none of these. I don't, I come home and be like, I didn't wear none of these trainers. I took 10 pairs of trainers. Um,

So you just pack your essentials. 'Cause once you're there in like Australia, you wanna buy stuff and do you know what I mean? But then realizing you're like, I need to wash these clothes. Do you know what I'm saying? - Brother, the washing thing has been sending me. - Yeah, man. - 'Cause I'm thinking, 'cause it was always like one night here, one night there, one night here, one night here. I'm thinking, how am I rotating the clean clothes with the dirty clothes with three full suitcase. I'm losing my head about it, bro. - I'm telling you, like you see like gym wear, like you know like this casual gym wear?

have that as your everyday wear. - Yeah. - Because when you, again, it's just me and my boy Javan on tour. You can wear the gym wear, a man ain't judging you like, "Ruh, wearing them jeans again, yeah?" - Yeah. - "Ruh, boy."

I know you ain't washed it. Do you know what I mean? So you just get the gym where it's easy to wash, easy to dry. A lot of the places that we go to now, like when we stay there, we kind of stay in like apartment hotels. Because that way you can wash your stuff and it feels like you're at home. Yeah, you can cook shit in the car, have a suitcase and things like that. Yeah, it's not like 10 in the morning. Hello, senor. I'm room cleaning. And you're sitting there like in your bed. No, don't come in. Close the door. Close.

Close the door, got no boxes on please. When they come back, just close the door. So yeah, man. I think like when you're on tour, but enjoy the moment. I think enjoy the moment. And what I try to do, especially when I'm out of the country is,

the best thing you can do is just meet the people that are coming to your shows. Do you know what I mean? However long the meet and greets are, do it because you get a sense of like, "Rah, you're the person that comes to my comedy show." 'Cause I don't see it. All I hear is a laugh. Do you know what I mean? And if you're able to do it, like just do it. Like we had a show in Toronto and there's about a thousand people there. And again, like we've done like, you know, smaller rooms, like 500, 600, like,

when we've been in the States, but like, it's been the biggest one. And my friend Jab was like, you're still going to do the meet and greet? I said, of course, because I'm all the way here. I don't know when I'll come back. Do you know what I mean? And they waited long enough. And you meet those people. You meet the Brits come in, who came to the show. You meet people who, like one lady gave me this key ring. Where's this key ring she gave me? She gave me this random key ring. It had these, it's like, um, that's a garlic thing, isn't it? Yeah, that plastic garlic with the shoe thing on there, isn't it? I can't lie. At first I was like, why go on for this voodoo?

this voodoo. But like, again, like you meet people who like, you don't realize like, like you're so used to, like you can get comfortable with like, you know, you go to the petrol station. Oh, I've seen you. Oh, you guys are amazing. Yeah. And that's still a beautiful feeling. I never like,

like i'm never in a place where i'm like it's too much but you start realizing that people in different parts of the world will be like oh we flew over to spend the weekend to come and watch you guys and you're like crazy raw like we don't do that back home you know yeah we don't want this going to watch rihanna do you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

I feel like enjoy that moment of like that first tour and really embrace that. Do you see what I'm saying? Like you're going to eat bad, but it's just like a snapshot of your life where you're going to eat bad. But just, yeah, if you can get a place where you can exercise,

and drink as much water as possible. Like excessive amounts, bruv, 'cause the jet lag is sores, bruv. - Jet lag murks me. - Dirty, bruv, 'cause you said sleep, innit? - Yeah. - I'll get sleeping tablets, bruv. - Yeah, I will. - Yeah, fuck that, I'll get sleeping tablets. - Gummies? - Them gummies will see me. - Yeah, them little gummy things, they'll see me. - No, no, no, I mean like proper prescription. - Oh, you mean like pharmaceutical grade? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause I was taking the melatonin, I was going like CVS when I'm in the States, so I'm coming back with these gummy things, and I'm like, "Ruh, I'm like,

I'm like I feel a bit tired but I'm not really I'm not really sleeping but now like because again like one is the jet lag so when we get to LA I'm still on UK time and I'm like I've got a show at 9 o'clock

in the evening. So I'm up for the rest of the day. I need six to eight hours. Sleeping tablet, bang, I'm out, bruv. And then you wake up in the morning refreshed. But yeah, sleeping tablets, water, and gym is like crucial, man. Crucial, crucial. We're going to lock in. We are going to lock in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lock in, man.

continuing on your tour obviously you're doing in the moment at the moment yes yeah man um jeez come on read that down come on come on come on you say watch me in the moment at the moment yeah i see you biting your lips for the last 45 i'm a thing don't forget anyway so my question to you is um what would you say are your top

Top two slash three cities or countries you've done so far. And second question, what are your top three highlights so far? Okay. So questions. Thank you. On this tour so far, we've only done the American leg, but from the States, it's interesting, man. I think favorite cities, like Toronto felt like home. It felt like London. Okay. And like the vibe was like,

Like they don't, I don't know. It's interesting because we've been in the States for so long. So when we was in Toronto and I remember just messing about and I was like, yo, what's going on man? Shardy, what's? And they were laughing. Is accent as bad as it sounds? No, it's all right. Because you know what it is? They use the same slang as us. It's just a dialect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of like it. I find it. I kind of like it, innit? Yo, what's going on, man? What's going on, Shardy? Yo, man, you're funny, bro.

But again, it felt like home, innit? - I can imagine. - So Toronto's definitely one of my favorites. And again, when I've done that to the audience, I was like, this might go left. I remember doing a show in Birmingham once. I tried to do the Brahm accent and they was like, nah. They were like- - Not on it. - They didn't find it funny 'cause they thought I was taking the piss, innit? So they were like, and I get it, I'm from London, innit? So they think I'm just mocking them. So yeah, but like Toronto, definitely up there. New York.

again, felt like home because New York was like... I remember, like, trying to, like... I always tried to have a 10, 15 minutes and talk about where I've been in it. And we had spent so much time in New York and I was like, you know what I love about you guys in New York? You're like Londoners because...

again, like people are performing on the subway there, innit? And I'm like, "Raw, this is amazing, I'm filming it." And people looking at me like, "Yo man, this happens every day, B. Like this ain't no new." And I'm like, "Yeah, but these guys, they need to get on 'Americans Got Talent' or something, innit?" But then you start realizing they just, like New Yorkers, like, yeah, they don't really care. And that kind of not caring attitude

in New York, once you're there for a while, you start to embrace it. So I started feeling less like a tourist and more like a New Yorker. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Because it's that kind of like everyone's running late, everyone's going to work. Do you know what I mean?

vibe there was amazing though. A lot of people like, 'cause they're very in touch with their kind of Caribbean, like West African side as well. Do you know what I'm saying? So we met a lot of people, like I was meeting people who was like, "Yo man, yo, I love you. You do like a lot of Caribbean comedy, man." And I'm like, "Uh, really bro?" But they're getting something that they feel like they're connected to. And that felt a lot, that felt nice to me because I was like, I didn't know I was really producing that for you, but I appreciate it. So definitely New York is up there.

it's hard for it because I've gone to LA so much and LA is always a vibe but the most surprising one for me was Atlanta when we've done the Atlanta show this I want to hear because you see Atlanta right when we got off the plane yeah well I got off because I met my boy Jav there I got off from LA you know you've been LA LA is very much like especially like West Hollywood yeah you got the guy in the Ferrari the girls who just like yeah we're just gonna go like you know get a cappuccino yeah like you know do you

- I'm like, who's working? You ever been to the Grove? - Yes bro. - And I'm like, bro, I remember that one time we was there, summertime, there's a band there with a doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. They're singing. I said, who the fuck is working here, bro? This is Tuesday at three o'clock. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think LA, I'm so used to going to LA now. Like, I know LA. So it's still one of my favorite places to perform. But I think Atlanta took third for me because I went from LA, sunny, and you get to Atlanta, and as soon as you get off the plane, like, everyone's black. Like... I've heard. Everybody's black. Like, I don't think... Not like... Not like...

Everyone is black, my man. And they're like unapologetically black in Atlanta. So I was like, oh, excuse me. I'm trying to, where do I go to locate my suitcase? He's like, yo, man, what up, player? Y'all want to go to like Carousel 8 right there? Yo, and I'm like, that's not professional the way you're speaking, yo. Like, but they're on, like there's a barbershop in the airport. That's insane. The music that they were playing, they were playing like music that was like,

It was like old soul music. So I got off the plane. I felt like I was shaft. I felt like I was here on a mission. But like...

It's prop, like, and then as soon as you leave the airport, you know, sometimes you leave the airport and you're straight on the motorway. When we kind of left, we was like kind of on some of like the residential streets. And then you kind of, and again, you look at the houses, you see the cars, you see the big, I don't know, 24 inch rims and stuff. And we were like practically in the hood. And I said to Jah, I was like, we're in the hood, isn't it? He's like, yeah, bro, we're in the hood, bro. He's like, click, click, click. But like, I feel like there's a part of that city that feels like, I don't know, going there and doing comedy here just felt like,

If I'd never done it on that tour, I would have regretted it. Do you know what I mean? Because it was one of those places where a part of America, I've never, I've been New York before. I've been to, you know, I've been to LA before, but this was like, it's its own place, Georgia. Do you know what I mean? And then Atlanta in it. Yeah, it's a nice vibe, man. Toronto, New York, Atlanta, top three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, yeah. I'd probably say Toronto. Yeah, Toronto, New York, Atlanta. Don't get me wrong. Loved Philly, loved LA. Yeah.

But yeah, Atlanta for me is definitely up there, man. The lemon pepper wings. Like, oh, just different. Bro, they even asked you, would you want flats or drums? I was like, oh my gosh, I'm being treated. I'll have some flats, please. But like,

nice fire but unfortunately we only got to be there for like a day yeah we had to leave but yeah proper nice vibe we're there for like four days right i think we're there for everyone i don't think you've realized the hotel lobby music they're playing trap music in the hotel lobby because they embrace what yeah what atlanta is i heard i mean um i saw a tick tock literally last week or one geezer from london on the phone yeah in atlanta

chatting to his boy and he's like you're not getting it bruv everyone's black everyone's black bro it's like the cab drivers are black the hotel staff are black they're all black bro yeah yeah yeah okay guys it's a really nice vibe when we were there like i really liked it so and like even people coming they were like yeah like like i met there's a lot of brits that were there

like whether they moved out there and stuff that came to the show. But there's people like from Atlanta who just like, yeah, like we fuck up your ting, like we like it a lot. So. - Sick. - Yeah, definitely unfinished, man. I want to go back there again. 100%. - Nice. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Decent, man. - And yeah, top three highlights. - Oh, top three highlights. Okay, we had one show in New York, yeah? I remember, like I've done the meet and greet innit? - Yeah. - I think on, 'cause we had two shows in New York. There's one kid, 10 years old, came with his mom and dad. I couldn't believe it. It's one black kid.

And I have this joke where I say, oh, you know, like Tim works in accounts or he's a teacher, but when he's with Amanda and he turns to a bad man, I do this thing like that. And then the music changes in it. So he come up to me, he's like, Mo man, I love you, son. You're 10 years old. And he come with his mom and dad and his mom and dad were like, yeah, like you really like your stuff. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, he said, I said, bro, like I said, listen,

And if I got a show, you can come, man. But like, that's the youngest fan I think I've ever met at a show, innit? So that's definitely up there. I can't lie, going on Fallon, man, I'd be lying if I said that wasn't one of my favourite highlights, man. - Yeah, talk about that. - Yeah, because I remember like, you gotta remember, like, I think for me, it's like, I'm on tour and promo is part of it. Do you know what I mean? So you have to kind of promote whatever you're doing. So going on Fallon, while I am promoting the tour,

it didn't really sink into me. Like, even when they was like, yeah, like, cool, we want you to go on. Because, you know, my publicist was like, oh, we're going to pitch you to go on there. And then she was like, oh, and I was like, look, I was like, Melissa, if it happens, it happens, but I'm here to do the tour anyway. Do you know what I mean? Like,

And then yeah, she just emailed and she's like, yeah, all sorted. I said, what? I would vomit. Heart palpitations. What? Bro, yeah. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You know what was mad? Yeah. I remember when I found out I was in LA and it started meeting and I was walking, I was walking down the corridor. Yeah. And I checked the email and she goes, yeah, it's confirmed. So I remember walking down the corridor and I was like,

- I couldn't shout in it. You ever see that film? You ever see "Pursuit of Happiness"? - Just on Ritalin yesterday. - Fuck it all. - That was what the moment was like, innit?

- That's true. - Oh, man. - So at the time I was, but again, I'm always one of those people. I'm like, yeah, but maybe something might happen and it might not go through. I'm not sure, innit? So I was like, I'm only gonna be excited when I sit on the couch and I'm there. - 100%. - 'Cause it's real then. - Bro, that's my mentality. I never celebrate until it's happening right now. 'Cause I always assume last minute they're gonna take a run for me. - Look, I've been doing this for a little while. And sometimes these things happen where they're like,

this has happened or I don't know Brianna's like hi I'm putting out a new album out and I'm coming on today and they're like sorry we can't have you on yeah and that's just how this you gotta remember like this is a business as well innit so you can't be you can't take it personal if that's happening that happens it's not your time innit if it's my time it's my time but then I remember even up until like the day before I was like

I've done the research chat and everything and I'm like, I might still not get on or I might even get on it. Might not have enough time. - Yeah. - Because they had Shakira on and Dakota Fanning was on as well. And then we had to do some promo as well at another radio station, Sirius XM I think it's called. So let's do some promo there. And we walked past Shakira, like she was coming out one building. We walked past her, we see loads of people there.

And again, you're like, rah, oh, I'm going to be on the thing with her later on, innit? Like, that's kind of cold. But then you still don't know if it's going to happen. Do you know what I mean? And I didn't buy anything. So the clothes I had were

or the clothes are packed. 'Cause I remember like, again, my publicist was like, "Oh, we might try, we can pitch you on." So I made sure I packed my shoes, trousers, and a nice top that I can wear. Just to like, I'm big in the law of attraction where I'm like, "Cool, I'm gonna put it out there that I'm gonna be on that thing." Do you know what I mean? And I've met Jimmy before. Do you know what I mean? I met him before and he's like, "Yeah, man, come do the show, but Hollywood, innit?" - That's right. - Do you know what I mean, bruh? I can't lie, I offer people tickets and I'm like, "Babe, I don't see you, I don't see you."

yeah man calm down I've got tickets for you man yo I'm outside man who's that plus four four yeah but again I've met him before and he's always yeah you know calm down but I don't take that as like that means he's a man of his word but it's massively one of my I think going on it when you're on

It's like you can't prepare yourself because again, it's not scripted. They have an idea what they're going to talk to you about. And you've got to be like, cool, whatever you talk to me about. But I've got to sell a tour at the same time. And again, I've also got to come across to a US audience who don't know who I am. But also I've got a UK audience and other people around the world who have watched my stuff who are like, oh, rah, I want to see how you come on there. Do you know what I mean? So again, you're kind of like...

like that spinning plates almost. Do you know what I mean? Like, you're like, cool, let me make sure I represent the UK, but I've got this other market in America that I want to show them what I'm like, but I still got to be myself and spin that plate as well. But yeah, no, I was gassed. I think I was more gassed when I, once it had finished and I came off.

And then my boy Javin, my manager Polly, they was like, yeah, we know you done well because the security out here were watching it and they were laughing. And they were like, yeah, man, he funny. Yeah. Okay. Six, six, six, six, six, six, six. And sometimes that gives you the feeling you're like, ah, I've done all right then, innit? Because if them man work there every day. Bro, they see everyone coming in and out of there. They ain't got to say nothing to no one. Yeah. So I think that gives you the real like, ah, cool, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't lie to you. We went to, we went to a house in Brooklyn afterwards to get some food and that.

And then afterwards, you went to play pool. So we're playing pool and whatnot. I'm just like playing pool. I'm like, let's check my phone and see if it's, has it gone up? No, it's not up.

Maybe they cut me out. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

vibe it was a nice thing to do everyone was nice there was mad cool and do you know what I mean Americans like oh my god you were great on the show whenever you want to come on you come back on Mr. Gilligan I'm like bro Mr. Gilligan is nuts I'll be back man that what you said about

you're here to promote a tour, you're here to introduce yourself to a whole new market, but you need to remember UK as well. That remember UK as well, it's such an imperative thing that I feel like a lot of people forget 'cause boy, UK people were, if you sound like you're on America's dick, bro, this country's done with you. - 100% man, 100% because- - We raised you. - Yeah, that's what it is, do you know what I mean? And I think what it is, we never wanna see you pander into an audience where we're like, we know like,

We know you have to sell your thing or your album, whatever it is, but we want you to be you. Do you know what I mean? Be yourself. We know you're doing promo, innit? But we want you to be you, the you that we love and just what I'm saying. And look, it's different for everyone in every position. When you have more people around you and all this other stuff, you know, I can't sit here and act like, oh no, you shouldn't ever change because...

I'm lucky enough that I do comedy in it. So when I go on the road, I don't need a lot of people. Do you know what I mean? I don't need stylists. I don't need DJs and all these other people. It's just me and a tour manager. When I get on, it's me and a mic. That's all it is. But I guess it's like, if you're surrounded by more people, it's easier to get more like influence of like, oh, like maybe you should wear this or maybe you should wear that. Do you know what I mean? Like when I'm on, when I'm doing Fallon, I was like, I've got that.

black trousers that bro them trousers i had one you know like a what's it called seeping down yeah brother let me taste i was pressing the ice cut your finger i didn't have time to go dry cleaners in it i was pressing the iron and then at one point you know when you steam it all the came out of steam at this point i was fuming yeah and i had one t-shirt but the t-shirts one in t-shirt well i'm trying to get the crease out not really creasing so i put the t-shirt

- In the shower. So it steamed it up a bit innit. - You've done that as well? - I've never seen that tekkers before. - Crank it on high bro. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Crank it on high. I hope the steam drops all the cruises out. - Oh say less. - So I put the t-shirt on there, the t-shirt steaming. So I've come out the shower, then the t-shirt fell. Cause obviously it's on the thing. It fell on the wall.

I was like, fuck man. So then I had another t-shirt, but this t-shirt was too, it was like too slim in it. And I was like, yeah, this one, I don't know, you know? It's like Mike Lowry in the first bad boys. It was like, you know when it's like two cut. I was like, nah, can't really wear this on TV. But I did, I went with that one. And then I thought, okay, cool. I'll wear a cardigan. So I'm a bit more chill. Cause again, I got, my brudges are the realest friends where they'll be like, yeah, bro, you look cool, but I don't know.

I don't know if that's slim man t-shirt you know what I'm saying? See your nipple just looking at man like, so I went with a cardigan. But again, like I was stressing man because you don't know what do I wear? What do I look? And again, you've got the UK. So you're like, you know, I know that there's an audience there that don't want me to pander and I'm not gonna pander anyway. But the minute you do something that is

I always say the minute you do something that seems like it's so far away where it's like, oh, he's gone clear now. Then that's when people can see you're like, oh yeah, he's not really like, he's not attainable now. He's not like, he's not gonna, he's not gonna be around in the petrol station. He's gonna have people around him. And I think the minute people can see you become unattainable, that's when they're like, yeah, no, no, no. No, he's not. He's not. I can't connect with him. So I think that's why like,

when you do that stuff, we're so like, please remain the same humble person that we kind of knew and got to love. Do you know what I mean? - I've never seen it from that perspective, you know? I've just like, like you said about like, I'm not gonna see him at the petrol station. He's charged. So like, I'm done with, not done with him like, but just like, okay. - It was nice. - Yeah, it was nice. - Yeah, because it seems unattainable. Do you know what I'm saying? It seems like, bro, like you're doing up Hollywood now and you're with these kinds of people.

I don't feel like you, I can connect with you now in that way. Do you know what I mean? And I think that's, but I think that's because I, I personally think that's because of social media. We have more, we're able to interact more with our stakeholders.

Ever than we could ever do Do you know what I mean? Like in the 90s It was like Oh I've seen my famous Can you sign this thing? And you got an autograph And that was your memento And you tell all your friends Whereas now it's like If you wanted to DM Kim Kardashian You could Oh bro We don't know if she's gonna see it Yeah But you still have that access to it Do you see what I'm saying? And I think like

Now that we're That we're closer The minute someone Goes further away It feels like Yeah I'm not as Close to you as I thought I first was Do you know what I mean He's not double tapping That DM now I'm gonna mention him In the story And he ain't gonna see shit So why would I even bother

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a very good way of putting it because more time people were just like, it's sad when I see people just say like, UK's, fuck UK. Like once they start seeing like love from other places, it's horrible when you start seeing it because it's horrible to experience it when you start seeing the UK people being like, oh, fuck him, fuck him, fuck him, fuck him.

And it is nice to be empathetic enough to be like, oh, this is why they feel that way. Like, this is why they feel like they've lost you as opposed to just being like, bro, UK is bad vibes. Fuck the UK. They're all haters. They don't want to see anyone succeed. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. It's nice to actually think about, bro, it's tough. It's tough seeing people that you used to actually, like you said, every Sunday, I'm going down, I'm seeing Mo, this is sick, yada, yada. Now it's on Fallon.

I'm never gonna see him again unless I'm paying £200 to watch him at Madison Square Garden and we work very hard to make sure that we keep ticket prices affordable do you know what I'm saying like when we do shows we're like cool we still keep tickets at £30 so like

You know what I mean? Like the man then from the ends can come and feel like, oh, right, I'm going to take out my missus. And, you know, it's still affordable. Do you know what I'm saying? It's interesting because some people are like, yeah, but that seat is £80. And I'm like, yeah, but that's right at the front, my guy. Do you know what I mean? And what we do now, we do the platinum tickets. So I still get the same £30. And then whatever the ticket is going for on a platinum ticket,

that money then goes to charity. So we get that, the rest of that money then goes to charity. So like, I remember this one woman said, "Your tickets are going for a hundred pounds." And I'm like, "Yeah, but it's a platinum ticket because the touts are selling it for 150." Bro, when I see touts sell my tickets, I'm like, "Bro, why you doing this to me, bro?" Like, I'm not a 150 ticket pound person. - Bro, what did that man, they're shorting our thing like eight bills. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And that's not to say the company. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - DMs I've been getting are abusive. - Because people think

Me doing it I'm like no bruv It's not me doing it Do you know what I'm saying But I think That's why you can see When If someone looks They're just seeing 800 pounds And it's your show They're not seeing That it's a tout Selling that And you don't get None of that money So again They're like Yeah them man gone clear now 800 pound tickets I'm out

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, of course. I feel like that's where the separation can sometimes happen between the performer and the audience where they do feel like they're not connected anymore now. Right, we've got a question

We've got questions now, so the iPad next to you, if you just open it up, it's going to have all the questions that you can answer yourself. Okay. You have been involved with Drake a fair few times. He reposted one of your videos earlier in your career, and you talked about a funny meeting you had with him recently on Jimmy Fallon. What is your take on the Kendrick and Drake beef? Okay. Do you know what?

I like both artists innit? They're both two of my favourite artists. I've seen Kendrick at the O2, one of the best live shows I've ever been to. I've seen Drake a few times actually. But it's interesting man because before, I'll be honest, I'm a person, I'm a beat person innit? Do you know what I mean? Like I know they're going back and forth and stuff but I need to hear it but also like, ooh, ooh, it's got a little pop to it. - Yeah, exactly what I was saying. - Let me tell you something bro, not like us come out here,

- I was like, yeah, I think we know who won this one guys. - Beat stupid. - Yeah, I don't know. Like it's hard because you know, like it's interesting with these beats because they both going back and forth. Yeah. And we don't know what's true and what isn't in it. And we're sitting there like, nah man, he said that bro. And you get people that are so invested, but I'm like, I'm invested.

- For that week. - Yeah. - But I don't care enough to sit there and debate and be like, no, he won because of this. I'm like, you know what? They're both, I'm still gonna listen to both of their stuff. - Yeah, literally. - It's when people get to, no man, because you know what it is about my man, yeah? He copied, and that's when I was like, brother, you don't know this stuff, bro. Like you work in Curry's, my guy. Do you know what I mean? Like take yourself away from it, bro. Enjoy the entertainment like we all are, innit? But yeah, I think Kendrick's probably in the lead with that. That "Not Like Us" tune, I remember,

I was in LA, yeah? Oh, God. When it come out. And, bruv, I heard it and I was like, right, this is a bop. And then I promise you, for the next two, three days, all you could hear, you could just hear it. Carl's going, I was like, yeah, nah, he won. Because it's a bop, isn't it? It's a track, do you know what I mean? But it is an interesting beef. I don't feel like they've got nothing to really beef about, though. Like, even when they're getting at each other, I'm like, it's not really, it's not really, mm. They don't have the oomph. Do you know what I mean? But, yeah, I reckon Kendrick's in the lead, man.

Yeah, because that not like us true. That was that Rob, I'm ready to just throw down. Yo man, what up, cut? Yeah, yeah. Good vibes though, man. Good vibes. Next question.

how was your experience voicing acting is this something you would consider doing again 100 i really did i really enjoyed doing um the character beckett on 10 lives i'll definitely do it again um animation i think what goes into it we're like a small part of it we just do the voice and you've got someone that makes it around the way you speak they change the the cat's facial expressions um so yeah i'm definitely here for it man so you know disney warner brothers um it's i'll do i'll

I'll do anything. I swear to you, bruv. I'll do any voiceover, bruv. Fuck it. Rasta mouse, Roo boy. I'll do anything. - Rasta mouse! Bro, Jesus. Wow, bro back. - Nah, voice acting is very fun 'cause you get to really have fun with the voice and the character and how silly you can be. And more times it's just you in a booth with a sound man. Do you know what I mean?

Not discredit other actors on the screen, but you've got so many parts. Do you look the part? I was just turning up in tracksuit bottom, training as a quick tee and a hoodie, and then re-record for four or five hours. But yeah, I'll definitely do it again. 100%, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to get one of those franchise joints, though. Ooh.

- Like a toy story or something like that? - Yeah, man. - Retirement fun, pad. - Do you think we'd be good voice actors? - I think you'd be good 'cause you bounce off of each other good. Do you know what I mean? - Pause, but yeah. - Yeah, that was the best though. - That was crazy. And you just wanted to let that fly as well. That's crazy.

- It's the good at the end. - You bounce off each other good. - Yeah, Jesus. - I had to look at the both of you to make sure we're all on the same page. - Oh God. - No, I would like to do something like that, though. - I think that'd be cool. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Voice acting is so fun, man. I can't lie. I think at first I was very nervous, but what you'll realize if you ever do voice acting is that you probably, your voice only lasts about three to four hours. Then after that,

It's like, it gets mad croaky. So four hours you're in and then you do the next session probably about in a month's time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause they got to put all the stuff together in it. So we didn't do it with everyone. So that project, I think 10 nights took close to like 18 months. So I'll go in every other month

and then kind of do some sessions and whatnot. So yeah, yeah. - That's a long process. - That's a good insight. - Yeah, that is a very good insight. - Very cool insight. - Well played. - Yeah, it takes long, man. All right, cool. If you could have been a voice in an animated film or video game, what would it be and why? Ooh, do you know what I'd want to be in? I'd want to be in like a Grand Theft Auto, bruv. You know Danny Dyer's in, I think he's in San Andreas. - Is he for real? - Yeah, he's in San Andreas, bruv. So if Danny Dyer can be in San Andreas, bruv,

- You can be there too bro. - You can pull up there. - Easily. - So yeah, no, I'd love to do a video game. I don't know what video game, but it'd be so cool to be in that world. Do you know what I mean? Like if it was like an animated film though, again, like something like a, like if you're like in a scene in like an iconic, you know, like Shrek for example. - Yeah. - Like I was talking to Jonathan Ross recently and he was in, he's in Shrek. I think when they go to the bar,

when they go to that, I think, you know, it's like a pub scene. And I think it's where they meet Puss in Boots. It might be the second one. I'm not too sure. But I can hear, I can literally picture it right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like the, I think the character is like a bearded lady or something. Yeah, yeah, I remember. And yeah, I never thought that was Jonathan Ross. But now that you said that, I can literally hear it right now. Andy Peters is in Thing, bruv. He's in Toy Story. He's in Toy Story 2.

So I remember watching this thing as a kid where he went over there with Pixar and voiced the character and it's in the film. So if you watch Toy Story 2, I think it's the bit where, that's the bit where the guy steals the toys, isn't it? And he's trying to take them to Japan. And there's a scene where it's going up to the conveyor belting on the thing. And that's Andy Peters. And he's like, oh, where should I put it? On number six or something like that.

and he's yeah bruv yeah yeah season three Jimmy Fair play yeah man fair play what's the next one congrats on your appearance on Jimmy Fallon as a London boy born and bred what's your opinion on the Hollywood world

Hollywood's an interesting place, you know, because you know what's mad, yeah? We see it from the outside. When you're in Hollywood, it's completely different because that is, that celebrity world is their world, isn't it? Do you know what I mean? TMZ following them around, going to expensive places and whatnot and stuff. And I always said like, people ask me, would you live out there in LA?

I think the difference is I'm not from there, innit? So I'm always gonna see it as a tourist. It's not my world. Do you know what I mean? Like the Kim Kardashian's that's been their life for all they know, innit? Do you see what I'm saying? So their friends are celebrities. That's who their world is and stuff. I think for me though, it's like, bro, I remember he was on tour. I couldn't wait to come back

Because it's just things like the banter, for example, and stuff. Like the banter is different here. Do you know what I'm saying? Like the one thing I do love that there's a sun though. The sun is crazy. But again, the Hollywood world is like, I remember once being in L.A.,

And we was in a restaurant. Bro, Beyonce and Jay-Z was in there. I couldn't believe it. That's not... He was like, yeah. He's like, look who's over there. I'm like, look. I looked. And I'm like, bro, that's the whole Beyonce, bro. Sitting there. Beyonce is there. Ah, big man. And it's like, who else? Yeah, Jay-Z's there. But that's like...

that's normal in LA, in that world. - Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. - That like the celebrities are just there. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's not normal. You don't get David Beckham, ain't that Joe and the Juice? Do you know what I mean? - Yeah, bro. - This is a nice spicy tuna. Do you know what I mean? It's like, you don't get that over here.

And I think it's not ever, this isn't been my world. I've not grown up in entertainment as such. So my friends have normal jobs and live normal lives. And they're the people that I connect with. Do you see what I'm saying? I've been in there a few times and people just name drop names. And you're like, Robert, like, yeah, man, you know, we went to Justin's house last week. It's like such a cool party. I'm like, Justin who? He's like, yeah, Bieber. And I'm like,

bro you said that like that's your bredrin like yeah it is but that's normal in that world that's not i'm still i'm still like bro what can i come yeah and again it's like it's a level that it's just it's just not me man do you know what i mean like i wanted like i like i just bro i just like i'm used to the life that i've always led do you know what i mean yes it's changed through my job and stuff like this but

Again, like I'm used to this life. That life I'm never, I'll never be used to it. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I don't know. Like having TMZ and that follow me around. If I was in that world. That's absolutely crazy. We don't get stuff like that here. You know what I mean? Like having man follow me everywhere I go. Hey man, what's going on man? What are you driving man? Like I would, I'd be like, but fuck off man, leave me. Cause that's not, I'm not, I'm used to. I'm not built for that. Yeah, yeah. But again, like,

yeah the hollywood world is in such a such a bubble of la do you know what i mean and it's kind of nice when you i've gone to l.a and i meet people who are actually from l.a do you know what i mean who are not in that kind of world and you connect with them and you're like oh right this is what l.a is really like because being in west hollywood can just seem like

It's just like, yeah, we're just going to go. As I say, get a coffee and you're there, but it's not really reality. Until you go to a Skid Row and you start seeing how the poverty is there and you go out a bit to LA, you'll go to a Pasadena or a Burbank and just how normal people live. You're like, ah, this is...

this is actually LA, do you know what I mean? This isn't Hollywood LA, but no, I couldn't, I can't fit into Hollywood, bruv. Nah, man. Like some of the phrases, I remember being out there and I was like, oh, it's really raining, man. It's pissing down. It's like, what? Pissing? What is that? And I was like, pissing down, that's what we call it, pissing down. And then after that, everyone kept saying, oh my God, it's pissing rain again. I was like, oh, I've got to get out of here, man. Oh, here's a great question. Strangest fan encounter? Um,

I've not had any bad ones really. Not strange, strange ones. What's one? I remember one time I was in Covent Garden and I was walking and this girl screamed, "Oh my God, it's you!" And I was like, "Hello, you all right?" She go, "I can't believe it." I can't believe she dropped her bag. She go, "I can't believe it." This is where they used to have the H&M. I think it's Arquette now.

So that's like the main strip. She's like, I can't believe it. I cannot believe it. And everyone's like...

Who is he? Who is he? And she goes, what? It's Mo Gilligan. It's Mo Gilligan. And this one guy was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I know. Isn't that? Yeah, yeah. I'm like, brother, you don't. Yeah. Let's not lie, man. But that was probably, that's up there because that was at a stage of my life where I was, things started changing a little bit. So I was a bit, yeah, I was just like, yeah, like, I wasn't used to that. Do you know what I mean? Took me a while. That's definitely up there. Can't think of any others that I know of top of my head.

especially as a fan encounter no no no i don't know um one time i met seal though that was crazy that would well yeah so basically i've been doing the videos for a while at this point in it and then um got through to my manager and he was like oh seal wants to invite you to a show yeah so i was all right cool so me and my mom went to the show and as he's performing yeah he's doing like his songs and stuff

And he's like, you know, doing his song. Then he'd just say like, and he's singing, right? Then he'd be like, get a couple cans. Me and my mum were like, bro. I was like, did he just say, but at this point no one knew. I wasn't known in the general public like that. So he was like, nah, bruv, he didn't just say that. Then he's performing another song. And then he would just say, like Barbados. And me and my mum were like, brother.

Your mama like, what's going on here? Is he just saying my bars while I sing his songs? And afterwards he has this thing at the back

meet his brothers. One of his brothers, mad cool guy called James. He's like a big director and stuff. Met his brothers and stuff. No, sorry, that wasn't his brother. I met his brother another time. But he's got another brother and he's like, I met his brother. And then there's loads of people who have paid for these platinum tickets, innit? And these tickets, I don't know how much they cost. Like a meet and greet and they're sitting there, booklets for him to sign and stuff. They're all queuing up and stuff. And then Seal was like, Moe!

come here man big fan he comes over gives me and my mum a big hug all three of us are just hugging Seal we're like oh what's good Seal he's like oh man love your videos man big fan and then you got these fans with their pen just like

Just waiting. Oh, wow. That one was crazy. That's insane. Again, it's like, still, but he was like a fan of me, innit? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, I love your stuff. And then we had, we shared the same birthday as well, innit? Okay. And then a few, about a year later, I think I was in a, saw a house. England was playing, I think they was playing Croatia, like World Cup or something like that.

and then his brother so this is brother jamesy he's like a massive director he's uh what's one of these films recently he uh book of clarence he's the he oh yeah yeah that's his film so then he's like oh you know my brother in it i'm like who's your brother he's like seal oh nice to meet you man so he's face times a minute he was watching it in l.a he's like oh man yeah i was like what's going on my guy he's saying you're right he's like yeah man cool one guy walks past and was like

Fuck, man. Is that seal? Yeah. Yeah. That was a flex, man. That's cool. Okay. Best and worst borough in London. Ooh. Okay. This is a great one. All right. Best borough. So I'm from South, innit? So I've got to go with Suburk, innit? I've got to go with where I'm from, innit? I'm from Suburk. The worst borough. I don't know, you know? Because I can't really get punched up in any areas, man. It got me techie. Like...

- Do you know what? I'll tell you what, it's not the worst bar here, but when I'm there, I don't feel welcome. Like, what's it called? Kensington and Chelsea? - Chelsea, yeah, West. - It's hard to really call it a bar, innit? But even when I'm in the G-Wag, man, people are looking at me like, "What are you doing here?" Just like, "What brings you to this part of London?"

So for that, I'd probably say it's the, there's nice parts of that area. Don't get me wrong, bro. If I was billionaire, I'd probably live there, innit? But yeah, man, it's like, actually, what, what? No, that's not the worst borough. What borough is Shoreditch in? Is that Hackney? Tower Hamlets? Tower Hamlets. Let me tell you something, yeah? The reason why this is the worst borough here, have you ever tried to park in Hackney? No.

have you ever seen what is on the signposts of parking in hackney you know that some areas would be like after seven cool yeah yeah listen people that listen to his pot if you if you try to park in shoreditch yeah that area is the most confusing parking it'll be like three after seven

Monday to Friday, Saturdays. And you're like, hold on, so can I park, can I not? - Big man. - The worst. - On Shoreditch High Street, there's a fucking car park, yeah? This happens to me all the time. There's a car park. - Is it that Euro one? - Yeah. And every Saturday they use it for food festivals. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I know the ones too. - So the amount of times, this happened to me last week.

I would stay there on like a Friday night or whatever. - No way, no way. - Bro, come on my hotel, stroll down to my car. This happened to me like two weeks ago, bro. Stroll to my car, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's a fucking G-Wagon in the middle of the car park and food trucks, tables, people, an entire food festival is in this car park and my car is smack bang in the middle. - No. - That would give me the most anxiety. - Music, barbecues, everyone clapping, clinking glasses and I'm like,

Sorry, I need to get- - That's wild. Man, I was eating falafel on your bonnet, bro. Falafel and cheese on your bonnet, bro. I'm going mad, bro. - They had to drag the whole thing like all the way out of the car park, stop traffic, everything for me to be sat there like, cheers guys, sorry. - Sorry, coming through, sorry. - And it's loud, obviously you start to edit. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I didn't mean it.

- Excuse me, can you move the quinoa stand? Thank you. - Bro, barters bro. I see some girl with dreads. She looked up, she was like, "Oh, long." And she looked again and she was like, "Fuck, it had to be you in it." And I was like- - He was a bit gassed a little bit though. - I was a bit gassed. - I was saying man, you know how it be man.

- What's the food scene? - I'm gonna come back and get the pasta still. - Just put a sign in real quick. - Can I get a selfie? - Oh, bro. - Music for dinner, like that.

Okay which country Pleasantly surprised you On tour I think America definitely That's always gonna be up there But I think A place I've been to before Is probably Australia Australia man Massively Everyone was like Oh man be careful The spiders and snakes They're not in mainland Australia innit They're like in the outbacks Yeah

and stuff in it so we were like Melbourne city we're going to like the major places but yeah it was a nice vibe man I'll never forget we went to this club bro and it was like we walked in and we had like a not like a guy but she worked for like the touring company that we used and she was like I'll take you around where you need to go she was quite young that same age as us

And we went to this club and I'll never forget, it was like step up. People were really dancing in there. - Step up, wow. - Yeah, like me and my boy Jab, we walked in there and they're really dancing. Like they're like really like breaking down and stuff. And we're like, bro, like people are really dancing in here. But what threw me off is like, there were guys like brothers who were like us, yeah? And then they come up to me and was like, "Oh, Mike, big fan of your stuff, man." - Oh, bro.

I'm like, where did that accent come from? And like, but it was just like, man them, but they've got our accent. Sorry, they're man them, but they've got their accent. And it threw me. Because they were like, oh man, I've seen you on Big Nasty, man. Big fan, man. What are you doing out here, brother? I'm like, bro.

- You look like me but you sound like me. - But the vibe there in Australia was like proper nice vibe man. Yeah, really nice people man. Food was banging as well. - Oh, okay sick. - But no, the food was banging as well. I like food man. Yeah, like we had some ramen.

Because I'm into this ramen thing now, innit? Like I'm at that age where I pretend like I know what I'm doing, but I'm like, yeah, get the egg. Before, I was like, I was just calling it noodles. But now, yeah. But yeah, Australia. Australia was really nice. Last one. Was there ever a low point in your career that made you consider doing something else? If you weren't a comedian, what else would it be? A low point in my career made me do something else.

Oh, that's a good question, man. There's always low points, but I don't know. I'll be honest, bro. Two years ago, I was ready to pack in and not do comedy anymore. Two years ago? Yeah, bro. Two years ago, man. I think, because at the time I was doing a lot of TV and then comedy, I just felt disconnected from it in some ways, innit? And I was just like, I don't know if I want to keep on doing this. Like, not the fact that like TV was going better, but comedy, I don't know. I feel like I just, I lost my...

my hunger for it in some ways because I think I hadn't done it but I just thought I generally was like I don't know if I want to do stand up anymore kind of thing because I'd stop doing the characters at this stage probably I know people love it but I just reached a point in my life and career where I was just like they've got me to this place but they're not gonna it's I just rather keep the memories that people had from there in it

And I think I was doing more TV and I think the more people would be like, oh, you've changed now. And I was like, I don't know if I want to do stand up anymore. Maybe I just want to concentrate a bit more on this TV stuff and see where that goes. But yeah, that was probably one point. But now we're back doing comedy. Car, boy, TV is...

But no, I do. I think I've always loved comedy and I think that's the battle I have with comedy is, you know, when you love something so much, it's almost like it gives you that hunger because you're like, I love this thing so much. I want it to. So I do sit and I'm in limbo because I'll be honest, I want to do comedy for as long as possible, but.

I'd be lying if I said I want to do this till I'm like 78 years old. I want to retire early and play golf. I don't even play golf, but I see old white guys. That's where deals are made as well. That's where deals are made. Yeah, man. I want to do that and I want to get a boat. There's the two things I want to do when I retire, innit? So I'm trying to do that as soon as possible. I didn't really understand why

People played golf. I didn't get it. But like once, I think I went to Cabo. I went to Mexico, Los Cabo. And they had this like golf range. And I see these old white men. They just look like they're having the best time. And I was like, I want to do that, you know? Yeah. Just with my abridgons though. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, man. I think, and then last question. Oh, sorry. The other question is, if you weren't a comedian, what would you be doing? I'll be honest, yeah. If I weren't doing comedy, I don't think,

I probably work like a youth worker or something like that. It's working with the youngers. I don't know. I think you make a good one actually. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would probably be my career path working with young people in that kind of capacity. Do you know what I mean? I can't sit and pretend to be like, well, if I weren't doing this, you know, I would have probably been like an accountant. I've always loved it. No, I'm not great with money. I'm not good with numbers. Um, so probably, um,

Yeah, probably like a youth worker. Do you see what I'm saying? Do you see? Nice. Like that kind of road man one. Hey, let me tell you something. Put the ball down because I told you kids already. If you carry it, I'll punch you up. I don't care. I don't care. I've got your mum's number, you know. I've got your mum's number, Lachelle. I told you that. Lachelle. Lachelle. But yeah, probably be like a youth worker, bro. Same. Same. Fair play, bro. Why? Well, that's it. That's the episode. That was...

- Good. - That was a very good episode. - No, no, no. I've enjoyed myself, bro. - Good, man. - I don't do many other podcasts and I'm big fans of you guys. - Oh, thank you, bro. - To come on, it was like, yeah, man, I appreciate it coming on, just what I'm saying. And what you guys have got, like, do you know what I mean? It's a very, it's cool because you're just, you're being unapologetically yourself, do you know what I'm saying? - Thank you, G. - I feel like that shows through

like especially with the clips and stuff like this you know what i'm saying yeah man it's it's it makes sense why you guys would sell out i know too do you know what i mean because thank you the way people connect with you you're just yeah you are just good vibes so thanks for having me on man thank you bro thank you for coming on that was a nice sign all right guys well thank you very much this has been a paying episode everyone mogul again yay thank you so much man

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