Well, everybody, welcome to episode 101, 101 of my podcast.

And today is to celebrate the 101th, because we didn't want to celebrate the 100th.

That'd be bourgeois.

And predictable, we have Mark Thomas, somebody.

Hello, Mark.

So explain yourself, really.

Name Rankin Regiment, young man.

I don't know, yeah, I mean, take us through your naissance as a comedian.

Who were your cohort?

How did you get started?

I got started partly because of you.

Well, no, I did.

This is completely sure.

And I've said this all,

I've said this throughout just about every other interview I've done.

My mate had a copy of Kack,

which I still reckon is the greatest comedy album thank you

it's fucking excellent and i listened to that and it was like i was like this is what you can

do you know i mean it doesn't have to because for me all the comedy heroes i

had right before listening to that were like peter cook who i loved right dudley more and i used to go

and see like the last remake of of bogeist you know with spite milligan and all that lot i love

the goons and i love milligan was the first comic I saw as an actor.

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