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What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?

I haven't done it for a while and I've found that because I haven't done it for a while,

so I'm leaking out in unexpected places and I just needed to do one.

That's very good. I'd like to start this week's show with a reading from the Sunday papers

that was sent to me by umpteen people. No names, no packed real.

It's just like the first reading.

The first reading service with nine lessons in the carols from the papers on Sunday.

A British actor who has complained that Mark Kermode, I'll do it in my best part,

I'll do it in an ordinary voice. Yeah, that wasn't an ordinary voice.

Okay.

Hurting my family, it ain't on.

Like that Mark Kermode, the things he said about my acting could have stopped me getting work,

stopped me feeling my family.

He's saying I can't act, but Harold Pinter said I could.

Now I read this out because you just need to remember this as we go through the show.

Yes.

Every negative word about an actor is taking the food off.

And as George Bush said, I know how hard it is to put food on your family.

He did say that. He did. He did say that.

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