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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

19: A Bunch of Students in a Flat (The Young Ones special with Lise Mayer)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Lise Mayer (co-creator and writer of The Young Ones) chats to Alexei about the genesis of The Young Ones, the making of The Young Ones, the jokes, the props, the music.... everything The Young Ones!

Also, they give Talal tips to quit smoking and all enjoy a bit of kung fu talk.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
Photograph from the Andy Hollingworth Archive 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody.

0:10.3

Welcome to the Alexyself podcast number 19.

0:14.0

Now, our last podcast with Saul Williams, I think was probably the least listened to.

0:19.0

Podcast ever.

0:21.9

Saul Williams,

0:22.8

the dancer, choreographer, musician,

0:25.4

talking about his esoteric,

0:27.4

non-linear movie about Coltan mining.

0:31.8

I think that that, you know, it was amazing.

0:34.8

I thought it's fascinating and amazing conversation.

0:37.0

But it turns out that I think my listeners,

0:39.9

like either me being shitty about Kirstama

0:42.0

or the neolithic age of comedy.

0:46.5

So in a desperate attempt to claw back some listeners,

0:49.8

I am this week with Lisa Mayer,

0:52.6

the co-writer of the young ones.

0:54.4

Yes, the young ones, young ones, young ones.

0:56.6

Get in there.

0:57.5

All you, you, you, you, you, you, you, comedy nerds.

1:01.3

Listen to my podcast, please.

1:04.1

And so, yeah, Lisa Mayer, co-writer of the young ones.

1:08.6

And I think we're going to claw back, not probably not quite up to Jeremy Corbyn levels, but, you know. You never know. We might be more. It might be more. Especially as you started out by calling me a meandthal, I suppose. No, no, no. I didn't. I think it was people who are interested in the neolithic period of alternative comedy so now lots of people are going

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