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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

19. Babatunde Aleshe

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week's Wonderbox belongs to Babatunde Aleshe, star of I'm a Celeb and Celebrity Gogglebox. Babatunde gives Russ some pointers on becoming a Grime MC, how to catch a fainting believer in church and tells Russell who he's stayed in touch with from the jungle (spoiler alert: it's not Matt Hancock).  If you want more Babatunde then you're in luck, you can have more! He's taking his tour show 'Babahood' around the UK through February and into March.  Find out more and book tickets by going to https://babatundealeshe.com/   Russell's currently in the land of the TimTam and the Vegemite. There are still a few tickets left for Russell's Australian dates. Check the schedule and get yours at russell-howard.co.uk. After Australia he's taking the show around Europe. Dates and tickets are on the same website there.      Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The weight is over. Last One Laughing is back and it's even more brutal than last time. Share your biggest regrets. I don't regret this haircut. What did you ask for? The Shaggy Slim Shady? Joining us this series we have... Romish Wengrenner Nathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Bemi Sola, Ike Melo, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam and Bob Mortimer.

0:21.6

Anyone want a song?

0:22.6

No.

0:23.6

Last One Laughing, new series, watch now, only'm Russell Howard. This is Wonderbox, where I talk to guests about things they adore.

0:44.3

This week we've got a stand-up comedian and actor. You might have seen him on Gogglebox, sharing a sofa with Mo Gilligan.

0:50.3

You might have seen him on I'm a Celebrity sharing worms with Matt Hancock.

0:54.6

This is Babbatundi Aleshi's Wonderbox.

1:02.7

Thanks coming on the show, man.

1:04.0

Thank you for having me, my problem, man.

1:05.4

Hot fresh from Stevenage.

1:07.0

Yeah.

1:08.4

You look good, everything's pressed, you're ready.

1:44.4

Yeah, yeah, man. Are you a morning person? I can be. Right. All right, this is it. Before I got married, I was a morning person. Really? Yeah, because I was always energetic, bubbly, everything. But then I got married. What happened? And there was just demands demands upon demands. I need this. I need that. And then it's like, ah, man. What kind of demands we're dealing with? You putting the bins out? All of that. Yeah, bins. I fucking hate putting the bins out. Particularly at this time of the year, it's cold. It's cold, bro.

1:44.8

Yeah.

1:45.5

I mean... I consider fly tipping. You know what I mean? But just outside the house, it's all... But you know what it is? My wife leaves the bin. She lets it like pile up to like the point where it's just like, I can't take this out no more because if I take it out, it's going to rip. now I've got to tip the bin over

2:00.0

with you holding another bin

2:01.9

so that bin will go into this bin

2:03.8

and now we've got two bins and now I've got, it's just a mess. And then you're doing double-handed and then you've got cold bin juice all over your threads. That's it when you come back with bin juice all over that's disgusting I'm going to take a bar there's a lot about fatigue

2:20.6

you've got a young one

2:21.4

at the That's it when you come back with bin juice all over you That's disgusting You gotta take them off

2:18.8

There's a lot about fatigue

2:20.4

You've got a young one at the minute

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