248: Comedy, kids' books and a quiz with Alasdair Beckett-King

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our guest for this episode is the hilarious comedian Alasdair Beckett-King. He tells us why he decided to write a children's murder mystery book, even though he has no kids and has never killed anyone.

We talk about how Alasdair went from doing shit gigs in terrible pubs with us to starring on Mock the Week. He explains how a failure at film school kicked off his comedy career, and why he believes a bad first gig is better than a good one.

Helen excels herself with the running order for this episode, managing to spell our guest's name wrong, reveal a weird fixation with his age, and insult his appearance. Alasdair tells us what it's like to be a person of hair colour, and we unfairly test his knowledge of parenting with a stupid quiz.

ABK's brilliant book, Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum, is out on 2 February. Word count update: 34,892. Follow him on Twitter for supremely funny videos @MisterABK, listen to the Loremen podcast, and buy tickets to his tour via abeckettking.com.

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0:00.0	Come on Helen, what are you doing? It's time to record the podcast!
0:02.7	Hang on a tick, I'm just getting a quick quote for life insurance from Beagle Street.
0:06.5	Oh well, how long is that going to take?
0:08.1	Dude, you can get a quick quote in three minutes!
0:12.0	And Beagle Street is rated excellent on trust pilot.
0:15.2	But is it expensive?
0:16.7	Dude, did you know you can protect your family for less than six pounds per month?
0:20.5	Asterisk.
0:21.4	Asterisk.
0:22.4	Asterisk.
0:23.3	Asterisk is the French cartoon character.
0:27.1	Well that sounds blooming excellent.
0:28.7	Look, I know it isn't a cheery topic, but you're right.
0:30.8	We need to think about who is going to look after the kids if we're not around.
0:34.3	Look at us being grown-ups.
0:36.3	Oh no, right.
0:37.0	If you want to get a quick quote,
0:38.4	all you have to do is go to BeagleStreet.com and get yours today.
0:42.0	That's B-E-A-G-L-E-S-T-R-E-E-T.
0:46.7	Dotcom.
0:47.3	Legal bit.
0:48.0	Asterisk.
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