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25: Adam Hills

Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up comedian and presenter Adam Hills is best known to British audiences as the host of Channel 4's 'The Last Leg'.

All the music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’, go and check out more from Waiting For Smith on Spotify and YouTube.
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Produced by Dan Quick

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0:00.0

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0:25.2

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0:28.0

Eligibility criteria apply. I've spent most of lockdown and glorious idleness. Not so Adam Hills my guest today. We began by talking about the

0:46.4

prep for this Friday's last leg.

1:07.5

Hello! How are you sweet? I'm well. How are you? I'm well. How are you? I'm all right. Are you mid-show prep? Yeah, early show prep. We don't do too much on the Tuesday. We kind of, we learned early on that the jokes that are and the topics that are current on a Tuesday and current on a

1:11.7

Friday. That the last time I remember the one was Dominic Cummings Week.

1:16.0

Oh my!

1:18.0

It was Bernard Castle.

1:20.0

And it just felt like, oh God, this is like the biggest open goal. And yet sometimes that's the hardest, isn't it?

1:26.7

Absolutely, it depends, especially if it happens like you say on Wednesday for instance,

1:32.1

because by Friday everyone on Twitter has made every joke there is to make about it

1:37.1

But it's still a big enough story that they're expecting us to talk about it. So then the question is well what do you say that hasn't already

1:43.2

been said? You always you always smash it. Well the best stories for us are the ones

1:47.2

that break on a Thursday. People watch them or actually the best stories are the ones that

1:51.0

break on a Friday because they don't expect us to be that clever

1:54.2

about it two hours later.

1:56.5

So anything is possible isn't there I suppose it's although with Brexit one feels that there's a sort of I don't know a sad shorty to the

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