25: Plain Clothes Priest (with Tom Mayhew)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
We also explore a lot of Alexei's history in comedy (and hip-hop) and debate whether Linda should get her own show.
Tom is a brilliant, left-wing comic currently making big waves in the scene. Series 2 of Tom Mayhew is Benefit Scum comes out on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 13th July 2022.
Tune in and show him some love on Twitter - @TomMayhew
Be sure to catch his show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 if you're passing through!
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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, welcome back to my podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I think the perfect way to start an interview with somebody you don't know well |
| 0:13.5 | is after a protracted period of silence. |
| 0:16.8 | So I wanted to record just some room at Moss so to, for editing purposes. |
| 0:22.7 | So Tom's been here for a little while. |
| 0:25.0 | We haven't really. |
| 0:26.3 | Just staring at each other. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.3 | And we've had to sit in silence for 20 seconds. |
| 0:31.8 | So, and now we have to, you know, now we have to explore each other. |
| 0:35.8 | And there's a drill in the background. |
| 0:37.0 | And there's a drill in the background, as usual. |
| 0:40.6 | Now, isn't my neighbour for once constantly rebuilding cars of desiccissiveus? |
| 0:45.9 | I think it's in the street. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm trying to be professional. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, no, it was. It's, you know, you know, from a recording point of view, it's, |
| 0:53.1 | it's absolutely professional. |
| 0:55.6 | It's just socially awkward. |
| 1:01.0 | Excuse me. |
| 1:02.2 | That's all right. |
| 1:02.8 | So my guest today is Tom May here, a young comic. |
| 1:07.9 | As usual, I pride myself on having done no research whatsoever really |
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