260 - Jack Docherty
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Best know nowadays as Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelsonfrom BBC Scotland's "Scot Squad", Jack Docherty first came to comedy in 1980 with his sketch group "The Bodgers" arrival at the Edinburgh Fringe. We explore how the Fringe has changed, trace his career via the Channel Four sketch show "Absolutely", and resulting spin-off "Mr Don & Mr George", and discover his frustrations on hosting the chatshow that was a Channel 5 flagship. We also unpack which absurdist elements of Jack's improvisation are too much for TV...
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| 0:48.2 | sitting in his little bucket seat in the back on the drive home going daddy |
| 0:51.6 | daddy and I thought this is what it must be like to be on the drive home going daddy daddy |
| 0:53.2 | and I thought this is what it must be like to be Saddam Hussein's son. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and my thanks as ever to |
| 1:16.2 | the Place Hotel in Edinburgh for allowing us some recording space and when the |
| 1:20.4 | usual the regular recording space that we used there, this fringe was occupied, |
| 1:24.8 | they managed somehow to shoehorn myself and my guest, who is not a small man, into a sort of a very intimate double bedroom some floors up hidden away in the building so thank you |
| 1:38.0 | very much to the Place Hotel in Edinburgh for allowing us to record there. |
| 1:42.1 | So to my guest. |
| 1:43.2 | Jack Doherty is someone who will be known to many of you. |
| 1:46.7 | He's had a very expansive and unusual career, |
| 1:49.9 | taking in not only his membership of the sketch group the Hodges which with whom he came |
| 1:55.5 | to the fringe in 1980 and we'll talk a little bit about how the end of the fringe has changed |
| 1:59.5 | since that time but he was also a key member of Absolutely, a sketch show very much beloved to people my age |
| 2:07.5 | and the resulting spin-off series, Mr Don and Mr George, vast chunks of which are still quoted by myself and my little brother to this day. |
| 2:15.7 | I know there was a lot of excited mentioning of quotes on the ComCom Facebook page when I told you |
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