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Here's Alistair and Ray Ray.

So I want to get on to how the whole comedy thing started, because initially, were you academic?

Did you sort of, had you sort of decided, well, I want to perform, but I don't really want to tell anyone.

So maybe if I focus on film, that's a way into that world.

Yeah, I didn't really want to be in front of the camera.

Yeah.

And I don't really, you know, I, I've

done quite, I've learned to perform moderately well, you know, and I can do stuff in front of

cameras and it's gone well and I've enjoyed it in a way, but I didn't see myself, I wanted to be

Terry Gilliam from Python, you know, I thought, well, I'll start doing comedy and I'll, I want to be the guy who, I'll do the animations for the rest of you guys, and I'll just be behind the scenes. I know. Because I was into animation and film and that sort of thing. It didn't work out because I didn't meet a 20-year-old John Cleese, so it didn't happen. But that was my plan, was I was cynically getting into comedy so it would help with movies.

And it just turned out to be very enjoyable and satisfying in itself to do comedy.

Because I'm very envious of a certain generation of filmmakers like Michael Powell or Alfred Hitchcock

who worked in silent movies and made dozens and dozens of silent movies that are mostly

forgotten before they made a single film for which they are remembered. That opportunity to just fail and fail and fail or

succeed and succeed in a way that it doesn't really matter. I don't think anyone my

age, I don't think any millennial has had that opportunity in the creative sphere. If

you get an opportunity, it'd better go well because you're not going to get another

unless it does. And the great thing about stand-up is it affords you that in a way that if you wanted to get into, if you want to be a writer, if you wanted to be a journalist, I don't think you would get the same opportunity. With stand-up, you can just go to app-up and do five minutes of talking. And as long as people laugh, you've done comedy. and if they don't laugh you can come back

again next week and do it again.

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