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The Ricky Gervais Podcast

BEST OF... RICKY GERVAIS is DEADLY SIRIUS #02

The Ricky Gervais Podcast

Glyn Hughes

Brent, Gervais, Extras, Podcast, Ricky, Life, Xm, After, Merchant, Office, Stephen, Comedy, Tv & Film, Derek, Sirius, Deadly, Flanimals, Pilkington, Karl

4.24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Second in a series of 'best bits' from Ricky's radio shows on Sirius XM - RICKY GERVAIS is DEADLY SIRIUS. Joining Ricky to discuss comedy and the art of stand-up comedy in particular, in this compilation are JAMES ACASTER, ALEX EDELMAN, BEN BAILEY SMITH, KERRY GODLIMAN, BRETT GOLDSTEIN, ROISIN CONATY, MARK WATSON, ED BYRNE

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now it's the best of Ricky Trevace's deadly series.

0:04.0

LAUGHTER

0:05.7

Comedy and standard.

0:07.2

LAUGHTER

0:08.5

Well, because I started so late in comedy,

0:11.9

and I sort of, I suppose, had some very, very lucky breaks,

0:16.5

and I was already 40, I haven't got any tales of, you know,

0:21.0

tragedy or embarrassment or, you know, I mean, I'd always sort of ruled those out,

0:24.7

but luckily, you two guys started young, so you've got millions, I hope.

0:28.3

Completely, mentally scarred, yeah.

0:30.8

So things like worse gigs and worse sort of interviews and worse to all additions?

0:36.2

Yeah, and what have we got on those?

0:37.3

Well, the gigs, like, I think we all end up taking gigs that are anywhere when we start.

0:41.6

So you say yes to everything, and I was doing gigs, like, you know,

0:45.7

in like Oxfam bookshops and like, you know, music festivals,

0:49.6

and I did one in these woods.

0:52.2

It was in the fel foot woods, and there was a music festival there for the whole weekend,

0:56.5

and I've been asked by a promoter to get like, you know, three or four acts

0:59.6

to come and do comedy round a campfire, which is such an awful idea now,

1:03.4

when it's worded by that, but like, but then I thought, yeah,

1:06.4

and he, you know, he gives me some stage time to go and try some stuff out.

1:09.9

So I said yes to it, and we turned up when we were supposed to do that.

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