Bill Bailey (Vaudevillean / Black Books / Buzzcocks) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Bill Bailey, originally episode 292 from 2019-10-16.
With Bill’s new appreciation of the early morning start, and enjoying those gems that are the early hours of the day, he joins Pip for some ace earlier-than-afternoon chattalogical goodness which includes so much, from back in the day to… now in the day? You know what I’m getting at. So you can absolutely expect to hear all manner of awesome including how he’s well up for the promo run, with a renewed appreciation for the talking element of it all, his newfound discipline - or that is to say ‘sharpened’ discipline, the new series of ‘In The Long Run’ in which he stars alongside creator Idris Elba (on Sky NOW!), his approach to the series and he tries not to install his own comic leanings on the proceedings, the ‘biomechanics’ of comedy and the District 9 theory, the importance of collaboration, how awesome Idris Elba is, the shock of coming from the mainly white Westcountry to multicultural London, Bill’s lightbulb moment for comedy at a London vegan anarchist commune, influences and respect for tradition, the DVD boom of the 00’s and how he got caught in it, the great equaliser of a shared artistic experience, and with that - the importance of sharing, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI and all kinds more! Lovely stuff, start to end. Have fun!
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| 0:00.0 | in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue. It's Rewan Time. It's Friday. It's Rewind time. |
| 0:06.2 | And today's Rewind is with a living legend. Mr. Bill Bailey. He's an icon. It's Bill Bailey. |
| 0:14.0 | I got to sit in a room with Bill Bailey and chat for like an hour. Who would have thought that? |
| 0:19.5 | I went over to, at this point, I went over to |
| 0:22.3 | Sky headquarters. And it was there actually that I learnt that Sky and Now TV are the same thing, |
| 0:28.4 | because there's like the Sky building and the Now TV building and they're the same company. |
| 0:34.3 | Now TV is the digital, like, streamer version of Sky. |
| 0:38.0 | Who knew? |
| 0:38.8 | I didn't. |
| 0:39.6 | You probably did, but at that point, I didn't in 2019. |
| 0:43.1 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:43.9 | I hope you enjoy this chat with the one and only Mr. Bill Bailey. |
| 0:48.1 | This piece of fiction is the intro to distraction. |
| 0:50.8 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 0:54.0 | This be a fiction is the intro to the structure. This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 0:57.2 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the station. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | So let's kind of start. |
| 1:06.8 | Obviously I should introduce. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm joined by Bill Bailey today. |
| 1:09.4 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:10.1 | I'm very well, thanks, yeah. |
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