Ep. 105 – TOM ALLEN - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to comedian and Bake Off presenter Tom Allen. They discuss Tom’s twelve year ‘overnight success’, why you should never save anything for best and one of Tim’s particularly severe fashion experiments.

Tom and all our live Youtube interviews are available on the Dear Lovejoy channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgiasdUjzzaVdRnN323EScw

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Love Toy Podcast and it's another special.
0:05.5	Today we're having a conversation with Tom Allen, comedian Tom Allen, who I just really like.
0:11.4	He's one of the good guys.
0:13.1	He comes on Sunday brunch, makes us all laugh a lot.
0:17.1	He's clever.
0:18.2	He's funny.
0:19.2	And I think he's about to hit the big time. I mean, he's hit the big time. But he's clever he's funny and i think he's about to hit the big time i mean he's hit the big
0:23.8	time but he's about he's gonna it's gonna be exponential you mean i yeah i think i really do people
0:30.1	a lot of people are talking about i'm talking mickey flanagan style thing you know when you
0:34.4	when you look at how many comedians there are in this country, yeah.
0:40.8	If you've ever go to the Edinburgh Festival, there's like thousands.
0:41.9	Yeah, there's loads, yeah.
0:46.7	So in the realms of comedy, he is a, he's a big star at the moment.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:47.5	Really is.
0:49.0	I mean, at the moment, I mean, he's a big star.
0:50.2	Yeah, he's very quick.
0:57.3	He's very clever and i think he's you know he's he's his next show i think is the the launch pad but um we discuss all this and we actually i don't i don't discuss that with him but we discuss how he's an
1:02.0	overnight sensation in the making but took him quite a few years but the same as everybody else
1:07.0	um thoroughly enjoyable conversation that we talk about a lot of things, you know, going through
1:12.3	about what it's like to be a comedian and what it's like to come out and all those sort of
1:16.7	various different things.
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