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Coker spell QU-O-O-K-E-R. Today's podcast is a celebrity special.

19 questions to James Acaster. And if I like his answers, he gets the bonus 20th question. Well, I mean, I say 19 questions.

I didn't get through all 19 either with Connie Huck or Fran Healy. I think that's because I talk

too much. And, you know, the guests I choose, they talk a lot too, so maybe it's their fault too.

I like to keep the podcast around an hour or so.

I think an hour mark is a good sort of time for one of these podcasts.

So what I do is when I'm going along, I have to cut some of the questions out as I'm

looking through them because I'm thinking, oh, we're going to go over an hour here.

So maybe I'll try and be a little bit more disciplined today. I'm a big fan of James Acaster.

He's different. He's a great comic. I get to interview a lot of comics and I always enjoy their

company. Comedians are good fun.

They're good laugh.

And I love having them guests on my TV show and also this podcast because they just thought, you know,

they always got something funny to say and they're interesting people.

James Acosta, he stands out a bit.

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