Ep. 425 - Christian Brighty

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Christian Brighty is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer who has his own BBC Radio 4 series “The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty”. His show PLAYBOY was one of the best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, and sold out runs at the Pleasance Courtyard and Soho Theatre. The show was nominated for the Amused Moose Best Show award as well as Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival. In 2021, his TikTok sketches based on Bridgerton, Poldark and Jane Austen catapulted him to viral stardom, racking up a combined 100 million views. These sketches have been featured on Buzzfeed, BBC Online, and even broadcast on American TV Network MSNBC gaining him 475,000 followers and quickly securing his place as the internet’s answer to Mr Darcy. .

Christian Brighty is guest number 425 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty is available on BBC Sounds, here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0022bsb

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

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0:00.0	On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me, rip up the charades, forget about the
0:06.9	telly, let's play scratch cards, coins are to stretching, everybody laughing, better not be cheating,
0:15.4	and the chance to win a pound or three. Add some play to Christmas With scratch cards from the National Lottery
0:22.3	Please gift responsibly rules and procedures apply
0:24.6	Players and gifters must be 18 or over
0:26.1	And the chance to win a pound or three
0:28.7	You Hello and welcome again to my time capsule.
0:49.8	My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capture is the podcast, as it's always been,
0:55.6	where people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule,
1:00.1	four things they love, and one thing they'd like to bury and forget.
1:04.2	My guest in this episode is Christian Brighty.
1:07.6	Christian is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer.
1:13.0	His show, Playboy, was one of the best of the best reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe of 2022 and sold out runs at the Pleasance Courtyard and
1:18.7	Soho Theatre. It was nominated for the Amused Moose Best Show Award, as well as Best New Show at the
1:24.6	Leicester Comedy Festival. Christian came to everyone's notice in
1:28.3	2021, when his TikTok sketches, based on Bridgeton, Poldark and Jane Austen, catapulted him to
1:35.2	viral stardom, the only virus where the cure is actually time. Anyway, Christian racked up over
1:42.3	a hundred million views, yes, a hundred million views.
1:47.2	And his sketches have been featured on BuzzFeed, BBC online and even broadcast on American TV network, MSNBC, gaining him 440,000 followers and quickly securing his place as the internet's answer to Mr. Darcy.
2:02.8	Christian trained at the famous French theatre schools, Ecole Philippe Goulié and Ecole Jacques Lecoq,
2:09.8	specialising in clowning. His first radio series, The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Breitie,
2:15.8	is currently being broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday nights at 11 p.m.
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