Hi there, Simon and Brian here, welcoming you once again, or perhaps for the first time, to Sode the Jerker on songwriting.

Joining us today is a British writer, actor, comedian and fellow podcaster.

As anyone familiar with his work will know, he also has a distinctly musical side, and earlier this year, via Decker, he released his debut solo album, Buckle Up, produced by Metronomy's Joe Mount. We're delighted to welcome the lovely Adam Buxton to the podcast. Adam's been a bit of a friend to the show over the years, hasn't he? He certainly has. He said some very nice things about us on his own pod, helped us out with the odd guest booking and very kindly hosted our 10th anniversary

Q&A episode back in 2021.

He's a jolly good egg.

Mm-hmm.

And aside from anything else, we've been fans of his since the late 90s.

So it was a total pleasure to finally meet with him face to face recently at his top

secret London HQ.

Adam was born in Shepherdsbush, London in 1969.

A pop culture obsessive from a tender age.

It was while attending Westminster School in London that he met Kindred Spirit, future comedy wife,

and lifelong pal Joe Cornish, before going on to study sculpture at Chelten College.

After some of his homemade video experiments found their way to TV producer Fenton Bailey, Adam was hired

to work on Channel 4's takeover TV in the mid-90s, later bringing Joe on board. Shortly after that,

they were granted their very own Channel 4 comedy series, made on the tightest of budgets, and apparently

hosted from their South London bed sit. The Adam and Joe show ran for four series from 1996 to 2001 and quickly

attracted a cult following with its charmingly DIY aesthetic, recurring sketches like Bad Dad

and Vinyl Justice and painstaking toy recreations of popular movies and TV shows at the time.

It had some memorable music too, didn't it? Yeah, who could forget the

fuddy song, the Robert De Niro Calypso. Yeah. The Bob Hoskins song was a particular

favourite. Yeah. Roger me rab, bit bono me leaser. The pair also made their mark on national

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