Gervais, Imaginary Swords & Hollywood Hidings with Christian Cooke

Restless Natives with Martin Compston & Gordon Smart

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode we welcome a man who manages to get his tap aff in the first 5 minutes of the podcast, a close pal and immense actor with hair braided by the archangel Gabriel himself, it's Christian Cooke. We're chatting overreaching in a number of ways, kicking off a career working with Ricky Gervais, living in Miami, wielding a "sword" in Leicester Square, Hollywood bustups with Compston and finding himself on stage with the Spice Girls.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:15.8	Welcome back to the Restless Native podcast, sponsored by Viagra, Just for Men, Deep Heat, Enosol and Tenor Men.
0:24.2	This is the home of two men lost in a strange wilderness between adolescence and midlife.
0:28.7	Two men clinging on to the last vestiges of youth like Empire Penguins and the melting iceberg of life.
0:34.3	I'm Gordon Smart, a respected broadcaster now lurking in the empty staff canteens of the BBC on late night radio
0:39.5	eating the dog-eared sandwiches
0:41.2	none of the prime time talent won. I'm the guy
0:43.2	people listen to when they want to fall asleep
0:45.2	at the arse end of the day. You wrote yourself
0:47.4	you're a respected broadcaster. I did that.
0:49.5	I did that. Blank.
0:52.1	But that's okay with me?
0:53.9	Oh no.
0:55.2	We'll come back to that in a second.
0:57.4	But that's okay with me.
0:59.6	That's that.
1:00.8	That's okay with me because I'm keeping two children and a wife.
1:03.7	I never see in a house I seldom live in.
1:05.4	So everyone's a fucking one or accept me as usual.
1:07.5	Anyway, I am here living in the shadow of a prime-time TV star, a national treasure, with
1:13.0	a year filled with mouth-wateringly exciting projects, while his latest series Explore in Norway
1:18.4	airs on the telly with another fella doing all the things I spend, lonely hours imagining,
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