James Acaster Re- Run
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Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Re-visiting another stand out episode from the archives, this week comedian James Acaster joins Rob to talk about how he started stand-up, performing comedy sketches in church with his Dad, and how ditching the 'cool guy' persona was the best decision he made.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Today I'm bringing back one of my favourite episodes filled with standout moments you won't want to miss a second time around. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, are we going? |
| 0:23.3 | We're literally recording, James. |
| 0:25.0 | We're recording now. |
| 0:26.2 | And I know, I've hosted a million shows. |
| 0:28.8 | You'd expect a degree of professionalism, wouldn't you? |
| 0:31.9 | A degree of ease? |
| 0:33.1 | I've seen you. |
| 0:33.8 | You've seen me host shows. |
| 0:35.3 | You've seen me. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm nothing, if not professional. Professional and I'd say, maybe you don't get enough credit for this, but very welcoming to people who are doing it for the first time, I remember. Thank you. Very warm memories of first time doing what I lied to you and you coming over, you have a little bowl of sweets, don't you, under the table, industry secret? Well, there's a little bowl of sweets there, and you give them to the audience sometimes to keep them pepped up. I remember you coming over that first episode and give me some sweets and going, you're doing really well, it's going well. Not many hosts to do that. Really? Well, there are some who do it. But like, you know. Okay. Well, no one. No host has given me a sweet and told me I'm doing well. Well, and that's the way to my heart. Well, we don't do the sweets anymore. We used to do jelly babies, and I used to throw them out. because I would eat a lot of them because it's a very long |
| 1:28.8 | record would I like to use, longer than it looks on the team, considerably longer. And you |
| 1:34.1 | kind of need sometimes a bit of sugar, but I find with sugar now that I go like that, but then I go |
| 1:39.8 | like that. Really? You're not the same? Everett's a baby time down? Well, yeah're having, I mean, not if I have one, but if I had lots of them, yeah. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm not lightweight, I can have a jelly baby. |
| 1:49.6 | Yeah? |
| 1:49.9 | You sure? |
| 1:50.5 | Yes. Yeah. Get jelly babies. We'll have a jelly baby off. but but but but and I used to in between when um the resetting things you know I would start throwing |
| 1:46.7 | some to the audience, |
| 2:02.0 | and that was fun. |
| 2:02.5 | There's pre-COVIDs you could touch things. Sure. I could lick them first and throw them. And then I started the thing where I would throw them quite far to the people in the bleachers over the tops of the monitors. Uh-huh. And one day I did it. I threw one. and there was a little old lady wasn't really watching me, and she was that interested in the show. And it hit her square between the eyes. And I swear to God, she went down. Really? I'm a jelly, baby. Yes. Well, there's a lot of upper body strength. Yeah, sure. So it hit her. She went down and she stayed down. |
| 2:35.2 | And I'm going to be totally honest. |
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