JOE CORNISH (The Kid Who Would Be King / Attack The Block / Adam & Joe) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Joe Cornish, originally episode 253 from 2019-02-15.
Original writeup below:
Consider this the counterpart to the much earlier Adam Buxton episode, if you will, what with Joe being Adam long term co-conspirator and collaborator! Between them they very much had a hand in those early days of podcasting, which was something of a direct offshoot of radio but with a very creative and premeditated approach, not to mention their amazing TV work… With both of them going their separate ways and moving onto a ton of incredible work between them, it’s been hugely inspiring to see the individual sides of the two, and Joe breaks down his recent work and creative projects including of course, ‘Attack The Block’ and brand new film ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ (showing by the time you read this)! Hear Joe go in on everything else besides too, including film reactions from kids, violence in modern kids films, how he valued seeing himself in kids films (as a young’un), the “Supermarket Sweep of hell” of an approaching film deadline and its many intangible obstacles, how it’s tough to truly enjoy your own film creations as you know too much about them and his own Super8 films back in the day, made with pals Buxton and Louis Theroux! A lot packed into a shorter episode - you’ll dig it for certain!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo Clue, Emow Clue, Immoclue, it's The Distraction Pieces Podcast Rewind, and this week's |
| 0:06.5 | rewind guest is Joe Cornish. |
| 0:11.2 | Imagine my excitement to talk to Joe Cornish. |
| 0:14.3 | I've spoken to Adam a load of times and you've seen how excited I always am to talk to |
| 0:18.5 | Adam Buxton, an absolute legend, but I was first introduced to |
| 0:23.0 | Adam alongside Joe. So I was delighted to get to talk to Joe, who had just had the boy who would |
| 0:31.0 | be king come out and was just killing it. I mean, I don't know when this comes out, but at some point there's going to be an attack the block too. |
| 0:41.2 | And we talk about attack the block in this. |
| 0:43.1 | So yeah, it's a beautiful chat. |
| 0:45.1 | I love Joe. |
| 0:46.2 | So I hope you enjoy this. |
| 0:48.4 | Revisiting this if it's not your first time. |
| 0:51.3 | This is my chat from way back in 2019 with the legend, Mr. Joe Cornish. to distraction. This piece of diction is the intro to the station. Tropicals today, a load of stores have just been closed. |
| 1:16.6 | But since I worked in HMV, everyone knew me as PIP. |
| 1:19.6 | And then it's funny because now I'll have people call me David or say Dave to try and imply that they know me well and we're good friends. |
| 1:28.7 | They've looked at your Wikipedia page. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, and it actually just exposes them for not knowing me that well. |
| 1:33.4 | So it's always an interesting one. |
| 1:35.3 | But do you like to be Joe or do you still go by Cornwalls or is there any other? |
| 1:42.2 | Captain Cornwalls, Professor Cornwalls. No, I don't.balls Professor Cornballs no I don't that was a name |
| 1:46.3 | given to me by listeners I think nobody really calls me Cornballs it's a very insulting name |
| 1:52.9 | no I don't I liked it I'd like to be called anything I don't mind yeah um people used to call |
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