Joel Dommett
Brydon &
Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Rob is joined by the brilliant Joel Dommett - comedian, presenter, and all-around entertainer! From unmasking singing celebs to surviving the jungle, Joel has done it all. He shares stories from his early stand-up days with James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe and gives us the lowdown on his new tour, ‘Happy Idiot’. Expect big laughs, surprises, and maybe even a few jungle-worthy confessions…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to you. Thank you for choosing me. I say me. It's us, isn't it really, because this doesn't happen by chance. There's a whole team, dozens of people speaking to me in an earpiece. None of my words are spontaneous. Everything is scripted. Today it's Joel Domit, |
| 0:25.8 | and it was a real pleasure to sit down and talk to him. And you know, you could sort of see, |
| 0:31.3 | and you will hear why he's done so well. He's talented, obviously, but he's just a really nice guy. |
| 0:40.1 | And you could imagine people making programs thinking, yeah, Joel Domit, what a nice guy. |
| 0:45.2 | Let's get me. |
| 0:45.7 | He does the job. |
| 0:46.3 | He's terrific. |
| 0:47.4 | I learned things about him that I did not know. |
| 0:50.6 | And you are about to learn them too. |
| 0:53.4 | He was in specifically to plug his tour, |
| 0:56.9 | which will probably last about two years. |
| 1:00.4 | It's called Happy Idiot. |
| 1:02.6 | Just go online and find it, go and see him. |
| 1:05.5 | I was very, very fond of my time spent with Joel Domit. |
| 1:20.0 | I'd love to think that we're on the same page. |
| 1:22.4 | And we'll find out throughout this, what have we got, three hours interview? |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, this is a, this is a three hour kind of intro. And then we get into the meat of it. Now, you live near me. I live in Twickenham. You live in? Yeah, sort of the, the sort of Sheperton, Waybridge area. Oh. It's not, well, I say Shep, I, when I say to people where I live, I say Weybridge, because I think it's posher than Shepperton. Definitely. But we're actually in Shepperton. Cliff Richard used to live in Weybridge on St. George's Hill. God, man, those houses are they're crazy. But that's gated, isn't it? How do you get to see them? Yes. You've been on Google Earth again, haven't you? I've been looking on Google Earth. |
| 2:01.7 | And also, all of these posh, posh, posh houses, nowhere near a train station. |
| 2:06.4 | See, Joel, when you say we're on the same page, this could be me talking. |
| 2:11.6 | No, we're near a train station. |
| 2:13.2 | But then also my wife pointed out, you know, an incredibly wealthy shake or whatever. |
| 2:20.3 | Yeah. |
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