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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Johnny Vegas

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Michal Pennington talks to Colin about the process of becoming Johnny Vegas, the joy of curating his home and why he can’t get rid of his rocket ride, his love of Lego and having mates who are funnier than him. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday 10.30pm to 1am - or available whenever you want via the free BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0

Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back

0:07.4

We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debiting. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ. It's Gary

0:14.8

First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day. Did you Gary?

0:22.0

Yeah, match of the day top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds

0:27.4

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0:34.4

It's midnight made to another podcast that you've chosen to download. Thank you so much for that and this one is not like any other of the

0:42.4

Midnight made to think it can say that because Johnny Vegas is just cut from a different cloth. He's you know, he's he's as honest as the

0:49.4

day is long. He's raw. He answers with his head and his heart is brain runs at a hundred mile an hour when it's running slow.

0:58.4

And of course he is Michael Pennington when he's not on stage. So this really is a midnight meets with Michael Pennington as you're here because he refers to

1:06.4

Johnny in in in third person. You don't really plan for a chat with Johnny. Call it more a chat than an interview. You sort of have an idea

1:15.4

what you know what we might talk about. But he just takes control and then I just enjoy every second talking to him. So I hope you do as well. This is a midnight meets with Johnny Vegas.

1:26.4

Hey, if we look out for ourselves, if we get near the front, we might be on telly. And you will be on telly. Now are you giving tea bean on telly? And you're grinning me like a nodding dog into the wrong end of the car. And I hate you.

1:42.4

And you put your hand up and go, hey, good gag. But actually I'm opening a real dig at you and everyone's enjoying it.

1:51.4

My walls, consonants, syllables. They're all just like colours in an artist palette to me. I'm paying with integrity from the heart. I know I've no other way.

2:04.4

Keep the dream alive.

2:16.4

Johnny, welcome back to this show. Pleasure to be in your company again.

2:19.4

Oh, so be your partner. Good to have you voice.

2:23.4

Are you winning or losing? It's my granny used to say. She used to always say you're winning or losing. That's quite a good way. I think I've seen a lot of somebody.

2:31.4

Yeah, it's, it's weird coming out of the law week. Do you know what I mean? And it's even been like, I've been sort of off social media a lot. And then when I go on, people are going, you are I, you know, with the tony of text.

2:44.4

I did grace and show and that was great. I've been back in the studio. So I have been making stuff. But no, we're not immune. Just had some really, really tough days.

2:55.4

The isolation bit as that's really sort of started to get to us.

3:00.4

It is, it's quite a ride. Isn't it for everyone? And we've talked about quite a bit because at the beginning of the lockdowns, you kind of kept busy, didn't you?

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