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Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Matt Lucas on Little Britain, TV controversy and his relationship with David Walliams

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Comedy legend Matt Lucas joins James O’Brien in a frank and candid interview to talk about the staggering success of Little Britain and the controversies it provokes today, the pain and pitfalls of his coming out, and how David Walliams helped him to accept his own sexuality.

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0:00.0

This is Unfiltered with James O'Brien exclusively on Joe.

0:04.0

Brought to you by the London Block Exchange, the official home of

0:07.2

cryptocurrency's. Hello and welcome to the very latest episode of Unfiltered to which I am looking forward

0:19.6

enormously because Matt Lucas is going to be our guest who I have met once but probably like you I kind of feel like I know him even before I met him because

0:29.2

Little Britain in particular and George Dawes and he's just in the Doctor Who is in the public

0:34.4

consciousness in a way that very very few performers of his generation are so I am

0:40.1

I'm very very excited about this interview.

0:43.0

Matt Lucas, welcome to Unfiltered. It's a real pleasure to have you here.

0:53.6

Thank you very much.

0:54.4

Very nice to be here with you.

0:57.4

We've met before, but have you interviewed me?

0:59.5

I have never interviewed you before.

1:01.0

We had a lunch in quite strange circumstances accompanied by the legend that is

1:04.3

Curtis Stegis. That's the showbiz dream, and oddly. And Nick Revel, the brilliant comedian.

1:10.4

And we got on quite well, I I feel we did good because you were

1:15.0

writing this when we met and you were quite you probably don't remember but you were

1:21.4

quite immersed I think it felt almost as if you were poking your head

1:25.1

outside the sort of porthole of a submarine for the first time in a while and and it was clear that you were

1:31.2

you'd come up with the idea of doing the the memoir as an A to Z

1:34.3

remind me why that was I suppose just because I thought probably people won't be very

1:41.4

interested in you know what the details of my birth.

1:45.4

And so I thought, well this way, it'll give me a chance.

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