Hello, my friends, welcome to Five Brilliant Things, where I sit down with fascinating people to talk about the things they love.

My guest today is the incredible stand-up Mo Ammer, who's only in the UK for a couple of days, and he popped into the studio to record a show.

Absolutely fantastic.

We spoke about lots,

B-days, coffee, surgery, toothbrushes,

a joy to spend time with him.

Listen to me, prattling on.

I won't waste any more time.

Here is the brilliant Mo Amher

and his five brilliant things.

Mo, nice to see you, my friend.

Nice to see you too.

And the last time I saw you, we were in sweltering hot Houston and now we're in rainy London.

So it feels bad, doesn't it?

It feels good to me, actually. I'm just, because of the heat is such a regular thing. And I try to travel as much as possible during Houston's summer heat. Yeah. So I don't really, like, feel it. To everyone complains, oh, it's so hot in Houston. Oh, why would you live there? Like, I don't know. I'm not there. I'll try not to be there. But also I kind of like it.

You know, I kind of like the humidity and the chilling out and jumping into the pool and enjoying an actual summer. You know what I mean? Totally. I had, it was, I did an American tour and we kind of hung out for like one night. Nuts. And it was one of the best nights of the tour because, so I'm doing a show upstairs.

You're doing a show.

It turns out downstairs. Yeah. And you were trying out new material in a comedy, what's the comedy? Yeah, it's called The Punch Line just opened up in Houston. So there's just a really cool, like, venue. It's the House of Blues, which they have them around the country in America. and just like most of the it's the house of blues which they have them around the country in america

and and just like most of the venues across the states they have multiple you know venues

you could play within the same venue i don't know it just like sounds like it didn't say that

correctly but you know um but yeah but they opened of a comedy club on the base, which used to be a restaurant, actually.

And so they have like the bigger room upstairs. And it's so close to my house. It's a great spot for me to try new material and do like pop-up shows. I didn't even know you're going to be in town. They told me you're going to be there. I was like, what? Because I check in last minute. Like, who's playing upstairs? It's usually some kind of grunge band or something

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