Pierre Novellie (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
Goalhanger
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily and Ray are taking a stroll with our very good pal - the brilliant and hilarious comedian Pierre Novellie.
Pierre’s had previous on this podcast - but we thought we were well due a catch up, because a lot has happened in his life since we last spoke on the podcast…
As well as being one of the funniest people we know - Pierre is also one of the most intelligent people we know - and taking a walk with him is an endlessly fascinating thing to do. We discussed what his childhood was like and the challenges he faced socially - and how he reflects on that now he has an autism diagnosis. We also chatted about our reactions to unwanted noises, Pierre’s fascination with the military and why he is driven by curiosity and likes to surround himself with people who are the same.
Follow @pierrenovellie on Instagram
Pierre is performing his new stand-up show You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here at the Edinburgh Fringe from 28th July - 24th August at 19:05 at Monkey Barrel 3. You can buy your tickets here!
You can listen to Frank, Pierre and Emily on the Frank Off The Radio podcast which is available on all podcast platforms.
You can also listen to Pierre on BudPod which he co-hosts with Glenn Moore - and his brand new podcast Button Boys, a gaming podcast he hosts with Glenn and Sarah Keyworth!
Order Pierre’s brilliant book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? A Comedian’s Guide To Autism here - https://geni.us/pierrenovelliepb
Follow Emily:
Instagram - @emilyrebeccadean
X - @divine_miss_em
Thank you to Dex Roy for his production support on this episode
Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
Artwork: Alice Ludlam
Photography: Karla Gowlett
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| 0:00.0 | How come everyone at Train Club has autism? This is so ridiculous. |
| 0:04.0 | Everyone at the Stamp Collecting Guild, everyone at the Maths Club. |
| 0:09.0 | Obviously, come on. This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I went for a North London stroll |
| 0:17.8 | with the hugely talented comedian Pierre Novelli. Pierre is known for his celebrated stand-up shows, along with his TV and radio |
| 0:26.0 | appearances and his very popular podcast with fellow comedian Phil Wang Bud-Pod. |
| 0:31.4 | But I got to know Pierre when we co-hosted the Frank Skinner Show on |
| 0:35.0 | absolute radio together, which sadly has come to an end, but whether he likes it |
| 0:39.8 | or not I forced him to carry on being my friend. So we had the loveliest chat about all sorts of things |
| 0:46.0 | like working with Frank Skinner for so long and what we both learned from him. We also talked |
| 0:50.9 | about Pierre's childhood growing up in South Africa and the Isle of Man, |
| 0:55.2 | and we touched too on his autism diagnosis, which he's written all about in his soon to be published book, |
| 1:01.0 | why can't I just enjoy things which I personally could not have |
| 1:04.5 | enjoyed more because it's fabulously funny and beautifully written so do pre-order |
| 1:09.3 | your copy now via Amazon Pierre is a fabulous person to go for a walk with, partly because he's |
| 1:15.3 | basically a walk in Wikipedia, geese, dog poo, medieval castles. If you have a |
| 1:20.7 | question, this man can answer it. |
| 1:23.0 | But also, he's just really hilarious, wonderful company |
| 1:26.0 | and an all-round diamond of a human being. |
| 1:29.0 | I really hope you love my walk with Pierre. |
| 1:31.0 | I'll stop talking now and hand over to the man himself here's |
| 1:35.1 | Pierre and Ray Ray Raymond are we gonna go for a walk with Pierre? |
| 1:39.3 | Just do a quick double wee. Oh what about the dog though? |
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