S13 Ep 708: The Day David Got Sacked From A Ch4 Sketch Show For Being Crap

Chatabix

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A not so random pick from the archives this week. As David’s sacking from the Spoons sketch show came up recently, we’re posting the old episode that we recorded about it. To find out more about that fateful day, we chatted to comedy producer and writer Neil Webster about why he had to fire David and why exactly he wasn't up to the job.

First posted on 7th April 2021

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Joe. Welcome to The Monday Vault. In this episode, James, our editor,
0:07.0	just putting whatever old apps out randomly. I don't know if it's going to be any good or shit.
0:13.4	But that's the chances you take. Some of them from the past are a bit. Anyway. Cheers.
0:19.7	Cheers! from the past for a bit. Anyway. Cheers. I'm I'm going to just waiting to be, um, Joe, let...
1:09.7	Waiting for Joe...
1:10.6	I can't get my words out, tired.
1:12.6	Waiting for Joe to...
1:16.6	Oh, allow me into the Zoom call.
1:23.3	Hello?
1:24.3	Hello?
1:25.5	Hello?
1:26.1	Hello?
1:26.4	Hello?
1:26.7	Hello? Can you hear me?
1:29.2	Yeah.
1:31.4	I can never know if I can be heard.
1:34.0	Can you hear me?
1:34.8	Yeah. Are you recording?
1:37.4	Yeah.
1:38.3	God, this is a power start, isn't it?
1:40.9	Oh, bloody hell.
1:42.0	You've got a...
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