S4 EP12: Bilal Zafar
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Podcasts, there are millions of them. |
| 0:08.4 | Some might say too many. |
| 0:10.7 | I have one already. |
| 0:11.8 | I don't have any, because there are enough. |
| 0:14.1 | Politics, business, sport, you name it. |
| 0:16.0 | There's a podcast about it. |
| 0:17.1 | And they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day. |
| 0:20.3 | But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared? Too afraid of being censored by the man? Possibly. But not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more. Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life? Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton and I'm David O'Daheherty. Welcome to |
| 0:56.4 | What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max |
| 1:04.0 | Rushton and today alongside me is the Irish comedian, Irish Funny Man, David O'Doherty. Welcome David. |
| 1:10.7 | Funny Man was in italics there. |
| 1:12.5 | You will have heard. This is a very special episode for me. In the 20 odd years I've been doing |
| 1:20.2 | comedy, I've met some wonderful people. And this is one of my faves. This is with Bilal Zafar. I first came across Bilal. He used to put up |
| 1:33.1 | strange things in, he was doing stand-up. I sort of known of him. And then in the pandemic, he started |
| 1:39.7 | doing these weird acting master classes where he was getting people who aren't really actors to explain |
| 1:47.3 | the secrets of their techniques. And our first ever contact was he asked me, could he interview |
| 1:54.3 | me in a black polo neck over Zoom, obviously, about how to act? And I was like, this guy? And then I looked him up. |
| 2:02.7 | And I said, everything he does is wonderful. It's, it's hot Pepsi football. We talk about it a bit |
| 2:08.6 | in the episode is, it's one of those things where you're watching it going for, I think most people |
| 2:13.4 | going, I don't know what this is. Yeah. I like this thing. Do you know, I'm not sure for a while. I don't, it's not real, but maybe it's real. You know, then his, I don't give a shit on social media and just constantly, whoever's been canceled going, I don't know why you're all bad-mouthing him. He's a great guy. And you like, oh my God, it's just a sort of RIP |
| 2:35.5 | your mentions account. It's so funny. He's just a beautiful man and his humanity comes out |
| 2:41.9 | through all of his work. He's working on a new show for the Edinburgh Fringe that will play, |
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