Stephen Merchant (The Office / Logan / Fighting With My Family) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stephen Merchant, originally episode 255 from 2019-02-27.
Original writeup below:
“…you realise you’re sort of somewhere between Rocky and A Star Is Born”
An absolute legend right here, in not only TV, stage and film but the good old Wild West days of podcasting! A solid in-depth chat with Stephen, covering his illustrious career from those early days of his arch-character in standup comedy (which divided audiences down the middle) and his his return to the stage later down the road, the genesis of the undisputed TV classic ‘The Office’ and its evolution in the US (and being able to watch it objectively at last), right up to being holed up in off-track US locations with Richard E Grant, as well as his current position behind the camera as director of the wrestling biopic ’Fighting With My Family’! How much more besides? So much… Many perspectives and insights and straight up wisdom dropped in this powerful podcast, so set aside some time and ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo Clue, in Mo Clue, Immoclue, this week's Rewind episode is with Stephen Merchant. |
| 0:06.3 | What a legend. |
| 0:07.4 | What an icon of comedy, a film, of just the world, of stand-up. |
| 0:13.2 | I went round Stephen's house and we sat in his, like, I guess, living room, like kind of TV room. |
| 0:20.1 | And he was an absolute joy. It's mad. |
| 0:22.5 | Loads of these I forget about because I do them every week. You don't really have a lot of |
| 0:26.2 | time to sit there and reflect and ponder. And this is a prime example of that. Yeah. How wonderful, |
| 0:34.0 | how blue me wonderful. I hope you enjoy this. I really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:39.0 | We get into everything. |
| 0:40.6 | It was back in 2019. |
| 0:44.2 | So obviously a lot's happened since then, but yeah, I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 0:48.0 | This is my chat with Stephen Merchant. |
| 0:51.8 | This piece of action is the intro to destruction places. This base of action is the intro to the structure places. Stephen Merchant. And I've started And I've started rolling. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm joined today by Stephen Merchant. How are you, sir? |
| 1:11.6 | I'm very well. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:13.9 | It's nice for you to have me as such as I've come to visit you, so it's nice to be here. |
| 1:19.3 | You're very welcome. A lot of the regular listeners have almost a game that when I have someone on from the film or TV industry that I'm clearly, you know, a fan of, |
| 1:28.1 | how long is before I mentioned that I'm an actor now to get myself on their radar? |
| 1:32.4 | But thankfully, we did that before we started rolling, so they can forget that tension. |
| 1:36.5 | You're very much on my radar now, and you're welcome to leave your CV resume, as they call it, in LA, |
| 1:41.8 | and any kind of headshot that you might have. Do you have a headshot? I genuinely went and got some more, because obviously doing music and I've had photo shoots for years, and when I've moved into acting, I went and got some more acting-type photos down. Because there are ones that I've received in the past. Well, there are some, of course, in the past. For people who aren't familiar, there's Spotlight, which is a sort of industry publication that features every actor of any stature, and their kind of agent details and then a couple of photographs of them. But if you look through them, I mean, years ago, you'd have the sort of standard kind of just a handsome smile, and then you'd have perhaps them on the phone. Yeah, yeah. Or them wearing a postman's hat, |
| 2:18.0 | just to suggest, you know, their versatility. |
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