Steve Pemberton
Brydon &
Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode of Brydon &, Rob is joined by actor, comedian and writer Steve Pemberton to talk about latest play "The Pillowman," out now at The Duke of York’s Theatre. Steve reminisces about his early days at the Edinburgh Fringe, his breakthrough with "The League of Gentlemen" and tells Rob where he gets his Inside No.9 character inspiration from. Steve also reveals he will be starring in a new movie ‘Better Man’, about the life story of Robbie Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | There you are. I wondered when you turn up. Your finger's been hovering over the different |
| 0:06.4 | podcasts you could choose. Should we do Bride and Hand? Should we do? The rest is politics? Well, |
| 0:13.9 | thank you for pressing my button and choosing this from the many thousands of podcasts that are available. |
| 0:22.7 | Today on Bryden And we talk to Steve Pemberton, who have known since about 2001, |
| 0:28.5 | Leaguer Gentleman, so many other things, most recently inside number nine, which is wonderful |
| 0:34.3 | and which I remind him in the course of our conversation I'm desperate to appear in. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't think that I'm any closer to achieving that, but I tried. |
| 0:44.5 | We talk about a lot about the early days of them up in Edinburgh and what it's like to be at the Edinburgh |
| 0:50.1 | festival with other people who at that point are unknown and then go on to become household names. |
| 0:56.8 | He talks quite movingly about his father, who didn't want him to go into a life of performance, |
| 1:04.7 | but did live long enough to see them the boys winning the coveted Perrier Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 1:13.6 | It's a great chat, it's quite a long chat, I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 1:18.6 | So lie down, put on your eye mask and enjoy Bryden and Steve Pemberton. |
| 1:30.7 | Hello. |
| 1:31.7 | Hey, Steve. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, that's a pleasing sight. |
| 1:37.1 | Well, I'm glad you think so. |
| 1:38.8 | I've been looking forward to this. |
| 1:40.6 | I don't want you to feel any pressure, |
| 1:42.3 | but I was thinking, oh, I'm doing Steve. That'll |
| 1:45.5 | be good. Yeah. And you've got Reese tomorrow. I have. And I've already done Mark. I mean, |
| 1:52.7 | Jeremy must be quaking in his boots. He is. I know he is. Me and Reese always have this funny |
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