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"The Ira and Louis Variety Hour!" (with MNEK)

Keep It!

Keep It!

Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.610K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Kara is out of town, so Ira calls in from London (where he’s hunting down an interview with Meghan Markle) to talk to Louis about Amanda Bynes’ comeback, Lena Dunham continuing to be Lena Dunham, rumors about Shawn Mendes’ sexuality, and the transphobic conversation surrounding Dwight Howard’s alleged scandal. Plus, Ira sits down with British pop singer and producer MNEK to talk about the legacy of Mariah Carey and writing for Beyoncé, Madonna, and Little Mix.

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0:00.0

And we are back with an all new episode of Keep It. I am in London. Ebenezer screwed himself.

0:23.0

I am drinking some tea right now. Oh, you don't fucking say oh my god just live every cliche whatever you want to do sweetie.

0:30.0

First of all I have actually drinking tea they brought me tea to the studio Lewis. Oh my god. What what else are you going to do? Are you going to do the you to sing a style lyrics.

0:44.0

Probably okay or little mix little mix lyrics. Oh sure Rita or lyrics true can I say something about little mix it is they are becoming the new gay thing where if you don't like it it is not like it's like Brittany or something like you are

1:00.0

or ostracized if you are kind of in on them. So anyway I'm afraid I'm afraid of little mix dance I'm afraid you should be ostracized. Okay. All right. It case people haven't noticed this episode is basically the Lewis and Ira variety hour. I'm calling into you from London.

1:20.0

Also the Lewis and Ira variety hour we have tried pitching this to oxygen so many times and it's it's a hard no every single time. I am sitting alone at a desk in L.A. like I'm Walter Cronkite. I'm just looking out at America and not out at Ira or Kara.

1:36.0

You know I'm I'm really sure that Kara's fans are going to miss her this week. Please stay out of my Instagram comments about how much you miss her and you know just in case you need some book recommendations.

1:52.0

I'm goose bumps walking to dead house. Oh please. Monster blood monster blood 2 is very good. Monster blood 3 is not that great. No right piano lessons can be murder. Yeah piano lessons can be murder. My hair is adventure. Please. Yes. One day at horror land. Night at night at tower of it. It's terror tower. Is that what that's called anyway. Yes. That's when setting good old London town. That's what see that's that's the book recommendation they needed. That's the one my third.

2:21.0

Great class was most obsessed with this guy Dan he brought it in and Dan was very cute at the time. I don't know what happened to him after age of nine but all right well.

2:31.0

Just to let everyone know I came to London thinking that I was going to score our best interview ever I read a letter to Buckingham Palace.

2:42.0

I said that I was a big fan of suits. I thought Meghan Markle would respond in kind and say oh my god I'm such a big fan. I'm such a big fan of the podcast. I don't know why I'm imagining that she's speaking in a British accent now but maybe she learned one.

3:00.0

I think it yeah no that's right it comes really quickly just like the one you've acquired and will hopefully dispose of soon. You know she did not respond. You don't say. I am flabbergasted.

3:11.0

I also you should have added something about I love people who did a cameo once on CSI and why or whatever she's been on who people who've been on deal or no deal twice.

3:19.0

She was in the pilot of the 902 and I'll reboot was she really I saw that pilot. Yeah she was the girl giving Ethan a blood job in the car. Wow. Her

3:29.6

filmography it means the most fun to look through it's just like one offs and then this also I find it very suspicious that

3:38.0

Kara is not here and also Megan is not here has anyone ever seen them in the same room together. I mean I don't I don't know where you're going with that but I think we should just stop in our tracks and then move right ahead.

3:51.6

All right well while I was here I managed to talk to writer producer and singer in the K so right so I will have an interview with him coming up later in this episode and Lewis and I are going to talk about Sean Mendez and a bunch of other

4:10.6

gay shit yeah no I think it's actually an astoundingly gay episode so like if you if you're here for the only the carish it like I apologize because I think we're going to talk about favorite poppers flavors I'm a hard blue boy you know that.

4:23.6

John love it tried to get into the studio and we didn't let them in we said sorry this is the gay episode.

4:31.0

Oh wow you think he's like he's like in the penalty box of gainus well by the way I mean when you're wearing when he does these live shows wearing his like swim trunks or whatever sometimes I'm like you can't just you can't just gay it up and then be all

4:44.5

swim trunkity swim trunks that's his that's his vibe he'll wear like a tuxedo t shirt and just some board shorts. All right when we're back we're going to talk about Amanda Bines.

5:01.0

Yes Amanda Bines is back. I am very shocked she is quite back and looking just lovely. Yeah after announcing her retirement from acting on Twitter in 2010 and having a series of very public arrests and troubling Twitter rants.

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