The Trawl Meets: Geoff Norcott
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina sit down with comedian, author and political outlier Geoff Norcott.
Geoff brings his sharp wit and no-nonsense takes to the table. From the state of the modern Conservative Party, to culture wars, comedy in a divided Britain and why he’s never quite fitted into one political box – this is a lively, funny and sometimes surprising conversation. The conversation also meanders into British people’s pre occupation with class and Geoff describes what life is like as a Conservative comedian.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when The Trawl meets someone who doesn’t always sing from the same hymn sheet – this one’s for you. Just dont mention the ‘B’ word ;)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the trawl meets. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkins. And on the |
| 0:12.0 | Trawle meets, Gemma and I get to chat with someone we admire and awe find interesting. We discuss topics |
| 0:17.6 | they're passionate about and mull over things they're likely to shout about on social media. |
| 0:22.3 | Our guest today is a comedian who tends to be surrounded by lefties despite his centre-right leanings |
| 0:28.1 | and he is incredibly popular amongst his peers due to being a small C conservative. |
| 0:35.0 | Bear with us trawlers. |
| 0:36.2 | He's likable and indeed funny. |
| 0:38.7 | In fact, from a professional perspective, |
| 0:40.7 | he's used his politics to his advantage, |
| 0:43.1 | giving some of his shows names like |
| 0:45.0 | right-leaning but well-meaning |
| 0:46.9 | and conservative. |
| 0:49.1 | A regular on comedy show The Mash Report, |
| 0:51.2 | he became the face of actually amusing right-wing comedy. Don't worry, |
| 0:55.7 | trawlers, we haven't got Jim Davidson in the room, or boy Chubby Brown. And these days, he can be found |
| 1:01.3 | cropping up on question time, debating on Jeremy Vine and hosting his own show on Times Radio. He's |
| 1:07.4 | written books, has his own podcast and still finds time to do stand-up. So here's a clip of him in action. This is from his show, Basic Bloke, during which he was very democratic, having a go at Biden, Trump, the Tories and Labour. The Tories, man, they've had a real time of it, haven't they? It just sort of feels like they want to be out of power sometimes. Like they saw that 2019 general election victory is some sort of Brewster's Millian style challenge. |
| 1:31.7 | Like you've got 80 seats. Can you lose them all in five years? |
| 1:35.4 | You're on. Yeah we're gonna make it creative as well. We're gonna have a bloke called Pinscher who's a bit handsy. |
| 1:42.2 | And he's called Bone who exposed himself |
| 1:45.9 | we're gonna really go to town with this |
| 1:49.5 | Liz Truss tried to make a comeback recently |
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