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Brydon &

Tom Walker

Brydon &

Rob Brydon | Wondery

Comedy

4.6597 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

From political outrage to scathing between broadcast rants. He's everyone's favourite fictional political correspondent, it is of course Tom Walker aka Jonathan Pie. Rob finds out the story behind Jonathan Pie and the long road to viral success. The pair discuss comedy inspirations and Tom shares what he'd like to do next. 


Transcript

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0:00.0

Tom Walker describes himself as someone who was an out-of-work actor for 20 years.

0:08.0

Now, you'll hear that isn't strictly true, but he tells us how he went 18 months to two years now and again without even an audition.

0:20.0

I mean, how this guy kept going is quite remarkable. He's now

0:25.1

very much the hit with his character, Jonathan Pye, started off as a viral thing and then just

0:32.1

got onto television, got onto radio. That's how you'll know him. You might, as I did, think that he is

0:38.5

Jonathan Pye. I didn't realize until I started looking into this. No, this is a character. It's

0:44.4

very well-realized, very well-formed. We have a great conversation, particularly enjoyable,

0:52.1

was talking about all the jobs that he did while

0:55.9

trying to make it as an

0:58.1

actor. I think you'll enjoy

1:00.3

listening to this. Sit down.

1:03.1

Please sit down.

1:04.6

Please, you've done enough.

1:06.8

Relax and enjoy

1:08.4

Brighton. And Tom Walker,

1:13.0

a.k.a aka Jonathan Pye.

1:26.1

I thought, as many must have done, that you were Jonathan Pye.

1:29.2

Yeah, I mean, that's a whole hour in itself,

1:31.8

the fact that people can't differentiate.

1:32.9

I get the idea.

1:34.4

I mean, if people see me on the street,

1:35.9

they'll go, all right, Jonathan, how are you?

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