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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

What are you doing for christmas? - 15 Sep 14

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

If it wasn't for that moment, Alex and Sam wouldn't be lost in their favourite track at the club.

0:07.0

They wouldn't have shared that electric night front row at a music festival.

0:12.0

Or bonded over techno records talking all night long until the sun came up.

0:17.0

If it wasn't for that moment, when they were both scrolling on Tinder, and suddenly...

0:22.6

A relationship starts every three seconds on Tinder. Download now. It starts with a swipe.

0:29.6

Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's Monday. I know, I know. We're racing through, aren't we? We did have that big question this morning. The question

0:38.0

which you have to ask all members of your family, unless of course you don't have any family, in which case, it's

0:41.4

pointless. Ask the budgie is what you're doing for Christmas. Because you've got to start

0:45.4

booking up now. You've got, because people get booked up for Christmas and they go, oh, we're actually

0:49.0

going abroad. I mean, some people like to escape the country at Christmas. They hate doing Christmas. They hate the whole party thing. They hate everything about it. Me, I end up just doing a lot of driving. So this week, I've got to get the car in. I've got a couple of little bits that need doing it after I reversed into the lamp post. And so I've got to get that sorted out. And then it'll have its little service, because the car's telling me it needs a little service at the moment. And then that'll be done for the festive season. That's quite good.

1:12.9

I'll just got to empty the boot of the car. We'll get around to that eventually.

1:15.5

And I did like the piece, which was written by Jim Shelley, only a few days ago, actually, about Celebrity Big Brother,

1:23.0

and why Gary Busy was one of the all-time greats, because he was on there.

1:30.5

And Jim Shelley writes and says even in the la-la land of L.A. amidst all the other Hollywood freaks and

1:35.7

fruitcakes, Bussie's strangeness has become legendary but without ever damaging the recognition

1:40.7

and cult status surrounded by simpletons and dullards, like Lauren Goodyear and

1:46.0

Adele from Bewitched, he was easily the most interesting and entertaining candidate. Of course he was.

1:51.7

I mean, you know, when you looked at Lauren Goodyer, who was just some foul-mouthed old drunk,

1:56.6

who had a cigarette in round her every five minutes, and Adele, who, frankly, how she'd ever

2:00.7

managed to bring children into the world was a total mystery. But he does talk about all the other

2:05.9

people on the programme. I mean, to be honest with you, Gary Boosie has actually lived more lives

2:11.6

than his fellow housemates put together. I mean, if you look at all the other people on there,

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