The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 78 - Des Bishop

Episode Date: March 29, 2012

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throughout the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and for three nights at the Sydney Comedy Festival. If you head to TommyDasolo.com, you can find all the details. Hope to see you there, mates. Hey, mates. Welcome once again into the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week. My name is Tommy Dasolo, and sitting opposite me, the other half of the show, Carl Chandler. G'day, dickhead.

Hey, going over there, we've been apart for a little while. I know. It's exciting. It doesn't feel like in the magical world of podcasts, but we did two in a row, didn't we? Yeah. So we haven't seen each other for two weeks. Yeah.

So it feels like I haven't seen my girlfriend for two weeks and I just need to jump into the cot with you straight away. The cot? The podcast cot. Do you and your girlfriend sleep in a cot together? An adult-sized cot? I've never mentioned how old my girlfriend is. Jesus! Is this really at the top of the show?

Yeah, I think this is at the top of the show. Okay, alright. Hey, so you've been away in Brisbane. I did a footy club gig. I did a comedy gig on the weekend with friends of the show, Dave Thornton and Tommy Little. Yep. And it was really good. It was like in the middle of absolutely nowhere. It was in a town of like 300 people and there was 150 people there. Right.

And so it was like this hall and it was packed and it was actually really good. You get a bit scared thinking everyone's going to be just throwing pitchforks at you or something but it wasn't it was actually good and um i finished my set and then i went to the toilet and there was a break and i was in the cubicle and i could hear like two old guys at the urinal talking about the show and like one guy's like oh yeah what do you reckon about that and the other guy was like oh yeah that last bike wasn't bad and i was the last one so i I was like pretty happy. Not bad. Yeah, not bad. As he's urinating.

I had my pitchfork ready to throw. And then I shelved it. Yeah, he saved it. Saved it for Thornton. No. So then the first guy goes, yeah, look, it's okay. But I don't appreciate how they all have to use the F-bomb these days. These comedians, they use the F-bomb.

Like, it's just too much. Like, what ever happened to the, you know, the olden days where you'd have good comedians, they wouldn't have to use the F-bomb, they'd just imply the stuff. They'd imply it and it was smart. You had to think about it. You had to think about what they were going on about. You know, like Benny Hill.

Like, yeah, because you had to think about that stuff, didn't you? That's just plain rude, like throwing out the F-bombs. What you need, the good old year and the good old days, was when a guy chased a woman with the intent of rape. Yeah, all those guys. And there would have been guys in that day going, I don't like how comedians these days always have to use the rape bomb all the time. The silly music bomb.

It's just... They all have to run after the girl. Why can't they imply raping the girl with their eyes? It's just over the top. I liked how you've mentioned that I've been travelling a bit and you're so desperate to get in on that action. You've tied yourself on the end of my story with a story that just involves you being in a car for an hour and a half

driving out of the city. Yeah, that was like my festival trip. You went to Brisbane and played theatres for a week. I played 150 farmers. Took a piss in the country pub. I sat in a cubicle and listened to reviews instead of reading them in the paper the next day. It's just a really condensed festival. It all happens in one night.

I do want to say thank you to everyone who came out and saw the shows I did in Adelaide and Brisbane. Quite a few friends of the show, newly minted friends of the show, came out. It was very nice. I had a couple of people wear their Dum Dum Club T-shirts to the shows. I had one guy come up to me afterwards to buy a T-shirt, and I went, what do you want?

I've got all the sizes, and I've got both colours. And he goes, oh, I'll get a grey one because that's your one. That's the one you like. And I'm like, man, don't just get a grey one. Just duplicate me. And he goes, okay, I'll get a blue one. Someone came and bought me, people came and bought me lollies and little baked goods after the show.

That was very nice. And an overwhelming. Are these people that like the show or are they people that didn't like the show so they're trying to off you? You're what, kill me with sugar? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, maybe – I haven't eaten any of this stuff yet.

What sort of stuff did you get? I got like – someone went – I hear you talk about bakeries a lot, so they bought me a little pastry thing from Breadtop. Someone bought me a bag of Natural Confectionery Company dinosaurs. Man, why didn't I do a show up there this year? Yeah. Well, you were represented in your presence alone because the overwhelming number of, like pretty much everyone who came and spoke to me in some form told me to come back here,

and I'm not making this up, and tell you to go fuck yourself. An overwhelming, people wrote me cards, but someone gave me a little card that said, congratulations on the show. It doesn't matter what Carl thinks. I think you're funny. that said, congratulations on the show. It doesn't matter what Carl thinks. I think you're funny.

Just an overwhelming amount of people sticking up for their little buddy in interstate waters. Yeah, well, the bloke at the urinal said that you're a dickhead. It is, of course, Comedy Festival time. The festival launches today, and we are joined in the studio today by one of the festival's favourite international guests. Would you please welcome into the Little Dum Dum Club, Des Bishop. Yay! Thanks.

I didn't know I was one of the festival's favourite international acts. That's nice. Yeah, they just came through the wire. They just called me right then. Well, we're not going to say, you know, here comes some bloke that no one's going to go and see tonight. Des Bishop. Yeah.

Well, it's great to be here. Yeah. I'm definitely, if I am one of the favourite festival acts, then I am definitely the comedian that loves the festival the most, or maybe just Australia in general. Oh, really? Well, how many times have you been in Melbourne now? Oh, God.

Well, at the festival, this is my fourth time, but I've popped back a couple of sneaky times. I've been having an affair with Melbourne, coming back outside the festival time. You're one of those scabs that crosses the picket line and comes in November when there's no festival. Yeah, but I'm even worse than a scab. I've actually come back to not do gigs. I've come

back to hang out with chicks I met during the festival. Oh, yes! And not even do gigs, man. Yes! Just take what was mine. Just claim what was mine from Australia. Well, it's funny you say that because I help run comedy at Spleen and I've got a very big fan of yours in at Spleen that works at the Spleen bar, a young lady called Kat that knew you in festivals past.

Yeah, well, she worked in the Hi-Fi. She did at the Hi-Fi bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the show after that. We go way back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the show after the... We go way back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lovely.

She gave very good reviews of you. That's great. I can feel her head exploding in the future as she's listening to this. Friend of the show cat. Friend of the show cat.

Oh, yeah. She friend of the show. Yeah, she wants to be friend of the show, so there she is. Yeah, she had a dream once where she was having dinner with you and then I rocked up in the

restaurant, and I was the waitress. Oh, she tweeted that recently, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were the waiter. I was the waitress. Oh, the waitress. Dressed up in my little apron. Close your eyes and listen to her.

Hairy little waitress. Hairy little waitress, yeah. Well, she said that you caught the gentleman. You brought her away on holidays? Jeez, yo. She just gave me the you caught the gentleman. You brought her away on holidays? Jeez, yo. She just gave me the whole thing. That's not public wear. There's no secrets in Melbourne, Des.

Oh, God. That's what makes you one of the festival's favorite international guests. That's right, because I sleep my way to the top. It's like, how do you get people to come to your show? Conalingus? Beats the hell out of flowering, I'll say. I'll tell you, that must be the secret. She's never even given me a free lemonade, so okay.

Anyway. Jesus. Oh, the joy. Hey, I know you have a new show this year, Des, but you've, like I saw you the other night, you came in, you dropped into Splane and you were talking about, you know, the serious side of things, the cancer, the cancer that you did battle and stuff, which brings you in here, which my little mate over here, Tommy Dastline, is doing a show about his little dance with, man, dance. Dance.

What a terrible way of saying anything. What an awful, insensitive human being. Chance encounter with a dead illness. The old men in that urinal were right about anything. What an awful, insensitive human being. It's a chance encounter with a dead illness. The old men in that urinal were right about you. You were awful. About cancer's guest appearance inside you? Is that possibly much worse? Well, the thing about cancer is it's not a guest appearance.

That's the real misconception about cancer. People like to think of it as this external force. But it's just you. Yeah. Cancer whined and dined me when it was out here for the festival one year. You were young when you had cancer. I was nine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What did you have? I had a plastic anemia. It's like a, it's sort of like leukemia, but without the fanfare. Like no one knows what it is. Yeah. You're not part of the leukemia club. You're part of the

rare blood cancer. Yeah. Yeah. So I've been doing the show for a week in Brisbane. I've done six nights of it. And this is what I wanted to ask you about because you, of course, did a show about your own testicular battles. Yeah. Is that what the show was called? That was Lightheart. We're not talking about cat anymore. We're back on that.

I never did like a proper testicular cancer show. I just included bits about it over the years. But anyway, go ahead. It's nice that not only have we shared one of Kat's dreams, we've also shared a terminal illness. I wouldn't have thought that we would have that much in common. I bow before you. Testicular cancer is actually the best cancer to get if you're going to get a cancer. And so much so that I feel inadequate around people who've had cancer like proper cancers and if i have a true story of how my inadequacy is not just in my head i once did

a charity gig for a canteen an irish cancer charity for teenagers who've had cancer or you have canteen so yeah you may have been involved with them it is a brilliant charity yeah i was involved the younger version of it here is called Challenge. That's like the kids, like Canteen is teenagers and then Challenge is young. What all these guys were saying was the great thing is when you have cancer when you're young, you're made to feel like this other person, like, oh, my God, there's the cancer kid. And they love to be around other kids that have cancer because they could just feel normal and not feel like the victim or the patient or, you know, all this extra.

So amazing charity, right? All this supportive cancer behavior. So I'm talking to this girl. just feel normal and not feel like the victim or the patient or you know all this extra so amazing charity right all this supportive cancer behavior so i'm talking to this girl she's like 19 and uh she's like why are you doing this anyway and i was like well i actually had cancer myself when i was young and she's like oh my god you did what did you have and i said i had testicular cancer and she said testicular cancer that's nothing i had hodg She goes, you didn't even have to get chemo. You didn't lose your hair. I said, listen, I lost my left testicle. I'd rather be bald for a year and have lefty back.

Thank you very much. I notice you're still alive. She's like, I've got none right now. It hasn't killed me. Man, that's a pretty tough heckle to come back from. It wasn't a heckle. It was just a conversation beforehand. Cancer is very competitive. At that same gig, it's not this is not this is not like a cancer but at the same gig a man collapsed right it turns out it was the father of somebody who just like

like had like you know got too hot or something but he collapsed right and like all there was there all this commotion total silence and then somebody said oh just just keep going and i was like oh keep going we're at a cancer charity and somebody's just collapsed. You know, there's certain things at a gig where it's just better to just find out if everything's all right. Sounds like a hell of a gig. Yeah. So in the truly Irish moment, right, they get him sorted out. And I finished the gig and it all went fine.

And he's being taken out by the paramedics on like a full stretcher with oxygen over his mouth. And when he passes me, right, like the guy is like, had a heart attack basically. When he passes me, he takes the thing off and says to me, I'm sorry I interrupted your show. It's like, dude, it's absolutely fine. There are certain things you don't need to be sorry for. The girl probably went up to him and went,

are you one of those testicular cancers, you pussy? Yeah, he's going up to him and was like, yeah, heart attack's nothing. I had Hodgkin's. Oh, man, I would love to have heard the conversation at the urinal after that show. Man, that sounds hectic. But this is what I was going to say. I found this in, even after six nights, I've had this a couple of times,

and I imagine you would have had it more because you've been, you know, talking about it on stage for longer. When you talk about that stuff on stage, you do invite people coming up to you after the show to share any kind of experiences they've had. And that can be, you know, kind of weird in its own way. Like I talk in my show about I got granted a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and I made a truly shit wish.

I don't want to, you know, ruin it on here because it's in the show, but it's a good bit of sizzle. But someone came up to me. Why don't we buy tickets, Tommy? Someone came up to me after the show in Brisbane and went, your wish isn't so bad. She's from Canada. She's from Canada. She's from America.

And she said, I had cancer when I was 16, and my wish was to meet the cast of Cheers. Oh, wow. That's an awesome wish. And they did it. I'm with them. Yeah. I'm on the Cheers bandwagon.

I'd love that. She said that was a bad wish? Yeah. That's an awesome wish. That's pretty amazing, isn't it? That's a great wish. She's too self-deprecating. Yeah.

You know, cancer survival makes most people positive. She needs to find some love for herself. But do you get, I mean, does it get, do you find it draining? Like, do you get any, you know, you were just mentioning before about after that gig, like, do you get a lot of response from people? In more recent times, I did a show about my father having terminal lung cancer and i don't know if i find it draining but that brings up you're really broadening out the experience there because then you're dealing with anybody who's lost somebody or dealt with you know dealt with somebody dealing with cancer right so particularly

with parents the big emotional area so you do get a lot of people that want to share i don't find it i mean sometimes i find it. I mean, sometimes I find it tough on me in the sense that like, they'll, they'll, they'll touch a nerve, you know, you'll just connect with that sense of loss or that sense of looking after somebody. So that can be tough because they're a stranger, but you're talking about a very intimate thing. Sure. And you don't know how safe it is, but you're definitely, they definitely pluck an emotional cord with you and you just, you know and you can feel it. So that can be strange where you just think like,

do I let myself go here because I'm genuinely feeling something or should I just be like, listen, that's great. I'm glad you got something out of it and sort of get out of the situation. So I guess long-term that is draining. I'll tell you one thing. I'd rather have the baked goods. What's the baked goods? That he gets after his show. Oh, yeah.

I'd rather get funny suggestions that i could then use in my show have you had anyone have you raised the ire of anyone who's gone through that kind of stuff like have you had anyone you know come up and go the way you dealt with that subject was deplorable you know in the early you know i started it here in in australia two years ago that show about my dad and in the early days which i'm sure you found i mean did you find did you find, did you struggle with the balance between like honesty and emotional, you know, honesty and stuff and being funny?

Have you struggled with the balance? Yeah, yeah. I went too far the other way. Like I, my first sort of trials of the show, I was just skimming over it because I thought this will be too heavy. And then the more I tried it and it sort of has gone well and gotten laughs. And I found that the more honest I'm being about it and it's like that build up and release of tension yeah that's deeper and deeper i've gotten getting the balance is the key it takes time and i i mean my time in australia two years ago was invaluable in terms of making it the show

that it became but it was certainly not what the show became it was a real examination of don't treat us like that you're our favorite international game i thought i thought it was a real examination of what... Don't treat us like that. You were our favourite international guest. Yeah, well, it was fine. I thought it was a good show at the time, but it became much better. And one or two early shows in Melbourne and Trades Hall, there was just some shows that were a bit more like a lecture. And one guy sent this ferocious email to the comedy festival saying,

like, how dare you let this man deal with his issues on stage? I came to be entertained. This is disgusting. This man has issues. So I would imagine for that guy, it had nothing to do with cancer and more to do with the fact that he hates his father. He didn't want that thrust in his face

that I was having this show about my deeper love for my father. And in that case, sacrificing laughs, sacrificing the main purpose of my show. This man has issues where even if you didn't find it funny you're just talking about you know loving your dad yeah so so i think i think if there was ever an issue it was usually around that it was people with issues with their parents rather than anyone thinking because it wasn't very irreverent actually it was like the humor of caretaking and it was the humor of uh you know it was my

it was kind of like Gallo's humor, like the way that my father was dealing with the illness was very funny. So, you know, it wasn't irreverent, actually. And it was certainly all coming from a place where I had had cancer, my father had terminal illness, my mother had breast cancer. It wasn't coming from a place where we didn't know

what we were talking about. It wasn't just like some stupid joke where it's like, cancer's funny, here's what's funny about cancer. You know, it wasn't like that. Don't impersonate the opening of my show don't spoiler alert that does not taste well but it's not the same it's not the same because you've had cancer what i mean is somebody doing an irreverent joke about oh yeah sure sure you know what i mean like somebody here's something funny that's a real like a real newbie sort of open mic comic trick to get up and

go what's the what's the worst thing you can talk about? Oh, I'm going to make, I'm going to, and then he died of cancer. Yeah. I'm Bill Hicks. Yeah. Totally. Here's one. Here's a question for you.

Have you ever had somebody come up to you after your show? And you're only doing it a short time so far, right? Yeah, I've only done six of them, plus a couple of trials. Has anyone said, did you really have cancer? No, I did. There was a point where I was thinking as a joke about ending the show by just going, just kidding, guys, I didn't really have it, and then just walking off stage.

But I thought that would be the most truly abominable thing I could do. Because I have on numerous occasions over the years, because I sort of come and go with it. It's a very handy universal routine, the testicular cancer routine, and I like doing it because it has, it makes people laugh, but it's also not a bad thing to remind a 22 year old boy to check a sack. So,

uh, I come and go with it, but people have commonly come up and said, did you really have testicular cancer? And I think like, what would make you ask that question? And I thought, well,

I don't know, like you're a comedian. Yeah. Yeah. But when comedians are stuck for material, they don't think like, Oh, cancer,

there's the go-to spot. I'll make up having cancer. That'll give me an easy 15. That makes everyone feel good. You just kick on from there. Yeah, I mean, it's great when you can pull it off. And I think people appreciate not realizing how it could be funny. But at the same time, it's not an area you would think of making up.

What about this? Have you ever had, like after gigs, have you ever had, you know, do you think you've ever picked up, you've done better with the ladies because the ladies want to come back and examine the goods after hearing the story? You know, to be honest, I've found in my life, regardless of testicular cancer or other experiences, that balls, one or two, are never the thing that a woman is interested in. That's the truth. What if they just want to see it in like a Ripley's believe it or not kind of way? You know, like there's only one there. I don't believe it.

You know what I mean? Well, to be honest, I've been with loads of girls that don't know. And unless I tell them, they never even realize. Because you never spend enough time down there. It's never come up with a girl that I've got three. You never be down there to actually be down there long enough to go, is it truly only one? I've just never found a girl looking for the other one.

It's just never been the case. Looking like checking your suitcase and under the bed. Where's it gone? She's got the text right. She's ticked one of them and gone, what the? What? I've never heard a girl say, you know, he wasn't that attractive, but his sack is just so amazing.

They sound so superficial, those girls, when they do that. It's so unattractive, you know? My turkey's gizzard sack of love happens to be a little less weighty than it used to be. I'm fine with that, you know? A little extra flesh, you know? A little too much bag for what it's carrying, but it's very unnoticeable. Yeah, plenty of room for other stuff. That's good.

So when you talk about your show with your dad, that's another thing that we have in common, because you adapted that into a book. We both have dads. Yes, you adapted that into a book for We both have dads. Yes, you adapted that into a book for Penguin. Yes. I've recently done a book for Penguin. How many did you sell? No, I actually don't know.

Oh, really? In Ireland. But I haven't had a great experience here in Australia in that I've struggled to get them to sort of give it a whirl over here. Yeah, right. Which is kind of annoying because I did The Circle. Yeah. I've done... Another thing we have in common. give it a whirl over here yeah right which is kind of annoying because i did the circle yeah and uh i've done um another thing we have in common yeah yeah i did the circle and i did a really good uh national show on on abc which was like an hour long in-depth chat about all this

stuff oh yeah and it was real bookie and the circle is a good place to plug a book you know and i just thought it's a pity because i've, I've done the, the sort of book rounds without promoting the book. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that.

I've seen that in a few shops, but it's a shame. Um, yeah, I just wanted how many you saw because I literally got a letter in the mail today. Oh yes. It said my first amount of, uh, uh, how many I'd sold and whatever. And it had the whole, like what the book was worth and what, you know, I got to make the book and what they've made back. And just to, they just sent me a letter to say that I owe them money basically. How much?

Oh, what? Did you sell? No, I don't need to pay it back. You didn't beat the advance. You didn't beat the advance, which you were never going to do anyway because they have that well doctored. Yeah. Oh, right.

Is that it? Yeah. So how many did you sell? I think I've sold like 3,000 so far. I would think that's quite good. That's okay? Well, that's okay. I mean, I sold more than that, but I have quite a large profile in Ireland.

So I would say 3,000 is a sign that the book itself was quite good. Oh, good. Okay, I feel a bit better. Because it's very hard. Books don't fly out the door. So the fact that you sold... What would you say your profile is in Australia?

I don't want to totally diss your profile here. It's like, considering nobody knows who you are, considering in a toilet where you've just done a show, you're the last guy

and not Carl Chandler. That's completely fair. Some of the people who were on the bill with me didn't know who I was, so yeah. Who's that guy that went on last?

He's actually not bad. Oh, yeah. He booked me for a gig once. But yeah, like assuming that, you know, like your book didn't sell off your profile and sold off the back of the book. That's okay. I think that's pretty good. That's okay.

And because the book that you did about your dad was called, what was it called? James Bond was nearly my dad? My dad was nearly my dad. My dad was nearly my dad. James Bond was nearly my dad. Well, it's the same thing. No, it's not. Similar. Oh, yeah.

No, it's not. There was nearly a scene in Goldeneye where James Bond pretended to be Mr. Bishop, my father. Yeah, or like my mother had a one night stand with Sean Connery once, but didn't get pregnant. That's kind of what it sounds like. Your mum was nearly pussy galore. That would be good. That's another coincidence because my dad was nearly Dame Edna.

So, no, that's what I should have called the book. That is what I should have called the book. Shift some units. Yeah. But anyway, my dad was nearly James Bond, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, that's about because your dad was auditioned. Auditioned for the original, for Dr. No?

No, for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Oh, for what? The George Lazenby. Oh, so he got original, for Dr. No? No, for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Oh, for what? The George Lazenby. Oh, so he got knocked back for George Lazenby. Yes. The worst James Bond. We apologize. So my father...

We apologize for what our country did to your family. My father was worse than the worst James Bond. Oh, wow. Yeah, the only one hit wonder, George Lazenby. But you know, that's actually a good one. And I'm not a Bond fan. Like, i joke about that in the show that like you might have come here because you're a bond fan you've come to

the wrong show because we weren't actually allowed to watch james my father that's in resentments but even you know i'm not a big bond person but uh but i have watched on her magic secret service more out of research than anything and it's actually quite good and he's not bad it was just it was just they were trying to be a bit different with that bond you know yeah right so i think he's harshly treated i think he just had a sort of after sean connery unfortunate situation there yeah um so you're looking forward to to melbourne it's a brand new show in melbourne though it's yeah my show's called des bishop likes to bang right yeah and the reason is because i'm playing the drums but it's a very playful title and it very it's very clear that my show is not about cancer.

It's not about dying parents. You're going to have that guy. You're going to have that guy come back and say, Des Bishop likes a bang and hit up the festival going, I thought it was all going to be about rooting. He's got issues. Oh, I miss my dad as well. Oh, no.

But it's a very playful, silly show. And it's kind of, I mean, not that, you know the way, so I'm selling to my work. It's like the last thing I did was serious, so now I'm going to do something not serious. Like no one gives a shit at the same time. It's like the show is what it is. But personally for me, I was very much wanted to do something

that wasn't emotional or had any depth at all. So it's just true stand-up with a little bit of hip-hop, drummy stuff. And after six nights of doing it in Brisbane, the same week as yourself, Tommy, I was sitting in the dressing room on Sunday night after doing six shows, and I was like, this can't be real.

That was the easiest week of my life. And it was only then that it hit me how draining it is to do a show like I did, and probably you will experience yourself. And it's very enjoyable at the time, and the intensity is almost addictive. You become addicted to this concept of not only being funny but just really being

able to dig into something. You start the guts of it and you see people freaking out and going oh dear lord, is it going to be like this? You know that a nice little stupid joke or punchline or whatever is coming up. Do you know what I mean? Even afterwards, you won't realise. I don't think you'll realise until it's done

a year now, a year and a half from now. you won't realize. I don't think you'll realize until it's done a year now, a year and a half from now, you won't realize that you are investing yourself emotionally. I didn't realize. Oh, sure, yeah. I really didn't notice. Or if I did, I didn't realize how much. And then suddenly I'm sitting there after six nights of doing

Des Bishop Likes to Bang and having a good time and improvising, getting people up on stage to dance. And I was just like, this is amazing. Comedy is the easiest job in the world. Not that the shows were all like incredibly, you know, amazing, but I just. There wasn't as much emotional weight in drumming as there was in cancer. Is that what you're saying? It's just not.

And not to mention any emotions can be dealt with by just hammering off the drums. We're doing a show together in the vessel. So you start tomorrow because this is a Wednesday. We start on Monday. We're doing a live version of this. We're a bit, I don't know, how's your feeling on it? How's your feeling coming into the live shows? Well, I mean, to be honest, because I'm doing my own as well,

and that starts a few days before. So that's kind of taking up my focus at the moment. So I haven't really had the time to stress about it. But I reckon we'll be good. I reckon we'll be fine. We'll be good. We got some awesome guests. Yeah, we do.

We really do. I'm of the opinion that live radio works really well, actually. Just make sure that the crowd is well mic'd. Yes. But I think it works really well, particularly if you have comedians on. Because sometimes people find comedians not great on the radio. Or, I mean, I'm sure in this scenario it's fine. But often, like commercial radio, think, oh, comedians, they're funny, but then theyians not great on the radio. Yeah. Or, I mean, I'm sure in this scenario it's fine, but often like commercial radio think, oh, comedians, they're funny,

but then they're not funny on the radio. Yeah. But I love the dynamic of a live audience. Yeah. Like even podcast wise. Yeah. Well, we've done two before. We've done them before.

They've been good fun. But the thing is this year, you may have had this before, where they put you in a venue where maybe it's a bit too big or I don't know. What are you doing? This is the first last episode before our first one. You should be hyping the shit out of this. No, I am. And you're coming in here with your classic Carl Chandler attitude.

It's what everyone in Brisbane said to me. Tell him to cheer up, chin up, and be a bit more positive. Maybe if you brought me sausage rolls, I'd be happier. You need to go to America, man. You need some positivity. You've got to love yourself. We went to America and you need some positivity you gotta love yourself no we went to America and even that didn't work

no don't be like that I was happy we did fun things no I'm just saying we've got a huge we've got a huge venue yeah

where is it what's the venue it's a town hall it's 170 seats Dan's just had this look on his face like he thought it was the main room

of the town hall no I thought you might say the hi-fi but look 170 town hall it's going to be fine because i think for a radio show all you need is about 50 or 60 because all you need is reaction it's different to look who am i telling you guys have done it but i think it's different to a stand-up gig one there's not as much pressure and it's just to have any reaction at all you've

been doing all these podcasts with no reaction yeah just an assumption yeah that this stuff is interesting so even just to have 20 people saying, oh yeah, that's actually quite funny, is an incredible amount of energy compared to what's on the street. It is worrying though because we have spent a bit of money on it and I'm just worried that if we don't make that back, Carl

may have to sell me in order to get himself out of debt. Suddenly there's going to be an ad for a little podcast, little mate, little sidekick mate up on Gumtree. you could do sex chat lines and say you're a woman. Well, okay. I'm glad you bring that up because let's get into this. This is something that happened in Brisbane last week. You worked as a sex call operator?

So Sam Simmons, I'm sure people are familiar with Sam Simmons. He was there. No friend of the show yet. He said he's going to come on. Okay. So that's gone on the was there. No friend of the show yet. He said he's going to come on. Okay. So that's gone on the record now. Future friend of the show. Yeah.

People, stop tweeting at us and telling us to get him. Like, we don't want to have him. We want to have him. We just haven't been able to make it happen yet. So harass him, not us. Anyway, so he's there doing his show. And friend of the show, Henry Stone, who people may know from his YouTube videos. I was staying at his house for the week. He went along to see Sam Simmons' new show. It's called About the Weather, Henry Stone, who people may know from his YouTube videos. I was staying at his house for the week.

He went along to see Sam Simmons' new show. It's called About the Weather, right? Now, there's bits in it where Simmons is interacting with a woman who's pre-recorded, who talks to him, and Sam falls in love with this woman. And Henry went up to Sam after the show and said, hey, I thought that was really cool how you had Tommy Dasolo doing the voice of that girl that you're in love with, because that's really funny because you're mates and it's like you're in love with him. Henry genuinely thought this.

Sam just looks back at him and goes, that's my girlfriend, man. And so then, and Henry told me that and I laughed and I thought, because I haven't seen the show yet, I thought- What did you say to Sam when you got home? Well, because here's the thing. Henry told me that and I thought, like, I'm going to see it now and I bet it won't be that much the same because he's built it up and, you know, it never lives up to that kind of thing.

But then I was in my dressing room when he was on and through the speakers, like the backstage speakers that were piping in the mix of his show, I could hear this voice and without even thinking for a split second, I went, is that me? I thought, I was genuinely trying to remember, like, has Sam called me up at some point and like recorded this conversation? Like, has he sort of tricked me into saying lines for his show? And then I remembered Henry saying that.

And then we were all talking about it with Tom Gleeson. And he said, man, I'm glad you guys brought that up because I heard it the other night and thought the exact same thing. Now, this is interesting that you've mentioned Tom Gleeson. So you're not sensitive about that? No, I mean, this comes up on the show all the time. He used to be sensitive, but it just comes up every week. Yeah, I build up a pretty big skin.

Deanne Smith was the only female comic on last week at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, right? So I was in my dressing room like one of the nights and I heard two people talking out in the hall, but I was in my dressing room and I knew that one of them was Tom Gleeson. And so I said to Ailey, I said, who's that? Because I thought Deanne was the only female comic. And it was you. Oh, okay.

Okay. I thought you were going to say it was Deanne, but you thought it was a guy. No, it was you. Oh, okay. Okay. I thought you were going to say it was Deanne, but you thought it was a guy. No, it was you. She could be the reverse Dasolo, you know? I came out and knew in time we're chatting. I've said to Deanne that I should, like, come out in her show, I should dress the same as her, and I should be, like, her evil doppelganger, Diane Smythe.

But you know what's funny? When I'm talking to you now, I don't think you have a very feminine voice. I don't either. I guess without the thing, it could be construed as like. Yeah, without the pageantry of a hairy face. A hairy face. But what I want to do now, I want to test the theory, and I want to call Simmons from a number, from a pay phone.

If I knew how to use the damn phone system in here, I would do it right now. Maybe we should do it next. I'll try and work out how to use the phones in here and we can do it next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be awesome. Oh, because you know what? I think his girlfriend is friends with friends of mine.

So maybe if I kind of get a gist of the sort of thing that she would say to him. Yeah, find out what happened that morning. Yeah, exactly. The sort of cadence she talks in. Get onto her and use her phone. That would even better yeah then you gotta record it though and then talk dirty to him but can you um or it beeps doesn't it if you if you're on an iphone and you're you put on the voice memo when you're calling somebody it beeps Yeah, but plus it would come up on his phone as my number. No, but I'm saying get her phone and record it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I've got to do something with this because this is too good. This is too good. I'm looking forward to you seeing it now and seeing what you're going to do because that was amazing that it actually, like, forgetting all of that, when I heard it, my brain went, that's me. Like, what am I doing being piped through a speaker right now when I'm sitting right here? It's like the thing when I put up on Facebook this week as well.

Because I've made friends on Facebook with a lot of people with the name Carl Chandler. For whatever stupid reason. And then when sometimes I've been drunk or I've got up too early and I've not been all together and whatever. And it comes up on Facebook and they'll be like, Carl Chandler says, oh my God, I can't believe I had a baby or whatever. And I go, what? When did that happen? And then it's like, oh no, that's someone else.

Yeah. It's weird. And then I've invited them to like our live show. I've invited everyone on my friends list and it comes up with, Carl Chandler has declined your invitation to come to the live Dumb Dumb Club. I'm like, oh no. Didn't you edit a Sunshine Johnson who put something really weird on your page the other day?

Yeah. I've added a lot of Sunshine. Every Sunshine Johnson I can find, I've added to my friend page, and they all happen to be black American ladies. Sunshine Johnson, Desi, is a recurring character on this show. Well, a real person. The local nutter from the small country town that Carl grew up in. Right.

Okay. Did you have many that you would have had? No, I grew up in Flushing, Queens. There's no local nutter from the small country town that Kyle grew up in. Right. Okay. Did you have many that you would have had? No, I grew up in Flushing, Queens. There's no local nutter. Oh. No. It's too populated. Oh, okay.

Where the nanny was from. Can I just point out something important that you may need to factor in? Yeah. You now have a timeline on when you can do this thing with Sam Simmons because- He doesn't listen. Yeah, but somebody might say it to him. Yeah, maybe. Well, yeah, I'd better get cracking.

But I've hinted at him... You know what? It's not the end of the world if they do. Yeah, because I've hinted at him in conversation. I did actually say to him offhand, like, what if I just did this? But if I leave it enough and if I'm convincing enough with it... If you used her phone to ring him, he can't be on guard for that every time. No, he's not going to be on guard for that.

I've got to track her down. I've got to call up my friends who know her. So sorry, sunshine. Oh yeah, I don't have a local nutter. How can you not have a local nutter if you lived in... We did have a couple of like... But you know, they were disabled. Oh, okay.

So when you're kids, you think they're nuts. Come on, make fun of them. Let's have it. No, no, no. Come on, mate. This is the secret. I've lived with this a long time. You've had cancer.

You're allowed to do whatever you want. Whatever you want about any minority. Is that the wish you made? I'm allowed to just hang shit on whoever I want from now on. Yeah, I got a special certificate. But even my language of how I describe them has evolved a lot over the years. Obviously, I didn't say they were disabled when I was a kid. Marty, he used to collect the money at church, and he was just a guy around.

But there were two of them. They were nice guys. You know the way the church is so good at looking after the vulnerable. So anyway, they were fine. Hey, let's go to this quickly. Hey, Des, you were in Adelaide, weren't you? Not this year. No, not for French. Okay, but you would have done, because I was over there for were in Adelaide, weren't you? Not this year. No, not for the French.

Okay. But you would have done, because I was over there for a weekend before I went to Brisbane doing some late shows and stuff, which can be interesting gigs. They can be fun or they can be, you know, sometimes not as fun. In Adelaide? In Adelaide, yeah. Well, they're great if you know a bit of local humour. Yeah.

Well, here's the thing, right? Because we love sort of dodgy gig stories on this show. And one night I did the late show at the Rhino Room where on the Friday, Saturday night they have a show upstairs and they have a show downstairs. So the downstairs show is half an hour behind. You do your spot upstairs and you go down. Did the upstairs spot.

It was fine. It went really well. Went downstairs and the crowd were just real quiet. I prefer the upstairs as well. Yeah, yeah. They weren't into me. They weren't loving it. Yeah, I prefer the upstairs as well.

Yeah, yeah. They weren't into me. They weren't loving it. And then there was a guy in the front row kind of just with his head down and his eyes closed, like sort of basically asleep. So I had this bit in one of my bits where there's a bit where I sort of use it as an opportunity to just like sort of pick someone and sort of fire them up a bit if it needs it, right? So I've picked him.

I've gone, look, this guy, he's got his eyes closed and his head down just thinking about how much he loves, you know, whatever it was I'm talking about. And that got nothing. Like, that got no laugh. And then his mate next to him goes, shh, he's sleeping. And I thought that's a thing that would happen in a late show and would get a laugh because that's ridiculous. Silence, nothing, nothing from the crowd.

And then I go, oh, how awfully rude of me to stand here with this electronic equipment and speak into it while your friend is trying to have a bit of snooze time and again nothing it was like a room full of whatever 100 people was one just going yeah mate you are being actually quite inconsiderate if you could just let this guy yeah that's so weird and that was it that was was it. You just get one of those dead rooms. That room could be dead later. I don't like that bottom room. That's so weird.

I love upstairs, though. Upstairs would be pumping. I've done that. I've gone upstairs. It's been pumping. Then I go downstairs and do a spot after, and you leave feeling like a loser. You walk downstairs as a king, walk out the door a loser. That's the fickleness of comedy.

Sometimes it's the other way around, because the upstairs one is the one that sells out first. So there are people that have planned it. But then the downstairs one, because they've just bought tickets on the door, they're like, how great is this? We've just rocked up and we still managed to get in. So sometimes it can be the inverse. Really? Yeah.

I just found that ridiculous that something so insane would happen in a gig. Someone being asleep and his mate asking the comedian to not make noise. That sounds crazy. And that didn't get anything from the crowd. That's a revolution. That's one of those moments that everyone wants to see in a gig. You know what I mean? That's why people go to live shows.

The guy says, she's sleeping. Yeah, shush me. You'll have that story forever. That's ridiculous. Like, I always go to sleep upstairs. Like, why would you go downstairs? It's comfier upstairs. Yeah, the upstairs show

Does have pillows And the chairs recline Top bunk You always go for the top bunk Oh man Have you got any I mean you were telling us About the gig you did

Before the Bad gig stories Oh god You know offhand I can't I can't I've had so many I'm with you

I don't have any Bad gig stories either I'm with you I've had so many I'm with you I don't have any bad big stories either I've had so many odd situations like borderline violence and every sort of thing so

it's hard for me it's hard for me to pick you know it's hard for me to like pick out a real winner what about soccer you're into football yeah

yeah now I always miss out on this are there any football games planned this year in Melbourne because I've oh right all that

only internationals. Yeah, I don't know. I've played basketball more than I've played. You've played basketball. I've played basketball with you. And I'll be honest, it was terrifying. Because even if this is your first time listening to the show, you will have picked up by now.

I'm not an athletic person at all. But yeah, it was a group of, who was there? Dave Thornton was there. Thornton. Justin Hamilton, Mickey D. Yeah, those guys. Brett Wheeler. Brett Wheeler, who was there? Dave Thornton was there. Thornton. Justin Hamilton, Mickey D. Yeah, those guys. Brett Wheeler. Brett Wheeler, who's like.

Seven foot. Oh, man, he is. He's not a comedian, though. He's a basketballer, isn't he? He's a friend of the show. Known friend of comedy, Brett Wheeler. Friend of the NBL. Yeah.

And he is like, his hand is like the size of my head. Was Giles Riegel there when you were there or no? I don't think so, no. He brings a bit of intensity. But we're all just like, well, I would say you brought a fair bit of intensity because I was on your team at one point and I'm shit ass. Oh, I've heard about you. I felt like you were going to deck me at one point

because I just kept losing us so many shots. I always try to encourage the shit players to just keep involved so that they don't fade away. Well, it was his wish he made of another one of these. I always try to encourage the ship players to just keep involved. So that they don't fade away. Well, it was his wish he made of another one of his wishes. I really want to play basketball in 16 years' time. I'd put it in a way like a little trust fund. Well, I asked about football because on your Wikipedia page,

which is the sole place where I've done any research on anyone, I quite like the Wikipedia pages where you think it should be a bit more official, but there are always pictures of people that are like from 16 years ago. Yeah, I know. It's a picture of me playing football like you're Kenny. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, well, this guy plays in the Premier League, doesn't he? Oh, no, he's a stand-up comedian. Okay. I don't know why that. I'm not responsible for it, but that is the picture that's on my Wikipedia page.

I think they're not allowed to use press photos. They're not allowed to use a photo that they don't have the rights for or something like that. the picture that's on my Wikipedia page. I think they're not allowed to use press photos. They're not allowed to use a photo that they don't have the rights for or something like that. Either way, the match in Kilkenny is quite a big match. It's the rest of the world versus the Irish comedians. I quite like the caption as well because it says, Bishop playing football during the 2008

Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. What show was that? That's quite a big match. Thousands of people come out and watch that game. I play for the rest of the world even though I'm Ireland-based. So it means a lot more to me than everybody else because if the rest of the world lose, I have to hang around for the whole year

and listen to Irish comedians go on about it whereas all the other international comedians just feck off. So, and yeah, it's a fun game. See, all the crowd are rooting for Ireland so I love sort of like sticking it to them when we win, you know? Yeah, yeah. Who are some notable past players? Who's a comedian that people would know that's good?

Jim Owen is very good. Oh, really? He plays for Ireland, though. Yeah. Jim Owen's a very good player. Like, seriously good. He'd be competitive as well, you can say. Yeah, he's a very fit guy.

David O'Doherty? I heard he's very competitive. David O'Doherty's very intense. He likes to win. He plays for Ireland. Kitson's played, hasn't he? Kitson's not bad. Kitson's a good player.

He plays a lot. He plays every week, every Tuesday in Crystal Palace. Here's some people that you'd be surprised if you've got some good geeky comedy fans. Noel Fielding from the Mighty Boosh. Incredible footballer. Nearly went professional. Wow. Much better than you can possibly imagine.

Milton Jones, the incredible one-liner guy, if you know him. Incredible footballer, also nearly went professional. Has like easily scored like six goals in his Kilkenny footballing career. This is some of the best dirt we've ever had on this show. I like the idea of Noel Fielding nearly going professional. Like he's nearly gone professional with electric umbrella athletic. Adam Hills, for a period of time, before he got busier over here,

was always our goalkeeper. Oh, right. So particularly good diving on one side, not as nimble on the other side, but always, always really good in goal and just a great guy to have behind because it's impossible for him to be negative. So if there'd be a goal, he'd be like,

it's going to be all right, guy. He's just there. Except for when he's got his back turned doing crowd work with the guys behind him. Where are you from? Oh, shit. Oh, you'd be amazed, man. You'd be amazed how there's no crowd work. It's pretty intense, man.

All right, yeah. People don't come there to watch comedians be funny. Oh, man, I wouldn't play. They come there to watch the competitive side of comedians come out in its proper environment. Instead of bitching about each other, you can just slide yeah yeah yeah um yeah i i can't think of like there's been plenty listen over the years is there like any heckles like comedy heckles like you're going in with that gallifinakis played oh really yeah yeah i got a lot of great zach gallifinakis stories when he came over to ireland he wasn't famous like played my comedy club made

out with my cousin uh just like oh such cool guy as well, like really nice guy. He made out with my cousin. He's a cool guy. Got on stage for my whole entire set in Kilkenny and played the piano throughout my whole set, which was actually the testicular cancer stuff. And said, the only thing we pre-prepared was he said, at some stage, just say that you tried alternative Chinese medicine. And then he went, which related back to something he did in his show.

It was like incredible laugh. So I haven't just done a gig with Zach Galifianakis. I performed with him on stage. That's amazing. So he played. He was like, obviously proper shit. Is there any comedy heckles though? Like if you're on the field with, you know,

Kitson or whatever, you slide in and go, where's your gal spot this year, Kitson, you dickhead? Some guys get into that, but that's not me, man. I heard you're a trash talker on basketball, though. You're very intense. I'm not a trash talker. I'm just like, I'm playing the game. Any trash I talk is directly related to the game.

I've seen the look of murder in your eyes. You're actually looking pretty angry at me now. I don't bring comedy stuff into it. I just be like, DeSalo, you missed one more fucking shot. No, I'm just kidding. I don't remember giving you any shit. You weren't giving me shit. I just really got the vibe that you were into it.

And I'm just happy to be out. I'm just having a laugh with mates. But you know what? I don't mind. To mask my obvious lack of abilities. You know what I mean? No, but look. There were guys there that were good and there were guys there that weren't. I was mask my obvious lack of abilities. You know what I mean? No, but look, there were guys there that were good

and there were guys there that weren't. I was just like enjoying it in my way. Everyone enjoys it in their own way. And I was just trying to win. You know, Hamilton's surprisingly good. Very good. He's very into basketball. Yeah, he's into it.

I don't know why I doubted that even though he's told me that he's really into it. Yeah, Mickey D is pretty good. Yeah. Seeing Hamilton charge down the court sans glasses. Oh, really? Doing a ball with this intense look on his face is something else.

Yeah, Mickey D is good in that sort of like, I'm a big AFL fan sort of a way. And that he's really good at getting a rebound, but then he's like not great at realising that you can't sort of jump up on somebody's back in basketball to get that rebound. Like that one's not going to be shown in the replay like it is on a Saturday

at the ACG. We should organize like some kind of big comedian sport day during the festival. What about a big comedians game of British Bulldogs? Oh. And that's going to be, you were saying like you get out the bitchiness backstage. That'd be, British Bulldogs would be the ultimate one to get that out.

You know what I mean? Well, I've been trying for years. I've been trying for years to try to get somebody to organize like an AFL footy type, you know, like an Australian rules game. But they think it's impossible. Really? No, we could do that. I want to get the football one going.

I want to play soccer. Guys play. I'm not, you know, I'm going to actually run. You have played. I've got a picture right here. I'm running the Geelong half marathon actually. Oh, you really? Two and a half weeks time.

Yeah. Wow. So I'm just not going to do a lot of the extracurricular sports because that is a way where you could pick up an injury. How did you get involved in the Geelong Half Marathon? You know what? Classic Comedy Festival, how did you get that? So who runs the Geelong Half Marathon? Who books the Geelong Half Marathon?

Yeah, that's a fact. Do you have a lot of comedy people listen to this? Yeah, a bit. I mean, we talk about it enough. That's a good one for comedy people. That's a fact. Do you have a lot of comedy people listen to this? Yeah, a bit. I mean, we talk about it enough. That's a good one for comedy people. That's a very known thing. And that was the big joke for ages was how did you get that? And then it's become now the ways that people ask how did you get that,

but asking around it, like not having to come straight out. Oh, yeah, so did they see you at another gig or something? Or did you ask them if you could do that? No, I was running a bit. I was getting decent distances going, so I they see you at another gig or something? Or did you ask them if you could do that? No, I was running a bit. I was getting decent distances going. So I literally went on the web and just put in like half marathon Melbourne. And I happened to see Geelong was within the period of time we're at the festival.

Then I said to Jason Byrne, do you want to run it? Then, like God rest him, Jim Steins died. And Jason said we should run it for the Reach Foundation. And we haven't even organized that part yet we signed up for the marathon but next week we have to get into some some fundraising so we're going to do it for fundraising but i just wanted to run the geelong half marathon but i was very moved you know it was it was it's only 13 months since my dad died and i met his family after my dad got sick i met jim steins his family at the mcg and we were discussing like you know

we were just discussing stuff around caretaking and stuff that they were going through. For our overseas listeners, Jim Steins is like a very famous Irish Australian rules player who's passed away in the last week. You've mostly Australian listeners. We do have a lot of international. Yeah, it's been big news. I mean, it was even big news in Brisbane.

Yeah. So it was like two pages in the Courier Mail. I saw it was on the front page of the Irish site as well. Oh yeah, it was huge in Ireland. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, blah, blah, blah. in the courier mail I saw it was on the it was on the front page of the Irish site oh yeah it was huge in Ireland but anyway blah blah blah I was very moved

by the Jim Stines thing so I was more than happy to sort of you know try to raise money for the charity thing because I get paranoid about that

people think you're you're doing it to sort of like raise your own profile or whatever but in this case I was actually just running the marathon

and then was kind of moved because what I didn't realize after he died there's no humor in this but after he died i didn't realize that like the reach foundation was such a huge part of his identity i mean yeah it is the second thing that gets mentioned every time is like incredible afl footy player that sort of couldn't play when he got here became a great player and has dedicated his life to this reach foundation so seeing that it was a huge part of

what he was i thought you know that would be a nice way – because I don't know that – I didn't know him. I had this one chance encounter with his family that I found quite moving. But I can't express it in any other way other than, well, your legacy is your Reach Foundation. I shall leave my little piece of thank you rather than putting flowers. I'm just wondering how Jason Byrne is going to go running a marathon because I imagine every few hundred meters he's just going to be pulling a spectator onto the court of him and

getting him to sit in a box for 10 minutes. He's going to take a whole day to finish. He's going to be putting more sunblock on. He's very red. What's that? You're going to have to edit that bit. What did you do that for? Did I wrap it up?

I was giving you a signal. Have we done long enough? We've done 50. We've done a year's worth of these and we haven't got a fucking signal for this going yet. Yeah, okay. Do you want to wrap it up? Are you ready to wrap it up? Have you got something to go out on? No, no, I don't.

Yeah. What did you do that for then? Because I was trying to see where we were. We're at 50. Okay. Okay. I'm going to leave this in because people need to know how much of a clown you are. No, how incompetent you are. Well, your producer is giving the signal that it's time off.

My co-host, thank you. No, I'm looking through the glass at your three-man tech team there. They say you have to go to an ad break. Oh, yeah, we forgot to go to an ad break. Oh, yeah. Let's do one quickly right now. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we forgot to go to an headbreak. Oh, yeah. Let's do one quickly right now. Okay. The Little Dumb Dumb Club is, of course, proudly brought to you by punchline.com.au,

the leading distributor of comedy DVDs in Australia. Now, up the top there, I've said proudly. I don't know if they're proud. I haven't heard anything from them. Are they proud of sponsoring us? I rang them up and said, I heard you sponsored, I've said proudly. I don't know if they're proud. I haven't heard anything from them. Are they proud of sponsoring us? I rang them up and said, I heard you sponsored Dumb Dumb Com. They said, we've never heard of those people. So I don't know if they are that proud.

Well, given the appalling quality of some of the ads we've done for them in the past, I don't know how proud. We do have our own little page on there now. You can find our little podcast on there. Well, there you go. Go to punchline.com.au. Yeah, they've just put the little picture of us

and there's not heaps of us on there, but we've gotten a couple of mentions in their blog. They don't even stock our DVD, which is ridiculous to me.

They don't even stock our bloody MP3s, but if you get on there, what have they got? What's coming up here? Charlie Murphy's DVD. He's coming up in the Melbourne

International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festivals and all that. Yeah, it's festival time. I mean, you know that comedy's around. There's coming up in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festivals and all that. Yeah, it's festival time. I mean, you know that comedy is around. There's plenty of awesome, like, I think we talked about this a few weeks ago, but that Zach Galifianakis DVD is awesome. I keep watching that over and over.

Yeah, it's truly great. And there's all sorts of, they're having a comedy festival sale at the moment. So much good stuff on there. I got Daria, the complete animated series. That was probably a bit after your time, there I got Daria the complete animated series that was probably a bit after your time the animated series Daria I'm your friends of the show, Fleety Fleety's DVD's out and selling well

Harley Breen's one Kingswood and I, so yeah get all that stuff get on punchline.com.au check out some of their DVD's and that's a great way of helping to support this show, we'll see you there, mates. And we're back. We are back on.

We should actually put that in there. We should put that in there right before the end of the show. Just to let you know that there was approximately half a second in between breaks there. Well, guys, I think that does bring us to the end of the Little Dumb Dumb Club. Is that it? Is that all we've got? I think that does bring us to the end of the Little Dum Dum Club. Is that it? Is that all we've got?

I think that's it. Des, you are doing your show, Des Bishop Likes to Bang. At the Hi-Fi. At the Hi-Fi Bar for the whole festival. The whole festival, not Mondays. But Kat's not there anymore this year, is that right? Yeah, I mean, you know, you could really maybe, you know, go easy on the Kat stuff. I'll give the signal.

Wrap it up, yeah. And then Are you Are you taking that Other places in Australia After Melbourne Yeah to Sydney And then to Perth And then to actually

To Auckland, New Zealand Oh wow okay Keep an eye out For Let's all We should organise a sporting match We should get it going Keep an eye out

By sport Yeah we'll do something I want to make it very clear I want to play soccer Squash tournament The three of us Should run the tan together. That'd be fun, wouldn't it? Yeah, I'll run the tan any day you want.

Let's do it. We've been talking about this because we got really into fitness at the start of the year because we both got fat. Let's do the tan on Friday morning. Great, let's do it. All right. I'm not like a big chatter about it. I'm a doer.

Yeah, all right. Let's actually go. We don't have to do a Twitter campaign about it. I'll meet you at 8.45. I'll meet you at the tan. It's no big deal. I'll be up. I'm doing. I'll meet you at the 10. It's no big deal. I'm doing the Nova stand-up thing at 6.30 in the morning. So I'll just walk down from there and run from there.

On Friday morning? Yeah. I'll meet you after Nova thing. We'll go run the 10. Yeah, great. How many laps do you want to do? Wow. Yeah, great.

Cool. Which way do you run? Clockwise or anticlockwise? I do the hill near the start. Oh, you do the big hill, the sharp hill at the start? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you did the garage. Oh, so you go anticlockwise.

Oh, no, that's clockwise. That's clockwise, yeah. That's clockwise. This is great. Should we explain the tan for our international listeners? I'm getting psyched out already. Guys, you can see Des Bishop during the comedy festivals. You can see him running the tan with us on Friday morning.

We've got our own live shows Mondays in the Melbourne Town Hall at 8.30. Let's stress this. This is the last show before we start the live show. So we've absolutely got some awesome guests lined up already. People that haven't been on the show before that we've been after for a long time. Yep. So it's going to be great. Yep.

And we'll have T-shirts there for sale. I'm doing my own show, Pipsqueak, 6 p.m. in the Victoria Hotel. If you want to come down. Thank you very much for listening. All shows are available on thecomedyfestival.com.au. Yes, yes, yes. Des Bishop, thank you again for joining us and thank you guys for listening. We will see you next time. See you

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