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Welcome to the Peacock and Gamble podcast.
Welcome to the Peacock and Gamble podcast, episode 70.
61.
61. Congratulations, 61th anniversary.
Yeah.
Right, my name's Ed Gamble, and who's that little face over there?
My name is Ray Peacock, hello.
Right, I've been thinking.
What?
I think I should get more of my name in the Peacock and Gamble podcast.
You think you should get more of your name in it?
Yeah.
How do you mean?
Because I think you've got too many letters in it, and I think I have proved myself now.
Right.
Because originally, when we did a podcast together, it was just the Ray Peacock podcast.
That's because I was doing it before I even knew your name.
Then it became the Peacock and Gamble podcast, because I was just the Ray Peacock podcast. That's because I was doing it before I even knew Ray and I were near it.
Then it became the Peacock and Gamble podcast, because I proved myself.
Forget my surname in it.
Yeah.
Now I think it should be called the Peacock and Ed Gamble podcast.
Or, if you don't like that, then we could just add some more letters to Gamble.
Like, it could be the Peacock and Gamble podcast.
Why do you want to do that?
Just so I can prove myself myself like stars at McDonald's.
Every time I do a good job, I think I should get a new letter.
Right, okay.
How many more letters have I got than you?
Well, you have got...
A-Y-P-E-N-C-O-C-K.
No, but just in the name, you've just got Peacock.
I've got ten.
You've just got Peacock in the name.
All right, P-E-A-C-O-C-K.
That's seven.
Yeah.
G-A-M-B-L-E.
So you've got six. So all you need is one more. Well, what one can I have?-K. That's seven. Yeah. G-A-M-B-L-E. So you've got six.
So all you need is one more.
Well, what one can I have?
Gumballs.
We've had that before.
No, but I think...
The Peacock and Gumballs podcast.
No, I think it should be called the Peacock and Gumballs podcast.
Well, also, actually, this is a good point.
What?
On our dressing room door...
Yeah.
When we did emergency broadcast at King's Place...
Yeah.
Last week.
King's Place.
King's Place last week.
On our door, the sign said, Peacock and Gumballs emergency broadcast at King's Place yeah last week King's Place King's Place last week on our door the sign said
Peacock and Gumball's
emergency broadcast
yeah
apostrophe S
yeah
so you had two
you had apostrophe S
apostrophe doesn't count
as a letter mate
apostrophe counts mate
doesn't count as a letter mate
it's how much space
it's taking up
yeah
so who did you have
to kiss for that
mate you have got a K
in your name
which takes up more space
at the end
because it kicks out doesn't it it which takes up more space at the end,
because it kicks out, doesn't it?
It kicks out.
Again, it's kicking the and into my name.
You've got a capital G, which is the fattest letter.
It's the fattest letter you can have.
A big fat G, right?
And if we're not taking a boardroom, and I know on the icon it isn't a capital,
because none of them are capitals on the icon for it.
But when somebody's doing a contract or something,
and it does it automatically, it just puts a big G on there.
And people in the offices are going,
look at the size of this bloke's first letter.
Yeah, but listen, mate.
The big fat get.
I've got an L, which is the slimmest letter.
Yeah.
So that makes up for it. You have got P, which hangs over the top like a big belly over some trousers. Right. Right, capital P. Yeah. So that makes up for it. You have got P, which hangs over the top like a big belly over some
trousers. Right. Right, capital P.
Yeah. And E, which is all like just a
big fat head and then little legs.
Right. And A, right,
which is just a big round fat belly,
if you think about it. C, which is like
a big open mouth, waiting for
a bun, right. O, which is
just like, hello, I'm an O.
Right. C, which is another big mouth,
right? Looking for eat. And then
K, which is just kicking the hand right into my
fat G.
Your mum has gone on holiday
even though it's your birthday.
Don't put my cock in the kitchen,
Mrs Brown.
No one else has done it.
There's plenty of them around.
Don't put my cock in the kitchen, Mrs Brown.
It's not safe near the food.
Have you made that one up?
Yeah.
It's brilliant, like an old Cockney song from Nether Years.
I like the idea of making up things that could have been old Cockney songs.
Yeah, I like the idea of making up things that could have been old Cockney songs. Yeah, I liked it.
I liked doing that as well.
Yeah.
Don't ever leave me
on the Piccadilly line.
Every time I'm on it
I remember
when she was mine.
Oh, don't ever leave me on the Piccadilly line.
It's the one she was on in the Blitz.
It's a sad one.
Yeah, it's a sad one, yeah.
So I'm sorry to bring everything down with my sad side.
Yeah, it was sad though, wasn't it?
It was sad.
But I mean, I like London.
You do like London.
Yeah.
Don't you?
I go there loads nowadays since I don't live there anymore.
Yeah.
We spent a lot of time in London recently.
Well, yeah, because you live there anyway.
Well, I live just outside it, really.
Yeah, we had to keep going for rehearsals and stuff.
Yeah, for posh rehearsals for our posh live show.
And now we keep
thinking that the
other one, the next
one, is like ages
away and it's not.
It's not, it's really
not.
It's about just over
three weeks.
Oh God almighty,
and we've literally
not put pen to paper.
No, we've got things
that we know we want
to do but we don't
know how we're going
to do them yet.
And that's the second
emergency broadcast.
Well it's technically
the third one because
we're doing it on the
11th of March as well
in York University. Yeah. That'll be a pared down version of it. Thanks to all the people that came to second emergency broadcast. Well, it's technically the third one, because we're doing it on the 11th of March as well in York. We are.
That'll be a pared-down version of it.
Thanks to all the people that came to the emergency broadcast.
Yes, thank you very much.
It'll be two weeks ago now.
There were loads of you.
It was the other day, it was.
Yeah.
There was.
There was a lot of them, wasn't there?
Yeah.
And they were, you know, they were interesting people.
They were all right, weren't they? Yeah, they were nice, yeah.
And thank you to, was it Dot?
It was Dot, wasn't it?
Dot gave us presents.
Yeah, Dot gave us presents.
And so did our predator. Is that who that was? Yeah, that's our predator. Oh,, wasn't it? Dot gave us presents. Yeah, Dot gave us presents. And so did our Predator.
Is that who that was?
Yeah, that's our Predator.
Oh, I didn't realise that was that bloke.
Yeah.
Because I met him at the bar.
He got me Caligula on Blu-ray.
Yeah, he got me Cool As Ice on DVD.
I did better.
Yeah, you did.
But I've not seen mine yet.
I've not watched mine yet.
But I'll tell you what, I'm waiting until it's late at night.
Yeah.
And there's nothing on the telly.
And they're all too fat on Babestation.
I'm going to just get and put Caligula on.
I'm going to wait until late at night at my one.
Yeah.
And do my hair in a big quiff.
Right.
And put a leather jacket on.
Okay.
And watch Vanilla Ice and rap along with him.
Oh, is that who it is?
It's Vanilla Ice.
It's Vanilla Ice's modern remake of Rebel Without a Cause.
Oh my good God almighty. I didn't even know such a thing existed. Yeah. So that was, Appred It's Vanilla Ice. It's Vanilla Ice's modern remake of Rebel Without a Cause. Oh my good God almighty.
We know there's such a thing existed.
Yeah.
So that was, our Predator did that.
Yeah.
That was the geezer we spoke about the other week.
Yeah.
Who lives in Leicester now.
He lives in Leicester now forever, yeah.
He sleeps in Leicester until you come back.
Oh, well, thank you very much, our Predator.
What was his real name?
Do you remember?
Josh.
Was it Josh?
Yeah, okay.
Or another one.
He's got two names, hasn't he? I thought James and you think Josh. Yeah. I'm not sure. Our Predator, thank was his real name? Do you remember? Josh. Was it Josh? Yeah, okay. Or another one. It might be. He's got two names, hasn't he?
I thought James and you think Josh.
Yeah.
I'm not sure.
Predator, thank you for that.
And thank you, Dot.
Your presents were lovely as well.
And someone in Bristol called Rob brought us presents.
What was that?
The remote control robots.
You've still not given me those yet.
You said you didn't want it.
You said it was a shit little present and you ate Rob.
Right.
Well, that's completely untrue, first of all.
We were having an argument over who got the wind-up one and who got the remote control one that's completely untrue first of all. We
were having an argument over who got the wind up one and who got the ruck show one. You
have not brought either of them. I've not, no. I've left them at home. You're a twat
mate. I'm not, you're a twat. Alright, sorry. So the next emergency broadcast is 24th March.
24th March, 24-03-11. 1-1. Legs 11. Legs 11. So that's the way to remember it.
What have you been doing?
What have you been up to?
Oh, not much.
I've been shaking, mate.
I've been down to the gym today.
Have you?
How'd you get on?
They all laugh at me down there.
Do they really?
No, they don't.
They're a bit too busy.
The thing is, because I'm on an off-peak membership,
when I signed up, they said,
oh, that's when, because a lot of people who work nights like firemen,
they go in. So it's basically me, hunky firemen,
and also really old Japanese people
and that is it
right okay
you could make a superhero team
yeah you could
that'd be brilliant
I'd watch that
yeah
done some running on the machine
yeah
treadmill
yeah
needed a poo off my throat
so I just went in the corner
like Paula Radcliffe
yeah that's what I'm saying
doing it
yeah
did you ever poo off
before you run
yeah well no
about three minutes from the end
I just had to stop and
have a poo.
Right, okay.
I think it's because
it was dislodging it.
I see, I see.
Well, you can afford
to lose three minutes,
can't you?
Yeah.
Well, no, I did it
after.
You went back and
did three minutes?
I went and did
my three minutes
otherwise I wouldn't
have felt like I'd
done it properly.
Well, you haven't
done it properly,
have you?
Well, no, because
I've not done my
three minutes, but
then I went and
did my three minutes.
No, but now that
you've gone and
done your three
minutes, you've
still not done it
properly.
Why?
Well, because it
all works, it's all like aerobic, isn't it? It works on your heart rate and stuff. Mate, I now that you've gone and done your three minutes, you've still not done it properly. Why? Well, because it's
all aerobic, isn't it?
It works on your
heart rate and stuff.
Mate, I still have my
heart rate going.
Trust me, if I'd been
running for 22 minutes,
I've still got my
heart rate going and
it was a massive poo,
mate.
Yeah, but it's not
maintaining your heart
rate.
It must have dropped
a little bit.
Oh, no, I think it
probably went up.
It was a big poo.
Right.
Have you considered
basically not joining
the gym
and just eating a lot of roughage just eat lots of cereal all the time yeah then the next day
that sounds like you'll get your exercise that's a brilliant idea mate
oh it was a brilliant laugh at the peacock and gamble emergency broadcast wasn't it yeah it was
actually yeah what a ball we had we did did have a ball, didn't we?
And we remembered it, pretty much.
Yeah, nearly.
Yeah, nearly.
We nearly remembered it, didn't we?
We both forgot.
Yeah.
But then we knocked each other back on track.
We were like a fluid machine in motion.
We were just like a fluid machine.
Yeah.
I've been watching a little bit of the video
that we recorded for our own personal use.
Yeah.
Which you can't see, so don't even ask.
We've got to stay stiller.
Yeah. Particularly me. We were moving about. Yeah, I. We've got to stay stiller. Yeah.
Particularly me.
Were you moving about?
Yeah, I was prowling loads, mate.
Really?
You're a little prowler though, aren't you?
Wandering around the place.
You're a little Wolverine, mate.
I don't know where I thought
I was going to go.
Just leave.
Just get off.
I was constantly looking
at bits of the stage
for nothing.
I was walking over
and just have a look there
in that corner.
Not at anything.
No.
I think my best bit
was when you won
that bloke's twitter mate
Michael J Fox's twitter
yeah
his name's Michael J Fox
yeah
won it in a competition
is it Idol Michael
at Idol Michael
yeah I think that's his twitter
at Idol Michael
yeah
if you didn't go to the emergency broadcast
you can have a look at
at Idol Michael
have a look at his tweets
on February 24th
yeah he went mental
he went mental for some reason
just in a sort of
20 minute period
yeah to start off with the show
Idle Michael just started going
like really bizarre.
Yeah.
And saying really odd things
and we're going,
mate, put your phone down.
What are you doing?
And a lot of things
won't even make sense
sort of unless you were there.
Yeah, and he's going,
oh no, I've got a tweet,
got a tweet, got a tweet.
And we're going,
Idle Michael,
what is wrong with you?
And he's going,
oh no, I've got to send more tweets,
got to send more tweets.
Yeah.
And eventually we just had
to just leave him to it.
Horrible, horrible.
Because he had a big glass bowl
he could have smashed over us.
He had a weapon with him.
It was a massive thing.
I don't know who brings that
to a live show.
Now,
if you want to be in
on all these in-jokes.
Yeah,
a lot of in-jokes going on here
by the way
and you probably don't know
anything about them
because you weren't
at the emergency broadcast. There were lots of people there but I bet you weren, by the way. And you probably don't know anything about them because you weren't at the emergency broadcast.
Yeah, there were lots of people there,
but I bet you weren't one of them, were you, Dan?
I know, and we're going to keep doing this.
Yeah.
The more shows we do, the more in-jokes there'll be.
Yeah.
You'd get sacked from a brass band for that.
Yeah.
Cheer up, Ray.
When's a duck been in Doctor Who?
I think we're all sad about Rolf Harris.
That's my favourite bit of Sister Act.
Yeah, so they're all things.
Yeah.
So you don't know.
If you weren't there,
you don't know what any of those things mean.
Yeah.
The people that were there,
they're in bits now, mate.
No, they're loving it and they're all crying.
Sort of half laughing and half crying
from the brilliant memories.
Yeah.
Look across at that person.
I know you're sat on the tube now,
listening to this.
Look across at that person across.
Look how much they're laughing.
They're listening to it at the same time they're laughing because they get it. Yeah, they understand what we've
been on about. Yeah. And also we've had a bit of a row on Twitter today, me and you.
Yeah, we have. I did that Sunday night show. I was the one up on the... I think they should
just give it a name. I was the one up on the series. Yeah, call it the Sunday night show.
Yeah. Last week was great. It was... because there's been weeks, you know. Overall, I've
enjoyed doing it. Yeah. I've met some interesting people. I've met some, you know, like the Hamiltons.
I don't want to meet the Hamiltons.
You know that a lot of this isn't,
who does Ray want to meet?
Well, we'll send him there.
No, I know.
It's not, you are not a dying child.
But this week, it was Clive Anderson.
Yeah.
Sophie Ellis-Bexter.
Yeah.
And Brian Blessed.
Yeah.
Who was amazing.
I know.
I like Brian Blessed.
I mean, I was in a
quite mischievous mood
anyway as I sometimes
are
yeah
and Sophie and
Specs has got her
her makeup people
oh she
that she brings with
her
yeah
and they're like
oh bring in the
makeup for Sophie
and I was going
yeah come on
get the rollers out
right
misbehaving myself
but anyhow
Brian Blessed
absolutely amazing
if you watch that
Sunday night show
I watched it last
night
yeah
to watch how it
came out
and so much had to be
chopped out of it
right okay
because he swears so much
and it's so so funny
yeah
there's one bit where
he'd been talking about
you know the famous
palm pilot bit
where he's hosting
a game show
I've not seen it
the shirt on Russell's show
as well quite a lot
he's hosting a game show
and he goes
oh you've won a palm pilot
and then he can't open the thing.
He's like,
oh, fucking thing.
And the contestants are laughing
and he goes,
palm pilot sounds like
a wanking machine.
And they always show that clip.
But when they showed that clip,
that seemed to spark off his swearing.
And he proper did.
And they were going,
what was all that about?
And he went,
oh, fucking fuck knows.
I don't fucking know.
And I'm not even exaggerating. It was fucking, fucking hell. fucking fuck knows I don't fucking know and I'm not even exaggerating
it was fucking
fucking hell
fucking ridiculous
I don't even know
what's fucking on
and as far as I know
it's been fucking sent
to the bottom
of the fucking North Sea
they've used it
in fucking war torn Europe
to fucking clear
the fucking trenches
it was amazing
and you could just see
the floor start just going
like laughing
but going
I don't know how
this is ever going to go out I don't know how this is ever going to go out
I don't know how
this is ever going to be edited
bit star struck by him really
because I nearly met him
once before
he was on our radio show
that I used to do
the BBC London
but I was in Edinburgh
when he was on
so somebody else
who was in the show
John interviewed him
oh that's annoying
yeah big
you know he got me
an autograph for that
and I
so I spoke to Brian
and got you an autograph
Brian blessed autograph
and got another one for myself.
Yeah.
Where was your one that you got first before that?
What?
Where's the one you got years ago?
I don't know.
It's in my drawer somewhere.
Oh.
You have got it.
Yeah, but that's...
You have got one.
That's on lined paper.
Right.
That's why I wanted it again.
Right.
On plain paper.
And he did it.
He put 2AM, that's my real name, 2AM, Big Love, Brian Blessed.
Yeah.
And on your one he put 2 Ed. Big love, Brian Blessed.
Interesting story about that. He didn't
recognise the name Ed.
What do you mean?
I got my first and then I went, oh,
I'm really supposed to be a pain in the arse. Can you do one for Ed
as well? He went, what?
I went, it's fine if you don't want to.
He went, no, no, it's fine.
I went to Ed and he went,
F.
And I went, no, Ed, Ed, Egg.
No, Ed, E-D.
And he went, Ed?
And I went, yeah, short for Edwin.
And he went, no, Ted's short for Edwin.
Brilliant.
That's really interesting that you taught Brian Blessed a thing.
Yeah, so he put two Ed.
Big love, Brian Blessed.
And then I did Compete for the Meat the other day,
which is on Murray's new show.
Did the warm-up on that.
I was in a very big dressing room.
Oh, well, that's great.
Yeah, and...
Very nice.
I had all my stuff out.
Yeah.
And somewhere along the way...
You always get your stuff out if you're in a big dressing room.
Yeah, I've lost the autographs.
I've lost my one as well.
Sorry.
I am a bit upset.
No, I am genuinely upset about it.
I'm genuinely upset about it.
And also,
I'm a little bit upset
that you didn't let
Brian Blessed put
two egg from Brian Blessed.
Would you have preferred that?
Yeah, that would have been
really funny.
Oh, really? Okay.
Well, I mean,
we could probably just
fake you another one.
No, it's not the same,
is it?
Why?
Because it's not an autograph.
It's just you who's written
egg on a bit of paper.
But I've met him.
Which you've tried to do when you give me one of your fake breakfasts.
Oh, I noticed when we'd done the emergency broadcast at King's Base the other night
that your mum didn't bother coming.
No, she didn't, no.
Even though she lives up the road.
She doesn't live up the road.
She lives nearby.
No, not really.
Well, dear enough.
Why did your mum not come and see our show?
I don't ask her to come and see things.
Tell her to come and see it.
Why?
Does she even know you do comedy?
Yeah, she does, definitely.
Does she even know that you were doing the show at King's Place?
Yeah.
Well, why did she not come in then?
I told her not to.
Because she's not been one of her friends from the club.
What club? I imagine she. I told her not to. Because she's not been one of her friends from the club. What club?
I imagine she goes to a bridge club.
A bridge?
How old do you think my mum is?
1890s, what?
No.
Get your mum come down.
My mum come down.
Yeah, your mum come down.
My mum come down from the North West.
I tell you what, and this is a compliment.
Yeah?
During the show, I didn't hear her once.
She was actually immaculate well there.
She did very well, yeah.
Because my mum has a tendency to shout out. Yeah.
Or to talk out quite loudly. Yeah, yeah.
Just talking to the person next to you. Yeah? Yeah.
Not meaning any harm. No, not at all, no.
But not once during the show. No.
I think she probably thought, oh, I think a lot of people
like this. Yeah.
I'll be quiet. Whereas in the past she's thought
people might like it if I join in.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah.
No, she was very, very well behaved on the Thursday night.
Yeah.
She stayed till Saturday.
Oh.
So, there are other things I could tell you about.
Right.
You know, because being a dutiful son.
I didn't see her on Friday because I was doing that Sunday night show.
Yeah.
Which was filmed on a Friday.
Yeah.
But then on the Saturday, I went down and met her in London.
Yeah.
And went for dinner.
Yeah.
Italian restaurant.
Yeah.
You know where we go
for our coffees
opposite Forbidden Planet
you went in there for a meal
restaurant downstairs
you go in there for a meal
really nice man
yeah really nice
we'll go there one day
together
treat ourselves
we were sat in the restaurant
me and my mum
and at one point
she was looking at the wall
and she went
I'm not being funny
I can't understand
I don't know what any of them
things are
I went what
on the menu
it's all in Italian that
I don't know what any of them things are. What? On the menu. It's all in Italian, that. I don't know what
any of them are. Turn around. Wine list.
So
menu's on the other side. All in English.
All fine.
So there was that.
But that's nothing compared to what
then happened.
I wanted to go to Soho because
there's a cinema store down there. Which I sometimes go to. So I went down there. Went to the cinema store. Didn't get. I wanted to go to Soho because there's a cinema store down there.
Yeah.
Which I sometimes go to
for things.
So I went down there,
went to the cinema store,
didn't get what I wanted,
didn't have it.
As we're walking past,
we passed another
Italian restaurant, right?
Right.
We're walking around
and I can see my mum
looking and as she was
looking, and this
couldn't have been
put together worse,
right?
There's a gang of
maybe three or four
black guys.
Yeah.
Started just walking
towards us, right?
Yeah.
Now my mum didn't even see them.
She was looking at the Italian restaurant.
Yeah.
And she went,
is that where we went?
Right?
I went, when?
And she went, earlier on.
And I went, no, no, no.
And she's looking at it, right?
Black bloke's walking by.
She went,
they all look the same to me.
Black bloke stopped.
I looked and went, she means restaurant, she means restaurant.
They came to a walk and I went to my mum,
you can't just suddenly shout.
They all look the same to me.
Right?
And then she went, why?
What do you think I meant?
Penises?
Why didn't you think that
she's mental
I'm sorry I'm being nice about your mum
because I think she's brilliant but she's
she's not
she just gets very distracted
I don't know
maybe she saw the big pepper grinder She's not. She just gets very distracted. Penis, but what? I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe she saw the big pepper grinder.
I don't know what she was thinking of.
I've no idea.
I've got this horrible feeling that before she goes out,
my mum just spins around for ages.
And then goes out.
And that's why she's so sort of uncoordinated.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah.
But then all day she's going,
oh, that'll be in the podcast, won't it?
Oh, you make me look stupid.
I was like, I don't make you look stupid.
I literally report word for word what you've said.
It's unbelievable.
Oh, that's brilliant.
Yeah, there we are. met Des O'Connor the other night
whoa
lovely lovely man
yeah
never been a fan
or anything
yeah yeah
a lot of people
on the crew
at Sunday Night Show
had worked with him
before
yeah
on like Des and Mel
on his chat show
Des and Mel
Des and Mel there's some show Des and Mel Des and Mel
there's some belting guests
on that
they did yeah
lovely chemistry
yeah great chemistry
just an old bloke
and a young woman
anyway
lovely chemistry
very hot
it's very sexual
sexual
I still take it over
loose women
any day of the week
yeah
so they're all saying
hi Des
and he's going
hello hello
and you know
so and so
sends a love
oh thank you
thank you
yeah
and then
somehow I got in the queue I've got no idea and he's going, hello, hello, and so-and-so sends a love, oh, thank you, thank you.
Somehow I got in the queue.
I've got no idea how.
It was like as he was going,
and I was just in this sort of carried away with the crowd.
And I was just there, and he just came up to me,
and he went, he got his arm round me,
put his arm on the back of my head,
and he went, you were wonderful.
I thought you were going to kiss me.
And you had done warm-up at that point.
Yeah, yeah.
This was when he arrived, and he was going, hi, Des, how are you? You're wonderful. No, no, he said, no. And you had done warm-up at that point. Yeah, yeah. This wasn't when he arrived.
They were going, hi, Des, how are you?
You're wonderful.
No, no, he said, no, I had done the warm-up.
But I doubt he would have seen it.
But he was just like, you were wonderful.
And shook my hand and that.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah, but I thought I'd broken.
Because when I shook his hand, his bones cracked.
Really?
Yeah.
I think I squeezed it too hard. You've broken Des O'Connor's hand.
It's like Barack Obama all over again, isn't it? Yeah, it's like when I broke his arm. So I'm broken Dez O'Connor's hand. It's like Barack Obama all over again, isn't it?
Yeah, it's like what I broke his arm.
So I'm sorry, Dez O'Connor, about that.
If he has been hurting all week, it's my fault.
Yeah, so have all his bones in his hand.
When I met Michael Palin, I was very aware that I might have had a sharp nail
and I think I stabbed him with it when I shook hands with him.
So have you just been hurting people in the hand?
Not deliberately.
Like old gentlemen in the hand?
Not deliberately, no.
I'm trying to be friendly.
Now, it's time for
the time of the thing.
It is time for the time
of the thing, isn't it?
It is.
Now, we all heard
there was a film pitch
last week,
Harry Potter 7.
Right?
We all heard that.
That was recorded
ages ago.
Finally, it saw the light of day
after you're trying to censor me
and my artistic ways.
I wasn't trying to censor you.
Harry Potter 7.
Or put that in the vault.
Put that in the vault.
Try and keep the idea for yourself.
Right, well, go back overall.
You naughty little thief.
Go back.
That's what I always say to you.
When you're in a podcast and you go,
when was the bit we were recording about Santa?
I always say to you, right, well, tell me what I should have cut out of the podcast
to make way for that.
So tell me.
So I can't think of anything that should have gone in before that.
It was months and months ago. People love the
film pitches. They love Harry Potter.
They love me. They like all the fun.
All the fun of the fair. All in one
section. You thought, this is what you thought.
You thought, that's a good idea, Harry Potter 7.
Pop that out the podcast.
Send it in myself. Try
and get a film. But they all saw it was from you and
you put curry stains all over the sheet
and stuff and they went, well well no we're not making that
are you still ploughing on
with this idea
that I'm spicy
putting all me curry stains
on there
yeah
even though
your address is agrid
right
in the picture
people like me
more than they like you
yeah well
yeah we'll see mate
when I read this out
I can prove it
why
I've got the video
over there
of us on stage
yeah
at the end of the
emergency broadcast
yeah
so we'll just play
the cheers at the end
they're exactly the same
let's see who gets the most cheers they're exactly the same hang on I'm going to put it on here's the end of the emergency broadcast so we'll just play the cheers at the end they're exactly the same let's see who gets
the most cheers
they're exactly the same
hang on I'm going to
put it on
here's the one for Ed
alright here we go
get ready
did you hear the
difference in that
right well you
turned mine down
you turned mine right
down mine was ridiculous mate I got a massive cheer then that's Right, well, you turned mine down. Did you hear my one? You turned mine right down and turned yours right up.
Oh, mine was ridiculous, mate.
I got a massive cheer then.
That's not how it was.
You turned mine right down like that and you turned yours right up.
As it was like, not bad.
It wasn't.
It was like woo and woo.
And Ray Deacock was like, yeah, come on.
Is that what you heard?
Yeah, come on.
Is that what you heard?
Hey, do your hour show at the end.
I was going, guys, come on. Guys, come on, guys. I can't do my hour show at the end! I was going, guys, come on, I can't.
Guys, come on, guys.
I can't do my hour show at the end, guys.
Come on, Ray, do your hour.
No, forget all this nonsense about you changing the sounds, right?
Yeah, he's brilliant.
No, no one said that ever, right?
Ed is stupid.
They do, right?
They have said that.
Did you hear him say that?
Yeah, I heard him say that bit.
I heard him cheering that out as well.
Yeah.
So, obviously, you tried to keep
Harry Potter 7 away
but the public
demanded that you release it
so you have
right
so now it's time
I haven't had time
because the feedback
of the Harry Potter
has been so good
I haven't had time
to write a full film pitch
this week
so I've just gone through
my notes
and I've found
because I'm always
I'm always like
putting down little film pitches
and little ideas I'm always putting down little film pictures and little ideas.
I'm very much like Steven Spielberg.
Yeah, or Guillermo del Toro.
See, we're not doing this section anymore, obviously, which we know.
And I know that now it's become a thing that we're not doing it.
So you are doing it.
So I get it.
But what I'm saying is, even if we're going to do this, and I'll play along with it.
It's a Disney animated film.
Yeah, but at least don't just do notes.
No, but it's like...
At least write it.
No, because it's like a bit of feedback, we can kick around the idea, we can...
So you want me to write it with you?
So, no, well no, I mean, I've got, this is a film pitch, but it's sort of, we've cut out all the faff, we're just straight to the meat of it.
Which is what?
Well, here we go.
Bang.
Well, first, what I'll say straight off is, it's an animated short.
Disney animated film. Yeah, short. Right, not a short. It's like I'll say straight off is it's an animated short. Disney animated film.
Yeah, short.
Right, not a short.
It's like two minutes tops.
No, a feature.
Disney animated feature film.
No, I'm not doing it.
And it is about the bits that hang off fingernails.
You know the little bits?
Oh, for goodness sake.
You know on your fingernails, yeah?
Yeah.
What if they came alive?
This is all my notes.
They are the goodies and the main fingernails are the baddies.
This is in a film, not in real.
The nails bully them, but the hangnails can't do anything about it
because they live on them and have to pay them rent.
Where were you when you wrote this?
Just about the place.
No, where were you sat when you wrote this?
Well, no, because...
What were you waiting for?
Different ideas come in at different times.
I might have been in an independent coffee shop
having a tall black coffee.
Right.
Or I might have been buying some Joss sticks.
Okay, so the hangnails
have to live,
they're alive,
they have to live
on the main fingernails
so they can't,
the main fingernails
are like evil landlords.
You're like a socialist
all this.
So they're a bit upset
obviously but they can't
do anything about it.
The humans don't notice
any of this
and you never see
the humans' faces.
I thought that was
quite inventive.
What's inventive about that?
Well, you don't see the humans' faces.
Okay, well, that happened in Tom and Jerry as well.
Well, you heard the humans though, didn't you?
Sometimes, yeah.
And you hear the humans in this.
Yeah.
So I'm saying this is quite inventive.
So you're saying it's basically,
you've come up with Tom and Jerry.
Little Terry Hangnail is the main goody.
Jerry?
Terry.
Jerry, go on.
Little Terry Hangnail is the main goody
who's had enough, all right?
He's going to do something about it.
He decides to stand up to the main baddie, Jimmy Nail.
He leads an attack against the nails with all the other hangnails
until the nails start ingrowing.
So there's sort of funny stuff, funny stuff, and then they raise up.
I can't believe you're saying this out loud.
And then they rise up against the nails and make them ingrow
and get them so scared so they ingrow.
I can't believe that you had this as an idea and followed through with it.
Right.
I can't believe
that you thought that
and then thought
that'd be funny, wouldn't it?
Just as a throwaway line.
Yeah.
Yeah, it would have been
as a throwaway line.
You've written an entire
film pitch about hangnails
who are in conflict
with the nails
they are hanging off.
Yeah, well,
that's interesting.
That is a classic struggle.
If ever
there was an alarm bell
that this podcast
has run its course
then this is it
never
when we first started
doing this
think about the baddies
you could bring in though
nail clippers
when we first started
doing this
if you'd have said to us
one day
that just knocks it off
one day it'll get to the point
dirt
the dirt under the nails
could be a new character
where Ed is doing
that's an interesting
an interesting thing
a film pitch.
It comes to live.
About hand nails.
Some dirt comes to live on there and they're like, no.
We would have said, please stop us before it gets to that point.
No, I think this is a classic struggle brought to somewhere we haven't considered.
What if our hang nails were alive?
Children, we all thought this when we were children.
But you can apply this to anything.
What if our hair was alive?
Good.
What if snot was alive?
What if Scott was alive?
Snot.
I thought you said Scott. I thought you had a friend called Scott who died.
No, I didn't.
What if hangnails were alive? What if hair was alive?
What if our teeth were alive and our fillings were having a row with them?
Brilliant.
It's not brilliant. It's absolutely idiotic.
Right. So, do you want the cast list?
No.
Starring Precious from Precious.
Why is she always in all your films?
Because I think she's funny.
I liked her on Jonathan Ross.
Why do you think...
Oh, right, so...
She plays Mama Hangnail.
Would you not...
Why is she Mama Hangnail?
Because she's the mum.
The mum hangnail.
Right, we'll call her Mum Hangnail.
Not Mama Hangnail.
Why?
Like she's the bloody cook.
In Tom and Jerry.
Yeah.
James McAvoy.
What?
I don't...
James McAvoy as Terry.
Stop it, Ed!
Charlie Sheen as a funny topical reference.
Alan Bennett as Jimmy Nail.
I think I meant Alan Rickman.
That's all in one note.
Right.
And Lethal Bizzle as the carp.
Who's Lethal Bizzle?
He's like a...
He's a rapper sort of guy.
As the what?
The carp.
I've not...
I just thought at the end I'd like to put a carp in it.
As in a fish?
Yeah.
Why?
Well, the person whose hands they're on works in an aquarium.
So occasionally they'll go underwater
and have a chat with the fish.
I don't want to do this podcast anymore.
Why?
Because you've ruined it.
I've not ruined it.
How have I ruined it?
Normally I would be diplomatic
and I'd say it's run its course
but you have ruined this.
Why?
And not only have you ruined this podcast.
I've got a title.
You've soiled...
Hard as nails
because it's hard as nails.
It's a hard life. You've soiled the memory of all the other podcasts. You've ruined a title. You've soiled. Hard as nails because it's hard as nails. It's hard.
It's a hard life. You've soiled the memory of all the other podcasts. You've ruined all the old ones now. Think of all the funny jokes where he's like wiping his bum. The human they go and they talk
to the other hand they go see you on the other side. This is it. And they're going right up the
bum. And did you say this is an animation? Animated film yeah. For children or for adults? For children
and adults alike. It works on loads of different levels. So you're having... Like all the best ones.
You're having a bit in this kid's film
where the hangnail on the fingernails go up a bum.
No, up a bum.
They just go, you see it go round.
You pick up paper and you see the nails
and the hangnails are terrified.
United at last, for God's sake.
And they see the nails on the other hand
and they know they're going for,
they're like, oh God, here we go again.
And you see the paper go,
you see the hand with the paper go round.
And the thing is, you can have his girlfriend,
the man's girlfriend, his nails,
and they could be really feminine nails.
And they're like long red French nails.
It's all characterised,
but obviously they don't have hangnails
because they're well looked after.
Ooh, hello.
I'm Madame Nail.
Like that.
And that could be Drew Barrymore.
Maybe with the hangnails you could have a bit
where he's in bed with his wife and they're getting all saucy and that. And you see his hand go down between the legs. Right. And then could be Drew Barrymore. Maybe with the hand nails you could have a bit where he's in bed with his wife
and they're getting all saucy and you see his hand go down between the legs.
Right.
And then you just hear him going, ow, ow, ow, ow, slowly, slowly, slowly.
And then you hear the hand nail go, sorry.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic.
That is good though, that is good.
That's a good idea.
Maybe you could do that thing that some men do where they have like just short nails.
That's what I wanted.
Short nails on one hand.
Yeah.
And long nails on the other hand.
Yeah.
So you can do touching down below with the short nails
and you can use the long nails for scratching.
Or like John McCurick, he has one long fingernail for picking his nose.
Maybe he could be in it.
Do you know what? It's going to do it.
I think what we'll do is we'll get you and John McCurick
and what we'll do, I'll pay for it,
for you to go on a writing retreat.
Oh!
I'm not going to tell you where it is.
I think you should be there as well.
No, no, I'm not going to be going to that. But we're really should be there as well. No, no, I'm not going to be going to
that.
But we're really
getting some good
ideas here.
No, no, but I
think if you have
John there, I think
it will help.
Hard as nails.
So you and John
McCrick go and
write Hard as Nails.
Disney Pixar.
I'll sort you out
a helicopter.
What?
To take you to your
writing retreat.
I'll pay for all
this, mate.
Yeah?
Don't you worry.
You don't have to
pay for it.
This is looking
good, guys.
If you've got a
good idea, then I
will pay for you to
go away and write.
You're going there tomorrow.
So what about next week's podcast?
Don't worry about that.
Pack your bags and wait for the helicopter.
Coming soon in cinemas.
Hard as nails.
Yeah.
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