Speaker 1: Appota production.
Speaker 2: When did you think that you were going to start this?
Speaker 2: I just did you just all sit down in the house.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I think one day I did a video years like now,
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen, just just random. I left someone, I left hospital.
Speaker 4: I went remember one I went and saw my uncle
Speaker 4: in law and then I pulled over on the side
Speaker 4: of the road led someone through and they didn't give
Speaker 4: me a thank you wave. And I just did a
Speaker 4: video and then about a rant about knowing someone this
Speaker 4: person to give me a thank you wave, and it
Speaker 4: got a little bit of traction online and it was
Speaker 4: it was weird. And then I remember going over to
Speaker 4: the car and saying, hey, man, I did this video.
Speaker 4: I want to do more of them. Let's let's get
Speaker 4: together and let's do a video in the car together.
Speaker 4: And then it was us two and another friend of
Speaker 4: ours who didn't say anything in the videos, who was
Speaker 4: part of SUMAN got to start, and then we just
Speaker 4: started editing. We pressed record. We went for a drive
Speaker 4: one day, we put the camera the phone on the
Speaker 4: dashboard and just drove and did some funny ship and
Speaker 4: then edited it together and put it out. And then
Speaker 4: Andrew saw it and was like, that's great, that's just
Speaker 4: funny boys. And and Andrew and I have been friends.
Speaker 4: We will be mates, no, but the family has been
Speaker 4: friends for thirty years. And then we went to school
Speaker 4: together in the same year and everything, so we were
Speaker 4: very close. But then again is what we're saying. Before
Speaker 4: when we were fifteen, Carlo was twelve, So there's that
Speaker 4: three year gap.
Speaker 5: You know, he was there.
Speaker 3: I always say when when they were having their first
Speaker 3: blank I was playing with Ninja Turtis.
Speaker 5: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: It's yeah, that gap when I'm eleven, I haven't found
Speaker 3: my anatomy yet, and yes, all over.
Speaker 5: The place, I still.
Speaker 4: So you know, so we know. So Andrew was. We
Speaker 4: always had a great laugh with him, and then he
Speaker 4: wrote saying that's is funny ship and then Color said
Speaker 4: he why did you come and do one with us?
Speaker 4: And then the rest is history. We just started doing
Speaker 4: these videos together and had a ball doing it.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what it was all about. We just
Speaker 3: we were at the start. I was running a business,
Speaker 3: Andrews running a business.
Speaker 2: Here was in seven hard to get him because I
Speaker 2: look at these two and they because the brothers and
Speaker 2: all like that.
Speaker 1: But your what work you were doing.
Speaker 4: Did you find it like.
Speaker 5: The roles have evolved over time?
Speaker 6: In the beginning, I didn't do as much as sort
Speaker 6: of secondary so with it up with with another another
Speaker 6: guy that was in yeahs.
Speaker 5: As time went on, it sort of just evolved into
Speaker 5: they just picked you to be the woman, and it.
Speaker 1: Like you need to.
Speaker 5: It was isy to be Look was it fun together?
Speaker 5: So I didn't find that part hard. And when we
Speaker 5: went to the crowd and started performing in front of people,
Speaker 5: that that that e alution. That was a bit more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the very first show. I remember our very first
Speaker 4: show which we all just dove into the deep end.
Speaker 4: We did a show with Nick Janopolis to the wog
Speaker 4: Boy and and we had a crowd of about nine
Speaker 4: hundred people, very first time out in front of an
Speaker 4: audience to do these jokes, and he was only you
Speaker 4: were pacing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was the first one and I the first
Speaker 6: lines on stage, and jeez, I remember it was about
Speaker 6: eight hundred and one, nine undred people, the first time ever,
Speaker 6: never been in front of a crowd of people, never
Speaker 6: performed in front of a crewadi people.
Speaker 5: I mean we did a couple of bits and pieces.
Speaker 6: We used to sing with a bit of a group younger,
Speaker 6: but oh yeah, that was just small time when you're
Speaker 6: done teenager, you know, So that was that was it
Speaker 6: was nerve wracking, but you know, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 6: a simple swim when you're on stage. And we all
Speaker 6: we all took it on board and and after we went,
Speaker 6: I think we were caught on pretty quick, say with
Speaker 6: color as well.
Speaker 4: Like I always say, like I was, like I said,
Speaker 4: I was sang in a band, nothing big, but it
Speaker 4: was audience band.
Speaker 1: You're used to.
Speaker 4: Sing in front of people and talking in front of people. Well,
Speaker 4: this was a different beast because you had to be
Speaker 4: funny and make sure he delivered your lines and make
Speaker 4: sure he didn't suck up your your your your mate
Speaker 4: on stage, you know, like you don't fuck up a
Speaker 4: line for him. So it was that was the first
Speaker 4: time for that, so there was nervous for that. But
Speaker 4: these guys, and they've never done anything before, they fucking
Speaker 4: killed it, you know what I mean. Like it was
Speaker 4: it's very scary.
Speaker 1: You know, it's around of our time that you didn't
Speaker 1: think that you'd get a laugh?
Speaker 4: What's that.
Speaker 5: You stage?
Speaker 1: Would you think that was there? Only nervous gone through
Speaker 1: like what if you don't like, yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: You like when just look at that now, Yeah, when
Speaker 3: you first do when when you write a show is
Speaker 3: because we've done a couple now you know, we're we've
Speaker 3: we've got a couple of down bounds. But when you
Speaker 3: write it and you go out to the first audience,
Speaker 3: that's that's the nerve wracking parts, like are they going
Speaker 3: to laugh? Where are they going to laugh? And learning
Speaker 3: this Sometimes they laugh in a spot that you don't
Speaker 3: even expect. You're like, oh shit, So you's a.
Speaker 2: Lot of it's from because they can relate to what
Speaker 2: you're doing, you know what I mean, Like a lot
Speaker 2: of the stuff that you do is like I remember
Speaker 2: seeing like when I first came over here did yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what's so funny about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true. The when we do a show because
Speaker 4: of the way the show set out, two hour show
Speaker 4: and it's it's sketch baced and you can't go to
Speaker 4: you know, the comics lounge and just jump on the
Speaker 4: mic and do some jokes to see if it works,
Speaker 4: like a lot of these stand up comedians do. So
Speaker 4: when we do a show, the first time we do
Speaker 4: it is the first time we do it, Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So it's pretty much a two
Speaker 4: hour show, and then you might strip it back a
Speaker 4: couple a few jokes don't work, or just rejigg it
Speaker 4: or try and say it differently, or put something else
Speaker 4: in there, and then hopefully by the second or third
Speaker 4: one and you've got your traps in saying that by
Speaker 4: the fortieth show. Sometimes you say something you're like, fuck,
Speaker 4: I wish I did that.
Speaker 3: You were always finding ad libbing stuff, and you know,
Speaker 3: like you find something on the last show, you're like, cheers,
Speaker 3: I could have got that laugh for the whole forty
Speaker 3: or fifty shows that we did.
Speaker 1: All your kids who used to frames behind that all together,
Speaker 1: but me, no, no, we.
Speaker 5: All do.
Speaker 4: We all have like just an idea or whatever.
Speaker 3: We throw it in there and then we just like
Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to shooting it, we'll get
Speaker 3: there and we'll be like.
Speaker 4: Oh, how, but we do it. It's all freestyle a
Speaker 4: lot of it. We don't really write it or anything.
Speaker 5: In the old days.
Speaker 4: When I said the old day, that's for the video
Speaker 4: three or four years ago. For the videos we used
Speaker 4: to when we used to do one liners for each dad,
Speaker 4: we'd alsort of write our own one liners down, but
Speaker 4: we're talking about the topics. So for example, we're going
Speaker 4: to do a concrete video, a concrete video that we did,
Speaker 4: and we already wrote our own little lines down about
Speaker 4: what your character is going to say. And then when
Speaker 4: you're there and Andre says something and I go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm going to say this now too, So then you
Speaker 4: just jump on top of that. Now with the new
Speaker 4: style of videos that we're doing with the dads, either
Speaker 4: like with video, we just put out your dad cut
Speaker 4: in the lawn. It in the Sunday morning. We mum
Speaker 4: making too much noises said to the other. We just
Speaker 4: sort of put it on a WhatsApp, let's do this today,
Speaker 4: and then we run around with it.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like live directing. Yeah, it just had
Speaker 6: no ideas. I will just start there and then he'll say,
Speaker 6: nowhy don't you just push that? Yeah, okay, do that and.
Speaker 5: Say it like this, and then it just all comes together.
Speaker 4: And I think that's why when we do anything with
Speaker 4: a crew, like we just shot something for a streamer,
Speaker 4: they just can't believe how quick we work because because
Speaker 4: we've been doing it like this for so long, so
Speaker 4: we just sort of wait and then we get up
Speaker 4: and go bang, and I go, oh, fuck, I have
Speaker 4: to another one.
Speaker 3: We did this part that was like freestyle, and they'll
Speaker 3: come they're freaking out. They're like, hey, guys, do you
Speaker 3: need a little bit more time and do we need
Speaker 3: to set everything up? And we're like, just just shoot it,
Speaker 3: shut up, just shut up and shoot the thing. Like
Speaker 3: and we were there and we were just like, you know,
Speaker 3: saying what we have to say and then ad libbing
Speaker 3: a little bit, and then they're looking at us like
Speaker 3: what's going on. We're like, this is what we It's
Speaker 3: what we've done for like seven years. You know, we've
Speaker 3: had an iPhone in front of us, and we just
Speaker 3: we've sort of learned the craft that way.
Speaker 4: We cut so much material because we're in a car
Speaker 4: and we'll have a guest and we'll say, just fine,
Speaker 4: just someone has we got to start question and the
Speaker 4: end question. The rest we can feel and I'm like, nah,
Speaker 4: it'd be good if we can have questions. Questions, questions, questions, questions. Right,
Speaker 4: we asked all those questions. But then the rest of
Speaker 4: it was so funny because the characters just take over
Speaker 4: and do this, and do that, and say this and
Speaker 4: then say that, and that leads to this, and that
Speaker 4: leads to that, and that's just how we've done.
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to ask you about the characters Johnny Vincent, Sam,
Speaker 2: how did you call up them?
Speaker 1: Was it just like you know, like normal and of
Speaker 1: like that you've seen in the pastor from family people.
Speaker 4: My character, Johnny character is is like a couple of
Speaker 4: my dad's ones, my dad's sort of uncle, my godfather,
Speaker 4: and a blend of just you know, Charlie, there's a
Speaker 4: couple of just people that I've were around me when
Speaker 4: I was a kid, my dad's friends or relatives, you know.
Speaker 4: My my mom character is my more a little bit
Speaker 4: like my grandma's loud, his big, she was big, she
Speaker 4: was bearing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: That's that's my ones.
Speaker 6: The boys, my my my ethic dad. Sam, He's he
Speaker 6: looks like I based his look on one of my uncles.
Speaker 6: He don't tell him that you want money for that
Speaker 6: Uncle Nick actually a little bit. But as far as
Speaker 6: his personality, it's it's a mixture of all my uncles
Speaker 6: and all all that that the O G type bogs
Speaker 6: that I've met over the years, from the social clubs
Speaker 6: to like his dad, but everyone's mixed in him and
Speaker 6: same with same with Angela, my my ethnic mum. She's
Speaker 6: got revernence of my mum and her but really she's
Speaker 6: just anybody's mom. But I've met over the years and
Speaker 6: you sort of will mash it together.
Speaker 5: It's funny because even though.
Speaker 6: I was thinking about this earlier, today, for some reason,
Speaker 6: it's like I've learned to love all the characters like
Speaker 6: I love Vince. Vince has become his own things. From
Speaker 6: the beginning to now, Vince has become his own. When
Speaker 6: Karla does Vince, it's Vince. It's not Carl doing Vince.
Speaker 6: When he does Johnny, it's it's just Johnny.
Speaker 3: It's not strange.
Speaker 6: Joe doing Johnny. And same with my character. I've really
Speaker 6: learned to love the characters and portray them as authentically
Speaker 6: as we can.
Speaker 1: But when you do your characters, does it Sometimes you
Speaker 1: go home and yet you're still doing any Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you get stuck. Seriously, you get stuck in the matrix.
Speaker 1: And I look at you and I feel like you're
Speaker 1: just always in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, something always in the Sometimes you get stuck.
Speaker 7: I look at you and I want to laugh a
Speaker 7: bad way. Don't not in a bad way, in a
Speaker 7: bad way. You know one of them faces, you know,
Speaker 7: like you got me to talk. Well, you're welcome to me.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: It's a big laugh with