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Speaker 1: We love this man to death, grew and returned tonight

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Speaker 1: eight thirty on ABC and iView. He just recently did

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Speaker 1: an interview and said, at the age of forty six,

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Speaker 1: I have finally become what my parents have worried about

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Speaker 1: for the last twenty five years. An unemployed stand up

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Speaker 1: comedian Will Anderson w whoa.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's the man with the best comedy timing going around.

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Speaker 2: I quit my regular radio job at the end of

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Speaker 2: last year and spend my entire year touring live stand

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Speaker 2: up comedy did not count for a global pandemic to

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Speaker 2: get him away. Normally, hecklers are about as much as

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Speaker 2: you have to worry about. But turns out comedy not

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Speaker 2: COVID safe. Not in the essential industry. Guys well, because

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Speaker 2: getting a whole a thousand people in a room with

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Speaker 2: little ventilation and they're getting to expel fluids against their

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Speaker 2: will for eighteen minutes in a row as much as possible,

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Speaker 2: and the funnier you are, the more deeply you are.

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Speaker 2: It's not a great job for our time. So I

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Speaker 2: got to say, whipper, But have you heard from you

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Speaker 2: Mum and dad? They said.

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Speaker 3: They jumped in and said, well, we know you're doing

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Speaker 3: it tough, mate, pushed through.

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Speaker 2: We're so proud of you. You have everything we dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: Have I heard of that? Have I heard from them? Whipper?

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Speaker 2: I can't get them off the freaking phe Seriously, this

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Speaker 2: is like their Christmas. This is the greatest thing that

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Speaker 2: has ever happened to them. It's like when I got arrested.

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Speaker 2: I've been clean in their voices when they took that call,

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Speaker 2: because they've been waiting for it for twenty years, from

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Speaker 2: the minute that I started doing stand up. They've been

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Speaker 2: waiting for the call can I have some money? Or

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Speaker 2: I've been arrested? And now within twenty four months they've

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Speaker 2: ticked off two of their bucket lists. They can die

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Speaker 2: peacefully knowing that their bum some got arrested and is

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Speaker 2: unemployed and mum won't stop offering me money. I'm so great.

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Speaker 2: Glad grew on his back because like every month it

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Speaker 2: was like, you know, we've got that emergency fund we

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Speaker 2: were saving for your wedding that you're never going to

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Speaker 2: use to can have that money?

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Speaker 1: Was there a moment where the dad said, do you

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Speaker 1: want to come back to the farm. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to work on a farm?

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Speaker 2: No, my business is already ruin. Let's not ruin his

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Speaker 2: business as well. Well.

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Speaker 3: The thing is, with everything that's going on right in

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Speaker 3: your position, where you might have a bit more time

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Speaker 3: on your hands. Mums do love to chat, and I

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Speaker 3: was thinking, wouldn't it be great if Apple or someone

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Speaker 3: could introduce some function where, you know, if when I

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Speaker 3: saw that mum was ringing on the phone, I could

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Speaker 3: select five minutes and then when mart the call started,

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Speaker 3: it would say you have five minutes with your son Michael,

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Speaker 3: and toward the end it would say, Michael has to

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Speaker 3: go in one minute. You get a couple of beets,

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Speaker 3: and then the conversation would be over because when they.

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Speaker 2: Know you've got time, you can't get rid of them. Yeah. See,

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Speaker 2: I think you're you're shooting low and your aspirations. You

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Speaker 2: could solve two problems at the same time. Do you

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Speaker 2: think there's a whole bunch of unemployed artists and comedians

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Speaker 2: at the moment that I'm sure your mum would love

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Speaker 2: to have a chat with. So what you've got to do?

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Speaker 2: He's like mate. For the last five months, I was

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Speaker 2: desperate to have a chat to your mum for forty

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Speaker 2: five minutes. I could have done some new material about

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Speaker 2: some observations about masks that the Mull and Bimby shops.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure she could have been into that.

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Speaker 3: So Divert calls to Will Anderson's bone.

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Speaker 1: The mum gets to choose, you know you, Will Anderson

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Speaker 1: on a press one for Will Anderson, Carl Baron's on

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Speaker 1: two Tom three.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Okay, we'll leave that with thee.

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Speaker 1: So how are we doing growing? What's Grewing going to

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Speaker 1: look like tonight?

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Speaker 2: Will?

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Speaker 1: How's it all set up?

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Speaker 2: Well, the big thing, VIZI for me is my superpower

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Speaker 2: is gone. So there is no live studio audience. I

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Speaker 2: did suggest that we do the show. It has halftime

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Speaker 2: entertainment at the footing, so we could have a crowd.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're desperate for I mean, we could have

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Speaker 2: done all ten series of grew And at halftime at

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Speaker 2: the AFL Grand Final. I was happy to go into

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Speaker 2: the hub. I was happy to give it a go. Yep.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so no live studio audience. So the first

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Speaker 2: few minutes of the show, when we're doing comedy forgive

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Speaker 2: me tonight. We'll get that right, you know, as the

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Speaker 2: season goes over. But the panel discussion with her is

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Speaker 2: the best we've ever had, because what I hadn't realized

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Speaker 2: is in the last eleven years, we've been putting advertising

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Speaker 2: professionals who aren't used to being on TV, but also

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Speaker 2: definitely aren't used to performing in front of a live audience,

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Speaker 2: and so suddenly the audience has gone away. And there

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Speaker 2: was a point about halfway through the show where I

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Speaker 2: think they forgot they were on TV and they just

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Speaker 2: started having a really in depth conversation and I was like,

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Speaker 2: we're filming this and this is going to be great.

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Speaker 3: I love that idea, And is the pitch anything to

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Speaker 3: do with COVID, Like I would love to see a

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Speaker 3: clever take from an agency trying to sell in COVID

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Speaker 3: nineteen is a good thing, you know what?

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Speaker 2: I think? I think there is a few are tried

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Speaker 2: to sell it as a good thing. We'll show you

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Speaker 2: a few ads tonight where people have certainly tried to

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Speaker 2: embrace the good things that have come with COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 2: We so fitty, I love this. There's a company called

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Speaker 2: Burns for Blinds from Adelaide, and they love COVID because

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Speaker 2: prices on blinds have dropped, and if you had to

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Speaker 2: be shutting your house, you blinds the protective from the world.

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Speaker 2: So it is COVID related the pitch. So we're going

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Speaker 2: to do. One advertising agency is going to convince us

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Speaker 2: to never go back into the office again because obviously

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Speaker 2: so many people are working from home now. The other

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Speaker 2: agency is going to try to rectify that problem and

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Speaker 2: convince people after all these months of being at home

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Speaker 2: that it is a good idea to go into work again.

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Speaker 1: I love it a real day. Yesterday we were speaking

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Speaker 1: about this after the show Will But yesterday we watched

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Speaker 1: we watched Donald Trump in Florida, and you were tweeting

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Speaker 1: about this quite a bit, and he was just his

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Speaker 1: emotion and how fired up he was, and how well

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Speaker 1: America has done with COVID nineteen. Yet we were watching

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Speaker 1: a dictator in North Korea in Pyongyang. We're watching Kim

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Speaker 1: Jong un crying with the disasters that have happened in

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Speaker 1: his country. How the world has changed so much. When

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Speaker 1: you see one man crying and the other one pumping

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Speaker 1: up how well that they've done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and both really two rational examples of leadership too.

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Speaker 2: That's really the take out from that is what a

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Speaker 2: great gamut of fantastic leadership we have in this world,

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Speaker 2: don't we. But it is an interesting moment in your

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Speaker 2: life where you're like, I'm with Kim Jong un when

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Speaker 2: you decide that of the two mat to be honest,

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Speaker 2: if Biden, Kim Jong Un, and trumb were running against

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Speaker 2: each other, Biden would be worried he'd lose to Kim

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Speaker 2: Jong Un.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I agree. Since he started crying, everyone

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Speaker 3: fell in love.

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Speaker 1: It is Mate. We can't wait to see you back

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Speaker 1: on our screen tonight eight thirty ABC. Gruin returns love

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Speaker 1: you will. Thanks for coming on the show, Buddy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, guys, and we'll give me your

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Speaker 2: mum's number. I'll get that, alloways. Mate should be calling

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Speaker 2: in five minutes, sebuddy,