1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: From the newsroom and news still come to you. 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Good day. They're I'm Andrew Bucklow, and let me tell you. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 2: We've got some big stories online for you right now 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: at news dot com a dot au. Starting with Triple 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: M radio host Marty shear Goold. He's been let go 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 2: after making some offensive comments on air about women's sport 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: and the matildas. There's something wrong with the matildas. 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 3: You know what. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: They remind me of Year ten girls, all the infighting 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: and all the friendship issues, and the coach hates me, 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: and I hate bloody training and Michelle's being a bitch. 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: Now, I'm sorry to undermine the whole. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 2: Sport, but that's what I think of it, so you 14 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: can stick it up your ass. A lot of people 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: were understandably quite upset by those comments, and Triple M 16 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: announced a last night it had parted ways with sheer 17 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: Gold Right in lighter years, We've got a recap of 18 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 2: last night's episode of Married at First Sight online for 19 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: you right now. One of our reporters, James Weir, writes 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: these recaps they are absolutely hilarious, and the word hilarious 21 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: is actually a great segue into my guest for this 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 2: episode He is a British comedian named Tom Allen, who 23 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: you might have seen on The Great British Bake Off 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: or Would I Lie to You? Or perhaps he've seen 25 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: one of his comedy specials. Yay gay, yep, still game. 26 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 4: If anything, I'm getting worse and I'm completely gay at you. 27 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 3: I've never tried it any other way. I've never tried 28 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: it with a woman. 29 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 4: I'm a thorough brand and I have tried to fit 30 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 4: in with heterosexual society in various points, like once I 31 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 4: went to a football match but somebody called me mate 32 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 4: and I thought no days. 33 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: Tom is touring Australia in April with his stand up 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: show which is called Completely He's playing Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane 35 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: and Adelaide. You can get all the ticket info wet 36 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: bomb Presents dot com and in just a moment we'll 37 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: meet the man himself and he'll explain why he was 38 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: banned from a pub when he was just five years old. Well, 39 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: Tom Allan, it is lovely to meet. 40 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 3: You, Andrew, thank you very much for having me here. 41 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: I am well, I'm delighted that we can that we 42 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: can chat like this. 43 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 2: They too, Well, there might be some people listening, right 44 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 2: now who are unfamiliar with your background, So I've done 45 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 2: a little bit of a research. You grew up in 46 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: Bromley in Greater London, to working class parents, and from 47 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 2: what I understand, you were quite theatrical from a young age, 48 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 2: which is why you got. 49 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 3: A euphimistic Such an euphemistic day, isn't it So? 50 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, theatrical, which is why you got banned from a 51 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: pub when you were just five years old. Please tell 52 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 2: us what happened. 53 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for knowing about that. 54 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: Well, it was my dad used to sent me into pubs, 55 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: which I think is sort of frowned upon somewhat these days, 56 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: But in the nineteen eighties it was sort of encouraged 57 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: that you take well, it was encouraged that you just 58 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: you'd go to the pub, regardless of whether. 59 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 3: You had your children with you or not. 60 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: And so my dad would go to the pub from 61 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: trigger with his friends and perch me at the end 62 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: of the bar with a bag of crisps or chips 63 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: as you'd call them in Australia and a Coca Cola. 64 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: I think anyway, I was probably talking to the barmaid 65 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: for hours, got a thing about and then my dad 66 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: said come on, it's time to go. And because I'd 67 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: seen it any stenders the soap op probably out here 68 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: a similar scene, I just turned around and slapped my 69 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: dad straight across the face, because I've seen that so 70 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: many times in dramas and things where it was usually 71 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: a woman was sack at the bar and was sort 72 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: of approached by by somebody and told something and then 73 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: they just try to slap them. And I thought that 74 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: was the perfect way to interact with my father, who 75 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: didn't care for that, and march really straight out to 76 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: the pub and said, we've been barred and we can 77 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: never go back. So, yeah, being too theatrical will get 78 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: you into trouble. 79 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: Andrew to be careful. 80 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: You had been throughout your career very open about the 81 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: parts of your childhood were quite tough. You were bullied 82 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: at school as well since becoming this massive. 83 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: Inevitably inevitably, I mean when if you knew me, it's inevitable. 84 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 2: Of course I was bullied since becoming famous. Have you 85 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: run into any of the people that bullied you. 86 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: No, I don't go to prisons. I don't know, I know, 87 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: I haven't really. I mean, there were people who really 88 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: did vouch for me, and I think it's one of 89 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: those things. I guess it's the same all over the world. 90 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: But when you go into that sort of high school 91 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: we call it secondary school, but those teenage years, everybody 92 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: is so self conscious. And I've had this double sense 93 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: of being self conscious because I knew I was different. 94 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: I used to think I wanted to be an actor. 95 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: Then it turned out I was just gay and then. 96 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 3: And so I did. But I had this sort of 97 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 3: I knew I wanted. 98 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: To be something and I knew I was and being 99 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: gay at that point, I dare say maybe there were 100 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: similarities in Australia, but it was it wasn't easy to 101 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: be you were as a young person. It wasn't an 102 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: easy thing at all. It was in the schools in 103 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: the UK, it was something it was banned. The teachers 104 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: couldn't talk about couldn't talk about someone being gay, and 105 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: couldn't say, well, I couldn't say that it was a 106 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: good thing, it was okay to be gay or anything 107 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: like that, because it was just sort of a blanket 108 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: ban called Section twenty eight, which brought in by the government. 109 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: So it was a very strange time to think, like 110 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: no one else was gay, there were no gay role 111 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: models really, and so you felt very very alone, and 112 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: being sort of different and flamboyant made it sort of 113 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: even more sort of awkward. So I really had to 114 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: find my own way through it. But what my dad 115 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: taught me told me that the world takes you at 116 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: your own valuation. And so I learned that actually, if 117 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: you learned to believe in yourself, people will. You can 118 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: either apologize for yourself and the world might therefore treat 119 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: you not as nicely. But if you kind of go, hey, 120 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm here, I don't need to explain myself to you, 121 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: people will kind of come with you. 122 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 3: Oh. 123 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: I love that you mentioned your dad. There another important 124 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: part of the Tom Allen stories that you live with 125 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: your parents until you're in your late thirties. 126 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: How come well, I lived with my Yes, I lived 127 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: with that couple for a long time. My flatmates well 128 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: because and I think, I mean, I know that it's 129 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: sometimes a bit easier in certain parts of Australia to 130 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: buy your own home, but in London I think it 131 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: might be this. I felt like friends of mine have 132 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: said this. In Melbourne and Sydney, it is the case 133 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: that it's too good to get on the housing ladder. 134 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: So I rented for a long time, and then I 135 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: when I was about thirty, I moved back in with 136 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: my parents and soon became this kind of again flamboyant 137 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: adult then trying to live. And of course if you 138 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: do that, if you move in with your parents, they 139 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: would always treat you as though you're a child, so like, oh, mother, please, 140 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm just just I have to go to my poetry recital. 141 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 3: And they'd be like, oh, I figure, you know, and 142 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 3: I'd be very kind of. 143 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: Like like particular about how the table was laid and 144 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: using cloth knapkins and things. 145 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 3: It was strange. 146 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: So I just stayed with living with them, and then 147 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: I was about thirty eight thirty nine, that's when I 148 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: got my own place. So that's when, and that's kind 149 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: of what since by this show that I'm doing well. 150 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 2: I mean that was eight years then in your thirties 151 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: of living with your parents, you had come out of 152 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 2: the closet by then, So I would like to know 153 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: what was the arrangement. Were you allowed to take fellows 154 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: back to your parents? 155 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: Plays well, I never I would never had that conversation 156 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: with my parents. 157 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: I would always be like, I mean, I never really 158 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: have a proper relationship until actually until I moved out home. 159 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: So now I'm with my partner OUTI but the but 160 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: back then it was sort of but there wasn't an option. Really, 161 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: there wasn't. There wasn't anything, you know, you could just 162 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: you just Yeah. It was very difficult, It's all I 163 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: can tell you. Yeah it was very difficult. But it 164 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: was easier than having a conversation with my parents where 165 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: I said I'm going to. 166 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 3: Bring someone back. 167 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 2: Let's talk about stand up. You've been doing it since 168 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: your twenties. It's a skill that takes a long time 169 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: to master, and you have mastered it. You're so good. 170 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 2: But every comedian has one of those horror stories, a 171 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: night where they really died on stage. But more than 172 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: what's the one that stands at in your mind as 173 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: oh god, I wish I could forget about one. 174 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: The first fifteen years of my career, but rather than 175 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: a gig, but they were all, they were all, you know, 176 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: when I started out, like, I was booked to do 177 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: gigs and you know, I just wanted to be myself 178 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: and I was booting for these gigs, the quite like 179 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: blokey kind of you know, matcho crowds and I'd be 180 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: walking up trying to talk about my my mum's hostess 181 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: troally and these these these like stag parties and things 182 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: would be oh apoplectic with rage that I'd be mencing 183 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: around talking and they were just furious, just a just 184 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: so angry that I had the audacity to not not 185 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: only but like they knew I'd traveled to their town. 186 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: And you know, that's often the case as well. I 187 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: think that if you travel from a big city to 188 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: another city or a smaller city, they don't necessarily take 189 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: to that kindly. They don't like someone, you know. And 190 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: I was in my early twenties being all snooty and 191 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: trying to be all grandiose in a and silly way. 192 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: But they were like, what now, I don't worry. What's 193 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 3: all they are? Maybe you could imagine. 194 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: So I had to learn to deal with that. But 195 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: again I had to remind myself of those things I 196 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: learned at school, because everything is in education, isn't it. 197 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: They have to learn that the world take your own value. 198 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: And that's when I became a bit more well. I 199 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: suppose sassy is what people would say, isn't it. And 200 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: then I took it upon myself to walk out and 201 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: be like, shut up all I be are right, you're 202 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: gonna listen. I mean, I didn't do it, but I 203 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: had that in my mind. 204 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 2: What about heckles? Then it sounds like you've had a 205 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 2: few thrown your way. Is there ever one that would 206 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 2: like stop you in your track? So you're like, that's 207 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: actually good or that was an odd thing to say. 208 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 3: I've had people shout things about me on the street. 209 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: I was I was on a date with a guy 210 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: once and someone chouted out in the window get a job, 211 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: which shouldn't make any sense more. 212 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 2: Coming up with Tom Allen in just a moment, Welcome 213 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 2: back up chatting through British comedian Tom Allen, who you 214 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 2: might have seen on one of my favorite British TV 215 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: shows called Eight out of Ten Cats. It does countdown. 216 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 2: It's hosted by Jimmy Carr. 217 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 3: Tom Allen looks like an egg, which is probably the 218 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 3: reason he loves having soldiers dipped in him. 219 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: Tom is touring Australia this April. Tom, your show is 220 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 2: called Complete. What can we expect to hear you talk 221 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: about on stage? 222 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 3: Well? 223 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: I talk about moving out, getting my own place, learning 224 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: to be a grown up, learning to deal with the 225 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: garden and getting a partner, and reflecting on my own 226 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: childhood and how different it was to grow up in 227 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty that's and. 228 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 3: It's yeah, a bit of that and a bit of 229 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 3: everything else, I think. But yeah, and I you know, 230 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 3: I just sort of yeah. I try and be as 231 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 3: hon as possible. 232 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 1: What I always say to people as well, the show 233 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: is never the same two nights in a row, so 234 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: I try and make it a bit about the people 235 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: who are there and make it you know, I always say, well, 236 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: then that combination of people on that day will never 237 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: happen again. So it has a sort of excitement about it, 238 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: which I like. And in an age when we all 239 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: look at our phones, I love I love life comedy 240 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: for that one. 241 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 3: You know, we're not looking at a screen, We're just there. 242 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 2: Are there any Australian comics that you're close with or 243 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: really excited to catch up with when you're in Australia. 244 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so excited to be there. And I have 245 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: to say I've come to do gigs in Australia for 246 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: many years and and and really Australia was a big 247 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: was the place I learned the most, I think because 248 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: people were encouraging and positive and so welcoming. And I'd 249 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: say people like Celia Pecuola and Jeraldine Hickey and Tom 250 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: Ballard and Reyce Nicholson and I mean, now forget I've 251 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: forgotten something that, but don't forgot loads of people. But honestly, 252 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: that's the scene of comics was so kind to me. 253 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: And I always felt like it was such a family. 254 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: So I'm so excited to be to be going back 255 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: and I look forward to catching up with them. 256 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 3: If they want to speak to me. 257 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: Well, I cannot wait to see your show. It's going 258 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: to be great, I'm sure. Tom Allen, thank you so 259 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: much for chatting to use. 260 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 3: Dot com are you pleasure? Thanks for having me. 261 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 2: Particular infie to Tom's show. Go to Bomb Presents dot 262 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: com or Tom Indeed dot com. And that is it 263 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 2: for today's episode from the news Room. 264 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, follow us, subscribe to from the Newsroom 265 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.