Speaker 1: Look out.
Speaker 2: It's only films to be buried with. Hello, and welcome
Speaker 2: to you, films to be buried with. My name is
Speaker 2: Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, a writer, a director,
Speaker 2: a chip off the old block, and I love films.
Speaker 2: As loud Sue once said, those who know do not speak,
Speaker 2: Those who speak do not know. Those who keep their
Speaker 2: phones on at the cinema shall not be loved. Every
Speaker 2: week I'm a special guest over. I tell them they've died,
Speaker 2: then I get them to discuss their life through the
Speaker 2: films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include
Speaker 2: Barry Jenkins and the Ruffin, Mark Frost, Sharon Stone, and
Speaker 2: even Keed Flambles. But this week it is the excellent
Speaker 2: comic and award winner mister Phil Ellis. Head over to
Speaker 2: the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein,
Speaker 2: where you'll get extra twenty minutes of chat with Phil.
Speaker 2: You get his secret, you get other stuff about Phil films.
Speaker 2: You get the whole episode, uncut and ad free, and
Speaker 2: as a video. Check it out over at Patreon dot
Speaker 2: com forward slash Brett Goldsteve So Phil Ellis is a
Speaker 2: legendary comedian from the UK circuit. He's done sitcoms, he's
Speaker 2: won awards. If you've never seen him, you must see him.
Speaker 3: He's currently doing his eleventh Edinburgh Fringe show and if
Speaker 3: you're listening to this, in a few weeks after that,
Speaker 3: soon he will be on tour with it.
Speaker 2: He's fucking funny. You really love him. We got to
Speaker 2: record this on Zoom last weekend. He's at the Fringe
Speaker 2: while we recorded this. It was so fun to get
Speaker 2: to talk to him. And I really think you're gonna
Speaker 2: love this one. That's it for now. I hope you're
Speaker 2: all well, Thank you for listening, and I very much
Speaker 2: hope you enjoy episode three hundred and twelve of Films
Speaker 2: to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to
Speaker 2: be Buried With. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I
Speaker 2: enjoyed today by an actor, a writer, a broadcaster, a podcaster,
Speaker 2: a stand up comedian, a sketch artist, a children's entertainer
Speaker 2: and award winner, an Edinburgh legend, a UK legend, a
Speaker 2: world legend, one of the great figures in the entire
Speaker 2: UK comedy industry.
Speaker 3: He's here. Can you believe it? I can't.
Speaker 2: By the ears and he's life from Edinburgh. Please welcome
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 3: It's him.
Speaker 1: It's been anis yay, okay. I wanted to intruct you
Speaker 1: about four times to go wrong, but it was nice.
Speaker 3: Actor. Come on, you do sitcoms?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do all my own acting.
Speaker 3: You do you old? You're an actor? I've seen you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you see whereas you're a good actor.
Speaker 1: I think I can. I'm trying to get more into acts.
Speaker 1: I'm quite enjoying it. But I don't know how to
Speaker 1: do auditions. I had an audition recently for something and
Speaker 1: I just I go into stand up mode straight away.
Speaker 3: I think that's good.
Speaker 4: And I throw it on. The audition just goes.
Speaker 3: You know to part is that when you're doing self tape,
Speaker 3: so when you're in the room.
Speaker 4: When I'm in the room, I've talk about my audition.
Speaker 1: For Red Dwarf.
Speaker 3: No, but I would love to hear it.
Speaker 4: It's the worst. Well, it wasn't even audition. I was
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 1: So I managed to I managed to talk everyone out
Speaker 1: of ironing me in the space of four minutes.
Speaker 3: I know what happened.
Speaker 1: So I went to I was I was at twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen after doing this show that.
Speaker 4: Had done one in Edinburgh.
Speaker 2: Friends and Games and pans of Games, which I saw
Speaker 2: in love to my sister saw four times.
Speaker 1: Oh it's amazing. Oh great, and so it's like an
Speaker 1: inappropriate kids show, wasn't I'm not inappropriate? But and I
Speaker 1: was in the Baby Cow offices and I saw Red
Speaker 1: Dwarf on the laptop and I said, well, have you
Speaker 1: got Red Dwarf? And they went, oh, we're making it.
Speaker 1: So I said that was my favorite sitcom growing up,
Speaker 1: like I loved it, and they went, well, do you
Speaker 1: want to be in it?
Speaker 4: And I thought, you know, it was that easy?
Speaker 1: Went yeah, right, And then I met I met Richard Naylor,
Speaker 1: the producer Doug Nah's son, and we got very well,
Speaker 1: and he saw the show and they all loved it
Speaker 1: and they were like, yeah, we can't wait to have
Speaker 1: you on it. Let's get you in so we'll film
Speaker 1: you and we'll just pick what to get you on.
Speaker 4: I went, oh, great, it's gonna be brilliant.
Speaker 1: And then I went in and I got this script
Speaker 1: about but I think it was like I wanted to
Speaker 1: just be the voice of a vending machine. I thought
Speaker 1: I could do that and it was it's called snacky.
Speaker 1: So I went to okay, and they went, he's really
Speaker 1: nervous man. I went, I thought it was just a
Speaker 1: voice over. They went, I went, oh, now I could
Speaker 1: have now completely.
Speaker 3: Really think and I have an attitude for this character.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know he had a background. And it
Speaker 1: was so bad. I just kept going, I can't act.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't act, and they went, you can,
Speaker 1: you can act? What about this trying to be a robot?
Speaker 1: I went all right, and then I did a line.
Speaker 1: I went, I can't act. I went, you can act, phil,
Speaker 1: and I thought, this is the weirdest audition where the
Speaker 1: good you can come on, have a go at this,
Speaker 1: and I just get.
Speaker 4: I read it.
Speaker 1: I went listen do you and I went I can't.
Speaker 1: This is awful, and he went you can, We've seen you.
Speaker 1: And then I panicked and I got on all fours
Speaker 1: and I crawled out of the room and I just
Speaker 1: went home.
Speaker 3: So you don't even know if they wanted to, you'd left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking back, I had a massive panic attack, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know what it was. And then I got
Speaker 1: a phone call from baby carg you can't act, and
Speaker 1: I went on panicked and he went, did you crawl
Speaker 1: out the room? I went, yeah, you went, yeah, we've
Speaker 1: seen it. The door just opens and closes in the background.
Speaker 1: So I just got on the table.
Speaker 4: But do hire me?
Speaker 3: Yeah I would. That hasn't put me off. If anything,
Speaker 3: that me more.
Speaker 2: Tell me you're currently in Edinburgh doing the festival as
Speaker 2: we record this true or force true?
Speaker 3: What are you weak? One?
Speaker 4: So I think we're on like day.
Speaker 1: What dare we on? Now?
Speaker 4: We're like day eleven? I think, tell me everything, and I'm.
Speaker 1: At the monkey Barrel fur Monkey Bowl, which is fantastic
Speaker 1: and twelve forty five of mid day. Oh lovely, it's great.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done a show at midday? You seem suspicious?
Speaker 2: Well, I stupidly all the times I did Edinbur did
Speaker 2: late shows like and in hindsight, the earlier the better,
Speaker 2: I've realized, because you want it to be people's first
Speaker 2: show of the day rather than the eighth show of
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 3: And that's so sick of being asked, how's everyone doing?
Speaker 3: We're fine. We've said this seven times today.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's all lot.
Speaker 3: Ill stop talking to us. Do your show? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's yeah.
Speaker 1: Energy levels do wait, are you a good audience member
Speaker 1: to think, bro, when you're in someone's show.
Speaker 3: God, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's good to be in the audience
Speaker 2: and to remind yourself that sometimes you're really enjoying it
Speaker 2: and your face is doing nothing, because I know on
Speaker 2: stage you look out and you go fucking now. But
Speaker 2: then sometimes I always think about I won't say who
Speaker 2: he is just because he might be embarrassed by this,
Speaker 2: but there's a comedian you and I know.
Speaker 3: Who I think is brilliant. It's always stayed with me
Speaker 3: when to see his Edinburgh shown, and it was amazing.
Speaker 3: It was so good and it was so funny.
Speaker 2: It was so deep and personal and interesting and brilliant,
Speaker 2: and we were like enrapped this audience and suddenly he goes, well,
Speaker 2: this isn't working, is it. I don't know what to
Speaker 2: do with you all. And it was such a weird
Speaker 2: thing as the audience when it was like, oh, we're
Speaker 2: fucking loving this, and then it made it awkward. It
Speaker 2: made us feel bad. So then everyone was kind of
Speaker 2: performatively going like ha ha ha like it. And it
Speaker 2: also made it feel like a disconnection from him and
Speaker 2: us because it was like, oh, we were really into
Speaker 2: this and we thought you felt that, and now we
Speaker 2: feel bad like it was a whole. So it's such
Speaker 2: a tricky thing because so when I'm in the audience,
Speaker 2: I am at minimum massive grin the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: laughing a lot, But if you look at my face,
Speaker 2: I'm working hard, I'm having a good time.
Speaker 4: I'm terrible. I don't watch because I'm so bad.
Speaker 1: I just go it's not worth It's not worth it
Speaker 1: for none of us are gett anything like this.
Speaker 4: I don't want to watch the show, and you don't
Speaker 4: want to watch me.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you know I feel in the
Speaker 1: stay about.
Speaker 4: It for an hour, but I know I'm not very
Speaker 4: good at all.
Speaker 1: I tried. I went to a show last year and
Speaker 1: it's the same, exactly what you were saying. I was
Speaker 1: really enjoying it. But I went to see the show.
Speaker 1: It's such a good show. But they put me under
Speaker 1: a big light where they put the reviewers so they
Speaker 1: can see, which is an odd thing to do anyway,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't want to see a reviewer. And so
Speaker 1: I sat under this lamp and after a while, the
Speaker 1: same as I went, am I doing the right And
Speaker 1: I could kept seeing, they kept looking over and I
Speaker 1: go and then going back to the show, I didn't
Speaker 1: want faced and I smile, went that's too much for this,
Speaker 1: and I'd be smiling, and then they're talking about the depression.
Speaker 1: I went.
Speaker 2: Out, what's the right when you're an NFL in the sea?
Speaker 2: That's a that's bad, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Was it a big splash?
Speaker 3: So? How are you with?
Speaker 2: I mean everything I've seen you do? Like you don't
Speaker 2: turn on? And what's your relationship with an audience?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Where are you at?
Speaker 1: I flirt with them all as they leave. I stand
Speaker 1: by the door, just wink at them as the leaving.
Speaker 1: You never know, Brat, you might find a might find
Speaker 1: a future partner.
Speaker 3: With Daniel crowded it this system don't.
Speaker 1: Sound proud of it, and I'm not a lot in
Speaker 1: the bucket this year.
Speaker 4: I think the winks are putting people off.
Speaker 3: What's what number show is this of yours?
Speaker 4: Did you show eleven? She's mad, isn't it?
Speaker 2: How did you approach this one? Did you have a
Speaker 2: big idea or you're like I just got to have
Speaker 2: a show, Like where how did you start this?
Speaker 1: Well? It's kind of into what you were saying before,
Speaker 1: like what it was like, how am I with an audience? Well,
Speaker 1: I like to have fun and I need energy up.
Speaker 1: So if you know energy is low, I've been guilty
Speaker 1: in the past of doing the whole what's wrong with
Speaker 1: your this was nominated? You know that pathetic get it
Speaker 1: just like an angry uncle. Yeah, I've got fucking five
Speaker 1: in mumbles dot com?
Speaker 3: Do you know that you haven't had it? Fringe big
Speaker 3: your bastards.
Speaker 1: What's really funny is all the publications we would have
Speaker 1: sneered at ten years ago. We now just we were
Speaker 1: just some bloke that turns up and says I'm a
Speaker 1: comedy chuckles dot com and you go. You know, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go on the post. Yeah, thanks, I'll.
Speaker 3: Take your start.
Speaker 1: But the cos just got five from gb News getting on,
Speaker 1: so I would do that and get a bit nuggetive.
Speaker 1: So these shows are just last year's show. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to have fun. So I had a band in
Speaker 1: the show and I was dressed as a cat. I
Speaker 1: thought that was free whiskers skin tight like a suit,
Speaker 1: which I thought was funny in Edinburgh because the sightlines
Speaker 1: are terrible. But when I took it on tour. It
Speaker 1: was like the most horrificic when you raised, when everyone
Speaker 1: can see you and you've got good lights, and it
Speaker 1: was like it's the only show that people went to
Speaker 1: and they wanted a restricted view there going hop the
Speaker 1: bloke in front puts the top at on why did
Speaker 1: you get a good seats? So it's just the same
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So last year had the band and
Speaker 1: then this year's trying to think of what to do.
Speaker 1: So I've got a hype man who comes out the
Speaker 1: top of the show and he stays behind me in
Speaker 1: DJs and joins in the.
Speaker 4: C Yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 3: Who's your hype man?
Speaker 4: God Tom Shorts? He was originally do you remember Funds
Speaker 4: and Games?
Speaker 1: We had a bit well, a clown come in that
Speaker 1: I've hired the magazine and the kids because you point
Speaker 1: out that it was in the kids section of the
Speaker 1: kids and it wasn't rude, but all the parents could
Speaker 1: see the adult jokes and the clown had been dancing
Speaker 1: and after a while realize I've hired a.
Speaker 4: Strip of my mistake.
Speaker 1: We have to kick him out because he's put cream
Speaker 1: on his hand and he's just gone up to one
Speaker 1: of the mums and his chest. We go he's a
Speaker 1: clown and get him. He was the original clown from
Speaker 1: Funds and Games, so he's come back.
Speaker 3: Did you ever get any trouble with Funds and Games
Speaker 3: from any parents for anything? No?
Speaker 1: I think we went too far in the third one.
Speaker 1: The third one we went we had a song, we
Speaker 1: had the kuddly Kunerberg came on and did a song
Speaker 1: about how he was moving into your area, telling you
Speaker 1: what his postcode dress, and they didn't really like him.
Speaker 1: It was the song was fantastic as a proper disco
Speaker 1: moving into your area, maybe living closer. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: make me any scarier. I'm a goodly Kuala bear and
Speaker 1: I'm registered, so it's really good. But yeah, the third
Speaker 1: one I think a bit too far because we've already
Speaker 1: the balance.
Speaker 4: It was a bit too so yeah, but we brought
Speaker 4: it back.
Speaker 1: For a couple of years.
Speaker 2: So how is it going Week two? What's your usual
Speaker 2: Edinburgh mental health trajectory?
Speaker 3: Week by week?
Speaker 1: I don't weirdly, I'm always quite. I do usually bring
Speaker 1: up a good show, so I'm all right generally and
Speaker 1: as long as I've enjoying the show. But I've had
Speaker 1: a couple of years when you know, when you're just
Speaker 1: struggling with the show, perhaps you can't fix it. But
Speaker 1: you know what I've had, We've all had material things
Speaker 1: we've done.
Speaker 4: Where you're just going, I can't figure out how.
Speaker 1: To get this.
Speaker 4: And I've had a couple of years like that.
Speaker 1: When I'm just going, this is just it for the month,
Speaker 1: and it's a bit like we're all stuck and every
Speaker 1: day I stood a cloth of wardrobe having top across
Speaker 1: the stage. Well, it's a three star show and its
Speaker 1: get out. And but the past few years I've really enjoyed,
Speaker 1: like this year has been great. We've done all the
Speaker 1: reviews have been really good. So yeah, fours and five
Speaker 1: so I'm happy with that and good numbers, so I'm
Speaker 1: happy ish, I'm happy for you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Pou, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Who are you living with here?
Speaker 4: I'm living with.
Speaker 1: There's quite a few people I don't know, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because everyone's in student halls now, so it's not like
Speaker 1: years ago you could get a nice flat in Marchment,
Speaker 1: which are the nice high roof. I'm just in a
Speaker 1: student halls with quite a few, like a couple of
Speaker 1: improv group people and somebody's doing the one person playing
Speaker 1: summer hall and stuff.
Speaker 4: So I don't but a couple of stand ups.
Speaker 1: It's good. I don't see anyone. I just go to
Speaker 1: my venue and then I find a bench and a drink.
Speaker 1: I just call it flying.
Speaker 3: You've got me up early. You're fucking did show it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I sleep on the bench now and then
Speaker 4: I'm not off?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that thing happens to start your day?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: You eleven?
Speaker 1: I get up? But no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: go about nine thirty. Do my exercises, which aren't showing.
Speaker 1: I think we can both degree. What exercises do you do?
Speaker 1: What have I do a lot of stretching and I
Speaker 1: do a little bit working on my core at the moment.
Speaker 3: How's that going? Do you think? I think, Look, you've
Speaker 3: got a good list, you've got good posture right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But yeah, oh Phil, fuck we we got running over.
Speaker 2: No, it's not that I forgot to tell you something.
Speaker 2: Oh what I fuck? I should have said it at
Speaker 2: the beginning. I've just seen the fucking note I wrote,
Speaker 2: and I was sposed to say this at the beginning. Fuck,
Speaker 2: I just I just well, I'll just tell you I
Speaker 2: guess you've died.
Speaker 3: You're dead, what you're dead?
Speaker 1: Genuinely, I thought something terrible and happened. Then I'm happy
Speaker 1: with that. I've been waiting for it. I've been I've
Speaker 1: been praying for this day.
Speaker 3: How did he die?
Speaker 4: It was doing us well?
Speaker 1: Do you know? I planned this, actually, brat, because I
Speaker 1: want to go straight to heaven. So okay, I would
Speaker 1: like to go in a selfless act, which I think
Speaker 1: gets you straight there. But I know that you technically
Speaker 1: can't plan a selfless act. So what I did was
Speaker 1: I saw I found a house fire, and I ran
Speaker 1: and pretended that I was going in to save everyone,
Speaker 1: so that I was like, yeah, that was really dangerous,
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, it's all good.
Speaker 4: No, there were people. I just didn't make enough.
Speaker 1: I just ran right past, ran past the family, and
Speaker 1: I found a corner and let the flames take me.
Speaker 3: So as the family they're just running out, they were fine.
Speaker 1: No, no, they went with me, they went with I
Speaker 1: locked the door behind me.
Speaker 4: I was like, let's just but they're are with me
Speaker 4: now watching loads.
Speaker 1: Of films, so your self is act killed upward of
Speaker 1: five people.
Speaker 3: Up with Okay, that's lovely.
Speaker 4: Sorry, but God wasn't looking at the time.
Speaker 3: How old were you? How old would you like to
Speaker 3: be when this happens?
Speaker 1: I want to know would you like, Oh that's interesting,
Speaker 1: I would like thirty eight? Okay, just enough hair left
Speaker 1: that it made sense that I bought the up five.
Speaker 1: Whereas now about it and they can personally had the
Speaker 1: count and look at it. Come on, pal, just there's
Speaker 1: nothing there to put wax on. Just putting wax on
Speaker 1: her head for the listeners at home. I'm a thinning man.
Speaker 1: Do you worry about death?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: The old drug get I suppose I do a bit. Really,
Speaker 1: I suppose I'm more worried about all you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know, worry what we're worried about? No, yeah, I
Speaker 1: am a bit, A little bit. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: most scared of life than death. It's hard working it.
Speaker 3: I do. I agree. I think I'm most scad of that.
Speaker 3: What do you think happens when you die? Go straight
Speaker 3: to heaven for yourself eText?
Speaker 4: As in with my body.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be shared out amongst my family like
Speaker 1: a limited time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, limited time? Take what you want?
Speaker 3: Do you have a He's saying, who gets what? It's
Speaker 3: a pre thrill for the family.
Speaker 4: I reckon it's a free for all.
Speaker 1: But obviously anything above the top you can't leave me.
Speaker 3: Just bury my.
Speaker 4: My crotch in a shoe box.
Speaker 2: Well, which memory of your family do you want to
Speaker 2: have your dick? If everyone's sharing things that well, that's
Speaker 2: a good question, but not enough people. Yeah, who, No
Speaker 2: one asked me who do you want to have your dick?
Speaker 2: He's a good question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I think my grandfather, if he was around, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he'd appreciate.
Speaker 3: Do you think he'd take good care of it?
Speaker 4: He was always looking at it or in its general direction.
Speaker 2: Do you think he'd sort of just sort of keep
Speaker 2: it in like a pop plant, sort of put it
Speaker 2: up by the telly.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think he'd wear it around his neck
Speaker 1: right with bride and that was my boys there he
Speaker 1: is four stars four stars enter entertainment chuckles, not weekly,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Who do you have your head? I'd like
Speaker 1: to have it in the loop. Oh right, yeah, would
Speaker 1: you get frozen if you could? Just if you were
Speaker 1: to tell you've got this thing, we can freeze you. Brett,
Speaker 1: you were right next to Walt.
Speaker 2: Isn't he what we can freeze you before you die,
Speaker 2: and then if we find a cure when I'm freezing,
Speaker 2: or would you just go God, I haven't talked. I
Speaker 2: haven't thought about this in a while. You know, I'd
Speaker 2: want to know what's happening when I'm frozen. Am I dreaming?
Speaker 2: Or am I like it was a light switch and
Speaker 2: a light switch comes back on?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'd hate the thought that I'm frozen but I've gone
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm still I'm still awake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm familiar. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love it if I have that late, weird
Speaker 1: little cupboard that I can see on my zoom behind you,
Speaker 1: this little door. If a big team came out now
Speaker 1: with the equipment to do.
Speaker 4: This, you got thirty seconds? Yes or no?
Speaker 3: Yeah? God, what would you say? Maybe I say yes,
Speaker 3: see the future.
Speaker 4: You're having a great time. Enjoy it a bit more.
Speaker 3: But they're going to freeze me. Then I'm missing everything
Speaker 3: I know is dead.
Speaker 1: I'd love that that I don't know about I reckon.
Speaker 1: I don't know what there is after death, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I do like to think this. I've I've started using
Speaker 1: the word energy and vibes recently.
Speaker 3: And I can do I listen, I don't, don't.
Speaker 1: We've all got an energy, then an aura that may
Speaker 1: go on to other, you know, other things.
Speaker 4: I don't even know. If I believe that I felt
Speaker 4: a bit sick.
Speaker 3: Then I think you do feel and I think you're
Speaker 3: you're ashamed of sincerity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, genuinely.
Speaker 3: Well listen, you're You're right. There's an energy, there's a vibe,
Speaker 3: and it's going straight to heaven, my friend. Yeah, even
Speaker 3: though you genuinely killed a family of output up with
Speaker 3: the five in a burning building and kill them, I
Speaker 3: just able to help them. You did lock the door
Speaker 3: and keep them in head anyway. Nonetheless, here we are.
Speaker 3: It's all I forgive. And everyone's very excited to see.
Speaker 3: They're big fans, the big fans of fun and games,
Speaker 3: really big fans of everything you've done, and they want
Speaker 3: to talk about your life. Oh, it's field to be
Speaker 3: your favorite thing heaven. By the way, what's your favorite thing?
Speaker 4: My favorite thing? I get to take it.
Speaker 1: Up with me. It'll be my brown it's my brown
Speaker 1: leather jacket.
Speaker 4: I wear a brown leather jacket all the time. Is
Speaker 4: that okay?
Speaker 3: You're talking to a man who has two T shirts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's totally fine. Yeah, there's brown leather jackets everywhere. It's
Speaker 3: the same one. You want all those like clones of
Speaker 3: it everywhere, so it's fresh.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: You can just have the same one. Anyway. Everyone's talking
Speaker 3: to you about your life through film, and the first
Speaker 3: thing they want to know is what's the first film
Speaker 3: you remember seeing?
Speaker 1: For ellis that is one of the Such a tough one,
Speaker 1: isn't it, Because I do. I just think it's obviously
Speaker 1: not the first one, but the first one I can
Speaker 1: think about that really affected me was Pinocchio, the Disney
Speaker 1: film Pinocchio.
Speaker 3: The terrifying Disney film.
Speaker 1: Very grateful, but I think just because I always remember
Speaker 1: the how terrified I was. That's the thing that I remember.
Speaker 1: The bit and when they altern into donkeys or the kids,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, and that's like my earliest memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who were you with?
Speaker 1: I was? I just remember I was with was a
Speaker 1: granddad with my brother and my mom were in the
Speaker 1: back room of the house. I remember being there watching
Speaker 1: it on video, sat on the floor and as soon
Speaker 1: as everyone started turning into donkeys, it was the most
Speaker 1: horrific thing I ever it's a really dark film. And
Speaker 1: then there was that bit and isn't there a bit
Speaker 1: when he's in the in a Wales stomach?
Speaker 2: Yeah he has a torrid he has a torrid time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he really does.
Speaker 1: He does, he does. Yeah, well that's what happens when
Speaker 1: some blokes just wants a real boy. You know, mate,
Speaker 1: there's a reason you've not been married.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what you put what you put that wood
Speaker 5: and boyfrie hisself put the chisel down?
Speaker 1: Mate?
Speaker 3: Who've told you now?
Speaker 4: Stop making them?
Speaker 3: How old were you do you remember?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Twenty eight? Yeah, classic. I would have been about
Speaker 1: four years old.
Speaker 3: Do you have brothers and sisters?
Speaker 4: I've got an older brother, yeah, Andrew good guy, good guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's he's not particularly into film from what
Speaker 1: I don't really talked to me about films as such.
Speaker 3: Does he like your comedy? Come see your comedy? He does.
Speaker 4: Very support My family really supportive.
Speaker 1: Actually. I always been really lucky with that.
Speaker 4: Mom and dad.
Speaker 1: Come, they've just arrived in Edinburgh now today. They come
Speaker 1: up about three times during the run Jesus and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they do. They like they like that stuff, which
Speaker 1: is nice. That's nice, isn't it, yeah, because it was Weirdly,
Speaker 1: quite a few comedians families don't don't. Some don't even
Speaker 1: know they do comedy because they're worried to tell them because.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a comedian that also you and I know
Speaker 2: who's married with children and that hasn't told his wife children.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how that happened. He's been on TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it has finally come out when because he's
Speaker 1: been on so much TV recently, it's hard to.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Another one that we know, another comedian friend of ours,
Speaker 1: I would thank mutual friend.
Speaker 4: His mom didn't know for years.
Speaker 1: She thought he worked in finance, and then he just
Speaker 1: kept popping up on adverts for saving for vest like
Speaker 1: a building societies.
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 4: Are you a comedians?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, in finance, I do the building society.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 4: That's why they got.
Speaker 1: Here of the week.
Speaker 3: But what is the film that made you cry the most?
Speaker 3: Are you a crier?
Speaker 1: I am? Actually I'm quite a big cry with films,
Speaker 1: you're the most recent one was the Pixar film Onward.
Speaker 2: Oh my God, that fucking killed me. That Yeah, I
Speaker 2: cried for two days.
Speaker 4: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Isn't it.
Speaker 3: And your brothers, your brother, Yeah, of course it killed
Speaker 3: you brother's film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I could imagine my brother. It's funny how
Speaker 1: your brothers and you know, and family members can really
Speaker 1: at times push all your buttons, and but you know,
Speaker 1: in a situation they do this, they'd sacrifice something for you.
Speaker 1: That's such a Yeah. I love that bit at the end.
Speaker 1: I got a bit emotional thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other one was another Pixar film, Inside Out,
Speaker 1: with the character bing Bong, where the old imaginary friend.
Speaker 1: It's amazing when he just lets it. Oh.
Speaker 4: I brought my heart that one as well. Bing Bongo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I think about bing Bong every day,
Speaker 2: and I think, well, in a way, bing Bong by
Speaker 2: sacrificing himself, actually we never forget bing Bong.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're right bing Bong saying you'll forget me.
Speaker 2: No one's forgotten bing Bog. Yeah, just single.
Speaker 4: It was really that really affected me that one ages.
Speaker 1: But I think they're the most recent ones that because
Speaker 1: sometimes I suppose I'm not sure if I got across
Speaker 1: a cynic climb as a person at times, but some films,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to tug at your heart strings
Speaker 1: that annoys when the music comes in. And I saw
Speaker 1: that film My Sister's Keeper Wants in the cinema and
Speaker 1: I felt like just standing up the screen going stop it,
Speaker 1: the trick, the tricking, stop it. And the balloon flies
Speaker 1: off and I was like, oh, fuck it. I'm glad
Speaker 1: she's gone. I do my head.
Speaker 3: What is the film that scared you the most? Do
Speaker 3: you like being scared?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I love horror films. That's my favorite genre is horror.
Speaker 3: I think really great.
Speaker 4: I love hates horror.
Speaker 1: The one that weirdly, this is a weird one to
Speaker 1: be the one that scared me, the one that I
Speaker 1: remember my dad having to come and help me get
Speaker 1: to sleep afterwards. While this is because the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight film remake The Blob. Oh wow, yeah it's a
Speaker 1: weird one. Yeah, yeah, it was with Frank darabont Co
Speaker 1: wrote the script and that it's Chub Russell.
Speaker 4: I think that Russell and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've not seen The Blob nine and
Speaker 1: if you like horror, I think it's such a good film.
Speaker 1: It's so tight, it's like eighty odd minutes. The script's great.
Speaker 1: The characters are great, the special effects are incredible, but
Speaker 1: it scared me because I was a kid when I
Speaker 1: watched it, and they and kids get well, we'll not
Speaker 1: be ruined anything, but they don't usually. I was watching
Speaker 1: this kid going yeah, well, yeah they get blobed. You're going, well,
Speaker 1: the kid's not clearly, I went, oh my god, shit,
Speaker 1: And because there was no way to stop it. Really,
Speaker 1: that's what scared me. The fact that if one came in,
Speaker 1: there's been nothing I could do. That was what scared
Speaker 1: me about it. So my dad had to come in.
Speaker 3: Frank Darabo.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize he'd go in that he's into killing kids.
Speaker 2: He made sure to take Redemption, one of the most beautiful, powerful,
Speaker 2: hopeful films, and then he makes that and the missed
Speaker 2: you don't give a fuck about kids.
Speaker 4: No, you're right, Yeah, you're right. Yeah, the mist that's too.
Speaker 1: It was really funny that because I was I was
Speaker 1: watching it the other day and I was showing someone
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it before, and they went, why didn't
Speaker 1: they just give it a minute? I was like, you
Speaker 1: don't go there's really no reason. They just sit there
Speaker 1: and go, well, well, I've run out of petrol. Right,
Speaker 1: come on, put your head next to my kids, let's
Speaker 1: save one.
Speaker 4: They don't wait at all. They just run out of
Speaker 4: petrol and then they go, oh, well.
Speaker 2: Well they've waited a week or how a longer film set.
Speaker 2: They're bored. But at this point I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I loved it. It is a great ending,
Speaker 1: but I think the second time I watch it, I
Speaker 1: go I give it, I wait or something at least
Speaker 1: tapped on the window with a claw.
Speaker 3: You should make go for a film, shouldn't you.
Speaker 4: I really want to. You know, I've had an idea
Speaker 4: for one.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't really say it in case it is I'm
Speaker 1: trying to try and write a short, a short horror film.
Speaker 3: Actually that's the plan. I think you should.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd like to about it. There want any old
Speaker 4: bloody listeners nicking it?
Speaker 3: Do you know what they're like? This podcast?
Speaker 2: What is the film that you love? People don't like it?
Speaker 2: It's not critically a claim, but you love it unconditionally.
Speaker 1: This is such a good podcast because there's always about
Speaker 1: two or three answers as well. It's great because I
Speaker 1: love talking about particularly I think everyone even if you're
Speaker 1: not a big film. But it's just it gets you.
Speaker 1: The concan as soon as you think of one, then
Speaker 1: you think of another one. And it's so I think
Speaker 1: I really like Actually, I don't think that's a bad film.
Speaker 1: I nearly said Roadhouse, but I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: bad film. I think it's a film that knows what
Speaker 1: it is and I think it's just loads of fun.
Speaker 1: Life Force by Toby Hoo. Yeah, I really like Life
Speaker 1: Force and if you look it up on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 1: it's got a very bad audience and critics care.
Speaker 3: What's the premise of it?
Speaker 1: So basically space It was meant to be called Space Vampires.
Speaker 1: It's based on a book called Space Vampires, and Toby Hooper,
Speaker 1: obviously Texas chosen Masac of fame.
Speaker 4: He was hired by Cannon to do three.
Speaker 1: Films after the success of Yeah Poulter Guys did so
Speaker 1: well so and they wanted him to make Space Vampires,
Speaker 1: but they changed it to Life Force. And it's about
Speaker 1: basically the spaceship British spaceship called the Churchill named after
Speaker 1: the insurance company, and they basically find a really beautiful
Speaker 1: Italian ballet dancer in spaceship who's naked and she proceeds
Speaker 1: to walk around London and turning everyone into sort of
Speaker 1: zombie vampires. It's the weirdest. It's such an hard film
Speaker 1: and there's so much going on in it and it's
Speaker 1: a mess, but I just love it.
Speaker 4: And it's Patrick Stewart's first film. I think, is it
Speaker 4: not first?
Speaker 1: It's great, it's ridict it's insane, but I really like.
Speaker 3: It does sound good.
Speaker 2: On the other end of the scale, what's the film
Speaker 2: that you used to love but you have watched recently
Speaker 2: and you do not like it anymore.
Speaker 3: Perhaps you have changed.
Speaker 1: It's not I don't like anymore, but I tried to
Speaker 1: show it against them, you know, when you love. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of eighties comedies that I loved
Speaker 1: and they're really just not that funny, really, and it
Speaker 1: sounds not that they're not that funny, but the pacing
Speaker 1: of gags we've got so slow, so slow, yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think one I watched and I loved Joe Donza,
Speaker 1: but The Burbs is really really yeah, really slow, and
Speaker 1: it's just the pacing of it, you know, and it
Speaker 1: just doesn't the jokes, the laughs aren't as big as
Speaker 1: you like. If you watch like Step Brothers. I saw
Speaker 1: that again on Telly the other day. It's just like
Speaker 1: I can't stop laughing at every every minute something really
Speaker 1: funny is happening. But yeah, so the Nerves is one
Speaker 1: that I loved as a kid.
Speaker 2: A lot of those, I'm sure I've talked about this
Speaker 2: on the post well, but a lot of those, like
Speaker 2: high concept comedies from the eighties. When you watch them now,
Speaker 2: the concept of sort of premise of it takes fucking ages,
Speaker 2: like Gremlins is called gremlins. We know there's going to
Speaker 2: be Gremlin's. Gremlins don't appear unto about an hour into it.
Speaker 2: You're like, you know, get on with the gremlins. It's cool,
Speaker 2: you're not hiding. We know what it's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got your dad comment.
Speaker 2: And like trading places, they take ages to trade places.
Speaker 3: You're like, come on.
Speaker 1: Come on, make trade places. It's funny. I watched the
Speaker 1: new Beverly Hills cop.
Speaker 3: Yes, how is it?
Speaker 1: I liked it. I liked it a lot actually, people,
Speaker 1: but I think there's really funny bits in it. And
Speaker 1: to be honest, and this is not going to be popular,
Speaker 1: I actually preferred it to my rewatch of the first one.
Speaker 3: That's very interesting. Is it to do with pace pacing?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 1: It's just everything just seems so slow because Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: is so funny. Yeah, I do get it, but sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a sea where you're going, we just want to
Speaker 1: can we not get the story moving along? It's just
Speaker 1: let's have you Murphy really funny here, and I go, okay,
Speaker 1: and then I go and it's great, it's funny, but
Speaker 1: they go, I want to I don't want it. Why
Speaker 1: is he here? What do you wonder? I get to
Speaker 1: the bit and there's a joke when they're trying to
Speaker 1: get over a wall and it cuts back to it
Speaker 1: over the space about five minutes. But in this one
Speaker 1: I just found because everyone got such a put Maybe
Speaker 1: it's my attention span. I've just not got it, you
Speaker 1: know what. I used to like everyone else. So the
Speaker 1: film is just like ah, and I'm like, yes, pour
Speaker 1: it down my throat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to watch that. Mean, what is
Speaker 2: the film that means the most to you? Not necessarily
Speaker 2: the film itself is good. Film might be ship, but
Speaker 2: the experience you had around seeing it will always make
Speaker 2: it important to you.
Speaker 4: Where the wild things are.
Speaker 1: Fucking I love it. Yeah, it's amazing for that.
Speaker 3: That really depressed me. That film. I think it's a
Speaker 3: brilliant feel, but it made me so sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah really blake, yeah fil Yeah, it's just yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't what it was. I think I was must have
Speaker 1: been about twenty four, no, maybe no bit older, maybe
Speaker 1: twenty six twenty seven, and i'd split up with a
Speaker 1: partner and I was living in Manchester and my partner
Speaker 1: anew After about years I met someone and we were
Speaker 1: She lived in Bradford, so i'd have to go to Bradford.
Speaker 4: I used to work in a bank at the time.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of my girlfriend and then be in
Speaker 1: the bank and I had to leave hers at six
Speaker 1: in the morning and ran all these things, and I
Speaker 1: had no money, and one day i'd just stay. I
Speaker 1: had a gig in the evening and it snowed and
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do in the day, so I
Speaker 1: went to the cinema to see that. I remember it.
Speaker 4: I was really like and I went and sat and
Speaker 4: the cinema was empty.
Speaker 1: There's no one else ever came in, so I just
Speaker 1: sat on my own and watched Where the Wild Things Are?
Speaker 4: And I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: It's something about that all the stuff around it, and
Speaker 1: I just have the best cinema experience, just really went
Speaker 1: on undred percent into it. Yeah, and yeah, I just
Speaker 1: really felt like I was in the film and that
Speaker 1: was it. So that film's always got a little bit there.
Speaker 2: So again, I love that very much. I had that
Speaker 2: with I don't know if you've ever seen this film.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you ever seen the film High Life.
Speaker 2: You ever seen that film with Robert Patterson. It's like
Speaker 2: set in space and it's fucking dark. It's so dark.
Speaker 2: And I was in I was in la and I've
Speaker 2: been there for a while and I was like I
Speaker 2: was sort of doing all the things I was doing,
Speaker 2: but it was like, oh, very I was like, God,
Speaker 2: I'm quite alone in the universe. And I went to
Speaker 2: cinema to High Life, which I knew nothing about and
Speaker 2: is about sort of prison ship heading into a black hole,
Speaker 2: and the cinema was pretty empty and it was just
Speaker 2: me and I was lost in this film.
Speaker 3: I was like, God, this is beautiful and it's such
Speaker 3: a horrible dark film. Yeah, I loved it. I felt
Speaker 3: really like, yeah, going to a black hole.
Speaker 1: That's me, that's me. That is oblivion. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: what is the usually quite bleak films, I think, and
Speaker 1: perhaps you just need that at certain times in your life.
Speaker 1: That's remember where they stick because you go, oh, I
Speaker 1: feel that, you know, relating to an experience of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you feel held or something, so you're like, yes,
Speaker 2: I feel this. Yeah, what is the film that you
Speaker 2: most relate to?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: With that one, I don't know really, because I was
Speaker 1: thinking about that. Relate to I haven't brought notes relate
Speaker 1: to That was the toughest one I found. The one
Speaker 1: that when I was growing up, I loved Mike Lee films.
Speaker 1: They were my he was my favorite director. And the
Speaker 1: film Meantime from nineteen eighty three, which is one of
Speaker 1: his TV films, is my favorite. And that's the one
Speaker 1: I watched over and over again, and I kind of,
Speaker 1: I don't know, really, I don't know what it was about.
Speaker 1: It really connected. I kind of saw characters that I
Speaker 1: knew you in it, and I don't know. I grew
Speaker 1: up in Preston in the Northwest, and I think I
Speaker 1: probably just watched it a sort of time and I
Speaker 1: was looking around, going, oh, it's scared. I'm going to
Speaker 1: just be impressed in Forever and so, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was, we're connected, But that's the one that,
Speaker 1: weirdly I watched over and over again and felt like
Speaker 1: I knew all the characters already almost, and I recognized
Speaker 1: a lot of people in it.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's a great film.
Speaker 3: Who's in that one? Is that Tim's book?
Speaker 1: No? So in that one that's All and Nothing? Oh no,
Speaker 1: all this Sweet Life he's in as well. This one
Speaker 1: is Gary Oldman Tim Roth. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny, really
Speaker 1: great cast and it's brilliant. Honestly, if you're not watched it,
Speaker 1: I'd watch it again. It's so it's got Paul is
Speaker 1: not Paul Daniels. I did a gig with This is
Speaker 1: really grim. I did a gig in York at this
Speaker 1: theater and Paul Daniels was on. He's a very famous magician.
Speaker 1: And I was doing the gig again a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks later, hosting it, and in that time Paul Daniels
Speaker 1: had died, And when I went back, instead of putting
Speaker 1: a new board up, they just put a bit of
Speaker 1: gaffer tape over his name on the upcoming Beast. That's
Speaker 1: so good. Daniels has done get the gaffer tape.
Speaker 3: No refunds, no.
Speaker 1: Real funds. We've got Demie, Debbie Daniels, She's she knows
Speaker 1: how to do it.
Speaker 4: Part life guy.
Speaker 3: What's his name Daniels?
Speaker 4: Phil Daniels, Yes, sorry, Phil Daniels.
Speaker 1: Isn't it as well?
Speaker 4: He's fantastic. That much better than.
Speaker 2: I think a good actor underrated. What is the sexiest
Speaker 2: film you've ever seen?
Speaker 3: Fill enid?
Speaker 1: Well, I've got a camera set up in your flat
Speaker 1: and that it has been getting me through this month.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, all right, I mean you've just been eating cereal,
Speaker 1: but that's enough for me. I can work with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to finish, but try my best.
Speaker 1: It's much easier today we had a twix. The way
Speaker 1: he eats the twigs is ridiculous. I really like the
Speaker 1: film Romeo is Bleeding another Gary Oleman film. Yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: And Lena Olin in that.
Speaker 1: Is these for me as a teenager watching it, and
Speaker 1: still it is, to be honest, when I was watching
Speaker 1: it like the sexiest person I've ever seen in cinema,
Speaker 1: and that for me is and it's a very sexual.
Speaker 1: It's like a film noir. Peter Merrick directed it like
Speaker 1: a nineties sort.
Speaker 4: Of neo noir film.
Speaker 1: Gary Olman plays like a corrupt carp and Lina Lynn
Speaker 1: is someone who works for the Russian math here I
Speaker 1: think I remember correctly, And there's a little bit where
Speaker 1: she's amputating an arm for no reason if you ask me.
Speaker 1: She cuts her arm off so that someone thinks this
Speaker 1: body definedes hair and I was like, I don't think
Speaker 1: she needed to do that. She's obviously got some on
Speaker 1: the other side fixing this. I don't think she needs
Speaker 1: to chain sort arm off for whatever. Okay, but then
Speaker 1: she has this Oh it's just a really sexy performance,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 3: Just it's very sexy. You had me anti saving her
Speaker 3: right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is We've got some category of God knows
Speaker 2: what you're can say for this. It's the same film
Speaker 2: traveling By No Worrying.
Speaker 5: Why don't it's the same thing that all flubber.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that got me.
Speaker 4: Ja managing the original.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any for you, anything, anything when it gets me,
Speaker 1: gives me the horn.
Speaker 2: Even Popeye fucking he's a big boy, and Popeye of
Speaker 2: course he's worked out.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, have you seen that recently?
Speaker 3: It's a very strange film.
Speaker 1: It's an oldman film. It's so everyone's just mumbling over
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 2: It's the weirdest, actually weird film that it's weird in
Speaker 2: every way.
Speaker 3: It looks weird, it sounds weird. It's very weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the music, I could fever dream or like, what
Speaker 2: who is it for?
Speaker 3: Is it for kids? Who's it aimed at? It's very strange,
Speaker 3: it's quite scary, looks scary, weird.
Speaker 1: But the town's still there that they're built for it,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: People still I think people live in it.
Speaker 3: Scarying people since ninety eighty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair play, Thanks Robin.
Speaker 2: What's what's subjectively the greatest film of all time? Objectively
Speaker 2: might not be your favorite, but it's.
Speaker 1: The best, Well, I think probably the great I think
Speaker 1: one of the greatest films of all time myself is
Speaker 1: Once Put a Time in the West, great answer, And
Speaker 1: I think it just looks amazing. The sound is amazing,
Speaker 1: everything the appening. I love the story, I love the writing.
Speaker 1: I love it's one of my facts. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think, and it's one of my favorites, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it was my favorite.
Speaker 3: Maybe good answer.
Speaker 2: What is the film you could or have watched the
Speaker 2: most over and over again.
Speaker 1: That's another weird one, isn't it. I think when I
Speaker 1: was well, I think it's probably Reservoir Dogs. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I used to watch it all the time, over and
Speaker 1: over again, and I just and I've never got bored
Speaker 1: of it. And like now when as soon as I
Speaker 1: said it, I thought I'd like to watch that again.
Speaker 1: I could just watch that, Yeah, I repeat, which is.
Speaker 2: Not what really, but it was it hit you at
Speaker 2: the perfect aage, stay right, Reservoir Dogs?
Speaker 3: Were you twelve?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't see it when it came out. I
Speaker 4: saw it.
Speaker 1: I got into I only got into film really when
Speaker 1: I was about sixteen, so about sixteen when I first
Speaker 1: saw it, maybe fifteen or sixty. And yeah, just absolutely
Speaker 1: loved it. But do you watch films much again, Like
Speaker 1: when you're younger, you do watch things over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something in tends to happen to me maybe once
Speaker 2: or twice a year these days. That is unusual where
Speaker 2: where I will see something at the cinema and I'll
Speaker 2: be like, fucking know, I think that might be one
Speaker 2: of the greatest of all time. And then I'll see
Speaker 2: it again that week to check. I've never backtracked. I've
Speaker 2: never gone Oh no, I was.
Speaker 3: But like other than that, it's difficult because it's just
Speaker 3: fucking too much to see and do. But there are
Speaker 3: certainly films that I return to that make me happy,
Speaker 3: and often I find myself nowadays I will rewatch sequences
Speaker 3: like there are bits that I will go back to
Speaker 3: rather than so don't have the time for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're busy.
Speaker 3: We're busy boys, the.
Speaker 1: Busy boys getting out there making the deals. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm writing that shot. Got a lot going on. I've
Speaker 1: got an hour a day. I'm running around in the
Speaker 1: Georgia romas. Just suit busy, mate, I've got time films,
Speaker 1: this podcast. I haven't really got time for this, mate.
Speaker 1: You know I'm drink alone.
Speaker 3: You've gotta get back to his bench.
Speaker 4: I see what I do do rather than rewatch films.
Speaker 1: Or sorry, I don't even we've done this, but it'd
Speaker 1: be interested. When I'm enjoying a film so much I
Speaker 1: don't want it to end, I'll just stop it and
Speaker 1: I'll come back to it and so I can finish
Speaker 1: it over the course of a few days. Have you
Speaker 1: ever done that.
Speaker 3: That's sweet.
Speaker 2: I get that I've been that way with books and
Speaker 2: maybe with TV. I don't think I've done that with
Speaker 2: a film, but I totally understand it.
Speaker 1: I did it with Once upon a Time in Hollywood
Speaker 1: because I was just watching it, going I just love this.
Speaker 1: I just love Tart and I think the effort that
Speaker 1: goes into everything as well. And it was the bit,
Speaker 1: even the bit when like brad Pitt's, I know that
Speaker 1: the people have gone got the length of the film,
Speaker 1: and sometimes some films that.
Speaker 4: Do go come on, I won't lie the Killers.
Speaker 1: To the Flying Moon. I'm like, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't because it's so bleak as well that I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is just too depressing for three hours. I can't
Speaker 1: feel like this for three hours three and a half.
Speaker 1: But with that one, I.
Speaker 4: Was just loving it.
Speaker 1: So when brad Pitt's just fixing an attend, I'm going, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I want to watch brad Pitt. It was
Speaker 1: ship off fixing antend. It wouldn't brilliant And why is
Speaker 1: that seeing there? Because if you've seen Brad Pitt with
Speaker 1: his ship off doing some part col watch brilliant. So
Speaker 1: that so I went as soon as I saw him
Speaker 1: take his shot off, I went, I'm saving this for Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Margan will be back.
Speaker 3: We'll be back bred having a back brand day on
Speaker 3: that room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't get cold.
Speaker 3: I just need to check in on bretton his cereal.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We don't like to be negative. Film. What's the worst
Speaker 3: film you've ever seen?
Speaker 1: The worst film was Trying, only because everything about it
Speaker 1: I hated was that this idiot I lived with right
Speaker 1: when I first moved to Manchester Hat he'd start every
Speaker 1: sentence with the word yo.
Speaker 4: Yo, how's your daveen yo?
Speaker 1: And then he'd finished it with yo as well, like
Speaker 1: a like a yo yo, and you're gonna like once
Speaker 1: he had a yo.
Speaker 4: It was such a he thought.
Speaker 1: He tried to do all these things that were cool,
Speaker 1: but he was just an idiot, Like he walked around
Speaker 1: the pink dressing gown to the shop thinking that was
Speaker 1: a really cool thing to do, and then he'd come
Speaker 1: in with it had a yo yo he always used
Speaker 1: and he just came in he went, it's my yo yo,
Speaker 1: And I thought he's not going to say yo, is he?
Speaker 1: And he went yo? And I went, oh, come, I
Speaker 1: hate this guy. And I lived with him for a
Speaker 1: year and he goes, hey, Yo, got a bit of
Speaker 1: a surprise for here yo, And I went what is it?
Speaker 1: He went, shoo, tickets the IMAX to see Transformers too,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I didn't even I couldn't give it.
Speaker 1: I went oh, and I thought, well he brought me
Speaker 1: a present. I went, oh, great, thank you. He went,
Speaker 1: no problem about it. I was on the waiting list
Speaker 1: somebody to get them in opening night. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh great, because I didn't. I have not seen them.
Speaker 1: No interest is in the first one, because you know,
Speaker 1: my twenties.
Speaker 4: And then he goes yeah.
Speaker 1: And then we get there and I was really skinned
Speaker 1: because I just moved out the moons and he went, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: that's great. So yeah, just paying for the eighteen pounds
Speaker 1: fifteen you know when you got it? And I went,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, Nate? I said, you said you
Speaker 1: got the tickets? Went yeah, no, I booked them, so
Speaker 1: I owe you the money for it. And we were
Speaker 1: there at the cinemay went they went, I don't want
Speaker 1: to I've got no interest in watching Transformers too well,
Speaker 1: and he went, well, I need the money. I went,
Speaker 1: trying to give him eighteen verst fifty in the Imax
Speaker 1: and it was the worst. I was so angry and
Speaker 1: that didn't help, but none neither did the film. It's
Speaker 1: just crap. And I've never watched the film in Imax since.
Speaker 1: Oh really, Transformers to.
Speaker 3: This isn't right.
Speaker 2: I got to put you rountd. This Imax is the
Speaker 2: best place to see a film. I appreciate you went
Speaker 2: Transformers too, but any chance to see a film with
Speaker 2: the Imax, you should take it, because it is the best.
Speaker 3: You got to go.
Speaker 2: You've got to forgive. It wasn't the IMAX's fault. It
Speaker 2: was Transformers to the Dark Side of the Dark of
Speaker 2: the Moon.
Speaker 3: Listen right.
Speaker 2: I used to do stand up about this, but in
Speaker 2: Transformers one, I went to it open hearted and I
Speaker 2: truly did not understand anything that was happening. And I
Speaker 2: think I'm not stupid, but I was completely lost, and
Speaker 2: I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can't follow you remotely the story. And then at
Speaker 2: the end of the film, your man Shilah buff is
Speaker 2: kissing is making out with Megan Fox on top of
Speaker 2: his car.
Speaker 3: But his car is his friends a Transformer, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean? And I'm thinking that Bumblebee whatever his
Speaker 3: name is, is under there. Guy like, Hey, we've been
Speaker 3: hanging out for the whole what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: Robot for this? I can help.
Speaker 4: So weird, isn't it. Yeah, that's just like saying to you, mate,
Speaker 4: you don't mind if I just sit.
Speaker 1: On here with Megan Fox and.
Speaker 3: Make out right. What's that you're in comedy? You're very funny.
Speaker 3: You're an award winning comedian. For god, what's the film
Speaker 3: that made you laugh the most?
Speaker 1: Against Step Brothers? I watched it again the other day.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. Those two are just great. Some of
Speaker 1: it I find a bit, Oh God, here we go
Speaker 1: so go oh you? I mean, what is this?
Speaker 4: It's like an orange?
Speaker 1: But Step Brothers is perfect because you've got really funny
Speaker 1: people doing just the right about amount of ad libbing,
Speaker 1: and the characters, all the set pieces are so funny.
Speaker 1: That's the most reason one. But the one that I
Speaker 1: would say that made me laugh. I remember the most
Speaker 1: biggest laughs when I was a kid, and I still
Speaker 1: find funny was The Man with Two Brains.
Speaker 2: Phil Ellis, That is the correct answer. That's my dad's
Speaker 2: favorite comedy. The moment two Brains is incredible and no
Speaker 2: one brings it up.
Speaker 1: It's so funny and just so many like a little
Speaker 1: bit like when I'm into the mudscum Queen and these
Speaker 1: weird look like fits and Duke of Oil Oil, and
Speaker 1: he's like he's trying to kill someone.
Speaker 4: He's like, okay, anyone hates my voice. He says, to
Speaker 4: kill makes me want to kill me because I'll keep
Speaker 4: talking to.
Speaker 1: My dad. Take that for us, because my dad used
Speaker 1: to work in a brewery and he used to get
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'm safe to say this now.
Speaker 1: My dad's ated too. They used to get parted. I'm
Speaker 1: afraid videos.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm wearing a wire.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm talking to a microphone. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: wearing a wire.
Speaker 1: And he used to bring about all sorts of that
Speaker 1: and I remember but he taped off the Telly the
Speaker 1: man with two brains to show us and it was
Speaker 1: just but you think he may have missed a bit
Speaker 1: with the breasts.
Speaker 4: Because he's like, whoa, but yeah, really love it. So
Speaker 4: many good bits that.
Speaker 2: Staff Bill ellis, You've been amazing. However, Oh my god, however,
Speaker 2: when you were thirty eight, your hairline was rocking, and
Speaker 2: you thought I would like to do a selfless act.
Speaker 2: And you the bit we missed out in the stories,
Speaker 2: you set fire to a house with a family in it.
Speaker 3: Miss I didn't.
Speaker 1: I went into a bit.
Speaker 3: I just rewinded a bit.
Speaker 2: You said your house and were like, you know what
Speaker 2: look good is if I ran in this house and
Speaker 2: bring out the family. And you ran in the house,
Speaker 2: you saw the family, Hey guys, I'm here to say
Speaker 2: to you. And then you said to the guys, do
Speaker 2: you think my hair's feeling? Do you think it's going
Speaker 2: to stay like this forever? And the penny went, I
Speaker 2: think it's on the turn, and you went right and
Speaker 2: you locked the door. He said, right, we're all staying here. Then,
Speaker 2: and the fire took you all and the family were screaming,
Speaker 2: and you just sat there. You said, you brought this
Speaker 2: on yourself, you said, as the flames engulfed you, and
Speaker 2: you died, burnt to a crisp. But I'm walking past
Speaker 2: with a coffin, you know what I'm like, And I go,
Speaker 2: what's the fucking smoldering burning everywhere? And I go, I
Speaker 2: think Phil Ellis just went in to save that family,
Speaker 2: And I go, well, really, oh wow, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a real hero. And I go, you sure, because it
Speaker 2: doesn't seem on brag.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, you really did? I go, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, well then we can we'll go with that.
Speaker 3: So we try and find a corpsere corpse. It's charred,
Speaker 3: it's covered, it's got it's.
Speaker 1: On the front page of.
Speaker 3: It was in the type five section.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's been bumped down. Anyway, I asked people,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know which parts him. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we pick up what we can. We put it in
Speaker 2: the coffin. There's more than I was expecting. The coffin.
Speaker 3: He's absolutely jammed. There's no room in it.
Speaker 2: There's only enough space for me to slip one DVD
Speaker 2: into the side for you to take across to the
Speaker 2: other side.
Speaker 3: And on the other side. It's movie night. Every night.
Speaker 3: Everyone's wearing your leather jacket.
Speaker 2: What would you like to show you the people of
Speaker 2: heaven in your jacket when it is your movie night,
Speaker 2: mister Phil Ellis.
Speaker 1: I would like to show everybody. I nearly nearly cheat
Speaker 1: by saying box set, but I'm not that guy. I'll
Speaker 1: sort myself out, thank you. I hope that everybody in
Speaker 1: Heaven Enjoys The Wonderful Family film To Think by John Carpenter.
Speaker 1: I intinated too. That's my it's my other favorite film,
Speaker 1: because my dad showed. He came downstairs one one morning.
Speaker 1: He went, I got him from work last night and
Speaker 1: I saw this film. He says, you're too young for it,
Speaker 1: but it's amazing, and he's telling me about putting the
Speaker 1: hands in the cheeks and the dog's head and all
Speaker 1: the girls in the ceiling.
Speaker 4: And I went, oh, why you're too young for your
Speaker 4: two friend?
Speaker 1: And then I got a five pound voucher from school
Speaker 1: for I have a full of ten and I went,
Speaker 1: you can use us on videos at Debret Smith. And
Speaker 1: it's four ninety nine. He went, I think you're ready,
Speaker 1: and that he went bored it for me.
Speaker 3: Life.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the thing great, And I'll put my dad
Speaker 1: in the fire so we can watch it up in
Speaker 1: heaven together as well. And my mom say, I'll tell
Speaker 1: what I'll kill my whole family. Let's all have a
Speaker 1: nice time.
Speaker 3: Peel, you're a very sweet man, and you've you've really
Speaker 3: taken so the journey. It's been wonderful having you and
Speaker 3: talking to you.
Speaker 2: Would you like to tell the people at home or
Speaker 2: in their cars or at the gym what they should
Speaker 2: be looking out for or listening to with Phil Ellis
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I always find it really funny that you
Speaker 1: go that this show has had like Sharon Stone on it,
Speaker 1: and they go anyway, and now keep that round of
Speaker 1: applause going for Phil Ellis for president. You may know
Speaker 1: from twenty four seconds on drunk Street Cam I playing
Speaker 1: a sailor. I'm at the Edity Festival monkey Bell for
Speaker 1: twelve forty five pm.
Speaker 4: Every day. We've bet this show has gone. I think
Speaker 4: it's better than last year.
Speaker 1: I got nominated for the main Order last year, but
Speaker 1: this year I think he's a better show. And all
Speaker 1: fives and fours and the Scotsman and everything so and
Speaker 1: all the all the all the biggies. So yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: from the chuckles shipbox dot Org have given me five
Speaker 1: and a half stars. Come and see that. Just just
Speaker 1: some just some bloke who lives in his mum's room,
Speaker 1: but he's got a laptop gone bless him and he
Speaker 1: gives out stars. Yeah, this show's good. Come out and
Speaker 1: take the rest of me. I'll be taking it on
Speaker 1: tour in the autumn. I think maybe autumn next year.
Speaker 1: I think to come inside with some stuff and first
Speaker 1: comedy on Instagram and all that, and I've got stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, guys, I've got some fingers in fires, pies,
Speaker 1: irons and just follow me.
Speaker 3: And how long do you have to wait for your
Speaker 3: horror short that will be out?
Speaker 1: So I will write it. I'm gonna hopefully we'll write it.
Speaker 1: And what you do next year is you want to
Speaker 1: be in a film?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: The pause was too long mate?
Speaker 3: Well I.
Speaker 4: Was waiting too long for real?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Why does it say disconnecting?
Speaker 3: Why is it what?
Speaker 2: Sorry, of course I do, Phil Elis, enjoy the rest
Speaker 2: of your Edinburgh Fringe.
Speaker 3: You are a hero, you are a legend. Thank you
Speaker 3: for doing this. I have a wonderful death. Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So that was episode three hundred and twelve. Head over
Speaker 2: to the Patreon at patreon dot com. Forward slash Brett
Speaker 2: Goldstein for the extra secret chat and videos with Phil Ellis.
Speaker 2: Go to Apple Podcast, give us a five star rating,
Speaker 2: and right about the film that is the most of
Speaker 2: you and why it's.
Speaker 3: A lovely thing to read. My neighbor more enlightens it.
Speaker 3: It makes her cry every time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all for listening. Thank you to Phil for
Speaker 2: giving me his time at the fringe, go see him
Speaker 2: on tour. Thanks to Scrubius, Pip and the Distraction Pieces Network.
Speaker 2: Thanks the Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to iHeartMedia
Speaker 2: and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network for Thanks Ada
Speaker 2: Bridgeston for the graphics and least lay them for the photography.
Speaker 2: Come and join me next week for an excellent episode
Speaker 2: with a very brilliant, amazing guest.
Speaker 3: That is it for now. I hope you're all well.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, and in the meantime, have a
Speaker 3: lovely week and please be excellent to each other.