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Speaker 1: He's back for his intimate strip back news show, live

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Speaker 1: and intimidating Ruben k Good morning, Welcome, good morning.

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Speaker 2: What the hell have you got me up this early for?

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Speaker 3: Well, we wanted to punish you because we had to.

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Speaker 2: Haven't I been punished enough?

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Speaker 4: You're in the you are in the middle of that.

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Speaker 1: We do thank you for getting up early, because you're

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

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Speaker 4: How are things going there?

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Speaker 2: They're going, They're going brilliantly. Where almost smack bang in

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Speaker 2: the middle of it. Now, so the first week done

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Speaker 2: and I'm at the very fancy Art Center. I don't

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Speaker 2: think the Art Center realized which act they were booking,

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Speaker 2: because now they've got me saying the filthiest things I

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Speaker 2: can in some of the nicest stages.

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Speaker 4: It's a beautiful juxtaposition.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this for nothing.

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Speaker 2: Some of the Art Center audiences who just thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: I'll take a punt on this. This was nice. I've

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Speaker 2: got some very interesting reaction.

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Speaker 3: Thanks you, Reuben. Do you see from the stage. I

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Speaker 3: know you're focusing on the show and what you're doing,

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Speaker 3: but are you seeing some do you see the faces

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Speaker 3: and go oh, having an impact on that brow.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what, when I'm on stage, I'm in

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Speaker 2: a fugue state. I'm come to it for the divine

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Speaker 2: and for the spiritual that moves through me, as do

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Speaker 2: most things. So I try not to focus on other

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Speaker 2: people it to make my love life that else. My

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Speaker 2: love life at the moment, sadly, because of the comedy

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Speaker 2: festival is a lot like my finances, and by that

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Speaker 2: I mean it's contactless and if I get too busy,

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Speaker 2: it'll probably pay as you go.

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Speaker 4: Now, the K Hole also is coming back, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You to say that at nine am.

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Speaker 4: For people who haven't had the pleasure just run us

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Speaker 4: through what happens at the K Hole.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the k Hole is my favorite show that

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Speaker 2: I get to do. I take my favorite acts from

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Speaker 2: wherever I am in the world and I tell them

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Speaker 2: to get angry, get naked, get drunk, and get on

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Speaker 2: stage and I give them my band and they and

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Speaker 2: everyone has free reign. We did it in We just

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Speaker 2: come off doing it in Adelaide, and they were I

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Speaker 2: think eleven thirty PM shows that went on until past

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Speaker 2: one am, past two am, just some of the wildest

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Speaker 2: stuff you'll ever see on a stage. It's brilliant. And

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Speaker 2: we'll have some footage from the Melbourne one. I can't

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Speaker 2: tell you what's happening, but my god, human bodies are

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Speaker 2: being pushed to the limit. Really never thought, never thought

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Speaker 2: certain parts of the human anatomy could stretch.

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Speaker 3: Wow, stretch. I'm strong. People aren't like to be I'm

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Speaker 3: shekel Ruben. That's the thing, and that's really right there.

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Speaker 2: That's it. It's a real case for the audience to

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Speaker 2: let loose.

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Speaker 4: All right in a safe place.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. I called the k Hole a safe place

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Speaker 2: for dangerous people, for those of us who have never

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Speaker 2: give in heaven but have spent a lot of time

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Speaker 2: on our nees.

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Speaker 1: I won't know anyone there anyway. Now, can we talk here?

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Speaker 1: We talk about your microphones, Reuben. They resemble a horse's tail,

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Speaker 1: which is gorgeous. But does it ever hit you in

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Speaker 1: the face and caused injury?

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Speaker 2: Do you know what? No, it's never caused injury, but

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Speaker 2: it does get used. It gets slapped around, much like me.

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Speaker 2: It's been in a lot of people's faces throughout the night,

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Speaker 2: and it tends to kind of every solt and whip

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Speaker 2: back at me, which is a lovely ironic punishment. But

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Speaker 2: I always got frustrated with holding a mic when I've

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Speaker 2: gone to so much effort to dress and look fabulous

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Speaker 2: to then just hold this, you know, fully foreign modern

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Speaker 2: looking thing. Yeah, and I always thought the mouth was

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Speaker 2: a wet open so that amplify it by having a weapon.

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Speaker 2: And I was in a look, I'll be honest, I

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Speaker 2: was in a shop for adult amy, adult accessories, and

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Speaker 2: there was there was a horse tail that was attached

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Speaker 2: to something that's meant to go somewhere. I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: do very pre watershed.

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Speaker 1: I feel a side hustle coming on, really, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: if it's good enough for was it Doctor Dre that

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Speaker 1: revolutionized headphones with his With his you could do my mics?

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Speaker 2: And what am I if not the modern day Doctor Dre?

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Speaker 3: Pretty much?

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 1: I would love to replace my boring, you know, old

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Speaker 1: fashioned microphone that I have here with something that's something

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Speaker 1: I'm just now.

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Speaker 2: But just now been on radio with listeners. I've got

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Speaker 2: to tuck you in for a percentage. I want you

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Speaker 2: to know that I don't want.

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Speaker 4: To I want to put in the first order and

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Speaker 4: I will call it the iddress. I would love to

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Speaker 4: talk to idress everything.

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Speaker 3: She's obsessed with.

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Speaker 5: Lu I've released different lines based on your favorite celebrities, Handy, Yes,

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Speaker 5: you have the share.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Willie Nelson if you really wanted something gray with

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Speaker 2: a few beads.

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Speaker 3: And yes, no one's buying the Trump.

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Speaker 4: Oh actually that's giving us plenty this week.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. I love I love the idea. I

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Speaker 2: love the idea of seeing him in handcuffs. I've even

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Speaker 2: got a pair he can borrow. Does he mind pegs?

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Speaker 3: I think you'd be happy with that.

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Speaker 2: I get the same payout. Stormy Daniels, Yes, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Make it all worth its sorry, say Liasta was talking

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Speaker 3: about side hustles. What about the podcast? Can you tell

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Speaker 3: us more?

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Speaker 5: Ribbon?

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Speaker 2: I'm happy you mentioned that. So I have a podcast,

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Speaker 2: I am. It's almost like you've got a briefing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've been. I started up a podcast, yes, where I

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Speaker 2: had to do the thing that I hate most, which

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Speaker 2: is talk to other people and more importantly, listen to

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Speaker 2: other people. So my management said I had to learn

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Speaker 2: how to listen if I wanted to eat. So I

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Speaker 2: have taken it upon myself to do what no other

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Speaker 2: white man has done. Which has start a podcast and

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Speaker 2: now I talk to my favorite comedians about their parents

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Speaker 2: and about family and where it all went wrong or right.

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Speaker 2: And in it we have some very funny, very funny,

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Speaker 2: dark stories, but also some amazing, uplifting, incredible stories. And

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Speaker 2: I mean the episodes are mad because the people I'm

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Speaker 2: interviewing are mad. Rosie Jones is a brilliant UK comic.

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Speaker 2: She's a lesbian who's got cerebral palsy and at the

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Speaker 2: same time she's one of the most filthy people I

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Speaker 2: know and one of the most sort of positive and uplifting,

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Speaker 2: tear jerking episodes. And then Deseree Birch, We've got a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of rob Rufus Hound, the whole bunch of

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Speaker 2: UK based comments because it started in the UK, but

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Speaker 2: I'm here now recording the Melbourne Comedy Festival season of

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Speaker 2: it and getting all okay in on the On the

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Speaker 2: it's called come to Daddy, right because what other what

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Speaker 2: other title? Screamed at me. My therapist calls it a

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Speaker 2: backward step, But I think it's good.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fabulous. You got to perform at the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Opera House earlier this year. World Pride. What a

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Speaker 1: what an event that was huge, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: World Pride was incredible and I had the best time. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: it's a miracle I can sit or breathe through my nose.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful and performing at the Sydney Opera House was a

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Speaker 2: real dream come true for us on the Joan Sutherland

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Speaker 2: stage because it's what you would.

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Speaker 4: Have wanted, exactly drama.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic and even better, they gave me access

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Speaker 2: to the Opera Australia costume mark, so every single entrance

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Speaker 2: I made was in bigger, a bigger and bigger frock

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Speaker 2: to the point where they said to wheel me out

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Speaker 2: of a stage dock at the end into the harbor.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was so can that is the ultimate dress up box.

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Speaker 3: Dame Joan would have had a tear and I reckon,

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Speaker 3: that's unreal.

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Speaker 2: As long as there was something, I.

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Speaker 4: Think, well, I think Sydney did the world?

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Speaker 1: Did?

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Speaker 4: Did you get to meet Andy Cohen? I love Andy Cohen?

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Speaker 2: So he was how stupid? Is this still love this?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I got I got a ticket to the Life Proud

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Speaker 2: with Kylie and Daniel yep and everyone and Jess now

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Speaker 2: boy and Charlie XCX, and I was in the audience

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Speaker 2: in my little thing and a little wristband. I was

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Speaker 2: up the front, very lucky, just having the best time.

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Speaker 2: And at the end of it, my mate, who I

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Speaker 2: was like trying to find or like couldn't, said what

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Speaker 2: were you doing at the front, Ruben? You had a

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Speaker 2: backstage pass? We were so stage and they had photos

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Speaker 2: with Kylie and Danny and Charlie and Andy. And I

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Speaker 2: was just the dumb schmuck out the front, and like,

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Speaker 2: I just thought it was a front row ticket. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know I had an access all areas past abilities

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Speaker 2: of a chimpanzee.

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Speaker 1: Never mind, Well, you can catch Reuben K the Regal

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Speaker 1: Theater May five and six. Tickets are through ticket Tech.

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Speaker 1: It is as better treat as always Reuben.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's always lovely to be here, come back having again?

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Speaker 3: All right, Thanks Rob, you in my