1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation very excited about this. With decades 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: of knowledge, talent and wit, Stephen Frye has captured audiences 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: all around the world. He's a comedian, an actor, a storyteller. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: What he's heading back to our shores with a new 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: stage show. 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: Yes, and we got him on the zoom. We have 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: got him on the zoom. 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: Well, I can hear that, Hello, hello, hello. 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 3: Hello, give the boxes in the background. 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: That's all right? Are you? That's fine? 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 3: Is that? 12 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 4: Is that Donald Trump's or all his papers white House documents? 13 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: Is a story for him? I said, it's great to 14 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: have you on the shows. 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 3: So it's a real pleasure. Thank you for having me. 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: Had you go with the logis last night you watched it? 17 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: You were there? Were you there? I went to bed. 18 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:50,919 Speaker 3: I loved a message. 19 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: I saw your message. 20 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 3: And I tried to impart to him. Is that as 21 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: the evening progresses, you will become more and more hated, 22 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: because if you imagine, let's say there are a thousand 23 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 3: people in the room watching you, let probably seven hundred 24 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 3: and fifty of them have an interest in which award 25 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: is going to win and which isn't. And as the 26 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 3: evening progresses, only one in every five people is going 27 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 3: to be pleased by having won. The others are going 28 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 3: to wish to be elsewhere. They want to be at 29 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 3: the bar, getting drunk, slagging off the jury, the judges, 30 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 3: the public who voted every aspect of the hideous awards 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 3: show that overlooked their talent. The key, the absolute key, then, 32 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 3: is to be faster than a bloody gazelle, just to 33 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 3: leap through it. Nobody is going to say, oh, it 34 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 3: was a reasonable award ceremony, but I thought it was 35 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 3: too short. That has never been said in the history 36 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 3: of awards ceremony, right back to the Stone Age. 37 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: It's quite right. The teachings of Fry look to Fry. 38 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: Speaking of the Teachings of Fry, very exciting that you're 39 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: bringing your life, your work to the stay. Is this 40 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: like a memoir which I know you've written. Is a 41 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: sort of a memoir on the stage sort. 42 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 3: Of it is. It's a combination of that. I look 43 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: back at a strange and thoroughly disreputable life and asking 44 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 3: for questions in the in the interval which we're all 45 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 3: elected up well. 46 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 4: Read in the I didn't realize this that you went 47 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 4: to prison when you were seventeen. 48 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, And obviously you all, as the world knows, 49 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: to come from families who have ancestors who did the 50 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: same thing. Where criminals were terrible, appalling burglars, robbers, you know, muggers. 51 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: So I had a lot in comment with you. I 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: can't believe an Englishman is still making references. 53 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 2: So well, now we're colonially, we're colonialists. Now that's the thing. Now, 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 2: that's what we are, dirty colonials. But what did you 55 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: go to Jai for? What was the what did you do? 56 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 3: Credit card fraud is the broad thing of it. It 57 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 3: was I ran away from home, having been expelled from 58 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 3: a number of schools, some of them the finest and 59 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 3: most expensive that money could buy, and I wandered about. 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 3: It was getting cold. I was in a pub, nursing 61 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: a beer with what little money I had, and I 62 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: saw a coat that looked rather my size, and I 63 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 3: went up to the you know the coat hangers, where 64 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: it was against a wall, and just slipped it on 65 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 3: and slipped out of the palm. And then I found 66 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 3: a wallet in it and it was it had three 67 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: credit cards. One that's now I don't know if it 68 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 3: still exists, called Diner's Club, which was like a sort 69 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 3: of like an amex, and another was a master card, 70 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 3: an early master card, and there was a Barkley card 71 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 3: call it Visa now, I guess. But anyway, I then 72 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 3: went what you can only call ape around Britain, seven 73 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: different counties, staying in hotels including the Ritz at one point. Yeah, 74 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: it was ridiculous. No one questioned me because I suppose 75 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 3: I had a slightly plummy accent, looked older than I was, 76 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 3: and if you do anything confidently, well, as you know, 77 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: that's the secret of being a bit of a con artist. 78 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: I suppose going to prison seems a bit harsh. 79 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 3: I would have thought, well, to be honest, what it 80 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: was was, I was wanted in so many different counties 81 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: around around the Kingdom, and I had decided that I 82 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 3: would plead guilty to begin with, so I was put 83 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 3: on Roman. By the time the paperwork catches up and 84 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 3: you go to hear it to be heard, they'll probably say, well, 85 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 3: he served two and a half months inside, we'll just 86 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 3: put him on two months two years, which is what happened. Wow. 87 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 3: Still still yeah, it was. But as I say, and 88 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 3: people always think it's a joke, and this is quite funny, 89 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 3: but it was also true. I'd been to an English 90 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 3: boarding school, so prison was nothing. It was just like 91 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: the extension of school. Really, it was just more Hogwarts. 92 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 4: Because I look, I look at English prison and I 93 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 4: always think of Porridge. 94 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 2: I just think that's what it's like. 95 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 3: Yes, oh, yes, that was a fine series. 96 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: If any was that friendly, friendly, well Steved, it's great 97 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: to talk to you. 98 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 4: Tickets go on sale today from ten at bow Bomb Presents, 99 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 4: b R h M Presents dot Com and you will 100 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 4: see Stephen Frye and that's just a part of what 101 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 4: you saw right there, but you'll see it. 102 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 3: It's a delay talking to you. Thank you for having 103 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 3: me on your show. All the very best, Thank you.