Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian no Common Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Someone who we've had on the show a couple of times,
Speaker 2: brilliant stand up comedian be here at the Melbourne Comedy
Speaker 2: Festival at the end of March. I know he's an
Speaker 2: Adelaide as well. He's a killer stand up. Deal Rook
Speaker 2: sent me missus the other day. Samny was listening to show.
Speaker 2: Heard about Footyoki. He wants to enter. He's written a song,
Speaker 2: so he's on the line now. Dear Rook, always love
Speaker 2: chant to you, mate, Welcome to the show again, dear Rook.
Speaker 3: Okay, deal Rok. How are you, mady?
Speaker 1: I'm good. Thank you very much for speaking to us. Mate.
Speaker 1: I hope you're well. Are you well?
Speaker 3: That play much better? It's just nice to know that
Speaker 3: we're sort of heading towards something that's a little bit
Speaker 3: more normal these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And how's it doing stand up again?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 3: Just I mean, it's so sad how much fulfillment I
Speaker 3: get from that one little task today, standing with a
Speaker 3: microphone in front of people. Just it lights me up
Speaker 3: so much. And it's it's also like I think I'd
Speaker 3: forgotten just how taxing this career choice.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're kidding me.
Speaker 2: You literally doing an hour out of twenty three and
Speaker 2: you want to come on here and go, oh, it's
Speaker 2: so tiring.
Speaker 1: Stood there, my feet gets so sore.
Speaker 3: Come on, that's that's very fair. I forgot who might
Speaker 3: be listening.
Speaker 1: There are people with real jobs that after do like
Speaker 1: twelve hours back breaking work.
Speaker 3: Okay, sure, sure, sure, I'll accept that. But in my defense,
Speaker 3: there is also the element of, like, you know, I have,
Speaker 3: deep down have a fear of public speaking that I've
Speaker 3: somehow forgotten about that over the years of just doing
Speaker 3: standard over and over and so having you know, that
Speaker 3: break it kind of brought back some of that anxiety
Speaker 3: before going on stage. And there's definitely a lot more
Speaker 3: clenching on stage that I think, I suppose now that
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 2: Again, do you know what, you just sold a ticket
Speaker 2: to me. Now I know that there's extra clenching involved.
Speaker 2: I would I urge you on the posters. Actually, you
Speaker 2: know your your firm talk man as it is. But
Speaker 2: if I think you're extra frenching, then I'm coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Always called delicious for a variety of reasons, including
Speaker 3: my mutton chop buttocks, absolutely, but.
Speaker 1: What buttocks can we say? But I bet you're right.
Speaker 2: Actually, because you speak to any stand ups, their idea
Speaker 2: of hell has been asked to say something like like
Speaker 2: a school you don't really think of stand up, I
Speaker 2: don't just public speaking. Public speaking is a really different thing.
Speaker 2: It's a great stand up in the UK. Won't say
Speaker 2: his name, but you know he plays to like five
Speaker 2: thousand people, you know, and we'll do that for like
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty dates touring the UK.
Speaker 1: He's a big stand up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, same here, Christian, Same same with you.
Speaker 1: Isn't it. He literally the worst giggie ever did he
Speaker 1: said he died He was asked us to host a
Speaker 1: school raffle for his son's school. Oh my god. They
Speaker 1: hated him.
Speaker 2: They were irritated that a dad who does stand up
Speaker 2: was doing the raffle and he was so it was
Speaker 2: his hell. So yeah, I don't understand about the thing
Speaker 2: about public speaking. But you've got you've got a new show.
Speaker 2: You're happy with it.
Speaker 3: I love it. It was a bit scary at the start.
Speaker 4: Because normally I start the new material or working through
Speaker 4: the new material around you know, August September, after Edinburgh,
Speaker 4: and suddenly I found myself having to put the show
Speaker 4: together from Jen onwards and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: maybe just be an hour of.
Speaker 3: Crowd work, you know, just chatting to the crowd. But
Speaker 3: I've been doing some sort of trial shows and they've
Speaker 3: been going for like an hour and five hour and ten.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this is a good problem to have.
Speaker 3: I have to actually get rid of it now. So
Speaker 3: I'm feeling very confident and very excited about it because
Speaker 3: it is for me. Every year, my one hour shows
Speaker 3: are a little like snapshot of you know, where my
Speaker 3: life has been last year, and it basically talks a
Speaker 3: lot about, you know, the changes in my life, because
Speaker 3: the show before this year was literally an hour about
Speaker 3: how much I love being single and how much I
Speaker 3: hate cooking, and all of a sudden within a year,
Speaker 3: I've fallen in love. And I went on Mastership.
Speaker 1: Yeah noticed you went on Master Chef. You smashed it,
Speaker 1: you went through the semi finals.
Speaker 3: It does sound impressive, but the truth is, let's look
Speaker 3: at it like this, like it is not that impressive
Speaker 3: when you consider I was making all the shri Lankan
Speaker 3: curries that have complex flavors and enriched vices, and those
Speaker 3: curries were pitted up against you know, roast chickens and
Speaker 3: cheese sandwiches and look like someone's pat On. That's not
Speaker 3: to say that I was awesome right ill, Like I
Speaker 3: was no good, but I was just never the worst.
Speaker 3: Every time someone got kicked out, I stood right next
Speaker 3: to them as they were getting kicked out because I
Speaker 3: was like, we survived another one.
Speaker 1: And then the other big changed your life.
Speaker 2: I know that when I last spoke to you, I
Speaker 2: think you would just you just started to go out
Speaker 2: with someone and I could tell it was like fairly serious.
Speaker 1: So are you Are you in love now?
Speaker 5: Oh man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very much. So it's very very off brand.
Speaker 3: It's really off brand for me.
Speaker 2: And this is part of talking to P Diddy here
Speaker 2: off brand, sorry, ladies, he's off the shelf and he's
Speaker 2: off brand.
Speaker 3: Mate. I was so excited because, yeah, like I I
Speaker 3: for starters, I'd like downloaded Tinder Premium, which.
Speaker 1: Gives you, like what is Tinder premium.
Speaker 3: Kinder Premium has a few benefits, but one of them
Speaker 3: is that you can change your location around the country
Speaker 3: the world. You know, normally tin there's just the radius
Speaker 3: lets around you. But you can say, okay, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be in Perth next week.
Speaker 1: So is that mainly made for touring bands and comedians?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, and sociopaths of course.
Speaker 1: Well the same thing, isn't it here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? But the sad thing is I've downloaded it and
Speaker 3: installed it like in Jen and then fell in love
Speaker 3: like four days later. So I have an annual subscription
Speaker 3: that you know, just went to waste. Like I almost
Speaker 3: want to sell it like secondhand on eBay? Does anyone
Speaker 3: wanted in the premium profile? But you have to be
Speaker 3: a dull rook for a year.
Speaker 1: All the clenching you'd have to do.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Now let's talk about footy then. So FOOTI is back
Speaker 2: this week. Everyone's really excited. We're doing a thing called footy.
Speaker 1: Ok.
Speaker 2: We're asking people to pick a song, put their own
Speaker 2: lyrics to it, to really try and channel what it's
Speaker 2: like to be a fan of their team.
Speaker 1: So you like me when you came here, but everyone
Speaker 1: was like, you.
Speaker 2: Got to pick a team. You got to pick a team.
Speaker 2: Footy's really important. Okay, you've got to pick a chain.
Speaker 2: How did you pick the Hawks? How did you go
Speaker 2: to Hawthorne?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well it's really frustrating, isn't it When you first
Speaker 3: get here because everyone wants to like recruit you, and
Speaker 3: it feels like a big decision. And the thing is this,
Speaker 3: like I didn't want to use you know, whoever was
Speaker 3: leading on the ladder at the time, and yes, so
Speaker 3: I think I went for.
Speaker 5: Hawthorne, who were like eleventh in the ladder that year
Speaker 5: at the end of that year. But because they started
Speaker 5: winning straight after that, I get called a bandwagon jumper
Speaker 5: a lot. And I'm sure you're going to start copying
Speaker 5: this as a Demons.
Speaker 3: Fan, right even all of a sudden be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course you picked the Demons could be winning, Like no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm the lucky charm, like you don't get it. They
Speaker 3: needed me, so I decided for me, it had to
Speaker 3: be something that's more superficial, like just the team colors
Speaker 3: or you know, the mascot or something like that, that
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with the actual gameplay of it
Speaker 3: and just something that I won't like. And the problem
Speaker 3: I had with bought On was the colors of brown
Speaker 3: and gold. Let's let's not beat around the bush. It
Speaker 3: doesn't look too pretty, does it. And it took a
Speaker 3: lot of effort for me to try and get through
Speaker 3: because you know, coming from the country like Sri Lanka.
Speaker 3: You know we've obviously you know, I just left my
Speaker 3: mum and dad and at the time, we were having
Speaker 3: the Civil war, so there was a lot of things
Speaker 3: going on my mind before I could figure out this team.
Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of the inspiration for me
Speaker 3: trying with this this power ballance.
Speaker 2: Well what a power about it? So you've gone with Aerosmith.
Speaker 2: Don't want to miss a thing?
Speaker 1: What a song?
Speaker 3: And so if anyone didn't thought, you know what he
Speaker 3: does comedy, he cooks and now sings while he clinches,
Speaker 3: So you know there's.
Speaker 2: A real cv of you know what you're u Hugh Jackman, Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I would take that. I can be the next Wolverine Dilveren.
Speaker 2: There you go, there's the title of the next show, Dilveren.
Speaker 1: You can have that. You're welcome.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's hear your Let's hear your entry for footy. Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear this day your lyrics said
Speaker 2: about being a Hawks fan, Yeah.
Speaker 3: How I got to it.
Speaker 6: I could pick a team based on who is winning,
Speaker 6: but that feels like God be cheating. So I look
Speaker 6: at what they're wearing.
Speaker 3: I could spend my life with the.
Speaker 6: Red and black barmers, but there's a wall back in
Speaker 6: Sri Lanka with tigers.
Speaker 1: Yet, why you're not.
Speaker 3: This brown and gold?
Speaker 7: What my heart desert? I don't want to cheer mycies.
Speaker 7: I don't like the Melndees. So I'm hawthorned baby because
Speaker 7: I don't mind the poosing wheeze, because I.
Speaker 6: Could go with Carlton Blue.
Speaker 3: I'm not Melbourne King Ruse.
Speaker 6: Now I'm hot on baby, and I'm proud of our
Speaker 6: wheeze and too.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is amazing. That is a that's a brilliant entry.
Speaker 1: And what a voice.
Speaker 3: Oh my, I wish you could see me as that
Speaker 3: was playing. My so, I was like squeezing my eyeballs,
Speaker 3: just the cringe that.
Speaker 1: It's more clenching. You can actually.
Speaker 2: You can clench your eyeballs. Your eyeballs are ripped. You
Speaker 2: got laps on your eyeballs, sorry, dilvery.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Look yeah, I felt like that's the only book authentic
Speaker 3: story of how I became.
Speaker 2: It's brilliant. Thank you very much to do with that.
Speaker 2: That is a very very good and what a beautiful
Speaker 2: It's a I couldn't describe your voice fractured. You know
Speaker 2: it's not it's not it's not strong, but it's not weak.
Speaker 2: It's fractured. Well, look, when you're at the Melbourne Comedy Festival,
Speaker 2: I will be coming seeing your new show. I love
Speaker 2: seeing you stand up. You're a brilliant, brilliant stand up.
Speaker 2: I think you're underrated. I honestly I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of yours. I will be there at the Comedy Festival.
Speaker 2: Where and what time can people see you in Melbourne?
Speaker 1: Mate?
Speaker 3: I'll be at the Forum Theater from six thirty Tuesday
Speaker 3: to Saturday and then on Sundays the five thirty shows,
Speaker 3: So it's nice and early. It's a good one because
Speaker 3: I weirdly enough get a lot of families coming home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like you're moving into sort of matinee
Speaker 2: performances on that Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what you got you gotta go to bed early
Speaker 1: or some.
Speaker 3: Sunday clenching.
Speaker 1: On a Sunday, you got a t clench.
Speaker 2: I will be there. I'll we come and see you.
Speaker 2: You're a great stand up. I always love chatting to
Speaker 2: your deal. You're a great human beings with a killer
Speaker 2: stand up. Thanks for chatting to us and I'll see
Speaker 2: you soon. I'll see you at the show.
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