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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Ny.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next guest is a comedy legend, young Ones Blackadder.

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Speaker 2: So much we know about ben Elton. After five years,

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Speaker 2: he's back to his stand up roots with a brand

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Speaker 2: new tour and he joins us now at ben Elton.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, nice to be back on the show, I

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Speaker 1: must say, so.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the new show, Authentic Stupidity. What's authentic

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Speaker 2: Stupidity about?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I don't normally give my tours a title.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing this now for forty four years, and

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Speaker 1: I've always really talked about authentic stubidity because I think

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Speaker 1: comedy is essentially about exploring the absurdity of the human condition,

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Speaker 1: you know, the way we think about ourselves, the way

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Speaker 1: we think about each other. I mean, all comedy is

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Speaker 1: really exposing our collective stupidity, is you know, It's what

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Speaker 1: I always do, which is the stuff that outrages me,

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Speaker 1: the stuff that exhilarates me. And I'm doing it from

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Speaker 1: the position of being old, you know. And it's been

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Speaker 1: forty five years since. I mean, I did my first

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Speaker 1: gig in Australia in a nineteen eighty six and a

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Speaker 1: long time ago, and I was kind of very young

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Speaker 1: and opinionated, and I knew what I thought, because that's

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Speaker 1: what young that's their job. Young people know they're right,

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Speaker 1: and they're going to tell everybody about it. And they're

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Speaker 1: still doing that. And I did it when I was young,

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Speaker 1: and now a whole bunch of young people are doing

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Speaker 1: it to me, and now I'm a bewildered old man

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Speaker 1: trying to catch up.

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Speaker 2: When you said you're also going to talk about the

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Speaker 2: things that exhilarate you, what are those kinds of things? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, quite often they're also things that are irritating.

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Speaker 1: You know, the course of married life, which is exhilarating,

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Speaker 1: but also you know, take some negotiations. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I always say I'm the biggest victim of my own comedy.

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Speaker 1: You know, I point a lot of fingers, and I

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Speaker 1: don't mind calling out, you know, calling out the bad

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Speaker 1: guys when I see I think I can be funny

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Speaker 1: about it. But in the long run, you know, one

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Speaker 1: finger pointing outwards means three are pointing back at you.

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Speaker 1: And I make myself the target, and I think I'm

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Speaker 1: the biggest target. But my wife has started claiming that

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Speaker 1: she thinks she's the biggest she is not true. She

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Speaker 1: gets away very likely, in my opinion, and she's very

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Speaker 1: happy with it. She spent the first three weeks of

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Speaker 1: the UK tour on the road with me as my wag.

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Speaker 1: As she put it, that's not my term, she said,

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Speaker 1: I'm your comedy wag. And she even washed my shirts

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Speaker 1: a couple of times in the sink, because when you're

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Speaker 1: doing one night stands, you know, no matter how much

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Speaker 1: you can afford hotel laundry, you can't wait for it

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Speaker 1: to be sent back.

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Speaker 3: So and one thing I love is on my social

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Speaker 3: media is like, this is the beauty of social media,

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Speaker 3: like the algorithm is. I just get like all this

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Speaker 3: old Young One stuff that just comes out out of

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Speaker 3: nowhere and your thing the other day, and I just

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Speaker 3: always loved that episode when you were doing that show

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Speaker 3: for the kids nosing around and I was just watching

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Speaker 3: it and it just stands up. It's such a such

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Speaker 3: a delight to see again and it's so relevant to

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Speaker 3: this day.

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Speaker 1: Well it's funny, that's funny. That was right at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of my career. I used to do that in

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Speaker 1: my stand up routine, and then I put it into

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Speaker 1: the first episode of The Young Ones I wrote and

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Speaker 1: made it into an actual physical sketch with other actors.

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Speaker 1: But it used to just be a stand up route.

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Speaker 1: You know. Four year here we are nosing around four

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Speaker 1: young adults made by young adults, talking about all the

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Speaker 1: stuff young adults are interested in. I can't employment. You

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Speaker 1: know that worthy television, you know kind of ABC, BBC,

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Speaker 1: very worthy.

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Speaker 2: You said, you know your first stand up was forty

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Speaker 2: years ago. How is life on the road now? Is

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Speaker 2: is it harder? Do you take more pleasure in it?

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Speaker 2: What are the differences?

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Speaker 1: Well, I haven't. I haven't met another future wife since

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, so it's got less exciting in those days.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was the result of touring. I mean

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Speaker 1: I was me and the late my dear friend, the

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Speaker 1: late great Rick Male came to Australia as young young

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Speaker 1: stand up comics in the mid eighties. And I always say,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a great believer in organized labor,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a trade union man. I believe, and you know,

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Speaker 1: there there are bad apples in every barrel, but I'm

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Speaker 1: a trade unionist. And it was Australian trade unionism that

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Speaker 1: gave me my lifetime of domestic happiness because it was

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Speaker 1: the equity. The Australian Actor Union in those days had

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Speaker 1: the cloud to insist on four Ozzies to every two Poms,

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Speaker 1: and we were me and Rick were thinking, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: we can't put four more comics on our bill. But

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Speaker 1: actually we got booked this all girl, all girl rock

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Speaker 1: band and I ended up marrying the bass player. So

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Speaker 1: your question was how's the road these days? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: not as exciting it.

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Speaker 3: Was romantic, and you've got the laundry. At least you've

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Speaker 3: got your wife washing your small.

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Speaker 1: Left at all. She got bored with it. She's left

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Speaker 1: until she's going to rejoin it in London, and I

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Speaker 1: specially a bit at the Perth gig. She's done her.

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Speaker 3: That's an every week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well bet, it's great to talk to you. Tickets on

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Speaker 3: sale November twelve via livenation dot com. A you been Helton,

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Speaker 3: it's always a treat.

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Speaker 1: It's really good fun to speak to you guys. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that, and I hope you come and see

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Speaker 1: the show. I guarantee two and a half hours a laughter.

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Speaker 1: I know because it's happened every night with the Poms,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully you'll be there

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Speaker 3: Good on you mate,