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Speaker 1: You can catch us all Howard at the Riverside Theater

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Speaker 1: of February twenty seven and twenty eight. Tickets are through

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Speaker 1: ticket tak and he's with us now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing very well?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Now new show. The last show

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Speaker 1: was called Lubricant. How does this one differ from that?

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Speaker 3: Completely new jokes. It's as yet untitled. I've got a

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Speaker 3: working title, but I want to save that for the special.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a big fat funny show I've done mate.

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Speaker 3: I've done so many gigs that did two hundred shows

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Speaker 3: in the UK. I've done I think thirty in the US.

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Speaker 3: So it's arriving in ours, ready tight, ready to go.

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Speaker 2: When you prepared earlier.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I don't know, it feels like

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Speaker 3: a lot of comics go to Australia and sort of

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Speaker 3: knock it around.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: On a summer holiday, yeah, we weather.

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Speaker 1: In our hamster wheels kind skinny.

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Speaker 2: Try.

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Speaker 3: I prefer doing it the other way. I mean, don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong, I'm getting a holiday out of you people.

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Speaker 4: It's the end yea absolutely. What about Ukrainian grandmother's what

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Speaker 4: have they got to do with an influence? On this

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Speaker 4: one right.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 3: Well, I saw a video of some Ukrainian grandmothers making

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Speaker 3: missiles and defending their land and in that video they

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Speaker 3: were laughing, and that made complete sense to me. So

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Speaker 3: I've got a bit in the show about sort of

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Speaker 3: laughter in dark places. I don't want to give anything away,

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Speaker 3: but it's a particular it's a particularly filthy joke.

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Speaker 2: It does.

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Speaker 3: But the point I'm making, I guess an extension of

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Speaker 3: the last special is that laughed as the lubricant that

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Speaker 3: makes life Liverpool and when you're when the world is

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Speaker 3: out bleakers, sometimes the humor is dark and daring and

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Speaker 3: delicious and enough to get you through the day.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of celebrating those moments. I guess Them's

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Speaker 2: a balance, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, sometimes the darker it gets, the darker the

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Speaker 1: humor has to be. But unfortunately we're living in this horrible,

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Speaker 1: woke world where people are so upset by everything and

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Speaker 1: we're being starved of that balance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think the brilliant thing about live comedy is that

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Speaker 3: it just it's there's no other art form where you

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Speaker 3: get constant ticks and if they're laughing, it's working.

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Speaker 2: And if they're not. It ain't.

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Speaker 3: It's such a beautiful sort of experience, and the audience

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Speaker 3: will quickly let you know whether it's not funny enough,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So it's you.

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Speaker 3: Don't get feedback like this, and it's a bit like

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Speaker 3: writing a song with an audience, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: every night you're going on stage and it'll be the

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Speaker 3: equivalent of Coldplay gun it was all blue.

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Speaker 2: Nope, it's all green yellow. It was yellow.

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Speaker 3: We'll do yellow tomorrow. And so that's how every comic works.

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Speaker 3: You just get this amazing feedback.

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Speaker 1: Were performing through the most amazing shows.

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Speaker 4: They didn't do halftimes, they left green off. No, no, Russell,

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Speaker 4: what about you talk about literally the laughing of or not.

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Speaker 4: But sometimes you want to have an impact on people.

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Speaker 4: If there is an uncomfortable groan in the room, that

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Speaker 4: can be a hit too right at times.

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Speaker 2: Ye know, I'm a real I find groaning difficult, Like okay,

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Speaker 2: like when when people do that thing of.

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Speaker 3: Go and they're kind of playing along with the sort

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Speaker 3: of pantomime of it.

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Speaker 2: I really struggle with that because.

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Speaker 3: It's the only place that you do that you don't like.

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Speaker 3: If you tell one of your mates like a dark joke.

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Speaker 3: They laugh or they don't. They would never go. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's the performing for each other. I've never met a

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Speaker 3: human being mates that noise one on one to a joke.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes a group of people get together, they sound like

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Speaker 3: someone's pulling a bagpie out of a walkie.

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Speaker 2: It's just this kind of.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to be grown at

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Speaker 1: whatever they're doing for whether they're on stage, performing or

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Speaker 1: you know, serving you at a shop. It's always my

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite sein Feld episodes was where he

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Speaker 1: was getting heckled when he was doing a show. So

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Speaker 1: he found out where the guy worked, and he went

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Speaker 1: to his workplace and and heckled.

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Speaker 2: Him on his job. And I was like, how do

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Speaker 2: you how do you feel? How do you handle the growners?

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Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, I mean that's commitment. Never I've never tracked

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Speaker 2: anyone down.

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Speaker 1: Would be good, though, It feel good, wouldn't it?

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Speaker 2: It would feel great.

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Speaker 3: I'd be slightly worried about some of the hecklers I've

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Speaker 3: had done the years.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to meet them one on one.

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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, I remember I did a Christmas gig

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Speaker 3: in Essex in England once and a lady threw a

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Speaker 3: dildo at me And as far as as far as

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Speaker 3: heckles go, that's up there. Yeah, she had something in

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Speaker 3: her in her back. I mean like she had there

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Speaker 3: was no faith in the evening, do you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. I've got my wallet, got my keys. I

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Speaker 3: then he forgot my sex toy just in case, and

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Speaker 3: the one thing that could bring her pleasure she threw

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Speaker 3: at me. And it's it's it's just a vulnerable moment

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Speaker 3: when you get hit by a dildo through the kind

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Speaker 3: of lights. Yeah, but the point I'm making I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: want to I wouldn't want to track her down in daylight,

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Speaker 3: do you know what I mean? If she's she's willing

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Speaker 3: to do that, let her.

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Speaker 4: Up just a return lost property.

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Speaker 3: Maybe, Yeah, it was And do you know what, really

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Speaker 3: she twitched it on before she threw it, whirling and spinning.

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Speaker 2: It was like an X rated matrix. I was trying

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Speaker 2: to todg you you know what I mean? Could rather

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Speaker 2: get a bottle?

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Speaker 1: I just I really fear that maybe in the dark

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Speaker 1: she grabbed the wrong thing out of her back to.

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Speaker 2: Throw at you.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she was just going for a piece of fruit.

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Speaker 2: No one. Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 3: The poor guy that had to sweep up at the

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Speaker 3: end of the night. That job's pretty bleak at the

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Speaker 3: best of times. But if it's boiled sweets and Sex Toys, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, that'd be a great, great album.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great album titled World Sweets and Sex Toys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's complain Probably Tom Jones is riding now.

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Speaker 4: Actually right, maybe before we go, I just want to

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Speaker 4: know you've said the shows a road hardened and ready

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Speaker 4: to rock and nize and type. But what about for

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Speaker 4: local markets when you come in, I know you like

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Speaker 4: to do a little bit of research. You've got a

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Speaker 4: bit of room to move when you're coming in talking

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Speaker 4: about things in Perth to Perth people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 3: What it would be so different because the last time

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Speaker 3: I was there was your is it the premiere?

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Speaker 2: Is the leader? Purpose? He guy called Mark McGowan stupid.

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Speaker 2: Now he's gone, he's quick.

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Speaker 3: So when I was there last time, it was obviously

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Speaker 3: I was in the smack in the middle of.

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Speaker 2: COVID, Yeah, and he was like god, it was a

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Speaker 2: rock star. It was so I.

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Speaker 3: Remember the whole show being about it was sort of

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Speaker 3: Mark McGowan is this sort of cricket guy that was

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Speaker 3: just playing a forward defensive to anyone that's trying to

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Speaker 3: get into Western Australia. He stood there on the border

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Speaker 3: just looking at Victoria, just going no. And then because

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Speaker 3: Brisbane absolutely not playing various cricket shots, but it just

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Speaker 3: felt like Perth was its own kingdom away from it

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Speaker 3: was like Game of Thrones. I mean, you were west

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Speaker 3: for us, you were way out on your own, doing

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Speaker 3: your own thing.

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Speaker 2: Were the most isolated city in the world.

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Speaker 4: Enough already, but he he was Steve Smith before saying

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Speaker 4: paper Gate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, but yeah, but everyone was My main

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Speaker 3: memory of Perth, which is everyone was happy compared to

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Speaker 3: the rest of ours.

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Speaker 2: You just seen once you.

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Speaker 3: Were in, you were in and it was great, so

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Speaker 3: very different this time. I just want to see if

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Speaker 3: it's the same vibe. But yeah, it changes from the

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Speaker 3: place to place.

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Speaker 4: Really, yeah's gone. He left him in a week. He

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Speaker 4: didn't give a lot of notice.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: I'm off Man Well Russell. February twenty seven and twenty

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Speaker 1: eight at the Riverside Theater. Tickets are through tic Tech.

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Speaker 1: It's a hot, hot time of the year. Packy boardies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, yeah, I'm looking forward to it all right.

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Speaker 2: Wait yeah and who are there guys?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Thanks bring for any random sex toys, but all

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Speaker 4: the best.

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Speaker 2: Nice