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David Walliams

lines on the record: 53
first: 2009-02-22
most recent: 2009-02-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I think probably the Smiths, please, please, please let me get what I want, because as soon as that song finishes, you want to listen to it again.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well I would like to take a gun. Because I don't like being on my own. So if I really start hating it, I can shoot myself.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would take Philip Larkin's collective poems. I always travel with that book and always feel you can dip into it any time you like reread poems. It's so many brilliant, brilliant phrases in Larkin and also I just love his worldview as well.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This last song I've picked is Johnny Cash song, and this is one of his early hits called I Still Miss Someone, and what were you saying about, you know, going out to parties and things like that, there's actually a lyric in this song about that go to all the parties, but I sit in a darkened corner because I still miss someone.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do, but I've well I'm trying to deal with it, but I've also just learnt that, you know, I have to make plans, you know, I have to see people and do things. Because I don't want to get myself in that stay, and I know I can sort of keep it at bay. by being creative, you know.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it does point up that. I mean, it's not all the time. I feel like that, but I thrive off the company of others. I love that. I love being sociable. I love being creative. So I've got lots of things to be thankful for”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's the terrible thing. It points up how miserable you are. This is a cheery program, isn't it? The music's been depressing. I've been depressing.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's really weird, you know, when we were on that tour we would play, as you say, to like, you know, sometimes ten thousand people at Arena and some nights it would be amazing and we'd get a novation and everything like that. And an hour later I'd be in my hotel room drinking some peppermint tea, feeling.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I've just got a terrible fear, you know, of being on my own. I don't like it. I mean, the only thing that can really steer it is creativity if I'm alone with, you know, I'm writing something, and then I can kind of feel calm. I think there's something strange about needing a load of strangers to laugh at you, needing that love and attention from people that you've never met, craving that. Wanting to make people off the time, you're wanting to make them happy.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't stand being on my own I hate it, have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts I start to unravel myself. and I start to think really dark thoughts self destructive thoughts and I can't like if some of you said to me you've got to spend a weekend on your own in your house I wouldn't be able to hack it”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I definitely would like the picket fence. What were the other things again? Yeah, I would like that. I mean, having a nephew has been amazing because I've obviously got to spend a lot of time with him. And also, I was totally unprepared for how much I would love him. But, yeah, he's lovely. I would like to have kids, yeah. I mean, I'm sure I will one day”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the power someone's power over you. But I like it, it's still a romantic thing you do something to me that nobody else can do.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a song I love Colpater song called You Do Something to Me This is pretty much straightforwardly romantic song although you do get the sense that And what I really love about Shenada Connor's version is that she brought out the pain of it.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When my dad was dying in the last couple of days of his life he was in hospice, and me, my mum, my sister Julie and her husband Ian sat there watching life slip away from someone you love and When I came out of the room, you know, get a cup of tea. People think, oh, can I be autograph? And I did sign them for people because it was with my mum and I didn't want it to be awkward. But I did think, God, you know, I'm in a hospice. I know you're in a hospice too. The people asking if I'm autographed. There's times like that, and you think, well, I'm just a son there grieving for my dad. I'm not. I don't want to be the famous person then. This is no use to me then.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mum's like a, you know, she is like the nicest person I've ever met in my life. She's just pure love. And to get to take her to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen was just extraordinary. And that was the best gift I think I could ever give her in that way.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love to take my mum out for an evening, and so I took her to the Baftas, I really liked me Ellen Titchmaus. Allen Titchma's walking up the stairs, I sort of run after him and go Oh, Alan, can I introduce you to my mother? And he was very, very nice. Also, I met the queen with my mother, the real one. The real queen. The actual queen, yeah.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean it was so mind blowing. It's like, right, one of the beetles. On one of the main ones. It's come So I came on stage at the show as Lou and Lou and Andy sketch and I said the first line in my head I went I wonder if Support McCartney liked that joke and then I said the second line I wonder if Sir Paul McCartney is laughing and then I had to go David David turn off this thing in your head yes Sir Paul McCartney's probably enjoying it and eventually relaxed and it was it was incredible”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next song is a Bob Dylan song called You're a Big Girl Now. And this is from his blood on the tracks album, which is another album about lost love, and says I think he'd spit up with his wife or something when he wrote this album. And I think this album is great because He's full of anger. He's full of hate, rage, but he's also full of longing and a sense of loss, and I think he just really captures the complexity of those emotions.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I definitely felt. to some extent I was doing it in yeah I mean obviously Me and Matt went to Africa and we saw the desperate situation some people live in there and that inspired me to do it I wouldn't have done it without but also it was something about putting myself through something that was incredibly painful and difficult And I think I was definitely looking for some sort of redemption, yeah. I kind of got to think of myself that I wasn't a good person, and I don't know why I have that, but I just struggle with that, and this was something I thought, you know, I've done a good thing.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, really proud of. Also because I think my parents generation, when my dad's passed on, my mum was 65. And to their friends, Little Britain, you know, some of them liked it, some of them didn't, some of them thought it was too rude. But swimming the channel and raising money for charity. You can't really have a negative slant on that. So I was just really pleased that it was something that could make them happy.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's mainly the cold that really gets you down. My hands, you know, to make a paddle, you want to put your fingers together, but they become like claws, which is mentally quite tough. But I was just determined, I thought I've got this opportunity to do something extraordinary, and I've really got to grab it by both hands. Now my mum and dad were there on like another bow, watching me. and in the end it kind of went like a dream”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it kind of built up, so you start off doing sort of two hours, three hours, four hours. By the end, I do eight hour training sessions in the sea, in Dover Harbour, getting at nine in the morning, get out five in the afternoon.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, there's a tendency I think people think, you know, oh well he's famous, you know he can do that with that channel we've got to know it's all exactly the same as if you were and so yeah it was kind of an amazing time in my life and I actually didn't think that I was going to make it”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next song I'm going to pick is a Nick Cave song called Into My Arms from an album called The Boatman's Cool. This album I sort of listen to every night for about nine months when the last girl I was enough with him and then we split up. If the king went from about six or seven years ago now, and I would just listen to this album all the time and cry the only thing that sort of. I had to hold on to”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“present company excluded again and they are amazing so much fun and they're so amusing and naughty and beautiful and once Kate Beckensale that I've known for a really long time since she was well known and that's in Briggler as well and when I'm with them I'm like I turn to jelly because they're so exciting to be with but neither of them would ever go out with me so I can't I don't know”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely I love women. I love being around women. I find them incredible intoxicating and I've never had that feeling that I get with women with a man.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I fell in love with a man then yeah, I wouldn't say that could never happen but I really I think about it's because I am feminine and I've always thought about it and think am I gay and then I so love being with women and I so love women's bodies and all that I think well no I can't be But sometimes I think oh it would just be simpler if I was because everyone thinks I am I'm quite camped No, I don't think I am. That was gay scalp with it.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Possibly in part, yes. I think it's connected to that. I also think I just I got very close to someone and I got very hurt and I just never really felt like I wanted to be that intimate with anyone again.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I think that in the show we play lots of camp and sometimes gay characters, and then they see that I've got kind of go out with diamonds girlfriends and stuff, and they kind of can't quite compute the two things. And it's like a kind of running joke in the sun newspaper about this thing called the geometer. And if I'm out with Nassie and Bruglier, I've gone straight. But if I go out with Dale Winton, I'm in the pink. A lot of people are just friends. Natalie and Brugish uses friends. So we just go out and we have fun. But because it's not an interesting story, he's friends with a girl, they have to sort of make out that, you know, something else is going on. But I don't really mind, you know. I play up to it to some extent.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is the velvet underground Nico Sunday morning, and this is an album I remember listening to with Katie, and I remember lying in bed with there listening to it and thinking wow she's opened up a whole new incredible world for me.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it went wrong and she met someone else and she's now got a couple of kids and she's still a very special person in my life but things change, don't they? I would feel very lucky that I went out with her because I think she really saved me, I think, and she really breathed life into me.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely, yeah, she really encouraged the exhibitionist side of me, and she would buy me things like for my birthday, she'd buy me like a Jean Paul Gautier skirt.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, he liked me too. I know it's hard to believe, but we were thirsty in love for about four years. Only happened at the end of university But that really brought me out myself because I'd never done the things that she'd done. I'd never gone out all night, you know, I'd never stayed up till dawn and she brought all of that out of me and we sort of would dress up and go out together, you know, like she would put on a kind of fairy outfit and she'd dress me up in a sort of sailors outfit or something and we'd go out and dance and that was a great time and that really I think gave me confidence.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I blossomed a bit because I also fell in love with my first girlfriend called Katie Carmichael and she was very, very cool and kind of falling in love with her. It kind of brought me to life, I think.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's where we met the National Youth Theatre in 1990. Well, I didn't see myself in that way, but I suppose I was. I think I was pretty confident at that time because I knew I could make people laugh. And yeah, me and Matt, and we were both real big comedy fans, really, and we'd just talk about the comedy we like, and it was no real sense we would ever become comedians.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, aye, I would this was a great time to go to charity shops in the late eighties, early nineties because you still got the stuff from the seventies and the sixties. So I would get loads of stuff from charity shops, like suits and big red shirts and ties and stuff, and then people go, where have you got that from? I say it was Jean Paul Gautier. And what did I look like? I don't know. I look like me but younger.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something different the big city there was something gay about them as well which at the time was kind of unspoken and that was kind of strange because in the sort of mid-80s you just you didn't really know of anyone who was I didn't even know if it really existed anyway This pet shop boy song is called later tonight and it's just a really really beautiful song about longing for someone. Someone's watching this sexy guy walk past and he never ever manages to speak to him. He doesn't even look in his direction.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when me and my friend Robin Dashwood were at school band the pet shop boys broke, and we were absolutely obsessed with”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was a fat boy. Very, very fat, I wouldn't have fitted into this room. No, I was just overweight, and swimming is the sort of thing you can do if you're overweight, you know, because you can't really run or jump. And I couldn't really catch or throw bulls. But I could swim and I actually like being in the water. There's something about the strokes. It's like a kind of metronome or something, something. It gets you into a really nice mental state, I think.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was a guy called Robin Dashwood, who I'm still really close friends with, and we'd see each other all the time But yes, I sort of played up to it. I know that's a bit of a cliche, isn't it? You're bullied and then you kind of play up to it and you're the class clown, but that was true to some extent. Ben Miller, a comedian, said a good thing. He said, comedy is a way of controlling people's laughter at you. If you turn it all into an act, it's a way of controlling it and deflecting it.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The CCF is the combined cadet force and there suddenly they were like, yeah, let's call him Daphne because he's gay. And then I just sort of played up to that.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he knew I was a fan, and we ended up going for dinner at Jonathan Ross's house. Oh, name dropper. And there was a moment in the evening when I was sat on the sofa with Morrissey and he was stroking one of Jonathan Ross's dogs. We were both stroking the dog at the same time. And I just thought, what's happened to my life?”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's another sad one. It's the Smiths and please, please, please, let me get what I want. I mean, I had the great pleasure of meeting Morrissey recently. And I'm not.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this was the time when I felt powerful, so any opportunity in school, be it an assembly or school play, or there'd be something at scouts where you'd be doing your entertainment badge or whatever, it'd be like I would seize it, this was my thing. I lived for those opportunities.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Watching yourself in the mirror of the bed. I think I learnt a lot about comedy and timing and structures of jokes, and I used to sometimes perform them at school and assemblies and things. And there's certain comedian stories like Tony Hancock because he killed himself. You can't really look at the work knowing that without somehow taking that on board. And there's a kind of bleakness, you know, the boredom of a Sunday afternoon in Chim when it's raining. There's nothing to do. And Chiem wasn't far away either. It was sort of ten minutes away, and that fascinated me as well. But yeah, I think Hancock spoke to me on a sort of deeper level.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I like just escaping and my favourite thing was just locking myself in the bathroom and like practicing comedy routines or being in my room and listening to sort of Ron Atkinson records and things like that and being with myself and my thoughts. I think that's when you develop your imagination. I think if you're just out playing football having fun getting off with girls, you don't really bother developing that side of yourself in the same way.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I was just depressed as a child. I don't think I was really sort of diagnosed or anything and I think I was just unhappy a lot of the time and just found it hard to kind of make friends with people and formulations with people and”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, very much a sort of nuclear family. You know, we had the Vauxhall Cavalier in the drive, and I went to Cubs, my sister went to brownies, my mum actually just retired as a brown owl because she's sixty five, but she did that for twenty years. Very much sort of suburban life, yeah. But I found it quite boring and frustrating.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, these are the songs I listen to a lot. The first song is a Bjork song called So Broken, which is just her and a Flamenco guitar, and she's singing about being broken hearted. And I've been in the same room with her a couple of times, but I'm so in awe of her that I actually didn't want to approach her and talk to her, because I just wanted her to remain for me this sort of perfect icon, really. And halfway through the song she just kind of lets rip, and she's not even really singing anymore. She's kind of screaming, and you really get a sense of the pain of the performer.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, well, show business. It's strange because you never quite know when your day is up, do you? I hope I will have achieved all the things I want to achieve when that moment comes.”
2009-02-22 · Desert Island Discs · David Walliams · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source