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Jim Jefferies

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first: 2020-05-04
most recent: 2020-05-04
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“Nah, man. No, no, just subscribe to the new podcast. All my gigs are cancelled because I have no shows to promote. But hopefully after this quarantine is all over, I'll be coming to a city near you. Thanks for having me, Tim.”
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“I think I can. Queen Naima, couple Alex, or yeah, we did the war on drugs and we've done earthquakes. We've done like four or five of these, but that's a couple. We did earthquakes in the war on drugs. And now I know shitloads about earthquakes and the war on drugs. I know a lot of stuff now. Before I didn't know much.”
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“I'm gonna be that guy, right? And then at the end, the person, the specialist, will tell me what I got right, what I got wrong, what misinformation I had, what is a common bit of misinformation on the thing, and then we'll all learn together about this specialist topics and we'll keep it funny and we'll keep it light. And then at the end of the thing, you'll know about a topic.”
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“You know what I mean? So I thought what the podcast is what will happen is each podcast will have a specialist on somebody who knows a lot about a subject, whether they've written a book or they've done a TED talk on it or whatever the fuck. And they'll come on and I won't know who they are or what they do. And then they have to say that their topic of expertise. And then I will say everything that I think I know about that thing, right? Because you remember before the internet when you had a guy in a bar who used to think was the smartest person ever. And then the internet came out and you could just Google things and turned out he was completely full of shit.”
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“I just sort of thought it was like how do things work or the more you know and all those type of podcasts where they talk about stuff those are the ones that I sort of was interested in where I was like I started listening to less comedy podcasts and more podcasts where I could learn something and then those those crime ones everyone likes those so much because they have some thing they learn about now this also goes back to my father is a very difficult man to argue with because if you prove him wrong and like he'll say oh this happened that happened and you're bloody this and that and then you go well dad that's not actually true you know like because in 1948 the government did blah blah blah blah you say that and you give him facts and then my father just goes well i don't know about that and that's that's not conceding that's just going oh maybe you're right i doubt”
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“And you talk about what there definitely is far too many comedians interviewing comedians. Like it seems like a very weird thing now that we all go on each other's podcasts and we talk about how we get started and how to write a joke and all that type of stuff.”
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“He's seven, but I've read that he should have been able to do it by the time he was six, and he's hopeless at it. You know, he gives it a go. And then I go, because I keep buying him fucking shoes with Velcro on him. You know what I mean? So I feel like that's lazy parenting where I've stuffed up a little bit, you know. I think you take them on a good holiday or you work hard and you get them into a good school and you do all those type of things. And I feel like, all right, because otherwise what's all this for if you're not going to give the next generation a better life than you had?”
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“These little things, you know, you teach some kids to ride a bike and you're like, Yeah, I did it because, you know, as a parent, I don't know how to like my son's still having problems doing his shoelaces. And I feel like I've let him down a bit there.”
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“That's the thing, man. That's the thing. You don't know. You keep, you know, I know my son really loves me, and that's cool. Yeah, I know that. And then you do things where”
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“I think if I was in a dramatic movie, that would be something that right now I can't foresee ever happening. So that would be one thing that would surprise me if that happened because that's not on the horizon. No one's ever asked or asked if I'm interested or anything like that. So if that happened, that would be something that would shock me if that happened. And, you know, I don't suspect it will happen, but if that happened, it would shock me. But, you know, it might sound corny. The thing I get the most joy out of is probably being a dad. I really like being a dad. I think I'm more proud of when I do that well than when I do comedy well.”
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“You know what I mean? Like, I think I'm all right with that too. I don't know. I don't know the secret to being a successful comic is. I really couldn't tell you. If I could tell you, I'd go manage comedians and stop doing it myself.”
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“It seems like you have longevity. I think it's producing a lot of specials. I think bringing out the specials constantly sort of keep you going. The specials never, I never like do a special and then it's like, wow, you're more popular now or anything like that. But it just keeps your fan base going. And I think you've got to give a product. You've got to keep touring. You keep your eye off the ball, then I'm not a big believer in that I'm in competition with anybody else. I just think if I just keep on producing good quality stuff, I'll always have a fan base, whether it be small or large or whatever, there'll be somebody somewhere that wants to pay to watch me tell jokes, you know? So, but as I said, if it all ends tomorrow and I just become like an old fellow who sits around showing my kid pictures like one time I played the tennis arena in Melt.”
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“Yeah, I agree with that as well. It's like when I moved to LA, all I knew of LA was two things. There was the Hollywood, which was the Ritzy looking lights and lots of stuff. And then there was Compton. And then the only two things that I would seen on TV, you know what I mean? And so I used to think I used to believe I couldn't walk the streets in LA because a blood or a crip would come and shoot me or, you know what I mean? Like there'd be a drive by or something. It's fucking... Or I'd be in Beverly Hills and it would just be girls with long legs, with dogs in handbags. And I thought that was all there was. And it turns out there's also the valley.”
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“Why would you want to fucking the restaurants are nice? Like there's places, other places that are nice as well, but there's just what my argument is there's nothing wrong with LA.”
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“When people just go, oh, LA, oh, you must hate it there. And they're like, oh, the traffic, the traffic where I live doesn't have traffic because your place is shit. LA's got traffic. LA's got traffic because people want to fucking live here. That's why there's traffic. People want to be here, and it's good, and the food's good, and the women are pretty and shit. You know what I mean? Like, why would you?”
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“You could be in a lot worse places than LA. There's nothing wrong with it. I really get a bit home proud of LA and I don't like when people bag on it”
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“LA's home and LA's home and I don't believe that, you know, I got a kid and I would like to have another child sometime. So I think when you have children, I think that's your moving's done. You know what I mean? I think maybe I could retire in Hawaii or something like that, depending if my kid fucking goes off and works in New York or whatever. What's the point of me staying in LA? You know, maybe I could go after Santa Barbara and buy a place and go for fucking walks or whatever the fuck people do when they're old. But, you know, it could be.”
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“Once I have a leather, and I've never done that in my personal life or anything just before I walked out on stage, I went, fuck it, I'm taking the t shirt off. I'm going to be like any Murphy and just.”
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“We're goofy. We're goofy people. And I still to this day don't particularly care if my mother always used to go. They're laugh. Those kids at school are laughing at you, not with you. And I just didn't care. As long as I was getting the last, because I still knew I was doing it to get laughs. It didn't matter to me where they came from. And so just to see someone who was cool and he was, you know, like, let's be honest, I wear a fucking leather jacket on all my specials because fucking Eddie Murphy wore those leather jumpsuits. There's one of my specials I wear without a t-shirt. I just wanted to just once...”
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“Was the first cinematic release stand up special. So it was in the video store. And I remember watching it and I couldn't get over that this guy was doing stand-up comedy for an hour. That blew my mind. I thought that stand-up comedy was only in a medium of five minutes. That's what everyone did. Then you couldn't watch someone afterwards. And I remember like I wasn't good looking. I wasn't good at sports. I wasn't anything, you know, that was deemed to be cool. You know, I couldn't play a guitar. I couldn't, you know. And just to see someone who was doing something that I believed I had the innate talent to be able to do Andy was cool. You know what I mean? I never said because comedy before that, before Eddie Murphy for me, I didn't.”
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“Had no stand up specials, we had no HBO that didn't exist, or we didn't even have American TV. We didn't have, I couldn't see who was doing well on Carson. That didn't exist. Those clips never got to us. You know, we had our own late night shows with our own comics on them, and you'd see them for a few minutes, and that was all you really saw of them.”
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“I guess those are two George Carlin, when I started watching him, I thought that he was pretty amazing. And I get a little bit Carlinesque on a joke here and there, and I got to watch myself because I'd love to have been that man. He seems like the perfect comedian to me. I would say there was a guy called Anthony Morgan as well when I was growing up in Australia who was very influential on me growing up. And I don't know what he is does these days. And I haven't seen him since, but he was a big deal for me. And Eddie Murphy's delirious was a pivotal moment in my childhood, was the first time I saw someone who was an Australian doing stand-up comedy, got to understand in Australia we only had four TV channels. We had no comedy specials. I didn't know Richard Pryor was a comedian. I thought he was an actor, right? Yeah.”
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“Well, it's the perfect movie. The thing about it is there's plenty of quotable sort of sketches in there and stuff like that. It's mocking religion, which I love, but it's also not mocking religion in a direct way. It's like the Christians can get upset and go, this is sacrilege and that type of stuff. No, they don't tease Jesus at all. You know what I mean? They have the beginning, the meek, they will inherit this and inherit that. They don't really get into Jesus. We're talking about Brian. If you want to say that this is about Jesus, that's your fucking problem. You know, there's a lot of people going around acting like they were the prophets who got crucified back in the day. And if you want to say that we can't talk about them, that seems a bit ridiculous. So it's a lovely little loophole where you can poke fun at people and still, you know, and also that stuff about the, what did the Romans ever do for us, the aqueduct, the this, that. It's just, it's very, very funny.”
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“Yeah, I don't tape for me that I normally so focus on those two, three minutes that I know what I'm going to do. But the two or three minutes sometimes that works better than the stuff that's killer, even though it's not as good a joke, because for whatever reason the audience can see that you're excited by that joke and they can see the sparkle behind your eye and there's that little bit of magic that happens because you're so excited. And you can't fake that and you can't act excited about a joke you've told a hundred times. You can't. You can perform it well. You can perform it really well. You put everything into it and make it great. But you can never have that magic where you're grinning through it because you're like, ah, this is so good. You know what I mean? And so doing a new bit of standup, that's the most enjoyable bit of the whole show for the performer, or at least it is for me.”
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“I wedged the joke in Kansas in my two hour show in the middle of, you know, when you're doing two hours on stage, I try to work in two new minutes each time, three new minutes. And then that three minutes becomes five minutes. And then at the end of a year, you've got a new show. That's why I always find it weird that you expected to have a new tour written when really these tours are, if you see me a year and a half apart, it'll be a new show. But if you see me, even if it's a different tour and it's a month apart, it's not going to be that much different because everything's just evolving and moving and turning. And then the specials come out. And once the special comes out, you never say those jokes again.”
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“They'll invite you to do a gig and they'll say, hey, come down to my room and try out. It's a good place to try out new stuff. And it's like, are you fucking out of your mind? I'm going to come down, do 10 minutes and try out new stuff. In LA where someone important might be,”
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“Something comes up. How do you capture? I don't write jokes down and I really should because I lose track of punchlines and stuff like that. And other lines can seep in. You can get, I should write things down, but I never fucking write things down. I do most of me writing on stage. You have a kernel of a thought and you wait till you're doing a gig where you're really cooking and the audience really likes you and you think, I can get away with anything right now. And then you do your bit. And if it doesn't work, you go straight back into a bit that you know really well. It's very solid. And so that's how I do it on stage. And a lot of people in LA.”
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“Which is a wonderful thing. They all respond in the end. They all write something at the end on the internet and try to get you, or they come up to you. And in that moment on stage, your argument is gospel and no one can say any different. It doesn't mean it's right. Doesn't mean it's right.”
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“Based argument on the guns. I just wanted to give my point of view and just looking at it rationally type of argument. So that routine was written through arguments with other people. It was just, well, conversations with other people. It wasn't written by me going, oh, and I wonder what the statistic is on this. And I wonder what that is and reading and researching. It was me just arguing with friends until I got all my arguments down and I was like, all right, this is what I'm coming in with. This is what I'm coming in with. And very often. Stand up comedy is just you having a one sided argument and no one being able to respond.”
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“Cliff Claven from Cheers. And Cliff Clavin was on my TV show legit. And I was with him. And we were on set. And he said to me, Jimmy, if only these teachers had guns, we wouldn't have these problems. And I went, you're fucking kidding. You want teachers to have guns. And we argued and debated for a few days on this matter. You know, it was never mean or nasty or anything like that. It was just, you know, I couldn't believe that Americans thought this way about guns. Before that, I always knew you liked guns. But when I heard these arguments, and I was saying to other people, I think this guy at work, you wouldn't believe what he said. It's fucking crazy. And then I started finding out that other people who are friends of mine agreed with him as well. And then other people, and I thought, oh, man, maybe I'm not in the minority, but this is a very common belief they all have. And so then you start thinking, maybe I'm wrong, or maybe I'm whatever. And so I just wanted to give not a scientific or a statistic.”
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“And this guy's more Republican than I'm. I'm more moderate. I think people think I'm a big lefty, but I'm a bit more moderate than I think people would realize. And it's John Ratzenberg from Cheers.”
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“Sort of thought provoking or original or whatever thing that I did was that gun control routine that I think was most memorable. And sadly, the routine always gets new legs after there's a shooting or something like that. So it's not the way you want to get known, you know. That routine. Now, I have to stipulate when I say this, okay, with Americans, I understand that many of you like guns, and I'm not anti-U. I don't think you're wrong. I do think you're wrong, but I grew up in a society without guns, and I have had a different life experience from you. And so this is just my point of view. It doesn't mean that my point of view is right and your point of view is wrong. It's just my way of thinking on the matter. So I have a guy, and I'm happy to call this man a friend who does not agree with me in any way.”
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“I have an interesting story on how I wrote gun control. Let's hear it. That routine, I think that probably is the routine I'm most proud about. I think it's the most...”
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“But it was hard. Sometimes you'd write a funny scene or something funny would happen in your life, and you'd think, oh, I got to put that in the show. And then you go, and I have to work in a guy in a wheelchair.”
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“And I was talking about this brothel visit, and I remember thinking, wow, this is keeping comedians' attention, you know. And I think I probably told that story in pubs and to friends for about a year, but it just became just a standard bit of comedy for me. And then from that, the TV show legit is from, you know, my TV, at an FX TV show, which was completely based on that story. And it was a one-off, that was just the pilot episode was taking someone to a broth, like with muscular dysphrophy to a brothel. And then when we did the show afterwards, we did another 26 episodes. And the thing that was weird was then you have a character with muscular dystrophy that you have to write into each episode. And I thought, God, I only really need this guy for one. But then that became the sweetness of the show. That became the sweet thing.”
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“Well, that routine pretty much has the story you have stories that are partly true and stories that you embellish and stories that you add on things and, you know, but that story is very, very close to 100% true, very close. And what happened there was I had my friend, his brother, wanted to get a blowjob. We sorted it out. And then, you know, the story happened. And then I remember when that happened, I was actually at the Melbourne. Melbourne Comedy Festival, which I've only done once, I went into the bar, the comedians bar in Melbourne, and I literally walked in, I saw a couple of friends of mine, and I said, have I got a story for you? And I remember I started telling it, by the time I was halfway through the story, there was maybe 11 people standing around in this bar and people were saying, turn the music down, right?”
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“Nan Blake says all of it. I think the easiest, the most palatable thing to, okay, so the best movie is The Life of Brian, but maybe if you just want to have something that's like easy palatable, and I think they think it's their worst film, I'd watch the Meaning of Life first because small sketches and it's easy to watch. I'm not a big holy grail or jabberwalkie fan. I like life of Brian, but the flying circus show is as good as anything. And all of those are on Netflix and they're ready to watch, you know, all the sketches are good. They're all good. It's just like the classic ones, like the Dead Parrot and all type of stuff. They're not even the best ones. They're just the most easy to quote, I think.”
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“Yeah, I had John Clease came over to my house for dinner and I was just fanboying out the whole time and it was the fucking best man. It was the best. I'm friends with his daughter and they were going to come and see one of my shows. They're going to come and see one of my shows, and then because this is the early stages of quarantine before everyone was quarantined, but we were cancelling live things. It was like first week. And so my show was cancelled. And he was going to come. And I said, oh, just come over for dinner. And then I just was like, fucking John Clease is in my house, man. That was one of the great thrills of my life.”
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“Fabi while a bridge, right? So her show was just a show at the Edinburgh Festival that some BBC executive saw and went to make it into a TV show. And then all of a sudden, you got a TV show. Then she's got American TV. And now she's fucking writing James Bond. And that magic doesn't happen out of a comedy club. It just doesn't. And so, you know, like the Edinburgh Festival gave us Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, you know, they won one of the first awards and all these great sketch groups that, you know, I don't think Monty Python ever did it, but maybe they did. I don't know.”
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“You know, Phoebe, Phoebe Waller, she just wrote the last James Bond movie. And she had a TV. She won an Emmy for Emmy for a TV show Flea Bag.”
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“I did a story that was 30, 40 minutes long, 40 minutes long about taking my friend with muscular dystrophy to a brothel. And the thing about that is I'd never done a set in a comedy club that was more than 20 minutes. So I couldn't have done that routine if not for the Edinburgh Festival, even if I wanted to. But the thing is. I think the average loss is 5,000 pounds. It's your own money and the promoters are making money. And there's posters everywhere, right? And then you've got to pay for the posters. Then you've got to pay for people to fly for you all day. Or you've got to fly for yourself. And so if you break even on that festival, if you come out like going, yeah, zero, that's you really crushed it. You really crushed it”
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“Up at the festival. And it's not just stand up comedy. Stand up comedy for whatever reason is the bit that people it's known for, but it's an arts festival. So there's a lot of cool things. Like during the day, there's a lot of shows that you can see that you can take your kids to, something some puppetry or some type of clowning type thing or a lot of stand-up comics who are more family friendly, they might do their adult show at night and they'll do a kids show during the day, you know, which is a cool thing. And look, I never could. I was always hung over and sleep until 5 p.m. And then I'd crawl out and do my show. I used to gain like 20 pounds at that festival, you know, and then work it all. I just beer weight, just horrible fat. Anyway, but it's for me, it's a magical place. More than any other festival, because it was just, it was just everybody up there was creative and it was people that wanted to do their things. And people can't.”
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“And it's in the middle of summer, and people are sweltering this, people fainting in your audience. And then the biggest room is a thousand seats, which is me Q&A hall, but then they do things like they put tents up. So there's a lot of sort of park areas and they just whack tents up everywhere. And people performing these tents. And what happens is these venues will start operating at nine in the morning and they'll be running at four in the morning, right? Wow. And each hour is someone's act. And so you know when my first show, I got like 11 o'clock PM spot, which isn't a great spot. You want that sort of six to nine sort of area. And then like, as you get more popular, they go, oh, you've got the eight o'clock spot. And you're like, ooh, the eight o'clock spot. You know what I mean? So that like I heard something 2000 shows.”
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“There's just unlimited rooms. There's just unlimited. They go to the university and they use every single classroom. They'll find any, like they'll find a closet and go, this is a four-seat room. Half of these rooms are complete not of fire hazards. They shouldn't be allowed.”
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“To do, you know, so I'm not a good actor. Sometimes I get better at it the more I do it. You know what I mean? I'd like to get good at acting. I think that would be a thing that would be, you know, I would never have the audacity to call myself an actor. I say stand-up comedian slash actor and I always think I should take that bit off the actor bit. That's not a real thing. But I know real actors. I've got some friends who are proper actors and they're a complete class difference from what I can do. Every job in legit, I played myself, you know, I'm going to play myself in this sitcom. It's like I'm not really an actor as such as someone who just reads the lines as myself.”
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“Well, now it's more about less about success and more about making good work, you know? It's also things now. It's like, so I'm doing a multi-cam sitcom now. And if you ask me even a year ago if I'd ever do a multi-cam sitcom, I'd think no one would ever put me in a multi-cam sitcom. And then when I got asked that some of the fan base were calling me a sellout and all that type of stuff because I'm doing a multi-cam. And it's like, you know what, fuck you, man. It's like I watched Seinfeld. I watched friends. I watched cheers. I watched all these things. I love those shows. There's a rumor about these shows that, oh, but they have a laugh track. They don't have a laugh track. It's a fucking studio audience. People are actually laughing. That's real laughter. You know, but it seemed to be a bit cheap or something. But, you know, I think now is challenging myself is what you want.”
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“Years they traveled, and I was always sort of envious of that and thought I'll never be able to do that. I'll never, you know, and then when I got to do it and stay in nice hotels and lots of other stuff, that felt like a real, real achievement, you know? And then everything since then hasn't really felt like anything, to be honest. Nothing, American success or anything's just sort of felt like now I'm of the opinion that it'll all go away one day, it'll all end or it won't be what it is now. And you got to be happy without it, you know? If you're not happy with it, you won't be happy without it. So that's why I'm saying the rise was better than the thing. Now it's like, all right, when's this going to end? When you're younger, you're like, the sky's the limit. And now it's like, I don't need to go up any higher. I've seen enough. I've seen enough of the sky.”
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“Is it Manchester Coney store? And so this little tour I was meant to be doing sold out. And I've always said that, you know, a lot of people go, oh, that was lucky, but it was. But you still have to be able to back it up, you know, because a lot of opportunities happen to a lot of people. It's whether you're ready to pounce on it, you know. And so that was sort of a bigger moment, you know, and then going off every time you got to a new festival, you know, I remember feeling really big the first time someone paid for an aeroplane ticket for me. I thought, that's something. I'm traveling and I went and did some gigs in Asia and then I went to Montreal and I was like, and it was just sitting in an economy, but I remember thinking, fuck, and I'm seeing the world for free. And that seemed like a big deal to me because when growing up, my parents saw the world and for two years.”
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“And in a 50 seater, and I saw I averaged 30 tickets a night, and I thought that's pretty good. And then the next year I went up and I had 120 seater and I sold that out. And then afterwards, so then my management put me into little community centers around the UK to just do solo shows, you know. And little 200 seat community theatres in these small little villages, little towns and villages in between the towns, you know. What happened was, so I was about to do my first tour. And then, you know, 2006, and I got.”
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“And then, you know, the next sort of step, what happened was in Britain, in my opinion, if you weren't doing the Enterprise Festival, you weren't really trying, you know. And the Edinburgh Festival, unlike Montreal or what have you, or some of the other ones around the world where you're invited to these festivals, you're not invited to Edinburgh. You just decide if you want to do it. And then you go up there and do it. And if people show up, well, that's good for you, but it's a real litmus test on whether people like you or not. Because you went from being in the clubs to you're getting reviewed by 15 or 20 publications. Now, some of these publications are just pissy little student rags that are around for the three weeks of the festival. And some of them are the Scotsmen and the Telegraph and big, you know, independent and proper newspapers. And so you go up to Edinburgh. And so I did one Edinburgh Festival.”
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