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Matt Lucas

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  1. “Yes, it is really strange restaurant on the ground floor of a block of flats and it's amazing but the best thing is the dessert waiter there then he says okay let me take And he tells you what you're going to have. So he goes, I know what you want, the chocolate pudding. For you I give this, and he's just utterly bizarre. But the great thing is, he's really flamboyant. And I said to him one day, what's your name thinking it would be Flavio Briatorio? And it's just Neil.”

    2006-11-26 · Desert Island Discs · Matt Lucas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “My luxury item I was thinking about this because I wanted to take Kevin obviously and then I thought and I can't take Arsenal. Highbury Stadium, but I thought, am I allowed to take a whole restaurant?”

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  3. “I'll tell you what I picked. It's just my favorite book because it's just really, really funny. And it's by Douglas Adams. And I think John Lloyd as well. And it's called The Meaning of Lif. It's just really funny.”

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  4. “My last record is from an artist who I've sort of discovered relatively recently and I don't really know what the words are because they're in French and it's all done very fast. But it's just”

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  5. “Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Publicly, you know, my partnership is with David and privately. Obviously, we have a great partnership together. We've been on an amazing journey together. Privately, obviously at home, I kind of feel in many ways I've been saved by Kevin, really. You know, I don't really know where I was going without him. And I was just really, really, really lucky. He's as childish as me and he's as fun loving as I am. And he's as silly as me, you know, and he really, really, really makes me laugh a lot. We're like kids, you know, we just bought a nice big house. And then for his birthday, I bought Kevin the Tardis from Doctor Who. And so we've got this lovely house and we've got a bloody TARDIS in the middle of it. But we're just like kids really.”

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  6. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I'm a realist, but Kevin isn't a performer. He's not a celebrity. And to us, it is a private thing. And like most people, we just want to have a nice day.”

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  7. “I don't want to talk about it too much. I have to be honest with you. I mean, everybody, each to their own, but to me, you know, I realized there is some public interest because after Elton John and David furnish, and probably in this country the next highest profile people to have a civil partnership, I think, I know it sounds quite a grand thing to say that, but I think that's probably the case.”

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  8. “My next piece of music, Kirsty, is from Sweeney Todd by Stephen Son, who, you know, is probably the greatest living writer of musicals, and it's from Sweeney Todd, as I say, which I think is his best piece, and it's not while I'm around.”

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  9. “Yeah, I mean, you know, because what happened was shooting stars was really big and I was like, oh, it wasn't he that guy that used to do that. And so sometimes I just thought, well, maybe I should just maybe, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe I was that guy who used to be in that thing. And maybe I should just think, yeah, well, I did that. That was fun. That exceeded any expectations I ever had. And I just come out and my father had died. And it wasn't good. You know, life wasn't good. And I was smoking too much dope and doing all of that. And actually what I had to do was just stop doing that, really, stop smoking dope, go to the gym, start feeling better about myself, give myself reasons to feel better about myself. And start dating, start going to clubs, just doing the things that actually kind of people do.”

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  10. “When I don't remember that particular quote, but I was certainly subscribed to that now because I did reach a point where I was just the career had sort of reached a bit of a halt and me and David couldn't get stuff on television. And I was thinking, well, do you know what? Maybe this isn't what I should be doing. This was five or six years ago. Maybe this isn't what I'm destined to do. Maybe I should go off and do something else.”

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  11. “What do you mean by that? Well, I think I was really angry. I'd had this from 10 onwards. Things had been quite difficult. And I think I never felt I could get up there and be myself. I didn't really want to. And I think that a lot of the comedians would go up there with a pint glass and a cigarette and it would all be, oh, you know, I'm just like you, we're just the same. And actually, I felt very different to everybody else. I felt quite estranged. So in a way, going on stage was a great way of letting go.”

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  12. “It was actually before. I mean, what happened was I went on a comedy course run by this comedian called Ivor Dembina, and then I had it all booked up on the Saturday night I was going to perform at punchlines. On the Sunday night I was going to perform at a club called the VD Clinic, which was the Valdunican clinic, which was a club for Newax. And then on the Thursday night, I was going to perform at the comedy store, and that was it. My legend was secured. Let's just say that after the second gig, I cancelled the comedy store gig. But what actually happened was I was performing at this club, and Bob Mortimer was in the audience. And I was 18 and I'd been going five weeks. And I was the biggest Reeves and Mortimer fan you could imagine. I mean, probably them and David were the two reasons I was doing comedy. And I had this dream of one day meeting them. I mean, the idea that within two or three years I was working with both them and David was kind of that I didn't have any other ambitions.”

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  13. “Well, in a way, I'm not quite sure that I did because I do think that that particular gig did precipitate the end of me going around the country on my own.”

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  14. “Oh, yeah, I was booed off at the Edinburgh Playhouse in front of two and a half thousand people. But I mean, the one thing I say is that as a comedian, you know, your worst death is ahead of you and you don't stop dying, you know, and you must never think, oh, now I'm safe. Where did you find me?”

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  15. “At my next record is songs of love which is written by Neil Hannan of the Divine Comedy, but this version of it is sung by Benfolds, and this is a way of combining two of the greatest musicians we have together in one song.”

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  16. “Well, this person was bisexual and actually wore it as a real badge, but for many people, I think it's probably a bit of a disappointment. I mean, it was for me. I mean, my closest friend, when I said, oh, I think I might be bisexual, which is how most people come out, by the way. I think I might be bisexual. He said, oh, my girlfriend's bisexual. I was like, oh, cheers, I'm not even the only one you know. Oh, great. I was furious. I wanted someone to throw plates. I wanted tantrums. I wanted to be a real martyr, a real victim. You've really created in your head all these scenarios of great drama. And actually, when you come out, it's not very remarkable.”

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  17. “I suppose all I think, and again, I cannot emphasize enough, I mean, this was actually an idea, there was somebody we both met who inspired Daffy, but again, this came from one of David's suggestions.”

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  18. “It was absolutely fine. It was really painless, all my friends were absolutely fine. My mum was very shocked and surprised, which was a surprise to me because I thought, oh, come on, you know, you don't see me with many women. I'm a young guy. I go to the theatre a lot. I'm acting. You know, I thought the clues were there. But she was very surprised. But when it becomes a reality, i.e., in my case, when I settled down with somebody and fell in love with just someone who was, I'm not going to say normal, but somebody who was no crazier than me, then was patently happy as I am now. Then I think it becomes much easier for them to deal with.”

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  19. “Well, you know, I think there was an image of Gainus that in a way had sort of been dissectualized. So at the time, I kind of thought I'm gay, but I just didn't see myself in people like in characters like Mr. Humphreys or Larry Grayson. I didn't see myself in people like Boy George or Jimmy Somerville and I just couldn't see myself anywhere. And then I went to see Beautiful Thing. And that was the kind of closest, although I didn't come from a working class background, which that was about two working class boys who happened to just kind of fall in love. I just identified more with that than with anything else, really.”

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  20. “Yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah, because I was 16 and I think he was probably 19. And we just kept in touch. And we were just good friends for three or four years before we even started writing together. I remember going with him to see at the Donmar Warehouse, Jonathan Harvey's beautiful thing. And that was a very instrumental in me coming out watching that play.”

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  21. “I thought Oh he's really funny he's brilliant David apparently thought and he's always told me this that he thought great I bet he thinks he's funny because he's got no hair I want to be the funny one”

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  22. “My next record is the light by the proclaimers. Because I've always loved the proclaimers and there's something so elusive about them. They released an album in something like'87 and another one in'88. Then we didn't get another album for five years, then we didn't get another album for seven years. So when you do get a proclaimer's album, it's incredibly precious. And I think they're very rousing and very soulful and they just stir something up in you that makes you want to run around the room. So I love them.”

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  23. “She's wearing a bikini It's because I'm a weak man, because David suggests these things and I kind of go, yeah, all right. No, I don't know what it is. Yeah, there's a sense of if I make the joke first, if David makes the joke first, then we can control it. You control, I mean, David often quotes this. It's Ben Miller, you know, the comedian from Miller and Armstrong, who made some quote saying comedy is a way of controlling people's laughter at you. And I just think that's what it's about. And actually, when I used to do stand up, I was 18 and I started doing stand-up comedy. I used to heckle myself throughout the routine because you just, well, there's no point you heckling me. I'll heckle myself.”

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  24. “Well, no, not really. And I should explain the sort of incarnation of Marjorie Dors that you see in Little Britain is very much the creation of me and David, you know, because I think people here that I went to Weight Watchers and assume that it all comes from me and I cannot take all that credit at all. But yeah, I mean, there is a little influence there just because the woman always used to say every week, have we got any new members? So if nothing else. But yeah, I mean, it was a great place to go. I really actually, really enjoyed going to Weight Watchers. I was 13 and my mum used to take me. And I really enjoyed it. I was a little celebrity there. I was a little boy. And I lost two and a half stone in about three months there, four months.”

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  25. “A terrible battle with them probably when I was about ten or eleven, probably around the time that my parents split up and I think I just became one of those kids that started shouting and screaming if I wasn't given a bag of crisps.”

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  26. “I was 17, I think that sounds about right, and was just utterly, utterly devastated. Partly because... My favourite singer had died and died young and in pain. I was going to have to accept that I was gay and it was hard. I remember when Freddie Mercury died, I remember reading the editorial and the evening standard, the London Evening Standard the next day, which basically said, this is what you get for living a hedonistic lifestyle. and kind of inferred that he had what was coming to him.”

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  27. “My fourth record Ah, well his queen, these are the days of our lives. Why because actually I keep saying I grew up a huge fan of this and I grew up a huge fan of that but if I had to pick one person One person who I have absolutely idolised through my life is Freddie Mercury. And when Freddie Mercury died, I went to his house and lit a candle.”

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  28. “No I didn't know But you know that wasn't the hardest thing that I had to deal with anyway, you know because I don't propose to talk about it in great detail but my father was in prison that's something that's out there and then you know I just had lots of weight problems which are obviously something I still deal with you know there were other things and dealing with sexuality and all those sorts of things are all challenges But I think at the moment I've reached a point where life is pretty good.”

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  29. “Yeah, absolutely, because I think you think life is perfect and, you know, I really, really thought life was like the adverts as a kid, you know, and my whole life has been a realization that life isn't like the adverts.”

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  30. “Well, I think there's some truth, but I just think there are many things in my life that are a lot easier because of the success I've had. And also, I've never been without great friends and I've never been without the love of my family who were wonderful people.”

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  31. “Some respects. I mean, I've always made it clear, you know, I had some difficulties in my life and they've been fairly well documented, but I think there is a cliche that comedians have had it harder. You don't buy it.”

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  32. “You know, I think the audience lift you up every night and pull you through it, really. Even though touring can be quite kind of draining, the actual business of being on stage is almost always about the best fun you can ever have.”

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  33. “My third record is from Hans Christian Anderson and is sung by Danny K and its Inchworm. Well, partly, you know, this is one of the films I watched a lot as a kid. There is the story in Hans Christian Anderson of a little boy with no hair who has his cat pulled off. But my favorite song from this film is Inchworm. And of course, this is all written by Frank Lesser, who wrote Guys and Dolls, which is also one of my favourite musicals.”

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  34. “Well, no, I didn't feel I ever wouldn't be famous. It didn't ever occur to me. I mean, as a six-year-old kid living in a sort of suburb and with no hair, you're the kid that people point at and you become a little celebrity. So you have a kind of notoriety.”

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  35. “Yeah, I put it on and it was very itchy. And so my auntie, Denny, sewed a handkerchief into the lining for me. And I went into primary school the next day because I looked odd because I didn't have any eyebrows, you see, and I remember just a kid riding past on his bike and whipping it off straight away and throwing it and landing in a puddle. And then I had to make a decision really when I went to secondary school. Was I going to keep it or not? And I decided to do away with it. There were times when it's hard. It's hard sometimes going through puberty with something like that because you want to fit in. But it was, you know, that was my lot and it's fine. You know, it's okay.”

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  36. “Well, do you know what? The absolute truth is probably over about, I don't know, about six weeks it fell off and I used to wake up and find all these hairs on my pillow in the morning. It was bizarre, but I didn't find it particularly traumatic. But people around me found it traumatic on my behalf and obviously my parents were very worried and we went for loads of weird cures. There was some seaweed lotion that we ordered sort of through mail order that my dad used to rub into my head that gave his hands a terrible rash and I had acupuncture and tried loads of different things and in the end we got a wig on the National Health and they didn't make children's wigs then. So I had a big lady's wig put on me, and it had to be like cut down, but so I had really big hair, which wasn't very good.”

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  37. “Yeah, everybody wore leg warmers. You know, there was a very embarrassing thing, though, as just coming to me, that I was at my primary school and the heating had gone off. But I remember my mum sending through some leg warmers for me. And my teacher, Mrs. Pierce, saying, oh, Matt, your mum sent through some leg warmers. And it was, she might as well have said, Matt, you're homosexual because it was just. Oh dear, what a giveaway.”

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  38. “Well, look, it's one of the most exciting moments of my life was mum coming in and saying we'd got tickets to see the kids from fame at the Albert Hall do their live show. And indeed, my poor father was given the unenviable task of taking me and my brother and some friends to see the kids from fame. And when they all ran into the audience, They got quite near to Leroy.”

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  39. “Probably I would say in the synagogue youth review that celebrated fifty years of the synagogue when I was about ten or eleven.”

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  40. “Very nice, you know, very happy childhood, probably quite normal childhood. But I suppose the only thing that happened that was unusual was that when I was six or my hair fell out. So it did mark me out a little bit as a kid. I was. The kid you remember, the kid you recognise, you know.”

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  41. “You know, I'm not hugely sure. I mean, although I had a happy childhood, I did sometimes hide away in my bedroom and I would listen to the cast recordings of 42nd Street or Calamity Jane or singing in the rain, Le Miserabla, just these great classic pieces. And I did go and see this in 1984, 85, and I got Frankie Vaughn's autograph.”

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  42. “I've chosen it because I've got two great passions in life. Arsenal and musicals, it's a backstage musical and the leading lady has broken her leg and can't go on and they think the only girl who can do this is the girl they should have had the part, the chorus girl who's been sacked and they have to all go to Central Station and encourage her to come back and be in the show. It's an emergency. Julian Marsh, the show's director, says, where are you going? And she says, Allentown. And he says, Allentown, I'm giving you the chance to star in the greatest musical Broadway scene in thirty years, and you tell me Allentown is so hammy. It's just brilliant. It does what it says on a packet, doesn't it? I mean, it is just a big, brush, unashamed Broadway musical.”

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  43. “What I like is dressing up and being someone else in the process. You know, I'm not that fussed with myself, but I don't get any particular rush out of dressing up as a woman. Walliams does rather enjoy all that though, I sense”

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  44. “Not really. I mean, we did have some aims to make the most accessible show possible. We wanted a TV show where you could turn on and within five seconds you'd know what you were watching. People do talk a lot about the kind of schatological nature of Little Britain, the vulgarity. And I don't apologize for that because I think that harks back to a great British tradition of comedy. But I think also there are satirical elements and there are surreal elements in the show. And there is just plain, silly, daft visual comedy in there as well. And so I think that we do think about it a lot, you know, and we do govern and censor ourselves and question ourselves. And for all the stuff you see that shocks you, there's plenty that didn't even make it to the screen or stuff that we filmed and haven't used. And people tend to pick out sketches like Bitty or the Vomiting Ladies.”

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  45. “And, you know, and many years without much success. So finally, we have this big audience. So any people can shout out whatever they like. It's nice to be noticed.”

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  46. “They do, but it will be chirlish to see that is a bad thing because me and David have been writing together Is it me and David or David Nye?”

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