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Rob Brydon

lines on the record: 51
first: 2010-05-16
most recent: 2010-05-16
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“to run because it would be uplifting, it would be loud, and I think that would be important. You'd have plenty of time for quiet introspection. I want a good sound system, though you haven't mentioned the sound system.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I love music, you see, and if I wasn't doing this I'd love to be a musician, so I would take an eternally tuned guitar, and I would learn to play it. I line coconuts up on the beach to represent an audience and play to them.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I would take complete Dylan Thomas because it would remind me of Wales. I would enjoy that. So that'd be everything he wrote, you know, his poems, plays, you know, short stories. The collected words.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love James Taylor, I love you see James Taylor, poor Simon, I love what they do with their lyrics. And this song just really resonates with me about acting, the business, and about life. It's called That's Why I'm Here.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a very good question. I would hope that they wouldn't, because I think that, you know, I'd like to have a bit more knowledge than I have. I went with my oldest daughter, we went to look at some six forms, and we're in one and we're in the history room, and the history teacher was talking about the curriculum and everything, and I loved it. I thought it was fascinating. And I came out and I said, that was good, wasn't it? I said, well, yeah, it was fine, yeah? And I'm still thinking of just paying him to come and give me history lessons at home, just so I can have a bit more knowledge. Because if Henry VIII comes up, I'll just do Ray Winston being Henry VIII.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This Equipped for the job. Oh, I see what they're saying, very much so, yeah, but I think my racket isn't quite the old wooden one. I just think it's not a very expensive titanium one, you know? I think you appreciate They gone in the wink of an eye.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. Well, see, having children again after a gap, yeah, it's, you know, and he's not been a good sleeper. He's getting better. And I'm going to”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They get more so. It's quite funny, isn't it? You go through a certain age and they're not at all. And then all of a sudden, oh, okay. They're invariant and kind of knowing way, which I like.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, poor Simon, who I just love, I love his humour, saw a documentary about him once he was driving round the district of New York that he grew up in, and he pointed to the house he grew up in, and he said My brother and I had rooms that's my brother's room there next to my room, his room slightly smaller than mine, which is as it should be. And I love that kind of humour.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's to some degree it's defining, you know. I'm very lucky, you know, we all get on very well, but still it's part of who you are. There's a big effect in your life, you know, just logistically as much as anything else. When you got kids at school age, mine go from fifteen to two. You know, you've got plenty to keep you occupied. which uneached far more rewarding than anything you will ever do in your work ever far more rewarding.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are you? As long as I can do the other stuff as well. I'm not as fussed about the work as some people are. I'm really not. I'm far more fussed about my family life than I am about the work, maybe because of being divorced and remarrying. That's far more important to me.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He judges you're Al Pacino, and you judge his. Well, you know, you turn that on a bit. I mean, our real relationship is warmer. What you do is you take away the warmth. And I think we both kind of delight in that.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've just spent about a month with him filming again with Michael Winterbottom for a TV series called The Trip where we go around the Lake District reviewing restaurants, again playing versions of ourselves, and it's been possibly the most enjoyable thing I've ever done, you know, because we're improvising, firing off each other, hopefully raising each other's game, you know. Yes, how much?”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because on the one hand you're being told you're wonderful, and But you don't feel wonderful because you feel like you're failing. So yeah, it was, yeah.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well my first marriage, you know ended, so it was a very long. refer you back to the word I used earlier and to lighten the moment with a humorous voice, Kirsty, at tumultuous time.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These are two characters called Gordon and Sheila. How we created that, and I'm quite proud of it, it was all through improvisation, and we sat there, and I think I said, good, I mean your sister now, she's been with us a long time, hasn't she? And I think Julia said seven years, yeah, seven years, yeah. And then I said, but she doesn't judge. She doesn't judge, does she? And then Julia said no, that's the beauty of a coma. And we didn't know what it was going to be, so you imagine how exciting working like that is with someone who's on the same wavelength as you, you know.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really, even give people a glimpse I can't remember how many. I did it with Julia Davis, and it's just as important in my story as Marion and Jeff was. It was happening at the same time.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, all those things I really can't overstate it was a very, very tumultuous period. Started winning awards, for two shows for Marion and Jeff, but also for human remains.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, not the child catcher in Chitty Bang Bang, but I'd like to do a decent one. And I went to see Bryn doing this in a concert performance at the Royal Festival Hall, and I took my eldest daughter. And I was on the edge of my seat the man is just blessed with number one is voice and charisma and I was clapping so loudly my daughter to go dad Dad please come on please attracting attention”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So this is Bryn Terville. I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here because it's from Sweeney Todd, and I love Sondheim. If I ever did a musical, that's really what I'd like to do.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yet I wrote it with Hugo Blick. Now Hugo had been at college with me. I used to carry it around with me at this VHS, a copy of it, in case I were to bump into someone of influence, you know. And I was at the BBC one day because for a while I was the man who did and with much of the day at ten. That Saturday night on BBC one. I used to do that. And I'd just been in there doing that, and I was walking through the corridors of TV centre, which is a huge building, and I remember thinking to myself if I bumped into Hugo now, that would be good. And literally, as I thought that he walked round the corner, and we went and had a drink, and I said, have a look at this. And he phoned, and he said, I've watched it. I love the last character. Come in and let's talk. And that began what became Marion and Jeff.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was, yeah, and when it came out I got mentioned in Empire Magazine, which again a bit like the comedy awards, it was another world, and I didn't think I'd ever be mentioned in there, and I can remember reading it and almost doing a little dance and saying, oh wow, and thinking, well, I must be able to use this for some, you know, to further things. So what I did was I wrote about four characters, I made a video cassette, using the money I was earning through voiceovers of these characters, to send out, and the last character was Keith Barrett. And that changed everything.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you have kids by that point yes, first child yeah, I was doing the odd little acting thing. I'm very bad in a Richard Gear film called First Night. I'm in the first ten minutes of that playing first villager. It's first everything.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's my biggest fan. Yeah, yeah, to the point where other members of the family, you know, say don't laugh quite so loudly, please. I can hear him. I can always hear him in the crowd”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is just one of my favorite sketches Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who I grew up loving, and this is a sketch that I'd have because it reminds me of my childhood it was a big hit in our house and my dad and I still use these phrases and I can't talk now he's here I'll have you too.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So I left early. and ended up doing about six years of radio and television in Wales, being a DJ. Then I was working on the shopping channel for Sky, so I was driving up and down to London. And when you're doing that, understandably, casting directors don't want to know, you know. I mean, I distinctly remember watching the British Comedy Awards in Cardiff and it appearing to be another planet. And I didn't see how I could ever possibly be a part of that.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was at Drama College and in the second year of Drama College the BBC Radio Wales they got to know me and I would do voices for them and then out of the blue they offered me a radio show.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was strange. It was odd. I'd lived out of Wales for about twenty odd years. I could only see the very sort of the negatives, oh dear, dear, that sort of side, and I'd become very disenchanted.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that, you see, that is there's performance in that. Dad has always been funny, you know. But apparently there was a trapeze artist. Almost makes you want to do that program, doesn't it, and actually find out for real.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got very, very bad acne as a teenager, I mean, you know, really bad. So that does affect your confidence in a sort of way when it came to girls. I could always talk to them and be funny with them and make them laugh, but I never have the confidence to kind of move in for the kiss. Oh, so I didn't drink. You see, I didn't drink as a teenager. So, You know, I get asked this and I don't know the answer. I didn't like the taste, I suppose it's got to be the first thing. So when boys would pass and go have some of that, I'd go. As I think most kids do, but they get beyond that.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was something about blue collar America. You know, I was living in Port Albert, you know, it's a steel town, it's industrialized. But then when you go inland as well away from the industry, there was something oddly. kind of almost like the deep south in a way. He always used to remind me of the Dukes of Hazard, you know, when we would drive down to West Wales and you'd be going through lanes and things. So I always gravitated towards American cultural influences.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Bruce Springsteen, who I adore such a great artist it's an obvious choice, but it would be very galvanizing on a desert island born to run.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just felt like I was at home. You know, this is what I do, this feels right. It's because, you know, when I was in classes, I didn't really have a clue. I didn't, I was detached. Just felt like this is where I should be”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Public debt. But you have to remember where I come from. I come from Portalbet, and our heroes are Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins, with a wonderful this is at Porthcall Comprehensive now where I went when I was about fourteen. The drama teacher there, Roger Burnell, still a friend of mine now, and he just inspired you. He was so inspirational.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“wealth here's the thing They were always great they were I mean they must have been concerned Now I see I've spoken to mum and dad about this and they always say which is so sweet I'm filling up now Kirsty that they always thought I had a talent.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was curiously detached. What did I get? Told off. I got two O levels on my first go, which is appalling, you know. And then I managed to ratch that up to five because I had to have five to get a grant to go to drama school.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, a universal a clay, not like it is now, you know, where you can't please everyone. In those days you could please everyone. Certainly the Porthole Gazette.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What Well we lived in Baglan, which is very green in its own way, although it had BP, which at that time is not there now, was Europe's biggest petrochemical plant, and it had the steelworks. But if you go inland, you are these fantastic mountains, and if you just go a little bit further along the coast, you're at the Gower, which is, you know, absolutely breathtaking.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no but technically accurate, as she was soon to discover. Yeah, I sang that I can't remember, but that certainly, yeah.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, normally I choose a seventies Elvis song because that's really the period I like the most. Yeah. But I was worried that my choices had a slight air of oral mogadon to them. So I thought instead I'd choose something with a bit more spirit to it, which I think on a desert island would be welcome.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you have a particular skill. Well, I do. I like to do a very old Elvis. I like to do a very medicated Elvis so I kind of go on. And every dream ever dream has come true a hundred times. I learned very early in life without a song the road would never end. Without a song I'm a man ain't got a friend without a song. So I keep singing a song.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That wheels is funny. It's a very strange thing, the sort of underrepresentation of whales in the media, if we put Hugh Edwards to one side, and I think we should. There's something about Wales. We're like a bit of a mystery, and I used to jokingly say that Gavin and Stacey had presented a palatable version of Wales, which is not to say that it isn't accurate. I think it's strikingly accurate in as much as Bryn is a hugely recognizable character to me. Nessa is so much a type of Welsh girl that I can identify with, as is Stacey, as is Gwen, as is Dave Coaches, so many of those characters ring true. They'd not been seen before.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“which I thought dare I say I thought was hilarious because I love people saying you know when the walls are closing in and that is when I'll be up my best I said no that is when I will crack and I like that now with Bryn he gets he can get very anxious I find that very enjoyable to play”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, with me in mind, yes, so Ruth Jones is one of my oldest friends. We were at school together. Did school musicals together? I've known her since I was about fifteen. I don't have a sister, you know, but she's, I suppose, the closest I have in terms of familiarity and stuff. James Corden, I've known for about eight or nine years. What I like about Bryn and what I tried to bring out of him in the second and third series was this kind of irritable side to him and how he reacts under stress, which is something I've always been interested in when we did human remains there was a character in that. His name was Lesy said, I do react badly to stress, you know, when the walls are closing in, you know, and it seems there's no answer. That is when I will crack.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, Tom is very gracious about it. I mean, I don't know what he says when I'm not there. He's probably doing it again, wasn't he? It's infuliating. But to my face he's very nice about it. I remember him saying when we were in Las Vegas doing the videos going awesome. You know, he's got the cough. He's got that down, you know. And I like discovering those. I do like finding a little key into someone's voice.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank God, I only do ones that sort of come naturally or who I like, an unronny Corbett, you know, is just a wonderful voice. When I was in the West End doing my live show last year, he and Anne, his wife, came, and I do a little bit where I'm impersonating him. And as I was doing it, he got up from his seat and walked down the aisle to the stage, and I thought, you know, dear, what was he going to do now? And he took off his glasses and gave them to me, and the audience went bananas, and I carried on doing it wearing Ron's glasses.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is a song by Jack Johnson, and this reminds me of a time I spent in Australia shooting a show called Supernova. So this brings back so many happy memories of Sydney it's a lovely warm song we had it at our wedding and”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, I'm a big fan of Tom Jones and got to work with the comic relief single, and I think he's very aware that I'm a big fan, you know. And I remember when I sort of told him that we'd called Tom Tom, I may have detected a slight flicker of all God. That much of a fan. Yeah, this is a bit worrying. No.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She doesn't mind she's cool about it, you know, I mean, she used to work in TV so she knows the sacrifices that have to be made, you know.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the phone it was pretty hairy and got back to the house when the midwife came to the house, examined her, and she was too far gone. So it was decided that we'd have a home berth and within about two He was born, and that was when he decided, I think, that he wouldn't sleep for the next eighteen months.”
2010-05-16 · Desert Island Discs · Rob Brydon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source