Michael Sheen at Graham Norton Show 9.2.2024 - David Tennant got a mention! :D ❤

Josh Widdicombe (about his new fun quiz TV themed show): What you find out about the guests is like, the most highbrow actors have got the most lowbrow tastes. So you get Anna Maxwell Martin - her favourite show was Married At First Sight. And then you had Russell Tovey, whose favourite show is TOWIE, and David Morrissey, whose favourite show is Naked Attraction. [To Michael] And then we had your mate, David Tennant. Do you know what his favourite show is? Tell you what it is: Doctor Who. Change the fucking record, David. Unbelievable. And then it was like, there's an expert around, 'What you want to do, David?' 'Doctor Who'. Mate, we know you're Doctor Who, jog on!

"Amongst all of David's awards, you were recently named on the DILF list. Here's the top five: Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, David Tennant, Mads Mikkelsen, Cillian Murphy. Oh, and Michael Sheen came in-" "Oh and where is he on the list?" "Michael Sheen's number six." "Number six! And just remind me where I am?" "Three, you're three." "Number three!"

Justice for Michael Sheen!

We thought it's going to be a panel show but it's a quiz which people take far too seriously, and people get really passionate about it because people really care about TV, and everyone loves it. I've done lots of panel shows where we pretend we care. This is the first one I actually give a shit about.

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hi! Have you listened to Michael Sheen on 'Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell' podcast (S02 E05)?

There's some fun anecdotes he hasn't shared elsewhere, plus, I think there's some insight as to why he enjoys his current relationship with Anna. I know people have *opinions* about it, including me, but I think its very illuminative. Basically, I think he's really enjoying his chance to do fatherhood again.

I very much have no opinions on celebrities personal lives (unless it’s atrocious and forces me to unsubscribe forever) but unfortunately I AM addicted to hearing him talk about things so I will be listening to this

𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓  𝟓  𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒  𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐄  𝐘𝐎𝐔  𝐓𝐎  𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄  𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑  𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄. 1.    Jump   —    The Pointer Sisters 2.    Zombie   —    The Cranberries 3.    Three Lions ‘98   —    Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds 4.    15 Minutes    —    The Yeah You’s 5.    Arms Tonight  — Mother Mother

&  𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓  𝟓  𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒  𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐄  𝐘𝐎𝐔  𝐓𝐎  𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄  𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑  𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄.

1.    “I patiently explained to her that, as my political adviser, I depend on Frank more than anyone. ‘Then why don’t you marry him?’ she asked. ‘I now pronounce you man and political adviser. Whom politics has joined let no wife put asunder.’“    —    The Complete Yes Minister

2.    “They were careless people, [Tom and Daisy] - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.“    —   The Great Gatsby

3.    “I’ve just had a baby, it changed my perception of everything. Like, honestly, previously I’d worry about my own mortality. But now, quite happily be dead.”    —   Josh Widdicombe

4.    “ You're a sad and pathetic man. You're a homosexual and you don't want to be, but there's nothing you can do to change it. Not all the prayers to your god, not all the analysis you can buy in all the years you've got left to live. You may one day be able to know a heterosexual life if you want it desperately enough. If you pursue it with the fervor with which you annihilate. But you'll always be homosexual as well. Always Michael. Always. Until the day you die.  ”    —   The Boys in the Band

5.    “Turns out the world doesn’t revolve around me. Shocked and upset."    —    Marina Diamandis

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Iliza Shlesinger

Hammermith Apollo 6/12/23

I can't imagine anyone likes going to the Hammersmith Apollo; a full body search (whether you're going to see The Muppet Christmas Carol or a solo stand up) and water confiscation, in the hight of illness season, which turned into a water ban, when none was available inside on this particular night.

The name up in lights on the outside of the veune building read "ILIZA LIVE IN LONDON". As if just a first name was enough, like Beyonce, Kylie or Rihanna. In their cases, you know what they do and they are famous enough to go under just their first name. In this case, maybe it did work out for the best that only her fans knew because if it had "comedy night" displayed, you would may have had people coming along, taking a punt but not understanding anything, if not apart of that one social bubble this show was aimed at.

Of course, everyone here tonight knew the sign was for American comedian and actress, Iliza Shlesinger. And, whether or not it's because her second name may be difficult for some to pronounce on first glance, she could well be the most famous Iliza in their lives, as the £41 unsold seats at the rear of the circle had to be compensated by her charging £88.75 for a selfie to a number of fans who snapped up the opportunity and were patiently waiting at the front of the stage after the show.

Like the most successful comedians, Iliza has stuck within the same genre, so fans know that she will pick up where she left off in the previous tour/Netflix show - people are coming to see the act.

With a two day break since her last gig (in Amsterdam), Iliza appeared on other comedians' podcasts and posted Instagram partnerships with beauty companies to help promote her brand further in the UK; working on whatever she could whilst on the tour. As a final push for merch sales, she wore her tour tshirt onstage, as she stumbled over lines, mixed up words and restarted sentences. With no stage set design at all, like in her previous special, it soon became clear that the stand up performance itself came second to everything else in her day. Whether she looked at it as a promo trip or holiday, with an hour's gig as something to do in the evening, most comedians would have wanted to have stayed sharp and iron out the lines by jumping on at a comedy club on their nights off - Top Secret would have been perfect for her, as it's the exact younger crowd her material is for. I'm sure she doesn't really believe that her generalisations are about the majority of people; she knows they're just about the majority of her audience, which is why broader observational comedians like Michael McIntyre, Romesh Raganathern and Josh Widdicombe can sell out multiple nights, whist her appeal falls short of the venue's capacity.

On the surface, it may seem like she's stuck in the Stone Age, or still believing that all girls want to be Barbie who are wanting to impress a Ken... but judging by tonight's audiance, those ethics are still in existence. Being preached at, in the form of comedy, that you don't have to comply with this, is quite worrying and enlightening; that this ideology, created within this group, is not something relateable from the outside, and hasn't broken out into other genres of people, races or religions. They will, of course have their own definitions of expectations and maybe have their own comedians to act as their saviour from their own inventions too. But if Iliza does fix them, what would her next comedy show be about?

Since segregation has returned to London, and the "diversity quota" meaning that people from different cultures can only live and work together if they fit into the same box, tonight's show felt more like a social commentary of this backwards step, where everyone is being forced to be identical - and this may be true in the selection of major cities she's touring, and why London was the only UK date.

Oh, and Iliza's also noticeably pregnant, just to rub her success in Luisa Omielan's face, a bit more.

Nic Bennett

You can listen to it HERE

“The Exorcist” parody.

Sound familiar?

The Last Leg (16.05)

Taskmaster: Champion Of Champions Episode 1, part 3

Josh Widdicombe’s first appearance on WILTY, which was s07e04 in 2013, was also one of his first appearances on TV at all. When I watched that episode, I thought it was adorable how he was able to use to his advantage the fact that he knew a bunch of facts about the other panelists that they didn’t know about each other. This is clearly because the older panelists saw each other as peers and colleagues, and people don’t normally sit around reading peers’ and colleagues’ biographical information. But Josh was able to fact check people’s stories against all these things he happened to know about them, which I’m pretty sure is because he had followed them before he became famous himself so he’d learned about them like a fan.

I’m watching the Comedy World Cup from 2012, and episode three features a television appearance by Josh Widdicombe that’s even earlier than the WILTY episode. I’m only about nine minutes into it, and it is already very clear that Josh is benefitting from the same phenomenon that helped him on WILTY. Except this time it’s more of an advantage because this is a quiz show with nothing but questions about comedy. So if you happen to have only recently become famous, and were therefore until recently just a comedy fan who learned about comedy the way a fan does, you’re do well.

He’s on a team with Johnny Vegas and a man I’ve never heard of named Mick Miller, both of whom are quite a bit older than him. This has nothing to do with anything, but when I went to Johnny Vegas’ Wikipedia page just now to check how much older than Josh Widdicome he is (13 years, it turns out), I accidentally learned that his birth name is Michael Joseph Pennington. I don’t know what to do with that information, I just felt the need to share it.

Anyway. Josh is on this team with two men who are older than him, much more established than him in their careers, and clearly either barely know who he is or don’t know who he is at all even though Josh knows them both very well. That makes it quite fun to watch, as 2012 Josh Widdicombe is sort of like a stand-in for any non-famous comedy fan who happened to get on the stage with these people to share their nerdy knowledge about comedy. Also, it’s fucking adorable. I mean look at this.

God. That’s such a great image. Who put Baby Josh Widdicombe in a suit? And why?