Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with David Mitchell #94 

I used "lily liver" in a convo earlier and briefly considered trying to add "gilded" to it but, well, I'm pedantic AF and wasn't up to making sure it worked not only grammatically but just the general syntax 😂 In other words, I love David Mitchell and he's like a soothing salve to my brain and its eccentricities lol

@@sempressfi Born in the UK, I live in Australia and chat to my co-workers on TEAMS from a department I use to work in. Often times they have to Google old UK sayings I throw at them. I occasionally get a “hence” in a reply. Which I will always call out in the positive. I’ll try using “gild that lily “ today, see what I get back. Have you listened to the audio of The Unbelievable Truth? With him hosting? It’s a great sleep aid and you do pick up some interesting facts on the way. 😀

Oh Bob, how we love you!

Bob is such a weird and beautiful legend

Your lady garden! Ahahahaha! ... Sorry.

@James Harper pointless

originally "lily of filth" is Victoria's nickname for him these days

@James Harper …as in to apply gold.

Seconded

It fills me with minor contentment that your profile picture fits your comment.

And does yours, would be an appropriate response?

Brad Siemens Yes but only if you follow up with a private conversation about how common it actually is while I wait in the front room.

Ok, I capitulate. What does that mean?

What a couple. Of they ever break up 💔 that will just be the last straw.

I guess if you really like entropy.

Alexandre Fry +

Well in comparison to the past 2 years

@@trashj8778 I think the last two years have been better than the year that saw every decent celebrity die, Brexit and the birth of cunty Trump as POTUS.

Or in comparison to this fucking year.

yes anyone who doesnt do that knowing the format of the show is a fool

@@agee7777 chill out bud.

The Sprawl agreed

BigMisterApple Haha, how do you feel about it now?

About the same.. How about you?

BigMisterApple Even worse :)

fuck off...it's now 2018 and i'm having a ball

how about now ;_;

+Colin Green Seconded! Merton would be great! I'd love to see that happen.

Richard Herring: Don't go out of your way on my account, I think Merton is a supercilious toss pot.

+Stan Whattmore Supercilious? Hilarious. You obviously don't get Paul.

+Stan Whattmore You think so? Interesting, as in all the hours of Paul's material I've listened to and watched I've never got that impression, in fact quite the opposite.

God yes. Can't stand him.

+SatanBeMyRadar shit, you listened to that quick

+sratus satan's his radar

+zeds dead Yeah, but he should be everyone's radar

What a pathetic username.

+Tularis it's on audio only, at british comedy guide or on itunes. I am sure google will get you there

Egg, I said egg!

that's because of Mitchell

That was the highlight. Maybe if the entire podcast series!

+Richard Herring If only more people would ask that questions like that. Kudos to you for doing it.

Well, let's be clear, the primary reason why people tend not to just directly ask people "is the thing you're doing shit?" is because that person, the one you're asking, is the one doing that thing, so they're either going to say "no, it's going to be great!" because they think it's great - which is why they're doing it - or, even if they're only doing it for the money, they'll say "no, it's going to be great!" because though they know it's shit, they're not going to risk not getting paid by losing their job / encouraging less people to watch (where, in show biz, lots of people watching buying tickets / watching ads interspersed with your "art" is ultimately from whence your wage derives). So, though it is, indeed, refreshing to both hear someone be so direct in asking and, in the form of David Mitchell, getting an actual answer that he bothers to make slightly more entertaining than "no, it's going to be great!" - which, let's be clear, was pretty much something that only asking David Mitchell would get and only because of his natural sense of humility and comedic sense of the futility of the Human Condition to not bring himself to be able to fanfare his own ego - is not any fantastically revolutionary interviewing technique, but rather, you know, defying basic logic. People who're engaged in doing something tend not to think that that thing is shit, or they wouldn't bother doing it. Not unless they're solely doing it for the money, in which case they're not going to announce, in public, that the thing they're doing is shit, as they'd actually quite like to eventually get paid at some point. So, really, we should congratulate Richard on a refreshingly illogical interviewing technique that he's damn lucky, in this instance, didn't crash and burn on its arse. And it only didn't because he's interviewing comedians, who're skilled in the art of giving a funny and entertaining retort, even if the raw answer boils down to, as I said, "No, it's going to be great". Which, you'll notice, is essentially what David's answer actually was, but he just knows how to embellish that with humour to make it seem a little less boring.

UPSTART CROW , is quite funny,

Too bad it was :(

its funny that instead of saying "is it good?" you can say "is it shit?" means the same, but does not at the same time.

+Alastair Cook I occasionally do an audio one from a festival or whatever, but the costs involved mean this is unlikely to work, even if we can find a big enough local name to get people into the theatre. Also my own tours take up a lot of my year and are my main source of income (allowing me to do the podcasts for free). If I split that audience (already quite small) by doing something that lost money I would be in more trouble than I am now. The occasional one off is still a possibility, but probably not filmed.

cheers for the response, and I hope/think the large audience will come.

@Upenda Sana: Sometimes it's quite annoying, actually. There are times when he's just about to kill the interview and rapport with his childish Emergency Questions and you can see the guest struggle to keep things going.

The sex talk became a drag. Started off a good conversation and became very tiresome.

I agree Richard is just embarrassing. David is funny but I still couldn’t watch a lot of it.

He was almost spot on, unless of course your a fan of Bowie, Prince, Lennard Cohen, George Michael, Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher, world peace, the most powerful man in the world having even the smallest amount of compassion or brains, but who really likes any of that?

people die. shit happens every year, people will die in 2017 and shit will happen. so what

He should have completed the quote though, for those unaware: 'that I am in your garden'.

tbf, "I do beg your pardon" long predates bob mortimer, which is why it worked so well when he used it