Live at the Apollo
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Oct 28, 2026
Mo GilliganHOST
And what a track it was.
Mo GilliganHOST
I came out to that song when I got to first ever do Live at the Apollo.
Lisa MaffiaGUEST
Yes.
Mo GilliganHOST
Did you come out to it? Yeah.
Lisa MaffiaGUEST
Perfect.
Lisa MaffiaGUEST
Perfect.
Mo GilliganHOST
So no, when I, when I done live at the Apollo, first time ever, I came out to that track.
Mo GilliganHOST
I need to watch that back.
Jenny CollierGUEST
And it turns out Sam, that it's a run-through for people to do their set for the last time before Apollo.
Jenny CollierGUEST
And Anthony Caveney is there, who books Live at the Apollo.
Jenny CollierGUEST
And so I go, oh, goodness me, that's different than what I thought was happening.
Jenny CollierGUEST
But I'm thick because all my blood is in my stomach sorting out the fish and chips rather than my quickness.
Matty WhiteHOST
I'm just saying that's what you're wearing.
Jon AlmondHOST
Who's our guest today? Joining us at the bar today is a comedian, writer and actor whose TV credits include Sex Education, Live at the Apollo and Spitting Image.
Jon AlmondHOST
Wow.
Jon AlmondHOST
As a stand-up, he's toured the UK and performed three sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
She is a founding member of award-winning improv group Ostentatious, who perform a made-up Jane Austen-inspired story each week.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
She's also appeared on If I Got News For You, Mock the Week, Would I Lie To You, QI, and Live at the Apollo.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
Please put your hands together and make incredible woohooing noises for the wonderful Rachel Parris! Hello.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
Rachel, thank you
Jessie CaveHOST
And also you didn't have that many followers.
Jessie CaveHOST
So you had gained a lot of recent success with Live at the Apollo and getting nominated and stuff, but you hadn't, you know, you weren't, you weren't, recognizably well known, you know? So in a way it's quite, it was quite handy, but I think you were incredibly brave with going on stage so quickly after that, and then working that show up to such a level that the special has done really well.
Jessie CaveHOST
But yeah, watching you on stage now, I'm so much more detached than I used to be.
Jessie CaveHOST
When I used to watch you in the early days, I would feel, so worried because you were so all of your comedy has always been so you know on a knife edge and the topics you talk about always make me uncomfortable and like there's so many parts of it where I'm like
Kae KurdGUEST
They might have seen it, but they had no...
Kae KurdGUEST
When they seen me do live at the Apollo, they understood, okay, wow, right, fair enough.
Kae KurdGUEST
But I think I...
Ty TemelHOST
It's part of that, though, because they don't understand that trade.
Kae KurdGUEST
But-
Ty TemelHOST
Build up, isn't it?
Kae KurdGUEST
Yeah, it's like the first time I did like Live at the Apollo, my parents were like, oh great, you could do a master's now.
Ty TemelHOST
So still not like, still kind of not on board.
Anita RaniHOST
Now, award-winning Irish comedian, writer and actor Catherine Bohar is a debating champion...
Anita RaniHOST
An Edinburgh Festival favourite and a familiar face on our screens with appearances on Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week.
Anita RaniHOST
Also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4.
Anita RaniHOST
Her credits include The News Quiz and her own series, Too Long, Didn't Read.
Tony DunnGUEST
That's definitely true.
Tony DunnGUEST
I made a video about this and sort of around about 2004, 2005 was when we got Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week.
Tony DunnGUEST
But before that, this was the, yeah, RIP.
Tony DunnGUEST
But, well, Live at the Apollo, so that was one season to go and Mock the Week's on TLC, but...
Tony DunnGUEST
Before that, there was stand-up on TV.
Tony DunnGUEST
I think there was the stand-up show on BBC One, but it was like 11.30 at night.
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Tony DunnGUEST
think this is huge.
Tony DunnGUEST
So I think the history of that, so Finn was doing pretty well as a comic, I think.
DaveHOST
As drawn by Rob Liefeld.
DaveHOST
So yeah, big well-known shows like Live at the Apollo, etc., which you would always assume are uncancellable, have been cancelled, and we are now at the chopping block for entire broadcast channels.
DaveHOST
So today they've decided to shut them down.
RobHOST
Are we rapidly approaching the Mrs Brown's Boy singularity?
Janine HarouniGUEST
Think about that all the time.
Janine HarouniGUEST
The people who did live at the Apollo, I know, I know the people who did live at the Apollo and then, you know, smash it, get whatever it was back in the day.
Janine HarouniGUEST
I think it
Marc JenningsHOST
was like 20 grand.
Janine HarouniGUEST
But also you sell out your tour dates for the next year.
Marc JenningsHOST
that was it you became a household name yeah because it's weird because that path still exists of like people do the fringe and then they could even obviously now not Apollo but you would get these TV shows and then it would sell tour tickets and that's and it would make sense to do all that but people still do that exact same path but it's just at the end of it it doesn't sell any tour tickets yeah yeah unless you maybe clip up the stuff I'm telling
Janine HarouniGUEST
you live at the Apollo I didn't like what I was wearing I didn't like I was so tired I was getting over a vomiting bug and hand foot and mouth I was concealing to everyone that I was riddled with hand foot and mouth at the taping
Marc JenningsHOST
which is I heard you talking about this is apparently a big thing if you've got kids oh my god
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