I remember that meeting in the pub I don't it was such a long process because we filmed it

non-stop for over a year we filmed a taster tape that I've never seen since that was the one that went to Channel 4 that went to Channel 4 England then they said they didn't like it then what happened was it was you and Denny I can't believe we've said him looking like Frank Apollo and then went in a 30 minute detour we can't help ourselves man ADHD out of fucking fathers mate so you and Denny is doing it at the BBC off seas in Quayside innit I suppose like down next to the Hydro and they're pitching stuff so they're showing like taster tapes for other things And they've no took anything that IWC's made on that occasion, right? So they went, if you go to anything else, and this is great advice for anybody else, if you ever want to do writing or anything like that, never go in with one script and go, oh, fuck, have four or five, because they'll probably go, we don't like this, if you go to anything else.

And if you say no, you're fucked, right? So they obviously know the game, and Goon goes, well, there's that wrestling thing, and says to one of his bosses, and they go...

Aye.

So he runs up to the offices, which were at...

Charlie Cross.

Charlie Cross, next to what? Next to the Q Club.

because

But what was the spark that made you think you could do something with it over here?

It was about 14 years old.

So I watched it when I was a kid.

when every hoose could get Sky if you had a communal dish on the tap behind your grand I could programme in Sky 1 and Sky Sports 1 so I watched it for then Hulk Hogan Ultimate Warrior all that stuff fell away from it didn't watch it for years then walked into my wee brother's room when we got NTL in when I was like 14 and and he was watching it and it was a bit where I can remember the exact clip it was so weird that it ended up working years later it was the rock was hitting Mick Foley half a seating bank into a big load of like sound speakers and they all exploded and I was like what is this you're watching this is the wrestling that's the state of fucking wrestling with Kamala and all that and he's like no this is different now da hey Mark sorry I fucking keep saying it's my son because he's into wrestling now it's my wee brother that was watching it and I was like alright so I started watching it and I was just like fuck I love this and then on late at night I would tape a show called Extreme Championship Wrestling that would be on at 4 in the morning and this was more rebellious more hardcore more blood and swearing and all that stuff It was on Bravo, do you remember the channel Bravo? It was on there at like 3 in the morning so I'd tape that during the night and I'd watch it, it was a long show before school and I was getting right into it and then I found a training school and I went to a training school and that's where I met Drew McIntyre famous pro wrestler McIntyre, I've known him since we were 14 when he was covered in acne I met him in Central Station, we went to Falkirk to train man with a guy called The Mean Street, Jerry Barea who never went on to the end man We thought he was a pure big pro wrestler and that, right? And we found out years later that he'd had, like, one match done in England and then they put him in the van and duct taped him to a pole at the side of the motorway and left him there.

Which you wouldn't do now, right? But it was funny at the time, right? I wouldn't do it, but I would laugh at him if I saw it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, aye, so we eventually found out, oh, fuck, this guy doesn't know his day and went and trained somewhere else.

to comedy really isn't it well comedy is exploding there's too many comedians