I mean, I've not had any fish, but I can see how for someone like

you, the fish would be a big thing.

Well, Well, I think what I find is with Edinburgh, it's quite useful to have a routine.

And I've eaten fish every day.

Is that the thing? Yeah.

What kind of fish? Well, originally it was like salmon and stuff like that.

Like this fish because it's healthy.

you want to exclude his

I mean, I've not had any fish, but I can see how for someone like

you, the fish would be a big thing.

Well, Well, I think what I find is with Edinburgh, it's quite useful to have a routine.

And I've eaten fish every day.

Is that the thing? Yeah.

What kind of fish? Well, originally it was like salmon and stuff like that.

Like this fish because it's healthy.

Do you want to exclude his mum?

It's not a wheelie bin

anecdote.

It's just tedious.

But I use a fridge in my show.

Okay.

Yeah, and I had to get a fridge.

So I went looking for a fridge around Edinburgh in a van, and we found a fridge.

That was a joke.

Have you got one of those you can do for us now? I've got

a very short poem if you want.

That would be great.

It's only five words.

Wow, that is a short poem.

Well, it's five words.

It's not even a haiku, is it? Here it comes.

under the benches

Well, because it's sort of within the Venn diagram of what you do anyway, so the, the pressure's on then, right?

Yeah.

Our, our job is to sort of, it, when we're not doing Taskmaster, is to theoretically m- make things that are kind of quite funny, and now he's asking me to do this.

And so you sort of think, once you've got an idea and you've done it, and it sort of worked okay, you sort of think, "Good.

Got away with that." But what's very interesting is to do that jigsaw thing and then to see, um, to see all five next to each other, and to see two that were so much better and then to see two that were so much worse.

[laughing]

You just wanna be memorable.

It's all about just being, you know, being good value, you know, and all of that sort of stuff.

Okay, fire away.

The idea is it's, uh, an app on your phone, and when someone phones you, you can choose the background sound for before you pick up.

So you can select-

[laughing]

'Cause I got here a little bit late, and I thought that Josh was gonna phone me, and I was gonna pretend that I was in bed.

But then I thought that won't work 'cause I'm in Leicester Square, and it's too busy, and he knows I don't sleep in amongst traffic.

[laughs]

Everyone has a bell, and then you ring it at the same...

You know, not at the same time, but you, you ring it when your one, when it comes up.

It's like karaoke.

So you see these little balls come up, and when your red ball comes up and you've got a red bell, you go like that and you create a song.

And, you know, it's sort of...

Some of them are like sort of old-school sort of carols and things, and then sometimes there's something a bit more jazzy like pop music.

[laughs]

[laughs]

So they gave me a gun, a air gun, and the candle was miles away.

And I took the gun, and I'm with the spiritual girl, and I take aim, and I'm not very good at these sorts of things.

I can't do anything.

And I just sort of, sort of, I-

[laughs]

Yeah.

Uh, so I got the gun, and I didn't really expect much from myself.

Okay.

And then I had a look around for pubs and cafes so that when I met this girl, I could say, "Well, what do you wanna do? Do you wanna go for a pint, or should we go for a coffee?" She said pint, so I took her to the pub that I'd found.

I already had the tickets, so I sort of-

[laughing]

Got to the place, showed the lady my tickets.

She put her finger on her lips and said, "Right, we need to be quiet," and took us in with her torch.

The film had started, and it wasn't allocated seating.

And she said, "Right, you're gonna have to sit there." [laughing]

Now, is it Coria? Is it Carrier? kev i always get this one wrong send me a pronunciation my apologies for forgetting how we save the name of your farming district let's bring in simon timkey who's a senior forecaster at the bureau of meteorology to have a look at that rain forecast because simon when i look at the eight day forecast from the bureau there's a little bit to get excited about for the south eastern corner of australia let's see how that's playing out though in the forecast how's it looking today

Hello there Warwick yes well look today we we've got a cold front moving across the state and conditions were pretty windy earlier we did have a severe weather warning out for damaging winds about some of the higher peaks of the Grampians and out to the east there but that's been cancelled now the front itself moving across sort of western parts and we're seeing that the winds Over most areas, ease somewhat as that happens.

Still pretty windy up around the alpine areas, but elsewhere ease back a bit from this morning.

The wind's tending around a little bit more westerly or west to north westerly now in the western districts with that feature moving across.

It is bringing a little bit of showery activity with it, but not a lot.

We had a little bit of rainfall, particularly up in the northeast in the 24 hours to 9am, where we had some isolated falls of 30 to 40 millimetres around the northeast ranges there.

Mount Hotham had 41, Harriettville 34 millimetres, Falls Creek 31.

What's their sort of rainfall outlook over this forecast period for Kev?

[laughs]

And then I go through into my lounge, and then I think, "Well, I can't watch one of my shows or a film, so I'll just put any old telly on." So I just flicked it on, and it was on University Challenge.

And, um, I'm just eating this stuff.

And then, um, the next question is a picture round.

Uh, and then Paxman goes, "Can you, can anyone here name this fam- can anyone name this British comedian?" Picture of me.

I'm just eating.

State of the art.

Well, the, the thing is, you c- when y- what I liked about it is you go there, and I'd go there I think about every month.

So engaging, so authentically himself, you know?

That's Chris.

Yeah, I mean, he is who he is and, um, uh, I love working with Chris.

I think he's one of those actors as well, and I guess it's sort of a good thing and a bad thing, but because he's sort of grown up in the public eye, like in the UK he was in a sitcom, which was the first time anybody ever saw him, when he was in his late teens, I guess, or early 20s.

I'm not sure how old he was.

And, um, so it's kind of like they've, they've seen him, so he's kind of made mistakes in his life like everyone does, and it was a bit public at times, and he's kind of gone through successes, and he's had slightly quieter times.

And now it's like he's a national treasure, as he should be.

Mm

But was she the immediate person that came to mind when you were writing the character? Yeah.

So, yeah, I always find that when you're writing a film or writing anything, there's a lot of procrastination.

And it's a much easier thing to just stop writing and just start writing a list of people.

So we did that a lot with Nell.

Yeah.

Yeah, we gradually crystallized it down to our favorite 10 or something.

And Kerry Mulligan was by a stretch our number one.

I mean, to be fair to myself, I think

[laughs]

"There was a decent spread for lunch.

They had fish tacos, braised beef, peri peri chicken, shrimp and jello, jalapeno smashed potatoes, eggplant Caesar salad, wild garlic and basil pasta, chocolate chip cookies, sauteed spinach, wild rice and butter bean salad, red velvet cake, ice cream, and an array of cheese and butters.Once it was all on my plate, I scuttled under a trailer and devoured the lot like the most disgraceful hog you can imagine.

[laughs]

And so we're probably talking about sort of, you know, eight fifteen, and I'm sort of, it's past my bedtime.

And then I'm, like, behind the curtains to the French windows, probably for another 20 minutes, and then just thinking, "I've snookered myself here."

You can read

something.

Yeah, yeah.

Short one or long one? You know, medium.

Okay.

This is a bit longer.

Oh, this is about missing England.

about 15 years ago

To what extent hadn't you prepared for that scene? [laughs]

[laughs] We hadn't, we hadn't had a lot of time.

The kind...

The mad thing was that, that Carey turned up, um, the, the evening before she started shooting, and she brought her baby, uh, who was a few weeks old, maybe about seven, eight weeks old.

And, you know, and as soon as she was there she threw herself into it, and we, you know, was very happy to kind of talk through character and rehearse some stuff and try out the songs and all these things, but we didn't have a lot of time, and we just had to kind of go with our gut a little bit and what felt right and just, you know, as you say, hope that you can organically create an atmosphere as two actors that feels very, very close to what the two characters are doing.

And I think, I think we did do that.

Um, but it's [laughs] a risk, you know? You don't quite know what you're gonna get.

Like, h- how important is it to support a movie like this?

Everything.

Maybe Robert Popper's done an interview explaining it all.

Maybe he has.

Yeah.

I was offered the part, and then I bumped into Robert Popper outside my agency where I was going to go in and either take the part or not take the part.

Well, because it's like a big decision, isn't it? It is.

To go to LA for three months.

You ever been locked out of your flat with two young children in Edinburgh? It's not a great

you setting the record straight?

No, I'm setting the record as is.

Okay, good.

So, basically, we were in a sketch group, me and Tom Basden.

Cowards.

Cowards.

Yeah, back in the day.

carell oh yeah

Poem number two for Lust, here we go.

Lust.

Puffed my cheeks out in the mirror.

Hair gel a good call.

I wondered what she'd be wearing.

Double checked the menu at Zizzy online.

What a selection, I muttered, eyes wide.

What were the flourishes? What were the bits that you liked?

You have been introduced.

Well, you said my name.

... about.

Yeah.

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I plodded down Sunset Boulevard and spotted a man who looked a lot like Nick Whitchell, the BBC's former royal correspondent.

God damn it, I missed England.

I collapsed and hauled myself under a vast poster advertising series four of slow horses.

I screwed up my eyes tight and thought of the homeland.

I thought of Compo and the NHS.

Adele, bacon and eggs.

I've got to be honest, and I

It's

totally different and kind of mind-blowing.

The first time we saw the film was in Sundance.

And I think with any kind of new stand-up show, it just starts as a tiny acorn in front of 30 or 40 people and gradually grows and you gradually work out.

what works and what doesn't and improve it and get it better and better by the end of it you might be playing to quite a big room but with complete assurance that everything sort of works whereas with this we didn't have any screenings at all we didn't know what exactly we had we knew we liked it but we didn't know you know exactly how much would sort of grow to be more affectionate of our own movie it's the first time we saw it was in front of 1400 people and it's kind of petrifying because you know if you could be sitting it could be a very long hour and a half you know you're waiting for in that first 90 seconds to see whether this movie can create any kind of a connection with an audience you hope it will but yeah that is the difference there's no you get you get everything all at once right at the end when all of the work has been done and you're just sort of praying that people will like it

But where do you go to as an actor to get that performance?

Well, I don't know.

I mean, actually, that first time where I see them around the dinner table, I think there's a lot going on.

Did you know Carrie Mulligan or did you just send her the script and sent her agent? How did that happen?

This is another brilliant bit of luck where she had emailed my agent asking if I could do something for her about six or seven years ago.

She wanted me to like host a charity event with a charity she's involved with.

And it's a flat no from me, obviously.

Despise charity, naturally.

But I'm not like, it's not really my scene.

You have different comfort zones, and one of mine isn't to host something.

I'm interested in the beginning of that because I imagine that was quite scary to start.