Tom Basden
Actor and writer
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Jul 13, 2026
S2 Ep23 Nikki Amuka-Bird, Sue Johnston, Corinna Brown, Josh Radnor, Noah Galvin, Tom Basden and JJerome87.
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Tim LovejoyHOST
But as typical with Ricky, there's lots of... peaks and troughs in it, isn't there, with your

Tim LovejoyHOST
Who came up with that concept, though, the one where it's all filmed through the son's camera? I mean,
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31:12Mike DHOST
How is that different from that instant comedy approach?

Tom BasdenGUEST
The first time we saw the sh- the film was in, in Sundance, and I think with a, 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.

Tom BasdenGUEST
By the end of it, you might be playing to quite a big room, but with complete assurance that everything sort of works.
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Tim KeyGUEST
I think having seen it, you know, experienced it the last few days, I just feel like I, I just, [laughs] I just really want, want everyone to see it that way.
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Tom BasdenGUEST
Yeah, but I don't know if it's self-absorption as much as you just want to... sort of you just want to focus on the thing that you're working on in a way and once you've done it and you've finished it it's lovely to talk about and it's lovely to sort of see people enjoying it but in a way it can be quite torturous to watch stuff and go oh that could have been a bit better or I could have done that there or I could have you know and I think that's what's funny about when we watch the film now because we've both come from comedy I think it's actually a really good thing that we didn't watch it with audiences at a point where we had the chance to go back into the edit Because I think we'd have put some jokes back in, is the truth.

Tom BasdenGUEST
I think when you watch it with an audience and they start laughing, you go, oh, they would have loved that joke.

Tom BasdenGUEST
And you forget that actually what you're doing is you're crafting a story that's got to be sort of coherent and it's got to have a certain pace and rhythm to it.

Tom BasdenGUEST
And if you start cramming it with jokes because you can tell that the audience likes certain jokes, you unbalance the whole thing.

Tom BasdenGUEST
So actually, I'm very glad that we didn't get the chance to... to fiddle with the film after people had seen