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Tony Cantwell

Tony Cantwell

Sep 4, 2026

3:40
Can you imagine yourself having done this show as not a dad?
3:43
Um...
3:45
Do you know, I actually could because I put in reps with like my little brother and little sister because I was like a teenager when they were when they were born.
3:51
And yeah, like I just it's kind of like having a perfect like as a comedian, as like, you know, an attention seeker, you know, like it's like having like and you can really get away in an audience for one when it's just the kids.
4:02
Yes.
4:02
It's just being, you know, a goofball and kind of making them laugh.
4:05
So, you know, I actually think actually since having kids would have deterred me really away from, you know, working with kids.
6:55
Tell us about that.
27:44
There you go.
27:45
Thank you.
27:45
Thank you very much.
27:46
No, I do appreciate that.
27:47
But it was...
27:48
It was...
27:50
It wasn't hard.

24 MINS LATER

51:48
And that's why Deaton left or something like that.
30:49
Yeah
30:49
... that kind of like , kind of, that, you know, the bad guys in Superman II kind of whistle, you know? You know, that kind of a...
30:56
I was trying to do that, but it just didn't, it didn't work out for me.
30:59
Um, but I had success with that, and I'd also had, like, uh, this sitcom that I'd done, uh, for RTE, and I was like, "This is, like, the best year ever.
31:06
Like, it's everything that I wanted to do." And then I was at a Christmas party and, uh, with all of my lad friends, and we went up to my mate's attic 'cause we went exploring 'cause it was a new house.
31:16
We found this, like, dusty old treadmill.
31:18
We were like, "Oh my God." We turned it on, and it, it only had, like, one speed, which was just max.
31:40
Yeah
11:57
thousand guests as well.
11:58
Well, do you know what? It was crazy to see them, like, do two things, like, you know, obviously cement their relationship, you know, in front of their loved ones, but also cement their corporate interests by hiring, bringing in the entire Disney suite of executives to this whole thing for, you know, a corporate merger that'll last a thousand years.
12:15
You know, it's hard to do it all, but I like the long vows.
12:17
I think it's great.
12:18
I think you get the best man basically telling a eulogy of friendship for the groom you know we used to do all this and then she looks lovely but you know we used to do all this before she came along you know and then you get like old farmer dads who have probably said more to their cows than their own daughter try and give a speech you know I say the more the merrier when it comes to vows and speeches in general
12:46
And
12:47
Tony, you were saying that you are married.
12:48
How were your vows? My vows were good, but what I did was we wrote our own vows And we basically just listed off a load of promises that we would kind of make to each other.
38:31
And I just felt this, this panic, and I would look to do anything but write something down.
38:38
And then it was weeks going by like this, and I was just wasting my time, and I just, I remember getting just so depressed thinking, "I am here in a situation where I have nothing else to do but this.
38:49
I would love to do this.
38:50
I really enjoy doing this.
38:52
Why can't I do it?" And I'm like, "This feels..." I always thought I was a bit of a procrastinator, but I'm like, "This, this feels like medical.
39:00
This feels like something that I actually can't overcome with any kind of, you know, m- mindfulness or meditation or, you know, uh, or as I'm prone to do, uh, waste my time on that I'm supposed to be doing," you know?

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46:14
[laughs]
8:35
Was that always something you wanted to do or was that just something that came together? Did you just get an idea? For instance, the overlap sketches are some of my favourite
8:41
ones.
8:42
So thank you so much.
8:43
I really appreciate that.
8:44
So that would be my brother, Andy Cantwell.
8:47
That would be, that's Andrew Cantwell, my brother.
8:50
Different guy.
10:04
about your world cup experience so give me your ideal setting for watching a world cup match is it in the pub is it at home

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