I’m usually the interviewer, not the ‘victim’! So, it’s been a novel experience to find myself guesting on not one, but two excellent comedy shows that elicit honest and intimate stories from their subject, i.e. in this case me.
Perhaps it’s all those years of trying not to make MY guests feel uncomfortable, but I’d like to think I wasn’t too fazed by the probing approach.
The first was Tom Price’s brilliant podcast My Mate Bought a Toaster, in which he browses his guests’ Amazon purchase history. I’m proud to say my episode is the longest interview Tom’s ever done! Purchases up for discussion include a wine cooler, The Best of Texas, and, um, a Fleshlight… LISTEN HERE.
Then, I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s My Teenage Diary, presented by Rufus Hound, which has long been one of my favourite shows in the 6:30 comedy slot. In front of a live audience at the RSC (we recorded before the pandemic, thankfully), I read out multiple mortifying extracts from my 1994 diaries, written when I was thirteen. The content is roughly one-third ‘Neighbours’, one-third bar mitzvah preparations, one-third wanking. LISTEN HERE.