Mo Gilligan
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767 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Mo Gilligan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there was this little, in quotation marks, who still lives with his mum.
But everyone kept saying, every time I was on an interview, the Times have called him the funniest guy in Britain.
I think with this piece, it was definitely, I was like, I really want to showcase what black British comedy is because I know what it is.
It's all I've ever done.
But I don't know if everyone outside of the realm of, I guess, British comedy knows that there's this huge scene that has shows at Hackney Empire, you know, the O2 and...
I'm quite fortunate enough that there's a whole generation before me that are huge and massive within our scene and they need to get the light shone on them a little bit as well.
It was great.
It was definitely one of the things I got to do that it wasn't really about it going, I guess, viral because my success was always based on a viral success of the videos done well.
And then someone might say, oh, you know, Drake followed you and this happened where this really felt like a piece that, fingers crossed, that...
that might be something that they get to show in schools one day, university.
on that circuit like he was on a different circuit I wouldn't say it wasn't on that circuit I just think it was really to shine the light on these amazing comics that I had got to share the stage with that everybody got to know about people like Slim who was the first comic that I went to see at a real comedy show at the Albany Theatre in Deptford and
you know, then sharing the stage with him.
But knowing that he'd been in the game as such for like 30 years and, you know, Rudy Liquid, there were so many comics and people that I was just like, you know, I remember Slim saying, is that funny?
It's funny.
You know, it doesn't matter like what you say when funny is just funny.
Yeah, you know, whenever I hear the previous generation, you see a lot of shows that would come and then they would quickly go.
And there is this, even when I got my own show on Channel 4, and it's a show at 10 o'clock, it was like, oh, this might just be a one-time thing.
Same with doing the Big Nasty show.
Because you're so used to just seeing a show come and that's it.
It just...
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