Mo Gilligan
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643 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 2 Jul
Mo Gilligan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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doing a tour and then getting the likes of TV to be interested in and getting Netflix and stuff like this.
That was a very unconventional route, especially being a black British comic as well.
There wasn't anyone that looked like myself even on TV.
So yeah, to kind of go through and do it that route felt the most organic for me, but also the most fulfilling because again,
before any of the success was happening, it's the social media.
I'm meeting people in the street who are just like, oh, man.
Like, who are treating me like I'm someone.
And I'm like, I just do videos in my bedroom at my mom's house.
Do you know what I mean?
We do know what you mean, yes.
Yeah, I think in terms of following, it was just more like, because we have our own black comedy circuit in the UK.
So there are people within that scene that are massively influential of how funny they are.
You know, you've got, there's a comedian called Slim.
There's another guy called Richard Blackwood, who's huge as well.
You know, he had a TV show, for example.
in like the kind of early 2000s and the 90s.
And then before him, you had Lenny Henry.
But there wasn't much to choose from, but also following their paths were completely different.
You know, they was at different times where the success was different.
So, you know, for someone like Lenny Henry, who'd been on the TV from the 80s,
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