Mo Gilligan

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,

His success was through television.

And then you had someone like Richard Blackwood whose success was also through television.

But at this point, I had no TV credits.

I had not been on a show.

I had nothing to show anybody.

So ideally, social media was the route that I could take because it was like...

I was like, I haven't been on TV yet.

I know that that's been their route and that worked at a different time.

So it's always interesting whether there's a new generation now watching me who are like, oh, I love what Mo does.

And I'm always interested to be like, I wonder if social media is going to be their thing or there might be something new that comes about that that becomes...

their thing, essentially.