Sean McLoughlin

And I was like, I've come here from Kettering.

He went, where's that?

I said, it's in Northamptonshire.

Oh.

Everyone else here lives in Manchester, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

Just me and you.

We had to travel there.

yeah yeah did you know it was this venue when you said yes no I didn't I'm staying on the promoter's sofa okay well I'm going back to Newcastle okay I'm going to go up now okay well I'm probably going to quit next week yeah me too yeah yeah yeah see you in 17 years on a podcast yeah yeah but we made it yeah we made it and we met in Newcastle at the heat of the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year competition

Another great event in the history of British comedy.

Back when you were not Ed Gamble, you had a character.

I was always a fan of Selsdon.

Yes.

It's good stuff.

That night, I met you, I met Nish Kumar, I met Tom Neenan.

Every act was from... Every act who was good was from Durham and came on the same train as you.

Yeah.

Not from Coldplay.

No, not from Coldplay.

For the listener.