Will Self

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664 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Will Self · 29 May 2026 podcast

And he was an old cussing.

I never got a cartoon into the eye.

and he'd just go, oh, this is shit.

He once sent a batch of cartoons I'd sent to him back, and he'd written across the back of the envelope, no bloody good.

But, you know, I mean, it might sound trivial to people, but rejection's important.

It's important to experience rejection and experience it viscerally.

No bloody good.

I'm grateful to Rushton Frere for that.

Do you ever hear that thing he did just before Cookie died with, what's the young chap?

Oh, he's my age, Chris Morris.

Yes.

I think my problem on Shooting Stars was I was working with some great comedians.

I think they were some of the best comedians.

Drink, drink, drink.

It's the curse of the working class.

I drank in my 30s.

I mean, I was a drinker as well.

And I loved, for a few years, I loved Soho.

I'd been an early Soho person because the first friend I made at Oxford was the relief barman at the Colony Room Club.

So I first went.

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