NICK MOHAMMED: How Comedy & Magic Helped Me Survive the Playground Bullies
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How did magic help Nick survive playground bullies?
I could survive the playground by just getting out a deck of cards.
Because you started doing magic at four years old.
Yeah. Look, I'm short, I'm brown, you know, I grew up in the north of England, didn't like the 90s. I could sort of entertain them and just sort of keep them at bay a little bit. And that felt like a superpower. And even the teacher, I remember Mr. Pike just saying, Nick, get your cards out.
Nick, that is wild.
Do you want to do something now? Please. Okay, I believe that the card you chose was the Jack of Clubs. Do you want to pick it up?
Isn't that mad? Isn't that mad?
Hi, I'm Nick Muhammad and I'm in great company. Please welcome actor and comedian Nick Muhammad. Wow. A traitor. Can we talk about traitors? We can. It was just the most exhilarating experience of my life, really. Joe.
You have no chance of knowing it. I should say about Alan as well. I would love to do an audition with you. So this is Braveheart.
You've come to fight as free men and free men you are. They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
This industry is definitely surrounded by its healthy share of rude people. Have you seen it firsthand? Yeah. They were notoriously rude and it was gross. It was just like watching a school bully.
Can't wait. Who was it, Nick? Guys, welcome back to Great Company. Today's episode is a big one because we have Nick Muhammad on the show. He's a comedian. He's a writer. He's an actor. He's been in Ted Lasso, one of the biggest shows in the world at the moment. He's incredible and he's also a magician and he performs tricks on the show today. It's an amazing episode. We talk about so many different things about bullying growing up. It's all in there. Before we start, if I can ask you one quick favor, if you could possibly subscribe to our show, it's completely free and it takes one second. It means we can keep making a better show. It means you join the community of all the incredible people who are following us and it allows you to get an alert each week.
Okay, you ready for that? Here we go. Enjoy this amazing episode of Great Company with Nick Muhammad. Nick, auditions, so you're comfortable in auditions.
Yes, yes.
I try to be now. Okay. Try to be. Well, I would love to do an audition with you. Okay. Who's auditioning me? Are you? We're in it together. Okay. And I don't know if you've ever watched Braveheart. Is it the Freedom Speech? It's the Freedom Speech. Okay, yeah. You're going to play William Wallace. Okay. Who's played by Mel Gibson. Yeah, yeah. Slightly contentious character. I know. In the 90s. Yeah, yeah. Everyone loved him in the 90s. We loved him in the 90s.
Not so much. Not so much. Yeah.
So you're going to play him. I'm him. Okay.
In the remake.
I'm playing the sort of side character. You don't have that much to do, Jamie. That's fine. I'm happy with that. I'm the casting director. You're coming in for an audition. Okay. Until you're walking into the room. Okay. So here we are.
Hi, who are you? Hi, Jamie. Nice to meet you. Thank you so much for seeing me. I really appreciate it. Big fan of your work. Thanks so much. You've seen my movies. I've seen all your movies. I'm Nick Muhammad.
Hi, Nick. Nick. Yeah, we've seen you in a couple of things. We've seen you in Ted Lasso. You're great in that. Well, congrats on The Traitors. Thank you very much. Thank you. Did you watch that? Loved it. Loved it very much. So you're playing William Wallace today? Yes, if that's okay. That is fantastic.
I prepared it in a Scottish accent. I hope that's right. I could do it Japanese if you want, but I think... Whatever the art takes you, you should go with it. Okay. Here we go. Okay. I just have a tiny bit of water. Now I am nervous.
Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace. William Wallace is seven feet tall. Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if he were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his ass. Ha ha ha ha ha. I am William Wallace and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defense of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men and free men you are.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did magic help Nick survive playground bullies?
0:00–8:22
2
What was Nick’s experience on The Celebrity Traitors and why was it intense?
8:22–22:29
3
How did appearing on Traitors change Nick’s perspective on reality TV?
22:29–45:33
4
When and why did Nick decide to leave academia for comedy?
45:33–53:11
Speakers
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