OFF-AIR π΄ NOT FOR MAX - Pulling Off Rove McManus
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is a podcast from Rover.
Well, well, well. Hello, friends. Seven comedians, six escape rooms, all vying for one completely worthless trophy. I'm so chilled. You know there's an answer there and you just can't see it. OK, OK. My strategy is to pick up something important and just walk around with it. I'll take myself out of this situation for a bit. Just wait till they see what I have in store.
That is Rove McManus. There he is.
What a wicked laugh that is.
Evil man. Dangerous.
He's got it in him. This whole nice guy facade. What a monster though. He can be himself on TV now. Deep down.
Yeah, my true self comes out in this show for sure. Celebrity Escape, which is on Tuesday 3, 3 now as well, 7.30. You're back on the TV, Rove. You're back in the studio. You've got a great memory. You and I apparently had a push-off, a pull-up competition or something.
We did a push-up competition.
A press-up competition, yes.
Not a pull-off.
Sorry, Rove, not a pull-off competition. Press up, my apologies. We could always top it today.
The only thing is, I've just come from a string of other interviews, so you might need 15 minutes, but then watch me go.
It was a different time on the radio.
What is Rove McManus's new show about?
It was a different time. We'd fill breaks by doing pull-off competitions. It was sponsored too. That was the weird part. We filmed it.
It was for charity, for a children's hospital. It was wrong on so many levels.
How about that? Celebrity pull-off for your next program. What do you think? How do you get eliminated?
Roger's in the corner, pulling himself off, and you have to get out of the room.
How does Rove describe his experience on Celebrity Escape?
Imagine that's the first room that people walk into.
That's on the dark web. Just Rog on his own. Everyone's like, how do we get out? Why is Rove here? Where did he come from? Why is he watching? Why is he watching in the other room? Anyway, been great, Ted.
Thanks, Rove. So do watch, everybody.
So you've got these comedians. They're not pulling off. I haven't seen it. You tell us.
Have any of you three done an escape room before? But funny you say that. It is funny I say that. Because obviously it's based on the program. But we were just having this conversation. We wanted to put either all of our show or some of our show into it just to see how they would handle and what it showed about their personality. So we were discussing it before we'd seen the ad and knew that we were having you in for it.
Well, it's usually nowadays it is done as a team building thing. So a lot of people listening might know what they are. But it's essentially... It usually has a theme of some kind and you walk in and it's immersive like if it was like, oh, it's a doctor's surgery. It's made to look like that. But then hidden in the room are clues to other parts of the room where there will be a puzzle which gives you the next clue that you will need to eventually find your way back out of the room because we lock you in. Yeah. And you have to do what you can to find the code to find the lock to get yourself out.
And the clues can be staring you straight in the face and you have no idea that it's obvious.
And because you put in a group of comedians, obviously they don't pay attention. It's like having a bunch of kids on a sugar rush in there. The first room in the first episode that you'll see next Tuesday, they walk into the room. I tell them. The first thing you need to do is look at a piece of paper, read what's on the paper. It tells you what to do next. They read the thing on the paper and then they scatter. They scatter like cockroaches when you put the light on in the middle of the night in the kitchen. And you're just like, just focus for a second. Just focus and you'll be fine. Can't be done. Comedians.
The worst. Some great talent on the show.
Some great talent and Josh Thompson as well, which is fantastic. We've got Josh. We've got Chris Parker, who you had on the show. Hayley Sproul. We've got Abbey Howes, who I absolutely adore. And then on the evil Aussie side, Celia Paquola, Luke McGregor and Frank Woodley.
Yeah, nice.
So there's a bit of rivalry, indeed.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00β1:23
2
What is Rove McManus's new show about?
1:23β1:50
3
How does Rove describe his experience on Celebrity Escape?
1:50β7:27
4
What are the challenges comedians face in escape rooms?
7:27β14:28
5
How do comedians interact in a competitive escape room setting?
14:28β15:33
6
What memorable moments does Rove share from his career?
15:33β18:46
7
How does Rove feel about returning to television?
18:46β19:04