Chapter 1: What insights does Stephen K. Amos share about his strict upbringing?
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My parents were very, very strict people. I remember saying to my mum as a child, can I have some pocket money? And she'd go, shut up, bastard! Your pocket is for your hand. Star Wars, yeah? The main character, Darth Vader. When he was a child, white. Young man, white. Intergalactic supervillain, black.
He's so black, he even had a black helmet, which is ironic, because there's one part of me that's not that black.
And only Stephen K. Amos!
Woo! Oh, yeah, it's been done for us, Deidre.
How good.
Stephen K. Amos, who we've seen so many times and talked about so many times. It's finally in the studio.
Welcome. Thank you so much. And can I say, gentlemen, how great it is to come in and you to play a clip that's actually funny. The amount of times I've gone into his studio and they've picked the most shittiest clip ever.
Well, we can thank Mitch there, a young aspiring comedian.
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Chapter 2: How did Stephen K. Amos get involved in his documentary about penis size?
But for me, it was the entire audience was full of civil servants. Yeah. White civil servants. And being a black performer, that kind of made me laugh a little bit. It was a room full of servants. It was great.
But I also found that while I was there, the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Albanese, and the Canadian Prime Minister did a joint press conference where they were saying they're not going to join America with any military action. And I had to take a step back and go, guys, what can Canada and Australia really bring to the table? Maple syrup and a boomerang? I mean, come on, guys.
What's going on here?
So just little things like that.
Little things like that that make me laugh. Or the big story, you must have heard it here, about the mushroom Wellington. Oh, yeah. If I can drop a little thing. So I'll be aware of what's happening culturally, and I'll slip those in, and hopefully people will laugh.
So it is, you're going to be performing this weekend. Mother's Day in New Zealand is this coming Sunday.
Yeah, I didn't, that was bad planning from my producers. Yeah. Why don't we do a show on Christmas Day? Easter.
Don't forget your birthday. Now, your mum, by the sounds of it, your mum and dad were quite strict. Yeah. And so we looked earlier. Did you? Well, first of all. memories of your mum and how hard she was on you as a kid growing up. So what did she do? You grew up, I imagine, back in the day when they'd whack you. Oh, my goodness.
When you talk to young people now, you go, you know, I come from the era where you could beat kids. Even kids that weren't your own. That was a thing. You'd go into a supermarket, all kids running around, just go, get out of the way. No, they deserve that. That's what used to happen. And also, I think my mum, in all fairness to them, they arrived.
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Chapter 3: How does Stephen K. Amos view the role of comedians in today's society?
We all have dignity. There are people who prefer to put emphasis on the adjective gay rather than the noun man. Those people who do that do not have a human heart. Whoa. That's awesome. There's footage out there somewhere, and I've always said to myself, I don't want to be seen crying on TV, but it really got me at the right moment, and he didn't just fob me off. No.
And I was so moved, and the people around me, they were all in tears because, as I said to you, it came at the right time in my life. I'm not suddenly religious.
Of course.
You know, there are many aspects of the Catholic Church that I have issues with, but it was comforting to hear that from the leader. And I also thought, you know, how many millions of people around the world would give their right arm to have a private audience?
Yeah. But also, how many millions of people around the world or people around the world that would have taken something from what he said to you, you know, in terms of either a lesson in humility or a lesson in acceptance or even just a lesson in how to be a better person because the words that are said in that are...
teaching in a way you know like well thank you because I did feel and it's not often I feel a sense of responsibility but I think one of the reasons why I initially said no was because I didn't want to be perceived as a man who's carrying the weight of all the other people and then just sit in front of this person and not say anything yeah I had to say something.
And one of us also asked him a question about women's autonomy over their own bodies. And his response to that was incredible. And that's why, as you rightly said, he wasn't particularly the most popular of popes. Also, he was Italian, right? They had their own issues there. But as I say, and at the end of it, he held both my hands and he kissed me.
He kissed me.
No dinner, nothing. Nothing.
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Chapter 4: What reflections does Stephen K. Amos have on social issues during his performances?
And that was one of my favourite shows. I was like, that guy, yeah, we're going to be best friends. Haven't heard from him since. Best friends. But what was interesting about that, and I think that's probably why I wrote this show, is that you don't have your mobile phone. You're in a situation with 12 other people where you're all experiencing the same thing together at the same time.
The only thing to do to distract yourself is to talk and listen to each other. Yeah. And I got to know these people in five weeks better than some people I've known for five years. And it's quite, people go, oh, you make those fake friendships. You're there 24-7 living in these rather basic conditions.
And honestly, without having that phone as a distraction, it's amazing how much, oh, you like this story, right? I was in, I can say it because I'm in New Zealand. I left my phone in the back of an Uber, right? Yeah. And then I only found out the next morning, and I panicked. Panicked. Oh, my life is on that phone. My car's on that phone. What am I going to do?
And my friend that I'm with rang the Uber driver. He didn't pick up, so he didn't know anything. And I was meant to be leaving Australia the next day. Thankfully, I had my iPad. And I put it on and I'd forgotten I'd had the Find My Phone app. And there was my phone sitting in a green, green park somewhere in Brisbane. So we get in the car and we go straight down there. It's not moving.
And we get there and it's an army barracks. What's it? It's an army barracks. We're not allowed in. And so I speak to a couple of security people and the guy goes, these things aren't accurate, mate. It could be 100 metres that way, that way or that way. I went, mate, these are accurate. My phone's in there. And they bring along a sergeant major who is a black gentleman.
The first thing he does is goes, Mr. Ramos. Oh. And I go, my phone is somewhere here. And he goes, oh, that's the Fijian camp. And I thought, what, you've got refugees here? He said, no, no. They're our military personnel. Obviously, they've been out on the night. And someone may have picked up your phone in an Uber by accident or whatever. I'll go and see them. So he goes away.
And I'm thinking, I'm never going to see my phone again. And then 10 minutes later, he comes back and goes, there's a church service at 3. They all have to go to the church service. I'll ask them then. Can you wait half an hour? I said, I'll wait half an hour. Ten minutes later, he rings me. I've got your phone. Boom. And I was like, can you imagine that?
And so he comes up with my phone, and I can tell by his face, ask no questions. Just leave it like that. Because I can just imagine him being a Sergeant Major going in and going, right, one of you dickheads has got a phone, and if you don't bring it out now, you're going to be court-martialed. We don't want this getting in the papers, all right? And I've got my phone back.
But that's my point about being in the jungle. I didn't miss my phone. I was getting to know people about their own lives and their families. One of them, Ellie Cole, Paralympic swimmer. She taught me how to swim in the jungle. I mean, I would never have thought at my age I'd pick up a new hobby. But somebody like, she went, I'll teach you how to swim. Why not? She's a gold medalist Paralympic.
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Chapter 5: What humorous stories does Stephen K. Amos share from his time in Australia?
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