Chapter 1: Why should Bond themes always be performed by women?
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Yeah, it's like the first time you ever go on a show and you say, oh, I could have some sparkling water. And then like forever, it's like, oh, you have to have sparkling water. You must have sparkling water. It's very, very important. And that's what we call the rider.
The rider. Right. In some cases, the rider didn't stay sort of practical for long. You know, it started as a wish list and then it sort of strayed into a kind of a hostage note from the ego. There was a point in JLo's ego where she was having like, you know, you know, the white drapes, the white candles, the white, absolutely everything, white flowers, white, you know, sofas, everything.
Most people don't actually need a rider in this life of ours, however, but there is something reassuring about not having to specify everything twice in
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Hello and welcome to this episode of The Rest Is Entertainment, Questions and Answers Edition. I'm Marina Hyde.
And I'm Richard Osman. Hello, Marina. Hello, Richard. How are you? I'm very well. Looking forward to answering questions. Soon, we're going to do an episode where we're not answering questions. So we are, again, on the lookout for questions from our audience. This time for...
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Chapter 2: What are the new rules on celebrities going #InstaOfficial?
I agree with you, and there are lots of... So what's nice about it is that there's that sharp writing, there are callbacks... It's only one night. I mean, it's like a million. We live in a kind of reaction gifts thing of we've discovered and people like watching people's reactions to things. Will the target take it? That's the thing.
It's a sort of the comedy of awkwardness as well as the comedy of insults. see what fans do like and they do like deadly precision as you say not cruelty it used to be always a Comedy Central thing Comedy Central used to have this thing entirely sewn up and actually the biggest rating ones and the most memorable kind of cultural moments were Charlie Sheen that is the number one
Now, that was because he had that extended pub. He has had a number of public meltdowns, but this was the really extended one. It was totally unpredictable. And it was before audiences actually became fragmented in the way that they are now with streaming.
And also as a comic, there are four or five different angles you can come at.
Yeah, and it's happening now. It's like a live news story. The Justin Bieber one is a huge kind of... It's probably the next down from that. There's a Trump one. And then some are not successful and people... It just feels off for some reason and it never quite catches fire. And there's a James Franco and a Bruce Willis one. But they've now sort of gone to Netflix.
They don't happen that often because it's quite a lot.
They did Tom Brady, didn't they?
The Tom Brady... is immense. It did far better than the Kevin Hart one.
The Kevin Hart one's great. Tom Brady in America is so famous. He's so huge. Over here, you have to love sports.
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Chapter 3: How does the roast format work in American comedy?
But that has those elements that, as I say, that, you know, it is unpredictable. You know that Kevin Hart's not really going to... He's going to be able to handle it because that's his job. He's had a million worse things shouted at him, maybe less artfully, but he has.
In a weird way, I found it was quite a... It was a bit of a marmalade dropper when Tom Brady comes on in the Kevin Hart one because the Tom Brady one is the more iconic one. But I do think that people do think the world is sanitised and...
Chapter 4: Why do Americans love roast comedy shows?
And perhaps the reason it maybe has kind of cross-cultural appeal, if I can put that in a kind of politically neutral way, even though I am really talking about politics, is because people think, oh, hang on, anything goes here. This isn't being censored. It's... It's not a sanitized world.
This is very, very unsanitized. But because you are in an American tradition that you know that there are no rules and the gloves are off, culturally they get away with it, which is why I found it really, really interesting. Because there's stuff, there's material there that you would not see anywhere else. Everyone has agreed.
everyone on stage has agreed that they're going to do that everyone watching signs a contract that is oh it's a roast so we are all in this space where we go oh we can literally say any joke we want and they really do say any joke they want
Yeah, so I like it, and it's all on one person, but actually there's a lot against other comedians. Those Riyadh comedians took quite a pace, the ones who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
But, you know, I do have a weakness for those sorts of things, and I think that in the culture when they're super revered, I always loved Ricky Gervais' opening monologues at the Golden Globes, which were so brutal. And they just didn't really know how to deal. And also, you never know who's coming for next in that.
It's just people sitting there having to smile glossily while he's saying, you work for the most disgusting companies in the world. You work for Apple. You work for Amazon. They all just have to sit there on their artistic night. Yeah. So I like all those things. But actually, what I really like of those things is the craft, is that there's such few words in a way.
And just to kind of make it funny, but also incredibly vicious. I think they're great. But I think it's just in our culture. Just we do it all the time. So maybe we would.
That's exactly it. You know, we're used to doing those jokes. I mean, these go further. It's definitely I've said before, I'm sure that the weirdest joke I ever heard on television was aimed at.
Joan Rivers in her roast I mean something absolutely extraordinary but it is yeah there of course you know what you can joke about on terrestrial television when you know you've got responsibility to an audience is sort of ring fenced and this is one of the few occasions where you're outside of that
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