George Fouracres (Part Two)
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What early experiences shaped George Fouracres' comedy career?
Welcome to part two of Walking the Dog with the wonderful actor, comedian and star of Saturday Night Live UK, George Fouracres. Really hope you enjoy part two of our walk and do give us a like and a follow so you can catch us every week. Here's George and Ray Ray. After you graduated George, were you thinking at that point? It was presumably clear you'd been working with um you'd formed this sketch troop, hadn't you, with the opportunity to build a ranger? That came a bit later.
That came a bit later. Yeah. At the time. I had kind of I I graduated and immediately went I immediately went on tour with um the footlights to at the Edinburgh Fringe and to at these American universities and I was like I'd never never thought like the idea of going to America just never ever in I was like I'm going to America for free to go and do comedy. I was like this is it, we've made it. And that was with the footlights you did. That was with That was with the footlights. Oh I mean it was so like look at the privilege of it. It was all paid for. Like uh uh uh well, like the flights and the hotels were paid for. No, I'm not attacking you, I'm not being like reform UK, like and we paid for this shit, we as taxpayers, for you to laud it around America doing your bloody The government paid for Doing your bloody Norse studies or whatever.
Um and uh Yeah, I was like uh and I I got an agent off the back of that at you know, twenty one.
Did you are you still with the same agent?
No, not anymore. Um, just for l variety of reasons, just over time.
Yeah.
Um but um I was like I then got I then finished that and then I moved to London with my with my friends, live with my friends Lowell and Ryan, who I was also writing sketches with at the time, with Jason from Daphne. And I was like, this is it? Well this is it then. Uh any day now, uh I assume something will come along. Uh in the meantime, I guess I'll just keep writing these sketches. And it's at that point, as I'm sure my parents were probably waiting for it. Like he's gonna realise any second that he doesn't come from money and so he's gonna have to start working his ass off. Yeah.
And he's never done an honest day's work in his life. And I like got to the point I was like I can't um I've got like forty quid left in the world. Um and I'm not um I'm not in a play yet. Isn't isn't there a play coming along for me to be in at some point?
Did you start doing a normal job?
I started doing a normal job. I s I I was so I was signing on, uh and but at the time there was a sort of I I'm I'm not sure what the correct term for that exact point in time was of sort of twenty twelve, um, into the end of twenty twelve into twenty thirteen. There was a colossal economic slump where getting a job was impossible. And even just like bar work I did all sorts of fun like I like cleaned out big fridges in cafes. I did a lot of like um my uncle work for a catering company, um he's he's a chef, uh and does like big like catering events and stuff like that. So I uh I did stuff like silver service and um d it's funny I was at I was at a press night last night for Beetlejuice, um with David Finn, a friend of mine, an amazing actor who's playing Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice, went to go and see him and um
I saw, you know, these kids are then like, you know, nineteen, eighteen I mean I was twenty two I was doing this until I was like twenty four. Like twenty three, twenty four doing these kind of jobs and then just ro just always writing and making stuff as far as we could and putting our own stuff on. Um and I saw this kid standing there and I was like, My God, those tra there's like the anyone who's done this job will know them. The shiny trousers but also the um Th there's a tray that you have that is like It's like a tray that's just so disproportionately heavy that's like got little slots in it that you put the glasses of champers in that you stand you just stand there like a statue and let people come and take the champagne off you.
And um f but but like your art there's like such a feeling in your arms of like that holding those trays.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What early experiences shaped George Fouracres' comedy career?
0:00–10:37
2
How did George’s bipolar diagnosis affect his life and work?
10:37–21:28
3
What was the story behind landing the role on Saturday Night Live UK?
21:28–31:02
4
Why was a cordless vacuum cleaner more exciting than the SNL call?
31:02–41:20
5
How does George view Shakespeare and why does he love it?
41:20–53:28
6
What challenges did the first series of SNL UK present for the cast?
53:28–1:02:47
7
How does George handle fame, mental‑health stigma and therapy?
1:02:47–1:05:04