S4 EP21: Ben Elton
episode
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 11m
3 speakers
3 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is the premise of the podcast and who is the guest?
podcasts there are millions of them some might say too many i have one already i don't have any because there are enough politics business sport you name it there's a podcast about it and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day but nobody is covering the most important topic of all why is that are they scared too afraid of being censored by the man Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more.
Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton. And I'm David O'Doherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max Rushton. Alongside me, David O'Doherty. Welcome, David. Ben Elton, Max.
Like Blackadder, certainly. But then the Friday Night Live shows on Channel 4, the fact that they sort of introduced me to stand-up comedy as we know it. In particular, he introduced an Irish stand-up called Kevin McAleer. I mean, it's just, it's such a huge seminal. The Young Ones, I still remember so many bits. They come to my mind of that show.
Yes, we do have a bloody video. It's like when Vivian, the cord won't reach the video. And so Vivian goes outside and pushes the whole house.
What a life. Because that's only 16 novels, I believe. Stuff like We Will Rock You.
What health challenges does Ben Elton discuss?
I mean, are you shitting me? I mean, if you put it alongside our combined achievements... it's fair to say he has contributed perhaps more to show business.
Yeah, I am intrigued to find out what he did yesterday. We are doing this chat to coincide with the paperback release of his autobiography, What Have I Done? And that is a name with some resonance, considering some of the absolute losers we've had on this podcast.
Also, if he just writes it about what he did yesterday, we would have an issue. And I'm specifically quite interested to know how much, in his autobiography and in his yesterday, he reflects on how he looks, not completely unlike my cousin Stuart.
If he is trying to rip off this podcast, I'm going straight to the back, the index, and I'm seeing about washing information, what temperature... What spin cycle? And I'll put it to him during this podcast. Maybe if the potential arises, I'll put it to him and I will come down on him like a ton of bricks. Oh, let's find out.
Here is what Ben Elton did yesterday.
Ben Elton, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
Thank you very much for having me on. And I've just learned that this is the last non-visual podcast and I strongly approve. Podcasts should be listened to.
When we discovered how large David's head was, we couldn't actually put it on. We couldn't put it on video. There aren't screens big enough apart from the only place it can be broadcast is Times Square. So it is going out live on Times Square right now.
Maybe an IMAX, you know, that one down at Waterloo.
Yes, that's a good idea. 3D, it'd be like the Megalodon shark.
One of my comedy heroes is now slamming the size of my head.
I'm not.
I mean, that's your man. That's your man, Max. I think you look lovely. I think the fear is, though, that this podcast then gets so big and we sign some mega deal that they make us retrospectively make video podcasts. And we have to get Ben back, pay him a huge sum of money to mime along with his own. We literally have to learn off by heart what we said.
Let's keep it for the radio, guys. I love that. OK, Ben, what time did you wake up yesterday, please?
I mean, I wouldn't know exactly, but I tend to wake up relatively early, sort of, let's say, 6 a.m. And one of the reasons I think I'm more likely to wake up early now is because I'm currently on a... Is it a regime or a regimen? Basically, I have to take a pill each day for... The new development in my life is age.
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