Don't recall how I became a Skinner megafan here in Canada (unsuccessful in starting a "Skinheads" club for some reason) .. but 30+ years later, I'm still happy to drop everything and give him a listen.
Always pleased to see you doing well Chris, I was your front of house manager when you were a volunteer box office worker for a while when we were both at the Triangle, doing our drinking at the Sack of Spuds, where you would often make us laugh.
I’m from West Brom and my sister an avid WBFc supporter. Always like Seeing Frank and happy of his success , but found out thing from this interview that I never knew, never mentioned his drinking and sobriety which I was surprised about. Well done Frank…nice hear from you.
Got tickets to see Frank in Birmingham in November never seen him live,im sure he Will be great always been a great stand up,loved his radio show can't wait 👍
Yay!!! Frank Skinner!!! An INTERnational absolute pleasure! (I'm American) i still laugh at the blooper video he did with Tim Key on series 1 of Taskmaster.
Frank has what I'd call Comedy Tourettes. There's no gap between him hearing something and him coming back with something funny. He's hard-wired funny. I'm 100% as funny as Frank ...... if you give me about 12 hours to think about a funny reply. (My life is a series of "Why didn't I say that back then?" moments) and it's why my Standup shows would need to be 24 hours long, with very long silent pauses.
L’esprit de l’escalier! I love that expression - “spirit of the stairs”, when you think of a perfect retort once you’ve left the room and you’re half way up the stairs 😂
Saw him at Jongleurs in London with some London friends when I certainly didn't know him. As a Bham-born West Brom fan with a bit of inferiority complex at the time, the fact that he absolutely stormed it and crushed the opposition that night was immensely gratifying, and made me a fan ever since. Thanks Frank.
Frank is such a great communicator and this sort of thing seems so easy to him. Really miss the radio show already - such a great bunch of people. I hope they are given other avenues to continue
I remember Frank at a place in Bearwood and later at the MAC, then the compare for the comedy night that introduced some great comedians, what a laugh. There were lots of references to stuff in Birmingham, I remember one routine about the buskers that was hilarious.
Frank, in his socks with red toes and heels, swivelling his foot. This could turn into Haiku! I do like him. I met him only on UA-cam, itv artist of the year.
@@tynebar it's pretty self explanatory Edinburgh during term time lots of students as there are 2 or 3 universities and 4 or more colleges, they have holidays ,the students go home during those holidays, the fringe happens during those holidays. So speaking as someone from Edinburgh there is less students about ,by quite a large margin ,during the festival and the fringe.
I remember frank skinner (and sean hughes) on the just for laughs Montreal comedy festival and in particular frank doing a joke about unlocking a dogs jaw by putting his finger somewhere inappropriate (one of his hands as the dogs mouth and the other the finger insertion.)
He's not a "bible basher", he simply has a personal faith and even if you don't share it, you should at least learn to treat others with the same decency...
Gosh. You forget that O’Brien is a real person. His character on radio is so awful. He’s just the annoying bullied kid in school getting his revenge. Fair enough
The Monster Raving Loony party are changing its name to avoid accidental association with the Tories. And Count Binface has refused the offer of a coalition with Sunak for fear of "looking silly"
Approx 5:29 mins in: Yes!! That radio show was THE BEST moment of Saturday mornings. Honestly it really needs to cary on in some shape or form. With respect to Absolute, in my opinion, you let go of an absolute (excuse the pun) gem!!! Please, somebody keep this show going!
Really enjoyed this conversation between two exceptional people. Saw Frank's stand up show at the Leeds Playhouse recently which was brilliantly spontaneous and hilarious.
Watch the Shaun Atwood and Jon Wedger interview. David Badiel and Frank Skinner are shown in a clip during that interview making a joke about Jimmy Saville. That ‘joke’ reveals just how well Saville’s heinous proclivities were known. What an excuse for a human being. Enjoy your retirement, Frank. May sleep escape you, like your one time comedy partner.
That thumbnail has annoyed me so much I had to come in just to stop it appearing. No offence Frank, but I can't spend one second listening to Jobbie. For the record, I've never begrudged Frank his success, and I find it hard to believe anybody would. Nobody deserves it more than him, I'd say, so I don't know where he's coming from. I have noticed he talks about his success, quite a bit, and it can be charming at times, but mostly it's just unrelatable, and frank was always a relatable comic. I look at Gervais, and Billy Connolly, as two comics who comment on their fame with success. Gervais was never relatable, so it's almost a natural progression for him, and Connolly always laughed at the craziness of it all, but he was talking about Hollyweird, and that's a different kind of success.
They will forgive you anything except unmerited success or success they think is unmerited, which is a rather different thing. Because there is only so much space for an actor or comedian or artist or musician or writer for every one that makes it thousands don't and so people applaud success but hate it when they think it blocks real talent.
Pretty sure Skinner and his crew were expensive. So the maths will eventually get rid of him once the figures stop making sense. That is commercial radio.
I was only lamenting the loss of Frank’s radio show this morning so this is a real treat.
Blame Emily. Unbearable.
Emily... !.. OK. ? Over to you in the studio .. your witness she did my head in
Don't recall how I became a Skinner megafan here in Canada (unsuccessful in starting a "Skinheads" club for some reason) .. but 30+ years later, I'm still happy to drop everything and give him a listen.
Always pleased to see you doing well Chris, I was your front of house manager when you were a volunteer box office worker for a while when we were both at the Triangle, doing our drinking at the Sack of Spuds, where you would often make us laugh.
I’m from West Brom and my sister an avid WBFc supporter. Always like Seeing Frank and happy of his success , but found out thing from this interview that I never knew, never mentioned his drinking and sobriety which I was surprised about. Well done Frank…nice hear from you.
love listening to Frank talk. Such a chilled man. He is just awesome
Agree. Shame about James O'Brien. He grates on me so much!
On the wireless...love that term. Im only 55 but one the last bastions of the endearing term
its now just wifi :~) still a bit like wi reless and also hi-fi, you should like it :)
There’s a huge vacancy in my Saturday morning routines now. Terrible decision to let Frank go in my opinion.
Absolutely. Was a wee treasure
Brilliant interview, really enjoyed watching this.Thank you 😊😊
Got tickets to see Frank in Birmingham in November never seen him live,im sure he Will be great always been a great stand up,loved his radio show can't wait 👍
His stand up and compèring is amazing
Love Franks comedy long may it continue 😅
Frank is the best!
James and Frank - loved this chat!!!
Frank would enjoy watching walkabouts of towns you've described so vividly + history ☮️
Great chat. Frank needs to be back on the airwaves! His Saturday morning show was the funniest thing on the radio.
Yay!!! Frank Skinner!!! An INTERnational absolute pleasure! (I'm American) i still laugh at the blooper video he did with Tim Key on series 1 of Taskmaster.
Frank + co. are very missed on podcast. Pls consider indy podcast, waiting w/fingers crossed ☮️. Frank you are my #1
Frank has what I'd call Comedy Tourettes. There's no gap between him hearing something and him coming back with something funny. He's hard-wired funny.
I'm 100% as funny as Frank ...... if you give me about 12 hours to think about a funny reply. (My life is a series of "Why didn't I say that back then?" moments) and it's why my Standup shows would need to be 24 hours long, with very long silent pauses.
L’esprit de l’escalier!
I love that expression - “spirit of the stairs”, when you think of a perfect retort once you’ve left the room and you’re half way up the stairs 😂
loving the socks Frank
Saw him at Jongleurs in London with some London friends when I certainly didn't know him. As a Bham-born West Brom fan with a bit of inferiority complex at the time, the fact that he absolutely stormed it and crushed the opposition that night was immensely gratifying, and made me a fan ever since. Thanks Frank.
Frank is such a great communicator and this sort of thing seems so easy to him. Really miss the radio show already - such a great bunch of people. I hope they are given other avenues to continue
Frank Skinner the best comedian ever .
Small pool of comedians in the Midlands isn't it ?
@@johnristheanswer Tony Hancock, Bill Oddie, Don Maclean,Joe Lycett, Lucy Davis, Billy Russell to name a few, ?
One name from every decade. Haha. You forgot the "hilarious" Lenny Henry.
@@johnristheanswer Lenny Henry was never funny.
@@trevorclarey3336 Correct
This could have gone on for several hours for me. Thankyou.
Someone please give Frank a radio show, life is not the same without an occasional wailing of the A.E Housman alarm☹️
These guys are putting Halesowen on the map!!!!
Probly.
Avner the Eccentric is actually doing a workshop in Belgium!
Ah Frank, what a guy!
One of the very few genuinely naturally funny comedians around
Love Frank, true legend
Liked Frank's Saturday show, but it didn't feel the same after Alan cochrane left
Great to see David looking fresh faced and 10 years younger post his Hammers management 👏👏👏
Hopefully this is a shoe in for LBC😊
Told Frank Skinner my best joke last year in London
Nice man
I remember Frank at a place in Bearwood and later at the MAC, then the compare for the comedy night that introduced some great comedians, what a laugh. There were lots of references to stuff in Birmingham, I remember one routine about the buskers that was hilarious.
Me and Frank both have something in common… we were both threatened to be ‘knocked out’ by former TV host Mathew Kelly! Ah those were the days eh.
You’ve got to follow up with that story. What happened?
@@mongolmcphee7791 Another time :) I can’t stand the man (MK).
These are the only times Jimbo manages not to interrupt every couple of seconds.Starstruck little chap that he is.
Miss him on PAOTY and LAOTY.
Frank, in his socks with red toes and heels, swivelling his foot. This could turn into Haiku! I do like him. I met him only on UA-cam, itv artist of the year.
Wes T Bromwich.
It works for me 😂
Alun knew
Love the Dalek top
O’Brian likes to present himself as a man of the people, keeping quiet that he went to the £50,000 a year Ampleforth College public school.
He mentions it a lot. Hardly a secret
there are very few students at the fringe at least back then there were .as it happens outwith term time .
eh?
@@tynebar it's pretty self explanatory Edinburgh during term time lots of students as there are 2 or 3 universities and 4 or more colleges, they have holidays ,the students go home during those holidays, the fringe happens during those holidays. So speaking as someone from Edinburgh there is less students about ,by quite a large margin ,during the festival and the fringe.
Great episode, please consider inviting the polymath Iain McGilchrist on the show.
no shoes frank
Radio execs have turned radio into a bland grey sameness, too scared to take risks. Frank was a breath of fresh air and they don't like that at all.
🎶Funtime franky
I remember frank skinner (and sean hughes) on the just for laughs Montreal comedy festival and in particular frank doing a joke about unlocking a dogs jaw by putting his finger somewhere inappropriate (one of his hands as the dogs mouth and the other the finger insertion.)
i did that once during a dog fight. it works :) i dont think it was a joke
Nice watch; could anyone see what it is?
Skinner sounds like a Kenneth Willims impression of a brum with Emphysema
He has his shoes off 😮😅
Seriously if you haven't read Frank Skinners autobiography then you should. As a piece of literature its way way above the rest.
How many people really resent other people's success? Surely fewer than Frank thinks.
Boing Boing Baggies !
Frank Skinner is great but people get envious over all sorts of things - not just success - anyone who does better than they do basically.
Nice to see Frank has slipped off his neolithic labourers shoes.
Only one of a small number of contemporay British comics that are actually funny.
...anything but success". In a capitalist society, guess they would. How's its successor coming along?
Top groomer from Smethwick
Why hasn't this man been cast as Dr Who..casting department BBC sort this out and wake up
Or People will find ways to play the victim.
Grim. The thirst.
3 clowns 😂😂😂
2 of the biggest bell ends
Leftie central 🙄
Aw James what is success other than making fun of people who aren't paid to do the research you are??
James O'Brein meets Douglas Murray, Nope😂 , James O'Brein meets Matt Goodwin, Nope 😂😂😂😂, James O'Brein coward Yes, 😊
We won't forgive you for Palestine.
Frank Skinner?
Cope.
Such a shame he's a massive Bible basher. That said Baddiel stole a living as a comedian but at least skinner was funny.
He's not a "bible basher", he simply has a personal faith and even if you don't share it, you should at least learn to treat others with the same decency...
70 year old,30 year old wife,dresses like 12 year old , saville alert
* Savile
Put your shoes on and your forehead away!!
Love frank, can't stand O'Brien..
Thanks for sharing.
Love Skinner, well omom a Yam Yam A eye, but I could not possibly listen to the lefty 2055er
he aint fkn scottish
Get O’Brien off politics and he seems a decent person
LBC need a large budget to replace all the shattered camera lenses but hey, I guess he can't help that
Gosh. You forget that O’Brien is a real person. His character on radio is so awful. He’s just the annoying bullied kid in school getting his revenge. Fair enough
You might dislike him, but hes been right every step of the way about this lying bunch of charlatans in gov't
one of the best British stand-up comedians of all time imho
Fun time Frankie: a national treasure.
So much love for this unusual man
The Monster Raving Loony party are changing its name to avoid accidental association with the Tories. And Count Binface has refused the offer of a coalition with Sunak for fear of "looking silly"
😆👍
hehe
I was christened Walter stinky ring but people made fun of me so i changed it by deed poll to Dave Stinky ring it didn't make a difference 😅
Nice conversation. I like these Full Disclosure videos!
Approx 5:29 mins in: Yes!! That radio show was THE BEST moment of Saturday mornings. Honestly it really needs to cary on in some shape or form. With respect to Absolute, in my opinion, you let go of an absolute (excuse the pun) gem!!! Please, somebody keep this show going!
I live in Halesowen and my sons went to Halesowen college. Somewhat after Frank’s time there but nice to hear it get a mention!
Really enjoyed this conversation between two exceptional people. Saw Frank's stand up show at the Leeds Playhouse recently which was brilliantly spontaneous and hilarious.
O'brien exceptional only in the level of his thorough unpleasantness.
I'm 44, my teenage years and beyond were spent laughing to Frank, I even enjoyed Shane 👀😂
Watch the Shaun Atwood and Jon Wedger interview. David Badiel and Frank Skinner are shown in a clip during that interview making a joke about Jimmy Saville. That ‘joke’ reveals just how well Saville’s heinous proclivities were known.
What an excuse for a human being. Enjoy your retirement, Frank. May sleep escape you, like your one time comedy partner.
James who has ever been sacked from a bank?possibly the cleaning lady and at that level the rest get bonuses
This was hard to watch, Frank skinner is Fantastic. I just cannot stand James O’Brien!
I'd watch a Skinner and Key poetry show. (Or individually)
It coming home ish⚽️
Miss his television talk show. Eric clapton as his guest was my favourite. wish you the best, frank , and thanks for the laughs .
Sorry that Frank has been sacked. Another Ageist Radio Station
Just love Frank, if your ever in NZ look me up
That thumbnail has annoyed me so much I had to come in just to stop it appearing. No offence Frank, but I can't spend one second listening to Jobbie.
For the record, I've never begrudged Frank his success, and I find it hard to believe anybody would. Nobody deserves it more than him, I'd say, so I don't know where he's coming from. I have noticed he talks about his success, quite a bit, and it can be charming at times, but mostly it's just unrelatable, and frank was always a relatable comic.
I look at Gervais, and Billy Connolly, as two comics who comment on their fame with success. Gervais was never relatable, so it's almost a natural progression for him, and Connolly always laughed at the craziness of it all, but he was talking about Hollyweird, and that's a different kind of success.
What about racism, Frank?
not rom wba fans i imagine
what starnge thng to say. best hope england dont win euros then eh frank , unforgivable that would be
It looks rather uncomfortable. Table's too low, chairs seem unsupportive.. but decent conversation.
100 percent. Weirdly canteen like chairs and the table is so low and odd looking. But it is radio so we can't see it so it's fine 😂
@@Padraigp Is it studio, cocktail bar or waiting for egg n' chips?
@@domb8448 I feel like it's more we found this in a skip and added legs 🦵 😳
@@Padraigp What would be its IKEA name?
They will forgive you anything except unmerited success or success they think is unmerited, which is a rather different thing. Because there is only so much space for an actor or comedian or artist or musician or writer for every one that makes it thousands don't and so people applaud success but hate it when they think it blocks real talent.
No, Frank. 'Reading poetry' for your podcast isn't 'like being an academic'. I think you're confused.
Fantastic interview! Was unsure about Skinner because along with Baddiel he seemed so laddie. However, his intellectual chops are clear.
Frank is brilliant. Glad he's back. So funny. Big love, kindest regards, Richard U.K
Pretty sure Skinner and his crew were expensive. So the maths will eventually get rid of him once the figures stop making sense. That is commercial radio.