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hello Michael how it seems to be working

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yes yes I do what I wanted to talk to

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you about first Michael was we we had a

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conversation last time about mummers

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plays and I just wanted to for the sake

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of this recording I just wanted to go

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back over that conversation that we had

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now how many of these have you done do

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you think you’ve been doing over a

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period of 10 years

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Rainey correctly goes away and right

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so right they always been that way

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geared towards yes

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he was German right and then he is sorry

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right 1830 gone

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yes then the only time of the two sort

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of religious holiday and you were saying

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that they are right right right like

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what they would class is low comedy each

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other with big drivers father Christmas

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I do now destroy bang

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and you always do the same show right

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George in the

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please you’re saying that the character

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and you said that someone originally

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yeah and I think like I said to you

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before you know I I grew up in Sussex

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it’s been a lot of you know a lot of

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time in my youth in pubs around that and

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I never saw one coming now got it

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disappear between the late 1950s early

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1960s now the last 20 years

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right people and you said you do it in

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pubs how does that go over because I

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remember you know it’s like it’s like

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pulling teeth

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yeah are you guys next or you have no

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idea the eyes were closed oh right

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because when I used to do stand-up in

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their 90s and early thousands in various

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pubs and clubs and in and around London

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you know drinking pub sometimes you know

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they always get we would you know be in

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the bar doing the stand-up you know this

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marks the end of this part of my

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interview with Michael garland after

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talking about mummers plays we went on

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to speak about his experiences working

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as a stand-up comedian in the 1970s and

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also his experiences working in

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pantomime if you’re interested in those

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interviews you can probably find them on

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a podcast platform of your choice or if

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not you can find them on our website

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comedy Q&A calm that’s the word comedy

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the letter Q the letter n the letter a

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calm thanks very much for listening

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