[rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] ROVE CHATS TO ADAM BLOOM (ROVE 1999) ROVE: Well, it's time to introduce our guest for this evening. He has come all the way from London, he's an award winning comedian in town for the Sydney Comedy Festival, go nuts as you can for the very funny Adam Bloom... Adam: Happy birthday ! ROVE: Yes...it's our birthday... Adam: I get the crappy chair because I'm British, is that it ? ROVE: No, it's very comfy, do you want to swap chairs? Would that make you happy ? Adam: Yeah, do it the other way 'round...(they swap chairs)...Look at me, promotion already... ROVE: Now Adam, how are ya ? Adam: Jetlagged, if I say anything that's not funny, it will be in about 8 hours time... ROVE: So how close have you been to literally just getting off the plane ? Adam: 6:15 this morning I arrived, I've stayed awake for kinda two days, now I've got that trippy feeling...free trips ! ROVE: Is it good to be back 'cause this is your second trip to the big brown land of Oz ? Good to have you back... Adam: Yes, it's wonderful to be here, staying at the same hotel so it's all kinda...I walked in and they went, "Hello Mr Bloom.", and I went...made it ! ROVE: You've gotta get into the hotel staff, that's the way to go I reckon... Adam: I don't want to sound like I'm pandering to you...I really enjoy Australia and it's lovely to be back here. All my preconceptions of you are all wrong. I got off the plane and I expected everyone to have rucksacks on them and suddenly realize that you live here... ROVE: Do you find as an Englishman you get treated alright in this country ? Adam: Um, yeah I think...yeah... ROVE: Fair enough, that's all I need is an answer...and now what have you been up to ? It's been a while since I've seen you...last it was a comedy festival in Melbourne...April, so what have you been up to since ? Adam: I've filmed a series, a panel show called "Bring me the head of light entertainment" in London and um, I did my own show on Channel four...which means nothing to you...it's a number though... ROVE: Is it as big as the entertainment network we have that is Channel Nine ? Adam: We own Channel Nine... ROVE: Yes... Adam: I actually own Channel Nine...I own you, but you don't even know... ROVE: Well done, I didn't even know that...and how's it been up there ? Good ? Adam: In London ? ROVE: Yeah... Adam: It's wonderful...but lets talk about you...ROVE, he's got his own tv show... ROVE: Is this like exciting 'cause when I first met you I didn't have a show... [At this point, Adam takes ROVE's Southpark toy from the desk and hands it to an audience member...] Adam: Don't give it back, whatever they say... ROVE: That was my favourite toy... [Adam grabs the phone on Roves' desk] Adam: It's actually plugged in ! ROVE: Have you seen this ? Check that out...I don't think I've ever mentioned this one. This is actually a gift that was given to me by someone when I used to do community television...isn't that cool or what ? I used to have the worst mullet cut...Doesn't that look a bit like Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction ? ...last time you saw me, I didn't have a tv show, is this kinda exciting to be here now ? Adam: You were hosting the Gala... ROVE: Yes... Adam: On Channel Nine... ROVE: Yes... Adam: ...and you were wonderful...and I think you were great... ROVE: You're the greatest, you can comeback anytime...and what have you got planned while you're gonna be here ? Adam: I'm doing three weeks at the Sydney Comedy Festival, two weeks...I might get this wrong and make a real dick of myself and which I have done already by saying it...I think it's the (?) Theatre and I've got a week at the Opera House at the end of the month. ROVE: That's exciting - Opera House... Adam: I'm busking... ROVE: You bought your guitar case and everything... Adam: Comedy's new to me...it's just that I got sacked from my job as a train driver this morning... ROVE: He's nothing if not topical, leave him alone ! Have you had any shitty gigs here, like bugger at home, what about here ? Adam: My very first gig in Australia was on 3LO and it was...60 was probably the average age of the audience...um, and I did a joke that got complete silence...cause I've just flown across the world for my first gig in a new continent, don't know what works what doesn't work, got silence on live radio and sorta went : Oh s*it...and er, learnt my lesson - don't do your first tv gig on radio... ROVE: Well look, the worst gig I've ever had was in front of one person... Adam: ...and they walked out... ROVE: No, surprisingly they stayed... Adam: If they went to the loo, would you carry on or wait ? ROVE: We never got that far suprisingly...The guy actually sat in the audience, then he got up and I sat in the audience and watched him... Adam: He was an act ? ROVE: No, he was just a punter, but he had a crappy day, wanted some laughs and no one else turned up... Adam: Maybe we're doing a gig in front of one person right now... ROVE: I don't know, check the email, see if someone's buzzed it... Adam: Is this live ? ROVE: We have this email system, people send in stuff on the show - it's soooo 2000... Adam: Send something to me now...someone who knows me, someone who knows me...I've got a lot of friends over here... ROVE: Who do you know ? Anyone famous ? Adam: Um, well Jimeoin I know...and... ROVE: Are you here to see him ? Are you gonna catch up with him ? Adam: I'm only here for four days...I'm in Melbourne for four days, this is in Melbourne...sorry to ruin the fantasy... ROVE: See, we've been telling everyone we come from Mars, you've just ruined it all... Adam: Oh sorry, Melbourne in Mars... ROVE: What about best gig you've done here ? Adam: The last night of the festival... ROVE: Did you enjoy the festival ? How does it rate with Edinburgh, cause I've never done Edinburgh ? Adam: Smaller, and the beautiful thing about the Melbourne festival is that Edinburgh's industry, and it's all about promoting your career...whereas Melbourne seemed to be about...obviously there's industry dotted around...but it's...I'm not going to be funny at the end of this so you'll see the real me...Edinburgh is about promoting yourself, whereas Melbourne seems to be about having a good time...and of course there's people going, "Oh he's in, she's in..." But for me you know, it was coming from the other side of world, going hello, this is what I do...getting people in, making people laugh and then having a good time afterwards, which to me is the ultimate experience...I had the time of my life and I'm not just saying that...well, I am saying it, but I'm not saying it... ROVE: How much pressure do you feel when you come here where no one would really know who you are...internationally, like as an international act coming down here ? Adam: Well, when I came over in April, it was really weird you know going the first night in the theatre and nobody knowing who I was at all, but somehow still, 200 people turned up...Which I 'spose menat that if someone was going to pay to fly me over, that can't be that bad 'cause obviously they'd be an idiot for investing in me...so, I 'spose you've got an element of kudos, just by being in a foreign country...then Australians come over to England and no one turns up ! ROVE: How do you think I'd go in England ? Adam: Um...you would go...I think you'd do great, I'm a big fan of yours...If I said any more about how I felt, people would suspect our relationship ! ROVE: It's getting very close to that... Adam: Oh, there's glass to stop me touching him under the table... ROVE: Now, how was Edinburgh or Bust, 'cause I heard about the tv series that was following people around...it sounded like, to me a weird thing to do... Adam: Very strange... ROVE: ...to have cameras following you around when you're gigging... Adam: I did a fly on the wall documentary...they followed me around the festival and it's incredibly intense because you say something and you have to edid yourself as you're speaking 'cause you think I might say something critical of someone, and it's on national television the next minute, and you were just chatting in a pub...and the next minute, the whole country sees you slagging someone off... ROVE: Was it live ? Adam: No, but you've got no editing rights... ROVE: Oh, okay... Adam: So, you know, it was hard...Edinburgh's intense enough as it is without waking up in the morning and there's a cameraman in your bed, do you know what I mean ? It wasn't like that...apart from the time I slept with the cameraman... ROVE: Aw, heck we've all done that...well, I hope something just as exciting happens on your trip here... Adam: Thankyou very much indeed... ROVE: Thanks very much for coming on the show...the big 3rd show...Adam Bloom ! [rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] |
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