[rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] ROVE CHATS TO PAUL MC DERMOTT (ROVE [LIVE] - CHANNEL 10) Rove : My first guest this evening was one of my favourite comedians on the ABC and now he's one of my favourite comedians on Channel 10. You may know him from his work on Good News Week and from the Good News Week debates. Would you please welcome my favourite spunkrat, Paul Mc Dermott. Paul : Oooh...cosy, cosy. Rove : Isn't it cosy? Paul : It's lovely yeah...it's very loungy. Rove : I might lounge too if thats alright...You're looking great. Paul : I'm feelin'...great. Rove : You, to date - that's the best outfit any guest has ever worn on this show ever. Paul : Thank you. Rove : What is it? Is it a boyscout top? Paul : No...no...well, I wish it was, but no. It's actually the Christian Brigade - they're like boy scouts for god. Rove : They're tyin' knots for Jesus! Paul : Whittlin'...whittlin' for the Virgin Mary. Rove : I get the feeling we should move on... Paul : Yes, get away from that before we get the phonecall. Rove : Now, the ARIA Awards are being held tomorrow night... Paul : And you're going to do them. Rove : Yes, I know, I know...I'm a little bit concerned, I've never done anything as important as that before. Paul : It's not important...ohhh...no...It's fantastically important. Rove : You did them last year, how were they for you? Paul : Um...they were good. I've done them three years. The first year was a bit painful. I don't know if you know, but I almost had my eye poked out...try to avoid that... Rove : What happened? Paul : I went out to do the opening monologue and I was feeling pretty sassy, confident, I hit the stage, and it was just after silverchair had played...and the drummer had thrown his drumsticks in that rock and roll way out into the pit out the front which contained a whole lot of about 14 year old kids...dressed up...who were meant to be mosh pit kids - but they were all wearing diamonte earrings and heels...cause they got the kids from Tv Week and everyone came sorta all dressed up. But one of them managed to catch the drumstick, and just as I went down for the first bow, they got so excited and went "Ayeeah!"...and it went straight into my eye...and I wear contact lenses, and the contact lens just flipped out and the director of cameras was going pull back, pull back, cause my eye just filled with blood. Rove : Aw, you're joking. Paul : So hopefully that won't happen... Rove : So other than that I should be fine? Paul : Yes. Rove : So how did you find being in amongst the music industry? Now, do you consider yourself a music person? Was it home turf for you? Paul : No, no. I mean, I felt comfortable doing it, but yeah...there's music people...and there's...you know...us. They're a different race, they're a different breed, a different type of people...but it's fun. The really hard yard is the party. Rove : Really? Paul : Yeah. It's after the ARIAs happen...the party, that's really hard. Just trying to meet people and be sociable and friendly...without being rude. Rove : When your eye is weeping with blood. Paul : Yeah. Rove : Just ignore that, because I would say...to me, you are a music person. Paul : Right... Rove : I mean, you have a lovely singing voice Paul. Paul : Thankyou very much. Rove : Do you get that quite a bit? "You have a lovely singing voice"... Paul : Normally very sort of...geriatric sort of people, oldies : "Aww, lovely, I love it...awww...don't tell the dirty jokes, just sing a bit more." Rove : Does your mum like your dirty jokes? Paul : Yes, loves 'em...oh yeah, goes off to the tennis meet, and tells them all the dirty jokes at the tennis. Rove : I reckon you could get into music, or you could do musical theatre... Paul : Well, cabaret. Rove : Why don't you do that? Paul : Vaudville, that's always a place to go. Rove : And especially because you came from a singing, performing background with the Allstars, and obviously still doing that now as well. You could face pretty much any audience I would think. Paul : Do you think so? Rove : Yeah. Paul : What about a prison audience? Like a hard core, death dealing, you know... Rove : Why not, cause you played in the Bear Pit. Is it the Bear Pit, in Edingburgh? Paul : Well, it's got various names, one of which is The Bear Pit...yeah, the Fringe Club. Rove : The Fringe Club, cause I've heard that's the toughest room... Paul : It doesn't exist anymore. Everyone got pc and you know, tamed and they chucked all the Scotts out - they were the ones who made it fun. Rove : What was it like in its heyday? Paul : Oh, it was fantastic, it was very catheresque cause there were so many people. It was a room that only sat about 200 people, but there was a second level to it so people were all up the walls and on good nights you had people on tables, craning over the top of the people at the front, and their heads were actually touching the roof...and there was an incredible amount of people, and you were stuck in this corner, performing to them and I remember one night where we'd made some...I think it was a cruel line about the English...which most of the people in the room enjoyed...apart from the English people right above us, and one of them threw a pint of lager down on us...at which point I, stupidly...I may have been drinking at the time as well...scaled a wall and speaker box, managed to get up to the second level, and threw my pint in their face...and that was a bad move...because as I leapt off the balcony, everyone on the balcony got their pints...and it was like a waterfall of beer, which may have been a good thing if my mouth was open and I was laying on the floor facing up...but I hit the ground, and then the whole room erupted, things were going everywhere and I had to stop it at one point when Tim Ferguson was up there and he was throwing things a people...everyone was throwing things. There was a whole row of people up the front, they'd been to our shows before and they had umbrellas, they were quite prepared, they opened those. People started throwing glass ashtrays... Rove : Oh my gawd, and they're heavy... Paul : ...they fly. Rove : They fly and they're heavy, which is never a good thing. Paul : (mimes someone throwing ashtray) Like a frisbee...and it missed Tims head by about that much (indicates a couple of centimetres) Rove : Oh my gawd. Well look, before we go I have to quickly mention this... Paul : We're not going Rove : Yes we do, we have to...but two things...first of all, the final Good News Week is coming up very soon, which is a shame. Paul : That's right, November the 8th. You gonna do it? Rove : Oh can I? I would love to. Paul : At the Capital Theatre, it's going to be fantastic, big. Anastacia's gonna be there (sings a few lines 'i'm not in love, set me free...') Rove : I'll only do it if...she shows her navel, I'm there. Paul : Isn't there a little scar there? Rove : Anyway, and the other thing - will you take up our celebrity waterbomb challenge? Paul : Aw, of course, we've been talking about it all day, how could I refuse? Rove : Exactly. Please thank Paul Mc Dermott [rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] |
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