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As we sit down for coffee in Pop Recs he mentions to the girl on the next table, the artist Katherine Robertson, how much he likes her work, which adorns the walls
“It’s really bizarre to be honest. We haven’t recorded in the same room since Covid hit. Before that I’d sit in a studio with him face
to face doing the episodes and I’d just think ‘how did it come to this?’ because I’ve been a massive Vic and Bob fan since the beginning, right from the off. It’s kind of like how am I here? Am I in some kind of hallucinogenic dream? Is this even real? It’s weird but it’s brilliant, a dream job if I’m totally honest.”
of ALS. They’re Twitter friends. Whilst he has a big following online, his social media use today means that he is out of the loop on all things SAFC, choosing to follow the official account and the podcasts exclusively.
“Thing is with football, there’s too much talk around it”
Surely, he can’t be as nice as he seems?
He says and I wait with bated breath. As a man who writes about football nearly every day, I suspect I am guilty.
“Talksport exists to be on 24 hours a day. So many people are saying things about football that don’t need to be said.”
Phew. His ire is directed at Talksport. To be honest, everything I have ever said about SAFC is incredibly prescient and
of great importance, so I needn’t have worried. But even Andy has been guilty
of giving football opinions, though he nipped this behaviour in the bud early
on in his ‘football’ podcasts. Discreetly,
a couple of years ago, Andy removed the footballs from the logo of both podcasts. “We sat down to do a football related podcast and realised there’s already so many. Quite quickly, we knew there were more fun and interesting things to talk about. Our football opinions had no quality whatsoever. When it started to get sillier, that’s when the podcasts started to improve. I’m quite proud that I’ve done two football podcasts that started out as football but now aren’t. The only downside is that some people still think they are football podcasts.”
I asked the question my Mam desperately wanted to know, what’s it like working with Bob Mortimer? Post heart attack, the comedian has only grown in the
“He’s a bastard... nah he is, he’s exactly what you’d think or hope. A really, really nice fella. I’m not going to big him up too much because he’s a sort of national treasure now and everybody loves him, which is a bit sickening to be honest. He took a punt on me being able to do a podcast with him and he didn’t have to. It’s worked out to be really successful. It’s been a fantastic job to do.”
British public’s collective esteem. He has gone from London solicitor to alternative comedian, and finally, completed an unexpected arc towards becoming a national treasure and paid-up member of the showbiz centre. His Twitter presence, combined with his programme Gone Fishing with Paul Whitehouse as well as his various appearances on Would I Lie To You have further endeared him to an even broader audience, unfamiliar with his zany earlier work on the Big Night Out with Vic Reeves.
The medium of the podcast gives the podcaster absolute free reign creatively. Andy glowingly explains how the format appeals to him.
“Me and Sam (Delaney) have both worked for magazines in the past where you have an editor who tells you what to do. They are in control of what work you get and what gets commissioned. Similarly with Bob, if you
do TV you’ve got executives or executive
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