Frank Skinner on stand-up, Anfield and Paul McCartney
Frank Skinner is bringing his latest stand-up tour to Liverpool in November. The comedy legend's talks to us about his latest comedy, Anfield, Goodison Park and Paul McCartney.
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00:00I've been doing stand-up now for a little over 30 years but basically it's always been a bit on the
00:08rude side and I made an attempt in recent times to try and clean it up and make it a bit more
00:17sophisticated and anyone who comes to see this show will see whether I succeeded or failed.
00:23Yeah and tell me how you're feeling about coming up to Liverpool to do this show,
00:27I know obviously you've got the connection with the Lightning Seeds.
00:31I love it, I've had some brilliant times there, not just as a comedian but just as a
00:37person. I went to see Paul McCartney once in Albert Dock and there's a moment, I think this
00:44really sums up Liverpool because I got spotted in the audience, I was with my, I was supposed
00:53to become my life partner but at the time we hadn't been together that long and we both thought
00:58it was an indoor gig so she'd got like, just like a vest top and I'd got a Beatles t-shirt on and we
01:07were frozen and the audience spent about 10 minutes just taking the piss out of us, out of me
01:16anyway, not out of her and then I saw these two things coming, being passed over and someone had
01:23sent over a couple of fleeces for us to put on and I thought actually, like piling into you
01:31and really taking the mickey out of you and then giving you the fleece is sort of what Liverpool
01:36is really. What about football wise, because you, am I right in saying you're a West Brom fan?
01:42I am a West Brom fan, yeah. Have you been up to see them play up in Liverpool at all? Yeah, I went
01:49up many, many years long before you were born, you won't believe this but West Brom was top of the,
01:56what was then called Division One but now the Premier League and Liverpool were second and in
02:01those days Liverpool were always top and I went up to Anfield to watch the game, it was pretty,
02:09in those days this was before seats and stuff, so when you went for a wee at halftime you didn't
02:16go to the toilet, you just stood at the steps and just weed down the steps. So I remember when we
02:21ran out of there my mate slipped on it because it was like skiing but it was in the days
02:29where the crowd would surge forward so you'd start at the back and end up down the front and stuff,
02:34it was a pretty amazing place to be but yeah, I mainly remember the Uri and I went to
02:45an Everton game, again long before you were born and I think it was one of the first ever
02:51Sunday football games in England and it was because there was power cuts, so the Everton,
03:01where the ground was, they had their power on a Sunday not on a Saturday so they had to move
03:09the kickoff but you couldn't charge people then, sorry this is a real old man's story,
03:15but you couldn't charge people to watch football on a Sunday, that was the law.
03:20So we had to, we sort of theoretically got in free but you had to buy a team sheet
03:28so it was a way of getting around the law but then I realised that loads of the Everton fans
03:33had realised that you don't, they can't make you buy the t-shirt so they just went in free,
03:38they were a bit smarter than the West Brom fans but yeah, I've had happy and painful
03:48memories from football in Liverpool. Well listen, I hope that your stand-up is more happy
03:55than painful when you come. I hope so too.