David Tennant on Room 101

hello I'm Frank Skinner and welcome to Room 101 the show where three guests battles can sign their pet peeves to the infamous Vault they'll have to argue their case well because in each round only one item can be chosen the final decision is mine let's meet this week's guest joining me tonight are headlines s Trevor McDonald punch lines Ashley B and learning his lies David Tenant so let's see what's on the wine list so what's David's Choice it's sushi I don't like fish much at the best of times so the idea that you would serve it to me without having the decency to cook the filthy stuff just makes my stomach turn but it's not solely the snot like texture although that should be enough it's it's that there's an attitude that goes along with the people that like it that I find disgusting there's a sort of snobbish smug kind of middle class prizz about it that goes on this idea that because I like sushi I'm sophisticated I'm International I'm exotic for a plate of filthy raw fish doesn't even come with chips there's a there's a one of those viral videos I don't know if anyone seen this of a of a plate of Sashimi that someone filmed in a restaurant that starts to Twitch oh and then flips itself off the plate that's not dinner that's a pet I love Sashimi cuz I have an international sort of you're all exha mysterious exotic I must confess I'm with I'm with David on this I I don't I mean I understand I I mean I've never investigated it as closely as you have not um but it's the fact that people who who do like it think that they are better than all of We Are Better Than that's the to be fair David you come from a place where they won't even eat raw Mars bath that that is exotic Cuisine right there so here's some uh yeah here's some sushi one of my favorite things about sushi is uh the sushi grass what what is that about what is that about I it's trying to dress it up cuz it's such filthy vile stuff in the part of the world I come from when they talk about grass they talk about something else no but it doesn't come from a field this stuff it comes from the sea it gives it a sort of surf and turf kind of a feel well I think this was my own idea and if there's anyone who runs a sush restaurant I'm prepared to discuss this with them wouldn't this be more suitable see like you got waves and it it just makes it more real can I say also by the way the sushi grass it's great at Christmas I think part of the pretension to is the fact that it it it it appears to be so enticingly laid out you know that's that's that's part of the thing have you ever heard of n i Amore n Amore sure it's a it's a very specialist Sushi tradition in Japan here here is is what it is yes and the sushi is eaten off a naked body usually female be honest with you you you can imagine the complications of eating it off a mail [Music] [Music] so um you have eaten sush you're take it begrudgingly yeah well people keep going on about it you know it must be something and then but no it just tastes like a pile of raw fish it's a fair summary yeah okay so what's a Trevor's Choice my choice is queueing thank you thank you although I should explain if you turn up at an airport in Naples or something and um you're standing in line and waiting to go to the ticket cter and somebody barges in from the right or left side you think oh my goodness how wonderful it is um that this doesn't happen back in London you know where people get in an orderly queue and they don't move but I get very worried when people become obsessed with just the idea of standing in line we love lines and you you go to Underground station and there are three lanes um which are empty and there's one where there are about 100 people and everybody gets behind the line and I I just get out and I go for the one where there's nobody standing next to it and I get my ticket and and and and and walk away but it shouldn't really but it infuriates me I think my particular hate on this one is if you're queuing in a cafe especially if you're on your own C in a cafe and a family come in and they all go and sit at the last table in the cafe and then join the end of the queue so you're way ahead of them but they got the table now that cannot be right and I know it's just a table but you just know these are the people they did the same thing with a Lifeboat and and they do it now for sales in in in big big stores you know somebody forms a lot when in fact for sales they don't they kill each other don't they I think you can get a community spirit from that oh I'm sure there's a community Spirit when you do but I mean there's nothing else to do but have a community Spirit if if you're standing out there or sitting out there all night do you still have to cue Sir Trevor do you ever just go I am Sir Trevor of the news let me through no no nobody ever does that I must they probably do it for you but not for me oh I don't believe that I think the world Parts like Moses in the Red Sea the queue that you see a lot in London is young men queuing for training shoes a new addition of trainers comes out and they literally queue overnight to get in there first and I find this a pretty remarkable phenomenon and I was in this car and I was being driven I've been talking to the driver it's a woman driver she's Lan and she said what is this queue and I said it's they're queuing for training shoes I said can you believe it and there was a short pause and she said I've queued for cheese but that's the but I mean you know but but that's the thing you know so new phone comes out and everybody cues look I tell you something the guys who make those phones they're going to make enough to sell it to everybody you do not need to C I'm the one I think that needs quite a bit of intuition is when you when you're queuing at to urinal guessing who's going to who's going to finish first you're looking for any any sort of sense of relaxation it's a sort of urinal Russian Roulette just so I was I once sted to urinal behind the red arrows in in full formation amazing oh they did the red white and blue thing I'll there's a kind of sport to it at the supermarket wasn't there with you know which line you're going to choose which is fast if you can actually turn it into a competitive event with someone else you take that basket that basket and you can just be edging it that's quite that's I find in the supermarket my real problem when you're queuing behind someone when you get to the actual um conveyor belt and they don't put the grocery divider know that's their job it's the leader's responsibility I can't put it on they have to put it on so what I start doing I start putting my stuff on quite close to theirs like the most expensive stuff like little bit of truffle oil rolling over they start to panic and it goes um what about ashling's Choice pigeon uh frankly Frank H I have had enough of these disease riddled Rats of the sky yes thank you bit of solidarity there H we' just let them roam around owning the streets of our cities for far too long and I don't know why what do they do they're obsolete now everyone sends text messages and like in the old days when you us to attach you know a bit of paper to their legs and I think I think that's what it is I think that's why British people let them stay around so long is because of all the hard work they did during the war um but you know you don't see other veterans going around Trafalgar Square pooing on the monument so I don't see why we should allow pigeons and you know they just s there's there's an arrogance about them they're like the aggressive sort of man Pub being like no you move you know they're like yeah just don't like them anymore first of all they are I think an important source of exercise for toddlers I have a three-year-old he will chase a pigeon a mile and a half you'll run so far you'll vomit and then of course the pigeon will sort that out I thought we were supposed to love the wildlife no they're they have more diseases they have like seven times more diseases than rats even in the Wind from their WI Wings this might change your mind we have a woman in Liverpool an artist called krie Morrison um laid out a a sheet of musical manuscript with empty staves on it there it is look ready for musical notes and then pigeons naturally put notes on the I'm not making this up this was an artistic experiment and we was we got a look that's e she waited till it was covered and then John Herring a composer he turned it into a full musical score and they performed it at the tight Liverpool Art Gallery come off it I'm not making this absolutely serious we have the actual music here I [Music] believe I I made that last bit off it's completely true this is the the real pigeon music this is taking the notes that were dropped onto the thing and turning them into uh [Music] music it's interesting that the medium they use to write the music is reflected in the music and they actually perform that at the Tate yeah that is one of those things with art where you're like sometimes you're like no I really don't believe there should be any cuts to Art funding and then every now and again you're like ah they could probably shave a pound or two off um I I don't think I can put pigeons in Ashley because they have this strange homing thing we don't know we haven't finally found out how bright and intelligent and what we can do with them they could save the world and they're a bit scruffy and smelly but hi uh I I must say I like sushi I do like it and I I like the fact that we as a nation who aren't the most experimental have actually embraced the whole raw fish thing daveid don't look at me like that okay I this is a real tough one but I'm going to put queing into Room 101 thanks and so what's upsetting Sir Trevor [Music] lak I I thought we' be done by now but this is a problem which I I realize is partly of my own creation if I arrange to meet somebody at 6:00 outside McDonald's by you know some do you mean your house I was referring to the family firm at six o'clock if I say six o'clock at about 5 to 6 I'm there of course and I think I've got the wrong place because the person hasn't turned up um I'm not into all this sort of Quasi philosophical nonsense about punctuality being the um prerogative of princes or Kings or whatever I don't I don't believe any of that but I just think that if you say you're going to be there at a certain time then you are there I make extr extreme efforts to make sure um that I'm on time I always take account of the fact that there might be traffic I mean have you ever heard of the worst excuse in your life there's traffic there's traffic everywhere there always is traffic do you think it's cuz it was a big deal in your job like if at 10:00 Britain turned on their television it was just a chair there I'm on my way I'm on my way you did have a job that started with big Ben so you kind of always knew what time it was well exactly the worst thing I ever was it was I had a meeting with someone and they turned up I mean they were probably 15 minutes late and they had a uh a Starbucks and they said uh uh sorry I'm late and I said but hold on a minute you had time to buy Starbucks I know and they said oh well I knew I was already late so I couldn't make it any worse so this is the serial killer argument isn't it well I already kill one person I have a kind of sneaking admiration for them because they'll never get heart attacks they'll never be too you know discombobulated about not being there on time they'll never worry excessively about really anything at all I like the way you you're losing confidence no but I mean I see I see the downsides of it but what I'm saying is it's still a source of great irritability it does feel like disrespect that's a problem and and when you're at an airport and they start you know everything's late all the flights are late this I think is the probably the best excuse I've ever seen for um a flight being like yeah very I tell you one of The Oddities to is when people tell you you late and in the journalistic world it it happens like this there is a war and you can't get to it in time and you turn up and the guy says where are you where are you heading to you said I'm going to Bucharest because the Romanian dictator has just been and he said but that happened two days ago I said yes it take me two days to get here tell you you lady I don't know anyone else who's ever told me an anecdote about being light for a war well let's see what David is chosen my South [Music] African and as part of my day job which is uh pretending to be other people I I do occasionally have to assume another accent uh and usually with a bit of practice and a bit of time I can make a decent Fest of most of them but my beachers broke my water Lo [Music] is the South African accent I don't know why it should be I don't know what it is about it that that is elusive to my ear but I've tried and I've struggled and I I can start off all right and it's not too bad but it doesn't take very long and suddenly I'm from [Music] dudle so I had to concentrate and try and wrestle it big but it really can't hold on to for very long I just can't do it I don't know what it is it defeats me every single time well we have a we have a recording a radio recording of you I don't think it's a South African accent oh I hope not um this is from an audio play u called the rotters club oh and this this is this is a set set in Birmingham yeah let's say I didn't know you remembered this no let's say this look Bill a vote for Wilson he just going to let the Socialist back in well I have bad news for you son I am a socialist might as well just give the Min as the case of the Ry country and let them get on with it not a bad idea I might propose it at the next Tu conference that was that was David and I in case you hadn't must be oh must be like 15 years ago now I think I'll tell you something about that show we did this show together but as you say a long time ago and there was a guy called David trouton in it yeah who was the son of a former Doctor Who and I was so excited it was the son of a former Doctor Who and David was there I thought why does this Scottish BL keep bothering me I want to talk to the son of the former little did I know and the moral of this is don't meet your Heroes before they're Your Heroes I went up for a par it was an American thing and I thought well there must if they ask me there must be like an English guy in it so I turned up and they said no no we need you to do it in an American accent now I only have one American accent and it's quite distinctive I remember one of the lines it was you're a pretty girl Susan I this woman is coming on to me I says you're a pretty girl Susan but I thought thought you knew I'm gay that was the line and they said can you we need to do American and the only American accent I have is Wild West [Music] alltime so I said you're a pretty girl Shan but here I thought you knew I'm gay I uh I didn't get the PA but you are doing the tour of Brokeback Mountain so anyway we we thought we might want to help you with this uh David so we contacted A Man Called Paul Maya he runs a thing called the international dialects of English archive and he thinks that he can teach well you and I to do South Africa would you like to give it a try I'd love to it's written phonetically and what he's done is he's he's taken that scene from the RS club that we did in Regional Midland and he's made it South African so if you'd like to join me on your you can see your Mark can good on you okay so you got to imagine now instead of being set in the West Midlands that suddenly we're in um jaberg okay and it's written as a don't why I'm doing it as Nelson but so yeah so it's uh phonetic okay let's go for it well I've bit news for you s I am uh seal will M manant and let him get on with it I think you got yeah not a bed ad next you see conference I have a feeling that if you fight this backwards he sound absolutely David Tenant the South African and finally to ashling's Choice scooters yeah thank you yeah I think we've the one here so I can show you what I mean where's the one do we have a scooter do there's one here if you'd like are you going to you going this is my problem with please be careful there it is under that so I just feel like we're we're we don't know the risks of them yet for children and you know like with mobile phones there's been no science done yet un like children who are just using one leg all the time to get around and what's going to happen is all the muscles will go in their other leg and then they'll only have one good leg to use and I think like in 20 years time they're going to have to like develop new trousers that have like one good leg and then one you know and there'll be adults who can just walk around in one Circle for that and it's and then you see my my least favorite thing is the children like lazy children who have annoyed their parents so much that they' given up and they just stand there David come here and for a second so I'm the child and you just I've given up so you just pull me along at this I do this regularly yeah come on not you know and you see these just sad dads walking with two scooters on you they're awful um and yeah the worst is adults adults on those things it's just just get a bike well I um I had a scooter for much of my childhood one of those well it was I thing called a triang scooter big white wheels on it and it changed my life because I I still to this day can't ride a bike I find them a bit too high and I hadn't quite got the self-belief but this thing was sufficiently low to the ground that I felt confident on a sco this was the 70s I had shoes that were higher than the scooter there's something about an adult on one of those scooters that I and I'm not trying to be dramatic but it feels the same to me as still getting breastfed at 40 does it not bother you that lots and lots of children really really love these scooters yes because I feel like we're creating a a like a generation of crazy children who just don't know to like walk places or cycle bikes they could end up becoming standup comedians not got a real job so look um I I have one last try at winning you over for the scooter this man is the current world scooter champion and the first ever British World scooter Champion so please welcome Jordan [Music] [Music] Clark woo [Music] woo amazing I'm glad he scooted off cuz I thought that was rubbish I thought that was you just go up and down and bounced a bit like on a skateboard he could have at least had the dignity to jump up onto the stage scoot on lung that do along the edge and you know something like that was just you know he's absolutely in bits now back oh I'm sorry Jordan but it's you know he's severed head now we'll roll on on a scooter so I'm not going to put scooters how am I going to get my son to school walking his leg he hates that and lightness you know what you really won me over with leness but then I think you started to well I started to think it was probably more my problem than others really but yeah yeah but I have it as well and you're right it might do us good hasn't it to just loosen up a bit and not worry about these things yeah and all those guys those late guys are going to live for a very long time they're even going to be like dying yeah exactly but I so feel your pain that you're trying to capture the voice of this wondrous wild and beautiful country and you keep ending up in the West Midlands yeah I am going to put d David South African accent 101 and that brings us to the end of the show well done David you were the most persuasive guest so you are this week's winner thank [Applause] you in no way helped by the fact that you were Doctor Who can I that thanks very much David Tenant s McDonald and Ashling B and thank you good night

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Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 14 2016