Peter Kay - In My Own Words - C5 Documentary

a little boy says his granddad he said well you make a noise like a frog his granddad said why he said cause my dad said when you croak we're going to florida [Applause] stop someone on the street find someone that doesn't love peter k police car goes past or something like that your dad goes here he is i've got him i've got him hey they've come fail up hey get off me dad i'm 24. i watch him constantly because he is just an incredible talent i've got your job [Applause] the best and the most popular um comedian in britain simple what's block of mine he's like a horse a zebra he's such a natural performer maybe the most natural standard performer i've ever seen you always get little lads doing this people are laughing because everyone relates to that do your neighbors know that you do stand up they do they started acknowledging me women in leggings that never gave me time of day before i went on telly he was just born to be funny i can't believe you're shelley's mother you look far too young oh thank you you can't be looking close enough oh you're right the neck i can see the neck now that's the giveaway he's one of the funniest guys that i've ever seen on tv he has made so many people laugh and brightened so many people's christmases john smith for great britain what can he do oh terrific the crowd love it and so do the judges top bombing little spoonfuls of the essence of peter kay right there in an advert and it's that self-deprecation the willingness to just strip himself down to bare bones and go i'm a fat man he's cracked it live he's cracked it on tv and he's had three number one hits how incredible is that in this century pete the cave so far is by far the biggest comedian entertainer by a long way hey there's bob marley like he's donuts we're jamming the minute the music starts you're about to see a joke he takes the pomposity out of it he makes it real [Music] [Applause] [Music] the tour that doesn't tour tour was extraordinary because it made a colossal amount of money broke all the records million plus tickets sold it was just this unbelievably huge tour 15 nights at the o2 40 nights at the manchester arena he's a man that thinks big and goes big we feel we know him so well because he's very relatable and a lot of what he talks about is what we've all been through i used to have a bath me when i was growing up once a week on a sunday night i'd have a bath with mr matey you were a widower live three doors down lovely fella oh playing matey always laughing how was that tap end salta so when you're laughing and i'm laughing go what you too did that happen in your house [Applause] pizza k was born in july 1973 in bolton he grew up in a kind of like a regular terrace street in an area called double his grandparents live nearby he's never moved away he still lives in the area i mean he is if you know if you cut him in half there would be northern written right through him you know if you're up north he is the essence of a boltonian i don't think he he just remembers where he's from why would he ever want to forget where he's from it's the making of him really and that's why people love that comedy so much because it is so rooted the language the characters it's affectionate have you what you got a bathroom arrow should i put merging each one on wednesday four days before planet put merging on having a bathroom four days and then and if someone had a baffle you use all your water your mum would come up with the kettle halfway through boil kettle and top it up move the end of the bat put down it'll splash it'll burn you move down it's not even irish move down peter kaye's mum deidre is from northern ireland she's really important to his life they were really close but i think she's really important to his comedy as well she's in tonight me mum she sat up there next to her eyes or me nana as you like to call her hello [Music] the camera will often cut to his mum in the audience at live gigs and she looks a bit embarrassed sometimes that she's secretly loving it oh mom she's thinking shut your mouth and get on with it she's laughing absolutely from the bottom of her heart it's part of why people really love peter kay is that they feel they know him and the reason they feel they know him is because he talks about his life my dad used to get him them standard fireworks to use get them and you're getting them standard fireworks in a tin and get it back guy and we all used to be stood at kitchen when were caguals on our heart [Applause] this one this one's called this one's called a volcano look at the sun [Applause] [Applause] peter's dad michael was a factory worker who worked a few streets away from where they lived um he was a funny man as well and a lot of people say that's where peter got a lot of his humor from your daddy be at seaside ever like a police car goes past or something like that your dad goes here he is i've got him i've got him hey they've come fire up hey get off me dad i'm 24. will you and the ac waste in sunshine dad on a sunny day if you caught you're watching television at big six week holidays he coming on what are you doing watching kratik it never mind the crazy kid get that off get outside open these curtains i think someone's died over it rod what are you doing your parents have all done that come on look at this come on look at that don't watch this don't watch that and then when it when it rained you should make us all stand at front room window and watch deirdre julie pizza quick quick quick come look at this rain bloody hell look at this rain my god it's bouncing it down look at it biblical look at that the family was very important to peter and he it comes across his material then it's that thundering lightning we must rip ariel at it back at telly sacred heart of god ripped in the back of the television never seen end of karate kid does he win that was a great gig because he is brilliant you know particularly the school teacher gags because you know where he's going is that gonna be when you grow up okay comedian i'll tell you where you're going to end up kate the thick table get your stuff get on the thick table you should have a thick table in there class at school pk was not academic at all tell you i used to have a set of pens going home different club pens and i'd stop and i'd if it were an e i could make it into a b if it were a c i could make it into a b but i'd curt like a little like a lover on its side and then i'd go up quick and say mom look at this from when i was about five years old the report card saying peter insists on being the clown of the class and making people laugh and i couldn't help myself jimmy's trying blind a teacher will you watch if you're concentrating if you all did it blind teaching i know who it is no you don't think i'm the age of 15 16 you've forgotten about like trying to blind the teacher with your face of your watch on a sunny day he just remembers these things it's remarkable teachers with amnesia who do you think yeah who do you think you're talking to how old are you where do you think yeah who do you think you're dealing with alzheimer's what chances are they got [Applause] when you're at school you never give visa out did you when you're at school uk visa [Laughter] [Applause] after school peter really didn't know what to do his mum and dad split up and his dad had left so he ended up doing like a series of part-time jobs we're watching bingo and i worked in a garage up here that were a good job i worked there for six years very very funny job and then i got a job across the road here at spa i was devastated and then i got a job at nato and i were proper devastating then he worked at loads of places for like two or three weeks or two or three months never stuck it out i could never settle in jobs because i would always after about four months i'd get sacked not for like because i could use it because i couldn't do job because most of the time i was spending most of time it was like i wasn't there it was like a lot of managers watching you're done right you weren't yeah it's a hard-working lad 14 different part-time jobs pretty much all of which he later used in his material you know obviously that peter k thing kind of almost each one of them was based on a job he used to do i'd always wrote things down that people would say so if you're working managers and say funny things i'd always write them down or things that conversations that the public could say i always made a note to them and i had all this backlog of you know stories and one-liners and things that people have come out with he talks about eye level is bi-level which was a quote from a supervisor you should be obsessed with putting stacking shelves you put some art shelves put that the eye level is bi-level if they can't see it they can't buy it he's mined that but deeper than that his observation is all about normal ordinary things famous for yeah things rugby players and beautiful women what position do you play sheila [Laughter] eyes down which is set in a bingo hall in bolton surprise surprise uh the other surprise surprise is that obviously peter k had worked in a bingo hall in bolton and it was probably that one for all i know now is your age they give me it to be a caller there'll be no ambition you know what you want to do with your life well i'm only here for the summer and then i'm back at uni uni what are you studying there advanced economics politics and european law that's all very well and good but where's that gonna get you he plays a bingo hall boss and really he's playing a character very effectively very authentically um that is based on one of his old bosses is there a bingo caller out there that there is and i can actually say he does exist because he won't be watching down here which is nice just revenge in a way because he i never liked it he never liked me his whole life from sort of zero to 20 is really the bedrock of all of his jokes and all of his stories and we are all the beneficiaries of that he went to university but he didn't do it the traditional way he lied that he had our a-level and incredibly got accepted into liverpool john moores university [Music] i think he realized pretty quickly that he was out of his death but bigger than that was the fact that he was away from home [Music] he didn't have the normal array of qualifications that you would need however peter came with so much natural abilities that i would say there's there wasn't a lot that you could teach him about the innate relationship with an audience or or a persona so the course was a way of kind of improving skills like microphone technique the final assessment which was doing the 15-minute act that you'd spent 10 weeks constructing and rehearsing all this was to be performed in a public forum either a pub or a comedy club i got a water infection i went to doctors and i told them that i've got a wash infection what's funny about that have you got a water infection really it's like fire when it comes out no it is it's nothing laughter it's not honest to god it's not pretty early on in that second year of the h d we knew we were dealing with something special it went well it did it's better than sex it's better for better than sex back in the late 90s i was hosting a a a very late night very cheap itv um magazine show about comedy peter hello there hey nice to meet you you've not got a bit of a grip grip i have been talking are you catholic yeah did you do pc with you and shalom and all that he'd only just started i mean i think he'd done like a three or four gigs i mean virtually nothing and he's very fresh-faced and but incredibly confident on camera do you know you guys know that you do stand up they do they start acknowledging me women in leggings that never give me time of day before i went on telly i got an impression that you know he'd spent his all his formative years in his bedroom with records and vhs tapes and i've honestly the collection was extraordinary on this program and i don't know oh yeah there you go we've got steph meder little things hello there that's almond organ music though it's about seeing it mate yeah rise and fall of idiom in i didn't know did it would he used to be around that yeah he did yeah i've never known anybody so obsessed with popular culture i'm very much into comedy i always studied it and watched a lot of it and i just um i don't think this mainstream others alternative i think if something's funny it's funny before i want to tell you we lost my granddad last night he's not dead he's in nettle somewhere in his early years he was breaking through he he got like little bits of tv with granada tv he was selling out shows in manchester he was a real rising star the whole time he still had his part-time job at the cinema ripping up tickets as people went in to see cocoon or whatever it's important that i keep looking at the cinnamon i think i mean i've never left that people oh professional professional quit the cinema and i'm like no i don't want to quit the cinema because for me it's it's real life but what stage would you do you think you'll come a stage where you've gotta wait because if it's going so well that you're gonna have to concentrate fully on that and well i don't know because i've just got an application for multiplex in the building i think he had a reticence to give out up his part-time jobs because he i suppose from where he comes from there isn't any expectation to be famous and wealthy showbiz you know one minute you you're up there making thousands of people laugh next minute you're picking up toefls you know it's real life that you know reality 259 an hour the next time i saw him was he was going up for the so you think you're funny uh which is a competition in um uh edinburgh for new acts i've been to edinburgh well i have i went once with school went to isle of rome and i only stopped off and john mendes for a tweak but i've never been into it like as a place you know so you think you're funny is the ultimate nationwide hunt for britain's best new comedian there were lots of competitions of that ilk but so you think you're funny is the gold standard i should know because i was in the final some decades ago and it's an amazing opportunity it's an amazing platform and in 1997 the winner was peter k why do mum's buy crap pop is it me why does she come home from quick saves with nine liters of caller some cheap crap caller that holy mums buy i'm not drinking that it tastes like floor cleaner get it drunk i might drink it get it drunk it's crap pop look at it it's rotten mock my drains out with it get it drunk this crab look at it's too big he won't go in the warm that's fridge it is it's warm crap pop get it drunk this kid's starving send it to him it was just head and shoulders above everybody else now hold on to your hands because the only thing we can predict about the next few minutes is there's going to be a lot of laughs the question we need to ask is how did you go about how did you go about conquering the world of comedy from your mom's house in bolton because that's where you still live isn't it it's because it's it's all i know you can only write about what you know about don't you so that's why some people some people like grow up to be adults and then they move away from where they live don't they but you haven't well you don't oh if the big bright lights of london beckon would you move no never never i first uh came across pizza when he joined the sunday show [Applause] the sunday show and i'd heard whisper of this young local comic who was really good and really sweet fellas biting to the succulent flesh that is the new arrival on this runway of showbiz and i just know he's going to take off it's peter k [Music] to get flash give me entertainment welcome one and stuart tall if he's watching to my world of entertainment peter had this huge confidence and even there you see that these first few goes at the sundance just the first few moments people don't quite know what they're watching but what it's the confidence he delivers it monkey [Applause] he picked all those things that were in your subconscious that that took you back to your youth [Applause] you get the feeling peter k could get material out of anything titles i love them i always have and i always will you know there's the opening credits and he has literally just weaved comedy gold from a couple of minutes of tv that other people would find unremarkable it took him a long time to find himself i think and he still was clinging on to this being a um an actor hey man mad fish you want to watch that get stuck down there you'll soon know about it if she ends around here much longer boxer in once he started in the land of tv i suppose he was wondering himself you know where do i fit in ah mr elliot come out here i want to show you this sign and don't touch out so i think it was all trial and error for him the man said the engine's just done an overall it looked okay to me he's showing me the service history and everything man what man the man i boarded up did you buy this car all the beavers these the classics and the parts are cheap you get an exhaust on the scrap yeah for a five and then you can get you bought a car the first time i ever met peter k was back in 1997 when i was working on a channel um called menomotus peter kaye [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen it's an honor nick it's an absolute oh this wasn't planned the preconceptions i had was that you're walking about yeah i'm the funny one hi guys dead confident northern bloke you know sort of the earth all the rest of it um but in reality he was he was quite humble very quiet i'd actually say shy what have you bought with all your cash what have i bought have you got it yet uh yeah i caught a a ford fiesta uh g reg from a green old place it's sitting downstairs in car park and i got him on the fridge freezer that's nice you always remember your family when you well yeah i live with her i have a problem not to really know what i mean that's who peter k is he's the bloke next door from bolton he'll come around and you know take you to the chippy or the um the pasty shop [Applause] in 1998 he was back at edinburgh and he was nominated for a perrier award now the perrier awards are the oscars of the edinburgh fringe and really they're the oscars of just british live comedy do you want to leave flirt yeah yeah there you are we see all the comedy shows and we have a judging panel and then there's a short list it's very competitive to get nominated what tends to mark somebody out is that very special combination of material with performing ability and the two coming together it's very that's the mark of someone who's pretty special we stayed in it was quite a nice flip and me peter k and a community called phil nichol we all shared a place together and it was nice because peter became like almost like the mother hen hello edge barker winner of last year's premier newcomer people were assuming that well probably he might get nominated for the newcomer award but he was so good that he jumped the newcomer category and went straight from newcomer to go on the main list the panel have voted and the shortlist for the perrier award has been announced and i still remember peter going to the winners evening to hear hear who had won that year i've won though because i've got a nomination and that's all i wanted peter was nominated but tommy turner actually won it that year once you've been nominated you didn't want to win but he had a really good perspective on it lola yeah i have i have a great editing bro i want to go home now i miss my mum because peter did so well everybody wanted a piece of him almost immediately he was at the edinburgh festival but he got offered the chance to be on big breakfast for a week he jumped at it because it was tv no matter what success that you have you want to be on television that's what your mom will it's monday understand 10th of august and i'm melanie sykes and this is you're going to get a good idea don't touch he's on that space supper get off that way that's not yours come on do you want him at your age he's 17. that's you that you're too soft with a pair of them you're a new zealandist when peter was doing performing anywhere it became peter's show that you know that week on the big breakfast became peter shell it is almost like he'd been doing it for years he was so comfortable so natural later in show we've got more from neil morris here plus classic vital statistics cameron dyers lee evans and national staff oh shoes then mum [Applause] hey does bob matter like he's donuts we're jamming we're germans i'm not messing a boat no come on [Applause] by the time he's headlined in the comedy store he's clearly you know come a long way and you can see his confidence is huge now i am peter k i'm going to be myself and you're going to love it what's black and white he's like a horse a zebra the phone starts here we're not messing with bono he came out there and just told two of the corniest jokes you could possibly you could possibly tell but it was almost like a joke about the fact he was telling those jokes you can't resist when you're getting a taxi saying to taxi drivers two things have you been busy what time are you until why why did you do it where'd you get in and say it you can't help yourself you get in and you sit there and you go you've been busy [Applause] he uses silence really well i think in that and you can hear the audience laughter is kind of building during those because they know what's coming what time are you until no not bad not bad physical comedy precision precision you'd rehearse that and you could nail it every single time live [Applause] good night that was his biggest show from that point and there's a real sense of occasion about it this is this isn't it playing blackpool tower that i mean that's incredible give me mom's face we're back in blackpool mummy hey mentally scarred as a child as an entertainer you know the home of entertainment was blackpool the auntie sandra it was a she didn't lady one of pink women when pink ladies used to get at school dinner late but you know they won on the dinner break pink women pink over pink tabber tabards and pink pink legs pink heads pinker proper pink you screw around playground stop you having any fun stop that cutting out you quit that don't do that put that down i mean the audience just they they adore him don't they you can see on their faces there they trust him they're hanging on his every word what a fantastic position to be in stop that stop playing army army [Applause] i've got a stick for a gun it does give that sense of the kind of hometown hero vibe and you know the the people he's talking about in his routines are the people in the it rained as audience have you been playing out and they're gonna have these they have fits they can't believe it they get all hysterical they'd see them they stood about 100 yards apart and they could feel it coming rain they could feel it coming they'd be like behind each other up and down they were looking like ah and they could sense it like huh smell it they could smell the rain one big splodge but you a how many times have your mum said don't go out it's spitting a rain in fact i've got to tell you even on saturday i said to mike to my kids don't go out spit in a rain you know [Applause] and get inside yourself it's beautifully well observed but then he kind of inhabits the role of the dinner ladies kind of panicking and running around stop beginning to save in private ryan i'm not laughing i'm shooting people when you're in the live theater you just like laugh all the way through i never felt so understood as when i saw him do live at the top of blackpool tower well thanks for coming tonight very nice of you it's very strange doing a video bolt you never know where this time next year i could be back on bins so do tip me he's just done his first stand-up gigs he now gets this channel 4 show on his own the easiest thing would be to do that half hour stand up routine but what he actually did was something just so much bigger and complex they want to do just stand up i wanted to do something that was a bit challenging and stand-up's great but i don't think it works on television i think it works better in theaters you know he at the time was preoccupied with the docu-soaps that you got on tv and there'd be documentaries about really dull things and therefore this was a send up of a documentary set at a service station it's 8 a.m and time for day shift roll call morning team you may may not realize that we've got a camera crew in today from channel 4 in london and they're here today doing a documentary on our services just giving a little bit of an insight into what goes on so alison you chewing spit it out please love in the bin it's a mockumentary um way way before the office i mean it's way ahead of its time isn't it even the way it's filmed is sort of authentic sort of docu-soap style that he studied directing and so it's all kind of wobbly cameras have forgotten about a little chat we had yesterday so soon it's my day off you're in today because you're a team player girl and because adena's phone is sick with a water infection that's why you're in today he's a very convincing woman i think he really likes the challenge of being other people and he makes a great woman he's worked with these women he understands these women yes on channel 4. yeah i know i can't believe it either it's the first thing really first proper thing he'd done on telly and you already knew okay here's a guy that we're going to be watching a lot more of it's quite a far away from a traditional stand-up isn't it your new series are you nervous how that's going to go down yeah i am really um but i want a house no it's uh so then there was that peter k thing that peter k thing was absolutely fantastic so six episodes all set in workplaces around bolton and he played multiple characters i think he played something like 15 characters over the course of the shows this is mine personalized number plate i know you don't have to be famous to have one but i think you're like a tosser if you do and you're not it's a commentary on how ridiculous working class people can be if you give them any money he's now about to shoot the video for christmas 2000 the first single from his new album making himself eligible for the most important annual music race of all christmas number one come on let's make magic it's magic time across a series of six different scenarios different setups um you could see his range as a performer and as a writer a lot of it sort of was from peter's life really because i know that one of them was set in the men where peter used to work the job it seems like a doddle to me you just see concerts for free and get paid for watching them for nothing you know as soon as i can better but uh tonight we've got uh sister sledge tonight and casey and the sunshine band super saiyan of the 70s night try saying that with a lisp and next week we've got elton john so i'll have to put my name down for that like ellen john is the work casual what casual it is and you can do when you like it's a great series absolutely great service were you surprised by the the major success of that peter k thing yeah i am because i don't know the word it was a major success it was good wasn't it we went it went down well everyone really liked it and i were pretty tough with it you know um i hope there's another series because the mum wants to bungalow so one episode of that peter k thing was in the club the british working man's club yesterday's dream factory again it spruced mocumentaries really well it's even got a voice over by andrew manuel sax who did a lot of those sort of docu-soapy voiceovers back then feeling the pressure more than most is the club social secretary brian potter we caught up with him and the committee as they were debating the entertainment for the children's christmas party um what about nobby alcock norway i i hear me out i know he's blue but he does a smashing sideline and punching duties for kids it's also sort of shrouded in cigarette smoke and sort of conference chairs and there's something a bit depressing about it um and it's also our first site of uh brian potter the uh impresario of the club who'd later become the star of phoenix knights how much for pasties they've traveled in price what's in him venison i know it's dear it's bloody extortioner off the back of in the club of course phoenix nice that knights is born it's it i mean i still think that's just seminal work the phoenix club in bolton has its grand reopening tonight with chart topping folk band half a shilling and tv zone roy it's the way i tell him walker will be cutting the ribbon at 7 30. he's very interested with delusion he's very he finds it really funny people think they're bigger than they are you know there's brian potter who thinks he's running the palladium that's my girlfriend mr potter tracy do you fancy a beer no tan or me is not my cup of tea have a drop of teachers though [Music] you know it's still a young man there's probably in his late 20s maybe but he's playing on an old man in his 60s he's got the squeaky voice and the gels for it peter i can hardly recognize you yeah it's incredible these days i know it's amazing they put loads of weight on me and fattened me up for that you know can't tell where them chins you know what they can do what is she who holy mary oh holy mary well i think she's very well observed in the writing because a lot of these clubs are attached to catholic churches what are all these about what you said i said don't wind me up not today get him down to you make it right see the light proper mars lingam or something it's a club not a mosque oh brian they're not doing any tell that to cat stevens we'll be serving all in tonic water next god loves you brian you'll see the funny way of showing it i took so much helium in because you have to do so many takes for one reason or another and i actually googled it afterwards and there is such a thing as helium poisoning listen badly um i'm not very good with words i was wondering there's that sequence where he goes up on the stairs it's excruciating was so funny because it takes so long it won't be long now you have to wait weight weight as a chair comes around with the side effects [Music] just you wait things i'm gonna do to you absolute genius absolute genius he's brilliant at recycling ideas or spinning off from ideas in the club which was one of the episodes of the ptk thing it became phoenix nights and then within phoenix night there were these two characters called max and paddy who were doormen evening girls looking to be crystal balls who then got sort of taken out of that and that became max and paddy's road to nowhere call me old-fashioned but what i like is white tender off the ball shaking watch yours co you are cool [Applause] peter and and the lovely paddy mcguinness were at school together knew each other really well so there was a incredible charisma between those two characters they have this natural chemistry so they can play off each other as lib and you can just see the chemistry there i'm just gonna show you a few simple dance moves that's all you're gonna show me how to dance yes this i've got to see one two one two one two one two that's just line dancing so anybody could do that is it [Music] i think he could just like immediately transport back to being a school kid basically and have that sort of like humor with one another that piss-taking thing and it just becomes completely natural the chemistry together is is undeniable it's really necessary yes it is women love a bit of bump and grind trust me i remember being in the first episode and every now and again we look over and we just see these two men dancing together that's right you want me i'm a woman i'm a woman and you want me [Music] and it worked it worked do you know what makes a great comedian if you're funny that's all well i'm good to be funny but you know what you have to have you have to have compassion and you have to be able to play pathos he doesn't just do the comedy he treats the serious bits like drama anyway i saw her up against bar nearly threw her out for underage drinking hey [Music] oh i do apologize i'm sorry i thought you're underage he could have easily cast someone small and just have it as that she was a kind of not a queen song but what he did was included some really really touching scenes there's no way you could have loved me like i loved you not go off the way you did say nothing love you i trusted you yeah right i worshipped you i even had your baby for christ's sake that's how much i loved you when we were doing those scenes we were essentially doing it like an episode a drama not a comedy are you telling me i'm a dad i never wanted you to find out oh i can see that i think he's a very talented actor so that includes him being funny and him being more serious [Applause] ladies and gentlemen albert halls would you please welcome on stage in his hometown peter kane he doesn't like touring he doesn't like being away from home and being away from his family so he kind of almost makes the audience come to him which is you know a measure of what a big draw he is [Applause] peter k is the best person on the planet for naming tours obviously mum wants a bungalow absolutely genius you know it's honest isn't it i bet she got one as well she probably a very nice bungalow [Music] [Applause] it's almost like he's doing it in his front room those people know him don't they rather than an audience made up of the glitterati of showbiz and sort of well-heeled middle-class people he had his core audience and there's his whole sort of familiarity in this whole sort of camaraderie and communal atmosphere they feel like he's one of them and so there's a real kind of crackling warmth in the in the arena what did you get a ticket you were ringing not saying you couldn't get any how did you get one follow me mom anyone who brushed passes against a ticket these days what's amazing is that yes he can entertain teenagers and young people and 20 somethings but it can also entertain granny and granddad and everyone's laughing how much he's pick and mix now at cinemas hey buddy scandalous isn't it i went to pick a mix i said you're right now not myself to pick a mix i'll get these fudge fudge feel the weight of them before you put them in flumps marshmallows that's what you want he's got a lot of nostalgia i think in his act very much family orientated very sort of clean i would say i think a lot of comedians use swearing as a bit of a defense mechanism if they're particularly if they're not going down very well and peter always goes down well so he's never going to have to swear is he our answer machine message your own says please leave your name and number after the beep come home hello my name is mom and my number why you're not gonna his ability to do jokes about parents or grandparents or youngsters at weddings and it's really that ability to bring your family together to laugh at each other or to laugh with each other beginning of any family wedding i guarantee you get little girls up dancing about 10 11 year old little dancers it's really clever you know the details are really smart like the way the kids are dancing to liberty x quite a rude song but quite an appropriate song which is just a tiny fleeting detail that you wouldn't really notice you always get little lads doing this [Music] he's brilliant at that physicality of things he really uses the stage a lot of stand-ups just stand still but pizza kind of makes something happen because he's got that broader interest in theatricality i think it's the gusto with which he performs it carries you away you know what he did do and i don't know if this was by intention but created a whole new vernacular for comedy that tied us in to the peter k world one of the phrases i always think of with peter k which is ridiculous really because it's not even a phrase it's two words garlic bread garlic bread garlic bread garlic bread with yorkie garlic the bread garlic bread garlic bread that's right max garlic bread it's the future i've tasted it hey i'm beautiful that looks beautiful that's a taste sensation it touched the public consciousness so much that there were people going around wearing garlic bread t-shirts who would have thought that a food would be a catchphrase but one of the most popular ones you had in there it wasn't even a catchphrase it's a food yeah girly bread and i couldn't get it in morrison's other week and my wife started car with children in our ages you said why are you so long i said i couldn't find garlic bread and i couldn't ask for it because i was mortified to say where's the garlic bread because they all would have said it's worth remembering before peter k exploded into the public consciousness the expressions like avid tinternet garlic bread you know these are all this all came with with peter k ladies and gentlemen it's the last night of the tour please so the mum wants a bungalow tour starts off fairly small and then mutates into this rolling beast marauding through the northern states ends up with two nights at manchester arena [Applause] imagine you're a steward you live in bolton and you trek over to manchester arena to be a steward for four quid an hour and then you stand there dreaming as you look at the stage you think one day i'm going to be up there that's what he did 9 000 people [Applause] hello it's just generous and lets everybody in [Applause] they just get him they get they get him and he gets them and the warmth i think and the feedback he must get on stage must be incredible just a brilliant opening it looks very casual but very well worked out well another night another night you come off stage and you just burst in with adrenaline and you know for me i go home i always have done the thing about touring is that it's sort of um quite lonely actually and it's much nicer to go home he's a homebody it's not for everyone is it the touring and the traveling the world life i don't like to sit backstage and have people come back i don't like to carry on having a party or do that it's important to me that i get home and i get grounded and then i'll get home i'll have a shower and i'll be source and tell him i'll kind of go we're not just doing that about an hour ago on stage but i need to do it to separate myself because i think i don't know i think i'm frightened i think he can drive you insane there's a mystery about peter kay i mean there'll be an extraordinary nationwide stand-up tour that breaks every record and then he'll go into more or less creative hiding for years on end he's kept his privacy really cleverly well god for someone that famous for you to know so little about their life it's really unusual he is a contradiction we feel we know him in a sense he belongs to us he's a national treasure but then he's a stranger as well and we don't know the guy at all he's that private that we don't even know how many kids he's got we know he's got them but we don't know how many somewhere between one and three it's either one two or three children and you don't know you know that information is out there about pretty much everyone he's very private he has his work and he goes home and he loves his family [Music] nothing staying at home with family sorry that's what i'm doing that's actually the nicest thing in the world i think you'll find i don't think peter is happier than when he's with his family and his friends i think that is very very important him you know show business i'll tell you that it's nice for two percent but 98 of time you've got to be saying you've got to go back and friends and family are everything some of us want the the big car the big house and the showbiz lifestyle but that to him is very very i think for him it's very very empty and it doesn't really resonate [Applause] [Music] i think that anybody who is a northerner working classes about that age if they were asked to do corey that go tomorrow it means you know you've hit the big time good evening eric you look like a different bloke thank you and you you you look stunning i think it was extremely important for peter to get a good part in cory because again that's part of our cultural heritage growing up around there it's a little bit of a cameo in a really famous thing isn't it and a chance to be funny i can't believe you're shelley's mother you look far too young oh thank you you can't be looking close enough oh you're right the neck i can see the neck now that's the giveaway he bought a lot of comedy to it and so i think he fitted in very easily with that and i think it's a natural thing for peter to be an actor he's a very good actor he don't get much he's very well presented though hey shows blue pizza i i love that character to go in and sum up how so many people feel in in a posh restaurant it's it's just wonderful how about leaves leaves on my plate leaves chef's left back door on must have blown on leaves what are you looking for me meat i need a magnifying glass where's it going being funny on a soap is really quite hard i think comedy takes a little bit more time weirdly than it does for uh drama eric is that you who's that it's my mum hey mom i thought you're at jazzercise it got cancelled manny's got groin strain i play dolly garside the mother of eric gart's side eric's not brought a friend dolmen no he's never brought a friend off well she forgets you are stick kettle on i'm up now yeah i saw that kind of sadness in all the characters i think that peter plays really this sort of lost character when his mum says we've never brought a friend home i think he's lost um i think about her order a taxi could i use your phone in the hall just put the money in the box [Applause] come on time to go go go where the old people's home they'll look after you now what a treat the john smith's bitter adverts it's him being canny and just just really funny little spoonfuls of the essence of peter kay right there in an advert for the best are you mad i'm 55. i know but i've had a word with them they'll take you come on get off why should i go living in old people's oh because i want to put a snooker table in your bedroom and the kids are out under your mustache now come on about it i remember at the time people were you know excited and waiting for the next one to come out because they were that good that was better telly than the telly you were watching if you know what i mean they were brilliantly acted um fantastically written and they became a here hello sarah it's babysitter yeah what's up okay put her on hello brittany it's daddy you're what having nightmares about the wardrobe monsters i really love the one in the curry house i could always smell the curry i always could see which curry house it was they were well crafted a bit like mini versions of his own sitcom there's no such thing as wardrobe monsters so burglars are breaking through the window that's what you want to be worried about sweet dreams two more lambooners here what it's like being down the couriers with your mate who says something silly and you're looking each of the guys did he just say that three divers to go then and this is darren crowell of australia oh that's a good dive and everyone of course particularly remembers the diving board and now petite of and canada oh even better this final really hotting up now the favorite john smith of great britain what can he do a running home oh terrific the crowd love it and so do the judges top bombing i haven't got scored perfect turns with his bum crack showing it's just perfect and it's that self-deprecation the willingness to just strip himself down to bare bones and go i'm a fat man he's the sort of guy that other people would laugh at but he's happy to do it there's another one where he's supposed to be showing off some football skills i have it oh yes but that became a saying didn't it became the same have it have it have it apparently wasn't in the script uh but um you know they're not to have to keep that in [Music] it's a northern beer and he loves being northern he's proud of it and he's he's never strayed from his roots so what perfect casting peter k achieved something miraculous which is an advert actually boosted his career he didn't feel like he'd sold that at all no he just felt like he was just being peter kane a different setting it was great he's made probably a colossal fortune and then he's more famous and more popular i mean talk about the midas touch i hear that you're not gonna do any more of those wonderful john smith ads no i'm not no i've decided i'm not gonna do any more i've done them and they were good and i thought it'd be nice to you know do some more adverts so how ironic it's for uh john smith's bitter and he doesn't even drink it's a blessing because you can always drive home from every word it's a curse because everyone wants a bloody lift you know what i mean especially on new year's eve when it's triple furl can you get another one in we're full we're all right one more and then you drop them off and when they're drunk and you ever dropped any off on the drunk and susan's cousin back going straight on straight on straight on is it left or right straight on we're gonna stop now michelle cause we're in hull [Applause] wasn't [Music] i've had is number ones and i'm not saying on one of them yet i'm not singing one song [Laughter] i don't i always say i'm always in character peter kay he's a great artist but he doesn't mind a bit of naf comedy either and the best example of that is the comic relief video is this the way to amarillo when he was a kid his family only had about six albums and one of them was tony christie's greatest hits so it meant a lot to him that song tony christie really looking like he's on a beach there look at him when the day is dawning it was such a big record the point was it was never a hit first time and that it was that's that's the sort of knowledge that peter has but it was a massive record at the time but wasn't a hit so you know the the upshot is it gets to number one and it's there for about six weeks or something ridiculous you know [Music] so they're all walking down the corridor and they've got all these incredible stars coming out he can get anybody that he wants to come and join in [Music] i mean how random is that uh ronnie corbett and michael parkinson i mean it's it's just literally a sort of freakish a to z of british entertainment we did it on treadmills we had to walk on treadmills right and ronnie fell right i like her laugh but i'm gone and he felt and what's now there's two ways you can watch this you can either watch ronnie falling but if you're lucky watch michael's reaction that's my favorite because [Music] it was a hit single the video became iconic and what it did is it it captured that sort of peter k vibe which is uh ironic um cheery ebullient upbeat it was just the ultimate feel good pop video [Music] so one day i'm sitting at home and the phone rings and i go who's that he goes oh bobby dover i went who's this he went pewdiepie i said i said pete okay i don't know who's just winding me up he said no it's pewdiepie i've got your number from someone you know and he told me it was he said i'm fully up we're doing video down to elstree saturday will you come down well when peter makes a call you you you say yes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] when i wake up and i wake up well i know i'm gonna be i'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you yeah well so we turned up on the saturday and there's people i think there was dennis taylor was there in the crankies and uh oh everything the world and his wife were there you know i also if you'd run a quiz at the end how many famous people from television had you seen how many you would actually get to i mean it's got everybody in there everybody just can't describe how how bizarre it all is you know we didn't see what they were going to do before they started it so they did their rehearsals without us so then they go and it's pretty well live so that's as much of a surprise to us as it is to to the viewer at home so that their genuine reactions you know [Music] i had absolutely no idea that it was going to happen and everywhere i went you know for that time it was on the telly there and being shown on video everyone was going bobby dover orbit bro and i was absolutely thrilled [Music] it's one of those songs everybody knows it and it's like if you put that on as a dj everybody did the whole scottish accent and the whole i mean you know it's like and i guess that's why you picked it and it's brilliant let's get the proclaimers to take the mickey out themselves even better in it [Music] the big question do you love reality television shows or hate them this weekend a brand new show hits our screens it is the brainchild of the one and only peter kane it has the wonderful title britain's got the pop factor and possibly a new celebrity jesus christ soap star superstar strictly on ice welcome back to britain's got the pop factor and possibly a new celebrity jesus christ soap star superstar strictly on ice live final bit of a spoof on reality shows is it i just thought it's it's so popular and they've become so much a part of our lives it just seemed perfect to send up the whole genre of it and and i just wrote it and i thought it'd be quite easy but it has been enormous it's been the biggest thing i've ever done he really went to town on it and did it properly and got all the right people involved this is going to be the toughest night of their lives and only one of them can win only one of them can win this and it's going to be tough only one of them is tough and that's going to have to be the winner one day i got call and he sort of uh said he got this idea for this film and then he said what we'll we'll have a meeting so we went to a fish and chip shop in rothenstown right and i think it's a true story um he he booked the whole restaurant out so him and i in a fishing chip shop i think it was a sunday night if i remember but there was nobody else in this fish and chip restaurant we had these clandestine meetings so that nobody knew what was going on it was very interesting and uh of course all was very funny so what's your name honey no it's geraldine it says here you're from tyrone ireland why don't you come and see us in belfast i've just had a major operation just got back on my feet still a bit tender never had the balls i wouldn't say that the whole production will be incredibly detailed and he'll get really famous people involved in it when he when he does stuff he goes all in it's the final of all finals will you finally welcome your host for the final time cat daily there was no difference between pop idol production and the pop factor there was no difference it was the same size it was the same sets it was the same amount of cameraman to parody something you have to know about you have to know about it and he you know docus hopes he did then he moves on to tv talent shows he doesn't cheap at it he's not trying to make a cheap version so it looks nasty he's trying to make a real version again he's both celebrating the culture and having fun with it you've got a fantastic voice a ditcher [Music] one of the things he didn't tell us was he didn't tell us which were relaxed and which were his fake acts you'll be real kids on the night there were three most senior ladies uh came on as the sugar vapes they started to grip themselves in places and be quite erotic didn't give us a script so he wanted us to to take everything in as we would have done naturally you're not what we're looking for but thank you now listen excuse me 200 years of pure intelligence you wouldn't know he's challenged so we do the scene there's one lady who gets her lines wrong but then of course peter was behind the scenes so he sends these three ladies back out what have you ever bought one two three who was supposed to then have a go at the judges you see all these women have got to say uh yeah that's the line so we did it about five times it just got sillier and sillier they're filming they think this is funny right here we go i'm actually i was actually choking we nearly and i'm not being melodramatic nearly killed pete waterman yes he nearly has a proper full-on heart attack everybody in the room was absolutely just with tears right because it just was so surreal and so silly the one and only geraldine i mean geraldine it's real it's not camp it's not over the top it's you just accept him as geraldine and he nails it she's lovely in a wig well i'll tell you i had to get whacked i had to get waxed that's not a picnic the great thing about peter k is he has this ability to be a comedian but actually put sincerity in it one night in bangkok trey three months fiona i've never known pain legged i owe everything to dr fong me wow he certainly knew his onions now he's got mine it was funny because he does that he does that northern ireland she acts as so well you know and he really gets into it i mean he plays the part quite [Music] he's not afraid of a bit of corny comedy a bit of naf music the music was put together brilliant that's peter i mean his knowledge of music is phenomenal i mean phenomenal i can now officially tell you that the name of tonight's winning act is geraldine i do recall some of the criticism was that people couldn't find the purple button on their remote to vote i mean and that is the highest praise of sata really when people don't know if it's real or not here with the winner it's your winner it's geraldine mcqueen i started with nothing now i have something i prove them all the attention to detail is you go to gary barlow to write the winner and he was on you know x factor and uh it brings the authenticity back in [Music] you don't know where reality starts and you know that the end is a joke you just can't tell and that's what's brilliant about that series geraldine mcqueen i think as a guest on loose women peter k definitely chose geraldine as his character for all the right reasons you look quite angelic next so i have to say i do you look a bit like edward scissorhands i noticed they tamed your bush after part one i think that was definitely a license to play around with the girls on the panel and not get slapped around the head for it i don't know if you've heard but uh you know the comedian peter k okay he's not i don't find him funny he doesn't make me laugh so when it comes to peter being a guest on a chat show you know he has to pull another discipline out of the bag which is just being him and sitting there as himself and i think he's probably a little bit too shy for that or would rather not he choose not to it's easier to not talk about your private life when you're not yourself so to play a role it's more like doing a show isn't it it's it's more like doing a stand-up gig i think it is it's a lot about just sitting back and letting him go for it relationship with your mother we had a very difficult relationship but we've got over it now because she died [Music] [Applause] when you're as good as peter you can do what you want so you can launch a tour called the tour that doesn't tour tour he sold 1.2 million tickets to that tour which is a guinness record which just shows the power of the guy the fame the success the comedians have become the new rock stars that was peter k [Applause] [Music] it gets you within the first minute it's like i want you to laugh and i'm gonna make sure you laugh from minute one [Applause] [Music] does this kind of big overblown build-up where things go deliberately wrong what a cock-up belief got stuck supposed to be doing dvd tonight or the ball's up he takes the pomposity out of it he makes it real it's like look at all this we're here for a joke let's get on with the jokes now 15 nights in this place look at the bloody size of it you see how fast it is it's like he's playing to a football pitcher it's extraordinarily large let's have a look at you let me borrow that camera let's see who we've got in tonight he really cleverly kind of makes it feel intimate even though it's kind of cavernous [Applause] [Music] then he'll come on with a video camera and photograph the audience and comment on it it was a way of quite cleverly engaging with people on a very one-to-one basis when you're in the audience what you're looking at is a dot and a big screen he uses he he knows how to use that and he's still a dot to quite a lot of people but he has a way of going oh and you over there and talking to them it's a kind of at ease device because you feel comfortable that actually it's not you on stage it's the poor bloke in the front okay who's that bill obviously there you go all right bill anyone else the person is thrilled you're not embarrassed they're going oh it's me you know and occasionally you can see people standing up to go me me me put the camera on me what about over here he loves it up look at him he's gotta be mined look at them teeth mother of god sugar that is in that kind of size space to keep the comedy personal really hard to do quite brilliant thanks for coming tonight always helps having an audience thanks for buying a ticket tonight technically you are my employers tonight what do you think about that and then just launches into kind of this brilliant routine about phoning in sick and again which kind of just reminds you of his roots in these amount of people i can't throw a sickie in this game it's not when you're self-employed it's not like when i works at cash and carry i can't get rakeem my fruit and veg come and tell some jokes for 20 minutes he's such a natural performer i think maybe maybe the most natural stand-up performer i've ever seen he's just got an effortless ease on stage i used to be a skill that doing your sick voice you stuff get psyched up and bend over it all all the nonsense walls squint your eyes don't get out don't don't you make me laugh don't don't don't don't bring your not work stick don't stare at the dome [Music] he just finds these little uh avenues of uh nostalgia and and he just he just drills them ruthlessly so everyone's laughing at the absurdity of it and the way that you know they turn to their friend to go this is just what we do do you remember that it's that's the magicking of it all you can either ring up at six o'clock at morning until clean up tell manager you weren't coming in can you put me um the manager please i love peter k you know it does sound like me it does sound really booly he has that wonderful ability to be able to like be liked by everybody and that's the most important thing you know an artist is only as good as his audience so you get on with all your shopping all your chocolate treats on a friday can't shut cupboard door for jam wagon wheels start monday i'll start monday there's no point trying to start friday come to something with a kind of a bit of bloody chocolate on a friday night and treat myself i'll start monday probably there's 52 mondays in a year i say that every week people are laughing because everyone relates to that everyone relates to like going on a diet and then putting it off and putting it off and putting it off it's so simple but every you could see the audience they were following every word and waiting for the punchline you know i hate me when you see a tin of celebrations outside and then you open it it's a sewing kit that's all oh don't that mess with your mind now what's all that about whilst we're enjoying this incredibly accomplished performance what's happened underneath is an amazing amount of hard work and brilliant writing so do you think this car share thing is going gonna work no we have to listen to this every day car share is a tv series based on this what would feels or would be on a piece of paper like the slightest of premises i love forever fm they play timeless hits now and forever i won't say martika's kitchen was timeless well you remembered it two people work in the company they have a car sharing scheme and they just talk and they talk about very ordinary things janine's a strict vegan elsie's meet mad farts stink she's been doing red days on slimming world for years now slimming world seek size of her she's got a problem with the glands there's a problem with her hands not stopped picking up keys and shove it into a fat mouth it's wittering on it's people just passing the time of day and you know slagging off their co-workers it's such a simple format it's almost like the most special tv ever and the most memorable um from the simple things try this one keep it tie keep there's that cuppa tina birmingham accent for thai i'd like i'd like a nice cup of thai please like a nice cup of thai car share is pretty much a double hander between peter k and char gibson are you gonna ask for a new body well i'm gonna keep you back in space all right yeah anyway if you're gonna be sharing with someone else hey i might be sharing with you [Music] the chemistry is brilliant and natural and quite a lot of it's kind of semi-improvised you can tell i ain't got a minute you lost your vision they've had a relationship for 20 years like they met at college and so you know he's clearly a kind of someone he trusts and a kind of long-term friend and collaborator i'm just talking silly i don't mean it [Laughter] to see if she'd be in this thing with him and now and it's kind of made a star out because she's so good in it you know she's almost better than him he could have chosen anyone i guess from from the world of acting but he's chosen somebody that you can tell he trusts and you can tell he has a lovely relationship with [Music] what's a lovely thing isn't it when they sing together it's such a beautiful thing it's just the way that they embrace sort of that that moment together and uh they genuinely are really enjoying the music it's not the really obvious sort of 80s hits but it's kind of ones that are just you might have half forgotten then the minute they kick in you can kind of still sing the chorus which is really clever because you know your your delight hearing those songs kind of matches theirs and it means that you know you feel like part of the experience [Music] he's always loving music he's always with any excuse to sing and that that's the strength of cartier he takes a very very simple idea and he made it so watchable and it's a fantastic device of course too for moments of tension and moments of exhilaration to be able to just knock a tune out on in the car i love this yeah classic [Music] this is what you own you're driving home you can see that there's a connection with the characters in that car it's in abundance the the love that they have for each other and it's just underground it's only at the end that you actually realize or they realize that actually is more to them just a friendship [Music] [Music] as the episodes go on it's just obvious that the pair of them should be starting off from the same house you're kind of willing them to get together and there's all these lovely little sweet romantic moments between them [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a classic trope for comedy isn't it jon's a bit of a doofus you know jon's sort of emotionally inept and can't quite work out that katie's in love with him oh me too oh i love this i love it [Music] that scene for me is one of the best written and best performed pieces of television i've ever watched and the bafta goes to peter kaye [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he's heavy in it hey [Applause] [Music] you want love he must be one of the most awarded comedians that there are he said everything and you don't get that unless you're as special as he really is [Applause] thanks [Applause] would you welcome please peter kay [Applause] [Music] [Applause] peter k on chat shows that's that's a whole nother chapter i brought a bag of treats dinner because it was your last show i thought you know i thought we'd be able to [Applause] with peter it's that kind of quite old-school showbiz thing we live now in a culture where it's about being honest show weakness show your vulnerability the whole that that whole thing but peter's more like a bit more bluster no you're hanging it up you've got to keep active you know what i mean i don't want you going stiff and i've got you um yeah you'll love this stand up stand up oh god let's get together i've got your job [Applause] [Music] i like the anarchy that he brings to it he's not your normal guest is he he will do that it's almost like you know rod hall and emu sort of thing [Applause] 20 minutes 20 minutes in morning to primary school it's a primary school 20 minutes tomorrow 20 minutes at night you had to feel for michael parkinson or any of his other victims i've never seen anybody from these shores that has disrupted a chat show in such a devilishly funny way not been on this new set have you not been on here no oh no no because that's that's a that's a health and safety issue i think if you're jonathan ross in that situation you're probably terrified and there's a huge part of you thinking this is absolutely brilliant now you're going to hurt yourself no don't have honesty no this is going to this is going to end badly is it always [Applause] he completely hijacks into you basically as he often does on chat shows because i think you know partly out of privacy and partly because he likes to sort of take control of the situation i'm going to do what i want if i want to walk over there i'm going to walk over there they can all follow me obviously it's not pizza it's peter been incredibly entertaining but he's not telling you how he's feeling or does he get nervous before he goes on stage or what do you know i mean the classic thing that often people want to know about you've all lined up though yeah i don't like that i like still living in bolton road trip down to london i've never got asked well i'm gonna show them what's that there's nothing on there about nipples no i just wonder whether you ever played a little joke so you won't park it i'd write his questions for him and he'd stick to him whilst he makes it into this kind of very funny little experience he says absolutely nothing about his own life which is quite clever i think he does that to kind of as a disarming tactic like one to take things away from having to talk about himself which he hates two because it's funny you did your normal you did your own to it yourself didn't you [Applause] he's ashamed he's a complete showman so he he doesn't want to tell you about his life necessarily he just wants to be really funny and go home he wants to give them that bravado that flourish and he doesn't want to disappoint an audience even when he's on parkinson he's basically doing he's stand up a lot of the time does he ever get up at morning and your alarm goes off and it's three minutes past eight but you always wait till five pass i was gonna round it up till eight or five i'm not getting up on a bloody odd number i'm not stupid peter k has understood that a chat show is another great platform for him to display his comedic prowess not only just like sell his latest project but just to be funny but i believe you're about to go on tour soon yeah i am okay now what i want to know is first during eight years that's the thing why did you wait ideas because i don't like it what don't no i do like it but it's terrifying what's terrifying standing on the stage in front of 14 000 people try to make them laugh we haven't toured for quite a long time and there was a real sense of like you know this is a big moment this tour announcement i'm going back on tour announces a big tour the excitement is is huge if he hasn't toured for six years the amount of people he's gonna hundreds and hundreds of thousands are immediately gonna buy tickets [Music] fans of the comedian peter k are being told they'll get a full refund after his much awaited live arena tour was cancelled today due to unforeseen family circumstances i deeply regret that i'm having to cancel all of my upcoming work projects my sincerest apologies this decision has not been taken lightly and i'm sure you'll understand my family must always come first he said it was due to unforeseen family circumstances but he did not elaborate further more than a million tickets will now be refunded while kay himself will miss out on many millions of pounds in revenue given that the tour was not due to finish until at this london venue in the summer of 2019. richard palo itv news at the o2 arena in london people move on to speculating about what that might be and they'll never got any information there's a very very good reason for why i didn't do it and it was a personal reason and we have to respect that however disappointing is thank you and thank you very much the appearance was brief and without warning but it was without doubt the man himself telling the audience not to say a word about what they were about to see [Applause] it's the first time kay's been seen on stage since cancelling his tour in december citing unexplained family reasons either bennett itv news so what is he going to do next no idea i'm sure that he's out there somewhere inventing a whole new um new show of another character or something completely different to what he's already done he's just got such a god-given talent that you know it would be nice to hear some more comedy from him [Music] to do a run of 50 nights at the o2 so you can imagine connecting with 15 000 people i was there the first night the o2 as his guests with a lot of other people and it was just phenomenal because of the quality of his output the length of time he's been going um and his widespread popularity i think he's the biggest star in the country he's the most popular comedian in the country without doubt he's definitely a 10 out of 10. peter kay is one of britain's greatest ever comedians [Music] i hope he finally does the stand-up tour i hope that he goes on and continues to be prolific but mainly i hope there's more peter kate pk is one of the best british comics there ever been the audience love him and they're going to keep coming back for more they can wait tantalisingly just when he's got the audience in a frenzy he stops and we have to wait and we have to hope there'll be another series or another stand-up tour thank you so much everybody i really appreciate it take care i'll see you again maybe one day thank you [Music] huh [Music] you

Channel: Unk Drummer

Views: 332,294

Keywords: Peter kay, In My Own Words, Documentary, educational

Id: xaZ0h2dtze0

Length: 94min 29sec (5669 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 16 2021