Update 20/5: Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson are going to do their podcast live at the London Podcast Festival at Kings Place on September 22. Tickets go on sale at noon on May 31. Link here. They've been having problems with their site so if it doesn't work call 020 7520 1490.
Bob Mortimer has launched a podcast.
The comedian has teamed up with writer and prolific tweeter Andy Dawson, aka @profanityswan, to producer Athletico Mince. The theme is supposed to be football – Mortimer supports Middlesbrough, Dawson supports Sunderland – but inevitably the conversation spins off in all sorts of unexpected directions.
The podcast has been low-key up to now. The first instalment was entitled The Power of Gentleness. The second podcast concerned The Reverse Toilet. The third instalment, Chickens, has just been made available here.
Highlights of the third episode include Mortimer talking about the fact that Rafa Benitez has been wearing South Park socks and asking if a funny sock is actually ever funny.
Dawson asks Mortimer about footballers he has met and Bob discusses Emerson, who played for Middlesbrough in the 1990s. "His hair was so wet and shiny you'd believe he had a 'tache". He also recalls how he once flew to Liverpool with Vic in a two-seater plane to interview a footballer and when they got into the airport building they shook the pilot's hand and he made a noise like a plane engine (bit like the old WW2 Carling Black label TV ad).
Mortimer also recalls going to Italia '90 and seeing England beat Cameroon in the quarter finals. Mortimer had tickets for the semi-final against Germany but was scared of the potential violence so watched the match on a big screen elsewhere. When Germany scored one guy shouted "Jah" and then when everyone stared at him he walked out. A few years later Bob told the story to Charlie Higson and added the phrase "I'll get my coat" and Charlie asked if he could use it. The rest is Fast Show history.
Mortimer also mentions his recent heart scan, wears a large badge that says "I like dinosaurs" and claims to be a memory man who knows all the Gambian football league statistics.
Listen here.
