PHIL COMPARING FRIED CHICKEN TO SEX
Nick: “So today we welcome a man who knows what he likes when he comes to food. He hates cooked salmon, he loves tea, and reckons fried chicken is like sex”
Phil: “Did I say that about fried chicken? Well, I can't, can't imagine what I could've possibly meant.”
Nick: “It says here in your food talking points research, Phil, ‘He loves fried chicken. He said that fried chicken is like sex because, ‘Feels good in the moment, but it's depressing afterwards.’’
Phil: “Oh yes, that's right. That's true. Yes, yes, yes. You know what it’s like. Yeah. You have a fried chicken and you're lying in your bed and having a cigarette and you go, that was unwise.”
PHIL ON MALAYSIAN EATING HABITS/CULTURAL DIFFERENCES TO THE UK
“I feel like food in Malaysia is what booze is here. Malaysians eat the way Brits go to the pub. It's a social thing. So like coffee shops, hawker centres, they're open in Malaysia- some of them open all night, they're open late. And you, that's where you go to socialise in the way that you go for a pint here. And so that's the amount of energy and passion that goes into food in Malaysia. Every meal is like hot and tasty and spicy and delicious. Whereas in the UK, I found that meals could be a little more functional. They're about getting you- Yeah, getting you through the afternoon.”
ANGELA ON BREAKING A NEIGHBOUR’S RICE COOKER
“I mean, we have these neighbours, and we broke their rice cooker. We sort of have a lot- well, they're great neighbours, they're wonderful. They gave us the keys to their house and everything, and we've managed- we borrowed their hoover once ‘cause our hoover was broken. Then I said, okay, I'll take our broken hoover to the dump, I threw theirs away by mistake. We had their rice cooker, Neil broke the rice cooker. I mean, every time I touch something, so I'm sort, you know, so it's- literally like, it's like anything. My mum went there, stayed the night, they’ve got a lovely cream carpet - red toothpaste, you know. Like, I mean, Karen's ready to kill me, so… I will do it. I need to have my own rice cooker. I don't know. But you know- whether we left it on overnight. You can leave it on for a long time, can't you?”
PHIL ON HIS PARENTS’ REACTION TO HIS COMEDY CAREER
“Well, when, when I got on Have I Got News For You was when my mother finally stopped suggesting I get an MBA. She- before that point, she was like, ‘Oh, how's comedy going? Oh, that's wonderful dear. Have you thought about doing an MBA?’ Thought about getting a business… It's just, you know, just in case. And it's only when I got on Have I Got News For You that she finally went, okay, you don't have to. They have [come to shows], they have done in the past, yeah. I don't love them coming to my show. Because my mother has found things about my life through my stand-up that I would never tell her in person.”
PHIL ON NEVER EATING BEFORE COMEDY PANEL SHOWS
“My worst ever panel show appearance was on Would I Lie To You. It's a good show. It’s very popular, so real shame to do badly on it. And I basically didn't say a word, because just beforehand I'd had the biggest fried rice of my life. ecause when you get to the studio, someone will come and very kindly say, what do you want to eat? Well, we've got Portuguese high street chain, we've got Japanese-Asian fusion high street chain - I dunno if I'm allowed to say these names, anyway - I had a big Wagamama’s fried rice, and I got, I got so excited because this was early on, you know, I was like, wow, can I have anything? So I was like, I had a fried rice with a miso soup and gyoza on the side. Yeah, exactly. And I just loaded up and they were like, alright, Phil, we're starting now, and I'm like ugh. All the blood in my brain had gone down to my stomach. I was, I was dehydrated from the salt of the soy, so my mouth was just ugh, and I couldn't think because my brain was dehydrated. And so I just sat there struggling, drinking water for like two hours. I was on with Lee Mack, who’s hard enough to keep up with when you aren't dying of dehydration.”
PHIL ON MAKING WILL SMITH LAUGH
“So I, I met Amy Schumer a few years ago. She saw, a little set I did on Netflix and she liked it and she'd got in touch with me and we've been friends ever since. … And then she found out she was going to host the, the Oscars, and she asked around a bunch of comedian friends if they had any jokes to offer, so I wrote a, a few and she used my one, I wrote one that was about the Will Smith movie, King Richard, which is about the, the father of the Williams sisters and how he trained them to become the tennis superstars that they are. And the joke I wrote was, ‘Isn't it amazing? After years of Hollywood ignoring women's stories, this year we finally got a movie about the incredible Williams sisters’ dad.’ So, and- So she did that joke, and it cuts to Will Smith and he's laughing, and that was- you know, you have some surreal moments in this career, but watching Will Smith laugh at the Oscars to my joke was, that was weird.”
