Ross Noble reflects on his 21st tour – Sussex dates - video Dailymotion

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Ross Noble is back in the UK for – remarkably – his 21st solo stand-up tour Jibber Jabber Jamboree, with dates including Brighton Dome (Friday, February 9) and Eastbourne’s Devonshire Park (Wednesday, February 21).

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00:00 Yeah, great.

00:01 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.

00:06 Fantastic pleasure, huge pleasure to speak to Ross Noble no less.

00:09 And you are heading our way on 'What is your 21st tour?'

00:13 You're coming to Eastbourne and Brighton very shortly.

00:16 21st tour, that is incredible longevity in comedy.

00:19 You must feel enormously proud to have reached that landmark.

00:23 I thought you were going to say, 'And that is why you look as old and agitated.'

00:28 I would just like to point out as well that I'm currently on tour at the moment

00:36 and I'm staying in, where am I sitting? Ross on Why?

00:40 Oh, nice.

00:41 Which my tour manager did point out, that's the sort of thing that

00:45 Channel 5 would turn into a series for me.

00:49 It's just going to be like, 'It's Ross on Why!'

00:52 So I'm currently staying by a sort of a beautiful river and all the rest of it,

01:04 which is why I've got, that's why there's an Ordnance Survey map.

01:07 I was wondering, I thought you were planning your next run on that.

01:10 Well, people might be looking at this and just thinking that I'm in some sort of sauna

01:15 and that I've got a large Swedish woman with some birch whipping my legs.

01:23 I'm not, that is literally, that's a cupboard and this isn't my house.

01:27 The thought never flitted through my mind, I promise.

01:30 I do this tour, I'm doing the whole thing with, instead of GPS, it's all orienteering.

01:38 So every single gig that I do has to be within visual distance of a trig point.

01:49 Fair enough, fair enough.

01:51 But the 21st, that is a hell of an achievement, isn't it?

01:55 And when you look back, do you feel that you've become a very different comedian over the years?

02:00 Have you changed?

02:01 Yeah, I think I've become a very different person, you know, over that.

02:06 I don't know if I've, I don't know if I've become a different, have I become a different comedian?

02:13 Yeah, I think I have. I think, I mean, the difference is that when I, you know, when I started,

02:18 I was, obviously I was a, you know, I was a small child.

02:22 I was, you know, I was a single bloke that just basically, I mean, essentially just lived out of my car, you know.

02:30 I was just travelling around doing gigs and dossing on people's floors and stuff.

02:34 And then. But now you're a family man living on the other side of the world.

02:38 Exactly. Yeah. And so, yeah, so you sort of, I think you do sort of, I think you change in terms of like things.

02:45 My entire life was just being a comedian, you know, and I think you can sort of, you know, when you do a gig,

02:53 you do a gig and then you basically move to the next gig.

02:56 That's, that's your entire, that's your entire world, which makes you really good at being on stage.

03:02 It means you're really good at being a comedian. But I think over the years, I was about, this sounds so,

03:11 this sounds like I'm going to write some sort of self-help book.

03:14 But I think you become, you sort of become a human being.

03:19 You become a better human being rather than, I used to think, oh, just being a, just being a really good comic.

03:25 I don't worry about all that. Don't worry about.

03:28 You must be a better comedian for having more happening in your life, mustn't you?

03:31 Exactly. Exactly.

03:32 More to draw on.

03:33 Turns out that that is the lesson that you need to learn. So, yeah.

03:37 And obviously, come at a different perspective. You live in Australia, don't you?

03:41 To come back to the UK, do you see the UK in a different way these days?

03:46 Yeah, yeah, very much so. I mean, I was here, so we were, we were living, we were living in Kent for like 10 years.

03:57 And then we only moved back. So people always, when I'm here, people always think that, like when I'm living here,

04:04 people think I live in Australia. When I live in Australia, people always think I'm here.

04:07 But I sort of, you know, we split out anyway because of the kids and all that.

04:11 We have to sort of decide. So anyway, we've only been back there a couple of years now.

04:15 But no, I do, I do notice it. I think the big thing that I notice, which my only,

04:22 my only major criticism of this country, which nobody, everyone's used to it, so they don't realise,

04:30 but the only thing that annoys me about Britain is the fact that, when I say this, it's going to,

04:38 this will blow your mind, right? In Australia, when you go to the supermarket, you give them your bags,

04:45 you know, your recyclable bags and whatnot, and they put the bags next to them and then they go bleep

04:51 and they put it in the bag like that. So there's literally, it goes bleep and it's in the bag.

04:57 And it's just, it takes less effort and less time than throwing them, you know, here, it's basically,

05:06 they just go bleep. - Well, the fact is, it's down to you to make that suggestion and see how it goes.

05:11 - Oh, that's, I'm going to, you know, when I eventually do run for Parliament, that will be my first thing.

05:17 So that's the thing that I notice the most. And I always, every time I, and I always forget,

05:23 and I'll go to the, you know, I'll be in the supermarket, I'll just get a few odds and ends.

05:29 And then you go, would you like a bag? Yes, please. There's the bag. And then they just go,

05:33 and they just chuck it. But, you know, the arts and the culture and the history and the availability

05:42 of things, it's much better in this country than it is in Australia. So, you know, but yeah.

05:50 - But Australia is where you're going to stay, is it, do you think?

05:53 - No, I think we'll, I think once the kids, once kids are through high school,

06:00 then I'm going to go back to what we used to do, which was perfect, was we would,

06:07 I constantly chased the summers. So I would basically, as soon as it got cold,

06:12 I would go and tour Australia and then vice versa. So I was in a constant summer.

06:20 So yeah, no, we'll come back here once they're, yeah, once they're big enough.

06:25 But at the moment it's kind of, it's really hard to go, right, six months and then change school again.

06:31 But no, I'll be back. I'll be back for sure. But only if Marks and Spencers

06:36 and Sainsbury's can decide on just a bit of basic human decency.

06:42 - Right, well it's down to you to make that change. Brilliant. Really, really lovely to speak to you.

06:48 Good luck on your 21st tour. And thanks so much for your time, Ross. Thank you.

06:52 - Oh, see you.

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Ross Noble reflects on his 21st tour – Sussex dates

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