Frank Skinner on stand-up, Anfield and Paul McCartney

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Frank Skinner is bringing his latest stand-up tour to Liverpool in November. The comedy legend's talks to us about his latest comedy, Anfield, Goodison Park and Paul McCartney.

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00:00I've been doing stand-up now for a little over 30 years but basically it's always been a bit on the

00:08rude side and I made an attempt in recent times to try and clean it up and make it a bit more

00:17sophisticated and anyone who comes to see this show will see whether I succeeded or failed.

00:23Yeah and tell me how you're feeling about coming up to Liverpool to do this show,

00:27I know obviously you've got the connection with the Lightning Seeds.

00:31I love it, I've had some brilliant times there, not just as a comedian but just as a

00:37person. I went to see Paul McCartney once in Albert Dock and there's a moment, I think this

00:44really sums up Liverpool because I got spotted in the audience, I was with my, I was supposed

00:53to become my life partner but at the time we hadn't been together that long and we both thought

00:58it was an indoor gig so she'd got like, just like a vest top and I'd got a Beatles t-shirt on and we

01:07were frozen and the audience spent about 10 minutes just taking the piss out of us, out of me

01:16anyway, not out of her and then I saw these two things coming, being passed over and someone had

01:23sent over a couple of fleeces for us to put on and I thought actually, like piling into you

01:31and really taking the mickey out of you and then giving you the fleece is sort of what Liverpool

01:36is really. What about football wise, because you, am I right in saying you're a West Brom fan?

01:42I am a West Brom fan, yeah. Have you been up to see them play up in Liverpool at all? Yeah, I went

01:49up many, many years long before you were born, you won't believe this but West Brom was top of the,

01:56what was then called Division One but now the Premier League and Liverpool were second and in

02:01those days Liverpool were always top and I went up to Anfield to watch the game, it was pretty,

02:09in those days this was before seats and stuff, so when you went for a wee at halftime you didn't

02:16go to the toilet, you just stood at the steps and just weed down the steps. So I remember when we

02:21ran out of there my mate slipped on it because it was like skiing but it was in the days

02:29where the crowd would surge forward so you'd start at the back and end up down the front and stuff,

02:34it was a pretty amazing place to be but yeah, I mainly remember the Uri and I went to

02:45an Everton game, again long before you were born and I think it was one of the first ever

02:51Sunday football games in England and it was because there was power cuts, so the Everton,

03:01where the ground was, they had their power on a Sunday not on a Saturday so they had to move

03:09the kickoff but you couldn't charge people then, sorry this is a real old man's story,

03:15but you couldn't charge people to watch football on a Sunday, that was the law.

03:20So we had to, we sort of theoretically got in free but you had to buy a team sheet

03:28so it was a way of getting around the law but then I realised that loads of the Everton fans

03:33had realised that you don't, they can't make you buy the t-shirt so they just went in free,

03:38they were a bit smarter than the West Brom fans but yeah, I've had happy and painful

03:48memories from football in Liverpool. Well listen, I hope that your stand-up is more happy

03:55than painful when you come. I hope so too.

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