Still Game actor Mark Cox on his new show

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Still Game actor Mark Cox tells us all about his new one man show he is taking out on tour.

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00:00We're about to embark on a tour around Scotland, a comedy tour, tell us a wee bit about it.

00:05Well it's an audience with myself, I'm the last of the cast to go out and do stuff myself, you know,

00:10so I thought to myself, I'd like to go out and do that, so we're doing about 11, just 11 dates

00:15from Aberdeen down to Lockerbie, all over its own breakneck.co.uk, their website, different

00:26sites, so we're looking forward to that, so it's just an audience with myself, different stories,

00:30still game stuff, growing up in the East End of Glasgow, a bit of chewing the fat stuff,

00:39reflecting back on that, we were just talking about that all those years ago, a decade ago,

00:45so I just love going out and doing that, you know, and people come out, they love it.

00:49Is there a reason why you're maybe the last person to kind of go out there and do that?

00:53It's not something I, I like to, I suppose I like to kind of go at different times with good

01:00people, I thought I'm not bothered doing that, but actually it's a place I like to be, you know,

01:05I love, I love doing stuff for people that are coming out and they love to hear the different

01:08stories, they're different stories, you know, we all have different stories and different

01:11memories of things, you know. Obviously we're kind of used to seeing you on our television screen

01:17too, what kind of different experience was that for you, going from being on the telly,

01:21being my cast that, you know, whatever, to be up on the stage yourself.

01:24I don't mind that, you know, I like that in fact, because it's, you know, the audience

01:28themselves are coming, they're coming, they know roughly what they're going to hear,

01:32but they can ask their own questions as well, which is good in the second half,

01:35and the questions are always varied, you know, bizarre. They can ask anything you like,

01:40up to a point, you know who I'm talking to.

01:42I know you're playing one gig in Glasgow, which, I mean, I think to some people they

01:48always think the Still Game is a Glasgow show, but it is a Scottish show, do you find that the

01:52audiences have a kind of different interpretation as you go around the place to what Still Game

01:57is, are you a part of it or anything like that?

01:59I think Glasgow is a big part of it, and you know, you hear people when you travel about,

02:04they know it's a Glasgow-based show, but the humour itself, because now it's on Netflix,

02:08they're getting messages from people in Japan and America and Canada, so it travels,

02:14good comedy does travel, there's no matter where it's from, but this is, you know,

02:18Craig Lang's fictional town, it is based in Glasgow.

02:23In terms of just kind of getting out there on the road and stuff,

02:27is that experience different? Do you like doing it? I know obviously you're saying you're fine

02:30going up on stage, but you're going through different places, is it something that you like?

02:34Do you get out and about when you're doing it and stuff?

02:35I love doing that, I love doing that, I've been fortunate enough to see lots of places

02:39when we've been doing that, but I love doing that, you know, that's been the beauty of that,

02:44I've been an actor in many ways that things change from day to day, you're not doing it,

02:50so it's great to get out and see in Scotland, in North England, wherever else it is we go, you know.

02:55You've just been out on a tour with your fellow Still Game star, Jane Macari,

02:59and again, you must be getting great reception when you go out and speak to people as a pair.

03:05It's magic, you know, and we've had, you know, if people come, there's a couple that come and see us from Canada,

03:10you know, a guy and a girl, originally Pernsworth from Glasgow, but we are Still Game fanatics,

03:15they come and see us quite a lot, but we toured up to Storn away, and we were in Barra a few weeks ago,

03:20and landed on the beach, on the plane, that was quite a thing, 16-seater, and people do it,

03:27it travels everywhere, and it travels through all these age groups, you know, some comedies are

03:33for young people, yep, some are for old. Still Game takes everybody's age in, and everybody enjoys it,

03:39you know, so they all come out, so you've got this big mixture of different age folk with different

03:44backgrounds. What would be your genesis to people that maybe think, you know, that Mark Cox is

03:49completely different than Tam Mullen? Well, that's it, he is, he is different, he just happens to have

03:54played that for quite a long time, you know, and obviously we do, we only ever filmed it for six

03:59days a week, six, six weeks of the year, but we did Still Game, so it's 30 years I've been an actor,

04:06so you're always doing different things, there'd be a bit in that department queue, it was at Netflix,

04:11you know, Outlander, your job an actor, you're always doing stuff, you know, but I am, I'm quite

04:17different than Tam, I'm sure at all. Would you buy a pint? No, if I did I'd be looking for some form of this game, you know, and that's just...

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