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2:38Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. Hey guys, welcome back to Great Moments. Now, usually Great Moments is an opportunity for us to give you guys a piece of advice, something to take away from the conversation I've had with so many of our amazing guests. But this week is a little bit different. I wanted to share a little bit of my conversation with my great friend Jack Whitehall. Now when Jack came on Great Company, he told me he only agreed to do it because he owed me a favor. So in this great moment, you'll find out what that favor was and why it's still one of my favorite stories from the show.

3:12Now if you like what you hear, you can check out the full episode. All you've got to do is click on the show notes and it'll take you to it. So here it is, Great Moments with Jack Whitehall.

3:24So the reason why, for people who don't know why Jack is doing this podcast, isn't because your PR team emailed or anything like that. The reason is, is because you owe me a favor. I do. I owe you a solid. You owe me a big solid. A really big solid. So what happened? We were at Glastonbury Festival, having a merry old time, and it was one of my sort of first weekends away from my wonderful partner, Roxy, and my beautiful baby, Elsie. and because I was away at a music festival having a jolly old time, I decided that I would organize them a nice weekend with her sister, who also has a baby, and some of her other family and arrange for them to have a lovely weekend at Centre Parcs.

4:14So they were there going to Centre Parcs, they would have a lovely weekend, I would be at Glastonbury in a muddy field having a merry old time and it was the perfect plan until Saturday afternoon when they were in the car on the way down to Centre Parcs and I was in a field sort of two days into Glastonbury, very merry, and started getting some text messages and phone calls and looked down at my phone and I called her back and she answered and it turned out that she had arrived at center parks and i'd booked center parks for the wrong weekend and she had driven for two and a half hours with her my baby and her niece as well a newborn baby and they were stood in a car park of center parks they wouldn't let them onto the property they had nowhere to uh stay no shelter for the night this was at about 5.30 in the afternoon.

5:16And I would say one of the bleaker moments of my life, like I saw everything flash before my eyes. It was like muck, sweat, panic. I was not necessarily in the best state of mind to deal with such a crisis. And it went into full crisis mode. At a bar at Glastonbury, there was like a huddle called, like, what do we do? I am the worst parent and indeed human being ever. my partner and family are stranded in a car park at Centre Parks. They may perish this evening. And how do I rescue them? No shelter. So what happened next is I come back and I realize there's a big kerfuffle. Yeah. You sort of swan in.

5:58I swan in and I'm realizing that there's a big kerfuffle going on. I'm just thinking, right, I can obviously help this. I mean, I've never seen so many people just panic in every single situation. No, I know. It was proper panic stations. Initially, I would say you were very unhelpful. for the situation because it was a very grave situation and I don't think you understood the sort of severity of it because we were all there like seriously on our phones like trying to find somewhere that you know a hotel or anywhere that would be an Airbnb and then you sort of like rock in with a big shit eating grin on your face and I was ready to party a pint of warm beer a pint of empathy a pint of empathy I had a pint of empathy and charisma in my hand that's what I had and you were like i'll just start calling around hotels i don't think that's going to be how you you but you did and you were very good you found a couple of hotels some of which were like in scotland and we're like no jimmy that's not going to work so then what happened was as i said okay well where are they and you said where they were and i said well i have a mutual friend yeah who there's no route through this part of the story that doesn't suddenly get really like disgustingly privileged so so you just you just got gone darting go straight straight for the bullseye just go straight for it yeah go straight for it you were like i think i know the owner of longleat i'm like oh of course you do of course you do probably wanked off his uncle charter house and you were like no no it's not actually that it's a it's a it's a it's i did Strictly Come Dancing with Lady Emma Weymouth.

7:40Yeah. And I believe she is... The Countess. The Countess. Yeah, I think she's the Countess of Longleat. Of Longleat. So... So the Count called the Countess. I... And also, you at this time, you were thinking there's no way this is going to work. Yeah. You were thinking there's no way this is going to work. Yeah. I phoned her. She... I speak to her. We message each other. She comes to the rescue in the most brilliant way and then sets you guys up. Well, not you, but Roxy and everyone. Yeah. All up for the weekend. And I had a night in a manger with some giraffes. Long, what is long? It was like the Christmas story.

8:21What were they? Knocked on the inn? Knocked on the inn and they had no room. But Lady Emma Weymouth said, there is a place where we keep the giraffes. It's a sort of manger and you can stay there for the evening. longlead is like what a safari park in in near i would say sort of near the cotswolds yeah yeah so i left so i left glastonbury immediately got in a car no you didn't shut up and i drove there and i took them from the car park and i drove them to longlead where they stayed in the safari park and we all had a lovely weekend and i sacrificed the rest of my time at glastonbury because i'm a good dad and a good partner it's actually the it's the it's the complete opposite to that part.

9:00When I walked into the scenario in this sort of caravan... I had to leave on the Sunday because I couldn't bear to be there while Shania Twain was on stage and you endlessly went on. You had to be dragged. There's my mate. Hey, Shania. Do you remember coming on the podcast? And she would have been like, yeah, I do. I think Shania Twain's name came out of your mouth maybe a thousand times on that weekend. Because I know her. And everyone else there. At one point, you were going to call her and ask whether Roxy and Elsie could stay with her for the rest of the weekend in whatever accommodation Glastonbury had laid on for her.

9:34Yeah, I would just call Shania. You said this to me. You said we're in the caravan and I said, I think I can sort this out for you. You said to me, I will do anything. I will do anything. I think I actually said something a bit more graphic at the time. I think you said, I'll give you a blowjob. No, I wasn't going to say. Maybe I would have done that anecdote back in the day with you and Franny Bull on the Private Parts podcast. But not now, not on this. No, not now, not on this. I did maybe say I'd go down on you. You did say something. And you said, well, instead of that, maybe you just come on the podcast.

10:10I've got something worse than that. Will you come on my podcast? Similar experience to going down on you. And you said, yes. That would have been over a lot quicker. No, it wouldn't. I'd have made you suffer. I thought this was the highbrow one. You've got all these books. Yeah, I've got it. Tell me about these books. Well, these are all the books. So Jack is pointing at our sort of room that we're filming in, the set. And there's loads of books behind you. Yeah. Have you ever read... A book? Have you ever read my autobiography? No. Why have you not read it? That's presumably not on there. It's actually not up there for some reason.

10:48Do you have to just buy all of these books at the same time? Or do they come from someone else's house? No, this is what the books have read. We want a set that has loads of books on it, so it looks like it's a proper high-bound adventure. Producer Jemima says that we had to buy them by the kilo.

11:04Oh, that's amazing. When you... How many times have you used the sentence, I know the owner of Longley? How often have you used that flex? You've been using it probably all weekend, and finally, it came good. When you... Swanning into Shangri-La at 4 a.m. in the morning. I know. Seeing someone with a tiger painted on their face. Oh, like animals. I know the owner of Longley. Fuck off, mate. Can I ask questions? Because I obviously do stuff with Sophie. And who anyone doesn't know is my wife. And look, there's really great things about it, right? Because you know each other so well. And it's fun.

11:50And you can riff with each other. and that's a really great thing the negative is that we're married yes and that's a lot because you're then working together you're living together it's everything together and then politics come into play in lots of different spaces i don't think sophie and i really speak about that that much but it you know that does have its difficulties and it's definitely had that in the past a lot more than it does now you work with your dad and then your mom and And Barney, your brother, helps you, you know, managing you in lots of ways. And so, you know, it's become over the course of, you know, how many years you've been doing comedy now, 15 years, that it's become a family affair in lots of ways.

12:31What are the negatives of that? Well, I mean, with my father definitely feeling sometimes like, you know, I need to sort of protect him. And he is so much, you know, older than he was when we started doing this. and his sort of energy levels and just his health you know i i'm very keen not to push him too far and so that's always a concern of mine and uh you know unlike any other show you have to be really careful with how you schedule it and and i'm always like oh we can film you know keep going and film day after day and travel and all of these things and so it has to be very very carefully managed for his welfare so that that that can be quite hard and on the occasions where i feel like i've sort of pushed him a little bit too far or he's so far out of his comfort zone that he's feeling uncomfortable then you feel a little bit guilty um so that that element of it is hard i suppose with family it means that you can like lean into stuff much easier but then you would probably have more arguments yeah we don't really have arguments but you certainly end up stressing about things that you would never stress about where you filming a normal show with a fellow professional you know the whole filming process of doing stuff with my dad is all about like where he's going to be able to have lunch and like that will be the whole focus of the day is not not the content or the person we're interviewing or researching any of it or worrying about like how a scene is going to work it will all be about like whether we can finish in time to get him to a restaurant at one o 'clock where he can eat some decent food and have a glass of wine and then have an hour off.

14:12And if he's had a decent enough lunch and has been given some alcohol, then he might be willing to do a couple of hours in the afternoon before he then finishes at five and returns to a hotel, which again, there will have been extensive discussions about the quality of the hotel and whether it is going to be up to scratch. Because if it isn't, then you might as well write off the following day because the whole day will be spent complaining about the hotel that he's had to sleep in and the lack of a decent lunch the day before. and that whole thing is that and you gotta because i know michael very well as well that is actually what he's like what you see on the show and typically with like i know reality shows or or entertainment shows or shows which sort of show your personality they're kind of sort of volumed up in some sort of ways michael is pretty similar yeah he's very similar he's very similar to what he's portrayed on the show and sometimes you get that sweet spot have you ever seen the footage of like those Russian bear tamers you know it feels like that it feels like very high stakes and sometimes he's the bear I'm the tamer yeah you know again ethical questions about whether I should be taming a bear but as the bear you know sometimes you know he performs but there's always the fear that he's going to turn on his tamer and rip him to shreds at any moment and still one of the scenes that lives completely rent free in my mind is when you're on a train and the steward.

15:39Steward.

15:44Well, you explain it. Well, he comes in and he introduces himself. As the steward. As the steward. And Michael goes, oh, thank you very much, Stuart. Thanks, it's me, it's Stuart. No, no, no, he's not called Stuart. We're in Vietnam. Does he look like Stuart? oh I thought he'd introduced himself and he was called Stuart he was called Stuart and then that's again like a classic moment of my dad's where then for the rest of the eight-hour train journey he keeps calling him Stuart but the but then there's a and I don't know if you can say this because you maybe you told it to me in private once but there was a and maybe you can't if you can't that's fine but there was this there was a scenario that happened in Chernobyl wasn't there with your dad was there yeah I mean that was one of those moments where I did feel like I'd pushed him too far and he'd been traveling for hours and it was a really hot day and he was very dehydrated um and he had a sort of bit of a medical emergency at Chernobyl in like the in like the the forest like woodlands of of Chernobyl as well we were in a van and he had to pull over and had a bit of an explosive diarrhea situation, which culminated in me and Michael in the woods and me having to hold him as well because you can't lean on anything in Chernobyl because everything's radioactive and they keep telling you that when you enter, don't touch anything.

17:08So I had to hold his hands and cradle him in my arms as he shat onto the forest floor. And that was the moment where I was like, I think this has gone too far now. wow it's the greatest image in the world I know, it's scarred onto my memory this is so undignified that's what he said, I always remember it this is so undignified there was a dog as well there was feral dogs at Chernobyl so there was a dog trying to get at the ship genuinely I'm holding him a situation is happening and I'm also trying to shoo a dog away out of all of you guys you why do you love i just thought of something that he did um on friday that made me laugh because he he does make me cracks me up and and we do share a very very good sense of humor i would say you know as you've met him his sense of humor is um is quite uh is dry it's quite uh at times quite caustic it's probably not particularly politically correct as well so there's always the slight fear um not with a netflix show because you can edit the netflix show but once he's been sort of let loose into the world there is the fear that because he's an 84 year old man that there is a gun like with a loaded chamber that could go off at any moment um so he's pretty good and he i think he gets it enough to know that he needs to have some kind of a filter but he you know is definitely capable of making some pretty wrote comments and we were on the one show on friday and he sat there basically in silence and i was like okay so we're gonna get the sort of joe biden michael whitehall just freezing up on live television which is fine i can take that that's that's absolutely fine because we're safe when he drifts off and he's not even like engaged in it but then we were on with the uh the women's um uh football manager emma hayes who's the coach of the us she's amazing yeah and she was there talking about her book at seven o 'clock on the one show.

19:17And at one point she started talking about a study that she'd done into women's health, uh, within, um, sport. And she said, I did a whole, um, a whole, uh, uh, study into, uh, the effect of menstruation on, uh, female athletes and how their periods affect their performance on the pitch. And I don't know whether it was deliberate, but I then felt Michael just tapping me on the leg and I just felt him just nudge me with his knee and i was just like no no whatever it is whatever the thought is whatever you're gonna just don't say it there is nothing that you can add to this conversation there's no funny comment just sit there and just just shush stay quiet but like that like i honestly like heart in mouth going what what was he gonna say like what was he gonna say on the one show having said nothing on the entire show but the one time he wants to pipe up is when emma hayes is talking about menstruation in women's sport no one wants to hear your opinion on that i like i wish i had that graham norton lever to just like tip him back on the sofa

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