Dear Rob & Tom You won't understand how encouraging this interview was. I loved it!

@philroberts7238

24 күн бұрын

I certainly understand. And I'd venture to suggest that there are plenty of others all around the world who are either "in the biz", or at least on its fringes (both literally and figuratively), who understand as well as you and I do!

@HENJAM48

3 күн бұрын

I think Tom does.

‘Not caring’ what people thought of Pie turned out to be Walker’s super power

Pie was a game-changer at the right time. People shared the videos like it was ‘the news’. His anger was out anger. Same way that Bill Hicks was the anger that formed who I am now. People in power are f**king sh*ts unless they prove otherwise. Tom, you deserve it. Hats off.

@terryboland3816

15 күн бұрын

BAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Tom you have done a great service to your country. Bringing to light issues and saying what most of us are too shy to say aloud.

Jonathon Pie has long been my guide to the state of British politics. Hats off to Mr Walker - so glad you have pulled the tours and series together without the parasitic Shoehorns. I'm sure you'll continue building a career the equal of Coogan, Gervais and Cohen. Really enjoyed the interview, thanks Rob.

Pie is such a great character. Love his "newscasts" 😂

My niece & saw him live in Birmingham & we were inches from him and he was like tornado on stage.....brilliant, articulate,hilarious and bang on the money as ever 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Does anyone else miss Rob hosting these from his attic office? 👍🏻

@Dontknowmyrealdad1

24 күн бұрын

No

@kurir000

24 күн бұрын

No sir

@johnsterizer

24 күн бұрын

Nostalgia. It's the future.

@mattyward1979

23 күн бұрын

I suffer terribly with Covid nostalgia... There was something of a Blitz spirit to queuing for the shops to protect each other, and aggressively tutting at those getting too close Same with a lot of media created at the time.. cozy little glimpses into worlds we would never be privy to, as people like Rob also looked for a way to create in challenging circumstances

@oneworldfamily

22 күн бұрын

@@mattyward1979 Ha haa! The tutting! I remember that 😆

Great interview. Super candid from Tom.

As a Sheffielder, utterly stoked to hear that about Jarvis Cocker!

@Jim-Scott

23 күн бұрын

I got talking to him for the afternoon at a TFI Friday recording/broadcast when he was at his height, and he's a top bloke. He can sink plenty of pints of Guinness too!

@oneworldfamily

22 күн бұрын

@@Jim-Scott Awesome! I saw him once on the train between Sheffield and Manchester. He got off somewhere in the Peaks - maybe around Hathersage.

Excellent interview. Have enjoyed the Pie character for a long time.

Had never seen him before which is why I never knew it was a character. But then it shows how good he is at playing the part.

Seen both of these guys live, both absolutely hilarious but in entirely different ways. If you get a chance to see either, grab it! Tom sacking his agent because they had forgotten he was on a tour is perfect. I have spent a lot of my working life on agencies (NOT as an actor!) and I have left quite a few because they just didn't give a crap! Well done Tom, it must have felt wonderful!

Tom Walker is Brilliant, very funny 👍

I'm always reminded of the outtake of ITN's Colin Baker - soaking wet and pissed off. One of the early clips from Alright on the Night.

At the end when they said that there will be no DVD because "they don't do them anymore" i felt so lost. To hear that said out aloud fills me with disorientation. I do not recognise this world anymore.

@oneworldfamily

22 күн бұрын

I know what you mean. I've got the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD, before Lucas messed with the 'improvements'. Treasured!

Loved this, fascinating insight into the person behind Jonathan Pie. I've seen him on the last few tours. It's always a riveting and funny show, quite unique.

Richard Herring will love the Stuart Lee shout-out (for his podcast). Wonderful stuff 😂

Very candid from Tom. Brilliant.

Oh please let him know it was brilliant to see this side of him! He seems lovely and i was glued to this. And i have the attention span of gnat!

Guy Michelmore, son of Cliff and Jean Metcalfe, was the tea-spilling newsreader on Newsroom South East.

@LorneMacDougall

24 күн бұрын

Now one of the best online music educators out there! Great to hear Annually Retentive get the credit it deserves too.

The TV news reporter who famously spilled hot drink all over the desk and himself seconds before going live was Guy Mitchelmore, Cliff Mitchelmore's son. I met him a few times - nice guy.

Really enjoyed this. Rob, you were masterful at getting Tom to relax and enjoy the experience. I could really relate to the length of time it took Tom to find his niche in life. I am close to 60 years of age, and have not found mine yet but have some ideas I am about to put into motion. Maybe I'll get an agent too:)

It kinda makes sense now that he can make Pie angry on command now when you realize he has a 20-year reservoir to draw on.

There was a series on Radio One many years ago that had a similar idea to some of Tom's brilliant sketches. It was called Bits from Last Week's Radio presented by Greg Proops. It was lots of very strange, some completely mad bits from radio sent in by listeners, interspersed with good music. Except they weren't. They were all made up. We recorded them in an independent studio near Broadcasting House. They were often a sketch about a solo presenter getting into trouble, or a phone-in that goes wrong, and some absolutely outrageous ones based around the JFK assassination, and even one about the Hindenburg disaster (the journalist wasn't crying because of the death but because the script is so bad.) The trick, which Jonathan does beautifully, was to make them completely realistic. We used the correct microphones, often recording on just one rather than many like when we did dramas. We degraded the sound so that it was AM friendly, and sounded like someone sent it in on a cassette. Often, we just copied it to a cassette! We really went for it. And even though some of the sketches were hysterical, and so outrageous that they couldn't possibly be real, we pretended they were and recorded them like a serious news piece. One recuring character was a hospital radio presenter. Once he went "on location" around the hospital, doing a live broadcast, and dropped his mic in a body being operated on. I had so much fun. It had to be heard from the perspective of the mic. So the sound suddenly went muffled and kind of squelchy... But the one that finished us was a silly sketch - a phone in agony aunt show where a woman has gone on a diet, her husband has gone off her, and spends time with his pet pig. It had the line, "so, describe the pig. Is it small, large... does it have a pot belly for instance?" Twenty-nine takes later, and we gave up. I don't why they corpsed so much, but they did. Neil Mullarkey and Adrienne Posta were the presenters on that one. Anyway, Tom is brilliant and builds on a fine tradition.

'I hope I'm not the worst guest you've ever had on', 'Well Tom I've been in the podcast business for just over 3 years and I've had some good guests, I've had some bad guests but I've never had a guest that has fired so many agents!'. Great stuff. A wonderful example of somebody having to carve out their own path. Enjoy your success Tom as it sounds like you really paid your dues and for longer than most.

Usually I'd rankle a little at showbizzy behaviour towards agents, but Christ on a bike... Tom got ABUSED by agents for years, so I'm impressed at his restraint I'd be dogshiting their letterboxes on my days off.. Bastards I love Pie.. He says he isn't changing hearts and minds, and to that I agree, but he acts as a strong pressure valve and says what most of us are thinking in the moment, just in a far more expressive and coherent way So even if it isn't what Tom is really engaged in, I hope he realises that it does do some good

What a brilliant human chat between two great talents

Brilliant, loved hearing the real person behind Jonathan Pie 🙏

Brilliant interview. The ending had me rolling. Was like awkward but its banter 😂

@tonyduncan9852

25 күн бұрын

So relaxed. I would have both as neighbours. (The reverse might not apply).

IMO... he's one of the best ever Robbie. So interesting & I kept on grinning. 👏🔝

Pie is a wonderful invention. I hope it makes him tons of money. If I ever see him in the street, I will always remember to call him Jonathan.

As I'll almost certainly never meet Tom, I'd like to thank him here for keeping me sane through successive godawful governments by articulating the rage I felt but couldn't let out whilst managing to make it funny still. I suspect I'm not alone...

The constant callbacks by Rob to his history with agents all through the podcast was hilarious.

What a lovely guy! Delighted for his success.

Great interview - with two of the best...Thank you..❤❤❤

Good for him that he’s had such success after such a time. I’d only seen one interview before, a few years ago, and didn’t realise how much came before (or didn’t, which I feel, in a different way, stress had me yo-yoing between work and burnout). I love how straightforward he is, and dare I say he has a cute smile. Steve Coogan was also lovely as Mole in Wind in the Willows, you never know where things can go (though a good agent or just yanking your own hecking power back as Tom’s done to great effect, very much helps).

Great interview!

Great interview. The phone call the agent must have been a buzz, it was absolutely the right thing to do. Just checked the site and it says Heroes & Villains is 'coming soon'.

Great chat re agents..Ive been enjoying bill nighy as Charles Paris in the radio drama murder mysteries and the glorious exchanges between. Charles and his agent Maurice!!

Pie's First video I bought hook line and sinker, thinking "Oh man! That guy's getting fired..." When I found out the truth I felt a little dumb, but fell in love with Tom's content...Fooled but not offended,,,

Great interview, guys 👍

Loved this!

Random people phoning me up describing their awful shits, sounds like a brilliant job!! I would be in stitches every time, imagine the anecdotes you would have. I would be skipping on my way into work 😂😂😂

Great Chat!

Excellent insight

Glad he’s getting the sunshine , he deserves it.

Cracking interview!

Amazing to see Tom! He’s excellent

THIS is where I get my podcasts.

"Streamed, you download it, you burn it to DVD, and you pirate it." 👍

Annually Retentive was great

Tom Walker fabulous interview, love his music 😉😬

When Jonathan Pie first popped up in my feed I thought he was the actor Jonathan Cake 😂😂😂

I wanted to watch his Pie radio show but never clicked how to see it. It got lost a bit. They needed to promote him more. He should be a household name by now. Very talented and very funny.

@razzle1964

18 күн бұрын

It’s very good.

@TheLoopyOrangeLady

16 күн бұрын

The show was on BBC radio 4. If you have the BBC Sounds app you can search for "Call Jonathan Pie".

100% agree on the agent approach. As if an agent gives a shit the other way around when there's no success... They should show interest with simple messages like 'Good Luck'.

Also Tom & James O'brien are my ultimate crushes 😍

Comes across as a really nice fella

I have only ever put two comments on YT previous - Rob and Tom this was a wonderful interview. Up there with Parkie at his best. Diolch Rob.

Never heard of Tom or Jonathan. Amusing chat though, I need to check him out.

Can relate so hard to the lack of auditions 😭

Tom Walker looks anywhere between 25 and 55 years old, i don’t get it, he looks both young and old to me at the same time🤷‍♂️

Tom is brilliant - Villians was smashing. Am convinced Tom is 'Jonathon from Harrow'

He's called that because he likes auction houses in the Notts/Derbyshire areas 😅

You got to be in it to win it

seems like a really sound guy

@millrace32

24 күн бұрын

i don't see what he did that was new, tbh. to me, it seems like he co-opted what was, by then, trite online commentary, boosted russian propaganda at time when that was causing huge damage, & cashed-in. speaking as someone who had been too online for a decade before pie, pie's author seems deeply inauthentic to me

I'd love to hear the agents' sides to those stories.

He could've played Reece Shearsmith's brother in something years ago.

@simonsaysrewind

25 күн бұрын

Or him now inside number 9

Annually retentive was brilliant. Loved the scene with Eamon Holmes and Ruth Langford.

Would love to see him interview a real politician 😅

Didn't Andrew Doyle write stuff for the Jonathan Pie character? I'm a big fan of his, so was disappointed he wasn't mentioned. Maybe he comes up in the full podcast.

Love me some Pie! And Tom is such a pleasant, breath of fresh air guy, but I couldn't stop thinking of future pun tour names all the way through such as Pie in the Sky, Pierrhea, Jonathan 3.142 🙃

Well, I for one think Jonathan Pie is bloody brilliant.. first time I saw him it was SO dead on the nail.

Nice guy.

So what we need is the Jonathan Pie ….entertainment agency …. ☎️ 📞

Loved Annually Retentive as well, could never work out if that bit with Paul Foot was scripted or not. I guess some of it was

Can I swear - Don’t worry we’ve had Shaun Ryder 😂😂😂😂

Rob asking if spotlight fees are a thing. Yes Rob they do - nearly £200 a year!

I used to cut his hair when we lived together at drama school... Have that.

Can you make the audio even lower? Is it possible?

I understand what Tom is saying and appreciate his desire not to be typecast in his career, however I also think it's inherently sad that one of the most passionate voices on what could be regarded as the left side of politics, who actually attacks the right quite well, succinctly and with passion, is just a made up character, a joke, something that Tom is mearly tolerating in being associated with. In some way I think that is actually, more depressing than what the Torries have been able to get away with.

Seems like Tom's got some sockpuppet accounts commenting here. Bless!

Ah, yes... well, um, p'haps there should have been some trigger warnings in the Intro for those of use who have had to deal with *those* *agents* ! (now I'm looking forward to anyone happy to put the boot into their Actor's Union!) So much real, real world stuff from Tom here. Thank you, sir! A happy story: I was once seen in by a casting manager for an audition. In the end, I didn't get the gig. However, she was lovely and polite. I was lovely and polite, and I thought that that would be the end of it. She was not my agent - but - she was later responsible for putting me in front of two other casting people for plumb jobs which I did get. She wasn't my agent and she wasn't handling those two particular jobs. There are lovely people out there in the industry - remember their names.

Brilliant guy.

@tonyduncan9852

25 күн бұрын

He should have a debate with Donald, one-at-a-time. Both ends of the Gaussian. That would be quite something.

Interesting no mention by Walker of his involvement with Claire Fox and the LM Network cult.

Please 🙏🏿 can you get Jarvis Cocker on?

I do like Tom. I saw him live in Brisbane, Australia with my eldest Son. We both discovered him on youtube with the "IT'S A JOKE YOU CUNTS" clip.

Didn't know he's musical

Rib clearly .ske Tom feel good abd he draws him out BUT .... there are so many times when he cuts Tim off and I feel bereft of so many lost pearls. BUT (another but) it's great!

So what was Rob's honest observation? Pie is great, even from the shittest seat in the house at the Hexagon. Genius. See you next time.

Agents?! Don't get me fkng started. Try doing (unpaid) auditions when you're a 3/4/5 piece band and have to load in, and set up a van load of gear!!!

Get your feckin mask on Pie!

you always want to know joe king… maybe

So when he was trying he got nowhere and when he did it for his own sake he made it.

Agent shaming from a man who used a posh accent to book his Radio Wales self for gigs.

Why is it that all interesting Englishmen have to have crazy hair? Is there a rule or something?❤️🐝🤗

Tom walker tells the truth and shouts that the Emperor is Stark-bollock-naked. I have so much admiration for Mr.Walker❤❤❤❤❤

i think tom is very likely to have a christian bale-esque fit of rage at a member of staff on a set. He should be pretty invulnerable to public scrutiny though because no one knows who he is.

First yeehaa

do you ask him why he couldn't do it without boosting the primary russian disinformation channel at a time when it was essentially on a war-footing?