It's a pleasure.

Now, You know, I I have been as you know, I've been a big fan of yours for such a long time.

You've done so much brilliant work, and you're becoming well known in this country.

But you are a massive star in the United Kingdom.

Is that not true?

If you say so, many people come to you probably and say Steve Coogan, he's the authority on what's funny.

What's not funny?

Do you get that a lot to be a little trying things on you And they want your opinion.

Yeah, we'll let that what they do.

People will come up to me in a store if I'm shopping or if if I'm sometimes take the the underground, the tube in London and someone else I'd like to be in.

So yeah, a lot that they recognized me and they say it's okay.

I won't blow your cover.

One air funny story on.

And I think, Oh, my God.

Start sweating, cause I'm gonna have to laugh in it.

But the work, the work, because I will defend them and think like an arrogant so and so on, uh, but the worst time to ease the Edinburgh Festival where a lot of comedy goes on Comedy Comedy festival.

And some guy said, You gotta come see our show You got to come see our show And I was like, Okay.

And I went to see the show on Dhe.

It stank.

Yeah, I thought, I don't want to hang around and say Speak to them afterwards.

I don't know what to say because we'll be embarrassing and I don't want to lie.

And so I tried to sneak out the theater.

I snuck down the stairs and I was trying to find a way out on This is terrible because I was with my friend.

Let's let this go early.

As soon as the applause the curtain came down, I was down the stairs on this, which is the way out.

I said, I think it's this door.

And I opened the door, walk straight into the dressing room and they weren't Steve.

I went.

It was fantastic.

Really?

Anything I said.

Do I think so?

It was brilliant.

Yeah.

Your voice gets higher, the more you live.

I love the show.

Uh, what was your you know I was talking to Daniel about he come from England.

You come to this country.

It seems like such a strange place in some ways.

What was your first impression of America?

Well, it's I'm sort of quite used to it now.

But when I was growing up, I thought I thought I knew what America was like because I watched Kojak.

Yeah, I knew.

What about, like, murder, she wrote.

That was slightly barrel a frame of cult for reference.

Even then.

Code.

Yeah, but you're younger than me.

And you pointed that out very shortly.

I'm more successful.

Let's just get it out in the open.

And I'm younger.

Yeah, unless goes on.

But, um, my first impressions of America, actually, when I was, uh, the 1st 1 was when my sister came to America in 1977 on holiday and it was not many people travel to America for England those days, and she came back and she got off the plane and we picked up at the airport move like, what's America like?

What's it like?

And she said, She said, It's amazing.

She said they get hot pizza delivered to their front door What?

What?

Cooked?

Ready to eat?

You mean you were having Joe brought to your homes and materials?

Well, yeah.

No.

Yeah, yeah, we have.

We have tinned food.

The kind of food you keep it.

A nuclear bunk onboard out.

This was looks crazy.

And that she said, And the other thing is the Sometimes they go out for breakfast.

I'm not just blew our minds don't do that in England.

That option?

Yeah.

I mean, you could go to the supermarket and buy something, come back and makes awesome approached eggs.

But you couldn't.

You couldn't go on.

People do now.

Of course we'll have.

Cappuccinos were incredibly sophisticated in those days.

Now, did your sister bring you souvenirs and she bringing things back from America?

Thanks for the prompt.

Oh, yes.

This is this is it right here.

This'll is.

This is seamless.

Yeah, And then what?

I see most things I was gonna talk first talk show did in England.

A guy would say, trying to Segway into impressions on now, what would the Bob Geldof say if he were here right now?

This is a terrible segue wing, but, uh but that's what this?

Yes, Thank you again.

You know, we're in here.

Does it say touch?

Leg?

You know what?

When I did that, it certainly fills me with confidence in an energy.

You know, when I took your life, I felt the same way.

I'm straight by the white.

Yeah, uh, I don't know.

Just screwing around.

Yeah.

Um, did your sister bring you any souvenirs through that story That way?