"Jimmy Carr gave me a fake check for £18k" | Actor, comedian, musician | Eddy MacKenzie | #13

This week's guest is the none other than Eddy MacKenzie. Actor, musician, funny bugger, the sweetest man in Scottish comedy, Jack Black's unofficial love child, the cause of many of your future nightmares. This man's career has already been a rollercoaster. Showing up in Mrs Brown's Boys, losing a game show hosted by Jimmy Carr but somehow still getting the prize money, performing in prisons, doing well in two comedy competitions, landing the role of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Eddy's career is the stuff they talk about around campfires.
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0:00 Introducing Eddy
02:59 The origin of Eddy’s accent
07:02 The challenges/stigma of musical comedy
10:03 Billy Connolly was a musical comedian
12:02 HOW he got into musical comedy/Jack Black’s impact
18:01 Jamming drunk in a cottage
20:48 Inspired by Amelia Bayler
23:01 Headlining your first ever gig
26:47 Embracing your own identity on stage
29:08 Becoming established on the Scottish scene
32:16 Accidentally appearing on Mrs Brown’s Boys
38:17 Losing on I Literally Just Told You with Jimmy Carr
42:01 Explaining I Literally Just Told You
45:44 When Jimmy Carr invites you to Wembley Arena
57:01 Keeping an £18k secret
1:06:23 What is it about over-night celebrity?
1:12:54 Getting into the regional heats of the BBC New Comedy Awards
1:20:23 Performing at the Finals of the Musical Comedy Awards
1:29:24 When people treat you differently as a celebrity
1:34:03 Musical comedy in prison
1:41:46 Pushback against entertaining prisoners
1:44:18 Becoming Piglet in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
1:55:47 Working in horror when you’re a sweet, sweet boy
2:02:15 Do the critics matter?
2:03:57 Why you should watch Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2