The Met Gala & What Is The Rock Like On Set?

[@CionnFE]

Another back breaking day down the dressing up mine…😂😂😂😂😂 Marina GOLD

[@chaoticneutral6288]

Richard's "I've never seen you so happy" comment reminded me of some of the best friends I've had in life, no wonder we can't get enough of you two and your dynamic :)

[@angrydoc4769]

I love how Marina gleefully spills the beans on everything

[@rachelstubley2539]

I love the way Richard made Dad jokes during the Met Gala section - appropriate response! 😂❤xxx

[@nickm8494]

You guys absolutely smashed this episode. A ganache of acerbic wit and casual whimsy - the perfect topping for your cake of knowledge. 10/10

[@ACUSmember]

The number of obvious edit points during Ms Hyde’s presentation on the Met Gala does make me wonder quite how long she actually speak on that subject if left unsupervised! It’s always lovely when a presenter clearly has a genuine passion for a subject.

[@PWMoze]

Yep, it's been decided, I officially love this podcast. Love the chemistry between the two hosts, the behind the scenes insights and of course the humour.

[@PopsicleSponge]

Andy Wilman and Clarkson met at boarding school. Worth mentioning that they have a good working relationship because they are actually friends.

[@chrisalbertyn4004]

'The Rest is...' gang have NAILED their podcast hosts. '...Entertainment', '...Politics', and '...Football' - all so legendary! 👏 Just learned about the 'Rest is Money' pod from this episode...will have to check it out ☺

[@lozpopo]

Rest is History is also a fantastic podcast

[@NickDusting]

I challenge anyone to watch Clarksons Farm S3 episode 4 and not be thoroughly entertained and moved to tears . Its a marvelous series.

[@SteveRooker-l5i]

I'm so relieved to hear that Clarkson took your ribbing on " have i got news for you,." in good humour ps it was a great great episode.

[@daz200]

what a fantastic podcast! I enjoyed this one so much

[@user-ic4vo2zc6f]

Anyone remember Clarkson's brief stint on ITV presenting (and curating?) a TV burp like program? I did enjoy it.

[@parametr]

You were on fire today! Brill one. Note: anybody remember President Camacho?

[@peoplevrobot]

Marina's joyous explanation of all things MET Gala, is so good; I might need a glass of White Wine and some Hummus.

[@basskick666]

Tina Fey called it a "jerk parade"....I think I'm team Tina on this one.

[@peoplevrobot]

@@basskick666 Tina Fey is Gold. I think the actual purpose of the MET gala is too allow Luxury companies to window shop celebs and models as future ambassadors for their brands. So the ticket is 75k but the modelling contract could be worth millions. Anna Wintour has masterminded putting herself as the gatekeeper between fashion/celebrity and business. Genius move

[@Nessab30]

Love this Podcast - I feel like we need a whole episode on the Met Gala in all its glory, with Richard's hilarious commentary. 😂

[@BonzoE27]

I like the fact that Paul Whitehouse is the narrator of Clarkson's Farm after that Harry & Paul sketch with Clarkson Island

[@Elwaves2925]

I believe he only did the trailer, for the show itself it's Clarkson. Even so, it's still a nice touch for the reason you stated. 🙂

[@euansmith3699]

"... another backbreaking day down the dressing up mine..." 😄😄😄

[@highdownmartin]

I'll shall steal that and use it to deflate as and when. Hard to cry on cue over and over at 2 am as marina said ,but still.....

[@Mumbles274]

Great pod as ever. Best bit was Richard reading his mum's eulogy at the end. love that

[@RevMarkARodgers]

Thank you for a seriously funny, laugh out loud episode. I never comment, but thanks for the lift during a difficult week.

[@m-alexandria-g]

Just as an aside, the first time Kim K got a Met Gala invite was the year she was pregnant with North and was pregnant on the cover of Vogue with Kanye. It was their combined star power that got them in that first time.

[@colinthompson3111]

Okay, Richard. I will take your recommendation and watch Clarkson. But I want to hear your recommendation of what books to read for how to write a book or script properly 😊.

[@simonkaston9306]

Loved Marina on the Met Gala. However no amount of raving will persuade me to watch anything with Clarkson

[@chrisalbertyn4004]

I am Richard whenever the Met Gala comes up in conversation haha

[@monkey26mash1]

How often does the met gala come up in conversation?

[@Walperion_Music]

You becoming a multi-millionaire producer and writer for that one minute? I also want me some of that superpower!

[@carlbenfield2971]

@@monkey26mash1 For me it's often a palate cleanser after I'm done thinking about the Roman Empire

[@juliannechan7282]

@@carlbenfield2971 😂

[@sayeager5559]

Andy Willmans genius cannot be understated.

[@sararichardson737]

New to this podcast. New subscriber. Love it!

[@ourworldofwords]

A urine sample would be very useful in deciding the "is he on roids" debate. Love this show. You guys Rock!

[@crocsmart5115]

So,is the catchphrase now…..”YOU CAN SMELL WHAT THE ROCK WAS COOKING” , if its an asparagus day? 😇

[@deneanrowe4278]

I ❤ the segment on the Met Gala!

[@debbiecarter6430]

Nailed it Brenda ❤

[@johnn9031]

Richard, I’m listening to the Thursday Murder Club via audiobook at the moment. Do you prefer people to read your books or does it not matter to you?

[@hikingphil]

OMG, the guy laughing behind the camera is sooooooo funny. I love you all!

[@Nick_Barre]

That David Lloyd reference.

[@iandavidson99]

CB radio code for going to the bathroom, is 10-100 (not 10-1) 🙂

[@byronc6790]

Richard was on top form during this Podcast 😂

[@Jimster71]

Always a fascinating podcast. I have a question for a future episode: Is there one talent agency that seems to hold a monopoly over comedy panel shows? You seem to see the same faces always cropping up on them, when I'm sure there are many talented comedians who never get a look in.

[@CaesarTjalbo]

They've gone into that in a recent Q&A

[@stephenbarrette610]

Marina, I wrote a comment on your brilliant Guardian article, but by the time I had written it they turned off the comments! So I’ll say it now, my opinion is the Met Gala is totally ridiculous, even though its for "charity’" and why the hell did all the ladies turn up with those stupidly long dresses. And without being indelicate how on earth do they go to the loo with those stupid dresses on? Thanks for this brilliant podcast with Richard and your super articulate and smart articles.

[@SteveRooker-l5i]

Richard on top form ❤

[@currykevuk]

Thanks for another entertaining half hour. Even if the 3 subjects are of no interest. I use an old glass then off down the sink it goes.

[@RubbishGimpy]

I've also heard that The Rock sells that piss to Bear Grylls.

[@ourworldofwords]

Love your work

[@Joley964]

Brilliant,thank you 👏

[@johnn9031]

I want more talk on The Rock hahaha

[@andy2950]

Never seen Clarkson's Farm. Met-Gala is pure hell. But, carry on......

[@mrsheffield37]

Great - again. Thanks.

[@johnjefferies2494]

Country file has totally lost its way, its Harry's Farm on KZbin and Clarkson's Farm all the way

[@JennieRavn]

love this!

[@Nick_Barre]

Richard on Clarkson's HIGNFY. A school bully brought down to size.

[@dannyquinn9128]

QUESTION: where is the questions (questions and answers) episode this week? Sort your upload schedule out or i'm going to take Gary Lineker hostage. You have an hour.

[@TheRestIsEntertainment]

🤣

[@dannyquinn9128]

@@TheRestIsEntertainment OK I've got him. Call Liam Neeson, Jason Statham or upload the episode.

[@Globalo45]

Wow she so passionate about this

[@dibdab101]

The Met Gala sounds like fun 😂

[@richardburt1385]

Richard Osmand do you think BBC one will close

[@RubbishGimpy]

Didn't 'Dwyane Dibbly Johnson' fall out with Vin Diesel on a Fast and Furious film because The Rock said Diesel used to turn up to set late?

[@Walperion_Music]

Ooooh I remember that Clarkson + Osman HIGNFY episode sooo much!!! Rich was making a relentless burn after burn at Clarkson for 40 mins straight! I mean, I like Richard much more than Clarkson, but feels like Rich misunderstood the backlash for that episode, it was tiring just because the burns were too same-y to the point that humour stopped for the hour. We stopped laughing after the 2-3rd one, but Rich continued to do the 5th one, the 7th one, then the 10th one in an hour. I mean I don't care if Clarkson dies today, but I did care that humour died for that hour. That was maybe the 1 time Richard did a misstep. Surprised to see him still not accepting his mistake like a big tall boy he grew up to be.

[@Elitist20]

Did we watch the same show? I thought it was hilarious. The butthurt reactions from Clarkson fans were even funnier.

[@Walperion_Music]

@@Elitist20 Yeah I apologise to each their own I guess, I think I was just not a Clarkson fan but a humour fan. He could have add to his burns more variations. Or make them progressively vicious. But he was just joyously ploughing through them grimmly like it’s his unloved job that time. But Rich’s quite geeky anyway, sometimes he thinks any pun is a joke and things like that. I like him, it’s just he’s a brill producer writer and personality, just not a comedian-comedian like Mortimer Ayoade or Mitchell.

[@CryptikConstruct]

Is that the producer laughing at Richard's jokes?

[@andy2950]

He calls his mum, Brenda ?? Not Mum !!😮

[@andrewmontague9682]

Why does Marina like the MET Gala so much? It an obscene event for the 1% of the 1% to piss away money being awful.

[@sayeager5559]

I really liked these 2 before I realized how hyped they are by some real garish stuff

[@WillJRogers123]

Why are you watching/listening

[@simoncooper2994]

I absolutely love this podcast and i think it's lovely to hear Marina so enthusiastic and animated but, tbh, the first fifteen minutes of this episode is fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back. There's the Met Gala and the rest, thankfully, is entertainment...

[@danielleoliver1734]

There are time stamps to skip if you’re not interested in a segment

[@debb6393]

So true, Met Gala is like end of days dystopia, very depressing. It’s not even like the frothy films of the 30s (Fred and Ginger et al) that lifted people out of the depression because this just seems to rub your nose in it.

[@CamMcGinn1981]

Fired for "out-thirsting" Kylie Jenner? LMAO. That's a gold statement. I'm sure it's true, he is hot.

[@Mortarion6666]

disappointed neither of you decided to talk about the kendrick lamar + drake feud. easily the biggest story in entertainment right now, but I guess the boomers would write in and complain

[@TKOLRMX]

I'm pretty disappointed by this too. However, I'd imagine they want to stay away from the more "sensitive" allegations that are, so far, unproven.

[@richardbetts816]

I believe Clarkson and Wilman went to school together

[@straitJacketFashion]

36:12 wasn’t LBJ notorious for pissing down the legs of his security?

[@JohnDoe-tp8mc]

I truly believe John McRuick was a victim of becoming his character for money too often

[@Govanmauler]

Im surprised a plastic water bottle can handle piss that hot

[@TonyP_Yes-its-Me]

Wow! I'm the first to comment. Better make it a good one.... erm... erm... ok... erm...

[@ChrisH78]

I find the Rock's denouement to be interesting as it comes alongside his backing of Trump.

[@benabel7326]

The Rock is the modern day Hulk Hogan, speaks so much bullshit he starts to believes it himself.

[@a0z905]

Oscar de la Buyer 😄

[@Crispman_777]

You'd think The Rock would buy a £10 portable/collapsible pee bottle rather than jamming his... well I'll just say using a disposable water bottle for that purpose isn't as mechanically easy as you would initially think.

[@spooony2714]

Thank you Marina for making something as obnoxious and vain as the MET Gala entertaining.

[@mairsh]

Richard is a true working class hero.

[@ibahart3771]

The more I hear about Dwayne "The Johnson" Rock, the more I think he's an ordinary prick with good PR

[@outwithrealitytoo]

When Countryfile, Emmerdale Farm and The Archers stopped being about farming they lost their way. OK everyone enjoyed the peripheral plots but fundamentally the conflict has to be over something. Families, dynasties, hostile neighbours, employers, employees, small businesses, landed aristos and serfs, modernity, tradition; what is not to like? What do we get now? Butterflies in meadows and kitchen sink drama. The bureacracy all exists for reesons. Reality is tough. The irony of "EU red tape" now being "Great British red tape" just makes me laugh. The message of the Passport to Pimlico was precisely this. The world needs rules, if you don't have the same rules as your neighbours you need borders. You can have local pride without trying and failing to ignore reality. I want someone filling in all their ditches without permission and flooding their neighbours land, or bulldoing the hedgerows to turn thrir farm into a monoculture; or building lots of agri buildings and converting them all to flats and the local school and infrstructure buckling under the influx of people. These are why there are rules. Who is going to pay to improve the roads because of the increased traffic? or explain why children are put at risk because of the increase of traffic of a road wil no pavement? There are reasons people are not allowed to do these things and if they don't apply in advance they are retrspectively required to revert what they have down.

[@AllInTheGame01]

Rock consistently turning up to set 7-8hrs late costing his productions millions & keeping everyone else waiting is terrible professionalism! Him wanting his inexperienced & incompetent 'Producer' brother-in-law to take over DC was insane! Putting his mum into WWE's HoF & making Muhammad Ali's wife give him a Belt at that same ceremony was crazy, his ego's outta control!

[@paulinedobsonmayfield]

I’d like to know where you draw the line. I for one will never watch anything “starring” Jeremy Clarkson OR Gordon Ramsay, people who treat staff appallingly do not deserve future patronage. In a similar vein I refuse to watch Mel Gibson, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, and Tom Cruiser for different transgressions but also undeserving of ongoing viewership. My second question is: What is the English fascination with shows based on religious characters. You’ve had so many like call the midwife when we all know what nuns did to unwed mothers and their children, then there is Father Brown which blows me away given all the paedophilia and subsequent cover ups by priests and ministers of religion. I can’t watch any show based on a religious character, they’re not quaint, and deserve no respect.

[@lucialaluce2221]

Country file was marijuana tv, a gentle show to get high with at the end of your weekend

[@morganthedruid1]

Clarkson's farm is brilliant, the whole family love it. Clarkson is a genius. Jeremy Clarkson the man is an awful human being and the way Richard and Marina brush off the physical attack on a BBC employee or Clarkson's self penned hate filled attack on a woman who dared to not be his idea of a member of the royal family is astonishing. He wanted people to throw shit at her. All forgiven now, behind the scenes with his telly mates he's a lovely guy with a cheeky side to him.

[@harbl99]

How to get into the Met Gala. Short version: you seen Kubrick's _Eyes Wide Shut_ , right?

[@terrymeehan3586]

Red eye as rubbish, sorry Richard . Suspect your being nice.

[@MACSADOT]

A lot of fall out due to the paradox of whats happening with the Genocide in Gaza and what perceived as the utter debauchery of the Met Gala and its silent, self-indulgent celebs.

[@rickbuc]

I used to think that there was nothing more meaningless than following the Kardashians, but after watching this discussion I’m convinced that maybe there is nothing more senseless and meaningless as giving any attention to fashion. I guess that it is for some people a form of entertainment, just as Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle is to those that identify with the guests on those programs.

[@mattblack6736]

I'd imagine you do in fact pay some attention to how you dress yourself in the morning and the clothes you buy which in some sense is fashion, albeit limited.

[@Storm1312]

Marina is way off base here, people who like fashion also think the met gala is embaressing bullshit.

[@Anna-hd5wm]

but they are watching it anyway and look at the dresses and the fashion brands are sending their celebrities...

[@sonofliberty1]

Vacuous.

[@AlmostYearly]

Fashion is ugly.

[@TheMorcroft]

Except AOC's dress

[@danielmcnamee2662]

Fawning over the met gala is proper pathetic. Worst part of any episode so far.

[@Walperion_Music]

Agree, I was baffled seeing the lovely Marina I like so much suddenly becoming a superficial mindless puppet drooling over that gala shit, and scrolled down for the comments to see if the humanity is still intact. Thanks for this comment!

[@danielmcnamee2662]

⁠​⁠@@Walperion_Music over ten minutes on it as well. I couldn’t care less about some snobby party where people dress up as idiots wishing they were part of some scene that no normal person would ever care about.

[@quagsnake]

Agreed. I've never seen a human being gush so hard about something so lame. Quite disappointing

[@David-j9h9g]

most boring episode yet.....cmon guys up yr game!!!!

[@davidburne9477]

Use of the word ‘woke’ is an admission of an inferior lexicon. It is pejorative in intent and lazy in implementation.

[@carolsmith914]

Not a fan of this background laugher, personally.

[@David-j9h9g]

No tribute to Bernard Hill???Shame on u!!!!