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Tuesday 24 September 2013

Back in the game: Micky Flanagan interview

One of the additional characteristics on Micky Flanagan's 2011 DVD The Out' Tour is a short film in which he talks with his mother, Sylvie, and father, Jim, in their home in Bethnal Green, east London. 
'So how are you managing my cosmic victory?' Flanagan lesser, now 50, asks. 'I'm moved,' Sylvie deadpans. 'I don't know Sunday from Monday a fraction of the time.' Jim, be that as it may, is not getting it done. Arms tightly collapsed, he sounds skeptical that his offspring – to be sure any child – could play Judas on a 'blinding work' as a fish doorman at Billingsgate Market. 'Extremely abnormal, surrender a vocation like that.' 'You know why I never enjoyed you?' Jim keeps, warming to his topic. 'This is since you were never a criminal. You could have earned a ton of cash…  Where you got that genuine gene I don't have the foggiest idea.' 
What Micky could say in his defence – however doesn't – is that he might need to have squeezed an EU amount's worth of fish from Billingsgate to be as rich and auspicious as he is currently, as a stand-up comic. It might have taken him the best part of 15 years to get there, yet in 2013 Flanagan is deservedly nearby Michael Mcintyre, Eddie Izzard and John Bishop as one of the brightest and best-paid stars in the British satire atmosphere. His continuous live tour is on course to offer more than half a million tickets, making it the most amazing stand-up tour of the year. On it, Flanagan will play three nights at Wembley Arena and seven at the O2. 
His TV credits incorporate Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Room 101, The Mad Bad Ad Show, Live at the Apollo (as both entertainer and host), Shooting Stars, Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow, Have I Got News for You and Celebrity Mastermind, on which his master subject was the life and music of Bruce Springsteen. He is additionally taking on a pilot for his own sitcom and, in spite of the fact that this is a less solid pressure indicator of approval than it used to be, he is composing his collection of memoirs.

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