Mischief Makers Episode 33: 2021 Special
Dave Hearn: Hi, and welcome back to Mischief Makers with me, Dave Hearn! This week I am very excited to be joined by my very good friends, Nancy Zamit and Henry Lewis.
Henry Lewis: [loudly] Hello!
Nancy Zamit: Yay!
HL: Awh this is so nice!
NZ: So nice!
DH: So, you guys are here today because this episode is looking back at some of the highlights from 2021. So, we're going to go through month by month, and talk about some of the events from the Mischief calendar.
HL: Right, ok.
DH: There's also some trivia planned.
HL & NZ: Oh my god.
NZ: I'm so bad at trivia!
DH: I've got some questions. Some of them are really good, some of them are pretty good.
NZ: Do I need to know things about Mischief?
DH: No, I don't think you will know these things.
[NZ laughs]
DH: I've actually written in my notes, I've also got some trivia planned for you to test your knowledge. Nancy, I do not have high expectations of what you will remember.
NZ: Is that really written?
DH: That's in my notes there.
NZ: Oh my god, it actually is.
HL: Is that Mischief trivia?
DH: Yeah.
NZ: Oh man.
DH: Hold on, let me deliver it as I intended. I've also got some trivia planned...
[they all laugh]
DH: That was so insincere!
NZ: No, do it, do it!
DH: Okay, my radio voice.
NZ: Yeah.
DH: I've also got some trivia planned.
[NZ makes a wapp wapp noise]
DH: Nancy, I do not have high expectations of what you will remember.
[NZ makes a popping sound]
DH: That was great, that end bit!
[NZ makes another popping sound]
DH: [gesturing towards HL] Hen?
[HL makes a popping sound. They all laugh]
HL: That was not good...
DH: OK, right, we're in, so here we go.
HL: But these are pop shields. These are there to stop exactly that kind of behaviour.
DH: Oh really?
NZ: Oh, don't blame your crap pop on the pop shields.
DH: Hold on. Nance, we'll pop at the same time, ready? And Hen too, ready? 3,2,1..
[they all make a popping sound in sync]
DH: That was kind of like a nice harmony!
HL: A whole new art form we've just discovered!
[NZ laughs]
[NZ and DH make popping sounds randomly]
NZ: Hen, you're not joining in?!
HL: I was doing a high-hat. It's just a Gracenote you know.
[NZ and DH laughs]
DH: A Gracenote? What's that?
HL: It's the detail, you know.
NZ: Do it in isolation.
[HL makes the sound again]
NZ: Ooh!
DH: That was good! It sounded like a horse, not that Hen's voice was hoarse.
NZ: This is such a bad podcast!
[they all laugh]DH: How long have we been going for? If you're still with us, we're about to start! Here we go! So, January to February of 2021, we did Mischief Movie Night at Immersive London.
NZ: Oh, that was so great.
DH: Remember that? So we were working with Umbrella Rooms to help with the streaming. I believe we had to like, set up some special Wi-Fi streams?
HL: We did. We got a booster Wi-Fi package.
NZ: All the kind of stuff you really want to hear about Mischief Theatre!
DH: So basically, tell us a bit about what you remember from the venue. Also, that was like at the height of lockdown.
HL: Hmm.
DH: So what was it like for you both, and me? I include myself in that. But you guys, what was it like working during lockdown, doing a show?
NZ: It was a lot of cabs, wasn't it?
DH: Yeah, a lot of ubers!
HL: Yeah, it was quite isolated. We were getting cabs into the venue and cabs back, so there was no kind of tube or anything. We just kind of went to this place and did it. It was, as you say at Immersive, where they had the Immersive Great Gatsby experience at the time, and so the whole place is kind of geared out like Great Gatsby.
NZ: It was really strange, because the show had been left from one day to the next, so all the actors things were still on their dressing tables. It was kind of like invading a ghost town, where we just got to do our show in one of the rooms, but everything else was just set up for the people to come back to their show. That really freaked me out, there were like bottles of deodorant, people's makeup, just stuff there that was alive once, you know?
HL: Yeah, it was a really odd experience. Everyone went in, we had our COVID tests that were being done by a nurse on the day.
NZ: Oh my god yeah! Jonathan gagging! That was just Jonno gagging!
[HL laughs]
DH: Do an impression of Jon's noise.
NZ: I don't know if it's going to be too loud, the pop shield won't handle it.
DH: Bless him, Jon struggled with those tests, well we all did in many ways!
NZ: But we did all gather to listen to Jon outside the window quite a lot. Sorry Jon!
HL: That's true. Just the pre-show morale boost from Jon.
[they all laugh]
DH: Let's all gather round!HL: The shows themselves, I think, were really, really special because people were tuning in from all over the world, which was amazing. There was kind of a whole thing that we hadn't really done before, doing stuff online. So that was really, really cool to see people streaming in from like 37 countries, and obviously all different people around the world in different kind of lockdowns, in different places. It was really really cool to do something where people could get brought together.
NZ: At different times of day as well. People were tuning in at like five o'clock in the morning across the world.
DH: We did a midnight show didn't we? For people in America and Australia.
HL: We did, yeah. We had a late night show and and all sorts of different specials and things we did. It was really, really amazing, I really loved doing it. It was weird at first, because with no audience it felt quite weird, to do that show with no audience. But I think we got used to it, and then that kind of became the norm over the course of that run.
NZ: I thought it was quite freeing, because when we rehearsed there's always this kind of silliness, because it's always just us in a room.
HL: Yeah.
NZ: And there's a real freedom to that when you rehearse improv. It was kind of like doing that, but you were being watched, but the freedom was still there. I really enjoyed that because it was all of us in a room, like a black box room.
HL: Yeah, sort of uninhibited.
NZ: Yeah. And you forgot that you were performing in front of sometimes the equivalent of the Royal Albert Hall.
HL: Yeah, exactly! It was so weird. I think we had like 9,000 people tuning in for one of them.
NZ: It was the Valentine's Day one.
DH: 9,000 tickets!
HL: Yeah, tickets, so 9,000 households.
DH: Wow.
NZ: But that's like crazy, because that's like doing a load of nonsense in a stadium.
DH: Yes! Listen out for Mischief's next tour: Stadium Nonsense!
[they all laugh]
HL: The other thing as well, which we think was amazing, was we received that letter the other day from a woman who's a nurse in the NHS, and she was saying that everybody at the hospital on their breaks was watching Mischief Movie Night, and that it was a real source of...
NZ: Morale boost.
HL: Yeah exactly, a morale boost in a really, really tough time. So that was amazing, so if it helped people to get through a difficult time, then that's really cool.NZ: And also, to have Josh in the team, who was working on the frontline for the NHS at the time, and then took some time off to do the shows.
DH: I remember speaking to him about that, and said, how do you feel about it and are you allowed to? And he was like, I think I'd really like to because he wanted a creative outlet. It was actually really fortunate because he got to perform, in the same way that those guys got to watch it during their breaks. I didn't know that actually, that's made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
NZ: Yeah. It was interesting though, watching Josh come back, because I remember one where he'd just done a two-week shift, like nightshifts, and then he came back and did the show and he just had a very intense energy. Like somebody that had been working in a hospital during a pandemic, and then had his comedy outlet for it. I was glad it was happening, it was sort of therapeutic to watch. It just was a nice reminder, not that we needed reminding because it was very present, but that there was such big things going on in the world, and we were actively escaping that for that hour, and that was really nice.
DH: It's like your home, and the place that we were streaming from, kind of became a fortress.
HL & NZ: Yeah.
DH: You just kind of went to and from those things, and you had your fun, creative thing and then you went back home and you got cabs and stuff.
NZ: And I think the audience used it like that as well. You have whatever tough day you have, and then you have this hour where you can literally sit in your bedroom - the amazing thing was, it was really accessible to everyone suddenly - and then just have this amazing escape for a little bit.
DH: I think we discovered that, didn't we? Because it was initially running at The Vaudeville, wasn't it? And it had to close when we went into tier four.
HL: Yeah, I think we did like a week and a day or something in December 2020.
DH: And then we found that the reach was much bigger for a streaming audience, which is crazy. Maybe that's the future?
HL: Yeah.
NZ: We didn't know that people liked us in other countries.
[they all laugh]
DH: Ok guys, you ready for a question?
HL & NZ: Yeah!
DH: Ok, so this is to do with the shows. Nance, you can sit this one out if you want.
NZ: No wait, hang on. Full disclosure, we need to explain why I'm so bad.
DH: No, you just have a terrible memory.
[HL laughs]
NZ: No, but just for improv shows, just improv. As soon as improv leaves my mouth, it leaves my brain.
DH: But this is improvising, this isn't scripted.
NZ: I can't remember what we did at the beginning.
DH: That's true. Name the title of one Mischief Movie Night show from history...
NZ: I can't!
DH: ANY show we've ever done.
HL: [to NZ] You must be able to remember one show! ANY show!
[they all laugh]
DH: Any show!
NZ: Um...
DH: Awh Nanc! You're going red in the studio!
NZ: I really am! I can't remember!
[they all laugh]
HL: Any of the shows!
NZ: Um...Drill me, baby?
DH: Oh, the worst one we've ever done? [he laughs]
NZ: Yeah, that's because it really imprinted in my head. I had to take my glasses off to remember that! [she laughs]
DH: That was stressful.
NZ: I'm actually sweating!
DH: It's very sweaty in here now. Here's the question, all right. Back in January, we all watched a classic musical movie featuring Chesney Hawkes as part of Mischief Movie Night In. But, can you name one of the bands in that movie?
NZ: The Knights of Light?
HL: Yeah.
DH: Nice!
NZ: Oh my God, I did it!
DH: You got one! Well done. We don't put effects in post, so [makes cheering sound].
[HL laughs]
DH: Have you got some more, Hen? I feel like you've got some more in there.
HL: Well, Mighty Throat was one, wasn't it?
DH: Mighty throat? Yep, yep.
HL: We were also on the mixed bill evening.
NZ: Awh I loved that.
DH: I never saw this legendary show! Wasn't there something with Chesney Hawkes?
HL He was the best! He was watching it, and I played Chesney Hawkes in the show.
NZ: You didn't know who he was though, when you were playing him, right?
HL: No I didn't!
DH: You didn't know he was the "I'm the one and only guy" Did you sing that?
HL: No. Oh no, I think we did say that at the end, because someone told me that beforehand, but that was all I had!
DH: What was your voice with Chesney Hawkes?
HL: It was kind of like, [in a smooth, jazz style] welcome to the show, we've got some great music for you tonight. Next up, the musical stylings of Mighty Throat.
[they all laugh]
NZ: It was sort of, like you imagine him in a jazz bar with a polo neck on, that kind of guy.
HL: Yeah, I had a flat cap.
NZ: Yeah, it was really weird, because you gave yourself a polo neck with the voice that you did.
[they all laugh]
DH: You polo necked your voice!
HL: Yeah, yeah!
DH: There is one more. Can you remember that?
HL: Yeah, there was!
NZ: Something like Screaming Banshee?
HL: It was the Weird Subversive. No, that was Mighty Throat.
NZ: No, I was in this one! I was actually in that band.
DH: So I'll give you a clue, that in the title is an animal, a reptile.
NZ: Not a clue.
HL: Oh, a reptile!
NZ: Lizards? Thin Lizards?
DH: Thin Lizards? Like Henry and the Lizards?
NZ: Yeah, like Thin Lizzy! [she laughs]
DH: Venomous Snakes.
HL: Yes!
NZ: No, not a clue. Never heard of it, never ever.
DH: Never would have got that?
HL: They only briefly appeared, didn't they? I believe.
DH: Yes. I don't know.
[they all laugh]
DH: Ok so now we're into February. So [singing] do do doo doo doo, February!
NZ: February [does popping sound]
DH: Nice! OK, so Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Christmas Carol Goes Wrong announced their DVD release.
HL & NZ: Yes!
NZ: Well, the only thing I remember about that DVD release is the massive DVDs that came to the rehearsal studio. We all had to take really pure pictures with them.
DH: Pure?
NZ: Yeah, we were really angelic, sort of, please buy this DVD, it's so great! Me and Bryony have the funniest one, and we were both like, please don't use that in the marketing. We're sort of almost like schoolgirls either side of the DVD.
DH: Like back to back?
NZ: I don't know why we thought it was a good idea, that pose, but we both had to email separately and be like, please, please, we're adult women, you can't use that picture.
[they all laugh]
DH: By the way guys, we have just announced that season two of The Goes Wrong Show will be out as a DVD on the 20th of December.
NZ: I want one for Christmas.
DH: You guys wrote most of The Goes Wrong Show over Zoom, right?
HL: Yeah.
DH: How was that? Was that weird?
HL: Yeah, we did, we absolutely did. It was weird, it was totally weird, especially obviously writing lots of physical gags and stuff, it's weird on Zoom. But it was fun and it was nice, we were sort of planning to use that time to write anyway, so we kind of just carried on and did it over Zoom.
DH: Were you up in your room doing physical bits?
NZ: Yeah, when you were doing the physical bits, were you acting them out for each other, like you step away from the desk and fall on the floor?
HL: Yeah, sometimes. We also made use of the Zoom whiteboard function.
NZ: Oh, what's that?
HL: You not used that?
NZ: Mate, why would I have? You guys got me on Zoom just about.
[HL laughs]
NZ: Every time I've been on Zoom, you've pretty much been there every single time.
[HL laughs]
HL: Yeah, we use the whiteboard function. You can just draw stuff on it, so that was quite useful for some stuff.
NZ: What, all three of you at the same time?
HL: Yeah. You can screen share, and then pass it around.
NZ: Really creative!
DH: So we're really pushing DVDs, Zoom functionality...
NZ: Whiteboards.
DH: Yeah. Nice, this is all good, good material.
NZ: Do you use whiteboards not on Zoom? [she laughs]
DH: I've got a chalk board actually, like a cork board that you'd pin stuff into.
NZ: Yeah, yeah. I love that you only use the white boards as a virtual thing.
HL: No, we used Post-its, but you know, not on a whiteboard necessarily.
NZ:Nice.
DH: Good talk guys. So let's go for March.
NZ: Yes!
DH: So rehearsals started for The Goes Wrong show in March, for the television show. Nance, why do you look confused about that? You were there!
NZ: [laughs] I'm trying to think back.
DH: So in March, we began rehearsals for the season two of The Goes Wrong Show, which I'm not sure if everyone knows this, is going to be released as a DVD.
NZ: DVD! DVD!
[HL laughs]
DH: Kind of similar to January, how did you guys find rehearsing in lockdown for that show? Because it was a similar process. You can't remember Nancy? If everyone could see Nancy's face, she's just pranging out because she can't remember recording a TV show! This was like four months ago!
[DH and HL laughs]
NZ: No, no no! So the first bit of rehearsals, wasn't that in that separate bit where we just did all the dancing and stunts and stuff for a week, before we went in?
HL: Yeah.
NZ: See, look at that! That was really fun, because that first week was a really low-pressure thing. We all got slammed back together, and we had to do the ballet scene!
HL: Yeah we did the ballet early because we wanted to get lots of practise in on that. So we were doing the ballet and stuff.
NZ: It shows as well, it really shows. It was VERY rehearsed!
HL: That extra week, right there on DVD.
[NZ laughs]
NZ: 20th of December release.
HL: We also did the DVD photoshoot in that space, do you remember, at the end of the first day I think of the whole thing.
DH & NZ: Yeah!
DH: I remember there were lots of mitigations in place. Remember we had the stick for a while, one of the production assistants, Hannah, had to walk around with a two-metre stick.
HL: Yeah, we had the two metres, we also had those...
NZ: Oh those spacer bands!
HL: The space bands. So you had like a rubber band that you wore with a, whatever it was.
NZ: A disc on.
HL: And if you went too close to someone else, it beeped.
DH: I remember struggling, because we filmed the prison episode first.
HL: Yeah.
DH: I remember that was with no audience, and that actually felt quite weird. I remember feeling a little bit down then because I was a bit like, oh, this is tough without an audience. We usually have test audiences as well don't we like halfway through, and we didn't get any of that.
HL: Yeah. We did miss something there, because usually we can get a bit of a sense before we did it. I think it turned out well, but I think it was definitely unusual, the vibe, yeah, in the beginning.
NZ: I think both series, I've begun with my most ludicrous performance on the first day of filming.
[HL laughs]
NZ: I had to film the shower scene with the body double on the first day of the first series.
DH: Because you were Whickham, right?
HL: Yeah, that was the first thing we did.
NZ: And then the first thing we did in the second series was Mick the Muscle. And so both times, I was like, right, well ok, in at the deep end, absolutely insane, do it.
DH: Be a muscly bald guy.
NZ: So I actually felt fine doing that episode, because I was like, I'm here again, out of my depth doing something ludicrous. Very good.
DH: I didn't realise how weird the Mac stuff was in the prison one, until I watched it back.
NZ: Oh, the jaw? The jaw was insane!
[HL laughs]
DH: Jim Wallace with the fake jaw! Because didn't we ADR in afterwards that he was a boxer? To make sense of it?
HL: I think that was in before, that was in the script. But yeah, we did add that in. I remember the makeup artist saying, is your character evil?
DH: To me?
HL: Yeah.
[they both laugh]
DH: Yes! I do remember that. Presumably evil because of the chin?
HL: Yeah. I love that was just synonymous with evil.
DH: It was so weird, because when I had the chin, and I was doing the chin acting, and then they greyed up my hair and I got the jumpsuit, and I walked in doing the weird voice and all the chin stuff, and all that nut stuff with Jon as a bird in that lyrca onesie. During all of that, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it wasn't until I saw it back, my first entrance..
[HL laughs]
NZ: Did you see it back for the first time when you did ADR?
DH: No, I saw it because we showed the audience when we did the mini screening to get some laughs from the audience in the room. That was the first time I saw it.
NZ: Oh wow.
DH: And I was like, oh wow, this is very weird.
NZ: But that's hard as well, because that edit was rough. So we knew where the laughs were going to go with a real audience. So I think that was so difficult to watch those edits, because it was like all of your work for the past four months in front of a small audience that are very far away from you. You were just so exposed, because you're also sat in the room with people watching you watch your own performance. And your chin is so big!
[HL laughs]
DH: It was this weird chin, and I was like, who is this weird chin guy? Oh! That's me! I had to ADR saying chocolate.
NZ: I know! I really was sad.
DH: I asked Martin, the director, I said to him, Henry Shield's character gives me a gift and I go, "mmm chocolate".
[HL and NZ laugh]
DH: And I said, choco-late, in a weird way. And then on the ADR notes, it just said, usually it's stuff like, oh, you need to just say this line because the mic dropped out, or there's a ruffle on the mic or something, but this one literally was just like, chocolate, page six, weird. That was the note.
NZ: Ok, that's your normal ADR notes. All of my ADR notes are always like that. This is weird, do it again.
[HL laughs]
DH: Cause my mouth is going choco-late. It's nuts!
NZ: Wait, you know in...oh my god... what my brain! The one with you and the war hero. What's it called? Summer Once Again!
DH: Yes.
NZ: So that, the boys rewrote the joke after, so I had to ADR a different line in.
DH: What, for your own mouth?
NZ: Yeah! Me and Martin were pissing ourselves because it was the galoshes, goulashes So I had to say it the other way, because you decided after to flip it around. So my last one, I'm saying galoshes in the take, and I had to ADR goulashes in time with galoshes, and kind of make my mouth do the same thing. I got a message from Adam Byron saying, I've just watched this, is that line ADRed?
DH: Also, was this you being like, "your galoshes".
NZ: Yes. So it was so funny, the shape of my mouth I had to do. My ADR was such an experience, seeing all those characters back-to-back. It was absolutely horrifying.
[HL laughs]
DH: There was also a lot of noise in the Shakespeare one. Do you remember the kitchen one from season one? Shall we have a look in the kitchen?
[they all laugh]
DH: When I was the estate agent in the horror episode.
NZ: My favourite!
DH: Martin was like, you have to redo kitchen. And I was like, what do you mean? He played it to me, and I was like, "Should we have a look at the kitchen?" And he was like, what are you doing with your mouth?
[NZ laughs]
DH: And then I tried to ADR just saying kitchen, and he was just like, it doesn't work because your mouth is too weird. So I had to ADR a more intense version to make a joke out of it. So it's me being like, KITCHEN!
[HL laughs]
NZ: My favourite one of that, which I voice noted you the other day, was "pretty nice". And he [DH] was like, what's that from?
DH: What is it? You still didn't tell me!
NZ: You don't know what "pretty nice" is from?
DH: No, it's in my head, but I can't remember.
NZ: Do you know what it's from?
HL: It's from The Lodge, isn't it? No?
NZ: Yeah. But who is it?
DH: Is it me?
HL: Yeah, the estate agent.
NZ: It's your own voice!
DH: Oh! Pretty Nice!
[they all laugh]
DH: You did it in an American accent, that's what flummoxed me!
NZ: No I didn't!
DH: Pretty nice!
NZ: [impersonating DH] Pretty nice!
DH: Yeah, that's American!
[NZ laughs]
NZ: That's how you did it!
DH: Pretty nice.
NZ: That's exactly how you did it!
DH: Pretty nice.
NZ: You didn't do it like that at all.
DH: Ok, let's move on. Question. All right. I've had enough of this. Question ok. So, rehearsals got underway for The Goes Wrong Show back in March, if you remember Nancy?
NZ: No, I can't remember a thing!
DH: But, Robert Grove would probably think Cornley needed way more time to rehearse. Can you remember the initial order in which Robert Grove ranked Cornley for their acting abilities?
NZ: Hen, do you want to go first?
HL: I think I can.
DH: At number one we have...
HL: Robert Grove himself.
DH: Yeah, we got brackets.
HL: Obviously.
NZ: Yeah, it's a placeholder.
HL: He's holding this sign.
DH: Number two?
HL: Number two is, in the original order?
DH: Yeah.
HL: Number two is Sandra.
DH: Yeah. Number three?
HL: In the original order, number three is Chris.
DH: Yeah. Number four?
NZ: Vanessa.
HL: Yes! Vanessa number four.
DH: Number five?
HL: Number five is Max.
DH: Yeah, number six?
NZ: Annie.
HL: Annie, yeah.
DH: Number seven?
HL: Dennis.
DH: Number eight?
HL: Trevor.
DH: Nice! [makes crowd applauding sound]
[HL laughs]
DH: But then the joke was that Annie became number nine, right?
NZ: Yeah, we put that in last minute, halfway through the takes because I did half the takes with six. So I had to do that weird move where we put the joke in about being ninth, and then I had to sort of move it back up. So all the previous takes are back when I'm in six. That was a bad bit of hand acting from me.
HL: I think it worked well.
DH: So in April, the new tours were announced. We announced Groan Ups, The Play That Goes Wrong and Magic Goes Wrong.
HL: Yes.
DH: So when did we start casting for those?
HL: Well, it was different for different shows. I mean, Groan Ups we were casting in the early summer. The Play That Goes Wrong was recast from different people who've done it before at different times.
DH: Old guard.
HL: Yeah.
NZ: How long do they have to rehearse it? Not long at all.
DH: Wasn't it a week or something?
HL: For The Play That Goes Wrong, I don't know exactly. But I think, a week or two weeks. Not long at all.
DH: That's incredible. How was auditioning actually? Were we still in lockdown by then?
Was that still a thing?
HL: No, we weren't, we were out, it was July time. We were auditioning in June or something for Groan Ups.
DH: So we could have people in the room?
HL: Yeah.
NZ: There's so many amazing people on those tours, so let's take a minute. Yay!
HL: Yeah, they're brilliant.
DH: Amazing people.
HL: The Play That Goes Wrong has just finished in Aylesbury, they've had a brilliant run. Groan Ups and Magic Goes Wrong are back in the new year.
NZ: Yeah, they're on a Christmas break. Lucky boys!
DH: Lucky boys! So, if you're listening to this, those in the show, well done everyone!
NZ: We love you!
HL: Yeah, well done.
NZ: Very good, talented people.
DH: Smashing through, here we go to May. I feel like there should be a pun or something.
NZ: [singing] It's gonna be May! The classic!
DH: Very nice, gonna be May. Theatres across the UK can finally reopen.
NZ: Way-ooh!
HL: Yeah, amazing.
DH: So we were still filming, and everything started to reopen and we were still very much in lockdown.
NZ: Oh yeah, with those weird chats where the producers were like, hey guys, so the world's opening back up, but if you could just remain inside your house forever, that would be great. We had to do it for ages whilst everyone was back at the pub.
DH: But we did get a TV show of it, so it was a pretty good trade off, wasn't it?
NZ: Not complaining!
DH: Did it ever get to you? Rehearsing during lockdown and isolation?
HL: Of course. Making the TV show is quite intense, there's not long, there's lots to do. So I think in a way, I don't know how much I would have gone out anyway,, I suppose. But obviously, we'd been locked down for a long time with it.
NZ: And also we hadn't worked together as a group, apart from Mischief Movie Night, so it was nice to be back together. Nice to see Chris and Greg, because obviously they weren't in Mischief Movie Night. I remember that being really fun, because the last time we worked with Greg and Chris was the last series, wasn't it?
DH: Yeah, Comedy About A Bank Robbery and then the first series.
NZ: So it was really nice to see people. And it was really exciting being at Elstree every day.
DH: We had a better studio as well than season one.
NZ: Yeah, it was super glam!
DH: It was super nice, and the guys had a workshop and stuff.
NZ: And it was super exciting because our dressing rooms were always next door to all the panel show dressing rooms. So there were different celebrities next door to us every week and it was like, who have we got in now? We used to see names on their dressing room door, and then try to have a sneaky peek.
HL: We didn't peak in though!
DH: Speak for yourself mate!
NZ: Not while people were changing, but you know, a little peek!
[they all laugh]
DH: All right, let's keep moving because I'm really enjoying this pace now.
NZ: Yes!
DH: I'm built for speed aren't I! Here we go! So in June, also I haven't written this down, but that is obviously the month of my birthday.
NZ: And your mother's name?
DH: Yes, very good! And my sister's birthday.
NZ: Wow, your mum really nailed that.
DH: Yeah, she did.
NZ: That's quite weird.
DH: Yeah, my sister's birthday is the 21st of June.
NZ: She was like, June, this is it! Have both my kids in June.
DH: Have both my kids in June, my name's June.
NZ: That's astonishing.
DH: There you go. Well done, June.
NZ: Well done, June.
DH: She's a clever, lady. So in June, The Play That Goes Wrong returns to London.
NZ: It sounds different now doesn't it...
[they all laugh]
DH: Yeah. In the month of June, The Play That Goes Wrong returns to London. So that was the football game when it was Scotland versus England, I believe, was on the night of the opening. Because that was the first time everything opened on, and it was carnage in Leicester Square.
NZ: Oh yeah! Hen, do you know what we're talking about? It's a popular culture reference so
DH & NZ: Probably not. [they laugh]
HL: That was the World Cup, right? Yeah.
DH: So it wasn't the Euros, it was the World Cup? Wow. How do we not know that? That was literally four months ago.
NZ: Well, we're in a tiny hole. Oh my god, this is terrible.
DH: It must have been the Euros... or World Cup?
HL: No, because World Cup is coming up isn't it? I can't believe I'm the one who knows the football! The World Cup is coming up soon and the Euros were..
NZ: Yeah, it must have been the Euros because we had the sticker book.
DH: Great.
NZ: And you don't have the sticker book so much for the World Cup, it's a Euros thing.
DH: OK, well, there you go, you heard it here first. Did you fill the sticker book?
NZ: Yeah, big time! The stickers are very expensive.
DH: Yeah, man.
NZ: But we did have a lot...
DH: But that opening night was that Scotland game.
NZ: I didn't know that.
DH: Did you go to opening night?
HL: At The Duchess? Yeah, probably, I did yeah.
DH: So how was it? Was there still social distancing?
HL: Yeah there was, yeah.
DH: How did it feel to see Play back on?
HL: Well, amazing, really, really amazing. But it was all distanced, and they moved the seats around at The Duchess.They've moved them back since.
DH: Presumably to socially distance? Not to just jumble the audience around?
[they all laugh]
HL:Yeah, no. It was amazing. It was really, really extraordinary night. And John said a few words on stage at the end, it was really nice. It was good to see the show back and good to see an audience laughing again. Really good.
DH: I remember, it was weird when it reopened because we knew that it was reopening for a while, and then when it reopens, I got loads of calls and text messages from people being like, "well done, you must be so pleased". And I didn't quite realise how big a deal it was to reopen the theatre. I don't know, you probably know more about this than I do, but maybe we should have a special mention to Kenny Wax and Mark Bentley for working so hard to get those shows open in a safe way.
HL & NZ: Yeah, absolutely.
NZ: The whole of the pandemic, Kenny and Mark were just so, so amazing. What Kenny was doing for all his shows and staff was just really, really great. He was always so supportive in a really tough spot.
DH: I guess from a producer's point of view, it's not really financially advantageous and he was still opening shows and getting them on.
HL: Yeah, absolutely 100 percent.
NZ: I love Kenny and Mark.
DH: So into July, Mischief Movie Night returns to the Riverside Studios.
NZ: Yeah!
DH: Where we have a proper studio. The Play That Goes Wrong tour begins with the Mischief old guard, and Magic Goes Wrong tour begins. We had all these shows opening! Shall we do a Mischief Movie Night question?
NZ: Absolutely! Let's do a question.
DH: Ok so Oscar and Emmy have both had a front row seat for...[speaking to Nancy] you're looking at my computer!
NZ: No, I can't read that far!
[HL laughs]
DH: I'm turning it away. You can't read that far?
HL: That is very close, and you've got glasses on!
DH: I'd say this screen is less than a metre from your eyes. Can you read it?
NZ: Yeah, just about!
HL: That could have been a ruse, just to get the answers.
DH: Yeah. But you've also got glasses on! What happens if you take your glasses off?
NZ: Yeah. I can't read it even more. I thought these worked.
DH: It's even more worse when I take my glasses off!
NZ: I don't know, because I can't see it! [she laughs]
DH: Okay, so Oscar and Emmy have both had a front row seat for all the action in Mischief Movie Night IN, on tour and on screen. But what three other people have sat in, or rather usurped that chair?
NZ: Harry Kershaw.
DH: Correct.
HL: What people who are not playing Oscar or Emmy at the time?
NZ: In the recent run?
DH: In any run. They've usurped the chair.
NZ: During the show?
DH: Yeah, yeah.
NZ: Hmm. I feel like Niall has. Has Niall?
DH: Niall has, yes.
NZ: And then, I feel like Lauren Shearing?
DH: Lauren Shearing got in the chair?
NZ: Did she? I've made that up.
DH: No. Lauren is a rules man.
NZ: Is she, though?
DH: Well, no, she is actually. I think she is because she doesn't want to get in trouble.
NZ: She does!
DH: She likes to cause trouble, but she doesn't want to get in trouble.
NZ: She wants somebody else to get into trouble, but she's creative, that sneaky girl!
DH: Exactly.
NZ: OK, so wait, Niall, Harry...
DH: And the final person, I'll give you a clue...they're in this room!
HL: Is it you, Dave?
DH: It is me!
NZ: Oh yeah! I don't think I was there.
DH: No, there was two.
NZ: I wasn't there for any of these.
DH: There was a show when I went in with Harry and Niall, and then there was a second show where Jon couldn't say the title of the film, which was Ashopocalypse Now?
HL: Yes!
DH: And he just could not say it, and it was on the trilogy day. It was like Ashopocalypse Now, Ashopocalypse Then, and Ashopocalypse...
HL: Next or something?
DH: And there were three titles.
NZ: How do you remember this?
DH: That was very easy because it was just the same thing three times.
[HL laughs]
DH: But Jon couldn't say Ashopocalypse, and it was really late and we were all really tired, so I just went over to Jon and I was just like, see yourself out. And then he got up and went on stage, and I took the book and sat down. There was a brief moment, a brief kind of exchange, where I looked at Jon, he looked at me and I was like, am I going to direct the final show? And is Jon going to take over from me on stage? And Jon was up for it, but it was like midnight or something, we'd done three shows, it was really late.
[HL laughs]
DH: I was definitely hysterical. I looked at Jon and we just thought, I don't know if this is a good move.
NZ: I'm not sure we will deliver in these circumstances...
DH: Yep. OK, let's keep moving, here we go. So August, the Groan Ups tour begins!
NZ: Yes!
HL: That was amazing. I saw the first night in Bath, and it really was fantastic.
DH: I'm still yet to see it, I'm going to see it very soon. I'm very excited.
NZ: I'm yet to see it because I've been in Magic Goes Wrong, but really amazing thing that I do want to talk about from the Groan Ups tour, is the fact that Jamie Birkett is doing that tour with a literal newborn baby.
DH: Yes!
NZ: And I think it's so cool and so awesome that the company and the production are allowing that to happen. I'm all for that. It' so great. and Jamie is so great, and Fred Grey, who also works with us, is the baby daddy. They're just all doing wonderful Mischief work. And Dylan, their son! All their personal information is out in this podcast, their address...
[HL laughs]
NZ: But they're just inspirational, and I'm very, very pleased that that's happening. So here we are on a podcast, talking about it, good progress, everyone!
DH: Well done, everyone.
[NZ makes crowd noises]
DH: So here's a question for you, that no one will probably know the answer to.
NZ: What?
DH: Yeah.
NZ: Jamie's personal address?
[they all laugh]
DH: Ok, so our amazing touring companies have been making Mischief across the UK since the summer. Sorry, there's an exclamation mark there, [louder] since the summer! But just how far?
DH: That wasn't a good exclamation mark!
DH: I didn't want to shout. Our amazing touring companies have been making Mischief across the UK [shouting] since the summer!
[HL and NZ laugh]
DH: But just how far have they travelled in 2021?
NZ: Good lord!
HL: What, all of the companies put together?
DH: The total. There's Play That Goes Wrong ,Magic Goes Wrong and Groan Ups totalling kilometres of miles, and then I have an individual breakdown.
[NZ laughs]
NZ: Did you do this?
DH: No, I did not.
NZ: Who did this?
DH: This was Rona from marketing.
NZ: Oh Rona!
DH: All these questions are hers, they're great questions. She's figured it out, that's nuts.
HL: Oh my god, that is nuts.
NZ: What a legend.
HL: Well, I mean, how many weeks is it?
NZ: As if he's really going to try and do this? Ok...
DH: But you've got to know where they travel, because sometimes someone might go from Edinburgh to London or like...
HL: That's the thing... it's got to be...
DH: So accumulatively..
NZ: [singing] 500 miles and I have travelled 500 more...
HL: It's considerably more than 500.
DH: It would definitely be more than 500.
NZ: No, but 500, and then 500 more.
DH: But that's not even the song. So, 1,000 miles?
NZ: Yeah. Why is that not the song? [singing] 500 more!
DH: It's getting there...
NZ: Oh, that's better, is it? [sings] I would walk 500 more!
[they all laugh]
DH: Why are we being side-lined by you! I don't know miles, let me put on my glasses!
NZ: 1,000 miles?
DH: So you've gone for 1,000 miles?
NZ: 10,000 miles! [she laughs]
DH: 10,000 miles? Are you going 10,000 or 1,000?
NZ: Yeah, I'm going 26,000 miles.
DH: 26,000 miles? Hen, what do you reckon? Miles or kilometres I will accept.
NZ: He's going to do an educated guess. I should've done it after him.
HL: 18,436.
NZ: Jesus.
DH: Ok, 18, 436 miles. Okay, so this is going to be underwhelming now, because it's way less.
[HL laughs]
NZ: Is it 500?
DH: 5,690 miles.
NZ: Oh man! I was close!
DH: You were close!
NZ: I was 20,000 miles over.
DH: Kilometres is 9,158.
NZ: [singing] 10,000 kilometres an hour!
DH: Play has travelled 3,474 kilometres. Magic, 2,001 kilometres, Groan Ups, 3,682 kilometres.
HL: That's still a long way! [he laughs]
DH: Yeah, it's a very long way! Together it's 9,158 kilometres.
NZ: Oh sorry, I thought you'd said that earlier.
DH: I said that earlier, for god's sake, don't do that.
NZ: It's like when numbers happen, my brain switches off.
DH: It's not just numbers. Name a Mischief Movie Night show...ummmmmm! [he laughs]
NZ:. I did it!
DH: You did, but you named the worst one.
NZ: Yeah, because it is in the memory.
DH: We should do a whole podcast on that.
NZ: No!
DH: You can host it.
NZ: No, thank you.
DH: Because I believe in you. Believe in you!
NZ: Come on, stop it.
DH: Okay, so September, Mischief Movie Night Open Air Tour begins.
NZ: Yes!
DH: Sort of end of August. So we did Regent's Park.
HL: Yeah, that was amazing.
DH: Thorington in that..what was it? A bomb crater?
HL: Yeah.
DH: And then The Minack Theatre, which we all love. Do you remember any of those shows?
NZ: Yeah.
DH: Go on...
NZ: Well, not by name.
[HL and NZ laugh]
DH: You just remember a vibe to those shows.
NZ: Yeah, man, I remember all of...hmmm...
HL: We did one about DFS at Regent's Park, didn't we?
NZ: Oh yeah! Where me and Mike Bodie were like mother/ son spies!
HL: Yeah, yeah.
NZ: And Lauren was like our inside gal that worked at DFS.
HL: And I played a wardrobe.
NZ: You played a wardrobe... again.
DH: An armoire. An armoire isn't a wardrobe though is it?
NZ: We found that out in the show, as we didn't know what that was.
DH: I love how this podcast has turned into a sort of memory test.
[NZ laughs]
NZ: My daily life is a memory test. I wake up in the morning and I have to be like, oh, this is nice, who are you then? Are you my husband? Going to my son, Oh, hello!
DH: That's alarming. You've alarmed me Nance.
[NZ laughs]
NZ: It's like 50 First Dates.
[HL laughs]
DH: Do you remember, in Thorrington we had to get changed outside in a tent?
HL: Yeah.
DH: Great theatre though, that. Henry Shields got a spider in his shoe.
NZ: Did he?
DH: Yeah, and he freaked out.
HL: I didn't see that.
DH: It was very amusing.
NZ: Did he freak out?
DH: Well, he didn't freak out. I think he was suitably freaked out.
NZ: Was it quite a big spider?
DH: Yeah, it was a huge spider.
NZ: Oh, did he put his foot in it?
DH: Yeah, and then there was like a spider in it.
NZ: You know what, that's a weird fear of mine that I have all, all the time. It's never happened to me, but I always there's going to be a mouse in my shoe when I put them on. It's never happened, so I always tip my shoes up before I put them on, just in case there's a mouse in there.
HL: THAT you always remember to do!
[they all laugh]
HL: Yet, basic facts from a few days ago...
[they all laugh]
DH: Wow, like you're living in the desert. They have to do that because of scorpions. Built for desert living.
NZ: I'm living in an old house with lots of cracks in the floor.,
DH: Also, the Goes Wrong Show aired on BBC One during that time.
HL: It certainly did.
NZ: During that time?
DH: Yeah, September to November. It was the first one where they released it all at the same time.
NZ: Oh yeah!
DH: Because it's how people consume content now.
NZ: I didn't do that this year. I watched it weekly like a good girl.
[HL laughs]
DH: I did the same thing.
HL: Lots of people did, especially people, with kids I think.
NZ: It was really funny, actually, because we started rehearsing Magic Goes Wrong in the back end of that, and people were watching it in a really funny order because obviously, you know, they could do whatever they want. And they would come into rehearsals and be like, yeah, last night I watched this bit, whatever bit it was, and you never knew what bit had been exposed the night before for what member of the company. It's a fun experience that everyone was going through at different times
DH: Here we go. October. We're really rattling through these, this is good.
HL: October is nearly now, recent history.
NZ: The new now? Nearly now?
HL: October, yeah.
NZ: I thought you said October is the new now! [she laughs]
HL: October is the new now, guys!
DH: Forget November and December, the year might as well start and end with October. Halloween if it's 31 days.
[HL and NZ laugh]
DH: So Magic Goes Wrong. You guys will, hopefully Nancy, will have remembered this, as it only reopened last month.
NZ: I don't. [she laughs]
DH: Magic Goes Wrong opens in London in the West End with Nancy Zamit and Henry Lewis.
NZ: And others.
DH: Well, in this room..
NZ: Whose names I know...I'm kidding I do remember...
DH: But you remember that opening, right?
NZ: Yeah.
DH: Okay, great. You did that again.
[NZ laughs]
NZ: Of course I do!
DH: The Play That Goes Wrong also returns to off-Broadway at New World Stages.
NZ: Oh, that's really nice.
DH: So that's very cool. And so you guys got to rehearse a full show with a full cast and no like crazy restrictions and stuff.
NZ: And new people! It's so exciting doing a show with all new people. We've done shows together for so long, and every time we end the show, we never get the normal thing that casts do where they're like goodbye, we'll stay in touch. We're always like, yeah, see you tomorrow!
DH: See you tomorrow.
NZ: But this one it's going to be sad when we go, because it's going to be the first time in years and years that we're going to be like, wow, an actual goodbye.
DH: But you probably won't remember anyway, so you'll be fine.
NZ: Nah.
DH: Like within a week, you'll be like, did I just do a show?
NZ: Waking up in my own vomit [she laughs]
DH: Why would you be waking up in your own vomit?
NZ: I don't know! I don't know what picture we're painting of me today!
[they all laugh]
DH: Ok, so in November...moving on from Nanc throwing up on herself and forgetting things... in November, ok, so this one is quite weird. I don't know much about this, actually, so you might know more, Hen. So apparently, November, which is the old now, because obviously now October is the new now.
HL: Yeah
NZ: But it won't be now. When people listen to this, it will be December.
DH: Yes. So November will be the new now by then.
NZ: Yeah, sorry Hen.
DH: Or is it always October?
HL: It's always October. Other than that, everyone's just in stasis.
[DH and NZ laugh]
DH: Everything stops outside of October.
HL: Yeah, yeah. That's the system.
NZ: No wonder I'm so confused!
HL: That could be true. There could be like, 30 months but we're in stasis.
NZ: OK, I hear a definite spin-off podcast where we just do conspiracy theories with Henry Lewis.
DH: What do you mean? There's 18 months...
HL: There's 30 months, but we're only awake and out of stasis for 12 of them. Think about that!
NZ: Stop it! I knew it!
DH: So when does that happen?
HL: Well, between June and July.
[they all laugh]
DH: Sorry, what!
HL: So it goes January, February, March, April, May, June, [mutters made-up words]
[DH and NZ repeat]
HL: Brussels.
[DH and NZ laugh]
HL: Quaffle. Loads of other random months.
DH: What about the regular ones?
HL: They're named through a different system.
DH: Like the Mayan originals?
HL: Yeah. And then all those months, and then bang you pick it up again in July.
DH: What happens in July?
NZ: How do you know it's between June and July?
HL: You're in statis.
DH: What does that mean?
HL: You're just in a deaminated state.
DH: So like wherever you are at the end of the 30th June..
HL: Yeah. That's why when you wake up on the first of July, you always sort of have a sore back or whatever, it's because you've been lying down...
NZ: What is this?
DH: You've never heard of sore back 1st July?
NZ: 1st July, Sore Back Day? Now it all makes sense!
HL: I don't have much proof of this...
NZ: Much!?
DH: Much! But you have some right?!
[NZ laughs]
HL: No. To be honest, I haven't even got a name for all the months. [he laughs]
NZ: I bet if you go into your mind palace you'll think of something, somewhere.
DH: Quaffles, isn't that a Harry Potter thing?
NZl Brussels? That's a place.
HL: We're terrible at month names. BanningBrie? That's a good one.
DH:That is a good name.
NZ: Whipsnack.
DH: Whipsnack!
HL: Yes! That's a great extra month!
DH: Creagers
[they laugh]
HL: Creagers! That's a fantastic month!
DH: OK, so hold on, November. And even though we don't care about it, let's talk about it anyway, right?
HL: Ok. When are we going to talk about Creagers?
[NZ laughs]
DH: That'll be in the DVD of podcast extras, us talking about months.
[HL laughs]
DH: So this is the first time, in the U.S...
HL: Born on the 4th of Creagers...
[HL and NZ laughs]
DH: Is it the same for every country? Do they all have like...
HL: Months?
DH: Yeah.
HL: Yes.
DH: Well, that bit is obvious!
HL: Like obviously, the words are different.
NZ: Yeah, you translate them. Like Creagers in Spanish would be Creagers!
DH: Nice!
NZ: Thank you. That's because it's real, Dave.
DH: What does it mean?
NZ: Creagers? It's a month.
DH: Oh, of course. Yeah, sorry, I forgot.
NZ: Stupid!
DH: So hold on, right, shush, everyone shush. So first time in the US that The Play That Goes Wrong school edition was performed.
HL: Yes!
DH: Tell us a bit about that. What does that mean?
HL: Well, it's a school edition, so a slightly different version of the show. It's more like the one act version, so it's achievable by schools and stuff. And yeah, they did it in this high school in Texas.
DH: So they didn't have all the big sets? Kind of what we did at The Old Red Lion? The 50- minute show?
HL: Exactly, yeah, that kind of thing. There's a couple of minor tweaks to make sure it's suitable for kids to do and stuff.
NZ: Is there whisky in it?
HL: I believe there is whisky. Not real.
DH: No, they just get smashed on fermented apple cider.
[HL laughs]
DH: Are they allowed to do all the big physical stuff? The sword fight and stuff like that?
HL: Yeah, lots of the physical stuff is in there for sure. Not the whole balcony and everything, but it's a great version, and they did a really great job of it. So now that's kind of being rolled out across the U.S, and schools can put it on, which is really exciting.
NZ: Will I be able to see some vids of it?
HL: There is a vid.
NZ: I want to see the vid. Can you send me the vid?
HL: Sure!
NZ: Because there's some really good YouTube vids, but I want to see a full-length version.
DH: Is that something that's coming to the UK as well, or is it just being trialled in America?
HL: We're trialling it in America at the moment, and then potentially it could come here.
NZ: But apparently in the UK, you're going to have to fact check this before you release the podcast, but I heard that...oh my god my brain!
DH: Oh right! This is....because you know we're running out of time!
NZ: What's the examining body that's just come back for A-levels?
DH: I dunno, OFCOM?
NZ: No, it's that kind of thing, though.
HL: OFSTED?
NZ: No, it's not OFSTED. It's like...not AstraZenica.
DH: Screwpulls? Screwpulls Mathematics?
NZ: No...they did our A Levels...
DH: Nance, this is not good content...
HL: An exam board?
NZ: Yeah.
HL: Like AQA? Or Edexcel or something?
NZ: Edexcel or something like that, yeah one of them, has just certified us as drama practitioners.
DH: Oh wow, what Mischief?
NZ: Yeah. So like I said, you're going to have to fact check,. but I think Callum, who does our sound in Magic Goes Wrong, does teaching and he mentioned the other day that it had been part of the curriculum.
DH: Great.
NZ: Because we were official, certified drama practitioners.
HL: Yeah, lots of drama groups study Mischief shows, yeah.
NZ: I don't know what the difference is, but it's been taken on by a certain exam board, so we can offic be looked at.
[they laugh]
DH: We can offic be looked at! Alright, December!
NZ: I've got limited facts here, but there's some joyful story in the middle of it!
DH: It was a great story!
NZ: Shift through it then, Dave! I know what I'm doing when I'm stabbing Kazeem in a box, right? But I just can't remember which exam boards...
DH: Or like sometimes, whether you have a husband and a child.
[NZ laughs]
DH: Alright, now stop. Okay, right here we go, December..
HL: We haven't got December yet.
DH: Yeah, yeah. But this is what's coming up, we're in the future now!
NZ: Woooo!
HL: Creagers
DH: Creagers. Yeah, sorry sorry! Creagers One.
NZ: This is really taking it out of us.
DH: So, December, apparently...to be fair Rona sent me this... this was the Mischief Makers podcast returns. So this is coming out in December, that's news.
NZ: So...what?
DH: We've got to the end of this podcast to learn, you were listening to this podcast.
HL: Ok. We are, this is it!
DH: The US tour of Play That Goes Wrong opens in Chicago for eight weeks and then goes to Vegas in June.
HL: Very excited.
DH: Very, very exciting. And then I've just written some thank you stuff. So that's the end. NZ: Wow, what a wet fart! [she laughs]
DH: Yeah, what a sour ending!
NZ: And now I'd just like to thank the people...
DH: You'd like to thank some people?
NZ: No, I was being you.
DH: You were trying to mock me? How dare you!
NZ: Get you moccasins on!
DH: Get you moccasins on!
[HL laughs]
DH: All right, let's go. Another made up month...go!
HL: Spogs.
DH: Another made up month...go!
NZ: Flipib.
DH: Nice! Flipib. Quesday. That's a day in the month.
HL: That could be a leap year day.
DH: Yeah, Quesday, where you accuse people of stuff.
HL: Spogs is good too isn't it.
NZ: It sounds like the other suit of a deck of cards. I've got magic on the brain.
HL: Yeah, you could do extra suits as well. The six of Spogs.
DH: All right, this is running out of gas.
[HL laughs]
NZ: What are you talking about?
DH: Alright Nanc, why don't you...do you want to read this? Give us your best sign off? Can you read it? Do you need it right up near your eyes?
NZ: Thanks very much to Henry Lewis and Nancy Zamit. I've been Dave Hearn, and you have been wonderful. Stay for more Mischief Makers podcasts...
DH: There's a typo...it's meant to be stay tuned.
NZ: For all the hot goss and boiling hot news from inside the minds of Mischief. Thanks again, and keep making Mischief.
DHl Nice! Hen, do you want to read that as well? So we'll do another sign off?
[they all laugh]
HL: What, the same thing?
DH: Yeah, yeah. Include the spelling errors if you want as well.
HL: OK.
NZ: Boiling hot goss.
DH: Boiling hot goss!
HL: Thanks very much to Henry Lewis, that's me, I can't thank me.
DH: No, you've done it now.
NZ: You're Dave Hearn.
DH: You're Dave Hearn. Or do you want to say thanks to Dave Hearn?
HL: I'd just like to say a huge thank you to everyone.
[they all laugh]
HL: Thanks very much to Henry Lewis, obviously. Nancy Zamit, I've been Dave Hearn. This doesn't work Dave, because I'm not Dave Hearn.
DH: That's true. Do an impression of me.
HL: [impersonating Dave] Thank you very much.
[they all laugh]
NZ: The snarl! I wish everyone could have seen the snarl of him trying to make himself more angular for this. So funny.
HL: Yeah. Thanks so much to Henry Lewis, Nancy Zamit, I've been Dave Hearn, a.k.a. the angle, you've been wonderful.
[they all laugh]
HL: Stayed for more...?
DH: It's meant to say stay tuned...
NZ: It's like he didn't listen to a thing I did just then.
HL: I thought it was the sign-off to be honest!
[they all laugh]
DH: Stayed for more. I've been stayed for more!. No, it's meant to be stay tuned.
HL: Stay tuned for more Mischief Makers podcast, with all the hot goss, boiling hot news from inside the minds of Mischief. Thanks again.
DH & HL: And keep making Mischief.
NZ: And keep making Mischief.
DH: Let's say thanks again, and then we'll do it all together.
HL: Thanks again.
DH, HL & NZ: And keep making Mischief!