Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
Rob scanned the room at a school concert and concluded he's in the top 10% of attractive school dads, largely because bald men skew the competition. This led to a full audit of whether British comedians go bald — they mostly don't.
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At a school concert, Rob scanned the room and concluded he was in the top 10% of attractive dads, partly because many of the dads ahead of him in age were bald and bald men skew the rankings significantly. This observation opened a running survey of whether British comedians go bald: Romesh Ranganathan, McIntyre, Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Rhys James, Kevin Bridges, Jonathan Ross — all well-haired. The notable exceptions are Harry Hill and Dara Ó Briain (who came to comedy already bald), Andy Parsons, and Matt Lucas. The discussion is warm and funny, with neither host quite able to explain the disparity between school gates and comedy dressing rooms. Rob's sweetspot theory — that men in their early 40s have enough time to exercise and still have bodies that respond to it, before real ageing sets in — is a genuinely reasonable observation dressed up as vanity.
Rob Beckett says the household needs an hour and fifteen minutes between waking up and leaving for the school run, which he considers a calm, comfortable buffer.
A broken pipe turned the Bad Friends studio into a hydrogen sulfide chamber. The crew denied smelling anything — which, as Andrew pointed out, makes their home lives deeply suspicious.
At a childhood sleepover in Sacramento, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises all over his face while he slept. He woke up, cried, and walked 7 miles down a dirt road before Eric Purvis's mom drove out to retrieve him.
On KSI's Make Me Laugh show, Bobby Lee got slapped so hard he fell and briefly blacked out — 5 minutes into the event. The rule was to use a tortilla, but the contestant used his bare hand instead.
What starts as a riff on Amber Alerts turns into an elaborate Speed remake: Bobby is a Hollywood tour guide whose bus shares a route with a kidnapper's identical bus, there's a bomb on board, and Keanu Reeves needs to be called immediately.
Their producer riffs a conspiracy theory about Lindsey Graham's death in Kyiv, which somehow leads to Bobby and Andrew discovering that every lyric of 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin secretly describes 9/11. They are disturbingly convincing.
Bobby Lee woke up Saturday morning to find three children splashing in his pool, along with a professionally hired swimming teacher — all arranged by friends who have keys to his house. His response: 'There's just too much joy here.'
Harold Ramis told a story about Caddyshack's cast doing drugs all day and night during Florida storm delays, with half their pay going to cocaine. Bobby Lee immediately wants to make that exact movie — and offers to relapse to do it.
Robby Hoffman had never heard of 'new towels.' A towel, in her world, was built with the house. When Sarah Silverman announced she'd bought new pool towels, it was a class-gap revelation.
Will Arnett pitched the perfect rich-person home for Robby: seven-hundred-thread-count sheets and brand-new towels — but a tiny, wrecked kitchen with a coil stove, chips, and Sprite. Best of both worlds.
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