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Dylan Moran Interview
Other | Wednesday 7th December 2011 | Osh
Irish comedian and star of Black Books Dylan Moran will be back on the road the Spring/Summer for his new show Yeah Yeah! As he takes a trip down memory lane, we discussed the trick of becoming a top comedian.
So you have a new tour coming up entitled Yeah Yeah. Can you tell us much about it?
Yeah well, it’s quite funny talking about it because it’s doesn’t exists yet. It will be a thing of reality soon. At the moment, there is no audience, it’s just me in a room with a lot of posters and arrows and explanation marks. I don’t know what it’s about yet but it’s going to be about things that are going to be coming up. The news features a little bit because of the world is going through turmoil all the time but mainly it’s about everyday life. What takes most of your time, your family and your friends. How you are trying to keep with everything that is going on while understanding the ordinary stuff that everybody has to do.
So you’re going to mix it up with everyday and topical events when the time comes?
Yeah, I don’t want to spur on topically but I find is that when I get older, you sort of get addicted to news. I remember as a kid, my father used to watch the news and I think you just get to a certain age where you need to know what’s going on in general at all times, sometimes on an hour basis. It’s sort of an addiction and a distraction to your own daily life.
Twenty years ago, you just started as a comic and now you are about to embark on your fourth major tour across the UK. Does it get any easier?
In some ways it is because I’ve done it before and I know I can do it. It’s not when you want to do different stuff, talk about different things and approach things in a different way. And you want them to be better each time as well. So you want to get something right and that never goes away. I work on my material for quite a while before I do it, so to play around with it can be quite odd. I don’t understand why I get obsessed about this and that. Whether it’s the idea of what is running supposed to be or the British class system or Botox or Baptised or Diet, they all stand for something (laughs).
You’ve come a long way since your first stage performance. How was your first ever performance?
You think about completely different things. One of which is that you’re crapping yourself and thinking it’s a huge adrenaline rush just to be doing this. You’re just thinking don’t mess up. You get to a stage were you’re thinking how are you going to get the best out of this, shall I do this as a dialogue, shall I just make it up as I go along, shall I do it in an accent. The first time you do it, you oddly find your style and after your 5,000 time, you think about how far you’ve changed and you wonder where the orange velor pants have gone (laughs).
How optimistic is it for fans of the hit series Black Books to hope for a return or even a reunion episode?
Well we didn’t leave it open, we just finished it. It’s the end for that. It was good, it was fun, everybody worked very hard on it and we had a good time doing it. It was funny, we made ourselves laugh and we got to the stage where we said if it wasn’t going to make us laugh, then it wasn’t going to make anyone else laugh. And we had some fantastic, talented people in it and making it and we got lucky in that sense.
We haven’t seen you on our screens since 2008. Will you be doing some film or TV work soon?
Yeah I’m looking into it. I haven’t found the right thing yet. I thought about putting a program out there as well and I’ve written a few scripts but I just don’t want to do it right now. After this tour, I think I probably will. I don’t really want to do a sitcom as such. I like to projects when you do a bit of work then go away. You’re not in it for 10 years, seems quite appealing.
So you have a new tour coming up entitled Yeah Yeah. Can you tell us much about it?
Yeah well, it’s quite funny talking about it because it’s doesn’t exists yet. It will be a thing of reality soon. At the moment, there is no audience, it’s just me in a room with a lot of posters and arrows and explanation marks. I don’t know what it’s about yet but it’s going to be about things that are going to be coming up. The news features a little bit because of the world is going through turmoil all the time but mainly it’s about everyday life. What takes most of your time, your family and your friends. How you are trying to keep with everything that is going on while understanding the ordinary stuff that everybody has to do.
So you’re going to mix it up with everyday and topical events when the time comes?
Yeah, I don’t want to spur on topically but I find is that when I get older, you sort of get addicted to news. I remember as a kid, my father used to watch the news and I think you just get to a certain age where you need to know what’s going on in general at all times, sometimes on an hour basis. It’s sort of an addiction and a distraction to your own daily life.
Twenty years ago, you just started as a comic and now you are about to embark on your fourth major tour across the UK. Does it get any easier?
In some ways it is because I’ve done it before and I know I can do it. It’s not when you want to do different stuff, talk about different things and approach things in a different way. And you want them to be better each time as well. So you want to get something right and that never goes away. I work on my material for quite a while before I do it, so to play around with it can be quite odd. I don’t understand why I get obsessed about this and that. Whether it’s the idea of what is running supposed to be or the British class system or Botox or Baptised or Diet, they all stand for something (laughs).
You’ve come a long way since your first stage performance. How was your first ever performance?
You think about completely different things. One of which is that you’re crapping yourself and thinking it’s a huge adrenaline rush just to be doing this. You’re just thinking don’t mess up. You get to a stage were you’re thinking how are you going to get the best out of this, shall I do this as a dialogue, shall I just make it up as I go along, shall I do it in an accent. The first time you do it, you oddly find your style and after your 5,000 time, you think about how far you’ve changed and you wonder where the orange velor pants have gone (laughs).
How optimistic is it for fans of the hit series Black Books to hope for a return or even a reunion episode?
Well we didn’t leave it open, we just finished it. It’s the end for that. It was good, it was fun, everybody worked very hard on it and we had a good time doing it. It was funny, we made ourselves laugh and we got to the stage where we said if it wasn’t going to make us laugh, then it wasn’t going to make anyone else laugh. And we had some fantastic, talented people in it and making it and we got lucky in that sense.
We haven’t seen you on our screens since 2008. Will you be doing some film or TV work soon?
Yeah I’m looking into it. I haven’t found the right thing yet. I thought about putting a program out there as well and I’ve written a few scripts but I just don’t want to do it right now. After this tour, I think I probably will. I don’t really want to do a sitcom as such. I like to projects when you do a bit of work then go away. You’re not in it for 10 years, seems quite appealing.
