Tuesday is harder than Monday
Scott found the second Breakfast morning more difficult than the first. Monday carried the energy of starting something new, while Tuesday was still too far from both Bamboleo Wednesday and the weekend. He attempted vocal warm-ups to remove his morning voice, recalling a former newsreader who made high-pitched chicken noises moments before switching into an impossibly deep bulletin delivery.
The early hours also made Scott clumsy. He laid his clothes outside the bedroom to avoid waking anybody, then walked straight into the pile in the dark. The accident prompted a later attempt to simplify getting dressed completely.
Amy Schumer and Trainwreck
Amy Schumer joined the programme after Scott attended an 8.30am screening of Trainwreck and laughed hard enough to snort in the back row. Amy regarded losing control of a laugh as the highest possible compliment.
She explained that the film approached dating from a less familiar direction. Her character was not waiting for romance to complete her life and did not initially recognise that fear of being hurt had created the barriers around her. The mix reflected Amy’s stand-up audiences, which were divided between men and women rather than belonging to one expected romantic-comedy group.
Amy also described inviting Jennifer Lawrence on the annual holiday she took with school friends. Jennifer arrived for a boat trip and behaved completely normally, while one of Amy’s friends immediately asked for access to a Hunger Games premiere. Jennifer later took control of a jet ski, performed turns in its own wake and convinced Amy that she had discovered the precise way she was going to die.
The conversation moved so easily that Chris thought Scott and Amy had found a shared attitude. Scott immediately promoted her to the top of his guest list and asked her to return with whatever she did next.
Life as an extra
Unlucky Gary had been hired as an extra in a gay-bar scene for Birds of a Feather. He was excited by make-up and catering, then reported that the wardrobe department intended to dress him as a bear.
Listeners described long days of waiting, repeating background movements and pretending to talk without distracting from the actors. Scott remembered appearing in the children’s programme Aquila when it filmed at his school. Gary’s casting supplied the perfect reason to ask what extras really did once the principal performers and cameras were ready.
The programme ended with Real or No Real and the suspicion that, because Gary was involved, his small television job was still capable of becoming much more complicated.
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