Leo Reich gave Nick Grimshaw the best line of the morning when explaining how Zadie Smith came to narrate his new Channel 4 sitcom It Gets Worse. Reich said he sent her "a long rambling sycophantic essay" asking her to do it, braced for a block, and got back a single line agreeing. He then joked about the recording process: "she had seen my stand up… she can't read, so I had to feed in the lines through an earpiece," leaving Grimshaw in stitches.
Listen: Zadie Smith "can't read
Reich also told Grimshaw how he talked Andrew Scott into playing his character's "therapist love interest" in the show, texting him that he'd been thinking of Scott while writing the scene, only to panic for days when Scott didn't reply, convinced he'd sent him "fanfic" and was about to get a restraining order. Scott eventually said yes.
Listen: Andrew Scott fanfic panic
Grimshaw revealed that 6 Music's own Lauren Laverne is a big Leo Reich fan, saying she'd been to see his stand-up "several times" and once got embarrassed about how much she liked him. Reich confirmed Laverne had messaged him for free tickets, prompting Grimshaw to tease her gently on air.
Elsewhere, House Music returned with listeners' everyday objects mistaken for pop songs, including a vacuum sealer that sounded like Fatboy Slim's Rockafeller Skank and a singing fridge that recalled David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World. Jam Supernova was confirmed to be covering for Lauren Laverne on Friday's show, previewing a Mercury Prize-themed Six of the Best feature ahead of the live ceremony from Newcastle.
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