'Detour De France' sounds more like fun than hard work? Did you set out with an aim to play arenas? It has been a 15 year journey from that room above a pub to walking out to 15,000 people. That's something we got around in the end. For a few us, a room above a pub turned into the O2 Arena. "I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister." We drove, and cycled the last bit. I don't know if you know, but it takes 7 years to film 3 minutes of TV. I can still see myself standing in a room above a pub in front of 12 people, or standing there with the promoter at the back of a room going "are we going to go ahead, because if we could get just three more people we could make this gig work? Oh and we sold out tonight? ", and not getting paid. As someone who has really been to Thailand, America, Spain, Japan, Dubai and all these places, I suddenly thought I've not been to France, and I really want to go and discover the place a little bit. This show has your name in the title, demonstrating your now heading towards becoming a household name. I think you can nudge away at your career, and push it forward, but you can't ultimately say 'if I do all these things, I'll end up here'. Yeah, I think that's what you do all the time. In a frank and hilarious interview, the comedian speaks about fame, being funny and fish. I think, in general, what the French feel about the British is that we're sort of peasants really; we're not as sophisticated as them, not as intelligent or as thoughtful, but they'll give you a chance. A working-class boy done good, Micky has risen to the very top of the comedy world. I'll go to the Edinburgh festival to check it out'. Do you want to get into acting? That said, if you start saying you want your steak 'well done', they'll hit you with a lump of wood and you leave the restaurant! We put a lot of hours into the filming. Britain’s Got Talent’s Nabil Abdulrashid has opened up about being shut down throughout his career for speaking about race – including by comedian Micky Flanagan in 2010. Have you kept up with cycling since you've come back? I wonder if there's an audience out there for me? If you don't, they're just going to walk away and not come back again... which we encountered a few times. I think the stand-up is covered. Really? I've been very keen to say to people 'if you make a really good product that people enjoy, it doesn't matter who is tweeting about it or putting it up on their Facebook, people are either watching it or they're not'. I think I'm in that area. The people you met on your travels suggest the French can actually be warm and friendly? Comedian Micky Flanagan has postponed four shows following the death of his mother. So you're on the circuit and you think 'one day I'd like to get paid'. John Bishop recently presented a BBC One show where he cycled around Australia. Micky Flanagan interview; Micky Flanagan interview. My aim is to become an eclectic comedian who can turn his hand his hand to everything. At some point you have to just watch something. They'll all have their different take on it. I will write a new show at some point, I know I can do that, but I see it now as a way of me trying other things, and hopefully out of all those things I try, we'll have a couple of hits... but you don't find that out until you try it. BCG phoned the stand-up star to find out more about the show, and his thoughts on his rise to stardom... Hi Micky. Britain’s Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid was told to tone down jokes relating to race by funnyman Micky Flanagan during a stand-up comedy contest in 2010.. Abdulrashid’s jokes on the ITV talent show proved popular with judges and he made it all the way to the Saturday night’s (10 October) BGT final, which was eventually won by musical comedy act Jon Courtenay. If you like your steak medium you have to say 'medium well', because if you say 'medium' in France they won't serve what you think of as medium. I think you do it in steps. Noel climbing Mont Ventoux in the second episode, that was really exciting. Very odd. Then you think 'one day I'd like to give up work and make enough to be a comedian'. So if a travelogue comes along I'll do it; if a panel show comes along which I think looks great fun, I'll do it; if a comedy script comes up where I think 'that fits me perfectly', I'll give it a go. When I got back from the show I went and had a hernia operation, which I was carrying during the filming. So we worked hard, but we also played hard too... we weren't going to go to bed too early. Was it annoying his format was picked up about the same time? What they can't measure is hundreds of thousands or millions of people going "I really enjoyed that, I'm going to watch next week". So it's no accident that more guys are doing that and making TV programmes about it. If you feel the need to continually tweet, text, post about it, you can do that, but I've got a sneaky suspicion you're not going to enjoy it so much. I think you have to go up one. That happened. Broadcasters are increasingly looking to engage the audience on social media. You recently tried your hand at acting in BBC iPlayer short Micky Flanagan's Foxageddon. I'm sure it has its purpose, and I'm sure that people who like that can use it to engage with the show and talk about it... they can to each other, but not to me. 10 surprising things we learned from Micky Flanagan's Desert Island Discs. That's the way I look at these things: I'm not saying you can't have any of that, but if there's a TV programme that's going to stand on its own, and you're just going to watch it. I knew he would probably use that in his career at some point. I refuse to believe this Twitter thing is all powerful, as they'd like you to believe. 130 seats for me?'. For his new TV series, Micky Flanagan headed across the Channel with his mate Noel to put his own spin on the Tour de France. They'll give you a chance. I think you're a fool if you standing there in front of 8 people in some pub in Camden and think 'if I'm not playing an arena in 10 years it's all been a waste of time'... because there is a very good chance that won't happen. I know John is a keen cyclist because I've done A League Of Their Own with him and he told me about how much he cycles everywhere. If you come across and behave in a very civil and decent way and try and speak a bit of French and accept the way they do things, great. Meanwhile, if you say you want it rare, they lead it into the restaurant with a bit of string! Then you start getting paid. That happened... 'I'd love to play The Comedy Store for a weekend'. "We'll see what mood the chef is in...". 'Detour De France' sounds more like fun than hard work? Cyclists will know that Ventoux is the mecca: it's like the swimming the channel or climbing Everest of cycling, so Noel really wanted to do it. You can't do that in France anyway, the food is too good. No. We didn't know if he was going to be doing it, that is the truth. I watched it and I quite enjoyed it; I enjoyed seeing his journey back to his former life before he got married. One of the things we did notice when we were away whenever we got around cyclists - whether they were French, Dutch, Belgium, whatever - they all were all somewhere between 40 and 55, a bit fat and on a break... 4 or 5 of them that have gone away cycling for a weekend. 'Oh there is. Micky Flanagan's Detour De France is on Sky1 HD on Mondays at 9pm. They love to disappear the French! The dates include Wednesday's gig at The Brighton Centre as well as three shows at the O2 Arena later this week. I wanted to go there and expel a few myths... do they really dislike us that much? I think you'll probably see more of this [on TV]... more middle aged men on bikes! Precisely. Published: Sunday 2nd November 2014. BCG phoned the stand-up star to find out more about the show, and his thoughts on his rise to stardom... Hi Micky. We were very honest about that as well. I think John actually cycled, that was the difference. So my aim is to be the go-to guy for everything... apart from those shows where you have to look at someone's genital warts! I love the idea of going to a country where there's a certain amount of... well, there's been a few problems between the British and the French, I don't know if you've noticed? I can remember that as clear as anything. -. I think that's what people mistake for rudeness and arrogance. But it happens, so I'm just over the moon that it did. There were so many little things we did that were fun, it's difficult to choose. I think even if you're not a cyclist you'll watch that and go 'blimey, that was something!'. https://liverampup.com/entertainment/micky-flanagan-wife-son-married.html So that knocked me out for a couple of months, but over the last four or five weeks I have started to go back out on the bike, yes. We note you're not on Twitter though, so won't be promoting the show that way? By Mayer Nissim. We did a bit, but it wasn't "I'm going to cycle from here to here". It was really exciting taking him there. Do you ever look back and think about your time on the circuit? I will always be a cyclist but I'm not the guy who is going to do it come rain or shine or take on too many massive rides. You can maybe measure things with it in a small way, and people do love to measure things. Micky Flanagan interview: 'I'm not being disrespectful or racist' Digital Spy talks to Micky Flanagan about comedy accents, panel shows and more. If you ask for a medium, that'll come out fairly medium rare. For his new TV series, Micky Flanagan headed across the Channel with his mate Noel to put his own spin on the Tour de France. I drink in the evening, that is why I don't do Twitter!

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