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#223 - With Matthew Dinsmore - Hot Water’s Green Room w/Tony & Jamie

·1 hr 7 min·4 clips

A Linfield supporters club crowd heckled him before he started, shouting "Fat" and "When does the comedy start?"

Jamie and the other host come in hot. The episode opens with tour chatter and sponsor reads, then quickly settles into that messy green-room rhythm where admin and banter blur together. Belfast gets dragged into the conversation fast. They riff on hotel bars, and the whole thing turns into a defence of never bothering to leave once the drinks are decent. Manchester catches a few strays too. The price talk shifts into jokes about the city getting London expensive, which gives them another excuse to moan and compare gigs. The guest fits the room. He gets pulled into the same clipped, overlapping rhythm as the hosts, so the chat feels like a pile-on rather than a polite interview. The stand-up story is the real meat. They ask how long he has been doing it and get into the early nerves, when even basic stage time felt like a proper fight. He says the start was rough. Dry mouth, constant nerves, and that awkward beginner panic keep getting worked over until they become part of the joke. The arena gag lands hard. When they joke about him having played arenas over in Northern Ireland, nobody straightens it out for him; they just push the exaggeration and keep laughing. Belfast gets plenty of love. The city keeps coming back as the place where gigs, hotel bars, and post-show plans all collapse into one easy routine. Jamie and the other host stay blunt. Questions come in as traps or prompts, and the fun is in how far a tiny story can be stretched before it breaks. The closing stretch is shameless. Tour plugs, live-show plugs, Patreon plugs, and a final burst of nonsense leave it sounding like a room full of mates winding each other up.

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A loose, rude green-room chat that finds its rhythm in nerves, hotel bars, and comic needle.

This episode settles into a loose green-room chat, and that is where it works best. The hosts keep circling tour talk, Belfast hotel-bar loyalty, prices, venues, and the arena, so the conversation never quite locks into a neat interview.

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Why you'd press play

For when you want Belfast hotel-bar chat, Manchester price gripes, and a three-year comic getting nudged on stage nerves.

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