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17x01 - Rosie Jones, Eshaan Akbar, Cally Beaton

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Live at the Apollo". Aired: 6 September 2004 – present.*
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British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo.

17x01 - Rosie Jones, Eshaan Akbar, Cally Beaton

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

your host for tonight

MUSIC: Stop The Cavalry

by Jona Lewie

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ahhhhh! Merry freaking Christmas!

CHEERING

I am Rosie.

I am your g*y Christmas tree.

And if you don't know me,

this is what your voice

sounds like on Zoom

LAUGHTER

..when your internet is sh*t.

I'm telling you.

Two fricking years I had

"Rosie, there's something wrong with

your

"..connection!"

And I'm like, "No!

Only the connection between

my brain and my mouth hole.

LAUGHTER

You get on board

..or you bugger off.

LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE

CHEERING

I am so glad you're all on board.

I am your host for the evening.

I will be here all night,

guiding you through,

so let's be honest.

It'll be a long

LAUGHTER

CHEERING

If you've got any

New Year plans

..for 2024

LAUGHTER

..I would cancel them now.

I love Christmas,

I do.

Apart from wrapping.

Not for me.

I average one present

an hour.

Not good. This year,

I've put all the presents

in Tupperware.

LAUGHTER

Easy peasy.

A bit confusing for my mum

because her present

was Tupperware.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

My favourite part of Christmas

is the Nativity.

As a little girl,

I loved it.

And, every year,

I'd get so excited to learn

what my role was.

And three years in a row,

I got to play

..disabled innkeeper's wife.

I need to clarify

that it was the wife

who was disabled.

Me.

But even as a little girl,

I was a clever bugger.

And I read,

"disabled innkeeper's wife"

and I thought, "Well

"..they haven't specified

"what disability."

LAUGHTER

So I got a bit creative.

My favourite year

was when Mary and Joseph

knocked on the door

..and the disabled innkeeper's wife

did not answer

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

..because her disability

that year was deaf.

LAUGHTER

She actually had loads of room.

LAUGHTER

She just didn't hear the door go!

Four years in to

the Nativity game

..I made it.

I got the big one

and I played Mary.

AUDIENCE: Woo!

Yes!

Yeah, baby!

Looking back now

..I think it was my teachers

being woke.

LAUGHTER

And going

"Well, why shouldn't

"a girl with cerebral palsy

"play the mother of Jesus?"

But if we're being honest

..and if there was a God,

which
- spoiler alert

LAUGHTER

..there isn't

If there was a God,

and if he had the choice

of any lady in the whole wide world

to put his Godly sperm

LAUGHTER

..into, would he really choose

a little girl in Bridlington

..with cerebral palsy?

No!

No, he wouldn't! Because that

would be a fricking disaster!

LAUGHTER

People would be like,

"Oh, have you heard about Jesus?

"No, what?"

"His mum dropped him"

LAUGHTER

"..again."

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

"Now he's got brain damage."

Like mother, like son!

I've had a good year.

I've had a great 2022.

I've had a lot of good things

happen to me.

I, um

Oh, I turned thirty

CHEERING

..two.

LAUGHTER

Oh, I became an honorary doctor.

Yeah!

I'm now Dr Jones.

The power!

Although, right now, I've got to

legally say

I'm not allowed to perform

any operations

..any more.

LAUGHTER

The vasectomies

..they were getting out of hand.

Literally.

Another great thing that

happened to me

was I got a girlfriend.

AUDIENCE: Oooooh! Yes!

Wait, don't cheer,

she left me,

and now I'm single again.

AUDIENCE: Aw! Thank you!

But I just wanted to say

that I'm single

..on telly.

LAUGHTER

Call me.

I had a lovely time with

my girlfriend.

My favourite thing I used to do

with her

was we'd play a game.

Every morning, we'd decide

whether we wanted to listen

to our favourite band,

Nickelback

No judgment!

..or we would read

the Guardian
- lovely
-

or whether we wanted to have sex.

And we called that game,

"Rock, paper"

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Oh, you are clever!

"..scissors."

But unlike the game you know,

"scissors" always won.

LAUGHTER

This year, I've been a

little bit annoying.

And I think it comes with

the territory

of being a disabled person

on TV.

This year,

I've won a lot of awards.

CHEERING

A lot.

No! Don't!

I need a bigger house!

There's no room in there.

An award I won is I got voted

this year's most remarkable woman.

CHEERING

I mean

I'm not!

The most remarkable thing I've done

all year is,

for eight straight hours,

I had a wank.

LAUGHTER

Thank you, k*lling Eve.

LAUGHTER

I recently met Jodie Comer,

and I said, "Oh, I've got

a joke about you."

And she said, "What is it?"

And I went

..ha

No.

Another bloody award I got

is I got voted one of the country's

most powerful lesbians.

CHEERING

No, no, no.

What does that even mean?

I wasn't number one.

Cos that was Clare Balding.

w*nk*r.

LAUGHTER

And I wasn't number two

..or three

..or five!

Or four.

I was number

..96.

Ninety f*cking six!

I don't know 96 lesbians!

Where are they?

I want to play

rock, paper, scissors!

CHEERING

Right.

I'm done!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Let me tell you,

you are in for a bloody cr*cker

of a show!

Are you ready?

CHEERING

Yeah, you are!

Now, please give it up

for your first act,

she's amazing!

It's Cally Beaton!

CHEERING

MUSIC: Fairytale Of New York

by The Pogues

Happy Christmas, Apollo!

CHEERING

Oh, it's lovely to hear your

spirits so up

with the cost of living crisis

as it is, isn't it?

I've decided this year we're going

to barbecue the turkey

and have Christmas dinner

in the garden.

I say the garden,

I live in North London.

My garden is about the size

of a small tea towel, so

I sometimes think I mow away

more when I shave.

LAUGHTER

It's just a joke, sir. All right?

I don't shave, so

LAUGHTER

It's a lovely time of year,

isn't it?

It's all about the children

this time of year.

Give us a cheer
- the parents in!

CHEERING

You sound very chipper for people

who are going to have to choose

between heating your houses

and Lego this Christmas.

I'm a parent.

I am a single parent of a boy

and a girl, apart from on Tinder,

where I'm a single, fun
-loving

nurse. But that's

It's nice to see you again, sir.

I, um

But, no, my kids are amazing.

I've got a boy and a girl.

My boy is the ginger one.

He's my favourite. And

He isn't. I

No, he's an amazing kid.

So when he was little,

he was diagnosed with autism.

And he always had this phenomenal

gift with maths and numbers,

but he never liked anyone

to give him a hug.

And it was a difficult thing,

you know, being his mum,

not being able to hold my own child.

But I would look at him

and I would think,

"That's my little boy filling

out my little tax return."

So, you

You power through, don't you,

Apollo? Power through.

You'll all know this.

There are so many fantastic

celebratory things

about autistic children.

And one of the most brilliant things

is they tend to have an

encyclopaedic knowledge

of the thing they most love

in all the world.

And in my son's case, it was always

anything to do with animals,

and in particular, monkeys and apes.

My son, at a very young age,

was one of the world's foremost

primate experts,

and I became one of the world's

second
-foremost primate experts.

And let me get this out

there for you lovely people.

It's a lonely life

being a bonobo ape mum.

Now, some people here may know

what bonobo apes are.

They're an endangered great ape.

They're the closest living

relative of a human being.

Don't worry, sir. If you're not

laughing, you're learning.

LAUGHTER

They're

In DNA terms a bonobo ape is just

half a percent removed from a human.

Half a percent!

I've dated people

less human than a bonobo ape.

APPLAUSE

And they've left that half percent

DNA on my sheets, but

AUDIENCE GROANS

But I think it's amazing,

isn't it, that a teenage boy

would have that knowledge

of bonobo apes.

Here's a fun fact for you, Apollo.

They eat up to half their

body weight in food

and masturbate up to 20 times a day.

I know!

Bonobos wank a lot, too.

But I'm so proud of my boy.

He's now making a living

out of his passion.

He is now a primate
-specialising

zookeeper at a big zoo

down in the West Country.

So Thank you.

APPLAUSE

I couldn't be more happy for him.

We speak every single day

and he tells me about all the weird

and wonderful creatures he's met.

Not just the people of Devon. And

LAUGHTER

We spoke yesterday
- because zoos

have to be open during Christmas.

We spoke yesterday and he said

to me, "Mum, Mum, you'll never guess

"what I did today."

And I said, "What did you do today?"

And he said,

"Today, I castrated a lemur."

So I know!

And I said,

"Well, you've always been clumsy."

LAUGHTER

But I remember for his second

Christmas I didn't want to do

all the gender stereotyping things.

So for his second Christmas

I bought him a little iron

and an ironing board.

I thought that would be so sweet.

Turned out he'd never seen me

use an iron.

So, he just started walking

around saying,

"I can't talk right now,

could you send me an email?"

I think things have got

a little bit better now.

But when I was a little girl,

we were told it's not OK

to be angry. Not ladylike.

Little girls must not get angry.

And little boys were told,

it's not OK to cry.

You mustn't get upset.

So little boys would always take

their emotions out in aggression.

And as adults, we as women,

we get told we're a little bit

naggy, aren't we, sometimes?

We're a bit passive aggressive.

That's cos you took aggressive.

You left us passive aggressive.

But we're fine with that.

Luckily, we're absolutely

fine with that.

Nothing's wrong.

LAUGHTER

Why would anything be wrong?

I could keep this going till

next Christmas, but we've got

a show to do.

But I think it would be lovely,

don't you, if men

would cry a bit more?

Not just every four years

at the Euros.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Do you know what,

it's nearly 2023.

When are we going to start

celebrating women and our bodies?

It does not matter what age,

size, body type we've got.

Am I right, Apollo?

CHEERING

I, erm

You guys are all right with

the F
-word, yeah?

Feminism. So

I love this whole body positive

movement there is.

I think it's brilliant.

And my daughter bought me a T
-shirt

and it just sums it up, I think.

On it, it just said the words,

"My weight is not the most

interesting thing about me."

And I think, isn't that a beautiful,

simple thing to have upliftingly

on a T
-shirt? Isn't it?

APPLAUSE

I was going to wear that T
-shirt

to do this, actually,

but it makes me look fat. So

LAUGHTER

My daughter and I,

we're really close.

I took her out for some festive

c*ck last week and we went

to one of those lovely fancy

sky bars down on the South Bank

of the Thames.

And as we were queuing to get in,

they were doing very, very thorough

bag checks on the door.

My daughter's face just fell

and she said,

"Mum, Mum, they won't suspect you.

"Can you put my weed

in your pocket?"

I was like, something's gone wrong

here, hasn't it?

"Can you put my weed

in your pocket, PLEASE?"

LAUGHTER

And where was I going to put

my cocaine?

But we got in.

We had the most wonderful night

and we kept getting free c*ck.

There was a very, very

good
-looking young waiter,

wouldn't let us pay for

a single thing.

At the end of the night,

that waiter came over,

he bent down, he said to

my daughter, he said,

"If you weren't here,

I'd take your mum home with me."

I couldn't believe how long it took

to get an Uber for my daughter.

It was

LAUGHTER

So I found this thing online

that can best be described

as a menopause magnet, right?

I don't mean George Clooney.

This is literally a magnetic

device to help a woman

through the menopause.

This thing arrived in the post.

It said it would help me with my

mood swings and my hot flashes.

And what you do is I know this

sounds weird, sir, right.

But what you do is you put a magnet

on the front of your knickers,

you put a metal disc on

the inside of your knickers.

It keeps the magnet securely

and discreetly in place.

And that bit works so beautifully.

But what they don't tell you on the

menopause magnet packaging

is when it is tucked neatly and very

discreetly in your pants, distinct

possibility you will find

yourself metallically attached

..to the self
-checkout in Waitrose.

LAUGHTER

The unexpected item

in the bagging area.

LAUGHTER

I just rang it through as

a butternut squash and I pissed off.

LAUGHTER

I felt so stupid. The week before,

I'd spent a whole ten minutes

attached to my tumble dryer.

I mean, it was a very nice

ten minutes if I'm

LAUGHTER

It took me so long to decorate

the tree this year.

All the baubles kept getting

stuck in my pubic triangle.

I've still got at least one

novelty Santa down there.

But no,

they're really powerful magnets.

Honestly, sir, if you've got

any metal fillings,

I'd shimmy back a bit

and shut your mouth.

A pandemic was no place

for a menopausal woman, right?

Do you remember when they were

taking your temperatures everywhere

before you could get in?

We were only ever one hot flush away

from getting fully cancelled.

It was

I remember the last time it happened

so clearly.

I was out with a friend,

we were trying to just get a pizza

and they were taking temperatures

on the door and the guy took mine

and he looked at me.

He said, "There's a problem."

And I said, "What do you mean

there's a problem?"

He said, "I'm really sorry,

there is a problem."

And I said,

"Am I a little bit overheated?

"That's funny, cos

I'm a 50
-year
-old woman,

"I've just spent an hour

and a quarter on the Northern Line

"wearing a mask, and I raised two

children single
-handedly,

"I gave birth to them with no

pain relief while their dad

"complained his back was hurting,

and

"I haven't had a good night's sleep

in about two years because of my

"anxiety, my irrational crying

and my vaginal dryness.

"I don't know what my body's doing.

It should send the tears down there.

"That's where I really need them.

"And

"And I am attached to your fire

extinguisher by my pants!"

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Turned out the problem was

with the card machine.

You had to pay on the app.

So

So let me find out,

you lovely Christmas Apollo people,

who are the other single people

in apart from me?

Single people, make some noise.

AUDIENCE MEMBERS CHEER

Oh, a few people there.

So, I mean, I'm going to be the

ghost of Christmas dating future.

I'm going to make you beautiful

women feel so much better

about being single.

By the way, do you ever do

the drink dialling thing?

Do you ever do that?

You're saying no, your mate's going,

"She bloody does."

Yes, I did it last week, right.

I sent a text to my ex just to see

if he wanted to go for a drink.

That's all it was.

And autocorrect jumped in

and changed it to,

"You've got a tiny d*ck

and you've ruined my life."

So

LAUGHTER

It's weird, isn't it, technology?

By the way, I did,

for the first time in my life,

I recently dated a

fellow ginger and I felt

like I was doing something ill*gal.

I did! Especially because he did

look a lot like my brother.

So I mean, not once I started

sleeping with him, obviously,

he didn't remind me of my brother

then.

He does it differently. So

LAUGHTER

Because it's Christmas
-time,

instead of ending with a joke,

I'm going to leave you, if I may,

with a really uplifting quote.

Somebody told me this the other day.

I'd never heard it before.

I think it's beautiful.

It goes like this:

The greatest danger for most of us

is not that our aim is too high

and we miss it, but that it is

too low and we reach it.

That's Michelangelo.

And I think,

isn't it amazing, that wisdom

from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?

You've been absolutely delightful,

Apollo. Happy Christmas!

And goodnight!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Cally Beaton!

Are you ready

for a little bit more comedy?

CHEERING

Yeah, you bloody are!

So whoop and cheer for

the amazing Eshaan Akbar!

CHEERING

MUSIC: Merry Christmas Everybody

by Slade

# So here it is, Merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

Look to the future now ♪

Yes! Merry Christmas, Apollo!

CHEERING

Lovely to be here.

I'm not Romesh.

LAUGHTER

It is lovely to be here.

But here's the thing,

Christmas as well

I love Christmas.

Give me a cheer

if you love Christmas.

Thank you.

CHEERING

I love Christmas, too, but I get it,

some of you are you looking at me,

you're thinking,

"Hold on a minute, Eshaan.

"You?

"You love Christmas?

"You look a bit tooMuslim

for that, mate."

It's true.

I am from a Muslim background, but

we love Christmas in our household.

Because we're Muslim, though,

we do things a bit differently.

For a start,

we don't call it Christmas,

we call it Jesus Eid.

Instead of having

kind of pigs in blankets,

we have lamb in shawls.

We used to play pass the parcel.

But then my uncle

got taken away by MI5, so we

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

..stopped that immediately.

But my family, actually, my family

background, we're from two countries

that actually celebrate

Christmas a lot.

Combined, there's four million

Christians in those countries.

My dad's from Pakistan and my mum

is from Bangladesh,

which means I can make a fantastic

pair of jeans.

LAUGHTER

What else can I tell you to add to

this kind of colourful concoction?

Guys, I also happen to be

a deaf person.

HIGH
-PITCHED FEEDBACK

No disability ever gets a woooo!

Because I wear a hearing aid, what

tends to happen is I go for a job

interview sometimes and I can see an

HR manager sitting in a corner

going, tick, tick, tick.

"Please be g*y. Please be g*y.

Please be g*y."

LAUGHTER

And they're not the only ones that

do weird things

when they find out I'm deaf.

Often people will come up to me,

they'll be like,

"Oh, my God, Eshaan,

it's so interesting that

"you wear a hearing aid

because I think I'm actually

"a bit deaf, too."

LAUGHTER

What do I do with this information?

And you can't do this with any other

disability, can you?

Like, you can't go up to someone

in a wheelchair

LAUGHTER

Say, "Mate, when I drink

too much"

LAUGHTER

"..my legs feel a bit wobbly

as well."

It's just a weird thing to say.

But here's the thing.

I think, as a society, we need to

get a bit more honest about the

flaws in our thinking, right?

Over the last few years, I feel like

too many of us have tried to

present ourselves as having

perfect thoughts.

And I can be honest enough with you,

Apollo, to admit to you tonight

that when I see someone

with a more visible disability

than I've got, I get jealous

at how much clout they've got

in the disability game,

cos no
-one respects deafness

as a disability, do they?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Pardon?

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Don't applaud him!

That was ableist

and unnecessarily so.

I get jealous of them because no
-one

respects deafness as a disability,

do they?

I can't legitimately enter

the Paralympics, can I?

There's blind football,

wheelchair basketball.

A deaf race would be a line

of men just waiting to start.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

The thing is, it's not all bad.

Cos look, life is hard

and life is complicated.

And when life throws lemons

your way, you've got to try and find

a way to make lemonade.

I wasn't born deaf.

I turned deaf in my mid 20s, right.

So the silver lining that I found

of my deafness is this
-

I get a Disabled Persons Railcard.

AUDIENCE: Ooooooh!

Gets me a third off rail travel.

Absolutely amazing.

And when I got it, again, be honest

about the flaws in your thinking.

You were like, "Eshaan, you've

got a Disabled Persons Railcard,

"you don't like walking so much.

"Bro, go and get a blue badge."

LAUGHTER

So I walked into the local

council office
- a bit too ably.

LAUGHTER

The guy looked at me behind

the counter and he goes,

"Ah, yes, come over."

I'm like, "Wow, this guy knows

exactly why I'm here," right?

And he beckons me over.

He sits me down

and then he pulls out a form.

And on the form you have to tick

the reason why you're giving someone

a blue badge, right?

He ticks off,

"Weight
-related mobility issues".

LAUGHTER

The thing is, in the UK, like,

I grew up loving trains, right?

But there's one thing about

the trains other than the fact

that I want them to run on time,

that I really need them to change.

And it's this announcement

that goes, "See it, say it, sorted."

Have you heard this?

For those that haven't,

"See it, say it, sorted,"

is an announcement on trains

which basically means if you see

something suspicious, call

the British Transport Police.

But we all know what they really

mean by suspicious.

If you see a brown bloke

with a rucksack

..give us a f*cking call.

LAUGHTER

Now, I've never liked

"see it, say it, sorted"

because, for a start, it just raises

fear and suspicion constantly.

Second, it doesn't get to the heart

of the issue of what they really

want us to do, which is

racial profiling.

And third, and most importantly,

see it, say it, sorted

doesn't bloody rhyme.

LAUGHTER

Now this upset me.

I said, "Right, I've got to come up

"with some alternative options

to reflect the reality of

"the situation and make it a bit

more linguistically appealing."

So I've come up with two options to

replace "see it, say it, sorted".

By way of cheer, you can tell me

which one you prefer, OK?

So option number one to replace

"see it, say it, sorted".

Seen a Muso?

If so, let us know.

LAUGHTER

Average? OK.

Option number two.

Don't be wacky, report a

LAUGHTER

Hey!

Hey!

You little r*cist pieces of

Gotcha!

LAUGHTER

I'm in my late 30s at the

moment and a lot of my friends

are already kind of parents

of toddlers.

Do we have any parents of toddlers

in at the moment? Give me a cheer.

SOME AUDIENCE MEMBERS CHEER

Yeah, you are the worst human beings

on the planet.

I hate each and every

single one of you, right?

Cos parents of toddlers nowadays,

my God, they feel the need to show

that they love their child

when they're in public.

Like, get on a train,

you'll 100% see this.

They'll be like,

"Oscar, we're on a train.

"Did you bring your bag

with you today, darling?

"I know, there are lots of people

on the train, aren't there?

"What's that, you want to press the

button even though they're waiting?

"Don't worry about them.

"Maybe I'll read you a story first,

Oscar.

"I love you, Oscar.

"I love you, Oscar.

"I really love you, Oscar."

f*ck off!

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I understand and assume

that you love your child.

I don't need to see this

performance parenting.

Now, I don't have any children.

I've got a little nephew.

When I get my nephew along, I think

to myself, I don't want to miss out

on the opportunity to be a

complete d*ck in public.

LAUGHTER

So I get my nephew,

I sit him down, I say,

EXAGGERATED ACCENT: "Hello, Ali.

"We are on a train.

"Did you bring your rucksack

with you today?

LAUGHTER

"I know, there are lots of people

on the train.

"What's that, you want to

press the button, do you?"

All the parents shut the hell up.

And there's a woman in the corner

going, "See it, say it, sorted."

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

And I know some of you are sitting

there thinking, "Hold on, Eshaan,

"it's a Christmas show. You can't

start talking about terrorism."

It is funny, though.

LAUGHTER

One of my favourite things about

Christmas, right,

are the Christmas adverts.

I absolutely love them.

When I know they're about to come

on, I go to the living room

with a pack of tissues to cry.

Pack of tissues,

enjoy the Christmas adverts.

But a couple of years ago,

right, Sainsbury's did an ad

that caused a major issue.

They showed a black family

enjoying Christmas.

The horror!

They showed this beautiful, strong

black dad making a lovely Christmas

dinner for his beautiful family.

And he's stirring some gravy.

Gravy, f*ck off. Jerk sauce.

We know what's happening here.

LAUGHTER

And all these people are like,

"Right, Sainsbury's, it is political

correctness gone too far, mate.

"This is some woke bollocks.

I've had enough of this bullshit.

"I'm going Tesco, I'm going

Morrisons. Piss off, Sainsbury's!"

LAUGHTER

And all these lovely

liberal people on Twitter,

they were like, "Oh, you dirty,

disgusting gammons.

"I can't wait to shop at Sainsbury's

this year.

"In fact, I think I might

have a Caribbean Christmas.

LAUGHTER

"There'll be steel drums,

and everything." Ooh!

And they were conducting themselves

with this air of superiority,

like somehow they're better than

the people boycotting Sainsbury's.

I'm like, hold on a minute, hold

on. You're not better than them.

We all do it. We all boycott stuff

we don't see ourselves in.

Every single person in this room at

one point or another has boycotted

something they don't see

themselves in.

It's the same reason

I've boycotted porn.

LAUGHTER

There are no Asians

in mainstream porn.

Why? There's billions of us.

We're shagging.

And by the way, when I say Asian,

I mean curry Asian, not noodle.

LAUGHTER

And you hate yourself

for getting it, don't you?

I was thinking to myself,

why are there no Asians

in mainstream porn?

It really, really made me sad.

And I thought about it

and I thought about it.

And I realised,

it's because Asian porn,

the storylines would be so sh*t.

Imagine a classic patient
-doctor

porn scene.

Patient comes in, she's like,

AMERICAN ACCENT: "Oh, my God,

Doctor,

"I've got such a headache, big boy.

"How are you going to get

this one out of me?"

And he's like,

INDIAN ACCENT: "Well, you take two

paracetamol four times a day,

you'll be fine."

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

And she's like,

AMERICAN ACCENT: "Oh, my God, my

hand is stuck in the photocopier.

"How are you going to get me

out of this one, big boy?"

And he's like,

INDIAN ACCENT: "Er, turn it off

and then on again. I don't"

LAUGHTER

Or she gets in the back of a taxi

Gets in the back of a taxi, notices

the cab driver, and she's like,

AMERICAN ACCENT: "Oh, my God.

"You're such a hot, sexy

cab driver. Mm.

"You want to park the car somewhere,

"come to the back and do naughty,

naughty things to me, big boy?"

And he's like,

INDIAN ACCENT: "Will you

give me five stars?"

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen,

my name is Eshaan Akbar.

Merry Christmas.

I'll see you soon!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Eshaan Akbar.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Have you all had a lovely time?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please, give it up one more time

for Cally Beaton

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

..and Eshaan Akbar!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I've been Rosie.

Bye
-bye!