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A Quiet Word

Season 1 2010 - 2011

  • 2010-09-28T11:00:00Z on ABC
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Comedy
A Quiet Word With is an occasional series of one-on-one conversations between Tony Martin and a high profile entertainer. Martin has been spouting his nonsense for close to three decades, on TV (The D-Generation, The Late Show), radio (Martin/Molloy, Get This), in books (Lolly Scramble, A Nest of Occasionals), as a stand-up comic, and on his website The Scrivener’s Fancy. Now he has taken up interviewing. Two chairs, no clips, and work-related talk only. A Quiet Word with… is not a show about people’s marriages, divorces, children and parents. It’s about a rather thin, film and comedy nerd talking shop with someone he admires for 26 minutes. There are some brief opening titles, an irritatingly catchy theme tune and quite nice lighting. Apart from that, it’s just interesting talk, surprising tangents and more than a few cheap laughs.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-09-28T11:00:00Z

1x01 A Quiet Word with Bill Bailey

Series Premiere

1x01 A Quiet Word with Bill Bailey

  • 2010-09-28T11:00:00Z30m

In this interview, Martin leads award-winning, stand-up comic Bill Bailey on a rambling conversation that takes in his entire career, from playing the foyer of the Hilton to packing out Wembley Stadium. Martin, who has followed Bailey’s career since just missing one of his early Edinburgh shows in 1991, drags a few skeletons out of the closet and attempts to prove that Bill is ‘comedy’s Andre Rieu’.

1x02 A Quiet Word with Carrie Fisher

  • 2010-11-09T10:30:00Z30m

Comedian and recovering Star Wars fan, Tony Martin, leads Hollywood actress and writer Carrie Fisher (aka Princess Leia) on a rambling conversation that takes in her entire career.

1x03 A Quiet Word with Alan Davies

  • 2011-04-02T10:30:00Z30m

Tony Martin interviews his British counterpart Alan Davies. Not only are both men funny, they patently have a long-standing friendship. Accordingly, their chit-chat is much more than a series of platitudes.

To start, Martin quizzes Davies about his early days as a stand-up, with an emphasis on his first shows in Australia nearly 20 years ago. Davies, currently seen on QI and Whites, explains why he always opened in a shambolic manner. Just as the audience started to become uneasy, he would say, ''I haven't started yet. Don't worry, I'm not shit.''

1x04 A Quiet Word with Rhys Darby

  • 2011-04-09T11:00:00Z30m

Quiet is right - there's nothing that is going to set the heart racing when Tony Martin interviews fellow Kiwi and Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby. The interview meanders along pleasantly enough, stopping just short of becoming a tedious mutual appreciation society. Darby is a genius in the guise of the Conchords' Murray and it's interesting to get some of his backstory (such as his time in the army). Just don't expect too many belly laughs.

Comedian Tony Martin gives fellow comedians Simon Pegg and Nick Frost a comprehensive going over on the eve of their latest collaboration, sci-fi comedy Paul.

1x06 A Quiet Word with Lily Tomlin

  • 2011-04-23T11:00:00Z30m

In A Quiet Word With Lily Tomlin, comedian Tony Martin leads the Oscar-nominated actress and comedienne on an entertaining meander through her remarkable career; from her breakthrough on TV's Laugh-In, to classic movies like Nashville, Nine to Five and All of Me, and her return to TV, with roles in The West Wing and Damages.

Tomlin talks about her early influences, recalls her many collaborations with Robert Altman and discusses the process of building comedy characters from the ground up. Along the way, there are stories of working with Orson Welles, Tom Waits and Martin Short, the news that one of her most famous characters has come out of the closet and, yes, the truth behind that clip on YouTube.

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