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  • O is for Oh, look, it's singing.

  • Yeah, that's a chapter.

  • But here's the thing, right?

  • I've done many wonderful projects in my life.

  • Most people ask me about is actually what it's like to be famous.

  • That's what people I mean, I don't feel famous.

  • All the other sofa with these, you know, icons here.

  • But But in Sainsbury's I'm famous people ask me about Yeah, about about what it's like.

  • So I've written a whole chapter about what it's like to be a B lister you get, You get people coming up.

  • They do catch phrases, Yes, but often, sometimes the wrong ones.

  • I get people come up to me a lot.

  • Are you bothered?

  • Are you bothered?

  • I'm absolutely fine, dear, because you're actually mistaking me for Catherine Take.

  • She gets people coming up to going.

  • No, but yeah, but do you do you get mistaken for Colin Firth?

  • Do you going?

  • Yeah, who has me by an Oscar and at least 10 inches, right.

  • A lot of decorum, but for a gym once and the woman got on the phone, she said, I'm just going to sort out your membership.

  • You went?

  • Yeah, calling.

  • Put it on his own.

  • You you were telling me backstage that you you did your 1st 1 of those within a comic calm.

  • Now I did a comic con recent I did it.

  • I did my first signing convention because I've just spent a year in Doctor who as a companion on DSO, lots of people said, Please come into a convention, so so I'll have a convention on.

  • The great thing about these conventions is people dress up as characters that you've played on DSO or just dress up a CZ different SciFi characters and different film characters on Dhe yet.

  • So there was a lady next to me whose job was to sort of hand me photographs to sign and stick the name of the person on a post it note so I could sign.

  • And what have you and one guy came over for an autograph on?

  • The woman next to me who worked for the convention said, Oh, wonderful, you've come a slew.

  • She meant Lou from Lou and Andy.

  • You know the character David played and he went No heaven way, hair, bad teeth, glass.

  • It was very embarrassing.

  • And so I went no, course he hasn't used commerce.

  • Who have you?

O is for Oh, look, it's singing.

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Matt Lucas on fame and Doctor Who conventions - The Graham Norton Show: 2017 - BBC One

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