<p>Like his main man Bob Dylan, comedian <a href="https://www.simonmunnery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simon Munnery</a> knows a few things about heckles: aside from being arrested in Edinburgh for heckling Arthur Smith, he met his future wife when she heckled him in Australia. When not on the road, Simon joins his local <a href="https://twitter.com/bedfordmorris?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Morris Men in Bedfordshire pubs</a>, serenading fellow drinkers with his version of Blind Willie McTell. But he no longer owns any Dylan albums (“I’ve given them all away. I went through a period of being quite evangelist”). Munnery cracks us up with his drunken plot to meet Madonna at a record launch, enlightens us with his passionate appreciation of The Velvet Underground’s Beginning To See The Light, cracks us up again with his theory about Kate Bush swapping places with God and mystifies us as to why he played Kind of Blue on a loop for six months. There’s lots about Bob Dylan, too.</p><p>Simon Munnery is “one of the most original and talented comics in the country” (The Observer). After Cambridge University in the mid-eighties, he worked with Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee on an Edinburgh Fringe piece called The Dum Show. In the nineties, he performed sell-out solo shows at London theatres and international festivals, featuring characters including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrf-PRYPxr8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alan Parker: Urban Warrior</a>, The League Against Tedium and Buckethead. Simon starred in ITV’s flagship stand-up show Saturday Live, won a Sony Gold Radio Award for his BBC Radio 1 series Alan Parker’s 29 Minutes of Truth and was nominated for a British Comedy Award for his BBC2 show London Shouting. His TV series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XiPl8CG1o" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Attention Scum</a> was directed by Stewart Lee. Simon appeared as Alan Parker on a music track by The Orb called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHEYoMSDoIQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grey Clouds</a>. He is currently touring <a href="https://www.simonmunnery.com/tour-dates" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simon Munnery: Trials And Tribulations</a>.</p><br><p><a href="https://www.simonmunnery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SIMONMUNNERY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV916eCNLek&list=PLs7QaQ865qkopyF1GyG14LFPxMZJulA1y&index=76" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trailer</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UDrRjFTUmK4WQa0jBhSEQ?si=288cb0bedaad4438&pt=ec7ca9067c2525254be1df0c93b68a82" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode playlist on Spotify</a></p><p>Listeners: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating.</a></p><p>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/isitrollingpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@isitrollingpod</a></p><p>Recorded 10th January 2023</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
