-Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, thank you guys for being on our show.
I appreciate it. Welcome.
And really, really, thank you so much.
"The Trip to Greece." -[ Laughs ]
-It comes out tomorrow on -- on demand and video on demand,
all digital platforms.
This is the -- This is the final one,
the final trip with you guys?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah.
-Oh, I'm kind of -- It's bittersweet for me
'cause I feel like I love these.
I feel like you can do this forever.
-Well, there's an old show-biz adage,
which is, quit while you're ahead.
And we didn't do that.
So we thought we'd quit while we're only slightly behind.
And that's... -[ Laughs ]
-That's where we are in this episode, you know?
It's -- I think it might have peaked
a couple of movies ago, but... [ Laughter ]
-No! -Well, I know.
I'm being self-deprecating. Obviously, I think it's good,
otherwise I wouldn't be here, telling you about it.
-There's something I read somewhere
where they're all kind of based on, like --
like, the trip to Spain is based off of "Don Quixote."
-Yeah, that's right, yeah.
-But each one has had a different --
So, there's been Byron and Shelley.
-Yeah. -There was Wordsworth.
-Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah, the Spanish one --
we were sort of following "Don Quixote,"
with Steve as the Don Quixote and me as the Sancho Panza.
And in this one, the Greece one, it follows the "Odyssey,"
with Odysseus' journey.
So there's always a literary sort of reference in there.
-Yeah, yeah.
-It feels like you guys are old friends,
but have you known each other that long or just --
-Well, I gave Rob his first break,
and -- and -- and he's been eternally grateful for that.
[ Laughter ] -I was. I was a schoolboy.
And I used to watch all of Steve's work
and think, you know, "When I get older,
I'd love to do movies --" -He was a 30-year-old --
He was a 30-year-old schoolboy. -Like Angus Young?
-Before I met him, I was a big, big fan.
That's changed now, obviously. -Yeah, obviously.
-That's how it started. [ Laughter ]
-And things happen, absolutely, yeah.
But, I mean, did you -- When did you realize you both --
I mean, I got to say -- I mean,
and I promise you this will be the last time I bring it up,
when you do Michael Caine to each other in that scene,
I've sent that scene -- it's on YouTube --
but I've sent that to everyone I know,
and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen,
and I couldn't stop laughing.
I think the whole thing that people like --
it feels like I'm at dinner with you guys.
So, you're going on a trip with two really funny people,
and then -- -Like -- Yeah.
-I don't know -- I was -- -I mean, that -- that's --
that's something where we just --
that -- I mean, when you see that on that tape,
it was the first trip, and it was just 10 years ago,
when we were just different.
And we -- we -- yeah, that happened naturally.
We just started talking about Michael Caine, and Rob --
I mean, you know, we sort of are competitive,
but we're not really competitive.
And -- But then we just -- we started doing Michael Caines.
And -- And that's my --
you know, unfortunately, my... came out.
Rob and I really would --
That was a genuine little -- impersonation battle, you know?
-[ Laughs ] But who -- who is more famous?
Who's done Michael Caine in front of, like, audiences?
-Oh, we -- we both did it in front of Michael Caine.
-We each did it with him.
We did this big show at the Albert Hall.
-You can see that on YouTube, too.
Yeah, we did it on YouTube.
We did -- We did Michael Caine in front of him,
and he was hiding behind a newspaper.
I think he said, you know -- what did he say?
-[ As Michael Caine ] We're sat down in the front...
and we're sort of doing his voice and saying,
"You're not getting the voice right.
The younger voice is like that,
but when he gets older,
it goes right to the back of the throat."
-And I start saying he's not doing in a nasal way.
He's not giving it the nasal quality it requires.
-You -- Yeah. 'Cause now he's just very...
-[ Imitating Michael Caine ] In the old -- In the old days,
it was like that -- it was more like that, you know?
"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
Yeah. -And he gets --
And he gets emotional now, right?
-[ Voice breaking ] His voice starts to crack like that.
His voice starts to crack
because he's getting very emotional --
because she was only 16 years old!
She was only 16 years old!
[ Normal voice ] Which is -- Which is what I...
-Doesn't even have a be a very emotional scene
for him to be emotional.
He could just be saying,
[Voice breaking] "I'd like a cup of tea
with a milk and two...sugars."
-Oh, my God. -And so he --
And he was sat behind us,
and he put -- pulled the newspaper down
and said, "You're a couple of funny guys,
but you're out of shape.
I do this for a living."
And then he came forward
and did his -- did his Michael Caine,
which was disappointing.
[ Laughter ]
-That's perfect.
-His normal pattern, though, is...
-I love that.
And, also, I love -- there was a Mick Jagger discussion.
-Yeah. -Because --
-Well, this -- this is from a true story
where -- where -- and we said it in the trip to Spain --
I was at a party... -Oh, love this story.
-...and Mick Jagger said, "I was amazed" -- he said --
we chatted, and it was all lovely.
He'd obviously watched "The Trip," right?
So we had a nice chat.
Later on, I'm leaving, and I hear this voice --
"Hey, Rob! Rob!"
And I looked around, and he was up on the landing,
and he looked at me.
I thought, "Mick Jagger is calling out to me?"
He went, "Hey, don't throw those bloody spears at me!"
[ Laughs ]
And I thought, "What?"
And he went, "Don't throw those bloody spears at me!"
[ Laughs ]
And he was doing an impression of me
doing an impression of Michael Caine in "Zulu."
-[ Laughs ]
I'm so psyched to see this movie,
"The Trip to Greece."
I hope this is not the last one. I know it is.
But I think, maybe in like two years,
you come back and you do another.
-I think -- Well, here's what I will say --
in, say, 10 years, when enough time has passed,
if Steve is still alive, I'm happy to do it.
[ Laughter ]
-I'll leave it at that.
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, I love both of you guys.
Thank you so much for doing this.
I really appreciate it.
Stay safe. -Yay!
-Bye, guys. -Bye.