- Hello, I'm Jack Whitehall,
and I'm joined by my father,
Michael Whitehall.
This is another episode of
Butt Of The Joke.
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We're going to watch some jokes
I did on my special about my dear old dad.
- Yeah, okay.
- Should we get on with it?
- Yes, let's.
(Jack laughing)
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- [Jack] He's got even worse now, as well,
that he is a minor celebrity.
- I have to put up with people coming up to me saying,
"Oh, God, you're Jack Whitehall's dad, aren't you?"
No, Jack Whitehall is my son.
- I'm not saying the fame has gone to his head,
but the other day my dad was doing a medical questionnaire,
and under occupation,
he put national treasure.
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- And it is true, though,
that you now consider yourself a national treasure?
Do you say?
- No, I don't.
I don't consider myself anything.
- So, you don't consider yourself a national treasure?
- No, of course I don't.
Maybe the nation does but-
- I would say more of a regional trinket.
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He did this ancestry show on the BBC,
Who Do You Think You Are?
The answer it turns out
is an asshole.
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Yup, my father comes from a long line of assholes,
it turns out.
We found our ancestor's plaque in that church,
- Oh, yes!
- And we had to look around it, the church for about an hour
trying to find where he was buried.
- Yeah, I was quite upset about that.
- And you were looking out by the pulpit,
at all the prominent positions and-
- And then you found his plaque.
- Yeah, by the side of the toilet.
Other side of the family,
we visited Wales and discovered
that I am related to a prominent Welsh Tory MP
that introduced bloodsports to the nation,
then put down a revolt of Welsh workers
that were fighting for the right to vote,
and had the William Wallace of Wales
arrested and hung, drawn, and quartered for treason.
What if you'd find out we were French?
- No way.
Imagine, French?
- I'm finding all of this stuff out.
I was, I was upset.
I was moved.
I was disturbed.
I turned to look at my dad.
F***ing nothing.
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- I don't know why you're so obsessed
with having me in all your jokes.
- You're my muse.
- I think you should start looking
for some new material, to be honest.
- Some new muses.
- Yeah, some new muses.
- I was like, "Daddy, you need to look more upset.
There are cameras on us all the time.
Can you at least pretend to be sad?"
He went, "I am sad.
It is all deeply depressing.
I had absolutely no idea that we were Welsh."
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- I wasn't worried about being Welsh.
- You weren't? - No.
- You were. - No, I like Welsh people.
- No.
- I mean, I don't want to hang out with them,
but I mean, I do like quite a few Welsh people.
- But you were very upset that-
- I wasn't.
- that the world knew your dirty little secret.
- We only knew about the secret because you told everybody.
Not that I'd call the audience
in all your shows "everybody."
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- So, this was actually,
genuinely quite a traumatic experience
and I think talking about it on stage was really cathartic.
- Oh, it's easy for you to say that.
(Jack laughs)
You thought to yourself,
"Oh, I tell you what would be funny,
is that time when Daddy shat himself in Chernobyl."
- They got a canteen in Chernobyl,
a canteen in Chernobyl,
which no one in their right mind would eat in.
Unfortunately, my father - not in his right mind.
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We went in there, it was full of Japanese tourists.
Eventually I get to the front of the queue.
I was like, "so, what's on the menu today?"
"Meat in bun."
But I told you not to eat in the canteen and you did,
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- Yeah, I was trying to join in,
'cause you always say I'm too snooty and too standoffish.
- This was the one time I was like, "don't join in,"
I was like, "you don't have to eat."
He eats the mystery meat in a bun,
cut to 45 minutes later.
We are in a van.
We are with our camera crew.
We are driving past the exclusion zone
towards Pryp'yat' into the deserted Woodlands,
the most toxic and radioactive place on Earth,
when all of a sudden,
my father turns to me,
and whispers in my ear,
"Jack, I need the toilet."
Only time we've ever been to Chernobyl,
and the only time an experience like this has ever happened.
- I would hope so.
(Jack laughs)
What, you mean you spend most of your life
coping with me s****ing myself in parks and open spaces?
"I just hope to God Daddy doesn't s*** himself.
Oh, God, he's done it again."
- I swear there was-
- It was all due to that ghastly food, too.
- I'm like, "Daddy, you can't go to the toilet,
you missed your chance.
We are now in the middle of buttf*** nowhere."
He grabbed my arm, and in a voice that sounded
like he had been possessed by a demon, he goes,
"STOP THIS VAN!"
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- I asked the lady what it was and she said "mixed meats."
- Mixed meats.
- Yes, and I said, "what are mixed meats?"
And she said, "I do not know."
And I should have, at that point,
pulled out of the whole thing.
I don't know what those mix meats were,
I dread to think.
- Would you go near Chernobyl again?
- Probably not.
- But then again,
would the people of Chernobyl allow you back in?
Do you think they have a picture up,
warning "Do not let this man in."
- With a picture of me, s****ing myself.
Wanted: The British S****er.
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- So look, I know I've made all of these jokes
at your expense, - Yes.
- But this is a great opportunity
- Yeah. - For me to say,
let's just hug it out.
- No, no.
- Come on.
- No! No.
- Why? - No.
- We can. - No.
- We're in a bubble.
- If you're on a really loose end,
then watch Jack's show - what's it called again?
- I'm Only Joking.
But if you want a really, really good experience,
Travels With My Father, season four.
The advantage is that I'm in it.
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