-We have options. You can sit, you can lay down.
Whatever you feel like doing.
It depends how the interview -- -Just lean over here.
How about that? -Yeah, whatever you --
Yeah, you want to lean? [ Laughter ]
You can lean if you like.
-I'll hover, I'll hover. -Yeah. I'm so happy to see you.
-I just caught a glimpse of myself.
-I thought I'd buy this coat. It's like The New York Dolls,
but actually, it's more "Sesame Street."
-No, no, it is still -- It's charming.
-Come on, Jimmy. Try my coat on.
You can make it look cool. -You think so?
-If anyone can make it look cool...
[ Cheers and applause ]
You can do it.
Look at this.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Wow! -Not bad.
I think you rock it.
I think -- -Look at Jimmy.
-No, no, no, you got -- -You know what this is?
-What? -This is Buster Keaton
if he was a pimp.
[ Laughter ]
-It does look like that. That's so funny.
I do look a little like Buster Keaton.
-You do look like -- -Thank you! I'll take that.
I love that. It's a compliment. I love this.
-I took my coat off and revealed my "Bake Off" paunch.
[ Laughter ]
-No, have you ever done -- -Add a trifle up here.
-Have you ever done the bottle flip?
-Yeah, yeah, it's easy. Watch.
Oh! -No, it's very --
No, it's a simple thing. Right? -Is it?
How does it work? -No. That's it.
-That's it. Oh!
-Angela Bassett makes it look easy.
-When you've been doing it as long as me,
you can do two at the same time.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, my God.
You're so good. I just love doing it.
Anyway, we won't have to worry about this.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
You see what I'm saying?
The jacket -- The jacket comes off.
-Buster Keaton. -Yeah.
-Left-handed. Ah! [ Laughter ]
-During the interview, just keep flipping it and see if it lands.
I just want to say congrats, by the way,
because you've become a dad
since I think the last time I've seen you now.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You're a very cool dad. You have --
-The weird thing about that is, I don't have any children.
[ Laughter ]
-What does that mean? What does that mean?
-An abstract joke.
Someone said, "You're a dad now."
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
But you do have two beautiful daughters.
-I got two daughters. You've got two daughters.
-I do, yeah. -Got a 5-year-old
and a 3-year-old. -It's the best, right?
-It's -- I literally -- It blows my mind every day.
So I've got a little 5-year-old
I named after Salvador Dali, obviously.
And she's like a little -- she loves painting,
and she's kind of ethereal and surreal.
And then I've got a 3-year-old
that I named Iggy after Iggy Pop,
and she wears the leather jacket, she smokes.
[ Laughter ]
She rides a motorbike. -She rides a motorbike.
-She's like Tank Girl.
[ Laughter ]
-Tank Girl. -The great thing about
being a dad is, you realize you know nothing.
I was sitting with Dali, and she saw, uh --
she saw us in the mirror, and she said, "Who's that?"
And I said, "That's you."
And she said, "No, but I'm here."
And I went, "Yeah, but that's your reflection."
And she went, "What's a reflection?"
And I went, "I've got nothing for you."
[ Laughter ]
-You really are Dali. That is really fantastic.
-Then she basically went, "What's a shadow?"
And I went, "Again, I've got nothing for you."
-Isn't that great? -Dad, why am I upside down
when I look in a spoon?" Again, I've got nothing.
-Wow! She's fantastic.
-Why are people upside down in spoons?
-I have no idea. You're right.
-Why are we upside down in spoons?
Who made that decision? [ Laughter ]
"Okay, guys, I've got an idea.
We're all gonna be upside down in spoons."
[ Laughter ] "Anyone against that,
raise their hand now." -Yeah.
"What about ladles?!"
[ Laughter ]
-Ah. Now, you were part --
You were part of "The Great British Bake Off."
I love this move because I knew you before that show.
-Yeah. -And I don't --
-Pre-"Bake Off." -Yeah.
-Pre-"Bake Off" Noelie. -Yeah.
That's what we used to call you back
before we knew you were gonna go on.
We used to call you pre-"Bake Off" Noelie.
-I know. -And then -- But I thought
that was one of the kind of most interesting choices
to have you as one of the hosts. And yet --
-At that point, people didn't really know me as a person.
I'd never done reality TV. I looked quite scary,
uh, a bit like Keith Richards in his prime.
And, uh, I had a reputation as being quite a party guy.
You know, I used to hang out with Courtney Love
and Amy Winehouse.
And then I think when I got that gig, Britain was horrified.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-They was like, "Who's let Nosferatu in the tent?"
[ Laughter ]
-This is like -- But this is a --
[ Laughter ]
...a beautiful -- This is a giant show.
I mean, this is, like, the number-one show in England.
-I know. -Do you have any pressure
to feel like you might ruin it or...?
-It's -- yeah. -Taint it.
-It's like an institution, and everyone was mortified,
and I just thought, "I'm gonna --
I'm gonna have to leave England."
I said, "I can't do this."
And then they brought in Paul Hollywood.
I don't know if you've ever seen his eyes.
They're very blue. And they wheeled him in,
which is weird, 'cause he can walk, and they wheeled him in...
[ Laughter ] -It's in his contract.
He must be wheeled around.
-A big throne. It's got six wheels.
And I looked into his beautiful blue eyes,
and I sort of got sucked in for a moment
and dived into his blue eyes.
And then I found myself in a waterfall, naked.
[ Laughter ]
And when I came out, I'd done eight seasons,
so there you go. [ Laughter ]
-That's a beautiful story.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's a beautiful story. You're a crowd favorite.
-As a cheeky bonus, I've got two children now.
[ Laughter ]
I don't know how that happened. -From the waterfall.
Yeah. But people love you. The audience loves you.
I couldn't see the show without you now.
And I just love getting to know you on there and seeing how,
first of all, how friendly you are,
but, also, you're very funny. You're brilliantly funny.
But just to get to see that side of you, the friendly side
and just the open side and how nice you are.
-You know what? It's the best job in the world.
Like, you wouldn't -- I don't know why you would --
You'd never leave that show.
It's just like -- it's on a stately home.
There are lambs frolicking. Prue Leith is amazing.
Alison -- Alison Hammond, who's just joined is so --
-Yeah, I have a picture of everyone.
-A lovely, lovely show.
And the bakers are so good
and they're so brilliant at what they do.
And they're really funny because they're not --
they're not celebs, so they're sort of not guarded.
And you have really good, interesting chats with them,
you know, and you can just improvise.
So I sort of see it as, in a weird way,
how I sort of positioned it in my head was,
it's a bit like you're able to improvise in a sort of tent,
which is a bit like a circus.
And so, for me, I just pretend to be in "Mork & Mindy"
in a tent, in a circus. -Yeah.
-That's how I get up in the morning.
You got to tell yourself. [ Both laugh ]
-That's how you wake up? Yeah.
But let's talk about your new series.
-Yeah. -This is "The Completely Made-Up
Adventures of Dick Turpin."
It's very, very funny, very entertaining.
Tell everyone what it's about and who you play.
-Well, Dick Turpin's a real guy.
I don't think Dick Turpin's very well known in America.
I think he's like Robin Hood,
but Robin Hood robbed from the rich and gave to the poor,
and Dick Turpin just robbed from the rich.
So he's not -- [ Laughter ]
He's not a nice guy. Criminal.
I think he was famous for riding a horse to York,
which is quite unusual. And then he got hanged.
So we sort of, um...
Yeah, it's a -- it's quite gruesome.
So we thought, "All right, let's reimagine Dick, yeah?"
[ Laughter ] I don't know if you've ever
reimagined Dick and... [ Laughter ]
No!
[ Laughter and applause ]
Stop it, stop it.
Stop it. It's not that kind of show.
[ Laughter ]
We had a lot of meetings about Dick, and that's --
Seriously, once you go into this Dick tunnel,
you can't come out. It's a nightmare.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my gosh.
-I've always known I'd make a good Dick, but...
[ Laughter ]
-Wow.
[ Laughter ]
So my -- my Dick, me, the character Dick...
-It's different than -- -I can't get out.
-It's different than --
Your Dick is different than his Dick.
[ Laughter ]
Like, history's --
-This is potentially the end of the interview.
[ Laughter ]
-Flip the bottle! Flip the bottle!
Flip the bottle. -[ Laughs ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-I want to show a clip.
Here's Noel Fielding in "The Completely Made-Up
Adventures of Dick Turpin." Take a look at this.
-My first highway robbery. I haven't been this excited
since I discovered my own cheekbones.
-Here's your gun, Dick. -Thank you.
-That's the thing you shoot people with.
-Okay. Wow. That's quite small, isn't it?
It looks like your gun gave birth to my gun.
So I'm holding up a stagecoach with this, am I?
-Yeah, actually, are you sure you don't want us
to take the lead on this,
seeing as you have no experience or knowledge
and a tiny little gun?
-I'll be fine, Nell. Trust me, I've got this.
[ Horse neighs ] -Hup!
♪♪
Okay, guys, this is it. History in the making.
-Okay. -We strike on 3.
1, 2...
[ Horse neighs ]
We'll get the next one.
They move quite fast, don't they?
-It's brilliant, man! [ Cheers and applause ]
That's so funny. I love it. Noel Fielding, everyone!
"The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin"
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