Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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a b Widdicombe, Josh (16 September 2021). Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life. Kings Road Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78870-437-3. Archived from the original on 24 February 2023 . Retrieved 2 December 2021. The two socialise occasionally, getting together for children's parties and barbecues, but always argue about where they live. People often wonder if the 38-year-old funnyman is related to politician, author and TV personality Ann Widdecombe. Though the surnames sound similar, they are spelled differently, and the two are not related.

RB: I feel like a lot of the female audience enjoy listening to men chat about parenting, because not a lot of men do. It’s that whole thing of getting men to speak more, about mental health and stuff like that. Sometimes, the female audience quite likes trying to know what a bloke’s thinking about. It’s like spying behind enemy lines. Yet, he adds: "We don't want any more children at the moment – but if the podcast is running dry we might bang out another couple." Tope, Rebecca. Sabine Baring-Gould. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 February 2023.Josh Widdecombe seems like a thoroughly decent bloke and all-round ‘good egg’, so I feel slightly sheepish having to slate his book. But, unfortunately, “Watching Neighbours twice a day” is a pointless, vacuous exercise in lame nostalgia that has nothing original to say about its chosen subject of 1990s British Television. It's the same with The Last Leg [the Channel 4 series he co-presents with Adam Hills and Alex Brooker]. You are with people who are noticeably different in their outlook and tastes in life, which makes it a much more interesting watch or listen – but at the end of the day, you've got to be able to make each other laugh. It's the easiest job I've ever had in my life."

Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe - Live at the Voodoo Bar". Edingburgh Festival. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. Brown, Jeremy (3 October 2016). "Just Joshin' – An Interview with Josh Widdicombe". Expose. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.That's what it's like when you try and do a Zoom call, when the kids need their bum wiped or there's spaghetti on the floor."

Ilsington Church Of England Primary School". Devon County Council. n.d. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Using a different television show of the time as it's starting point for each chapter Watching the Nineties is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of 90s television and culture. It will discuss everything from the dangers of recreating Gladiators in your front room, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol. Wild, Stephi (9 May 2018). "Josh Widdicombe, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi Primed For Ealing Comedy Festival". Broadway World UK. Wisdom Digital Media. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. He has pectus excavatum, or sunken chest. He discovered this after mentioning it to celebrity doctor Christian Jessen on an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats. Josh Widdicombe was a journalist before becoming a comedianJW: I listen to podcasts about unsolved murders and paranormal activity. I’ve just listened to two documentary series about Robert Maxwell. In many ways, they act as interesting parenting podcasts. The fact they are such different personalities also gives it an edge, Widdicombe maintains: "With any double act, you need to be individual, separate people. Read more: Ade Edmondson: An introduction to one of Devon’s most famous residents Josh Widdicombe was born in London but he grew up in Devon When asked what type of father Widdicombe is, he replies: "I'm weak, too eager to please, a pushover."