Ed Gamble: I don't know how to read Richard Ayoade
Ed Gamble has opened up about his experience of working with Richard Ayoade.
Ed Gamble still doesn't know how to "read" Richard Ayoade.
The 40-year-old comedian co-hosts Unacceptable, the new TV show, alongside Richard and Joanne McNally - but Ed admits that it's tough to get close to his famously aloof co-star.
He told Metro: "The line-up between hosts and team captains is so funny to me, because I don’t think you’d see any of us in a room outside of the show."
Ed admitted to being particularly distant from Richard. The comedian explained that he doesn't know what his co-star really thinks of him because he can't "read" him.
Ed said: "I still don’t know how to read Richard, and I don’t think he knows how to read me, but that’s hilarious, and I think that’s why it works."
Joanne already has a hugely successful comedy career, and she's now glad to bring her fans with her to her new TV show.
The comedian - who has previously sold out shows at the Hammersmith Apollo in London - explained: "We used to be chasing the audience that TV had. TV is chasing the audience that comics already have."
Despite this, Joanne has admitted to being a little bit outside of her comfort zone on the new TV show.
She said: "I haven’t done a lot of panel shows, so this was very much a baptism of fire for me. I remember I was booked to be an understudy for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown for a whole series. You have to bring a prop, so I just kept getting the train up and down to Manchester with my baby, the ceramic head of a child.
"I would get up there, I’d sit in a windowless room, eat Wagamama, and then we’d drive back home. I just never made it on the show. So you’re praying illness on the cast, you know? If someone could just get decapitated on the way into it, that’s my dream!"
