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[0:00] Ellie Morris: Hello, my name is Ellie Morris, Mischief member and host of this week's episode. If you like all things Mischief, then you should check out Hell or High Rollers. It's a comedy improv podcast that features Mischief regulars Henry Shields, Dave Hearn, Chris Leask, Adam Megido, and me. Join us as we play four villains trying to escape D&D hell in this hilarious roleplay adventure. Hell or High Rollers is available to listen to now wherever you get your podcasts. Parental guidance is advised.

[0:37] Ellie Morris: Hello, and welcome to the Mischief Makers podcast, the Mischief Movie Night edition, your one stop shop for all things Mischief Movie Night. Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Mischief Makers podcast, improv edition. It's not officially called that, but I thought I'd just add improv edition. So we are doing a series of these podcasts with the cast of Mischief Movie Night, which is currently running at the Other Palace in Victoria for the month of August, which is very exciting. Right up until September the first. Yes. So I'm Ellie Morris, and this is Niall Ransome. And we're going to be talking about improv and shows and generally, that's it.

[1:23] Ellie Morris: What do you love about improv?

[1:25] Niall Ransome: Wow, what a big question.

[1:26] Ellie Morris: Or do you hate it?

[1:28] Niall Ransome: Do I hate? Well, I think it's love hate.

[1:29] Ellie Morris: Yeah. Okay, great.

[1:32] Niall Ransome: I don't know. I like I was saying last night when we did the show, it's a show that with any run, you settle into the run, don't you? And you feel like, oh, I've got it now. It's fine. But you never get that with improv because every night is different. You have no idea what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten. You know, you're going to do something humiliating and where. So I feel like you're stood backstage and you're always nervous. But then when you're on stage, it's always the funnest I have.

[1:58] Ellie Morris: Oh, yeah, it's always just like the low level of stress that you get just in the day leading up to it. I feel like you kind of just can't relax.

[2:04] Niall Ransome: Yeah, if the show's in the evening, it's just going to be in your mind a little bit.

[2:10] Ellie Morris: You're right, it's the day. It's that build up to the show is just like this. It's like going to the dentist.

[2:17] Niall Ransome: Yes. Then you arrive and you're like, I'm here.

[2:21] Ellie Morris: I know. And then it's over and you're like, thank God for that. But it was, I mean, you're never going to think the dentist is amazing, but you know.

[2:27] Niall Ransome: Then immediately after you want to do it again. That's sort of the.

[2:31] Ellie Morris: Yes, for sure. Sort of like self-flagellation improv, really.

[2:34] Niall Ransome: I know. No, but I think I think you're right. It is the most fun I have on stage, like when we're just doing a great show and just like it's just so surprising. I mean, it has to be, but it's yeah, the feeling that you've just created something from absolutely nothing.

[2:47] Ellie Morris: Is that what you love about improv? What do you love?

[2:51] Niall Ransome: What do I love about improv? Yeah, I think that is it. That's just like the kind of constant surprise. It's like just the ultimate creative, like the purest sense of creativity.

[3:02] Ellie Morris: Yeah.

[3:02] Niall Ransome: You're just in that moment. And yeah, I think it's it's it's a thrill for sure. I think if you're in a show where you've got lines, there's a there's a level to which you can surprise yourself finding something, I guess. But in improv, you really surprise yourself and really find it. It's like the other night when we did I can't remember which show it was, but you pulled the gun on Charlie at the end.

[3:25] Ellie Morris: That was a medical drama. Can the heart be saved?

[3:29] Niall Ransome: Yeah, yeah. That was great, because that really was just like, yeah, what's going on?

[3:34] Ellie Morris: I know. That was fun. I think a show when you get to pull a gun on someone like that's just a rare thing. I mean, I know it was fake, but genuinely, I felt so cool.

[3:42] Niall Ransome: Yeah. And it's rare in improv.

[3:46] Ellie Morris: It was. Oh, my God. So rare. So rare.

[3:48] Niall Ransome: For me, definitely. I always walk on stage with the intention of looking cool.

[3:52] Ellie Morris: Yeah, often. Yeah. Like just doing the worm on the ground.

[3:56] Niall Ransome: I think that show, the dancing wasn't even necessary.

[3:59] Ellie Morris: Absolutely not. No, we often kind of break into like dance or dance competitions or songs, which don't have any relevance to the plot.

[4:07] Niall Ransome: Dance competitions are always huge in shows.

[4:09] Ellie Morris: Yeah, yeah. I don't know why, because we don't we're not dancers.

[4:13] Niall Ransome: No, no, not at all. Some of us are bad at dance. It's not even like passable. It's like we are bad.

[4:19] Ellie Morris: No, we shouldn't do it. We should not be doing it. So maybe that's a note for ourselves. No more dance competitions. No more dance-offs. But I mean, I don't think in improv, again, you can't say no.

[4:26] Niall Ransome: You can't say no. You can't. That's the thing. You can't say no. Just remember, we have a show tonight in which there could be a dance-off.

[4:32] Ellie Morris: There'll definitely be a dance-off now.

[4:33] Niall Ransome: Oh, my gosh. But yeah, no, improv is just it's just a thrill, isn't it?

[4:38] Ellie Morris: Oh, yeah, it's great. I always loved it.

[4:40] Niall Ransome: And it's nice to know that you're doing something which, like, objectively is scary, like, to a degree. It's like, you know, they do something that scares you, like, you know, keep that.

[4:48] Ellie Morris: Yeah. Well, they say, don't they, that as an actor, your worst fear is not knowing your lines. Being on stage without knowing your lines. I think as improvisers, you just live in that state.

[4:57] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[4:58] Ellie Morris: Forever. Because you're like, I don't know my lines.

[5:01] Niall Ransome: Because they don't exist.

[5:03] Ellie Morris: Yeah, they don't exist. I think that's the thing as well. You're trying to create the story on the spot.

[5:07] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[5:07] Ellie Morris: Finding it from the other people, but also, at times, pushing something yourself.

[5:12] Niall Ransome: Yeah. Well, that leads us nicely onto the next question, which is what excites us about this Mischief Movie Night revival? And I would say just the fact that now, like, I know everyone so well. We spent so much time together. I mean, there are a couple of actually new people that I haven't improvised with yet, but that's kind of always a joy. But it's just so nice to feel that safe with people, like, I'm so familiar. I think it's been 10 years since I did.

[5:39] Ellie Morris: Well, we were just saying, yeah, we've done this show for well over 10 years. I mean, you started in 2014.

[5:44] Niall Ransome: I think I started in 2014. Yeah, I think that was my first Edinburgh. But yeah, it's just so nice to just feel like everyone is supporting each other. You know each other so well that you feel safe and it's friendly. So I think that makes a big difference to what you're able to do on stage. If you just feel relaxed and confident, you're going to be your funniest.

[6:06] Ellie Morris: Yeah, of course. Because again, everybody knows, even though in improv, you can do anything, you can be anything. We sort of know whether, I mean, go-to is probably not the right word, I guess. But some people tend to play similar characters or you know the vibe of a person. But it's great that we know that about each other because then it's great to have fun when somebody plays a character and it's like, oh, they don't normally play the villain.

[6:30] Niall Ransome: Yeah, no, that's true. I think people have like styles more than kind of characters they play. But no, it's just nice to kind of know that, have that familiarity. And I think it's amazing that doing it now, this is like, apart from the Fringe, we went back to the Fringe, it was the first proper run in front of a theatre. I think the last time we did that would have been...

[6:53] Ellie Morris: The Arts?

[6:53] Niall Ransome: Well, sort of. We did the Vaudeville, didn't we, for a week just before lockdown.

[6:58] Ellie Morris: Oh, I didn't do that. Yes, yes, no, because you, yeah.

[7:01] Niall Ransome: But that was just before the streams. So it was like we, we had...

[7:05] Ellie Morris: You were going to do a big run.

[7:07] Niall Ransome: We're going to do this big run and it just got cancelled.

[7:09] Ellie Morris: Yes, Covid.

[7:10] Niall Ransome: Covid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's amazing to get back into a theatre and just see how the show has changed and it's now got a life of its own. Like, I remember doing it to, you know, like four people at Hen and Chickens.

[7:25] Ellie Morris: Honestly, do you remember your first show?

[7:27] Niall Ransome: I do remember my first show.

[7:28] Ellie Morris: What was it?

[7:29] Niall Ransome: It was at the Hen and Chickens. And I think we were doing... What was it? I think it was some sort of like adventure film, maybe a spy film. And we had a fairly OK audience, I think, in terms of size. And I seem to remember my first line. I think Harry was on this plan and he endowed me as like an air hostess coming to help him. But I was just terrified. I'm just staring off into the distance. And I remember just being like, I'm very sorry. I was just staring off blankly into the distance. And I got a laugh. And it was like the first.

[8:07] Ellie Morris: That's great.

[8:07] Niall Ransome: It was like, oh, my God. Right. OK, it's fine. It's OK.

[8:10] Ellie Morris: Yeah.

[8:10] Niall Ransome: But I think then in that show, Harry then went on to break the keyboard.

[8:16] Ellie Morris: Oh, the actual keyboard.

[8:18] Niall Ransome: He tripped over the wire of the keyboard and then John had to sort of rewind and do this thing as if we were trying to fix the keyboard within the film. And then we couldn't. So Kieran, who was playing the music for that show, just sat there and watched the rest of the show. And we just did the show in silence.

[8:33] Ellie Morris: In silence. Oh, gosh, that's awful. Oh, my gosh. No, the music cut out for like, I think it was about 20 seconds last night. And it felt like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was in the middle of a song, which.

[8:44] Niall Ransome: And right at the beginning of the show.

[8:45] Ellie Morris: So exposing. I didn't realise until afterwards. I was like, oh, God, Rich, this is a really bold choice.

[8:51] Niall Ransome: Do you remember your first show? When was that?

[8:53] Ellie Morris: I think my first show was also Hen and Chickens. I just remember Harry, again, pulling. It's always Harry.

[9:02] Niall Ransome: It was like a spy movie or something. And he pulled a Glock. And I didn't know what a Glock was. So I said that it was like a glass clock. And that was my only memory of that show. I just endowed it as a glass clock. I think he had like obviously wanted it to be a cool gun scene. I think that's another thing about improv, which is great, is you learn a lot. I remember in Edinburgh we did, someone was trying to say, where is it set? And the audience said the Urquhart Corral.

[9:27] Niall Ransome: And I think Jonathan at the time didn't know what that was.

[9:34] Ellie Morris: Right. Is that like a cowboy thing?

[9:36] Niall Ransome: I think it's the shooting range. It's good, bad, ugly, where they're all stood there. That's the Urquhart Corral, I think.

[9:41] Ellie Morris: But they, I mean, I may have just completely made myself look like an idiot there. But, yeah, I think John didn't know what that was. And I think sort of started saying that that was the name of like a villain from something. Can't really remember. But then again, you have the audience really enjoying that because.

[10:00] Niall Ransome: I know. It's always nice when we don't know something.

[10:02] Ellie Morris: I think that's another thing about improv, isn't it? The audience feel like they've got a real stick in the show.

[10:07] Niall Ransome: Yes.

[10:07] Ellie Morris: And all the times they feel good about themselves because they probably, they might know something.

[10:12] Niall Ransome: Oh, for sure.

[10:13] Ellie Morris: Feel higher status than the cast, I don't know.

[10:15] Niall Ransome: And I think that is also something about this run is that I felt so kind of connected to the audience. I think it's the space as well. That theatre is just perfect for this show.

[10:26] Ellie Morris: They're sort of right there, aren't they?

[10:27] Niall Ransome: Yeah, they're right there. And it's like really kind of raked and like it just feels, you know, really everyone is in on the joke together. It really, yeah.

[10:37] Ellie Morris: Well, the stage is so small. And again, that sort of takes us back to when we started doing it when we were doing like Hen and Chickens or Canal Café. And then there were like other venues in Edinburgh where we would go and do you ever do those late night advertisement things?

[10:54] Niall Ransome: No, I didn't. I didn't do anything.

[10:55] Ellie Morris: They were crazy. They were like at the Odebelly and it'd be like at one in the morning. You'd arrive and you'd do like a 15 minute film on like a stage like the size of these two desks. And then you'd finish at quarter past one and you'd be like, great. All right, well, we'll just have a drink and walk home. I guess.

[11:12] Niall Ransome: No, I miss those. I miss those. But yeah, it's wild. Like now the audiences have been so lovely.

[11:17] Ellie Morris: Yeah. Amazing. Yeah.

[11:19] Niall Ransome: And yeah, I think that's that's really helped just to feel happy to do it again.

[11:24] Ellie Morris: I know. I think any time you get to do it again, you just think, well, you just get to be on stage with friends.

[11:29] Niall Ransome: Yeah, because it's been a while. Yeah, I think my last show was Lockdown.

[11:33] Ellie Morris: Yeah, yeah.

[11:34] Niall Ransome: Did you do Edinburgh last time?

[11:36] Ellie Morris: No, I didn't. I was away on a job, so I couldn't do it. And I was gutted because I remember that was like, this is the first time we get to do it in front of an audience again, because the streams are amazing. I thought the streams were such a.

[11:46] Niall Ransome: We were so fortunate to get to do that and have fun. And, you know, whenever you meet people who love those shows, it's so nice for them to say how much it mattered to them and meant to them. But equally, it's like, yeah, but we were getting to do it and it was so, so much fun.

[12:01] Ellie Morris: It was so fun.

[12:02] Niall Ransome: So much fun.

[12:03] Ellie Morris: Yeah. Well, yes, thank you to all the amazing audiences that have come along because you've been great. So shall we talk about some of the films that we've done?

[12:14] Niall Ransome: Oh, definitely. Yes.

[12:16] Ellie Morris: I mean, we can talk about the films that we enjoyed the most, some of the films that we did in the last week. Should we talk about like maybe a favourite?

[12:24] Niall Ransome: Yes.

[12:25] Ellie Morris: What's my favourite? What's your favourite?

[12:27] Niall Ransome: I don't know, really, because I like a lot of them for different reasons. I really liked Ferret in the Mole, Ferret in the Mole, Ferret in the Worm.

[12:35] Ellie Morris: Ferret in the Worm. And it wasn't even called Ferret in the Worm, it was called Ferret Bueller's Day Off.

[12:40] Niall Ransome: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's another great example of like, in the title, there is a name for a character for some reason.

[12:45] Ellie Morris: That's actually a dreamy.

[12:48] Niall Ransome: We just, we ignore that.

[12:49] Ellie Morris: We ignore that.

[12:50] Niall Ransome: Just call everybody different names.

[12:52] Ellie Morris: It's true. Until Matt comes in in a pair of glasses and then he's Bueller.

[12:57] Niall Ransome: That was good. I think Disney musical is like, as soon as someone says that, it's a gift because then you're like, oh great, we can do anything. And then Johnna asking for animals.

[13:07] Ellie Morris: Yeah, I like that.

[13:07] Niall Ransome: What animal school are we at?

[13:10] Ellie Morris: Yeah, that was great. That was great. Yeah, Ferret Bueller's Day Off. Okay, that was the highlight.

[13:15] Niall Ransome: I like that.

[13:16] Ellie Morris: Yeah, what else?

[13:16] Niall Ransome: Love on the Rocks, I really like.

[13:17] Ellie Morris: Love on the Rocks, Stone Age Romance. That's the thing. I think the suggestions have just been like, great and specific, like not just a rom-com, but Stone Age Romance.

[13:28] Niall Ransome: Well, last night, it was the kid who was just like, Shakespeare multiverse.

[13:31] Ellie Morris: Shakespeare multiverse.

[13:33] Niall Ransome: But you hear and you're like, how?

[13:35] Ellie Morris: How? We did a little bit.

[13:36] Niall Ransome: We did do a little bit.

[13:37] Ellie Morris: Yeah, yeah, it was quite good. Well, I mean, no, it was good. I'll say it was good.

[13:41] Niall Ransome: It was brilliant.

[13:42] Ellie Morris: Gosh, I'm remembering how good it was.

[13:46] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[13:47] Ellie Morris: Yeah, what other ones have we done? I mean, we haven't got, we haven't had a period drama yet.

[13:51] Niall Ransome: No.

[13:52] Ellie Morris: Always love those.

[13:53] Niall Ransome: Yeah. I remember we did good one about Queen Victoria once where she was like, it was kind of like a Shakespeare in love kind of thing. And that was good. But I always remember, like, I feel like as soon as I do an improv show, as soon as you've done the next one, every single show just goes out your head.

[14:07] Ellie Morris: Oh, yeah.

[14:08] Niall Ransome: I have to kind of write down and be like exactly what happened because I will just not remember.

[14:11] Ellie Morris: Well, I used to, I used to write them down. I think when I first started, I found a book the other day. And it is the, I can't remember the exact number is, I think it's like the first 50, 60 shows I ever did. I used to write down the title, where we were.

[14:26] Niall Ransome: That's great.

[14:28] Ellie Morris: What happened in it and who played what? Because there were some I remember you were like, you just read back and you're like, Oh, God, yeah, that was a great show.

[14:36] Niall Ransome: Yeah. And you just would never have remembered it.

[14:38] Ellie Morris: I think the tragedy sometimes is doing rehearsal shows, because some of the rehearsal shows, I think, are some of the best we've done.

[14:46] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[14:55] Ellie Morris: Rom-Com set in a business conference in a hotel in Milton Keynes.

[15:01] Niall Ransome: But the name, what was Henry's name? Dirk Bandage.

[15:05] Ellie Morris: Dirk Bandage was checking in. And then Bert Handbag.

[15:07] Niall Ransome: Bert Handbag and Dirk Bandage were sharing a room by accident.

[15:11] Ellie Morris: Brilliant. So I think it's some of the rehearsal ones as well that really stand out.

[15:17] Niall Ransome: Yeah, that's true. I mean, last night was pretty fun. We had a slasher film, but it was set in a nunnery. And John, for some reason, just kept mistakenly calling Mother Superior, Mother Teresa. And also the nunnery and nursery.

[15:33] Ellie Morris: And nunnery and nursery. Slasher film and a nursery is, maybe we draw the line at that.

[15:36] Niall Ransome: We absolutely do. But he made this joke that if he got it wrong three times that he would have to swap out with someone. So he did. Henry Shields went in the chair and called him to do a rap song.

[15:48] Ellie Morris: Yeah. And it was so good. It was very good. Genuinely, it was so impressive. And then we all came on and we did this whole, like, very surprising rap number where he was just speaking to Jesus. And yeah, that was a great moment. That was very unexpected. I liked that he got up and did a rap.

[16:07] Niall Ransome: I just think for me, sometimes it's like the characters as well, that someone will come on and it's so unintentional. Like Josh being Captain Birdseye in Bricking It in the Legoland heist film we did. And just the idea that Captain Birdseye is there and he just deployed the entire navy. A thousand men.

[16:27] Ellie Morris: A thousand men to protect a Lego set. And then a thousand men died at Legoland to protect the Lego set. Out of context, it sounds mental.

[16:32] Niall Ransome: I know. That's the thing with talking about it. It's really hard to convey. What are other shows that you've done outside of this run that you remember? Are there any shows from earlier on when you started or maybe the arts?

[16:47] Ellie Morris: The thing is, the ones that stand out are the ones that were kind of, either someone said something just quite inappropriate, mistakenly, or I honestly can't. There's one song that Henry Lewis did that I don't think I can repeat on this podcast. I'll tell you up. I think you know it.

[17:08] Niall Ransome: I know it. Yeah. There's quite a few things occasionally that come out and you think, wow, that must have been, thank God that didn't happen in a show.

[17:17] Ellie Morris: Yeah. But sometimes they do. Sometimes it's just, you know, you're improvising. You don't mean it that way, but it comes out that way. What about characters as well? Because one of the things I realised from the streams is that after a while there might be one or two characters that people start being like, oh, that's their memorable moment of you from the streams as a character. So like for you, I always think, was it Steve Peeps?

[17:40] Niall Ransome: Yes. Yes. Steve Peeps was the spy. I don't even remember what the show was. I mean, I guess it was a spy movie, like a James Bond kind of thing. But yeah, he was a terrible spy and he just like hid under his jumper.

[17:53] Ellie Morris: It's crazy, isn't it? You probably doing that.

[17:56] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[17:57] Ellie Morris: Just didn't think about it at all.

[17:59] Niall Ransome: No, I really didn't. I had nothing. So I hid under my own jumper. But then that becomes the thing that people are like, oh my God, Ellie Morris. Steve Peeps.

[18:06] Ellie Morris: Steve Peeps. Oh my God. I'll be known forever around the world.

[18:10] Niall Ransome: The fame. The fortune.

[18:11] Ellie Morris: It's like Harry with Delta Von Tussle.

[18:14] Niall Ransome: I mean, yeah, that was just another level.

[18:17] Ellie Morris: It's the elephant in the room.

[18:19] Niall Ransome: I know. We have to address Delta. I signed a, I don't know if you were there, did you see the embroidered cushion? Someone outside the theatre made a sign of Harry Kershaw as Delta Von Tussle.

[18:29] Ellie Morris: And rightly so.

[18:31] Niall Ransome: Well, I think one of the amazing things about the improv as well is the audience who see it are so supportive. But the amount of like incredible fan art people make is insane.

[18:42] Ellie Morris: The drawings, the posters.

[18:44] Niall Ransome: Yeah, that's actually what's so cool is seeing a poster for a show you've just made up.

[18:47] Ellie Morris: Oh, it's incredible. Incredible. But I always think of it because of Delta Von Tussle, because somebody did a drawing of Harry as that character. And it's almost like this religious purse with clouds and a hailer. And I'm like, that was the most unhelpful character.

[19:04] Niall Ransome: It was. But just so brilliant because of that.

[19:07] Ellie Morris: Yeah, it's just a legendary thing now. Delta Von Tussle, the man with no name.

[19:12] Niall Ransome: Self-managed.

[19:15] Ellie Morris: So many parts to it.

[19:16] Niall Ransome: So many parts. Also does have a name.

[19:19] Ellie Morris: Does have a name.

[19:20] Niall Ransome: Dish said this yesterday, Delta Von Tussle, that's the name.

[19:22] Ellie Morris: That's his name.

[19:23] Niall Ransome: The man with no name. That's his name.

[19:25] Ellie Morris: So silly. That's a definite highlight, I think.

[19:27] Niall Ransome: Yeah, yeah, definitely.

[19:29] Ellie Morris: Yeah, Harry Kershaw. I mean, Harry's the highlight.

[19:32] Niall Ransome: I mean, always.

[19:33] Ellie Morris: Always.

[19:34] Niall Ransome: Always. Do you miss Edinburgh? Do you miss going to the Fringe each year?

[19:39] Ellie Morris: I've only done a couple, actually. So I was never, I was never, it was before my time when you guys were going up every year.

[19:46] Niall Ransome: But I love Edinburgh and I would love to go again. But yeah, I think I'm not, I don't know if I'll go this year. Will you?

[19:51] Ellie Morris: No, I don't think I can because we're just doing the show.

[19:54] Niall Ransome: Yeah, we are. It's sort of bizarre that summer was always the Edinburgh time.

[19:57] Ellie Morris: Yeah.

[19:57] Niall Ransome: And that was the year revolved around us going to Edinburgh and doing Edinburgh. Now we're in, yeah, in London doing it. Sort of a bizarre full circle.

[20:05] Ellie Morris: Yeah, that's true.

[20:06] Niall Ransome: It's nice being in your own house, I guess.

[20:08] Ellie Morris: It is nice. Yeah, it is nice. No, I do love Edinburgh, though. Obviously, there's some great, great memories.

[20:14] Niall Ransome: Great memories.

[20:15] Ellie Morris: Great memories. Just flyering in the rain.

[20:17] Niall Ransome: Flyering.

[20:18] Ellie Morris: Slumping down on those big squishy seats. I remember one of my high, well, not highlight of Edinburgh, but a memory that always stands up for some reason is one year we were there and it was the very last day of the Fringe. And we were, we would fly from the morning until the show pretty much.

[20:35] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[20:36] Ellie Morris: We fly all day and we really, really pushed to sell.

[20:40] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[20:41] Ellie Morris: On the mile. And I think, I remember we did rotors. So occasionally you'd get a day off to go and see things in the day or, but I remember it was the very last day we had one more show. It sold fine. So it was like, we can easily do that. That'll be a great show. And then a lot of us said, why don't we go and get lunch in one of the places on the mile? And it was chucking it down and we were like, we're not going to fly. Let's do it. And we all sat in and we watched Jonathan flyer on his own because he insisted being like, no, no, we can, we can still do a few flies. And just Jonathan flyering to nobody in the pouring rain. I mean, that's dedication.

[21:17] Niall Ransome: That is dedication. That's dedication.

[21:20] Ellie Morris: How much he believed, believes in the show, which is lovely.

[21:23] Niall Ransome: Yeah. I love those stories.

[21:24] Ellie Morris: It was so funny just being absolutely soaking wet.

[21:28] Niall Ransome: Oh my gosh. No, I do love those stories. That's great. But I think that's another thing I really love about this run and the runs we've done in the last few years is thinking back to us doing it in the early days.

[21:41] Ellie Morris: Yeah.

[21:42] Niall Ransome: Like I think we did a show in Bath and we had to drive to the venue and because we, we didn't really want to pay for train ticket or anything like we just couldn't afford, we didn't have the money. So we sat in the back of the van with the, with all the equipment and just drove there from someone's house. And then, yeah, in Edinburgh, just, I think there's one Edinburgh where it was me, Bryony, Nancy, Josh and Birdie in one room.

[22:10] Ellie Morris: Oh my gosh.

[22:10] Niall Ransome: For the month.

[22:11] Ellie Morris: Oh my gosh.

[22:12] Niall Ransome: I think it was just, no, maybe Jono, sorry. But you know, you're just thinking about those days to now.

[22:17] Ellie Morris: Gosh, it's come so far.

[22:19] Niall Ransome: It's crazy.

[22:21] Ellie Morris: So cool. Oh, well, shall we move on to our final question?

[22:25] Niall Ransome: Oh, please, we must.

[22:27] Ellie Morris: So we can both do this. This is fun. So if you could choose a genre, location and title of a film, what would it be? Favourite genre?

[22:36] Niall Ransome: That's good.

[22:36] Ellie Morris: Favourite location? I think it's superhero. Not that it's my favourite genre.

[22:41] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[22:42] Ellie Morris: But it's just a fun one. We used to get superhero all the time.

[22:45] Niall Ransome: I know, we were talking about this, weren't we? And it's kind of died away.

[22:48] Ellie Morris: But I don't know if that's the burnout of everything being superhero these days.

[22:53] Niall Ransome: Yeah, everyone's tired. Sick and tired of Marvel.

[22:56] Ellie Morris: Sick and tired of Marvel.

[22:57] Niall Ransome: Marvel burnout.

[23:00] Ellie Morris: But we would love to be in Marvel.

[23:01] Niall Ransome: We would.

[23:02] Ellie Morris: Anywhere that we can get in any of them.

[23:05] Niall Ransome: Yeah, for sure. I think this is a good route. I think this podcast is typically how most people get into Marvel. I've heard that.

[23:11] Ellie Morris: I think so.

[23:12] Niall Ransome: So yeah, the Mission Makers podcast specifically, they're going to be watching. If you're listening, we are up for anything.

[23:18] Ellie Morris: Yeah. But no, I did think about this. So I think it would be a superhero film set in like rural suburbian suburbs.

[23:27] Niall Ransome: Right.

[23:27] Ellie Morris: The suburbs, suburbian America, the suburbs, the burbs.

[23:31] Niall Ransome: The burbs of America.

[23:32] Ellie Morris: And it would be called Super Pam.

[23:37] Niall Ransome: Super Pam.

[23:38] Ellie Morris: And it would just be like this like, soccer mom, who is also a really cool superhero.

[23:43] Niall Ransome: You should probably copyright that.

[23:45] Ellie Morris: I know.

[23:46] Niall Ransome: Right now.

[23:46] Ellie Morris: It's so good, right? Super Pam. Because Marvel are going to hear that.

[23:49] Niall Ransome: I know.

[23:49] Ellie Morris: And they're going to do it.

[23:50] Niall Ransome: Don't be doing it.

[23:51] Ellie Morris: Don't do it, Marvel. Unless Ellie's in it, then do it.

[23:54] Niall Ransome: Yeah, then do it.

[23:55] Ellie Morris: Do it. Super Pam. But no, that was my one. I did think about the answer beforehand. So, you know.

[24:00] Niall Ransome: But yeah, that would be a good one.

[24:02] Ellie Morris: Wow.

[24:03] Niall Ransome: Yeah. Yeah. What about you?

[24:05] Ellie Morris: I guess it always changes. I think it's all down to like what you feel like doing. I would, we haven't had a gangster yet in the run.

[24:12] Niall Ransome: No, we haven't.

[24:13] Ellie Morris: I'd love a gangster film.

[24:15] Niall Ransome: Yeah, like a gangster.

[24:16] Ellie Morris: Maybe a gangster set in like, maybe like a classic gangster setting, like the back of a pizzeria or something.

[24:24] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[24:25] Ellie Morris: But then that sounds very serious, doesn't it?

[24:27] Niall Ransome: Yeah, but then medical drama, it was.

[24:29] Ellie Morris: Medical drama is very serious.

[24:30] Niall Ransome: It was serious. But then, I mean, but that was great because there were moments of high drama, but there was moments of just a cat, you know, dodging, like, dodging a bullet or something.

[24:40] Ellie Morris: Very funny cat, right?

[24:41] Niall Ransome: Yeah, but maybe a gangster, classic setting. And again, I love a heist. I just think heists are hard. But I think whenever we get heist, it's like, you can do a lot with that.

[24:46] Ellie Morris: Yeah, it's fun. You've got the action. You've got the, it's like, it's nice because there's a clear goal. It's like you're going to get something. It's just like, yeah, there's the journey. There's the story.

[24:59] Niall Ransome: Is there any film you've seen off the top of your head that you've ever thought, that's a Mischief Movie Night film? That you've just been like, wow, that was mental.

[25:07] Ellie Morris: Probably a few. I definitely remember saying that after watching a film. I have to say, I watched, what was the new film with Ryan Gosling? And it fought, was it Fall Guy?

[25:22] Niall Ransome: Yeah, the is that

[25:24] Ellie Morris: Was it the video game one?

[25:25] Niall Ransome: No.

[25:27] Ellie Morris: Or is it the stunt one?

[25:29] Niall Ransome: The stunt one. Yeah. The video game one is awesome.

[25:32] Ellie Morris: Yes.

[25:33] Niall Ransome: But the stunt one.

[25:34] Ellie Morris: Is that Ryan Gosling?

[25:35] Niall Ransome: Yeah, is it? I don't know. There's so many Ryans these days.

[25:37] Ellie Morris: So many attractive Ryans.

[25:39] Niall Ransome: Sometimes I do see a film and I'm like, not to downplay Mischief Movie Night, but I'm like, they had a script. Like they had a script and that's what they came up with. Like that's a Mischief Movie Night show. But maybe that's, yeah, I don't know if that's a compliment to us.

[25:52] Ellie Morris: I don't know. There's one or two films in the past we've done where I've been like, I think if that was like a Pixar film, that would be great.

[26:02] Niall Ransome: Actually, so true. Yeah, that way around it really works. Sometimes we do a show and it's like we need to write this immediately.

[26:07] Ellie Morris: And then a lot of the other films, absolutely not.

[26:11] Niall Ransome: Never see the light of day.

[26:12] Ellie Morris: Never see the light of day ever again.

[26:13] Niall Ransome: Never.

[26:13] Ellie Morris: So I think, I can't remember who said that back in the day, but when people, maybe a review might have said, you know, obviously, is this like bits written before? Have you written sections of the show before? And it's like, if you've seen the improv show and you think that is, that's what we've written.

[26:30] Niall Ransome: Yeah, we would know.

[26:31] Ellie Morris: Then that is madness.

[26:33] Niall Ransome: Then what are you watching? What's your content?

[26:35] Ellie Morris: What are you watching?

[26:36] Niall Ransome: That's a good question. Have you seen a film that you think?

[26:39] Ellie Morris: Having asked that question, yes, but I don't know off the top of my head.

[26:44] Niall Ransome: Great questions.

[26:45] Ellie Morris: There's so many films that you watch and you are just like, that premise seems like a mischief movie night. But me and Bri have done that occasionally where we've gone to see a film and you text someone and be like, I've just seen a mischief movie night film at the cinema.

[26:58] Niall Ransome: Oh, that's fun. That's nice.

[26:59] Ellie Morris: I mean, Sausage Party, clearly.

[27:01] Niall Ransome: I've never seen that.

[27:01] Ellie Morris: Have you not seen it?

[27:02] Niall Ransome: No, is it good?

[27:03] Ellie Morris: Yeah, it's good.

[27:04] Niall Ransome: Oh, nice.

[27:05] Ellie Morris: We've done films in the past where it's been like.

[27:07] Niall Ransome: Yeah, that's a Pixar, isn't it?

[27:08] Ellie Morris: It's like a jerk on a Pixar because they're all food in a supermarket. And then when the customers buy them.

[27:15] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[27:15] Ellie Morris: Then they find out, oh, actually, we don't want to be bought because if they eat us, that'll be, or we'll get killed.

[27:19] Niall Ransome: Oh my gosh, that literally, we did that film.

[27:23] Ellie Morris: We're just set in a stationary.

[27:24] Niall Ransome: Yeah, we did that in rehearsals.

[27:26] Ellie Morris: And we did it.

[27:27] Niall Ransome: That's so funny.

[27:27] Ellie Morris: We did it years ago. We did a rehearsal, which was the same, but it was, we were all in a kitchen cupboard and we were all playing like various condiments and stuff. And that was like, you can't be used because as soon as you use, that's it. So, yeah, maybe that.

[27:43] Niall Ransome: Maybe that. No, that's a good one.

[27:45] Ellie Morris: I love when we play animals, condiments.

[27:49] Niall Ransome: All of them.

[27:49] Ellie Morris: Broom, cupboards, all of them.

[27:53] Niall Ransome: OK, well, amazing.

[27:54] Ellie Morris: That was so much fun.

[27:55] Niall Ransome: That was so much fun.

[27:55] Ellie Morris: This has been lovely to chat to you about improv. We will be doing a show this evening. Although by the time this podcast comes out, we will have done the show.

[28:03] Niall Ransome: So shall we, on this day, Wednesday the 7th of August, predict the show that we will have tonight and see if we're right?

[28:13] Ellie Morris: See if we're psychic?

[28:14] Niall Ransome: Yes.

[28:14] Ellie Morris: I predict like a fantasy adventure film.

[28:18] Niall Ransome: That would be great.

[28:18] Ellie Morris: That's what I'm thinking for tonight.

[28:20] Niall Ransome: What about you?

[28:20] Ellie Morris: But where's it set? What's it called?

[28:23] Niall Ransome: OK, that would be so good. Imagine if this came true.

[28:25] Ellie Morris: Yeah.

[28:26] Niall Ransome: A fantasy adventure set in just a fantasy land.

[28:30] Ellie Morris: I'm going to go really down the line with this. A fantasy land called Witch's Kitchen.

[28:37] Niall Ransome: Witch's Kitchen.

[28:38] Ellie Morris: That would be great.

[28:39] Niall Ransome: The Witch's Kitchen.

[28:40] Ellie Morris: Yeah, but witchy cook.

[28:42] Niall Ransome: Good.

[28:43] Ellie Morris: Yes, I'm going to go with western.

[28:46] Niall Ransome: Oh, yeah.

[28:46] Ellie Morris: Would you a western, I think. Maybe a western set on a train.

[28:52] Niall Ransome: And it's going to be called, someone will make a joke and say bullet train.

[28:56] Ellie Morris: We've had a bullet train.

[28:58] Niall Ransome: Like a bull train.

[29:00] Ellie Morris: Oh, wait. Actually, no.

[29:01] Niall Ransome: You would think it's the guns.

[29:03] Ellie Morris: Cool. OK, so it's a western set on a train called Bull Train.

[29:11] Niall Ransome: What we should do after the podcast is just edit what the show actually was.

[29:15] Ellie Morris: Yes, then we'll be psychic.

[29:16] Niall Ransome: Then we'll look really stupid.

[29:19] Ellie Morris: Amazing. Well, thank you so much.

[29:20] Niall Ransome: Oh, thank you for having me.

[29:21] Ellie Morris: And yes, please come and see us at the other palace. We are there till the 1st of September. Tickets are available on Monday nights and maybe some returns for other days.

[29:31] Niall Ransome: Yeah.

[29:31] Ellie Morris: Thank you so much.

[29:32] Niall Ransome: Thank you very much.

[29:35] Ellie Morris: Thank you so much for listening to the Mischief Makers podcast. And please join us next week where two more improvisers come to talk all things Mischief Movie Night.