Interviews · 13 June 2014
Milton Jones On safe comedy
Milton Jones interviewed by Kevin Durham, 13 June 2014. 1m 49s on tape.
In this Milton Jones interview he talks about not swearing and being a safe comedian. In a brightly lit studio, the scene is set for a *Milton Jones interview* – not your typical conversation, but more like a rollercoaster of quick-witted one-liners and that signature deadpan delivery. As Milton takes a seat, wearing his usual colorful Hawaiian shirt, he flashes that mischievous grin we’ve all come to expect from him. "Thanks for sitting down with us, Milton. Let’s jump right in. In this *Milton Jones interview*, we want to talk about something that really sets you apart as a comedian. You’re known for being a ‘safe comedian’ – no swearing, no edgy material. Was that a conscious choice?"
What's on the tape
A transcript, made by machine from the audio and tidied up. It gets names and the odd word wrong, so treat it as a way to find the bit you want rather than as a quotation. Every timestamp jumps to that moment in the video.
0:01 Fairly safe comedian like you hardly ever spotted that I've ever heard you say a swear word over on what the week is that because of the kids did you want your stuff to be accessible. For you kids partially I didn't want anything. But I can say to them. I'm see as Christian bless please how about people say I like the idea of everyone being able to get into it which means now I look. Out there whole families in the audience and it's so I like that yeah my name's almost a pantomime feel to it and though there was a tweet. I was some and some venue and I oversaw a tweet saying I'm in the milton-jones audience on one side there's an old-age pensioner and the other side there's of course. I'm just a little bit very good perspective of yeah yeah with it your community but I quite like that idea.
0:56 Also it means I can play mainstream Saturday night exactly laughs that that must have been part of the equation you must have thought yeah if I do this where you stuff. Then I'm just not going to hit their mainstream as well as if I kept it safe I mean it wasn't as well thought out as that but effectively. I wanted to communicate with as many people as possible and I've always been asked to do other charity things or church things even where just forget. Doing it then my swearing forget doing anything too nice. Just just need to hit as many women as I said that was in Uganda last week and I was asked to entertain a youth group and people who didn't speak English. Oh I just do that with mine how to do that I picked on people in the audience to consider they had to be translated and they work for about 10 minutes but I ended.
1:46 Up with questions and answers.
