Brett Goldstein interview
Brett Goldstein is back as personal trainer Danny Jones in the second series of Hoff The Record. We find out more from him here...
'Hoff The Record' is back! What can we expect from Series 2?
It opens with us faking David Hasselhoff's death, which really helps his album sales and his autobiography but obviously leads to trouble and builds from there.
Now you're on to the second series, is it easier to film the show?
I always think the second series of something is the best, because the cast have established themselves. We've got chemistry together and we're all now a gang. We know each other's ways and it allows us to build on it and be funnier than before.
How much of the show is scripted?
It's semi-improvised. So there is a script, in that it's very well structured, but on the day we will then improvise around what is on the page. Particularly the talking heads that you see are all improvised, apart from the questions.
What's it like getting to boss The Hoff around?
I tell you what, it's my dream come true. Apart from that I don't think my dream was to boss him around, it was just to meet him. I used to love Knight Rider - my favourite toy was a Knight Rider super stunt set and it's very surreal that I now get to work with David Hasselhoff. I've not really got my head round it.
You've starred in a fair few British comedies on TV now. Do you ever get recognised on the street?
I get recognised for playing the boyfriend in Miranda, which I'm not in...
Despite having lots of TV acting work, you're still regularly gigging on the live circuit too. Is it hard to juggle the two careers?
I don't think so, but then I like working all the time. I don't think it's hard because stand-up is at night and acting is in the day, unless you're doing night shoots. I don't need to sleep, and I think they all inform each other.
It's a clichéd question, but if you could only do one, would you go for stand-up or acting?
I wouldn't like to choose... but it would make me very sad if you told me I couldn't do either of them ever again, I'd be like 'Why? Who says? Oh please!'
Who are some of your favourite comics?
Patrice O'Neal, Richard Pryor, Katherine Ryan, Lou Sanders, Sara Pascoe, Dave Attell - God I love him, he's so naughty. Brian Gittins. I feel like I'm missing out a lot of my friends who I also love.
Batman v Superman is in cinemas at the moment. They're not as good superheroes as SuperBob though are they, the character you played in your 2015 movie?
Your words... not mine. I wasn't going to see Batman v Superman. But then all my friends saw it and hated it, so I thought 'I have to see it now'. And I thoroughly enjoyed it, I thought it was very odd. Like an interesting German expressionist art film - deliberately non-linear, non-narrative. A film that hates Batman and Superman. I guess the difference is we like SuperBob, in the film about SuperBob. It was like they were the bad guys.
Next up you'll be starring in Adult Life Skills - what can you tell us about that?
I'm going to New York on Sunday for the premiere at the Tribeca. It's got Jodie Whittaker in it, Lorraine Ashbourne, Alice Lowe, Rachel Deering and Ed Hogg and a little boy called Ozzy and it's a really lovely, warm film. It's about a daughter, her mum and grandma and her friends in this little place in Yorkshire and there's something really real about their relationship. You really feel like this is a family, and they're her best friends. It's a very warm and unusually well depicted portrait of friends and family. It was a lovely job.
Finally, fingers crossed for a third series of Hoff The Record. Any thoughts on where you'd like the plot to go?
I think David wants us all to go to LA if there is a next series, which I'm very happy to do!
Hoff The Record is on Dave on Fridays at 10pm.