CHRISTOPHER HALL: The next big gay comedy star, Gwen Stefani’s background singers and dating busy men

Comedian Christopher Hall is a man to watch. He's a stand-up comic, an unofficial background singer to the likes of Shania Twain, Gwen Stefani and The Jonas Brothers, and an undeniable social media star. His observational humour and popular online content has amassed him a combined following of over 1 million people on Instagram and TikTok, all from trying his hand at comedy during lockdown. We discuss how losing all of his work during covid lead him to start making funny videos, how him and his sister went from singing in to broken mic stands to standing behind mega-stars, and how men in London are seemingly too busy to date. 

Chapters

• 2:27 Musical theatre training
• 4:36 Finding his comedy groove
• 8:30 The confidence to be camp
• 10:43 All boys school
• 13:22 First going viral on TikTok
• 19:13 The background singers
• 22:00 The Jonas Brothers
• 24:26 The dream collaboration
• 25:12 Dating men when everyone's busy
• 30:35 Being a solo act and loneliness
• 33:19 Instant connections and friendship

Transcript

JON DEAN (00:02):

This week I'm joined by Christopher Hall, who is definitely a comedian to look out for. He's a standup, a

dancer, an unofficial background singer to the likes of Danny Minogue and Shania Twain. More about

that later. If you like his videos, then you're going to love this chat. Okay. Christopher Hall, let's have it

all out. So I want to go straight into you and comedy. Okay. I know that you had a gig last night because

you've started your own night called LGBT.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (00:34):

Yeah. It rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

JON DEAN (00:36):

Yeah, I think it's actually a good thing. It's just like how many he's do you put on the end? I dunno. I

know

CHRISTOPHER HALL (00:40):

LGBT. He. He.

JON DEAN (00:41):

Okay. So tell me about that. So this is a night that you do with one of your friends who's also a comedian?

Yeah,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (00:47):

Yeah. With Mark Brittle Stone. It was his night originally, about three and a half years ago he started it.

And then I've, we've been sort of comedy working together in comedy for a couple of years. We did a

split bill show in Edinburgh together a couple of years ago. And then, yeah, we've been running that

together for about two years now. Two and a half years. Basically the last three years has just been me

being just saying yes to everything and just being like, yeah, why not? So yeah, just said, yeah, let's do it.

And then it's been wonderful since then. Great. We're both doing separate shows this year. We did

separate shows last year, but separate shows this year, we're both doing big hour long shows separately

this year.

JON DEAN (01:26):

Would you say that comedy is something that you've always been interested in, even as a child?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (01:30):

I feel like being funny was always kind of a social survival tactic. I think I've always been aware that I

was more feminine or camper or not as good at sport or anything like that. In social situations, I feel like

groups of kids that I was hanging out with, whether they were family friends or trying to navigate school,

I was always like, how am I going to get through these situations unscathed? And it was usually to make

everyone laugh. So I feel I honed those skills quite early on. And then So you

JON DEAN (02:18):

Were known as the funny one at school

CHRISTOPHER HALL (02:21):

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Or probably the annoying one at school? No. Yeah, the funny one to my friends or the annoying one to

the teachers. And then I did musical theatre for 10 years.

JON DEAN (02:32):

Oh yeah, you went to Guildford,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (02:33):

Right? Yeah. So I went to Lane Theatre Arts, which was a three year course, and then a year later,

basically at Lane you get a national diploma in musical theatre, which in some areas of the world means

something and in other areas means absolutely nothing. And I was having a bit of a crisis a couple years

later, and you can top that up to a degree. So you basically do a kind of distance year at Guilford and you

can make it a degree, which again, still hasn't been the most useful. Having a degree in theatre doesn't do

the most for your careers. But yeah, then I was always remember, I love making people laugh. I think it's

actually such a great way of connecting with people and building relationships if you can make each other

laugh. But then also I'm very shy in new situations.

(03:33):

I really get very timid and very quiet if I meet a big group of people or in a room of strangers. So yes, I

always was funny in my sort of life, but I never thought, because I kind of committed to dancing and

theatre and thought this was the best thing ever and I'm going to be a dancer, I'm going to be a dancer.

And then even maybe in my mid twenties when I was like, I kind of wouldn't mind. I feel like if I tried

my hand at comedy, I'd do well. It almost felt like I was so committed to dancing that if I swapped, if I

changed lanes, it would just be too much of an upheaval. And I was like, oh, I've done X amount of years

committing to dancing now. There's no way I can go back to the bottom of a different ladder or swap one

unstable career for another one. Yeah, when I told my parents, I was like, I'm going to do comedy now.

They were like,

JON DEAN (04:32):

Like, oh my God, what's next?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (04:33):

Actually, yeah, please, please just be a teacher. Anything. Definitely feel like I've found my groove and

found what is unique, what I can uniquely bring to the world or to

JON DEAN (04:48):

Entertain space, know who you are. I did a comedy course last year because I just wanted to try it out, and

one of the things that they said is, you need to wait for your comedy voice to drop. So it's like, where do

you feel like you've got your onstage persona? When's that sunk in that you know who you are, your tone

of voice, your perspective on things, how you interact with the audience and that sort of thing. And they

basically kept saying that this was something that takes years to drop. It's sort of a funny visual of this

dropping you just like having this moment on stage, but you feel like that's landed with you.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (05:23):

Yeah, definitely. I think if I was doing what I'm doing now 10 years ago, I think I'd be finding it much

more difficult to connect with people, much more difficult to find material. And when I first started

putting content out and sharing my humour, I remember thinking, this makes me laugh. And I like the

joke and that's the most important thing. And if no one else likes it, then that's fine. And what's been so

nice is that everyone's been like, oh my God, I've shared this in my group chat and me and the girls or me

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and my friends love this, so like us, or this is such our humour, which is so nice. So I feel it brings, I feel

I'm trying to just be me. Well, I'm not trying to make anyone laugh that doesn't want to laugh kind of

thing. And if people don't find it funny, then that's totally cool. There's loads of other comedians that you

can go and find. I think

JON DEAN (06:29):

What you are so good at as somebody that likes your content, you're so good with your videos online at

finding the minutia about everyday situations. So those sort of looks and those glances and that sort of,

you've done videos and when housemates do this and X, Y, Z or whatever, but you are very good at

bringing something which is very relatable, very day to day and making it so funny because everybody

knows what you're talking about. Everybody has that housemate, everybody knows that parent reaction

and that sort of thing. So you must just have a really good eye for knowing what's funny out of the

ordinary.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (07:06):

Yeah, I hope so. So again, I think it's just come from chatting to friends about things and when you have a

private joke that's not funny to anybody else, but yeah, I think you can find something universal just in the

everyday.

JON DEAN (07:23):

So would you say that you were going back to when you were younger, were you just a funny kid in the

sense that you were a bit of a class clown and making everybody laugh all the time and that sort of

CHRISTOPHER HALL (07:32):

Thing? Yeah. Yeah. A class clown to the point of getting in trouble for

JON DEAN (07:38):

It. Suspension.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (07:39):

Never got suspended, but definitely got, Chris has far too much fun talking and entertaining his friends

then actually doing his work. Yeah, always. I remember on the playground, do you remember Alistair

McGowan's Big Impression? No.

JON DEAN (07:56):

Alistair McGowan, that name. Yeah, it

CHRISTOPHER HALL (07:57):

Was like an impression show. It was a kind of sketch show, but he's a comedian. He used to do these

amazing impressions of current people in the culture. And me and a couple of friends at school used to

watch, it was on Friday night and I'd memorise the whole TV show the whole 30 minutes and be doing all

the impressions on the playground in school on Monday and just recount performing before the Ruby

Wax impression to everyone.

JON DEAN (08:30):

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But I love that you have the confidence that can get drilled out of you as you get older, especially if you're

gay because you feel scared to be camp and scared to be feminine. I always found solace in girls when I

was at school. I could be always, yeah, definitely my funny self around girls, whereas with the boys, I was

like a stone. Were you the same with everyone or would you say that you had your safe people at school?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (08:52):

It kind of depends. I think I went to a few different primary schools and I feel where by the time I went to

four in total and then by the fourth one I coming in in year five. And I remember that was the first time I

was like, I remember some of the boys were not bothered. They were like, oh, here's Chris. Obviously not

as interested in sport or not as good at it. And obviously talking the way I did and acting the way I did it

was probably quite obvious.

JON DEAN (09:29):

I used to get embarrassed about reminiscing about being younger and super camp and dancing around and

Barbies and all that sort of thing. Whereas, I dunno. How do you feel reflecting on that younger version of

you? Because I dunno, did you ever have a time when you went, oh God, that's you retreated, or have you

just been performing and being funny from then till now?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (09:50):

It definitely goes in waves. I think I went to four different primary schools. I remember going to my

fourth one coming in at the end of year five and feeling that was maybe the first time when I had to really

navigate how am I going to play it with this new group of people. I always managed to make friends with

the sort of ones that can maybe play a bit of sport, but then they also like to do a bit of drama or

something or they do something anyway. So I remember having to, I found friends in that year six group,

but I remember being like, oh, there's definitely some boys in this class that aren't going to want to spend

any time with me. And maybe that was a projection of me, or it was a defence mechanism being like, I'm

just going to give them a wide ber and not get in their way kind of thing. And then I remember secondary

school was a lot more navigation. I feel like I was a military operation trying to just keep out of people's

way or make, but making people laugh and trying to get through there. But

JON DEAN (11:02):

The girls were there.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:04):

Well, I went to a boys' school, shit.

JON DEAN (11:06):

Really?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:06):

Yeah. Whose

JON DEAN (11:07):

Decision

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:08):

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Was this? My parents. Oh, right. Yeah.

JON DEAN (11:11):

I was going to say it was one of them leaning more towards putting you in a boys only or was it a good

school in the area? It

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:16):

Was a good school in the area, but they both were like, this would be a good place for Chris to kind of

mask up a bit, I think.

JON DEAN (11:27):

Really? No.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:29):

Yeah.

JON DEAN (11:29):

Do you seriously think it was something to do with that?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:31):

Yeah. Really? Yeah. And obviously it went amazingly. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, it went really, really

well.

JON DEAN (11:37):

But the ruby wax impressions went down

CHRISTOPHER HALL (11:39):

Really? Exactly. Oh, they loved it. But no, I think I always, yeah, so kind of come way, but then I feel if I

got comfortable then I'd be able to show off or not show off, but perform more again, kind of dance

around or whatever. But it was alright. At primary school it was a bit harder at secondary school. I feel

the biggest thing we missed out on was teenage kisses or dancing with someone at a disco and all that

kind of stuff that I feel people start their teens, or

JON DEAN (12:12):

Even in social circles, feeling comfortable to talk about first experiences with people. Totally. Because all

something you're holding inside and we didn't have the internet or did we not? No, we didn't really,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (12:22):

We had the internet.

JON DEAN (12:23):

What it's like today. It wasn't

CHRISTOPHER HALL (12:25):

No,

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JON DEAN (12:26):

Oh,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (12:27):

No access to information or it wasn't

JON DEAN (12:28):

Proper discussions and things happening.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (12:29):

Totally. None. Yeah, none.

JON DEAN (12:31):

So there was really no one you could talk to about those feelings and things you were doing behind closed

doors.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (12:36):

Yeah, 100%. Which could feel very lonely. And anytime you did speak to anyone, yeah, obviously. Well,

I carried a huge amount of shame and a huge amount of just everything being so secretive. And I think

that's something that's really manifested in my adult life is my, I can be very communicative and very

emotive and descriptive about loads of things apart from my in relationships and my feelings. I find that

very difficult to talk about. So yeah, let's

JON DEAN (13:16):

Talk about them now.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (13:18):

Yeah. What was

JON DEAN (13:19):

It? TikTok part two therapy?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (13:20):

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

JON DEAN (13:23):

Going back to comedy, your life online, TikTok is blowing up for you in the sense of you've been really

successful and continue to be on videos. So what was the start of you noticing you were going viral

online?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (13:43):

It happened pretty swiftly from starting to post. My first character was a millennial locked down in his

parents' house, which who knows where I got that inspiration from. Can't think where. So it was like a

millennial wrapped in this blanket in lockdown, and I was explaining to my mom who was off screen

about tarot cards and crystals and things that a 30-year-old would be doing to help get him through

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lockdown from having no followers on TikTok. So I was literally posting to a clean slate the first, my

fifth, one of those was 10,000 views or something, which from nothing. I was like, that's amazing. I was

like, oh, well, I guess we're doing something. It was enough to be like, okay, cool. I'll post again

tomorrow. And then it was in lockdown, so I had very little else to structure my day around, so I was like,

yeah, I posted daily for probably the first four months, five months of posting. What's nice is when I meet

people after the show, or if some people come and say hello when I'm out and they say, oh, I, I've been

following since lockdown and I was, I'm always like, oh, one of the OGs, hello. They always go, you got

me through lockdown. That was me lockdown with my parents or back in my childhood bedroom and

lighting candles and blessing, trying to do crystal rituals because just didn't know what we were doing is

we were turning to the magic to help get us through.

JON DEAN (15:32):

But you weren't doing comedy before TikTok then. You had never done a standup show before?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (15:35):

No. Well, people have been telling me to do or suggest that my little sister and friends have been like, you

should do comedy, you should do content. So yeah, it was like that lockdown and I was like, you're not

doing anything else. Everything is completely gone. So this is like if you don't do it now, you'll never do

it. And if you start putting videos out and no one likes them and everyone thinks they're stupid, you're not

going to see anyone for the next five months. So you've literally have nothing to lose. Kind of lost most

things already. So yeah, it just felt like it was like then or never. But yeah, the last three and a half years

have just felt a train on a track just going, which has just felt, if I stop to think about it too much, I get

quite overwhelmed and quite, it gets a bit too much to really think about. So I'm just, sometimes I just sort

of let it happen and let it tape me.

JON DEAN (16:37):

And how do you say motivated? Because content creation, even though it might look easy to people, just

pick up your phone and do a funny video, but you have to write it, you have to think about it, you have to

maybe pull people in to help you out, but even just get up and actually do it when you might not be in the

mood you haven't posted in a couple of days. How do you find the consistency? How do you manage to

keep up with it?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (17:01):

I really enjoy it, so I think I really enjoy making the videos and I really enjoy what making the videos

brings. So I've so great. I'm so thankful and excited that I started doing standup because I literally have so

much fun. I love it so much and I love how the videos make people feel when people say, when I meet

people in person and they say, this one's so funny, this one, oh my God, we quote this one or whatever,

that must

JON DEAN (17:39):

Feel great when she

CHRISTOPHER HALL (17:40):

Like, that's lovely.

JON DEAN (17:41):

That's a quote. How fun.

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CHRISTOPHER HALL (17:42):

Yeah, that's amazing. Sometimes people quote my videos to me and I'm like, what are you saying? And

they're like, oh, it's from the one you did two years ago. And I was like, oh, I don't remember that one.

But I love that that's yours. I think I have quite a good element of, you might not be feeling it today, but

you have to. So get up and do it. And then I think that helps with my consistency and the output. Do

JON DEAN (18:11):

You ever have days when you're like, I'm just not up for this. I can't, yeah. Being a comedian as well. If

you had a show last night, if you were just having a day where you just felt like crap, how do you then

pull yourself around to go on stage and actually make loads of people laugh?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (18:24):

So far? Touch word. Doing standup always puts me in a good mood, and I'm aware that there are peaks

and troughs and maybe sometimes I'll be having such a bad day that it won't or I won't enjoy it. I know

that that might happen, but I just love performing. Obviously I'm now doing a different style of

performing as I have been in the past, but I just love getting on stage and it's where I have so much the

most fun. Even if I've been having a bad day or I've been tired or anything, the always kind of show

adrenaline and everything kind of masks. It's a great drug to put you in a good mood. Yeah.

JON DEAN (19:13):

Okay. So one of your most popular social media series has been the background singers where you

essentially imitate background singers to famous artists. And this has been such a success that you've

actually managed to get some of the artists themselves to be in the videos. Tell us the origin of this.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (19:34):

So my little sister used to live, she lived in the States for about four years, and then she moved back to

London and moved in together. It was about 1:00 AM in the morning. We were listening to Muna and it

has this funny underwater backing that's like, stay away, stay, stay. And the idea just came to me, I was

like, oh, wouldn't it be funny if someone was actually singing? And I was like, oh, we can put some

choreo with it. And we have these two busted mic stands because Elizabeth's a singer, so she just has this

barely together mic stand. And I had a ring light stand, but the ring light broke, so it's half a ring light

stand. I was like, oh, these can be our mics. Ha.

(20:23):

And I was like, do you want to be in it? And she was like, okay, there's no reason why I can't be. And that

was at 1:00 AM I think we posted it at one or 2:00 AM in the morning, and then within 24 hours it had

done really well. And Muna had commented on it just being like, love this or something. And we were

like, oh my God, how has that actually gone through the internet to the artist? And then yeah, just again,

didn't know. We just found it so funny. We thought it was great and we were like, let's do songs that we

like and people that we like. And then it's just been nuts. As soon as we posted the next couple, I'd never

gotten a million views on a video, I don't think, until these ones. And yeah, the second or third one was a

million views and I was like, Elizabeth, this is going nuts and you are now under contract. And then it's

been so amazing. I think we've had only maybe a handful that hasn't been commented on by the artist,

which is amazing. And obviously totally fine if the artist doesn't want to comment, but

JON DEAN (21:42):

Rude of Beyonce not to get,

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CHRISTOPHER HALL (21:43):

I know, fair Beyonce and Taylor Swift particularly absent in the comments. And then yeah, people just

started really engaging and started getting celebrity collabs after about six weeks, really two months of

doing it. Really?

JON DEAN (22:03):

Who was your first artist that said, I want

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:04):

To be in the Jonas Brothers?

JON DEAN (22:05):

Oh my God, I

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:06):

Remember seeing that. She like nuts. I thought

JON DEAN (22:07):

This was ai.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:09):

Oh yeah. Everyone was like, this is edited. And I was like, guys, if you really think I'm good enough for

editing

JON DEAN (22:14):

Videos

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:15):

To do that. But yeah, no, and I remember texting this with being like, Hey, we might be, how'd you fancy

about filming with the Jonas Brothers? And she literally was like, are you out of your mind? We have to

do

JON DEAN (22:28):

That. So who got in touch with who? They just sent you a DM or something?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:31):

Yeah, somebody on their team

JON DEAN (22:33):

And saying, what we like this video, we want. Yeah,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:36):

How'd you fancy? The boys are doing a content day in London, so it was us and a few other influencers

and stuff. Do you want to come and did you have to film it with them?

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JON DEAN (22:48):

You had to do everything, basically your same stuff at home you brought to them or did they have their

CHRISTOPHER HALL (22:53):

Own? So Joe started to sort of direct a little bit and we were like, please, however you

(23:00):

Sir, do please step in. Because again, we didn't really know. Now we're quite good at being like, Hey,

we'll do this, we'll do this, and it's just going to be like this. And that's how the whole day will run. But we

definitely, the whole session, filming session, we'll run. But yeah, we were very much pretty starstruck

and didn't quite know how to play it. And then also, I adore that people love the bit and love how simple

it is and everything like that, but then when you're stood in front of Gwen Stefani or Shana Twain who are

just complete legends and you're like, we are going to lip sync and step, click behind you, and they're like,

really? And I'm like, yeah, I know. That's all it is.

JON DEAN (23:50):

Have you done Gwen St. Yeah. Does she look as good in real life?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (23:54):

Incredible.

JON DEAN (23:55):

I can't get over how incredibly well preserved she

CHRISTOPHER HALL (23:58):

Is absolutely beautiful.

JON DEAN (24:00):

Yeah, she's not even overdone. She just looks

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:02):

Great. Just stunning.

JON DEAN (24:03):

Wow, that must've been such a moment. Few. And your sisters just

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:06):

Unreal. I had to sit down on a curb outside of the place after Gwen. Wow.

JON DEAN (24:13):

I can imagine.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:15):

I just had to take stock for a minute.

JON DEAN (24:19):

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But you're getting, these are some of the biggest artists in the world, so who knows. You could have

maybe Beyonce or Taylor Swift or who's your dream, who would you love to do it for?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:30):

Well, there are some choices,

JON DEAN (24:32):

But no, give me one that you would love.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:36):

I've said it on a few times and I think it's a bit cringe. It's a bit thirsty, but I would love to do Kelly

Clarkson.

JON DEAN (24:41):

Okay. Why is that thirsty?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:42):

Only because I feel like I've mentioned her. That's been my answer for a couple of times. And I feel like

she might be like, oh my God, go away.

JON DEAN (24:47):

No, she'd be all over it. Surely

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:50):

I get it. But no, that would be amazing. Yeah.

JON DEAN (24:54):

Well, have you done a Kelly Clarkson background singer without her? We have.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (24:59):

You have? Yeah, we've done a

JON DEAN (25:00):

Couple. And then just to really hammer home how much you want to,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (25:05):

Yeah,

JON DEAN (25:09):

No, I do want to talk about relationships and dating and also because you are a face that gays might

recognise when they're out and that sort of thing. Are you single, do you have a partner?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (25:22):

I'm

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JON DEAN (25:22):

Single. You're single. What's your view on modern dating?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (25:28):

I think London's pretty busy and I think everyone's pretty busy, so I think it's really hard to date people

because they're quite busy. Right,

JON DEAN (25:42):

Okay.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (25:44):

Yeah, I think when you like, oh, when should we meet? And it's like, okay, cool. How's next Sunday?

And you're like, oh, can't do next Sunday. And it's like, oh, okay. How about a week on Thursday then?

JON DEAN (25:53):

Are you a fan of dating apps?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (25:55):

I go through phases. I feel like you go into them with quite a lot of enthusiasm and you can be, it's good to

get on them and have a little go, and then I feel like it runs its course and you need to kind of take a step

back and then dive straight back in. I think dating is so tricky because one needs to know exactly what

they're looking for and I think sometimes I've thought I've known what I've wanted out of dating or out of

a relationship or out of getting on the apps kind of thing, but maybe not really know or that's not been

really what I've

JON DEAN (26:45):

So you're winding down the dating apps at the moment?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (26:47):

Yeah, I think I'm going to take a step back from the apps for the foreseeable.

JON DEAN (26:52):

What's, when people recognise you from TikTok or something, is that, is that something that you like or

CHRISTOPHER HALL (26:59):

On

JON DEAN (26:59):

Dating, like dating apps, if someone goes, oh my God, I love your videos. Do you like that opening or is

it not something you're keen on?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (27:08):

I think it's funny. Do you know what? So I'm not that hugely. Oh, I don't believe I am. My following is

85% women and there's not a huge amount of men. I don't think that really follow me that much

compared. So I get girls nine times out of 10 if someone recognises me, it would be a girl.

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JON DEAN (27:35):

If you went to Westfield, you'd be like, I'm going to get stopped at some point by a

CHRISTOPHER HALL (27:40):

Girl. A girl. Yeah, yeah. Which is lovely. And they always say, my mom loves you and my auntie loves

you. And I'm like, I love being for the moms and the aunties. And so it just doesn't happen that much. It's

happened a bit more recently in dating, but it's just not something that's come up too much for me to

really have a strong, I don't like that or I do like that. I think if someone says initially like, oh, I obviously

know who I feel, if someone does recognise me, then that's a bit easier. I don't have to be like, well, by the

way, I do these silly things online where someone goes like, oh, I love what you do online. I'm like, oh

thanks. And then you can move on from that.

JON DEAN (28:25):

Would you say that you are big into clubbing and going out?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (28:30):

I feel this is a very interesting time in my life because I really don't don't like being hungover. I love

going out, loved partying, and I just don't feel I have the time to be hungover or time to be tired at the

moment just with work. And I love going out on holiday. I feel like when you go out on holiday or if

you're out of London, I feel like it's my anxiety about work ethic and getting things done. And because

I'm, I'm have self-motivate all the time and create, if nobody makes a video for me, nobody writes my

standup. For me. If I go on stage and I haven't written anything new, it's just a waste of a gig kind of

thing. So I find London very, we we're in London for a purpose, then it's to pursue what we're pursuing.

Whereas if we go to Manchester for the weekend, it feels like just,

JON DEAN (29:40):

It was like a

CHRISTOPHER HALL (29:40):

Novel team. It's just a novel team when we're out of town and like, oh my God, let's just run up and down

Canal Street and be silly. That just feels so much more fun. So yeah, I have an interesting relationship. I

think with going out now, it also, the hangover is just dreadful. And then I also get really bad anxiety

when I'm hungover. Yeah, awful. Just embarrassingly bad. I just always think I've upset everyone. And

you have? I have. Yeah. No, my friend for a while, my friends are like, no, you didn't say anything. No,

why would I be annoyed at you? And I always be like, are you mad at me? And they're like, why? What

would you have done? And I just go like, oh, I dunno. But I literally can't sleep. I

JON DEAN (30:26):

Feel like people being hung over now is just a circle of people thinking they've annoyed everyone else. So

nobody talks to anybody.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (30:32):

Yeah, exactly.

JON DEAN (30:35):

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How would you deal with, do you ever feel lonely with your job? Because yeah, when you're a creative, I

work alone predominantly. When you are doing comedy as well and writing and travelling and this sort of

thing, how do you fight off the feeling of like, oh, I'm just alone at home writing?

CHRISTOPHER HALL (30:55):

I think it's something that I'm experiencing a lot. I just went abroad. I was just in Australia for some

shows, which was absolutely incredible. And the last time I feel I travelled to a warm country for work

was I did a cruise ship when I was 24 and flew to Miami for rehearsals.

JON DEAN (31:18):

Fun. Sounds fun.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (31:19):

It was the best year. Well, for a long time it was the best year of my life. It was just the best. I'm hoping

that I feel the last few years have been pretty great. So it is top five years of my life and I flew into

Adelaide for the Fringe this year and I texted one of my friends and I was like, oh my God, this feeling of

stepping out into the heat and then being here for work, it just feels like when we went to Miami and that

is such an amazing sense memory. And I was like, oh, it's happening again. It was so cool. But then what

was different is that I was with 24 people in a cast in Miami and going to so many new places and

experiences and you're with so many people. Whereas there's a few times in Australia when I was just

like, oh, it's literally just me, so I'm not sure what we're going to do.

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I just have to make myself, make myself entertained. And that was definitely, and I texted people at home

and I said, oh, everything's going great, but I'm quite lonely. And everyone was like, oh no, that's so bad.

I'm like, oh no, it's not a bad thing. It's is just an experience that is happening. It's not necessarily a bad

thing, it's just what it is and it's just different. And I think travelling, obviously being a comedian, unless

you're in a sketch group or you're in a duo or whatever, is just a bit more of a lone wolf, lonelier wolf

experience. And so yeah, I just don't need that much time alone. I quite like it. So that's the only thing that

I miss about theatre compared to comedy. And even with comedy, you're sort of getting yourself to a spot

and then you're leaving by yourself and might be with you, you might now, I've made some friends, some

standup friends. So I think when you meet a friend and you go like, we are going to be friends, oh my

God, I have to be friends with you because there's just something about you that I just want to be around.

I think that's where there's so much magic in life when things click into place. I think that's really nice to

believe that there's some kind of sparkle there.

JON DEAN (33:45):

Me and my brother talk about the same thing. We say that sometimes you can meet somebody and

honestly not even speak to them, but they're in a circle and you just lock eyes and be like, God, you non a

romantic sense. You're like, I'm going to love you. We're supposed to know each other. Our magnets are

for some reason coming together for sure. And then you get the same thing where you don't like

somebody, not in a hating way, but it's like, I

CHRISTOPHER HALL (34:06):

Don't think you are for me,

JON DEAN (34:07):

We're repelling in some way. I dunno why this is, but Totally. So you get the same thing. Yeah,

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CHRISTOPHER HALL (34:11):

100%. And I think meeting in the jobs I've been in, the workspaces I've been in, you just meet a lot of

people. Being in musical theatre, you just meet people on jobs. You meet people at auditions all the time.

When I was in fitness, you're meeting people. Well, I was on the front of house a lot that the people on

front of house change all the time. Then I was teaching and you meet new people every day. And then in

comedy, I'm now meeting more comedians and more people all the time. So I think it is one of those

things I literally hate if, but I think that's such an annoying phrase. But when with a person, you're just

like, oh, I know you get me and I get you. It's often now when people crack a joke or someone's comedy,

I go like, oh my God, you are going to make me laugh so much, and I think I'm going to be able to make

you laugh. Well, you can have, yes, the spark or the butterflies with a romantic partner and I think the

spark or the butterflies with a friend as well. Oh

JON DEAN (35:20):

Totally. Yeah. But I feel like the friend thing, it's rarer.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (35:24):

Rarer maybe when you are,

JON DEAN (35:26):

Because there's no sexual attraction there. It's more just like, oh, we're going to be really close. I need to

know. I want to hang out with you. You're making me laugh and making you laugh. So really, I think in

adult life is when you meet people that you're like a new friend. Do you know what I mean? Yeah,

CHRISTOPHER HALL (35:41):

Definitely. Yeah. It was also harder to come by when you're a bit older.

JON DEAN (35:45):

Yeah, definitely.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (35:46):

Meeting a new friend,

JON DEAN (35:47):

Especially in London where everyone lives

CHRISTOPHER HALL (35:49):

On everyone's busy opposite side.

JON DEAN (35:50):

Everyone's busy.

CHRISTOPHER HALL (35:51):

Exactly. And opposite side. Yeah.

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Alright, well Christopher, thank you so much for speaking to us today. You are just as lovely and

hilarious in real life as I suspected you would be. So yeah, thank you so much. Thanks

CHRISTOPHER HALL (36:04):

So much for having me. This has been so much fun.