James Acaster reveals why he thinks about Chris Moyles on the toilet every time

James Acaster has revealed he’s been thinking about Chris Moyles for more than half his life, thanks to a handy life hack he once heard.

The comedian, 39, admitted in an interview with the radio presenter that he has one person in mind every time he takes a dump.

But there’s a pretty good reason behind it.

‘I think of Chris every time I do a poo,’ James said on The Chris Moyles Show.

Host Pippa Taylor replied: ‘Oh, now that’s the ultimate compliment.’

Explaining the reasoning behind his bizarre claim, James went on: ‘Yeah, yeah. You used to, on a couple of occasions, you and the and the crew on [Chris’ BBC Radio 1 Early Breakfast Show] went off on a tangent about the dilemma of going for a poo at a friend’s house.

‘And Chris’s contribution to the riff would always be, you would say, put down some toilet paper to deaden in the sound.’

‘That’s right!’ Chris remembered, as James went on: ‘And I was 14, so this was a new concept to me.

‘You know, you don’t do that when you’re seven, do you put the toilet paper down to deaden the sound? So this was new.

‘And I was like, “That’s a good idea, actually, because I’m 14 years old, I’m scared of going for poos in people’s houses”.

‘So, I started doing it because Chris suggested it, and so every time I put toilet paper down to dead in the sound, I think of Chris.

‘That’s every time I do a poo. I’m 39 now. I was 14. Over half of my life, I thought of Chris Moyles every time I do a poo.’

‘Get in,’ Chris laughed back.

The Taskmaster star elsewhere revealed in the interview that Chris influenced him in more professional ways.

‘I wouldn’t be doing the podcast that I do, which is the main thing that keeps my lights on, if it wasn’t for Chris Moyles,’ he said.

‘That is a true thing. When I was 13, actually 14, it was 1999. Our house flooded because of a cracked ballcock, which may or may not have been Susie Quatro’s fault, and I can’t prove that.

‘We had to move into a smaller house; I didn’t have a television, so I started listening to the radio every day. I listened to you every time I got home from school.

‘And because you mainly did banter with everyone in the studio, and not music, I really loved it.

‘Started recording on a little tape player at home, and me, my brother and sister would do our own version of The Chris Moyles Show and record that.’

He added that he was ‘the ringleader’ and pretended to be ‘the Chris Moyles’ on their family tapes, but ‘dreads’ to think where they are now.

‘I dread to think where those tapes are now, because it’s me trying to be funny at 14,’ James went on.

‘And there’s still times now when I’m doing the Off Menu podcast with Ed [Gamble] where I think, “I can’t believe I get to be Chris Moyles. I can’t believe this is it”.

‘So, yeah, I’m pretty excited to be here. It’s quite surreal.’

Tune into The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X weekdays from 6:30am to 10am and on Global Player

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