Jigsaw Explained - Daniel Sloss - #050

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. That is the sound of a very squeaky chair there, isn't it? Bloody hell. Anyway, my guest this week, Netflix special comedian, Scottish person, and all-round handsome bastard, Daniel Sloss, taking the hot seat before his sold out show in Newcastle. You may have seen him on Netflix. Both Dark and Jigsaw are two fantastic Netflix specials, and he is just smashing it at the moment. Every date, everywhere, everywhere in the world appears to be sold out at the moment for this guy, and I'm incredibly fortunate to have got hold of him. We talked about relationships. I slid into his mum's DMs on Twitter and got some really interesting questions that I was gonna put to him, and it was just a fantastic afternoon. He's a man wise beyond his years and funny beyond his nationality. So without further ado, Daniel Sloss, take it away.
Ladies and gentlemen, Daniel Sloss. They've let you over the border from Scotland into England.

**Daniel Sloss** (1:20)
I know, well, I mean, is Newcastle really England?

**Chris Williamson** (1:23)
I'm not sure.

**Daniel Sloss** (1:24)
Because my support actor and best friend over the years, Clive Humphries, he's from Newcastle, and there's always a genuine affiliation between the Jordies and the Scots, where we're just like...

**Chris Williamson** (1:33)
Kind of.

**Daniel Sloss** (1:34)
Yeah, I mean, you're pretty much, because we're, you hit the South as much as we do.

**Chris Williamson** (1:40)
Absolutely. Yeah, anything that's below Leeds is Southern.

**Daniel Sloss** (1:43)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Southern and Southies.

**Chris Williamson** (1:45)
Exactly. Agreed. What's super interesting, when I speak to Americans, they don't know that there is an actual wall between Scotland and England. It's like they don't know that Hadrian's Wall is a thing. And like, you watch Game of Thrones, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know the wall, like that actually exists. It's a bit smaller and it's kind of ruined.

**Daniel Sloss** (2:02)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Chris Williamson** (2:03)
But it's actually there. No way, man.

**Daniel Sloss** (2:05)
There's two, and the Antonine Wall as well.

**Chris Williamson** (2:08)
It's a man who knows his background. So when I sometimes have to do my research for guests, I interview a guy who understands the foremost intellect on alien civilizations. And I'll be like, oh, bloody hell, I'm gonna have to sink my teeth into this. The research for yourself was watching your Netflix specials.

**Daniel Sloss** (2:24)
Great fun.

**Chris Williamson** (2:25)
Watching you on YouTube and sliding into your mum's DMs.

**Daniel Sloss** (2:29)
That is my mother to a fucking team. I love the woman so much, I love her dearly. But she's an absolute whore for fame, she loves it. She loves the fact that she's known as... Because over the course of the years during the Edinburgh Festival and stuff, my mum will spend a lot of money going to see as much shows as she can do in the French because she supports all convenience. And even when they try to give her free tickets and stuff, she refuses to because she understands how the industry works. She's an absolute fucking sweetheart. But yeah, she loves, loves the attention.
And she's fucking her, she's a very, very funny woman.

**Chris Williamson** (3:04)
She is, she's given me, so later on, I've got a couple of things that I need to ask you about, which is the inside information from mother.

**Daniel Sloss** (3:12)
I'm assuming, yeah, she's started, she's had a knife in my back, like the Judas whore that she is.

**Chris Williamson** (3:16)
Yeah, she has done indeed. So your Netflix special, Jigsaw, which some people may have seen and some may not, I want you to, if you can, to just try and explain the concept of Jigsaw or a Jigsaw for life.

**Daniel Sloss** (3:32)
The concept is basically, I don't hate relationships. I just hate 90% of people in relationships because they are, I don't like liars. And when you're in it, most people in relationships, they're lying to me and they're lying to themselves. I was thinking there's a certain arrogance to people in relationships that they've achieved something that I don't have by settling for this other person, that they have a happier life than I do. I enjoy being single. One day I won't enjoy it. One day I'll enjoy the company of the person and I'll want to spend the rest of my life with them. I believe that what I get annoyed at is by people when they force something into their life, they force a person into life because they think they should be in a relationship, which is what 90% of you fuckers do. You cram this horrible person into your life and you post pictures about how happy you are and you're not happy.