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Deadly Snakes, Micro Pigs and Blue Eyeshadow: The World According to Ed & Lauren

Meet your new favourite podcast hosts - comedians Ed Night and Lauren Pattison! *Waves*

They are kicking off the LOLs on Radio 1's new podcast season with their show Ed & Lauren Get On. Every week they will tackle a new topic – from dating to class and terrible jobs. Basically all the hilarious highs and deep, deep lows of becoming an adult! Yep - we've all been there....

So who are they? Do they really get on? What is the secret of being an adult? We decided to grill them to find out!

You can subscribe to Ed & Lauren Get On here.


1. What advice would you give your 15 year old self?

Lauren: Blue eyeshadow is not for you hun. Ditto green eyeliner.

When someone, for the first time ever, asked me for my number after a gig and I panicked and politely shook their hand instead.
Ed

Ed: Don't work at a Comic Con.

2. What’s your most embarrassing moment?

Lauren: See above.

Ed: Genuinely too many to count, but most recently probably when someone, for the first time ever, asked me for my number after a gig and I panicked and politely shook their hand instead.

3. Lauren - if you had £10 to buy Ed a gift, what would you buy? Ed - if you had £10 to buy Lauren a gift, what would you buy?

Lauren: I'd buy him some cough medicine and some vitamins because the boy needs looking after.

I'd want to be one of those micro pigs that people buy off the Internet
Lauren

Ed: Some Sainsbury's Basic gin.

4. What’s the worst job you’ve had and why?

Lauren: I used to hand out flyers for a night club and doing that in the winter outside in Newcastle was like a Bear Grylls survival challenge. There's only so much sneaky vodka you can drink on shift to keep warm before you're essentially being paid to be drunk in the street.

Ed: Once as a bright eyed teen I did a day at a comic convention. Thought I'd enjoy it but the stall they put me on was selling mouse pads with anime characters' tits on. That is a clientele that a 15 year old isn't well equipped to deal with. Didn't work there again.

5. If you could be any animal what would you be?

Lauren: I'd want to be one of those micro pigs that people buy off the Internet that actually turns out to be a massive pig just so I could watch the disappointment and horror unfold while shitting in someone's kitchen.

Ed: Some sort of deadly snake so everyone would leave me alone.