Leigh Hart: on TV comedy and his distinctive voice...

Interview – 2016

Leigh Hart is well known for his offbeat comedy, which can be found on the moon, the internet and in bacon adverts. Hart broke onto the small screen via cult sports show SportsCafe, before launching his own series, Moon TV, whose often disastrous interview segment spawned Th e Late Night Big Breakfast Show. Hart has also dialled back the humour for episodes of Descent from Disaster and DNA Detectives.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Hart talks about:

How a chance encounter and some snails got him a gig on SportsCafe
Taking a proactive approach to getting Moon TV on air
Having a different approach from April Ieremia for reality TV show Shock Treatment
Never thinking that Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet would get funding
Becoming part of the mystery in the final episode
A personal connection to his story in Descent from Disaster
Why The Late Night Big Breakfast is perfect for sponsorship
Keeping guests on the show in the dark
Realising it wasn’t all about him, while filming DNA Detectives
The reality behind the Hellers adverts
Changes in his very distinctive voice

This video was first uploaded on 26 April 2016, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

...half an hour later I'm driving to Sky studios with a tupperware container full of garden snails. And the premise was I was a snail trainer heading off to the States to take on the US competition . . . the next week, they wanted to do a follow-up story.
– Leigh Hart on his first TV appearance, filling in as a fake guest on SportsCafe

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