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James Veitch Is A Terrible Roommate - CONAN on TBS

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    (audience applauding)
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    - Hi guys.
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    I got into quite a bit of trouble
    recently with my flatmate,
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    you don't call them
    flatmates here, do you?
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    You call them roommates, right?
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    Yeah, okay, so I got in trouble,
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    well, she messaged me and she said,
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    "James, would you mind
    taking your clothes,
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    "that are drying in the bathroom
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    "and moving them into your bedroom?
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    "Take your clothes that
    are drying in the bathroom,
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    "move them into your bedroom,
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    "because my Mum's coming over,
    she hasn't met you before,
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    "she hasn't seen the place we live before,
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    "I wanna make a good impression."
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    So I did that, I took all my clothes,
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    that were drying in the bathroom,
    I put them in my bedroom
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    and they were still a
    bit wet as well, so hero,
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    but then it transpires, guys,
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    all you need is like, what is that?
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    Like one, two, three, four,
    five, six bags of flour
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    and like an afternoon and
    a little bit of creativity
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    and you could pretty much make yourself
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    like a full-on kind of drugs, I would say,
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    (audience laughing)
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    sort of, in the house and
    then obviously, you know,
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    you don't wanna just, you know, you keep,
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    you have to obviously
    be a little bit creative
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    and then I found a, you know, a,
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    (audience laughing)
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    and then I thought, and
    then obviously, you know,
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    I thought it was a bit subtle,
    so then what I did as well,
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    I had like a, obviously
    a tip book, you know,
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    like People Who Owe Me Money,
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    (audience laughing)
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    you know, For Drugs,
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    (audience laughing)
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    That I Sold Them,
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    (audience laughing)
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    and then you know, that
    was, I mean, I'll be honest,
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    you have already enjoyed
    that far more than she did,
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    (audience laughing)
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    but the thing is that I
    don't know where the line,
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    I don't know where to like
    stop, you know what I mean?
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    Basically that was just a
    precursor to what happened next,
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    which was when I first moved in there
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    to like shared accommodation,
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    they had a big meeting
    with all the housemates
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    and we sat around and they
    told me all the rules and stuff
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    and then they said, "Look, James,
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    "we've got these little
    boxes, that we got from Ikea,
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    "that we keep our toiletries in
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    "and we've cleared one out for you,"
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    and I was like, hooray.
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    (audience laughing)
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    But I don't have any toiletries,
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    so what I ended up doing
    was just basically,
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    I just filled mine with
    basically as many as I could,
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    (audience laughing)
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    'cause I thought that was very funny
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    and then the problem is
    every time I went in there,
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    I was starting to kind
    of like rearrange them,
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    do you know what I mean?
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    I was having a great time,
    (audience laughing)
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    and then, this genuinely happened
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    and then you know, one
    day I got like narrative,
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    you know, I got more kind of,
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    like a chase scene was kind
    of, you know, happening,
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    (audience laughing)
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    and then after like four to five months,
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    they started to develop their own kind of,
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    you know, religion based
    around the kind of,
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    different kind of aspects
    of the kind of, you know,
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    and then honestly, it was beautiful,
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    they had a wedding,
    that was such, honestly,
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    (audience laughing)
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    that was such a beautiful day,
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    we were so lucky with the weather,
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    everyone looked amazing,
    it was really beautiful
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    and then Halloween.
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    (audience laughing)
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    Like problem is six to
    eight months down the line,
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    they genuinely started to
    get very sophisticated,
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    they started to develop like
    their own kind of culture,
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    like entertainment, they started to make
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    their own kind of movies,
    they had a few blockbusters,
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    they were just beautiful,
    it was like, there was on,
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    (audience laughing)
    do you know what I mean?
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    There was a really lovely,
    (audience laughing)
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    it was a lovely moment, it was.
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    (audience applauding)
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    Oh, there's more.
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    Wait.
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    (cinematic music)
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    (audience laughing and applauding)
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    Tragic, tragic.
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    The problem is that I, you know, I,
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    (audience laughing)
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    I got more
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    (audience laughing)
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    and I started to make it seem
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    as if they were like
    generating from the drain,
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    you know what I mean?
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    And then the problem is I don't
    know if you know this, guys,
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    but if you go online,
    right, if you go online,
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    you can actually get these, like,
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    you can buy these wholesale,
    (cinematic music)
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    (audience laughing)
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    from China.
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    (audience laughing)
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    This genuinely happened, this is,
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    (audience laughing)
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    I had a lot of time and what I did
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    is I staged Nuremberg in the bath,
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    this got me into significant
    trouble, this was not good.
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    (dramatic cinematic music)
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    That was when I got the message,
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    "James, we need to talk about the ducks."
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    (audience laughing and applauding)
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    That's not a message anyone wants to get,
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    do you know what I mean?
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    And I was like, the ducks?
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    'Cause I was just denying
    the ducks, you know,
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    she said, "The bathroom ducks."
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    I was like, I was, the bathroom ducks?
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    She said, "The ducks in the bathroom."
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    (audience laughing)
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    I was like, ah, those ducks.
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    (audience laughing)
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    What about them?
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    She said, "Please stop."
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    (audience laughing)
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    "I was in a rush this morning,
    but I couldn't shower,
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    "until I'd moved like 100,"
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    (audience laughing)
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    "tiny ducks."
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    I said, okay, sorry about that.
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    From now on, no more tiny ducks.
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    (audience laughing)
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    I'll be honest, some of you
    have spotted that loophole
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    far quicker than she did,
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    'cause she,
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    she didn't, genuinely she
    did not see this coming,
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    this hit her like a ton of
    bricks, I was not, you know,
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    (audience laughing)
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    (cinematic music)
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    Huh?
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    (dramatic orchestral music)
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    (audience applauding)
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    (audience laughing)
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    (audience laughing)
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    She said, "I'm away this weekend,
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    "by the time I get back,
    I want all ducks gone."
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    I mean, to be fair to her,
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    it was getting quite hard
    to move around the flat,
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    there was a significant number of ducks
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    (audience laughing)
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    and I said, look, can I have
    one duck in the bathroom?
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    And she said, "One."
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    (audience laughing)
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    (audience laughing and applauding)
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    (lively orchestral music)
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    (audience applauding)
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    (audience laughing)
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    (audience laughing)
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    Thank you everyone.
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    (audience applauding and cheering)
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    - Fantastic!
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    Fantastic!
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    Thank you so much.
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    James Veitch, ladies and gentlemen.
Title:
James Veitch Is A Terrible Roommate - CONAN on TBS
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When James' roommates offered him storage space in their shared bathroom, they had no idea how passionate he was about rubber ducks.

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Video Language:
English
Duration:
06:12

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