comedy, i suddenly realised that anything i said could spread. and that is a profound change, because you're no longer some little guy in a cabaret room punching up at some meanie. you're someone who can really hurt someone. and i think that song probably hurt phil. i think probably his name... do you know that? have you talked to him? i tried to. we did a little online. we talked and sort of displayed that we had forgiven each other. but i'd got the video eventually taken down, but not soon enough. the irony, of course, is that if you hadn't written that song and hadn't performed it publicly, nobody would have remembered. very few people would have remembered the original review. probably, except that it was the number one hit on my name for a year when i was trying to make a career, when my wife was having a baby. i'm living overseas. you type my name into google and a one—star review saying i'm talentless was what people read. like, that was my feeling. was like, "hey, phil daoust, do you reckon you can use clever words to take someone down? 0k, hold my beer." that was my attitude.