CMAT has appeared as the latest guest in Harry Hill’s new podcast and Youtube show. Check out the episode below.
The Harry Hill Show debuted online last month, with the first two episodes featuring fellow comedians Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. This week, the large-collared comedy icon – a self-confessed “6 Music dad” – invited Irish singer-songwriter CMAT onto his parody talkshow.
Hill admitted that was “such a big fan” of CMAT’s latest album ‘Euro-Country’ having discovered her via her acclaimed Glastonbury 2025 performance. He even went as far as recording a tribute to her in Dublin last year by impersonating her on Instagram. At the time, CMAT (real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) described the video as “the most important thing to have ever happened to me in my life”. On the new episode, she admitted it was “disrespectful” but flattering.
Thompson went on to discuss being nominated for the 2025 Mercury Prize, admitting that she “would have had a better time” at the ceremony if she’d won and not lost to Sam Fender’s ‘People Watching‘. Joking about her friend Fender, CMAT described him as a “little guy, horrible really”.
“I’ve got no time for him,” she jokingly continued about the famously affable and charitable Newcastle singer-songwriter. “He’s called ‘the bad boy of music’, because he’s so horrible to everyone, everywhere he goes’.
Hill then took the joke further by joking that Fender once infamously “pushed someone into some nettles”, and was himself knocked into a urinal by the musician in a service station toilet.
Elsewhere in the episode, Thompson discussed leaving university and first getting into making music, her love of fellow Dubliner Samantha Mumba, being into The Smiths (but not Morrissey) and how that inspired her moving to Manchester, as well as sharing her favourite joke, joining a discussion with a man from the UK’s only windmill museum, playing the weekly game of ‘Name The Seed’, and ending with a finale of dancing and singing in a giant hamster costume.
The award-winning surrealist comedian – who rose to fame as a stand-up before his classic BBC Two and Channel 4 series along with Harry Hill’s TV Burp, You’ve Been Framed and playing host on Junior Bake Off – is well-known as a big fan of indie. He supported Yard Act’s at their 2023 residency at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club, the same year he surprised Black Midi fans by joining the art-rock band on stage in London to deliver a Cardi B verse.
“I really like The Lemon Twigs,” Hill told NME about his listening habits at the time. “The truth is, I’m a massive Beatles fan. I also love Talking Heads, David Byrne and The Smiths. Yard Act have a bit of that. Unfortunately Morrissey has fallen out of favour.”
Hill’s Diamond Jubilee Tour: New Bits & Greatest Hits was this weekend filmed at Soho Theatre Walthamstow for release on Sky and NOW in Spring 2026.
Episodes of The Harry Hill Show will be released every Monday and available to stream visually from Spotify and YouTube. Remaining guests from upcoming shows include Ed Gamble, James Acaster, Laura Smyth, Phil Wang, Alex Brooker, and more.
CMAT meanwhile, continues the victory lap for ‘Euro-Country’ with a heavy year of touring with UK headline dates in March before European summer festival stops at End Of The Road, Bearded Theory, Truck, Electric Picnic, Mad Cool, ØYA, and a headline appearance at London’s LIDO alongside Father John Misty and Sharon Van Etten. Visit here for tickets and more information.
