08/08/07
Spank and Tickle -
Categories: Yesterday Donnelly and I were feeling the beer blues, that feeling when it’s like your insides have been hollowed out and replaced with sawdust and dread. To take my mind off it I went to see Jon Richardson’s full show for the first time. I lived with Jon for a year and have seen his stand-up many many times, but seeing the final product made me feel very proud and not a little jealous. It’s excellent. The only thing missing was about 20 audience members so I may well be flyering for Jon today. When Kitson came out of the show he said Jon just has a brilliant mind, and that’s bang on the money. Every time you think you can see where something might be going it takes a totally unexpected route, Richardson just doesn’t think like other people, and here’s to more of that. Go see it, 8.30, The Pleasance Hut.
The Zone was great, Carl compered for the first time as I had to get away to compere Spank. I opened and did some new stuff, it was basically a 20 minute Edinburgh preview for next year and felt really nice. Spank was a whole new experience. I was co-compering with Leon and I’ve never done that before, it was hard to fight the temptation to go with my instincts as that would have meant taking over too much, so I just waited for an opening and was able to take the time to figure out the funniest thing to say. It was how I imagine a panel show to be, you wait for a pause and then dive in. Getting fully naked after the interval was the easiest bit in many ways. “Whoa! What the fuck?! Naked?!” Yes. Need we say more. I think Hodgson summed it up when he said as I came off “this ‘aint fucking Ibiza Robins”. No Will, you’re right, but it just might be as close as we ever get. And I remind Will that the first time I ever saw him was onstage at Bristol Community Festival wearing only a thong. Touche.
Hodgson was awesome at Spank, as was Rhys Derby and Pappy’s Fun Club. Exactly what we needed after some truly poor ‘offensive’ songs about rape. I won’t mention the people responsible out of some vague sense of compere’s ethics but it was really without merit. The only way I could signal my distain without being out of order was to subtly flick the V’s as they walked off stage. It’s the little victories. What i really hate is that they can shrug off anyone who thinks they're rubbish by saying "you're just too easily offended, we're edgy and you can't deal with that". No. There are good shock comics and there are turgid ones, singing "everybody wants to be raped...no means yes" just isn't good enough. I hope you get run over by a disabled black lesbian midget. Ha! CAN YOU DEAL WITH THAT!
And then to bed, not having drunk too much. I’m compering Spank again tonight I think, so do come along, I promise not to get naked again.
p.s I’ve worked out what that brewery smell smells like. It’s warm milk on wheatabix with marmite. I win.
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Won't be making it up this year, too much going on down here. Have a large shot of something for me at some un Godly hour with some hooligans in a dark, but smoke free dive. To quote Cogs, "good luck with it",,, and give him my best too if you collide with him
Chaz
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08/08/07 @ 23:03 Much love x
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15/08/07 @ 12:39 
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