26/08/08
Wrapping up -
Categories: I am now home, but have some unfinished mopping up of the Edinburgh blog to do, before it becomes regular blog once more...
What have I achieved at the Fringe? Well, I've finished season 4 of Lost, season 2 of Heroes, and season 3 of Arrested Development. Those probably aren't the aims I set out with when coming up a month ago (wow, a month ago?). My main aim was to raise the profile a bit, as well as the joy and experience of coming up with a new hour show. It is nice to do a show where you are the only one who sets it up and the only one who performs it - different to life on the circuit where a compere sets the tone, and any acts on before you give you something to be compared to. Here in Edinburgh, you set the tone, and by the end of the hour, the audience take you for your own merits without comparing you to other comics. Except none of that's true of course, because in fact they might be comparing you with the 3 or 4 other shows they've seen that day already. However, when you get to tour the show you've done (which I will be, next spring), well then yes you do get that freedom, so that'll be nice.
I've also discovered the benefits of wearing an eye-mask to go to sleep - never worn one before, but my flats (I've had three) all featured very thin curtains, so the sun comes up (normally soon after I get in from Brooks' Bar) and it wakes you up, unless you come armed with one of those things you can nick of a long-distance flight. I had ear-plugs as well which I used the first week cos I was staying near a loud road, but I have refrained from using the eye-mask and ear-plugs together, for fear that if I cut off all sight and sound, I may never wake up ever again.
Highlights? Probably tenatively trying 'N*GN*GS' as a "risky seven" in Comedians' Countdown (a very risky seven). It wasn't allowed, but luckily I had a more definite eight, so no racist slang was needed. Phew.
Some late reviews in the last day or two - Ed Byrne was excellent, and the double-act show Jollie: Jon & Ollie Stuck Together was excellent riotous fun. I saw Back To The Future: The Pantomime on Sunday which was very enjoyable. Only last week I was chatting to Stuart, the guy with the Delorean who came up with it 2 years ago when I did Back To The Futon, and he said how keen he was to come up again with the Delorean. In fact he said he could probably get his hands on up to a dozen Deloreans to parade through Edinburgh, if I were to ever do that show again. I was going to wait till 2015 (to fit the films), but watch this space - Back To The Futon Part 2 could be here sooner than that...
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