15/08/06
Ok, you've waited long enough -
Categories: Ok, you've waited long enough.
Of course everything was ok! How little faith have you got in me? Back on the "Sold Out" board with a vengeance and a really cool audience who made an utter mockery of my claims last week that Monday night crowds are shit (or whatever I said - can't remember).
I've chopped about five minutes out of my show - as I have been starting to get into my stride it has slowly begin to overrun. This is because the audiences find me too funny, which can be a terrible cross to bear and means I have to remove the least good material from my 'hour'. If you have seen my show, then you will know how difficult this would be as my material is definitely my strong point and I don't just get away with gigs by being charming and having a twinkle in my eye...
I eventually decided to take out a bit from the middle about when I got embroiled in a fight at a gig in East Dulwich Park that was started by Mitch Benn (sort of). The story was more scary than funny, but did have me saying the line "I haven't been picked off the ground since I was four" which I always quite liked. Anyway, it's gone now. If you remind me I might put it up on here at some point.
It is my day off today. I've normally scorned days off but last year I decided that should I ever return to the fringe I would definitely have one. So I am. But my mum came up here today and apparently she wants us to go for a "look round". A look round! This is my sixth festival...
I was a bit scared logging on here today when I saw the headline on the Chortle front page. I thought my brilliant jokes about Steve Hall had caused offence and that I was at the centre of another controversy like the time at the fringe when I said "Leave John Leslie alone! Come on...can any of us, hand on heart, say we haven't raped Ulrika Johnsson?".
Oh grow up...it's a fucking joke.
And that's how I feel about the little furore kicking off right now on the front page. I don't really know Steve Hughes very well, only met him a couple of times, so I can't speak for his personal opinions in real life. He's always seemed pretty on the money onstage to me and that's normally a good indication of someones moral fibre I think (there are exceptions obviously, but generally I mean...). I do know Reg fairly well having toured with him, and other than the fact that he has little respect for hotel linen he is also straight down the middle morally. It all seems to have been blown out of all proportion and, dare I say, there is an air of it being maybe personal?
I really wanted to finish this post by putting "And anyway, let's not forget they did kill Jesus" but I thought that maybe people wouldn't see that I was being "ironic" (fucking hate that word in comedy) and being deliberately naughty so decided not to. I think I am losing my bottle...
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