20/07/07
Practice time is over -
Categories: So that's it. No more previews left and just over a week till we head to the Scottish city (Edinburgh that is. There are several Scottish cities, I don’t want you to get confused).
Both previews this week were pretty good. Although Lauren thought last night stunk n a stinky way, but she was wrong. Its tough because Wednesday was the most packed and crowded audience we've had and so the atmosphere was great. We only managed to mildly offend two people and there was laughter throughout. But then on Thursday we only had 17 in a room that was much bigger than the night before. People get strange when it’s like that. Its almost as thought they are nervous to laugh just in case no one else does. You can see people starting and holding back. Several people said afterwards they felt awkward about laughing out loud because everyone else was holding back. Rubbishness. I find that so hard to deal with because in stand-up you can confront it directly, warm people up, loosen up the crowd. But in a scripted show, you are limited. You cant just break out of script, make everyone do drama warm ups and all claps and say our names or some wank.
And so whatever we did, the laughs fell into the gaps in the chairs a bit. I still thought it was much slicker than it has been and apart from a few technical fuck-ups it was good fun. And that’s the most important bit right?
I've also discovered from my younger brother that there is no such thing as 'super-id' just 'id' and now I feel like a big ignoramus, although I didn’t tell him that even though we had written a gag about it, I still have no idea what it all really means. I once read some of Freud's 'Jokes and the Unconscious' and quickly decided that he was the least funny human ever (apart from one of my old uni lecturers who successfully sent the whole room to sleep once. Saying that, he could have drugged us. He was a bit odd). Anyway I'm not pretending our comedy show is all highbrow and stuff, but I am sad my younger brother is smarter than me. It’s so wrong when siblings do that.
I am now gonna rehearse lines for the next week, while trying to write some new stand-up, rehearse the kids show, temp and get some sleep in-between. I fear I may die before August even begins. Although that would be one hell of a good PR angle for our show. Hmm, I'll get working on that now...
PS I've just found out that my spell check keeps trying to substitute 'wank' for 'wink'. Sadly I find this far too funny and no work will no happen for at least an hour while I try writing different sentences with 'wank' in, to spell check it. 'What a winker'. 'My mum caught me winking'. 'I winked all over her'. Hee hee hee. God I'm such a child.
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