10/08/07
Day 10 -
Categories: I am writing today's blog at home after eating a proper dinner with vegetables in it and sitting in my pjs. Have you left the fringe to return home you may ask? Is it just a bizarre dream? No, neither of these things. In fact I am just relishing my first night in at the fringe. Goddamn its good to not be doing anything. The hills of Edinburgh have taken their toll on my feet and my throat is starting to get sore from damp rooms and too much pro-ject-ion darling.
However despite the enjoyment of sitting on a sofa watching trash, actually spending time with my girlfriend and re-charging my batteries, I cant help but feel I'm missing out on some Edinburgh activity. The last two years I've been up to Edinburgh doing other peoples shows. The lack of responsibility has meant I spent the entire time both years drinking ridiculous amounts and generally partying my face off, meeting lots of great and useful people and being a social whore. But this year, I cant cope with that. Maybe its age, or perhaps the fact that I am working hard on my own show, as well as the kids show and stand-up. Or perhaps its both. Either way, I know that I need to stop being wussy and network soon. Love it or hate it, its an incredibly useful thing to do. And I do love it. I have a bizarre enjoyment of meeting and chatting to all sorts of people, even bores because there is normally a nugget of gold in every conversation.
One of my friends claims he knows the most boring man alive. But despite this description, my friend constantly talks about how great it is going out with him because the boredom is so bad it becomes entertainment. I love it when negative qualities are so negative that person becomes a social hero. The truly bad people are those that are just mediocre. A bit annoying, but not overly. These are the people that should either pick themselves up and gain redeeming qualities or plummet downwards into a true personality black hole.
Luckily I find very few comedy people like that and mainly enjoy drinking with them. Of course this could mean that as I don't find any of them like that, I could be the dull person in the industry. Sigh. On facebook today I found out that people rate me as their third most entertaining friend. As much as it is a ridiculous test, that cuts me deep. There is no way of finding out who is more entertaining than me, but they had better be damn entertaining folk or I may have to delete some friends. Shallow? petty? Both? Yes goddammit. And that's what happens when I have a night in instead of occupying myself with erstwhile entertainment. During the course of this blog I've almost talked myself out of staying in and have a horrible feeling that I may find myself slurring at 5am in the loft bar with a bunch of people thinking I am mediocre.
In other news, our show is still doing well, with some nice numbers. We had our first heckler in today which is unusual for sketch show. When in my pants (oh the comedy of men in pants) early on in the show, a man shouted 'there are socks in them' supposedly degrading the size of my genitalia. I waited until our interludey moments and in stand-up style, relished telling him that no socks were present just sheer large balls, which he loved and that I would do a pants dance purely for him. No further heckling ensued and I felt like I had won a minor battle, despite being only in my pants while doing so. Its great to have no dignity.
Also just read someone's review on our show on www.edfringe.com:
http://www.edfringe.com/reviews/read.html?id=5687
That person, or Jack Cullen as it says on the review is my new best friend. I will track him down and send him Christmas cards. Nice ones not ones with dead reindeer on.
Also performed as the Green Meanie in the shop window of John Lewis today. Once again, I realised I have no dignity.
More soon....
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