26/08/07
The End is nigh. Well not nigh, its here. Deado. Finished. Finito. -
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tiernan douieb
@ 05:05:16 pm
And goddamn I'm happy about it! Well sort of. It hasn't quite hit me yet that our show is now over, and I feel programmed that I will have to go to a dark dank little cave to perform to 15 people, 4 of whom will not enjoy our show because they thought it was friendly comedy about cakes. And while that may not sound fun to some of you, and you may have seen my poorly written section on the front of chortle today about being sick of the show, I will miss it. I will miss worrying about how many we have in, I will miss the dressing room banter with the lovely Dave and Dave and others (although not the show before us, they were arses), I will miss distributing high fives to our excellent tech sturdy Neil, and front of house legend Gavin, I will miss making children upset with viking rape gags, and making crowds laugh. I wont miss flyering, but I don't think anyone will. I feel we've got some good stuff out of it. Excellent quotes, some interesting offers and the knowledge that we can cope with a month of shows. Also I've seen some truly brilliant stuff this year and I'm so glad I got off my arse to do so.
Its been an extremely long month and a hell of a lot of hard work and fun. Our final show was OK today. No pranks or anything as we were too tired for that after being out till the wee hours. The if.com party was good last night, but mainly due to drinking much with Ginger, Black and one of the Penny Dreadfuls, to the point where we thought dancing was OK. Always a sign of drunkenness when you lose your dignity. Hooray for Burnsy and Basden. Brendon's was like a lifetime achievement award I suppose, but I am a tad sad it didn't go to Pappy's as their show was just ace. Basden's show was brilliant too, but I lost a fiver to Lauren as I bet on Richardson, because his show was one of the best things I've seen this fringe too. Either way, at the end of the day, I didn't really care and we all knew most people were there for the free booze, which was successfully provided.
And so the last show today was slightly slow and tired. Again however it doesn't matter because its done, and I've survived the month. Now for two days of no responsibility and drinking lots followed by a week of sleep. I'd be lying if I said 'roll on next year's fringe', but I also know the anti-climax will hit me in a day or so, and I'll feel a little sad leaving the beautiful festival city. Ho hum, roll on next year.......
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