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My moustache is still surprisingly puny for a week and a half of growth. But I shaved my beard off today and the moustache alone certainly makes me look pretty old. I am now the perfect age and have the perfect face to play the driving instructor from Fist of Fun. But now I just look at myself in the mirror and wonder why that character did not capture the public imagination. I did it with Alan Partridge, so what happened with Peter Dibdin?
Surely it wasn’t down to the quality of the performer?
No.
Maybe I can bring him back for Twitch of Fun.
The first sketch has been (fairly) successfully recorded this afternoon in spite of a few technical gremlins. Although the zoom format is a bit well worn, it is necessary for this sketch and, of course, the only way to film stuff at the moment. But I am hoping I can assemble an unofficial little team of talent that I can draw on to do some extra bits and bobs as we gradually try to turn my ramshackle puppet show into a ramshackle puppet show with some sketches in it.
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I have salvaged something from the wreckage of 2020 though, I think.
I got a payment of £461 today that was apparently money from my 2014 tour. That wasn’t all I earned from it and accounts were settled on that six years ago, so goodness knows where that came from. But it was nice of the money gods to save that up for me for a time when it would be needed. Ha, that 2014 schmuck didn’t know that it would be who was spending his money. Though he might have guessed it was all going on Flumps.
I seemed to get a fair bit done today, including prepping for my RHLSTP with Arthur Mathews, reading his fun Diary of Dominic Cummings, drawing cocks on loads of bookplates, casting and performing the Twitch of Fun sketch and posting off Christmas Emergency Questions books. I was pretty tired by the time I got to speak to Arthur. It was an affable 75 minutes as two old men from the 1990s discussed how it was better in the 1990s when they weren’t so old. And then got on to the sudden realisation that the name The Jam is a really bad name for a band. What a revelation!
Arthur is an odd phenomenon in showbiz, a hugely successful writer who is not driven by ambition, has sort of fallen into this and made it work, but who also doesn’t suffer from self doubt. He has a nice sense of detachment which means he can write a funny book about Dominic Cummings which focuses on the absurd rather than trying to score political points. I’ve only met him a few times in person, but he was right at the centre of the whirlwind that created so many amazing shows in the 90s - he didn’t really enter the Vic and Bob orbit, though he was involved in nearly everything else, at least tangentially. I think it was a good interview. Catch up on Twitch videos or wait a couple of weeks for the podcast.
And series 20 of RHLSTP began today (admittedly quite an arbitrary distinction largely based on the fact that the list of names for series 19 has got quite long on wikipedia.
RHLSTP with Ed Gamble is now up
