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I lived in Loughborough from 1972-1976 and recently was on Sunday morning TV with Adrian Lester. So I am pretty sure this qualifies me not only to claim the incredible Leicester City Premiership win as my own, but also to insist that I have the cup on my mantlepiece for 3 months (I am not greedy). There are a lot of fair-weather fans coming out of the cracks in the pavement at the moment, but I am the real deal. Come on you blue Leicester men!
There’s no bank holiday for comedians, or at least every day is a potential bank holiday. But I have a run of a few days without gigs and I want to try and make some headway with the AIOTM scripts. As I have mentioned I am going to try and maintain some of the spontaneity by writing the studio bits close to recording, but I want to use the money we’ve raised to make some slightly more considered (though still undoubtedly ramshackle and messy) filmed sketches and hopefully also six short films. I am going to expand on some stuff that I’ve done in stand up and blogs before, but also create some new bits and bobs and basically give you as much value for money (which for most people will be 0p) as is possible. I didn’t get too far today. I want to do a monthly pastiche of the Little Baby Bum videos that my daughter loves, as discussed in Happy Now? and I worked on three of those today. I will just keep writing stuff and see which ones we can do. It’s going to be a huge undertaking to get this right, lots of writing and time taken to do filming and I am, at least in the short term working for free. But I think it will be its own reward and at the moment at least I have the time to concentrate on it, as aside from the tour and the upcoming RHLSTPs (oh shit, I have to book some guests) I have no pressing work commitments (unless one of the scripts I have in gets commissioned). I have to come up with 3 hours of comedy by February, though I suspect the shows will be a lot longer than 30 minutes. And in an attempt to keep everyone happy I might even do a “Choose Your Own Adventure” so that you can have a different version of the show dependent on your own particular penchant for comedy. Because I know some of you will complain if I use the old catchphrases and characters and others of you will complain if I don’t and others won’t want to see old stand-up ideas realised and expanded upon in film and some of you will only want things that have occurred to me that actually week. It’s impossible to please everyone, of course, so I will just go with what I want to do. I am looking forward to creating a hitch-potch of styles and content that could not exist anywhere else. And though I am the only person who is likely to like it all I think I already have enough ideas to create a show that has something for most of you. But I am also keen to allow “cumpkin’ style errors to be incorporated and lead to new stuff.
My wife went out to see some friends tonight and I considered playing myself at snooker, but decided to have a night to myself and watched the aberration that is two-player snooker (where’s the skill in beating someone who you are better than? The real test is to see if you can defeat someone who is exactly equally as good as you, you), whilst listening to the football, playing online poker and drinking whisky. Who says men can’t multi-task, as long as the multiple things they are doing are all a waste of time. I haven’t played online poker for a while and won a bit and then lost it, but gratifyingly only to people who had made ridiculous decisions. When I think of all the hours, days and months and years I wasted before I was married and especially before I had a baby it was great to waste four or five hours in this way. My daughter slept through the whole thing, which I wish she had done last night when I was in charge through the early hours.
