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Monday 30th November 2015

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Whizzing all over town today, first to meet Chris Evans (not that one) to make some grown-up decisions about how we progress with our podcasting. Neither of us are businessmen, both just comedy enthusiasts from either side of that fourth wall that divides us go-like performers from you gollum-like fans, but we share a desire to make good comedy stuff without necessarily caring about whether it makes money or not, so we decided to get some help working out how we can do this more efficiently. It’s an interesting step forwards and I hope that in the next year of two your badge and kickstarter money can start paying dividends as we get a bit more ambitious with our output. We don’t have a clue what we’re doing and no doubt we will lose everything and have to live in a cardboard box in the street (ironically that will still be the fanciest house in Cardiff for Chris). I don’t think we will lose our amateur, comedy fan, non-business edge though. Chris turned up to our meeting with a pink backpack that he is using because his daughter no longer wants it. At the very least this proves that none of your money will be wasted on fripperies for us. Every penny will go towards making childish comedy, probably involving puppets of some kind. This time next year we will not be millionaires.

We had some lunch in London’s fanciest French restaurant “Pret a Manger” (don’t tell Chris) and then I headed off to North Greenwich for a rehearsal of a short film I am doing next week. I am playing a man in his early forties with lank, greasy hair and a fevered brow. I don’t know how I got the part, but I am very flattered, because I am in my late forties. Result. It’s a funny idea, which I can’t really explain without ruining the whole premise of the piece and today we were just attempting to get the right tone for the acting. And as so often, playing it straight and seriously (even though it’s quite hard to work out the reality of the unpleasant situation that my character finds himself in) works the best. It’s really about the resentments and arguments that you have with your partner and the affection that still exists underneath and that’s a role that I have been methoding pretty hard for most of my adult life. 

I think it’s going to be a lot of fun to do and though (as always) I worry that I will mess it up for everyone, the rehearsal today made me a bit more confident that a stupid, forty-something man arguing with his wife was somehow within my narrow range as an actor.



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