Tiny Andrew Collings came over after lunch for
yet another fucking podcast. And Tinsy Titsy Andrew's ire seemed dampened by the revelations in the latest AIOTM and it seems we might be able to work together still. Which is lucky because tonight was going to be a sleep over as Chris Evans (not that one) was coming up from Welsh Wales to record a bundle of extras for the exclusive Go Faster Stripe Hitler Moustache extras DVD. I don't know if Chris knows we don't have any bread made out seaweed here and I hope he will be able to eat some of our normal London food. We'll see.
Podcast 114 ticked along nicely and luckily Collings had some funny stories as I was a little wiped out from yesterday. Stewart Lee had rung up Collings in the morning, worried, be claimed because he'd had a dream where Andrew had been attacked by a fox. It was either a prank or the BAFTA nominated funnyman's success has turned him mentally ill. Or both. But Andrew revealed that he'd also had a dream that I had cancer and was being kept in a concentration camp style hospital. I hope our dreams will not come true.
Chris showed up in time for dinner, so we took him out for one of our English beefburgers and to drink, rather than his usual Welsh toilet water, Budvar beer. He was delighted. When he gets sent back to his natural habitat he will probably be unable to eat the swill of his countrymen and will probably pine away and die. But it was worth it for this one night in Heaven.
I was conscious that we had a lot of work to do tomorrow - we were not only doing a video Collings and Herrin podcast, but were going to chat about the Guardian controversy re Hitler Moustache and go out into Shepherd's Bush to retrace my steps on the fateful day that I had my iPhone stolen. Collings, who is not eating carbs, but who seemed to be enjoying his beer, called for a third half litre of Budvar beer, though I stuck at two, and then on the way home we stopped at Tescos for more drinks, which he was going to treat us to. He picked up three large two third of a litre bottles of Heineken and a strong Polish lager and clung on to them like a child who had scooped up all the toys. I assumed this was beer for all of us, but no, he was going to drink another 2.3 litres of beer himself. Would he even be able to get out of bed in the morning?
I was professional and got nothing and we went home to watch the first cut of the Hitler Moustache DVD as well as the already quite voluminous extras. Collings drank nearly all his beers and fell asleep in the second half of the show and Chris Evans supped on Newcastle Brown Ale and he also drifted off during an admittedly quite long and boring extra where I listed off every venue I had done the show at. I wasn't too hopeful that we'd be up all bright-eyed and bushy tailed in the morning. Even though I only drank around a litre and a third of beer I had a difficult night, waking up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night and then having a dream that Rik Mayall had been assassinated. Comedians (and Andrew Collings) not doing too well in the dreamscape at the moment.
But it had been fun to get drunk with my two colleagues. And the show is looking good. I was very pleased with the second half, but thought the pacing of the first was a little off. Luckily we did the show twice (and confusingly at the moment are using the first half of show 2 and the second half of show 1, so there is a different audience in the wide shots). I think exhaustion had thrown my timing off and though the second show first half felt better on the night I am hoping that the first show's one will be a more solid and varied performance on screen. The blooper reel is pretty funny though - most of them coming from the slightly raucous second half of the second show.
I am also very very fat in this year's DVD. Which will hopefully encourage me to keep up my diet.
The DVD will be out in October, both from go faster stripe (who you MUST buy it from) and also in the actual proper shops. I am very excited about it.
