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Call me old fashioned, but personally I don’t think it’s right that Prince Harry’s virginity will be taken by a divorcee. To think, had I just played it differently three and a bit years ago, that might be me smiling lovingly up at him, about to become a recently divorced fairytale princess. It’s warming to see two young people in love and heartening to know that those smiles will melt and be turned into competitive resentment over the course of the years. Ha ha ha. You idiots.
This isn’t going to distract us from the disaster of Brexit, as is clearly your plan. Though why a Canadian actress has made this pact to divert the UK’s attention, I am not sure. It’s pretty big of Prince Harry to make this huge personal decision for the sake of temporarily helping out a failing government too.
The final RHLSTPs of 2017 and I realised that the last one, with Dave Gorman, will be released more or less on the 10th anniversary of my first foray into podcasting. It will be the 164th official RHLSTP (though there have been a fair few extras/specials) and with countless more planned for 2018 (they are actually quite countable, I just can’t be bothered to count them) there is no end in sight. If only someone had put me on telly it might be over by now. But they haven’t. So I’ve just had to carry on. Success of failure or a delightful mixture of both? You decide.
This twelfth series has been a tough one for me, thanks to the arrival of my son about a week before it began. Today I was up at 4.30am trying to coax him back to sleep, with little to no success. Babies are pricks. They should be grateful for their impossibly beautiful eyes.
The podcasts went well, despite me feeling my eyelids pulling themselves to the floor during the second show (I mean towards the end of the first one - we only do one a week). Dave kept me awake with the tales of his quiz show successes and his righteous and out-of-character fury at host of D.R.W.H.O The Lost Interviews, Neil Sean. Dave and I have similar comedy obsessions and the desire to follow an idea through, but even I am in awe of the heights he reached in his one man crusade to expose the shoddiness of Sean’s work.
Paul Chowdhry, my other guest was equally fascinating and amusing. Last week he played to 10,000 people a Wembley Arena, in spite of having done limited TV work. It’s partly due to having harnessed the power of the internet. I wish I had harnessed it so effectively, though on a much smaller scale it has kept my career ticking along too. Paul seems to have had a tough time from certain critics over the years, though I have to say the stuff I watched of his today was wide-ranging, challenging and funny (as was this interview). His success should be enough of a rejoinder, but of course, he’s a comedian, so it never will be.
A delight to talk to these two hard-working comedians. Check out their tour shows and Dave’s fabulous TV show, which sees him writing the equivalent of eight Edinburgh shows a year.
