So I learned nothing from the first two shows of TWTTIN. Despite having had three weeks to write episodes 3 and 4 I have really only started looking at it over the last two days. I guess I almost have enough for episode 1 now, but only because I can reuse one of the things that got cut from the first recording and because I have a large bit of stand up about Rudyard Kipling (who won the Nobel Prize in the week of show 3 and was born in the week of show 4, so two chances to get it in). It might be too big a bit of stand up though, but I am keen to ring the changes with this series and try some different stuff. I also wrote a sketch about Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13 year old cousin, which not surprisingly somewhat damaged his career, but maybe surprisingly didn't destroy it. He also married his second wife when still married to his first wife (his cousin was wife number three) and accidentally shot a member of his band in the chest, apparently when he was trying to shoot some coke bottles. It's hard to write comedy about something that is already so extraordinary.
It's not too difficult a show to write though, as part of its charm is its ramshackle, amateur nature.
Due to too much Holy Communion last night though I wasn't on top form today, so pleased to get anything done.
I did get an email from a fan who has previously put up a few old Lee and Herring bits up on YouTube. He's now started to put complete episodes of TMWRNJ on google video. You can see the first one
by clicking here. I wasted twenty minutes watching the first bit of it. There's some good bits, though it's rather quaint at times and very much a first episode - a lot of stuff that would become popular getting a slightly bamboozled reaction, a few nerves visible from Stew and me, getting used to doing live comedy for the first time. I had forgotten that we attempted to do actual interviews in the first series and there's a bit of an awkward chat with Jenny Eclair, which is pretty much where I gave up watching. But a lot of you ask if it's every coming out on DVD and I can't see that it ever will, so although it's probably illegal that this is up on the net and I can't possibly be seen to recommend that you just watch it on there, I still recommend that you do. I don't think the BBC even remember that it's their show anyway, so I can't see them making a fuss. It still doesn't feel like it's me in it. It really feels like another lifetime. If only I had married my 13 year old cousin then maybe I would have been more of a success! I am not sure how Nicholas would have felt about that though. I had no female cousins.
