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I can't believe I've never interviewed Chris Evans (not that one) or indeed Chris Evans (that one) or Chris Evans (that one) or any of the other Chris Evanses (not those ones). I am talking about the Chris Evans from gofasterstripe who I have been working with for the last 20 years.
I thought it would be nice to celebrate the incredible work he has done, filming stand up specials and turning into an independent publisher for the Book Club. If nothing else we would surely manage to do a competent job of the technical side of recording a remote podcast. Sometimes when the guest isn't very tech savvy it can take a while to set up, but between us we have recorded thousands of hours of entertainment, so this should be a breeze.
Inevitably loads went wrong, with mics dropping out, me getting robot sounds in my headphones and having to stop and start. But hopefully we've got an interesting podcast out of it, as long as Chris remembered to press play and record. Our incompetence is our charm. I doubt two such rubbish men who seem to mainly deliberately do projects that will only lose money (and hope that the occasional success will pay for those "failures") have somehow managed to run a business together and not only not gone bankrupt, but sometimes actually made some money.
Anyway, there's no one I'd rather work with. Except maybe James Acaster or someone who could make me rich beyond my wildest dreams.
Still being rich within the limits of my most mundane dreams is better for creativity. Would I be doing Newsround if I was a proper success? And we all know that's the best thing I have ever done. Sadly true.
Having said that I didn't do Newsround today, even though it was Catie's turn to entertain the kids, because after a late rehearsal yesterday and a competitive game of tennis this morning, I needed to go back to bed this afternoon.
Maybe I didn't do a Newsround, but I did successfully complete building a robot gecko from a kit that Ernie had got for Christmas. He was meant to help but in the end it was just me doing it. I only lost one small piece and broke the tail a bit so had to stick it together with superglue, but apart from that it was a surprising success. Following maps and instructions with my image-blank brain that struggles to convert 2D to 3D is not easy. So I was delighted that this thing worked well enough to freak out Wolfie!
Come and see RHLSTP live. The Edinburgh Fringe dates are now on sale (with a couple more evening shows to add in) and there are three more London shows before then, plus one in Droitwich (sold out).
