Warming Up

Publication day!

Would You Rather? is now available at all good book retailers. If you want a signed book plate and a couple of stickers (and to give money to Chris Evans- not that one- rather than Ian Amazon) then buy it here 

And the audiobook is great fun and very different from the book (thanks again to Stevie Martin who is magnificent and whose energy never dropped in four hours of being asked dumb questions) so you could buy that instead/as well.

It's the UK's top snooker book as I write, yes even  higher than The Queen's Gambit. That's how snookery it is.

If you purchase stuff like this then that means I get paid and can continue to give out all my stupid free content for the rest of the year. So that's a pretty neat system.

Talking of which, after a day of largely failing to get script 4 (actually episode 5 as I've jumped to an easier one to write) done I recorded a slightly tired Twitch of Fun, but those can be the best ones as all my defences are down and Ally and the others can really reveal some terrible truths. Not sure if they did. I can't remember a thing about it, but you can check it out here. 

Sadly Harry Hill has had to pull out of RHLSTP on Monday (hopefully we will get him back next year), but luckily Dave Gorman has kindly stepped in (a handful of tickets have just become available), but you can of course buy the live stream)

And more good news is that the fantastic Deborah Meaden will be my other guest (along with Tipping Point's Ben Shephard) on 18th October. Those last two shows are comedian free, though four very interesting and funny people. I think they could be the best of the bunch. Come along if you can - it's even better live. 

I am listening to Phil Wang's new book ahead of his appearance on the show on Monday and was interested and delighted to hear him giving a robust appreciation of some of (though not all) of Mind Your Language, the generally derided 1970s sitcom about an English language school attended by a mix of national stereotypes, now viewed with embarrassment in the UK, but still (apparently) popular around the world. I was a big fan of the show as a kid and like Wang I feel it was probably a bit cleverer than the people who deride it believe, playing around with the stereotypes more than attempting to reinforce them and so in some ways progressive for its time. Though it is definitely of its time and as Wang says, it's undeniably sexist, but he gives a passionate defence and appreciation of the actress, Pik-Sen Lim who played the Chinese character. Things can be wrong and right at the same time. Wang's book is excellent by the way and you should definitely read it.