I went to Soho to meet some of the cast and crew of the short film for a drink to celebrate the completion of the project. I foolishly decided to drink Guinness, even though I haven't been doing that this year and after four pints I was feeling a bit weird (not drunk, more tired and woozy - this is why I should not drink beer/stout) and went home.
I didn't go to bed as I should have done, but as many drunken men probably do on a Friday night I trawled the internet looking for entertainment. Unlike most of the drunken men though I didn't end up looking at pictures of women wearing only their bras and pants, but listened to a radio show that I had made in 1993.
It was the episode of Fist of Fun that we had recorded at Lancaster University which is currently being broadcast on BBC7. I don't often listen back or watch stuff from the past and so it was strange to hear this thirteen year old programme.
It was a similar but more extreme version of catching TGP the other day.
I didn't remember much about the show, but was surprised about the stuff we were allowed to talk about - including Stewart's experience at an STD clinic and a rather surreal radio version of the mainly visual "Jesus Behind You" sketch. It was hard for me to judge how funny any of it was, mainly because I spent most of the time thinking how stupid my voice is (it doesn't sound anything like that in my head) and also how it was possible that so much time has gone by since we did this. We were so young and foolish then, which is better than being old and foolish.
I wrote about the Goons audience some time ago and how weird it is to hear the people of the past laughing at stuff, but then the excited young audience for our own show are now all in their thirties and have doubtless got proper jobs and reproduced. So you see why with four pints of Guinness in my stomach and all this going on in my head it was hard for me to give a critical analysis of the actual show. It didn't make me laugh, but then I wasn't really in the right frame of mind.
Go and listen to it anyway and see what you think. Best experienced drunk and with a nagging sense of your own mortality.
