Monthly Archives: June 2007

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. “Overheard In New York” is an excellent site. Try this one to get you started. Then put their RSS link into your Google Reader and spend all your life reading all … Continue reading →

Here is a YouTube of some of the Madness performance at Glastonbury. I’m in the crowd somewhere. The sound isn’t very good, and you can’t feel the excitement coarsing through the veins of the crowd… still… a nice memory:

At some gigs I make the audience laugh a lot. At some gigs I make them laugh a little. That is one axis in the universe of being a comedian. Another axis is the state of being funny. When you’re … Continue reading →

What with the time-stretching nature of attending a festival over the long weekend, and the bank holiday style stylings of my day off work on Monday, and the running around I’ve done on the other nights this week, I’m totally … Continue reading →

Parking tickets used to fill me with the fire of 100 suns. Now I just see them as a woeful inevitability of the world we live in. Maybe it was the particularly unjust way I used to get ticketed while … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jogobom for this “good game”. Can you not get addicted to Bloxorz?

I’m proud to be involved with MySketch. They are a collective of like-minded sketch groups, who have done a gig each month of this year so far at the Etcetera theatre in Camden. I first got involved in the days … Continue reading →

Idiotic buffoon that I am, I managed to kneel on my glasses on the last morning at Glastonbury. I should probably have put them on before struggling around my side of the tent trying to pack my stuff up. As … Continue reading →

I’ve done this before. I’ve been presented with a project to do and I’ve questioned and questioned the reasons behind it, and I’ve discovered flaws in it, and holes in its fundamental assumptions. And people have told me that I’m … Continue reading →

I listened and screamed with laughter at Giles Wemmbley Hogg last night. The fact that I saw its creator, Marcus Brigstocke, at Glastonbury helped me understand the authenticity of the piece, but it was actually a straightforward sit-com, set around … Continue reading →