Monthly Archives: April 2011

A couple of things. Firstly, I’ve been unimpressed by the behaviour of the Funny Women competition, who have decided to run a pay to play scheme. While you can see it from their point of view if you try hard … Continue reading →

The highest paying “gig” I ever got was for a national newspaper. I’ll rephrase that a bit. By gig, in this case, I mean one-off job where I did something and then got paid. Actually, they paid me twice, once … Continue reading →

Just found some of the usual sniping that seems to dog threads on Chortle about comedians. In this case, the comment Ashley has been consistently shit for a number of years, his only good feature is the massive amount of … Continue reading →

We assume that we’re consistent individuals, since we always see the world from our own perspective. Many people are probably self-aware enough to notice how inconsistent they probably can be. I’ll look back at last night a moment, and then … Continue reading →

It turns out I have had gigs before that weren’t so easy, or were memorable enough to write up: Coventry – at the snooker club – a gig so bad that it even caused a road accident for one of … Continue reading →

Two kooky gig reports in as many gigs. That’s an unusual situation. Strap in – here’s yesterday in a big fat nutshell.Before The GigI spent the day working on some new material. I say that – I actually spent a … Continue reading →

Where do I begin with how today threatened to go wrong, but didn’t? Well, apart from spoiling any sense of tension in the story by telling you that it all came out in the end, I’ll start near the beginning. … Continue reading →

Note: this is a geeky coding post, so please stop reading unless you care about this sort of thing. I remember my own mistakes of the past. I used to use one trick with object oriented programming (still reading?). I … Continue reading →