As I write this I have left Edinburgh behind, at least temporarily. I travelled back home today in preparation for the wedding of Clack, one of my former university housemates,…
Month: August 2011
Entry 352: Edinburgh – day 15
I now only have seven shows left of the Fringe. It’s going by really quickly. There are three more A Mixed Bags booked in but I have drafted in cover…
Entry 351: Edinburgh – day 14
The funniest thing I have seen so far at this year’s Fringe is the hundreds of cartoon penises being stuck on all the large show posters in and around the…
Entry 350: Edinburgh – day 13
Each day presents a new comedic learning experience, from Saturday’s Hen Do to yesterday’s drunk girl who was continuously interrupting my set. We only had eight people in yesterday and…
Entry 349: Edinburgh – day 12
We had our second smallest audience in our show yesterday, with 11 people attending after a pretty slack day of flyering. Doing the show is not the most tiring thing…
Entry 348 – Edinburgh – day 11
With a Hen Do in taking up the front two rows at yesterday’s show, Paul and me agreed before we were about to go on that we had one simple…
Entry 347: Edinburgh – day 10
We were really lucky with our audience yesterday, they were amazing. Me and Paul knew from our on-mic exchange from behind the curtains at the start that they would be…
Entry 346: Edinburgh – day 9
Yesterday’s show was just the pick-me-up we needed following our dismal review. I could go into a detailed analysis about how the review is factually flawed, reads poorly and makes…
Entry 345: Edinburgh – day 8
We have received our first review of the Fringe and it’s not a good one. Three Weeks gave us 1/5. It was Friday, the Bog Salmon day, when there were…
Entry 344: Edinburgh – day 7
My set at my show yesterday was largely derailed almost single-handedly by a very drunk Scottish man called Chris. He and a group of about six of his mates came…