On 30 January 2006, a naive 21-year-old student took the train from Portsmouth to London to perform at the spot at the Comedy Store’s King Gong show. He had done…
Month: January 2013
Flying solo
This week, I received some bad news. My Edinburgh show partner, Paul Christopher Stephen Langton Esquire, has dropped out of this year’s Fringe. Logic, finances and real-life have got the…
The competitive element
I have said for some time that I would not be entering any comedy new act competitions again. However, in desperate search for January gigs and in two isolated moments…
A Giant Squid Poem
The recent footage taken by the Discovery Channel inspired me to write this: The Giant Squid, Look what he did. He attacked a fish And then went and hid. The…
Confounding expectations
This week, I had my first gigs of 2013 and they were a good example of how with audience sizes, you can never really predict what will happen. January does…