There was always going to be an out and out low point of the run of A Mixed Bag and yesterday provided it. It was raining all day, so we…
Entry 358: Edinburgh – day 22
When you ask an audience a general question which often gets a reaction and you get no response then you know the gig is going to be hard work. This…
Entry 357: Edinburgh – day 21
I have a massive pile of flyers I need to get rid of before the end of the festival. There is no way I want to take them all back…
Entry 356: Edinburgh return
I am back in Edinburgh and into the final furlong of the Fringe. When I woke up at 5.30am this morning, and after my hectic weekend, I didn’t think I…
Entry 354-5: the wedding mission
There was always going to be some sort of hitch with me getting to the wedding yesterday, there pretty much is whenever I have to be anywhere on time. The…
Entry 353: Edinburgh – day 16
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,…
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…