Having managed to stave off illness all through the tour I might be succumbing to something now. I had a sore throat developing at last night's gig and annoyingly woke up at 4.30am feeling a bit crap. Thanks a lot baby Jesus. I just need some sleep. Please let me sleep. But I was up for American Twitter and was directed to
this funny website via a tweet from Doug Stanhope. It's great when people are too thick to get jokes.
Having said that I was a bit worried I was losing it, not understanding the joke about "two nuns" that the audience member had told during AIOTM
, but he emailed today to say the joke was that there was no joke. Which is all well and good, but the audience section of AIOTM is not the time to do that. It's no good deliberately telling anedotes with no punchline, when most people are accidentally are doing that.
After a bit of a snooze I got up to finish off the Edinburgh programme and collate all the names for the donations page and write one other page. Amazingly, including adverts and gift aid the programme fund is already well over £12,000, giving SCOPE a profit of over £5000 already. Thanks so much to everyone who has donated. I just hope all your names fit on the two pages allocated.
Searching for images for a page about Ferrero Rocher pyramids I was surprised to see that already there are pictures of me and Andrew Collins in the first five and six pages of the search. Amazing how the internet works.
After lunch I had hoped to get on with the TV script, but like the old man that I am (and to be fair I am ill and have been working my socks off) I went to bed for an afternoon nap. I have to work days and nights at the moment - Monday was a 16 hour day - and tonight I was off to the Phoenix in central London for the second night in a row, this time to take part in the Los Quatros Cvunts show, an enjoyable sketch show (including for one week only Mr Dan Tetsell) followed by a second half of me doing some stand up. At the moment the evening is the only time I have to work on the new show (with just two months to go until the Fringe), but the four or five routines I have already (mainly picked out from blogs) are developing nicely. I am actually looking forward to getting my teeth into it properly. If you look at the latest newsletter you'll see there are plenty of opportunities for me to work stuff up. Not many nights off until September, though maybe I could have done with one tonight.
Hopefully I will be back to full fitness tomorrow and I can make a bit of a dent on the other work I've got to get done, without falling asleep. Tomorrow I have my first full hour preview (though think it may be padded out with some old material) which excitingly is at the Royal Albert Hall. I am only playing The Elgar Room rather than the main room, but who knows? One day.
