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My daughter thinks that hands are called hams. I have never been prouder of her in my life. It took me 45 years to come up with anything like that. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a three year old singing “I want to hold your hams."
I rode my cock horse to Banbury today (I remembered to do the joke on stage tonight) for, it seems,
the first time since 2012. Back then over 100 people showed up, but tonight we were essentially at capacity with about 230 excited people with rings on their fingers and bells on their toes. It's only taken six years of not showing up in order to double my audience. That must have been the mistake I made in St Albans. You need to give people time to forget how shit you are before you come back.
I read that last time I was here I was heckled by broken jewellery (I had forgotten this - and until I arrived at the venue didn’t really recall being here at all). But tonight was less eventful, but it seemed to go down well.
Before the show I headed into town for a sandwich. I walked through the bus station and had a shuddering flashback to the days when I was a regular coach traveller. Bus stations are depressing places and I felt thankful that I had left them behind - they are somehow a magnet for weirdness and just being in a coach station again made me feel pangs of the boredom of waiting for a connection to turn up and the impending dread that something was about to kick off. It’s probably thirty years since I travelled by coach and yet coach stations feel and look exactly the same.
Thank goodness I can afford to travel by train now. That’s always such a joyous experience.
Incredible progress with the
Refuge just giving page for international when’s international men’s day day. By close of play it was already closing in on £2000 worth of donations.
I am hopeful we can get this up to five figures, and in my dreams am thinking we might even get to six. We’re still almost two weeks away from the day itself. So the possibilities of this are very exciting indeed. It’s a brilliant cause and I know how much difference even £2000 will make to them. Imagine if we got them fifty grand!
And I’ve uploaded about a third of my appearance on Matt Forde’s Unspun (hopefully the full set is going up soon).
You can see it here. Share it with your friends who only like comedians who are on the telly.
