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Tuesday 15th May 2012

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

Derek Acorah, a man who claims to be able to speak to the dead, which seems unlikely to me, has apparently told the Sun (I think he now disputes that he said this) that according to one of his sources on the other side, Maddie McCann is "not on this earth any more". Which is such an odd way to say that someone is dead that it makes me suspect that the spirit who told him this believes that Maddie is on a different planet. It sounds more like a claim that she's been abducted by aliens rather than her being dead.

Monday 14th May 2012

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

Annoying I was a bit tired and unfocused for tonight's double-header Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, but my guests were on better form. I was chatting with Jonathan Ross and Francesca Martinez and as I am still playing around with the format a bit, we decided to do this as two separate shows.
I don't know Jonathan very well, though I am a fan of his work and he is indirectly partly responsible for me doing these live podcast shows.

Sunday 13th May 2012

Sun, 13 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

We were seeing our friends in Norfolk again today, including the tiny child who I defeated in the medal hunt at the zoo. I would remind her of this triumph at one point in the day, and she then went upstairs and brought down the two medals she has won at the zoo. She thought that made her better than me, but all it meant was that she had been to the zoo more often than me.
In the morning we went to a little park around the corner which had a playground with swings and a roundabout and a couple of slides.

Saturday 12th May 2012

Sat, 12 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

The ridiculous minnow team that I casually support, York City, are unbelievably playing Wembley Stadium twice in the next 8 days. Today was the final of the FA Trophy, and a week on Sunday comes a game of enormous importance, the Conference play-off final. If York won today they'd get a big trophy, which would be marvelous: if they win in the second game they will be going up to play in the football league proper. First we have to beat Luton, a team we have some history and rivalry with.

Friday 11th May 2012

Fri, 11 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

My fifth night in a row of commuting in and out of London and it's starting to take its toll a little bit. I was pretty tired anyway, but having to get the train home after a midnight gig was pretty wearing. I am starting to look forward to getting back to Shepherd's Bush, though alas building works have been put three weeks behind due to all the rain. The trains and taxis involved makes a gig like tonight not worth it financially and getting to bed at 2 or 3am as I have every day this week starts to take its toll. I was lethargic and unfocused all day.

Thursday 10th May 2012

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

Back to the Leicester Square Theatre tonight to appear in a show called "The Humble Quest for Universal Genius", a knockabout game show which pits two comedians against each other to find the true Renaissance Man (or woman). I was up against the diminutive and effeminate Scrabble cheat Thom Tuck, so was confident of victory.
He was hungry for a win because he still held a grudge towards me for outing him as a Scrabble cheat via the unlikely medium of the Radio 4 consumer show "You and Yours" five years ago.

Wednesday 9th May 2012

Wed, 09 May 2012 02:00:00 +0100

The Talking C*ck controversy rumbled on, with more disgruntled comedians revealing that their Fringe entries were also to be asterisked (it's genuinely taken me 44 years to realise that the word isn't "asterix" - I blame Goscinny and to a lesser extent Uderzo) and some others revealing that their entries remained uncensored, despite containing words like tits and balls. I wondered why the Fringe were censoring Cock on my poster, but not " the second c*ming". It has exactly the same double entrendre rude joke in it.