Quotes from the circuit
Published by on September 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
From those quiet days of standup comedy…
“So how do you think that went?” &
“Don’t take it too personally”
Matt Blaize following my worst gig ever at GSOH, Cranleigh.
“Oh really? What are you doing, like… what sort of stuff?”
Ross Noble after being ambushed in the Pleasance courtyard. Perhaps he thought I was stealing his stuff.
“If you can’t do the gig in Exeter, that’s fine, but my advice is you do it”
Geoff Whiting giving me a proper, well meant and well deserved dressing down for not wanting to drive 300 miles.
“You might want to try learning how to be a comedian first”
Rob (tosser) Heeney.
“Can you drive to Birmingham and can you pick up a dwarf on the way…”
Getting a gig, because I have a car.
2 Responses to “Quotes from the circuit”
[...] THose ofyou paying atention will have pickd up that Neil and Jen Dixon from Britcaster had popped up to Edinburgh to experience the Fringe, do some reviews, and take part in at least one podcast (my walk down the Royal Mile episode). You can download the mp3 file from Neil’s site. Given that Neil and Jen were Fringe Virgins, it’s a great illustration about how much chaotic fun it was. . [...]
Yep, liked the out-and-aboutness of the this. Good stuff!
Although I’m not a fan of sound-seeing tours in general, this was enjoyable because of the more personal involvment with the subject angle. Pretty good, Mr. Dixon. So will you be toting that little recorder around with you more often?
Aye, more to come I think.
I saw Matt Blaize and Ross Noble in Oxford before they were famous – I recall one occasion he asked my mate what he did for a living, his (truthful) response was ‘virus researcher’. Bit of a comedy cul-de-sac.
I’ve never had a virus researcher, but I have had a mobile phone forensic technician – I got most of a gig’s material out of that one, much of which related to the capturing of ‘personal’ images. I know, easy gag, but hey, where needs must…