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Day six
Am happy to have a nice review from Three Weeks (see below). Am happy that my Flexee leggings, as seen on Gok Wan’s How to Look Good Naked gave my dress a better line and were comfortable. Am happy that two women who said they came to Edinburgh to see strong female performers, then saw…
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Comedy cliches.
I have a lisp and have long thought that it was unfair it had an “s” in it. This is a comedy cliche. I once said “master of the Hottesmore Cunt” on Rutland Radio when I meant to say “the master of the Cottesmore Hunt”. Nicky Campbell has done this with a different hunt. It…
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Daily News Poem 4 and blog
See, not a good habit to get into, missing a day already. I did the show- which went well and I relaxed into it more. Greeted the audience instead of walking on to my music theatrical style, added more comedy in. Had a bit of angst first. All those bits of nicely crafted stand up…
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Daily News Poem 3; in the office
This poem was commissioned by Fest magazine The Fringe Performer’s first day at work You’ve got possession of your new office for about an hour a day. People will come and watch you work, if you’re lucky. You’re on very variable pay. Sometimes, when you’re at the office there are hecklers. Your parents think this…
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Daily News Poem 2-Bloody
She wears the blood diamond, walks down the catwalk in a blood line in front of clapping men wearing blood ties deposits her fee in the blood bank, relaxes in the blood bath, blood pumps in her ears before the jeering starts, thinks, bloody bleeding hearts, she wasn’t the diamonds’ rightful owner, just the victim…
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Harder
Today I fixated on a man in the audience who I became convinced was fidgeting and from the Daily Telegraph and hated me. He turned out to be a lovely man from Yorkshire who really enjoyed the show and nearly made me cry by coming up and saying how great it was, whilst I was…
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Daily News Poem 1
Cloned cows, good grief, what’s the beef? They all look the same to me anyway. but no one wants their dairy to be science fiction scary. DEFRA bans, farmers moan but I’d quite like an ice cream clone
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One show down
My husband is reeling off puns about cows while wearing a “Mr Tea” T shirt, with Mr T in the shape of a teapot. We were woken at 7 a.m by bagpipe rehearsals up at Edinburgh castle, which is pretty much our next door neighbour. Last night it was the full band. I’m pretty sure…
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Boris Bike Poem
start as I mean to go on…there’ll be a new news poem here every day during the festival. I did this for Radio 4’s Saturday Live. Then, “You and Yours” had asked me to try the new rental bikes in London from the perspective of someone coming from outside the city to try them casually.…
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Previews
I expected a audience of six, tops, at Washington Arts Centre last night. I nearly fainted when it turned out there were 27 people there for my preview. I seem to either pessimistically underestimate or optimistically over estimate my audiences. The preview was originally going to be more of a dress rehearsal. It’s weird to…