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postcard from the edge

Wednesday 17th December 2008

... and we're not talking U2 here

Thanks to those of you who have sent appreciative emails re. the A Christmas Carol podcast.  Glad you're enjoying it.

On Monday afternoon I went to the BBC Radio Christmas drinkies at Kettners in Soho; various last-minute go-offs at home meant I only got there for the last hour or so but as it turned out that was probably enough.  The room wasn't really big enough for the numbers attending and it was all shiny surfaces which made for an unpleasantly echoey acoustic for chatting in.  Still, caught up with a few faces I'd not seen for a while, including Ian Pattinson, the genius who for years wrote most of Humphrey Lyttleton's between-rounds gags for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue; he confirmed my (and indeed everyone's) suspicion that they really DON'T have a clue how, or even if, to continue with Clue now Humph's gone.

After that it was off the The Comedy Store to do the Cutting Edge "Review Of The Year" show...  The "Edge" as those of us who perform in it call it, is a sort-of topical sort-of improvised sort-of stand up comedy game show sort of thing which has been running every week at the Store for years.  I only do about four or five a year but I always look forward to them as a, they're fun to do and b. if the Store is full (and it was heaving on Monday) it can be very remunerative (the fee is a "door split", so the more people turn up the more we all make). 

I won't be so vulgar as to put a figure on it, but suffice to say that Monday's winnings gave a big boost to the plan Clara and I had made to give each other that Big F__k-Off Widescreen Telly we've wanted for years as a mutual Christmas pressie.

Ho ho ho indeed.

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