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Jan blog 2010 update
Not a bad month as January’s go, course it’s still got time to go tits up- but my car managed to crawl through it’s MOT (second attempt)- I’ve been efficient with my tax returns, I’ve written at least one corking joke, if not four and I’ve been back on stage as a stand up- all by myself, first time in over six months!
Did a gig at Oldham Coliseum, the most beautiful little theatre in... Oldham definitely, a little music hall style green velvet job complete with a willing audience and a support act who was only 23 with modern hair and very good comedy manners.
By comedy manners, I mean he picked me up from my hotel in Manchester, drove me (in nice clean car) to the gig, warmed the audience up (beautifully) stuck around to watch me, told me I was marvellous and then gave me a lift back to the hotel- the boy will go far.
Actually my career is littered with support acts who have gone on to far outshine me, Noel Fielding, Matt Lucus and Russell Howard to name but three, I’m not going to list the rest, it’s too depressing.
This month seems to be my radio 4 month, did Marcus Brigstock’s ‘I’ve never seen Star Wars and I’ve got a double recording of ‘Just A Minute’ tomorrow.
‘I’ve never seen Star Wars’ involves doing five things you’ve never done before, without giving the game away I’d go back for a bikini wax anytime, but I will never again in my life, ever, eat jellied eels. Marcus Brigstock, by the way, is an absolute dream to work with.
Talking about food, I also did ‘Market Kitchen’ this week which is a telly cooking show hosted by Mathew Ford and Tom Parker Bowles, (son of Prince Charles’s wife) and I couldn’t help thinking ‘I wonder if his mum makes sure she watches him on telly and if she does, then she will see me and maybe she will think I’m great and bring all her mates to see a live gig’. But I don’t think that’s really going to happen, anyway, because it was a cookery programme, it gave me a chance to wear the pinny my friend Judith Holder made me out of old duvets- maybe Camilla would like one?
I have to say I had a really good time on that show, they were all very nice and I learnt to make a beoff bourginogne- but not how to spell it!
Blimey I’m really starting to catch up on the cooking thing, I might have to open a restaurant soon. Chilli Con carne tonight, yes, I can do mince!
Apart from turning into Nigella, since I last blogged- I have
Finished READING
Sarah Waters’ ‘The Little Stranger’ which I did enjoy even though it’s a bit Girls Own Annual- she tells a great story and the period detail is phenomenal. Am now on something called Brooklyn by Colm Toibin which won the Costa Novel of The year Award 2009- it’s sweet, but as light as meringue!
HAVE SEEN
Some lovely stuff at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, there’s a particularly fabulous room curated by Paula Rego, just a great mix of stuff and really worth a trip to see. We went on Sunday morning and then bought hyacinths from Columbia Road Flower Market, see I can be civilised when I try.
UP IN THE AIR- the new movie starring George Clooney, which saves itself from any idea of going down the rom com road, by being a really pithy adult film that doesn’t underrate it’s audience’s intelligence. I liked it a lot and so did the old man, even though he really wanted to see Sherlock Holmes-
WAITING FOR GODOT- oh dear, I really wanted to like this, I wanted some kind of theatrical breakthrough/intellectual revelation but I’m afraid I was very bored for a lot of the time, and then I felt all resentful and cross, because if a woman had written it she would have been sectioned.
After the show, my sister wanted to wait for a night bus, but as I said to her, ‘I’ve waited all night for Godot, I’m not waiting for the number 12’.
We got a cab home.
26-01-2010 |
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