Gig 89-Holding the Fort.

Gig 89 was my running the Dog and Parrot single handed unitl reinforcements turned up as Cal arrived at 10. Not a bad night, though with the first chills of winter, there weren't loads in. I did have to think on my feet, as I was doing all the compere duties and the practical stufff too, so I had a few ideas I might keep. I started with the old eldon square goths, who were mulling around looking confused (no change there then) because the square's been fenced off. I think the council missed a trick, they should have put up the fence with the goths in it, and made it a new attraction. Stick up a few sighns- 'Come and Mock the Goths.' 'Do not throw vegetables at the goths. They may eat some out of curiosity, and vitimins will cause the goths to lose their unhealthy pallor, the other goths may then turn on them or ostracise them from the group.' I love the word 'ostracise' - It did originally mean you would be tarred and feathered and have your neck stretched.
I mentioned I used to be a goth which lead on to my hair - 'It used to be even bigger- I've got an old passport photo that looks like a bald guy standing in front of a brown background.' Someone mentioned vegetarian burgers, and I explained how I've never understood produces like Quorn Bacon. If you're a vegetarian, eat vegetables. Don't pretend you're eating meat. I like my meat but I never make a ball out of susage and pigg blood and pretend it's a tomato.

Gig 88 -the power of the note book.

I'm slowly getting back into comedy through the power of the notebook. I always swore I'd have one in my back pocket at all times, but this has fallen by the wayside. But i found an old one and decided to add to it, no matter how dodgy, slim or rough the ideas seemed.

One entry said simply 'troosers, loses, youses' (to be sung in bad spanish accent.) After a few weeks mulling, this suddenly spilled out again, as 5 minutes of Paulo from Guatemala, who had noticed that the English like trousers 'Even the weemin wear troosers, It's crazy man, you pants crazy, you guys are pantaloonies!' Paul the tried to fit in by singing a song about the importance of trousers. This was a rather experimental bit, but after a couple of drop outs at the Dog and Parrot I ended up finishing the night with it. A few bemused looks, but some very big laughs in there too.

My next main gig is compereing the next chilli, so I'll have to trawl through my old blogs and material and see what I've got left that they haven't seen already.

Why do birds suddenly appear....

Every time Rick Moranis is near?

Just Like me, they long to be, Close to Rick Moranis.

Why do stars fall down from the sky, every time Rick Moranis walks by?
Just like me, they long to be close to Rick Moranis.

On the day Rick Moranis was born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in Rick Moranis's hair of gold and starlight in Rick Moranis's eyes of blue.

That is why all the boys in town, follow Rick Moranis all around.

Just like me, they long to be close to Rick Moranis.

(We are considering buying a video projector, once the long live comedy coffers look a bit more healthy. This will mean we can project the logo anywhere, have backgrounds for sketches, have video based competitions (What happens next? or Dubbing?) show clips and short films, and even have our version of the bad film club- saw it in edinburgh, just watching a bad DVD with comedians pointing things out and the crowd encouraged to shout out anything they think of too. But I want to christen it by putting on my best vegas louange voice and saying, 'Hello friends, and welcome once again, to long live comedy, good t'see ya. I'd like to start with a little song about some one very special...'