The answer to that, according to Bob, is yes. Bob is one of my all time favourite audience members having come because one of my lovely flyerers thrust one of my lovely flyers into his hand just when he had an hour to kill and wanted a show to see. He came, he saw, he laughed, he told me about an awkward situation he’d had while camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains. To be honest, it just sounded scary, but …

This is kind of an open thank you letter to Paul (audience member Tues 10th August). 

Something wonderful and enjoyable happened today and I’d like to thank the audience member in question with far more sincerity than when I had to write to my Uncle Gerald to thank him for giving me a Wham! tape cassette album.

In my show I ask an audience member to join me on stage to translate a song from French to English.  I sing it in …

I have been in Edinburgh for nearly 24 hours and I’ve only really had one awkward situation involving Michael J Dolan, a very funny comedian who is also helping me with my tech.  I’m expecting many more over the coming month.

Michael kindly helped load my stuff into my flat and we had to ferry stuff from where I had my car parked on double yellows up to the flat in turn.  Michael took the last load up to while I …

Hello.  It is indeed a new dawn in the life of this website.  John’s totally done it over (John Griffiths of Lua Design – he’s a friend of mine, so I can use his first name like that).  With the help of some fantastic photos from the very fine Andy Hollingworth (I’d use Andy’s name in a similar way too even though I haven’t known him for quite as many years as John but using his full name just made sense there).

 It’ll …

Hello fans of socially awkward singalongs and a BBC Three sitcom with Monkeys in the title.  I’m not sure what the Venn diagram crossover is amongst those two demographics.

With just a month to go until the Edinburgh Fringe Festival I’m gearing up with a whole bunch of preview shows – all listed on the Live page.  The next is on 14th at the Albert Club in Didsbury, Manchester.  Here’s a rather good preview article thing on Edinburgh Spotlight.  Going very …

If you’ve ever been to a garden centre and been freaked out, then this is the song for you.  Phil Davies’ Enid Blyton live at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester.  I made this little vid for him – it’s a lovely tune.   I worked on the Channel 4 coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show some years ago (got some free plants, that promptly died a week after I bought them home – cheeky gets), so I know exactly what he’s …

Just a little update on stuff.  At the moment there’s a few things on.

Today I’ve been editing a video for one of my current favourite Manchester bands – Dirty North Fantastic stuff.

Working in television comedy it’s always a weird experience seeing something fantastically funny that will almost certainly never be seen on our screens.  Kipple is such a thing.  This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeiZPy9RheU made me double up.  Am I wrong?

We start filming Lunch Monkeys in a couple of weeks.  Scripts are coming …