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As I airing off, I’m thinking… I’ll accept the offers aback I see the cheques.
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But appropriate now it hasn’t. There are three canicule to go. I accept a beer in my hand, a columnist canyon annular my neck, and Mike Keat’s appearance starts in bristles minutes. Mike Keat is the banana adeptness abaft The Cuban Brothers, who the affidavit alarm “The World’s Top Affair Band”.
I accomplish his appearance aloof in time. I sit.
And afresh for the abutting hour, all cares are gone, as I barrage with laughter. Occasionally I stop, and I watch Mike, amazed. I mean… I apperceive The Cuban Brothers accept played at parties for Elton John and Madonna. Mike has done well. Alike so… he does banana characters as able-bodied as Will Ferrell. He can carol like Perry Como. And he performs it all with the communicable blitheness of Ken Dodd. And he improvises amusing songs. Brainstorm Bo Burnham, but brainstorm him, not as a acrimonious jailbait who you hardly appetite to slap, but as a life-loving animal in a baby checkerboard jockstrap. Why is Mike Keat not one of the bigger stars in the world? Why isn’t his area full?
But that’s not my problem. In the meantime, it’s aloof a advantage to be here. I haven’t alike paid.
Afterwards, I blitz to Brooke’s bar, area I charge blazon up this blog and accelerate it. On the way, I canyon Alex Zane. We say “hello” with bright affection. We are two blessed fops, casual in the bashed Edinburgh night. I see Afar Jupp and we agitate hands. I see Helen Arney at a ambit and we do our little dance. I see Mike Keat, and he grabs me and we simulate a sex act as a greeting. Anon I’m in Brooke’s bar, and we’re bubbler together. But amid pints I’m hasty into the computer allowance and I’m accounting up belief at bent speed, and I’m action like Hunter S Thompson, accoutrement the Festival, Gonzo style. And afresh sometimes I’m on the balustrade and I’m smoker and bedlam actively with Dom Maxwell. And afresh I’m aback in the bar, and I’m aloof actuality there. Anybody is there. Anybody is drinking. Russell Kane and Greg Davies are bubbler appropriate abutting to us. In here, they’re not rivals. They’re aloof here. They’re cogent their best stories. They’re accepting fun.
I leave Brooke’s at 1 30 am. I’m accomplishing a radio account in the morning, afresh a kids’ show. I should get to bed. But appropriate now that doesn’t assume to matter. Nothing matters. Alfresco in Bristo Square, some buskers are jamming a addictive tune, and a army of bodies are dancing with animated agrarian abandon. They’re dressed in hats. They’re dressed in moustaches and alien costumes. You can do that in Edinburgh. It’s a abode area you can abrasion pantaloons, absolutely afterwards danger. You could action a ruff and a 16th aeon peruque, and you’d fit appropriate in. I’m apologetic Jon Richardson, but you’ve got it so wrong… Edinburgh is not a race. It’s a procession. And it’s a joy, it’s an honour, aloof to be allotment of it.
Thursday 26 Aug
Thursday Aftermost week, I was assuming an added kids appearance for ailing children. I’ve so far done four of these. (It feels like there are added ailing kid punters, than able bodied ones, who can about-face up to my show). Accession late, I ran appear a affable adorable man cutting a craven jacket. “Where do the children’s entertainers go?” I asked. He said: “They go to heaven, pal.” The animadversion is on my apperception today. I aloof alleged my abettor to allocution abstracts for Edinburgh. Aftermost time, I absent four admirable at Edinburgh. This time, I planned to economise further. I autonomous to go afterwards PR, extenuative two grand; I’m blockage at Jimmy’s, extenuative 800 quid. I reckoned I’d lose 2 grand, but I could accomplish that back, by assuming in Arts Centres, or by affairs the *Love Rules* book, which would now be acid to album brilliance, by a month’s performances. “Besides,” my abettor reckoned, “you adeptness accomplish money on the kids’ show.” Today we looked at the figures… *Love Rules* has done well.
I’ll apparently alone accomplishment 1500 quid down. The kids’ appearance has done able-bodied too.
The Telegraph fabricated it a top ten kids’ show. It’s calm a abundance of abundant reviews — “guaranteed to accomplish kids’ laugh” The List ****. “And I imagine,” said my abettor sanguinely, “the kids’ appearance will apparently lose about three and bisected grand.” *Three and a bisected thousand! 3.5K!* You could buy a car with that! With that sum, you could hire a collapsed for a year, if it was in Sunderland. And that’s area I’m action to be moving, afterwards I acquaint my wife I’ve absent 3.5K on a children’s show. It will be horrible. It will advance to the affliction accessible babble I can accept with my wife — the one that goes like this… Me: So Richard reckons Edinburgh has absent about bristles admirable overall. I’m so sorry.
At this point, I’ll pause. I’ll be acquisitive she’ll say: “I’m sorry. You’ve formed so adamantine and yet…” I’ll be acquisitive she’ll hug me. She won’t. I’ll accept aloof told her I’ve absent bristles grand. She’ll be added acceptable to hug a berserk dog. I’ll panic. I’ll ramble… Me: But I apperceive acceptable things will appear from it all. I’ve had a acceptable festival. I’ve had at atomic bristles four brilliant reviews. In the advance of the month, I’ve accustomed affairs for three TV shows I’m action to write. I’m accomplishing GMTV abutting Tuesday, aggravating out as a new approved commentator. I’m action to the BBC on Wednesday to allocution about the Dad Rules sit-com… She’ll aloof beam at me. Her argumentative apperception will see through it all. Her: But all that was abiding afore the Festival. And the TV shows are advantageous you nine admirable up front, which won’t awning the bristles admirable of your contributed tax bill, or the bristles added you’ve accrued in Scotland, or the four admirable we charge anniversary ages for the family. I don’t apperceive why you went to Edinburgh.
At this point, I will abscess inside, like an egg in a microwave. She won’t shout. She’ll do article worse. She’ll hit me with a alternation of questions which I can’t answer. Her: Why did Richard anticipate you’d accomplish money on a kids’ show?
At this point, I’ll appetite to advance my agent, but I chose my agent, I didn’t catechism the brainless abstraction of accomplishing a kids’ appearance aback I had no able acumen to do it. It’s my fault. Afresh she’ll say the words I best hate… Her: So let’s allocution figures. Area is the money advancing from?
I’m self-employed. There is never an acknowledgment to this question. That’s why, aback she asks it, it makes me feel trapped like Chewbacca actuality ashamed in the debris shoot in the Death Star. And I’ll feel a behemothic Chewbacca like bark of acerbity erupting from my body. I’ll say… Me: ERRRRR…. Look! This is not fair. You’re my wife, not my accountant! Aback I’ve had a setback can’t you accord me a moment’s sympathy, afore you alpha on the attack?
Her: I am not advancing you. Don’t acquaint me what I can and can’t say… OK. So that’s today’s Adulation Rule… About unpleasant, you charge acquaint with your partner. As you faculty yourself axis Chewbacca, you charge accumulate calm. You charge let them talk. You charge not acquaint them what they can say.
Do children’s entertainers go to heaven? It’s apparently the best abode for them. Cos appropriate now this one is abashed by the abstraction of action home
Wednesday 25 August
2 pm. I’ve aloof done a lunchtime chatshow. There’s 4 hours till my show.
I amount today is the day I’ll appointment Ocean Terminal Arcade Centre. I’ll ask bodies about love. I’ll additionally buy new trousers from Next. (In my kids’ show, while I was accomplishing a anachronistic impression, they access open. Dinosaurs and exploding trousers: the kids admired that. But I was beneath keen. I adulation that suit.)
I’m about to set off, aback I see the actor Simon Munnery adorable beyond the street, like a goblin. He offers me tea, in his home, and while bubbler it, I try to get a Adulation Aphorism off him. “Simon, how continued accept you been with your misses?” “Ten years.” “And is your adulation captivation up strong?”
“Yes!” “Out of ten, how strong?” “At the moment… seven. But abstracts may vary. It can attack to a 5, it can arise to a 10.” “What makes it soar?”
“Er… afresh I abashed to the countryside, and whenever I appear home, a walnut timberline has access into flower. A dabble has appeared in the lane. And I apprehension it anew. It’s like that. Like… sometimes the ablaze catches her in a new way. My calefaction beats afresh!” “So it’s about acquainted them anew?”
“Yes.” “But how do we get into the state, added often, area we apprehension them anew?” “Ah… says Munnery, wisely. “If you seek that, you shall not acquisition it.” On the 22 bus, I sit abutting to Kim, who’s backward 30s but single. She presents a austere account of the dating scene. “What blazon of men are you meeting?”
“Bad. They abridgement respect. Apperception you I apperceive a lot of women who are so antipathetic now, they could never be pleased.” “Give me an example.” “Last night, my acquaintance Lorna had a date, she waited an hour, afresh gave up.” “Right. So the botheration wasn’t she was intolerant, added that he was invisible.” “Yes,” says Kim sadly.
Inside Ocean Terminal, I sit by Indira in a café. She’s 22, a admirable Asian girl. It’s accessible to get her chatting. I begin it’s been accessible to access aberrant woman, and accomplish them talk. (This, again, was article the Tarot Clairvoyant assured me would be the case. “Oh aye… acquaint them you’re from the magazines, and you appetite tae ask them about love, oh they’ll be blessed to talk. It’ll be adamantine to shut them up.”)
“My adulation started here,” Indira confesses, “three years ago. I was animate in Accessorise and he asked for my number. The agitation is we’re both Muslim, so it’s secret.” “But adulation belief are all about the yearning,” I prompt. “They’re about the quest… does clandestineness add to the excitement?”
“No. You’re consistently adorable over your accept apprehensive is that someone’s aunt. I abhorrence it.” “Do you adulation him?” “Yes. Aback the buzz rings, my amore beats and I achievement it’s him. Aback we argue, I feel cut up. But our adulation has to end in December.” “What?!! Why?!” “He’s abrogation town. His ancestors would never approve. They’re actual strict. And, to be honest, I don’t appetite a austere alliance area I can’t dress in the clothes I want.” “Right… So your adulation is ending?” “Yes. I know…” “And… does that accord your adulation a delicious, end-of-the-war blazon urgency?” “Maybe,” says Indira. “I don’t know. It *has* to end.” I accept her. From the way she talks about her boyfriend, I accept she loves him, but she knows that she’ll acquisition better. I still feel for her. “So,” I say, “after he’s gone, and you’ve gone through the heartbreak… What do you anticipate you’ll do abutting time?” “To be honest,” she says. “I appetite my parents to align a marriage.” “But why should their instincts be bigger than yours?” “I apperceive bodies who’ve alleged their partners. Generally they breach up. They assume to get aghast aback their adulation is cutting off. Whereas abiding marriages tend to last. You’re not assured love. You’re *hoping *it adeptness grow.” Is this why I was beatific to the Ocean Terminal? To apprehend that abiding alliance is the answer?
After abrogation Indira, I aberrate off annular Ocean Terminal. It’s a massive arcade mall, in the appearance of a boat: you’re on a boat, which is anchored in a car esplanade in Leith, and you’re amidst by actuality you don’t want. I’ve never apparent so abounding things I don’t want. There is no Next. There are abhorrent handbags. There are abominably cut angular jeans. There are holidays in Malta. It’s a bit like the dating scene, I figure, which has millions of people, for whom I accept no interest. Aback I feel annoyed and abandoned and a bit sick. A anamnesis strikes me… It happened in 2003, bristles canicule from the end of a adverse Festival. I was sitting in a toilet in the Gilded Balloon, aback Livy alleged and said: “Shall we get married?” Of advance I would accept said yes, at any time, but appropriate then, at the fag end of the festival, I acquainted so greatly grateful, I said “yes” and I meant it with every corpuscle of my annoyed unloveable body… I anticipate of my wife now. Do I see her afresh anniversary day? Do I adulation her 10 out of 10? I don’t know. But she is my own unarranged marriage. She is the trousers for my best Abutting suit. Nothing abroad interests me. She’s the one I want.
Tuesday 24 August
It’s the low point of the aftermost week. The sun has broiled into rain. Posters are tattered, or active with babble reviews. There’s a faculty of things wrapping up.
The annoying beeping has accomplished alfresco my window. It turns out they were authoritative a playground, which is now actuality played on.
And bethink the big atramentous dog who for three weeks had been active apart on the accepted alfresco our flat? He was caught. Not by the nine year old girls who’d accustomed their all in the adventure to allurement him. He was bent by two blokes who put him in a van and took him to the Dog Pound. I appetite him well.
Helen Arney did absolutely become a hot new act. One day, the Guardian declared her the best Twittered about actuality in Edinburgh.
Luckily, she still joins me to alpha my appearance with a song, and, anniversary night, we angle calm in the wings and we animation our amateur while Nat King Cole sings: “L is for the way you attending at me/ O: cos you’re the alone one/ I see...” It’s consistently a acceptable moment.
But the Big Questions of the Anniversary abide unanswered… Will I leave in profit?
Who will win the Edinburgh Brawl Award? I brainstorm a beeline action amid Bo Burnham and Russel Kane. I brainstorm the actual nominees will be Pappy’s, Idiots of Ants, and Kevin Eldon. I brainstorm Dan Antopolski and Johnny Candied aloof blow out. I brainstorm the console congratulating themselves that there are at atomic three able changeable contenders (Pippa Evans, Josie Long, Sarah Millican). I am auspicious for Greg Davies, who’s in magnificent, amusing form. But I brainstorm Greg Davies will be contemplated, afresh rejected, as Too Big. Because he’s got his own TV appearance already. And because at 6 basal 11, he’s aloof way Too Big. (How alpine is Greg Davies? Reports differ. Some say he’s 7 basal 3. Some say he’s alike taller than Tom Wrigglesworth, who compensates for actuality abundantly tall, by actuality abnormally thin. He’s a abundant brawl of a man.)
My sister backward three nights and we had a abundant time. The best night was aback we sat up in Jimmy’s flat, and he apprehend us his poems. (Relax. He alone apprehend a couple, and they were great.) Thus, we staged our own Fringe show. It was perfect. There were no leaflets, no adverts, I watched it, afterwards affective from the sofa, and it lasted ten minutes. I accord it bristles stars.
Did the Tarot Reader’s predictions appear true?
Yes. I apperceive this is cool but I accept to accumulate acceptance it… *All the predictions accept been advancing true*. The agitation is… they were so vague, it was absurd to act on them. The Tarot Clairvoyant kept saying: “Ugh… addition will aching their shoulder… I cannae… OK. I anticipate they’re action up a ladder. There’ll be a fall… Maybe it’s in your venue, addition has to go up a ladder and analysis the lights.” Absolutely the actuality who fell off a ladder was my mum. She was in Shrewsbury, area she abashed the shoulder, as a aftereffect of an amazing access of action. Essentially, my mum was behaving like a pensioner, but cerebration like Spiderman… Mum was aggravating to clip a plant… She was on a ladder aloft a actual spikey rose bush. The ladder slipped. Mum, fearing the rose bush, affective an angel timberline aloft her, appropriately dislocating her shoulder. Clinging to the angel tree, she managed to advance the ladder aback with her feet. She was appropriately able to acknowledgment to the ladder, whereupon she screamed so loud, that my dad came active to the rescue, like a actual fat knight.
The blow has meant that I’ve beatific Mum abounding texts of adulation to her mad afflicted arm. It additionally agency my mum can’t attending afterwards my kids abutting week. Which agency my wife will not appear to Edinburgh, and there’ll be no one to attending afterwards the kids aback Liv works this week. Luckily my sister anon offered to do it. Acknowledge God I accustomed her and we had fun.
I abstruse from this that Edinburgh is life, accelerated up. You get afire kharma. It additionally meant that addition of the Tarot Card Reader’s predictions came true. Which has fabricated me anticipate I charge act on her added messages, in accurate that I should adventure to the Ocean Terminal, in adjustment to accommodated the woman who will — so the Tarot Clairvoyant assured me — acquaint me added than every added interviewee. To be honest, I don’t appetite to do this. But this is what happens aback you alpha autograph your action as a story: you accept to chase through on the subplots.
Monday 23 August
The end of the anniversary is in sight. Anniversary day I’ve apparent at atomic thirty shows that I absolutely absolutely can’t miss, but there are still so abounding more. What accept I seen? What accept I learned?
Two nights ago, I got a bifold act of two of the Fringe’s hottest tickets: Jack Whitehall, followed by Russel Kane. A abundant pairing. Both of them altercate their difficult racist dads. (This is how you do racist material: say your dad said it). Jack Whitehall is the sexier of the two. He’s about atrociously attractive. He’s destined to be like Jonathon Ross, a abundant sun that shines over the Ablaze Entertainment world, but Russel Kane is better, for now. Why? He’s quicker. He’s funnier. And his appearance finishes with a abrupt hasty moment, aback he tells that his dad is dead, and he imagines the admiring things his dad would say: “Empty the afford of my tools.
Take the Merc to the garage, and advertise it. Attending afterwards your mum. I adulation you.” Oh God, it’s a killer. I aback weep. And I apprentice why my appearance is deficient, why my action is deficient… I apprentice that a acceptable adventure is based annular a difficult relationship, but it doesn’t feel completed, unless you melt. You charge let the baddie put his best and best admiring case.
Last night, I saw Bo Burnham. He’s the Boy Account whose songs accept been watched 60 actor times on You Tube. His complete run has been awash out for weeks, and you can see why. He sings like Michael Stipe, he raps like Eminem, but he includes jokes about aesthetics and breakthrough physics. It would be adamantine for an act to be hotter. But does he act like it? No. At this date of the Festival, all comedians are degenerating into tiredness and self-criticism, and Bo’s no exception. Amid songs he mumbles things like: “I gotta aloof able through it…” Watching him, I’m acquainted I’m 20 years older. I don’t feel rivalrous, added paternal. 'Come on Bo,’ I appetite to say, 'you may be the abutting Tom Lehrer, the macho Victoria Wood, but appear on, son, be professional. Don’t acquaint them they’re a bad audience. Acquaint them they’re a abundant one. They’ve paid to see you.’ Who’s my favourite comedian? That’s got to be Daniel Kitson. I don’t beggarly he’s my favourite, in complete life. I’ve accepted Daniel, a little bit, for ten years. He’s friendly, but consistently prickly. It’s like he’s consistently afraid that I’ll be like every actor in the world: I’ll try, a bit too hard, to be his friend. I can’t admonition it, though. Daniel Kitson has rewritten every aphorism about how to do brawl at the Fringe. He has done no publicity. He has three posters. His appearance is on at the Traverse at 10 am every morning. (10 am! Anniversary morning, the burghal is abounding with indie kids barrier from bed cursing “Bloody Daniel Kitson!”) And yet Kitson’s accomplished run has been awash out for weeks. So what does he tell? He tells of two lives, presented as a alternation of moments. There’s not alike a abundant plot: the two characters alone accommodated for 8 minutes. And yet the appearance is fantastic. It’s not aloof that Kitson is chiefly eloquent, and exact in aggregate he says. It’s that he capacity how anniversary moment is affluent in acceptation and account and love. And that’s what we appear to art for, I account — significance, wonder, and love. And cipher gives added of that than Kitson. Don’t worry, Daniel. I don’t appetite to be your friend. I aloof appetite to watch you. I achievement that you acknowledgment to the Taverse every year till we’re 80. I’d appropriately book my tickets now.
Sunday 2 – 2nd Sunday morning
Cycling off to do a children’s show, I canyon the best admirable candied boutique you can imagine. It’s in a backward Georgian Morningside building, in a alley lined with trees. I go in to buy sweets. At the adverse a abbreviate admirer in red cords eyes me with twinkly curiosity, as I aces up bonanza packs of clabber babies and toffees and lollies.
“You not affairs sweets?” I ask. “No!” he says smiling. “ Aloof my Telegraph.” I agenda the 'my’. “Do you consistently buy the Telegraph?” I ask. “Well… yes.” “Only…” I say. “I’ve afresh been autograph for Telegraph online. Do you use that?” “If I appetite to analysis the candid perhaps.” “Why do you like The Telegraph?” He seems affronted by that. “Well,” he manages. “I like the way it’s set out.” “Yes,” I agree. “It’s like a affably set out school. On accession I consistently go beeline to sport. That’s like branch out into the pitches. Afresh I appetite to apprehend the funny columnists in the magazines. That’s like branch into the accepted room.” He stares at me a continued time. He looks like Paddington. I’ve begin Paddington, and he’s a 65 year old broker who lives in Morningside. Afterwards a continued pause, he aback smiles. “Yes. I anticipate that’s about right,” he says.
“Plus, I do like account about crime. You autograph about that?” “I’m autograph about love.” “Oh,” he says.
He was added adequate with crime. “You’d accept to ask my wife about that.
That’s her department.” A anticipation strikes him. “But not now,” he aback adds. Now I’m curious. “What is she accomplishing now?” “Desperately Hoovering,” he answers, rather too loud, “because our daughter’s advancing over. That’s why I got out.” “You abhorrence the Hoover?” I ask. “I’m like the dog,” he says. “I accede the Hoover with abhorrence and distrust.” “You abhorrence she’s action to appear at you with the nozzle?” “By the time she gets it out, she’s usually cantankerous enough.” “But why do you anticipate she’s cantankerous aback she gets the Hoover out?” “Probably because I haven’t Hoovered.” “Don’t you ever?” He pauses, then… “No.” “Never?!” “Well… I do added things.” “Such as…” “Like now, she aloof said: 'If you’re action to the shop, can you get gravy?’ Oh acceptable golly.” He goes white. He rushes off and rummages for gravy on a lower shelf. Aloof for a moment he looks like a accumulate rummaging for nuts. He hurries back.
“You aloof adored my action there! Acknowledge you.” He hurries aback to the adverse and he leaves.
As I charge leave you now. But I end with a bulletin to any admirer who are account this on a Sunday morning… Aloof consider, for one moment, what your wife is cerebration about. It’s aloof accessible it’s not cricket. It’s added acceptable she’s thinking: if he doesn’t Hoover, I’m action to appear at him with the nozzle.
Tuesday 17 Aug
My favourite abode in the Anniversary is our Blooming Room. Shared by the companies of 18 shows, it provides aggregate they need: costumes, props, biscuits, tea, water, leaflets, and a adorable waft of camaraderie. I adulation anybody in there. I adulation my techies, Rory, Nick and Kirsty, who’re usually reclining, adorable admiring as dogs who’ve fabricated it assimilate the sofa. I adulation the added comedians: Daniel Rigby, who’s consistently afterlight his show; Tom Wrigglesworth, who’s consistently annoying about his end. But best of all, I adulation the comedian, Jon Richardson, who’s like a affable mole. That sounds wrong, aback Jon’s a attractive man, and he lacks aphotic eyes or snout. But he’s got a bristling face and a quiet affable manner. And he seems peaceful, but you aloof apperceive that, if you attacked him, he’d appear at you with his able advanced claws, and he’d bite.
Last night, I went to see his show, which was great. My favourite bit was an architecture area he told about his cruise to the hairdresser. “Do you apperceive what the beautician did to the hairs in my ear? He got out a lighter, and set blaze to them! How do I call what that feels like? I know… it feels like addition was aggravating to set fire, *to my head. *Because he was *setting blaze to my head*.” Addition in the admirers put their duke up. “Sometimes they do it to the hairs *in your nose,” *they announced. “What?” said Jon, action aphotic like a mole. “I can’t alike anticipate about that. Oh… Still. Acknowledge you.
Most heckles are rude. Castigation was informative. And I like the way you put your duke up.” Tonight I get aback home early, and, one affair leads to another, and I acquisition myself continuing in advanced of the bath mirror, brandishing a cigarette lighter. I about-face alongside and attending at the beard in my ear. It looks like a spider is sleeping in there, abrogation his continued white legs out of the hole. I appear at them with the lighter.
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They go up a treat. There’s a abrupt aroma of afire hair, then… in the aftermath, a complete ear.
I do the added one.
Again, it goes up a treat. There’s a admirable burst sound. And afterwards I do attending assuredly better. I adulation this ear afire thing. It’s a complete admixture of cosmetics, and central fireworks.
Then I get acquisitive and I go for the nose.
The beard in there is aphotic and brown. My adenoids are caves and the beard are timberline roots dangling from the ceiling.
I blaze my adenoids into the abounding Kenneth Williams afresh I put them to the torch.
Oh dear.
How do I call what I’ve aloof done?
I know… it feels like I’ve aloof set fire, to my own head.
The beard is on fire, but the blaze is action upwards and afire the roof of my nose.
I scream. I stop. A tiny billow of atramentous smoke wafts accomplished my eyes.
It looks like a tiny bomb has gone off, up my nose.
And I additionally anticipate I may accept singed myself.
That’s all I can anticipate about today. I’ve begin today’s Action Rule. It’s absolutely a simple one really. It’s this: don’t set blaze to your own head.
Monday 16th August
It’s my day off today. I don’t appetite to leave the house. So I can’t acquaint you about any strangers who’ve furnished me with alarming Adulation Rules. Today I mainly afraid out with my dog, who’s additionally blockage at Jimmy’s throughout the Festival. Her Adulation Rules would be rather strange. They’d accommodate things like: “If you see addition you like, detect their crotch.” But can I change my own brief, and makes this, not a adventure for Adulation Rules, but a adventure for Action Rules? What? You anticipate I can? OK. Great. Able-bodied afresh today’s Action Rules are brought to you by my dog. They are conspicuously sensible. They are…
1.
When you get up in the morning, accept a quick stretch.
2.
As anon as possible, it’s a acceptable abstraction to go out and accept a quick detect about the park.
3.
For the blow of the day your basic action should be walking annular the house, testing out the best position to lie in.
Sunday 15th August
My sister Hattie was a apprentice in Edinburgh. In the day she advised law. At night she formed in the Opal Lounge, area she fell in adulation with Dino, who ran the bar. Appropriately she alien Dino to our lives. She additionally alien Dylan, Dino’s adolescent son.
I aboriginal met Dylan aback he was 3, and, to be honest, I resisted him. I admired Dino, but a baby allotment of him distrusted him. I was thinking: how could you accept coupled, so thoughtlessly? Besides… If you met, and left, Dylan’s mother, aback your adolescent was beneath than 2, how do I apperceive you’re blockage with my sister?
Then I got absorbed in Dylan. You’ve never apparent a added elfish child. He was animated at me. He was tiny but acutely athletic. He looked like a big flee. He looked like he was about to bound to the ceiling, while adage aberrant things in a able Scottish accent. (Stuff like: “Look at me! I can fly!”) I figured: it’s not his fault. And he does attending fun. And in that animated moment, a accord was born.
Anyway… 4 years accept now passed. Dylan has now backward alert at our house, area he has won abundant amore and admiration, for his abounding accent, his accelerated active (Dino was already a Scottish champion), and for his adeptness to be bossed about by Cassady for up to twelve hours at a time.
Today he’s advancing to my kids’ show. As I appear on, I see him at the front, animated at me with adulation and agrarian glee.
The appearance goes well.
Afterwards we all airing through boondocks together.
Along the way, Dylan pushes my bike with me, and we babble excitedly.
“Look!” says Dylan, pointing at a poster. “Nude people!” He sees addition poster. “Look! Added nude people!” Until Dylan arrived, I hadn’t noticed the arduous cardinal of nude people. He passes a clothes shop, and through the door, he spies a clothes dummy. “Look!” he says, pointing. “MORE nude people! But this time, *wi’ artificial nips!”* Afresh he says article that’s so strange, it’s about unearthly.
“You apperceive what you should do,” he says. “You should airing about boondocks and ask couples about love.” I affirm he says these exact words. They’re not account a adolescent would have, or alike words a adolescent would use. They’re the words the Tarot clairvoyant used.
Freaky. I absolutely accept to augment the ambit of this blog. I charge go out and allege to bodies in the street. OK. I’ll do it. But not today.
Today we all adhere out in St Andrew’s Square. It’s a august brilliant day, and there’s a fountain. Dylan and I paddle in it, and he finds several pennies.
“What are they?” he asks. “They’re for acceptable luck.” “I’m gonnae aggregate them!” he announces. A adolescent babe looks round. She’s canoeing too. Afore I apperceive it, I’m abroad interviewing my aboriginal stranger.
“Do you anticipate that will accord him acceptable luck?” I ask, “or bad?” The babe has no doubt. “Bad luck,” she announces. “What do you think, Dad?” I ask Dad. He confirms it. “Bad luck,” he confirms. Dad and I smile at anniversary other.
I’m away. I’ve started interviewing strangers. On this occasion, however, I don’t ask about love. We mainly allocution about how the pennies bolt the sun, and alpha to glow. We’re not alike discussing love. We’re discussing magic.
But maybe it comes to the aforementioned thing. It’s all about accepting fun. It’s all about acquainted the sparkle.
Saturday 14th August
10 am. My sister texts: “Coming to Edinburgh today. Appetite to see you and your show. Area are you staying?”
Oh God. Her argument is basically saying: “I’m coming. Can I stay?”
Now… don’t get me wrong. I adulation my sister. She’s a kind, acceptable actuality — a audible ally. She crosses London to babysit. She looks afterwards my dog aback we’re away. She’s additionally been in Belize for three months and I’d like to apprehend the abounding story.
I aloof absolutely don’t appetite to apprehend it now. I’m busy. I’m accomplishing a kids appearance at 11am. (After that I’ll be so sweaty, I’ll accept blood-soaked a clothing with sweat).
Then I’ll be accomplishing the aforementioned affair at 6. Afresh the aforementioned affair at 11 pm. Afresh I charge get home, to do the aforementioned affair tomorrow. I’m "busy". And I’ve already got Tom advancing on Wednesday. Liv apparently the abutting week. I’ve got two weeks, during which time I charge perform, address for two papers, and carbon a novel.
At this point my sister’s appointment feels as acceptable as the access of rabies.
I argument Jimmy. “Can my sister appear to stay?” In person, Jimmy is quiet, about mouse-like. But in text, he consistently use basic letters: he has authority. “HATTIE WOULD BE VERY WELCOME,” he pronounces. “THE MORE THE MERRIER!”
I absolutely don’t anticipate that’s the case. But I’m a almsman of Jimmy’s generosity myself. I can’t actual calmly abjure it to added people.
I arouse up a aftermost thimble of amicableness and argument my sister.
“Hurray! Do you appetite to stay? You’d be actual welcome.” She replies. “Great. We’ll see you afterwards your show.” I’m thinking: “WE???!!!” Oh God. She’s actuality with her boyfriend! There are two of them!
I accommodated them at 7 o’clock afterwards the show.
“Hi,” I said. “It’s so nice to see you!”
“We absolutely capital to see the festival,” she says. “And we’re not animate till Thursday.” Till blood-soaked Thursday?!!! They appetite to break bristles days!!! Oh God. I’m absolutely panicking now.
“Ooh,” I say. “Hang on a second. I charge nip aback to my bathrobe allowance to get my bag.” I nip away, and agilely anticipate it through… I can’t accept them for bristles days. But how continued can I accept them? And at what point should I acquaint them I alone appetite them a brace of days? Do I appetite them at all? How do I cope? I booty a few abysmal breaths, and, in the absence of anyone else, I accept to accord myself today’s Adulation Rule. It’s this… You accept to abundance your allies. You charge additionally acquaint with them. You must, agilely and clearly, acquaint them what you need.
I grab my bag, I arch aback beyond the road.
“Brilliant!” I say. “Let’s get dinner!”
We’ll accept dinner, I’m thinking. I’ll pay for it. Afresh afterwards, I’ll say they can break till Tuesday.
Friday 13th
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He’s pompous. He’s hilarious. He causes mayhem). Afterwards the additional week, you about-face bitter. By the fourth week, you don’t affliction about anyone or anything.
You aloof appetite to go home and eat biscuits.
Today is the end of the additional week. Today the acerbity comes.
At 8 am, I’m woken by a coquette outside. Whenever it reverses the coquette goes BEEP BEEP BEEP, aloof in case there’s anyone aural crushing distance, of a coquette action 2 afar an hour*, in an amid architecture site*. Who would that be? A aphotic person, who lacks the use of their limbs, that’s been placed there by friends? That’s not awful likely, is it? It’s added acceptable that the beeping coquette adeptness deathwatch *hundreds of absinthian comedians*, who adeptness annihilate him, by subjecting him to a baneful bang of aerial akin baneful rant.
I alpha the day by swearing for a accomplished minute.
Then I clump to Tesco's to banal the fridge. I’m affronted aloof by the Tesco's assurance which has a alarming bit of accumulated art – a batter sign, actuality snipped by some scissors, that accept a affable face. Underneath, there’s the logo: “Every little helps!” I alpha talking out loud. “Every little helps YOU, Tesco's,” I spit, “in your attack to own all the cash, in the complete world.” This isn’t good. I’m cursing at a sign. Wow. I absolutely am in a bad mood. Yet, in a few hours’ time, I charge be appropriately absorbing a crowd. I’ve got to breeze out of this fast. But how?
On the way home, the bounded girls accord an amend on the dog situation. (For the aftermost week, we’ve all been aggravating to bolt a atramentous dog that’s been active loose). Now the girls are architecture a dog shelter, into which they achievement to allurement him. It reminds me of that Peter Cook routine: “What we absolutely charge is a absurd gesture, at this date of the campaign.” And this is what I best do to acclamation myself up, I amount – a absurd action for someone. But who for? Got to be for Jimmy. But what does Jimmy want? It’s not a toaster. That’s for sure. He told me that the added night.
He additionally told me about the two things he’d absolutely like. He wants two saucepans, which charge alluringly be bought from the Columbo’s Hospice, that’s on the added ancillary of town.
Ugh. That could booty blood-soaked ages.
It does takes ages. Already there, I buy saucepans, admirable cutlery, and, on a whim, a new blah abrasion up bowl, to alter the manky craven one. Afterwards that, article actual awe-inspiring happens, which I’ll acquaint you about later. Afterwards that, I feel abundant better, and I go and do the show, which goes wonderfully.
Returning home at midnight, I present Jimmy the saucepans and cutlery. He’s touchingly delighted. “I adulation the board handles,” he enthuses. “I additionally got you this,” I say, bashfully casual over the abrasion up bowl. He’s astonished. “I went to Tescoes, this evening” he says. “I capital a new abrasion bowl, a blah one, to bout the blow of the kitchen. They were out. I can’t accept you got this!”
Wow. He absolutely capital that abrasion up bowl. We both feel wonderful.
And that’s today’s Adulation Rule: sometimes you charge to accomplish a absurd gesture. You may alone charge to absorb two quid, what’s important is you accomplish an accomplishment on addition else’s behalf. Every little helps.
Friday. The DVD extra… I didn’t acquaint you the abounding adventure about my cruise to the Columbo’s Hospice… I additionally went to a tiny boutique abutting door. It had two signs: Sylvana’s, and The Wee Leith Shop. I entered and begin a amplitude as big as a lift, which was active by two people, and two dogs whose wagging cape were in crisis of drop bargain bric a brac assimilate the floor. I couldn’t see the point of the shop, till I noticed the assurance saying: “Tarot. 40 pounds.” Sure. That’s a lot of money.
But you pay about bisected that for Jimmy Carr, and you accept to allotment him with thousands. Besides… I’d accustomed at the shop, in a rage. I acquainted tired, angry, and lost. If anytime admonition were needed, it were now.
Sylvana shut the shop, and got out her table.
Then for the abutting hour, she attack out a alternation of messages. What was amazing was the acceleration of them, the way they alloyed big things with little, and were all articulate in admirable Scots dialect… “You should address for TV. Someone’s animate with you now.” [This is true.
Last night I active a arrangement to address a TV analysis for Stevie Lee, who helped aftermath *Harry Potter* with David Baron]. “Ogh…” said Sylvana. “That woman kens what she’s talking about, but she’s chill as hell… Ogh. She’s nae well.” [Stevie has cancer]. “She’s action to appear through. Now… Someone’s action to aching their appropriate arm. Not you… Your wife’s atramentous you’re away. Is she a Libra? Oh yes. She loves her children, but she feels tied, alike aback she’s not tied. She’s missing you. One of the bairns is *really *missing you…” [I aback anticipate of Iris, whose third altogether fell two canicule ago. I see her big eyes arising with tears]. “You should address about the bairns.
Write about family. What do the bairns anticipate of you? What questions do they appetite to ask? 'Daddy, why do lights appear on?’ You should address about dogs and bodies as well… These are abundant cards, Andrew. Honest to God, in two years’ time, you’ll see your name up in lights. Accumulate a diary. Accumulate one now… Accomplish abiding you airing about and allocution to people… Accommodated couples and ask about love… Go to the Ocean Terminal. Get the 22. But don’t go to the Britannia it’s too expensive.” Afterwards on, I texted Liv. “A Tarot clairvoyant said one of the kids is absolutely missing me. Who is it?”
She replied: “It’s Iris. She asks afterwards you six times a day. PS I absence you too, L x” It’s a actual active day, accouterment so abounding Adulation Rules I could canyon on, but I’ll go for this one… Whenever you’re down, bethink you’re alone at one point in the story. Things can improve. And bethink too that sometimes you charge a bit of distance, to apprehension your love. My wife would never commonly accelerate such an affectionate text. Commonly her argument would say: “PS get milk.”
Thursday 12th August
I charge to acquaint you about my housemate, Jimmy.
I met him in 2004, during a run of my atomic acknowledged show, Maurice Clark, "The Storyman". In appearance as a sectionable man alleged Maurice Clark, I’d ad-lib belief on the audience’s suggestions. Appropriately the appearance independent three things that audiences best hate: brainy illness, appearance comedy, and admirers interaction. They backward abroad in droves. I don’t anticipate I could accept admiring them in, if I’d been alms a chargeless meal.
But Jimmy came 11 times, insisting on advantageous anniversary time. He’s a 56 year old above artist / dad / abandoned artist / busker. He is a fan of aberrant comedy. He’s additionally actual caring. He could see a man who badly bare support.
This year, Jimmy’s alone been once. “You don’t charge me at your appearance this time,” he explained. But already again, he’s alms what I absolutely need: lodging. Jimmy has a two bedchamber collapsed on the fourth attic of a apartment acreage in Oxgangs, a animate chic commune at the bend of town. I accept never met addition added appreciative of their flat. Jimmy speaks of it the way added bodies allege of their girlfriend, whose every whim they adore. He forgives everything. He absolutely loves everything.
When I arrived, he showed me annular proudly.
“Right… Three things to appearance you. (1) The aphotic in your room… It disnae work. You accept to bare it how you charge it, then, simply… block to the wall. Thus” [He demonstrated.]. “(2) Clothes horse. That’s broken, but it’s fine. You aloof accept to booty this… chopstick. Here. You stick it in the Sellotape. Here. Good! And (3) Toaster! That was broiled in a blaze so you can’t pop it down. So… just… about-face the toaster on at the wall. Like this.” [He demonstrated.] “Turn it off like this.” [He demonstrated]. “Then, simply… angle out the toast, application the appropriate cocktail stick. Here.” (This is not a collapsed a woman would break in).
I accompany this up, aback I’m agog to get Jimmy a allowance to acknowledge him for his affection in accepting me to stay. I adulation blockage here. It’s additionally extenuative me 700 quid — capital aback I’m bent not to lose money at the Festival. So today I adduce I could go out and buy Jimmy the finest toaster available.
“Don’t you dare,” he says. “I adulation that toaster. I’ve fabricated it work. It’s allotment of the team.” And that’s today’s Adulation Rule. I anticipate bodies are like Jimmy’s admired possessions. It’s not about money. It’s not about accepting the best specimens possible. It’s about how abundant you abundance what you have. You accept to assignment with what’s there. Sometimes you accept to jiggle. Sometimes you accept to use the cocktail stick.
Yup. That’s a acceptable one. It’s not about expense, it’s about love. I feel aggressive by this flat.
That said, if Jimmy burns the acknowledgment one added time, I’m action to cast that toaster off the balcony.
Wednesday 11th August
I’m generally buttonholed by bodies saying: “But don’t you anticipate there’s too abundant f*ing and blinding in comedy?” I consistently nod patiently, but I consistently appetite to say: Oh appear on, authoritative brawl afterwards causticity is like authoritative a car afterwards wheels. You can try, but you won’t get far. Brawl is all about rudeness. I’ve got this one absolutely bedraggled band in my act. It’s alluringly phrased, but it’s about bottoms. I anticipate that’s fine. What’s not accomplished is they don’t laugh. If you’re action to be rude, you bigger get a belter of a laugh. I don’t. In yesterday’s show, the bigger beam was this… I was talking to Morag, who’d been with her bedmate 48 years. That was already good. The admirers acquainted balmy appear Morag. “Is he a acceptable husband?” I asked. “Yes,” she said. Then: “Well…” It was complete banana timing. Morag got a acceptable laugh. “Tell us one affair he does that’s good?” I asked. “He consistently makes me tea every morning.” “And one affair he does that’s annoying?” Morag airtight back: “He *never* puts amoroso in.” Morag denticulate a belter of a laugh.
That moment summarised what I adulation best about accomplishing comedy.
It fabricated a cursory brilliant out of a 70 year old lady, who managed, instinctively, to accomplish a complete joke. It independent a abrupt reversal. It seemed to say article abstruse about love: whenever you’re action best loving, you’re aloof abreast for disappointment. And Morag’s antic was clean.
But it was still rude. Morag was advancing her absurd husband: the man who, every day, forgets to do the one affair she absolutely wants.
4 pm. Preparing for the show, I adjudge to accumulate Morag’s band in. I accede removing the bedraggled line, but leave it in. Maybe tonight the basal will let rip a august ripper of a laugh.
6 15. I’m onstage. The show’s action well. I echo Morag’s line. Again, Morag rocks them. I echo the bedraggled line. Two bodies giggle; anybody goes silent. It’s a bad moment. They are alienated. Uncomfortable.
Afterwards my abettor texts: “*The Scotsman* were in tonight.
How was it?” My amore sinks. I can’t accept I stood in advanced of that * Scotsman* critic, and talked about bottoms. I acquainted I should accept afflicted that two canicule ago. I knew I had to change it, afterwards Morag. I still didn’t.
Ugh.
And I anticipate that’s today’s Adulation Rule. You shouldn’t charge to be told article added than once.
But I’ve got to accommodate a quick coda… 9 50. I’m watching Simon Evans. I admire Simon Evans. He’s additionally a banana curiosity: his aftermost appearance was affirmed to be 100% clean. I charge to see how he does that.
He doesn’t.
His appearance is hilarious. There’s not abundant swearing, but it’s still abundantly rude. He starts off actuality abrupt about Geordies. Afresh he’s abrupt about fat people. Afresh he says: “And now I appetite to allocution about whales. I don’t beggarly the big blubbery mammals that animate in the sea. I beggarly the big blubbery mammals that animate in Wales.” He riffs hilariously about the affiliation amid Welsh and whales in a alternation of abandoned aphorisms. The aftermost one is: “they’re both adequate by legislation, which agency you can’t coursing them.” By this point, I am a annoying child, uncontrollable with laughter. I don’t appetite to be bedlam at Welsh people, but I’m accepting a Moragesque banana picture: the bookish Simon Evans, brandishing a harpoon, advancing a abounding Welsh actuality beyond the country.
At one point, Simon lets apart a beck of invective. It’s a allotment of aggregate swearing, including the C word, the F word, and a advertence to wee. “I shouldn’t accept said that,” says Simon. “When bodies accept to swear, it’s a assurance their actual is declining to be abhorrent enough.
My Grandad acclimated to action opinions that would accept broiled paint, but he never acclimated accent that would accept been out of abode in a abbey sermon. Which was ironic, aback that’s area he usually said them.”
Tuesday 10th August
5 58 pm. I’m abaft the blind with Helen Arney. So far the show’s been abounding every day. I’m so beholden for that. On her aboriginal show, Helen had 4 in. She’s bothered. “They’ll come,” I acquaint her. “You’re funny. You can sing. And you’re new.” I apperceive I’m right. If you appetite to accept the mentality of Edinburgh, brainstorm yourself as Simon Cowell: you adulation to see a few celebrities, you’re additionally searching, like a vampire, for beginning blood. “As anon as you get some reviews in,” I acquaint Helen, “you’ll be off.” “I aloof appetite one in *The Telegraph*,” says Helen. “That’s what my parents read.” “That’s already done,” I say. “I’m blogging for *The Telegraph*.” Her eyes ablaze up. It’s like a ablaze is action on in her head.
At the aforementioned time, a ablaze is action on in mine. As Helen and I jig to the balmy up music, I anticipate it though… I hadn’t anticipation of the possibilities of this blog. *If I address about added shows, aren’t I actuality a tiny bit like a reviewer? *I said Afar Jupp was “wonderful.” I could see him putting “Wonderful, *The Telegraph*,” on his poster? (I could additionally see *The Telegraph’s* able reviewers demography issue.
I see Dom Cavendish accepting me in a headlock, while Mark Monahan moves in for the wedgie.) But I can apparently get abroad with it for a brace of days.
I feel bemused with power. I charge accomplishment it! Let’s bread some quotes! Actuality goes… “Jason Byrne is the Clown Prince of Edinburgh. I don’t affliction I’ve apparent him every year for 13 years. Watching Byrne is like bubbler Pepsi, or affairs out nostril hair. It’s lovely. I apperceive I’ll do it again.” Not bad. But I don’t anticipate reviewers allege of affairs out nostril hair. And way too long. Shorter. Shorter. Actuality goes… “Mike Keat, you sleazy, bedraggled genius! I would kiss the hem of your pants!”
Is that absolutely what I appetite to say? Let’s get some actuality off my chest. Let’s do more! OK. What about?
“Nicholas Parsons, isn’t it time you took up gardening?”
6 02 pm. I’m talking all this through with Helen, and we’re both giggling.
Suddenly we realise there’s an apocalyptic blackout onstage. We both go cold.
“God,” she says. “I’m on.” Helen runs into the spotlight and opens her mouth.
But the techies, abashed by the continued silence, go aback to the antecedent cue.
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So Helen comes aback off. (When you aboriginal appear onstage, aplomb is the key: Helen has aloof sprinted off date like a abashed rabbit).
The ablaze comes on again.
Helen hits the wings like a pin ball, and bounces aback onstage. Afresh she messes up her intro, and accidentally sings an added ballad of her song. It’s an abnormally clumsy start.
Then I appear on.
I anon badinage with a man in Row 4. “How continued accept you been with your girlfriend?” I ask him. “Two years.” “And afore that, how continued were you single?” “Ten years.” “And what was the basic acumen for that?” “I was in prison.” Oh dear.
Luckily the admirers laugh. Audiences adulation to see you in trouble.
I anticipate that has to authorize as today’s Adulation Rule. This is what I’ve abstruse today… We absorb so abundant time aggravating to be complete and powerful, but bodies like us best aback we fail.
Monday 9th August
I’m cycling up acropolis on the bend out bike. It’s about as big as my daughter’s scooter. The bench is low, the handlebars are high, but actual close. Brainstorm the position a adolescent is in, aback they blooper backwards into the toilet — that’s how I’m sitting, and yet still attempting to pedal. The ascend is slow, but it gives me abounding time to finalise my Bewitched Wishes. I shall acknowledge them now… 1) I appetite to acquisition out a new Adulation Aphorism every day, which I shall address up in this blog. This shall be the bigger stop on what will, I hope, be a civic adventure in which I attack to booty the temperature of the land’s marriages. I shall afresh canyon on my results. I shall action inspiration. My complete appetite will be to acquisition addition who can acquaint me I’ve adored their marriage. Plus addition abroad who’ll action me banknote to do Adulation Rules as a cavalcade / telly appearance / book. I’ve already accounting the book. In June, I presented it to my arcane agents, Janklow and Nesbit. (I like to blooper those names in, as generally as possible. The arcane aristocracy will apprehension I allotment an abettor with Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson). On account the book, Janklow and Nesbit alone me. That’s aback actual abundant on my mind.
While blockage here, I charge carbon it, and acquisition a new agent.
2) I appetite to analyze the Festival, the way a adolescent explores a bewitched garden. I appetite to see every corner. I appetite to lift every stone.
3) I appetite to leave in profit. Hey. I’ll booty a fiver of profit. Aloof so I don’t accept to go home guilty.
Sunday 8th August
I’m cutting my clothing and blush tie and hat. I feel like the acme of appearance as I buzz through Morningside on my bend out bike. I am so happy. I’m additionally afraid to see that Jimmy’s Bewitched Cerebration absolutely works. Right. I think… what abroad shall I appetite for?
Saturday 7th August
At the weekends, I’m accomplishing additionally a kids appearance at 11 am. I do a affair in which I acquaint accouchement the Seven Secrets of Storytelling. Along the way, I brawl amateur with them, and the humour comes from the amazing things kids bark out As anon as I access at the venue, I see the mistake. There is NO ONE about at 11 am.
Arriving onstage, I acquisition 18 bodies in a 120 bench venue.
Oh dear.
Luckily they are 18 of the best absurd storytellers I’ve anytime met. There’s a dad alleged Gregor, who does a amazing behemothic voice.
There’s an casual boy alleged Johnny, who giggles clumsily as he pretends to do abracadabra spells which will about-face me into a chicken. I mime axis into the craven and accessory about. There are roars of amusement to this. This is what they want: a developed man, aerial about the stage, laying abstract eggs on the giant’s lap. It’s one of the best shows I’ve anytime done. There are moments aback all 19 of us are all roaring with laughter.
Afterwards I realise I had a acquaintance in the crowd: Tina Sullivan.
Tina is a Anniversary Friend. An animated Edinburgh lady. I aboriginal met her in 2000 alfresco my show. She approached me like an affronted dog.
“Just came to see you,” she said. Her animation was alcoholic. It looked like she was about to booty affair with something. Maybe battle me to the floor. “It was nae bad. I’ll appear again.” I thought: no you won’t. You’re aloof drunk. But I underestimated how loyal Edinburgh bodies are. Tina has aback been to every appearance I’ve done. I alike came to her son Alec’s third altogether area I had the honour of presenting him his set of drums.
“How are you?” says Tina.
“Not bad,” I reply. “All I absolutely charge is a bike.” “I’ve got a bend out bike you can have. I’ll accompany it annular in the morning.”
Friday 6th August
I’m chatting with Jimmy, who’s putting me up for the ages in his collapsed in Oxgangs at the bend of Edinburgh. “I accumulate seeing people,” says Jimmy, “wearing those t-shirts that say: “Crew” or “Staff” There should be t-shirts that say “Audience”.” I accede a bit too whole-heartedly. “Yes! The admirers are the ones we’re all aggravating to find.” “You accept to tune into bewitched thinking,” says Jimmy. “Just appetite for audiences, and they will come.” That’s one way to get them to come, I’m thinking. Addition would be to leaflet.
The appearance is awash out again, but it’s the aboriginal Friday of the Fringe. Tonight, you’re awash out if you’re a academy assembly of Macbeth, set in a band in Leith. Afterwards I alcohol with friends.
10 30, I airing to the bus stop with a hamburger to see the bus affairs out. I animate afar abroad and there won’t be addition bus for 30 minutes. I run. I about bolt it by the abutting stop, but it pulls out again. I dart afterwards it still clutching my hamburger. This is absolutely no way to dine. Afterwards two account running, I see the bus at some cartage lights: I can bolt it. Alone problem: the pavement is abounding with actors dressed as ghouls. I cull out assimilate the road, and dart up the bus lane. The lights go green. The bus leaves. I dart beyond the cartage junction. This is ridiculous, I think.
I’m on the bus lane: I’m basically actuality a bus.
I run for bisected a mile, but don’t accomplish it.
This is hopeless, I think. Stupid. My accomplished anniversary aback feels stupid.
What am I accomplishing here? It’s undignified. I’m at the world’s bigger shouting contest, and I’m one of the shouters. Ugh. I should get a career area your cachet doesn’t acceleration or abatement anniversary day.
Then I think… I don’t charge addition career. What I charge is a bike. A bend up bike that I can leave in the bathrobe room, and backpack up to Jimmy’s flat.
But area am I action to get a bike, for one month?
Thursday 5th August
Second show. I do an ideal breadth show, 56 minutes, including alone the actual that fabricated them barrage yesterday. But it feels flat. Oh dear. I charge to barber off addition 8 minutes. By the aftermost week, my act is action to be bottomward to 10 minutes. I’ll get Helen Arney to sing three songs. Afresh I’ll appear out and say hello. That’ll be it. Do you account we could advertise that as a tour?
8 pm. I go to watch Afar Jupp (fast-rising brawl brilliant — he’s like a new Stephen Fry — amusing and actual chic — but still best accepted as Archie The Inventor From *Ballamory). *His appearance tells the adventure about how he got himself a columnist canyon so he could appointment the Indian Candid Tour, from the columnist box. It doesn’t get massive laughs, but it’s wonderful.
Afterwards I see Miles. He’s adorable hardly traumatised.
“The appearance was great!” I enthuse. “Oh tush,” he says. “It was OK.” “The action will come,” I say. “In the concurrently it’s a admirable story, vividly told.” It’s easier to accord out admonition than to booty it in yourself.
Wednesday 4th August
The aboriginal appearance is at 6.
5 40, I’m striding appear the venue. I apprehend the two words every actor longs to see: my name, and afresh “Sold Out.” 5 50. I’m abaft the atramentous curtain, chatting to Helen Arney, a attractive banana singer. She does Tom Lehrer blazon lyrics, while arena a uke, while singing in a articulation that’s authentic as abundance water. I’ve arrive her to accessible my appearance with a song, and, miraculously, she’s agreed.
6 pm, she accomplish out. She throws herself into her song, and her articulation sounds absolutely angelic. Afresh she introduces me, and the affectionate bodies of Edinburgh accost me to the Anniversary with balmy and affable applause.
I’m so grateful, it’s appetizing to angle there and weep. But I’m acquainted that wouldn’t be actual funny.
7 06 pm. I’m safe abaft the curtain. It went well. Not amazing. But there was acceptable amusement throughout, and the admirers were spectacular. There was a admirable adult alleged Lynn whose bedmate had spent the aftermost nine years in a wheelchair. I asked her the abstruse of love, she said: “You charge be grateful. And occasionally you charge leave him at home.” I asked a man what’s the best difficult affair about active with a woman, he said: “My wife.” (Most accepted answers are: (1) Nagging. (2) Watching films that brilliant Matthew McConachy, and (3) Cushions).
The alone botheration is… The appearance was 6 account too long. But that’s OK. I’ll barber off 8, and afresh the appearance will be great.
Tuesday 3rd August
6 am. I wake, terrified. Oh my God, I think. It’s absolutely happening.
Tomorrow I shall be performing. I achievement bodies come. If they come, the allowance is abounding of energy, and they laugh, and you get abundant reviews, and the tickets sell, and anniversary night you’re ascent a airship accessible to ascend still higher. If they don’t come, you’re stuffed. The reviews are bad. But you still accept to about-face up and accomplish addition twenty times, and it’s like abiding to a party, twenty times, afterwards anybody has broadcast a announcement adage you’re a tit.
I should be fine. I’m accomplishing a appearance alleged Adulation Rules. In the animate show, I acquaint a accurate adventure about four canicule in which my alliance was lost, afresh saved. Along the way, I explain why best adulation admonition is wrong, alike dangerous. I explain things anybody wants to know… How do you accumulate adulation alive? How do you acquisition a man? How do you accomplish him aces up socks? That’s absolutely a able premise.
Isn’t it? On the train, I apprehend the Fringe programme. There are eight pages aloof advertisement all the Dance. Good, I think. I can skip that. But I charge see some theatre. Watching a circadian appearance will be like accepting a salad; the brawl will be pudding. But, Lordy-Lord, what a lot of pudding there is.
At aboriginal I’m aflame by that. I adulation comedy. It seems like Medieval entertainment: one man (it’s usually a man) stands afore a army and tells his story. Except the agitation is… there are bags of storytellers cat-and-mouse in the wings, and abounding of them accept done telly.
Monday 2nd August
We’re on anniversary in Norfolk. It’s 8 pm. My daughters are arena their favourite CD — songs from The Jungle Book — and we’re all dancing. Able-bodied it started as dancing, afresh it was absolutely aloof jumping, afresh I lay on the attic and they active me in cushions. “Tomorrow,” shouts the average one, berserk excited, “we could go to the bank and we could coffin you with sand!” “We can’t,” I say. “I’m abrogation to Edinburgh tomorrow.” All three stop moving. They attending winded. The two earlier ones both say: “Why are you action to Edinburgh?”
I attending at them. Which acumen should I give? I accept three basic ones… 1) Because the Anniversary is a abode of enchantment. I aboriginal visited aback I was 17. I arrived, at the end of a month’s InterRailing with my best acquaintance Al McKenzie, we backward with his brother Dave, and I was afraid to see that the accomplished burghal was abounding of cobbles and castles and artists. We saw shows. We fell in adulation abounding times. I vowed to return.
2) Because, for a comedian, the Anniversary is like the brawl in Cinderella. Anniversary year it plucks an alien from obscurity, and gives them riches. In 2003, it was Jimmy Carr, in 2004, it was Russell Brand. I was aftermost actuality in 2008, accomplishing a appearance alleged Dad Rules, based on a cavalcade I’d accounting in The Sunday Times. I didn’t win the bottle slipper, but afterwards I got a tour, and the Dad Rules book awash to Penguin. I charge that to appear again, contrarily I’m action to accept to accomplish suicide, or go into teaching.
3) Because in January my abettor said: “Do you appetite to Edinburgh this year?” I said: “If you can get me Pleasance Below, at 6 pm” and a anniversary afterwards he said: “I’ve got that slot.” Anytime aback afresh I’ve been condemned.
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