FUCKING YES! I got tickets to see Jimmy Carr soon, he's doing his stuff like a mile from where I live... which is ace.

Don't like him very much though, don't find him too funny, but screw it I'M GOING TO SEE HIM!

Alos he's meant to be quite small... anyone know if that's true?

I am going to see Jimmy Carr at the Fringe. Bill Bailey the week before, hopefully Dylan Moran the week before that and Ross Noble the week after Carr! My head may explode. Only 2 of deffo bookings thus far though.

Jimmy Carr probably would be small to me, since I am a lady-giant. Only men 6 ft and above are tall to me. I may have to pinch his cheeks.

Edit: I am not actually that keen on Jimmy carr, he is okay, I saw him last year and laughed my tits off, but he was first on, and all the comedians except the shit female one kicked his ass.

Thanks for the words folks.

Don't know if Die Clatterschenkenfietermaus are doing Edinburgh this year but if they are then go see em. Toby Hadoke's Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf should be well worth a watch as well, he's a lovely fella with a sharp wit and a disturbingly encyclopedic knowledge of Dr Who which he will no doubt utilise to it's fullest degree in his debut Edinburgh show. I'm going to a few preview shows over the coming weeks and I'll report in with my half-witted verdicts.

I did notice the Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf when I had a little peek over the listings, as well as a few others. It is just a case of trying to convince my friends to go see it too without endless "Oh no, just some Dr Who thing" moans. Only three full days toplay at the Fringe really isn't enough, I may have to take some more time off at the start of August to take full advantage of living not to far away.

Edit: Die Clatterschenkenfietermaus are there. And the venue is in an awesome place, will be so very easy to "randomly" turn up and see a performance.

Thanks all.

Small as in short? No, he's average height.

But then maybe he wears lifts.

He's not particularly small. He does walk like he has something stuck halfway up his ass though.

I went up to the Charle and the Chocolate Factory premiere last year and saw him wandering around Leicester Square in a pair of sunglasses, but didn't want to disturb him.

Then on the way out of the 8 Out Of 10 Cats recording in March he came out of the studio door so I walked past him in the corridor. He seemed to have a lot of make-up on that time. A LOT of make-up. His face was completely pale and powdered. I know they have to do that for TV, but I've seen other people at a fair few TV recordings and none of them looked like they'd been dipped in flower.

I'm off to see Dylan Moran in York next thursday.

Should be a laugh.

Where are they on at?

Flour***

(Oops)

They seem to be playing the Cafe Royal, which is a pub/restaurant type of place, just behind Burger King on Princes Street.

I think they just did the Leith Festival up this way as well. I got an email through offering me cheap tickets which I never got round to taking up.

So they are. Keith Carter's on at the same venue. I'd check him out as well.

I am now trying to work out some sort of timetable of events so I can fit in as many shows as I can.

Shame we only have three days to play with.

When I get paid I may book some tickets for a few and just tell the girls they were recommendations and see how many I can fit in.

At least the bulk of the venues are pretty close together by waking terms. The closer to the centre the better.

Oh my god! I'm working that show! Where are you sitting?

Whoa, cool.

Erm...the seventh row, can't remember the seat now but I think it's 26.

Stalls? Dress circle? Grand circle? I'll be on the dress circle level, in my funeral director's uniform. I managed to blag a watch of it, although I'll be doing crappy stuff like stopping people from taking photos and selling ice cream.

Just to clarify, I will be selling the ice cream, not stoppping other people from doing it.

Erm...Stalls Row G Seats 1 and 2.

And hey atleast you get to see it.

And you'll have to give me a free Icecream

On Friday I went to a free taping of The David Steinberg show for TV land. His guest was John Stewart. They just bullshitted & talked for the hour or so. Both of them were so interesting & funny. John Stewart is really a natural.

Blunder

We should have known how bad this would be when it was described thus:

Blunder is a new crackpot sketch show for Channel 4 full of dirty berks, silly sods and cockwombles. If you like goofballs and bozos then cop a load of this!

But we decided to chance it, persuaded by a reasonable cast of comic actors including Rhys Thomas, David Mitchell, Simon Farnaby, and everyone's favourite paperboy Tony Way.

I wish we hadn't. First off, the whole audience was treated like an 18-30 holiday group, forced to dance to YMCA, piggy-backing fellow audience members, and goaded into laughing like idiots at any old guff. Needless to say we remained stoney-faced and unimpressed.

The compere was Butlins meets Working-Men's Club all the way, full of inappropriate and unfunny pier-end innuendos, with the casual, unintelligent cruelty you just knew meant he was a dyed-in-the-wool, sexist, racist Jim Davidson wannabe. I really didn't think this sort of schtick passed as entertainment anymore, but the brainless proles around us were howling with laughter and gagging to be seen on camera.

Half an hour was all we could bear. We managed to catch the attention of a member of floor staff, and told her we wanted to leave sharpish. After one more dreadful scene we made our exit.

Feeling empowered, and experiencing a bond only trauma victims who have survived some terrible tragedy have, we had a few pleasant drinks on the Thames, before going home to bathe our brains in mind-bleach.

I've enrolled for a few counselling sessions to get over it.

That sounds terrible.

Why would these people lend their names to this cack?

I hope you feel better soon

My friends have invited me to go and see Blunder with them... I think I might give it a miss

But today I got my tickets for That Mitchell And Webb Look on July 14th! The same week I see Bill Bailey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and go to Australia. Not a bad week at all

Really, do.


We are seeing Bill Bailey too! Can we come to Australia?

And tell your friends to miss it as well.

You're welcome to come to Australia if you have a couple of thousand pounds

Bill Bailey is going to be fantastic. I saw your photo with him JJJ on the Boosh board, fantastic stuff.

Yeah, he was so pleased to have one taken with me, bless him.

I know that if I get to meet him I'll probably make a total twat out of myself. But he seems like such a nice bloke, so he'd probably just laugh then run.

Tommy Tiernan for $35...is it worth it?

Oh, Ross Noble is playing locally in the venue just 5 minutes from my house. Very unexpected.

Also, very very happy.

And I'm off to Dylan Moran.

Even better I can get in for free and backstage. But I might not bother taking up that offer and buy a few seats for me and my mates.

Well Dylan Moran was fantastic. Stupidly funny, although he was only on for about an hour and twenty minutes .

And Whixie I wanted to come and get Icecream but I got talking to a friend from school and next thing I know Dylan's back on so sorry for not coming to see you.

Also the person that shouted out "No don't go back to a crappy hotel. I love you." was said friend

Hmm... he's good, but not sure if I'd pay 20 quid* to see him.


*roughly, at current exchange rate

Yeah, I think I might pass on that.

Last night I did see Daniel Kitson - Stories for the Wobbly Hearted

Excellent, of course. I have been waiting to him for quite a while now. The theatre sat about 40 people in a very intimate setting. He just sat in a chair, lit by lamps. We sat in the front row which made me literally only about 2 feet away from him. Again, excellent.

Ooh I saw him once on telly and thought he was very good.

I have only seen Tommy Tiernan on telly too, but he's very ace indeed!



Could you bear to post it up here too? I haven't been there for ages, if anything Booshy has happened in Boosh world, I've missed it.

Saw that in Edinburgh last year, then went to his stand up show straight after. That was a very good evening.

Just booked for his new storytelling show at this year's Fringe.

Here's hoping he'll come back & bring that one here too.

Cool. Jessop and I are going to see one of his final warm-ups of it at Riverside Studios before he leaves for the Festival.

Glad you enjoyed it, rabbity. I told Rachel to go...did you make it, widz?

Not sure how many of you are aware of this:



http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/131783.html



I got row C

^ Ooh nice! I'm seeing him in a mere 12 days!

I'm so jealous! Bill Bailey's ace!


I'm off to see Ross Noble in October!! 3 rows from the front!!

Daniel Kitson is previewing his Edinburgh show on Saturday at a cost of £2.

Looks like I'm going to see Dylan Moran and possibly Mark Thomas in August.

oO Me too!! Oo

At the Pleasance?

Cheers for the heads up Ghost, just booked a couple of tickets.

I should hide my credit card when I've had a drink.

Yep!

Anybody seen Dylan Moran is playing 3 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo in Sept?

Not sure I can be bothered... he seemed pissed off last time I saw him, wasn't onstage for particularly long and was quite rudebackstage to some of his fans... so I felt slightly shortchanged.

Just saw a preview of Andrew O'Neill's Winston Churchill Was Jack The Ripper and it was well good. He's a very funny fella. Go have a look see if you're up at the festival.

Just got my tickets for 'That Mitchell and Webb Look' on 21st! I'm happy now. Roll on Saturday for Bill Bailey.

Saw the first performance of material from Daniel Kitson's new storytelling show today. It only amounted to around 15 minutes but he explained the pretty much fully fledged ideas he has in mind but hasn't written yet. The rest of the time was spent making us laugh in inimitable Kitson fashion.