Fudge, Bath and that
Posted by Lee Kyle on Monday, April 5, 2010
Fuck I was depressed on Saturday night, did a show at the Bath Comedy Festival with Andrew Arrowsmith and, Christ, they hated me. Older crowd than I was used to and some material that normally goes down well, seemed too controversial for the crowd. I just got angry by the end and just sort of berated them, which, in a way, I sort of enjoyed. I'm not stupid enough to not know that it was my fault though.
Changed things up the following night, I wrote some less edgy material but never got round to it. I just had a chat to the crowd instead. Turns out I was good at it, got a good response and felt shit loads better. I showed someone the correct way to apply a headlock, talked to a ginger haired girl whos friends called her 'Rangy because she has hair like an orangutang. There was a group of Romanian girls in who I talked to in Romanian. They pretended not to understand what I was saying, but I contest that it was because they are actually Bulgrain and do not speak Romanian at all.
Then I talked about my favourite flags, believe me this was not planned...People were impressed that I could describe the Romanian flag design, but everyone should be able to do that; It's a good job that I didn't describe the Lesoto flag, there minds would have been blown (I can describe the Lesotho flag too, that is how great I am.). I then got one of the Romanian girls to announce me as 'king of flags' in Romanian. Which she did, and in case you were wondering, she did say it correctly, I know because I am fluent in Romanian. And Farsi.
Full house both nights, not a huge room, but still very pleased with that Andy Arrowsmith went down well the first night and quite well on the second night, although still okay. He was a little disappointed afterwards but used the word 'Cunts' to describe the crowd on no occasions compared to the 539 uses of the word by me the previous night.
Chris Hately played guitar before the show, he was originally the script editor for the Double act Andy and I were working on until we pulled the plug. On Sunday, he accidentally started doing some comedy when he forgot how to play something. What do you know, he was pretty funny. Funny, charming and handsome. Luckily, he is a comic book geek, so this massive flaw keeps him human.
Billy Morrison, well, words almost fail me. I just don't know how he can be that funny by accident. I honestly don't think anyone who saw him this weekend will forget his act. If he ever puts any thought into his act he'll ruin it. Luckily, he's not one for thought.
Sample dialogue:
Billy: (To a man) 'Are you enjoying the Coronation Street stuff'
Man: (Who was laughing lots, but wasn't sure why) No...
Billy: More of an Emmerdale Farm man?
Luke Graves, Mat Ewins and Barboros Denlisoz came in and did sets over the course of the weekend, all excellent, highly recommended...Mat ran away in terror on Saturday night when Billy kept trying to teach him wrestling holds. He was amused at first, then afraid, then running.
Billy couldn't understand how Chinese people were in his hostel room. He also couldn't understand why he wasn't allowed to take flammable liquids on the plane.
Also, Bath has a nice fudge shop.
Best of all, it has a shop called 'Bath Knob Shop.'
Changed things up the following night, I wrote some less edgy material but never got round to it. I just had a chat to the crowd instead. Turns out I was good at it, got a good response and felt shit loads better. I showed someone the correct way to apply a headlock, talked to a ginger haired girl whos friends called her 'Rangy because she has hair like an orangutang. There was a group of Romanian girls in who I talked to in Romanian. They pretended not to understand what I was saying, but I contest that it was because they are actually Bulgrain and do not speak Romanian at all.
Then I talked about my favourite flags, believe me this was not planned...People were impressed that I could describe the Romanian flag design, but everyone should be able to do that; It's a good job that I didn't describe the Lesoto flag, there minds would have been blown (I can describe the Lesotho flag too, that is how great I am.). I then got one of the Romanian girls to announce me as 'king of flags' in Romanian. Which she did, and in case you were wondering, she did say it correctly, I know because I am fluent in Romanian. And Farsi.
Full house both nights, not a huge room, but still very pleased with that Andy Arrowsmith went down well the first night and quite well on the second night, although still okay. He was a little disappointed afterwards but used the word 'Cunts' to describe the crowd on no occasions compared to the 539 uses of the word by me the previous night.
Chris Hately played guitar before the show, he was originally the script editor for the Double act Andy and I were working on until we pulled the plug. On Sunday, he accidentally started doing some comedy when he forgot how to play something. What do you know, he was pretty funny. Funny, charming and handsome. Luckily, he is a comic book geek, so this massive flaw keeps him human.
Billy Morrison, well, words almost fail me. I just don't know how he can be that funny by accident. I honestly don't think anyone who saw him this weekend will forget his act. If he ever puts any thought into his act he'll ruin it. Luckily, he's not one for thought.
Sample dialogue:
Billy: (To a man) 'Are you enjoying the Coronation Street stuff'
Man: (Who was laughing lots, but wasn't sure why) No...
Billy: More of an Emmerdale Farm man?
Luke Graves, Mat Ewins and Barboros Denlisoz came in and did sets over the course of the weekend, all excellent, highly recommended...Mat ran away in terror on Saturday night when Billy kept trying to teach him wrestling holds. He was amused at first, then afraid, then running.
Billy couldn't understand how Chinese people were in his hostel room. He also couldn't understand why he wasn't allowed to take flammable liquids on the plane.
Also, Bath has a nice fudge shop.
Best of all, it has a shop called 'Bath Knob Shop.'