Tickets on myself
With several weeks to go my show is mapped out and I'm looking forward to having a most excellent comedy festival. I was surprised when I worked out I have only been having a go at stand up for four and a bit years. I'll have been having pathetic feelings about live comedy five years this June/July. Before stand up I did a Youtube thing for a few years that was similar to stand up in that it involved making a dick out of myself until I became bitter. And I have been bitter about stand up. There's a sort of magical thinking where you reckon you've made enough of an arse of yourself and things should start going your way. Doesn't work like that. I am sure there are wheel barrows of shit like a fucked train stretching into the future and and I will have to eat all of them. Anyway, who needs dignity? No I'm serious. I hear a lot of talk about "identity". More and more it seems intelligent, thoughtful people believe they have a self that needs to be res...