Archive for June, 2008
Links, Plugs and Elderly Men
Posted by Paul | Filed under 'Career', Comedy
Just a quick one tonight..
Found this from Peggster.net (go to ‘Simon’s Blog’ and read the June 25th entry) - if the US remake of Spaced was going to go ahead (which, thankfully, it seems won’t happen), it appears there were plans afoot for Pegg, Hynes et al. to shoot a small clip in response. Thus, we would have had the nearest thing to a new episode, the (draft of) script can be read via the link.
Yet another link for you - On the way home from work each day, I pick up a copy of thelondonpaper (not the London Lite, which is mostly rubbish). The reason I plump for thelondonpaper though, is based mainly on the inclusion of the superb Em cartoon, which always gives me a good laugh at the end of the day. There is a website with the archive of the cartoons, but it’s at least a week behind the strips published in the paper. Still, well worth a look - now why can’t we have an RSS feed to get daily updates? Please?
Quick plug, there’s about a month to go until my final comedy gig (i.e. the last one that I’ve still got booked) - So it’s almost time to start stressing over material again, but at least this time I should be able to prepare more. It does seem to depend a lot on the audience, though - so, if you’re reading this, come on down to the Monkey Business club in Kentish Town on July 31st and laugh at me. Otherwise I may never appear in public again.
{EDITOR} Unfortunately there then followed a hilarious piece of tube-related satire in which a sign calling for seats to be given to the less-able-to-stand was given a twist, hence the ‘eldery men’ of the title. At the moment, however, I can’t seem to upload the picture properly, so until then, you’ll just have to imagine how funny it was.
Start from the beginning, skip to the end…
Posted by Paul | Filed under Blog etc., Comedy, TV, Tech
…and so begins the start of my (hopefully semi-) regular posting. Few things to mention today:
1. iPlayer 2.0 finally launched. It’s looking pretty good - having worked on the 1.0 version, I know that some of these features have been talked about for a while, so it’s great to see them finally out there. Of particular interest to me, and a feature which others might have missed, is the ability to watch/listen to something, leave the page and then come back to the same point automatically when you return.
I’ve not tried it out yet, but given that I like to watch stuff from iPlayer on the Wii whilst I’m having my breakfast, but I rarely have time to finish a whole programme, this will be a godsend, for instance when watching programmes like Doctor Who Confidential or…
2. MeeBox - The latest offering from Adam Buxton (of Adam & Joe fame) - reminds me of a cross between ‘The Fast Show‘, ‘The Adam and Joe Show‘ (of course) and Armando Iannucci’s ‘Time Trumpet‘. It’s apparently been a year in the making (or at least in the scheduling - and it’s pretty good. Some bits are funnier than others, but it’s great to see older characters making a reappearance (BaadDad, the alien from Takeover TV etc.), but I can’t help think there’s something missing…Joe?
Now that’s probably unfair, since I’m sure they’d rather not be seen as being joined at the hip, but I get the feeling that, given the short nature of the sketches, it loses something when Mr. Buxton appears in *every* one of them, almost straight away…
Worth checking out, though…(available until Monday morning)
3. Although it looks like I’ve got my arse into gear just as she’s leaving on a summer holiday, I just wanted to give a mention to Caroline Clifford’s superb “Local Girl’s Day in Pictures” - a very funny, appealing blog made up (mostly) of cartoons describing the life of a typical North-East Londoner (I hope that’s an fair description…)