Any stand up worth his salt will tell you that material goes out of date and needs to be dropped. Some routines just become stale. Others become clichéd and feel generic and some are outdone by technology. For years I relied heavily on my fax routine until the internet came along and saw it off….
A big fight this weekend and an interesting one for all sorts of reasons. Firstly, two white men contesting the heavy weight championship of the world. When was the last time this happened – Rocky III aside? One of the boxers is British – a man called Tyson Fury – from an Irish traveller background…
As we get older we tend to develop idiosyncrasies. I do anyway and one of mine is a phobia of mail. The kind that drops on our mat I mean and not in to our in-box. This might be for many reasons. That I don’t receive cheques anymore? Or that I am obviously on various…
Traffic is normally a bad thing and why we have apps to avoid it. Unless we have a blog of course, whereupon traffic is the Holy Grail. On-line – traffic is success and means sales and income. And as the owner of a website and blog, I find myself with a unique opportunity being the…
As an Englishman, this has been a tough Rugby World Cup. Like most of my countrymen, I came to it with high and yet realistic expectations. Not that England would win the thing but that they would acquit themselves well by making a semi-final and possibly even the Final just down the road from where…
I have written on this blog before about the various issues I have with celebrity golf days. Namely the humiliation that comes with being a ‘celebrity’ of dubious calibre and especially so to my playing partners who have paid top dollar in the hope of playing golf with Alan Shearer, Harry Rednapp, Mike Tindall… An…
Funny thing, taking the piss. Because it’s absolutely central to our culture – being able to laugh at ourselves and at others. But only to a point of course. Because only certain piss taking is permissible – and this is a very quick guide. Taking the piss out of one self (self-deprecation) – this is…
On my way in to London last week to appear on The Wright Stuff – someone very eminent on the radio – a social scientist explained that young girls should be given Lego and Meccano as presents and I tutted. What a load of tosh – social engineering nonsense I’m afraid. Give girls Lego and…
I’ve been on cruise ships before – performing in various on-board bars and theatres in my time, but for Mrs H and our 4 boys – this summer’s holiday cruise was a first and I suspect not the last since it was such a roaring success – which it needed to be given how pricey…
John Inverdale is a tough old boot and he’s needed to be. A long career playing rugby and withstanding the normal knocks that come with the game but also the further rugby injuries that come from being the well-known broadcast journalist that he is and the jealousies that this can cause. And as a journalist…
