Recording this show today – to include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend – and my choice – the funniest novel I have ever read – The Snapper by Roddy Doyle…
one ofĂ‚Â my clever people has set this up – and this is to see if it works?
Last night, the whole world felt relief for the unfortunate Marcelo when Brazil drew levelĂ‚Â and then went on to win. But the most relieved Brazilian player was hopefullyĂ‚Â Fred because when Oscar scored – it rendered his cheating penalty null and void. Like everyone else, I could see that the referee had called it wrong and…
Or it could an auspicious dayĂ‚Â ifĂ‚Â the book turns out to a winner. A flier as they say orĂ‚Â bestseller? In book shops I am always struck by just howĂ‚Â many books lay claim to beingĂ‚Â theĂ‚Â international number one best seller… Anyway, today 12th June 2104 – I have finished the first draft of my fourth novel, Open Links….
All comics will write a sit-com. And I mean ALL comics. And almost all of these shows will never get made. And of those that do – most of them are poor and last just one series. Over the years, I have written many sit-coms and tomorrow – after some 20 years, at 10pm on…
Interesting thing being famous – or trying to be/remain famous. I am not terribly bright. I am certainly not very well educated and what I have gleaned over the years, I have trouble retaining. And given how we revere ‘intelligence’ in our modern society – the idea of appearing on a television show designed to…
We are told never to lie in life and particularly in an interview – but of course this is not possible. In a job interview, most of us will fail at this as soon as we are asked the inevitable question, so why do you want this job? This is because in the main, we…
There are some big football stories kicking about today. The sacking of David Moyes as Manchester United manager is a shock but only in so far as the Premier League is now desperately short of Scottish managers as well as players. Then there is the Chelsea fixture this evening when all football fans with a…
Sorry if this appears to be mawkish – but I wanted to write a timely memorial to a boy who was at school with me. Joe McCarthy was a year younger than me. His elder brother Jeremy was in my year and was a good friend of mine, as was Joe until something happened and…
On Good Friday – the day that Jesus died – I got to thinking about the people who have passed from my world of comedy and I thought it would be appropriate to pay my brief tribute to each of them… Z Or Zed. I am not really sure how it was spelt. Z is…