Our first show of the year, and one that went really well, despite a bit of ring rustiness on my part.
I was super honoured to see my old Guardian colleague Adam in the audience, along with Jeffrey, the amazing and chaos-element lead singer of their band, Applicants (RIP). I sat behind them and I think they had a good time.
As a band, they were always on the anarchic side, and our lineup of lobster-dressed fake Australians, living dolls (Sindy not Barbie), Low Effort Sketches (with me getting to be their voiceover from the side of the stage) and Joz Norris unleashing both his pants and his life’s work was all, I think, in the same spirit that they brought to live performances.
I also did a sketch about Guardian Readers, so it was great to have the appropriate audience for my snobbery-based one upmanship.
My other sketch for this one was Gladiators, which was also, I am told, performed in Brighton by the Treason Show last night. And so a sketch written by me was performed by two separate casts in two separate cities for the first, and probably last, time in my life.
It was all very lovely and I really love doing this. And Paul Creasy stole the show as his increasingly irate co-host Sir Kier Starmer.
See you all at the next one!
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