Amazing show with Aaron Simmonds and Blank Peng plus guests Freddie Anderson and Brooke Bettey plus joke competition, stupid questions and all the usual guff from your host and compere, er, me.
Apparently, Home and Colonial Stores was once one of the UK's biggest retail chains. It started as long ago as 1883 and was still going in the early 1960s - although it wisely rebranded itself as Allied Supplies.
"I know - let's target people in the Venn diagram that shows the crossover between Peter Andre fans and people who'd be interested in playing the banjo."
Photographic evidence of an early flirtation with ventriloquism. Onstage, I got round my complete inability to hide my lip movements by putting on a large false moustache. BTW, I made this dummy myself.
This is brilliant, thanks Greg! Follwoing your suggestion, we're definitely going to do an episode on Foote. Can you recommend any good sources to start us off?
By the way, the photo of Nigel comes from a copy of the Comic Strip LP, donated to the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive @unikentarchives at the University of Kent. And that's the archive that Nigel mentions.
Here's comedian, actor and all round alternative comedy legend Nigel Planer talking about his autobiography Young Once (just out and available now) to Stuart on Loose End on Saturday.
If you have any photos of your (or a friend's) dog wearing a bandana, I'd love it if you could could post them below. It's for a thing I'm working on for Funny Rabbit. Any dog photos you post will be projected behind me as I sing a song I'm working on. Thanks, pals!
