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I feel like Norman No Mates. In an hour I have to head to the Camden Head pub in Islington for the ‘Free & Funny’ open-mic but I’ve just realised the email says, ‘you need to bring along some guests. No guests, no spot.’ Guests create an audience and keep the bar ticking over regardless…
Last night at The Torriano pub in Kentish Town was hell – although Frank didn’t seem too fazed about it. After the performance, I told him I’d felt like giving up again, but he gave me that Derbyshire chuckle and told me to ‘cheer up, lad’. I think I might even be winning his respect….
Thanks to Frank Blunt, I’m back to telling the bee-sting story. I’d tried it in my very first attempt at stand-up – the night we all had to perform after Logan Murray’s weekend course, on Sunday 7th October last year. Looking back at my diary, I’d been pacing up and down the Passeig Colom in…
He turned up yesterday at 10.30am. Frank Blunt, a reporter from Glossop, Derbyshire, on an assignment with May-B Productions for the making of ‘The Blunt Interviews’ – ‘STANDING UP’. I didn’t like the look of him at first. Actually, it’s not that I didn’t like the look of him – but he looked like he’d…
They’re coming to my apartment at around 7.30am this Saturday. A cameraman, a sound operator, and some documentary-filmmaker/narrator, apparently from ‘up North’ – although up North of where, I haven’t a clue. I know nothing about them, only that they’re doing a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ doc on ‘wannabe stand-ups’. I’m not even sure I’m a ‘wannabe stand-up’…
“Hugely entertaining memoir … frequently laugh-out-loud funny.” The Daily Express “Parfitt is no ordinary Englishman. His light touch and neat line in self-deprecating humour perfectly suits this entertaining urban spin on the old tale of Brits having fun under the Spanish sun.” The Sunday Times “A love letter to Madrid … brilliantly captures a truly…