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Well, I'm not sure what algorithms you've been seeing these past few days, but aren't you a lovely bunch! 🥰
A thread ... enjoy!
A thread ... enjoy!
First of all, thank you to everyone who's reached out recently asking how you can support creative #freelancers like me with everything we've been doing in Lockdown. It will come as no surprise to hear it's been a crap year, but there have been moments of light that have helped. 
Naturally live comedy is currently not an option, so pretty much everything went online. Somehow, most of my work now seems to be for children (but more on that shortly). In the meantime, @HYOC2020 have some great ways to support those in the cultural & creative world.
Joke Thread:
I can't for the life of me work out why it's safe to reopen gyms, but live comedy is still considered dangerous?!?
So here are some jokes about gyms & exercise I wish I was allowed to tell in a live comedy club!
#SaveLiveComedy
I can't for the life of me work out why it's safe to reopen gyms, but live comedy is still considered dangerous?!?
So here are some jokes about gyms & exercise I wish I was allowed to tell in a live comedy club!
#SaveLiveComedy
On my first day at the gym I was given a gun and sent to shoot Nazis in the woods. Not how I'd imagined Resistance Training.
My personal trainer always gives me a Boost! Or a Twix. Whatever he’s got going spare really!
I miss everything about being a #comedian, both on and off stage.
I’ll list some below but as we ask @OliverDowden to #SaveLiveComedy, as a comic or a punter, what do you miss about #LiveComedy?
I’ll list some below but as we ask @OliverDowden to #SaveLiveComedy, as a comic or a punter, what do you miss about #LiveComedy?
I miss not knowing how a gig will go beforehands and then standing on stage telling jokes to a room that will judge a punchline in the moment & not based on any knowledge of how it’s been received before. I miss reading the room and editing as I go to get the best of a set.
I miss the awkward conversations with audience at gigs. The praise when things go well and avoidance of eye contact when you’ve died. I even miss hearing their jokes and being told “here, you can have that one for your skit!”
A few years ago, I saw Stewart Lee at @StandComedyClub in Edinburgh. He was doing a bit about how Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution, but you shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking every animal you ever see is making some political point...
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He said something along the lines of “When you see Ben Fogle holding a swan on Animal Park, don’t assume the swan represents communism. Sometimes a swan is just a swan”...
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Then he pointed at me and said “Name another animal you’d find in a zoo”. I’ve been asked plenty of questions by plenty of comedians and given coherent answers. And, this time, all I had to do was name any animal other than a swan. Without hesitating I blurted out...
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