Busy like one.
For Robert, who seemed to be beginning to worry about the decidely negative, maudlin and reflective tone of Gas Giant at the moment, I shall attempt to list some of the more positive things going on at the moment:
Ealing Live! Weekly character and sketch comedy at Ealing Studios that I'm doing along with lots of other excellent people like Lucy, Barunka, Simon Farnaby, Oram and Meeton, Gareth Tunley, Alice Lowe and so on and so on. Come and see it.
Projects in development Writing a script for Five; developing ideas for Baby Cow, Steve Coogan and Henry Normal's production company, hopefully for the BBC; a Radio 4 afternoon play treatment for Tiger Aspect; a panel game that Mark and I are working on with Nick Symons at Avalon; and a show about tractor drivers that I'm developing with Simon Farnaby at Ealing.
The Wicker Woman Only one more show to go, Wicker Woman fans! 10th December, Hemel Hempstead. Last weekend we were in the Isle of Wight which was nowhere near as stuck in the 1970s as everyone had told us. Nonsense. I'll be glad to see the back of touring, though.
Ministry of Mayhem Mark and I are still making our way down to Maidstone every alternate week to put some 'funnies' down on paper so that Holly, Stephen and Michael might entertain the kids. We've almost been doing this for a year now; this week is the forty-fifth show. That's a lot of ways to introduce Cakey Sk8. Perhaps we need a break, maybe in the new year.
John Finnemore's Sketch Night Old friend of ours, playwright and Mitchell and Webb Sound contributor John Finnemore is putting on a showcase of his writing and performing skills at the Betsy Trotwood in Farringdon in a couple of weeks, ably supported in his various skits by young bucks such as Kevin Baker and Marianne Levy and old men like me and Mark.
So, as I said, busy.