A lot of wind
Well, by accident rather than design I seem to be doing an awful lot of talking this week. Tomorrow evening, I am on the bill of Robin Ince's latest School For Gifted Children night at the Albany in London. I shall, for ten minutes be talking about serial killers again. I am excited to be on the same bill as Stewart Lee, but trepidatious about sharing it with Ben Goldacre and Simon Singh, who, independently, seek to destroy complementary medicine! Then, on Thursday morning, Richard and I are recording the latest Collings & Herrin Podcast a day early. That very evening, I am a late booking on the Radio 4 discussion show Heresy, now presented by Victoria Coren. I am greatly looking forward to that. It's at the Drill Hall, although I suspect tickets will be hard to come by. And, as if I won't be all talked out by then, I am being Mark Kermode on Friday, which means I'm on Simon Mayo's show on Five Live, then on News 24. The weird part is, this is an intensive Not Going Out-writing week too, so I'm spending every other spare second of the time in total, contemplative, hardworking silence. Ssshhhh.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 1:34 PM
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Are we allowed to know which films you're reviewing for the radio/News 24 Andrew?
It's no secret:
News 24:
SEX & THE CITY
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
WELCOME HOME, ROSCOE JENKINS
Five Live:
SEX & THE CITY
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
WELCOME HOME, ROSCOE JENKINS
CHEMICAL WEDDING
ZOO
THE UNWINKING GAZE
Am anticipating you losing the plot on Mayo's show during the Zoo review, and reverting to your podcast chat.
Please somehow mention George the hippo during the piece, for those of us in the know...
That's a cracking line up for the scool for gifted children thing, I'd love to go to that.
the zoo review will be a must listen. The poor unsuspecting people listening to mayo during the school run will be fielding some interesting qustions from the kids.
"mummy what is zoophilia?"
"If he was the postman how did he get a perforated colon?"
"why does a horse have a letterbox?"
Wow, you have an exciting and possibly quite tiring week! Heresy will be great to be on. Lots of cathartic ranting. No one has beaten Stewart Lee's rant about political correctness yet. I still expect David Baddiel to be presenting it when it starts, though. I am very slow. I am not a gifted child in the slightest.
Thanks to anybody here who was in the audience last night at the Albany. Even though I do a lot of public speaking, it's weird for me to do stand-up, even in the all-inclusive, friendly setting of Robin's evenings, and I really enjoyed it, thanks to the warm crowd. The others acts were fantastic too, although I had to leave after I'd done my set as I'm not feeling too well - I'm assuming they were good too. I'd have liked to have see Danielle Ward.
Is Harold Shipman not on your list of greatest serial killers? As a former Greater Mancunian, I feel a misplaced sense of local pride, but a good night all round. Though personally I've found those fishoil capsules to sharpen up my mind a bit.
- Mippy
The funny thing is, Mippy (if funny is the right word), I first performed my Top 10 Serial Killers routine to a private club booked out by my publisher for the book trade, where a number of light-hearted authors each did a short set (including Julian Clary, Mark Thomas, Rhona Cameron, Danny Wallace and others). This is actually available on iTunes or via this page as a series of free video podcasts. Anyway, I decided that night not to mention Shipman, for fear of anyone in the audience knowing somebody whom he killed, which, having killed 250 people, was all too likely. After the gig, which went down well enough for me to contemplate doing it again, I was approached by the cartoonist Tony Husband (he does Yobs in Private Eye and loads of others) and he asked me why I'd omited Shipman. I told him why, and he told me that he did indeed know somebody related to one of Shipman's victims, rather proving my point! (It's a delicate area for comedy, but it really is a subject I'm interested in, and I think people are impressed by my recall of dates and numbers if nothing else!)
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