Well, well, well

Well, I’m sort of back. I haven’t posted on the blog for a while because I was away doing other things that humans are meant to do. Like holiday and spend time with the family. But I’m back now and I can announce it. If I announced I was going anywhere, that’d be a bad idea and we’d get burgled and it’d be my entire fault.


So, here we are again. You can see there’s a new feature on the blog that I placed before I left. It was up to you to see any changes on the blog. It keeps you on your toes and checking the place.

One thing just struck me. This whole blog isn’t about getting a load of page views. It isn’t about seeing who visits, although sometimes it’s interesting to see the countries. It shouldn’t be about just for myself but for you guys who read the blog. Occasionally I mention how many views I’ve got or how much the blog is up or down for that week. But it doesn’t really matter does it? It doesn’t matter who views the blog, how many times they’ve viewed it, or whether they’re from Portugal. What matters is that the people who read this blog, enjoy reading it and it’s even better when they can take a little something from the blog to brighten up their day, make them feel normal, or puts a smile on their face. Something that they can maybe relate to. That they can maybe relate to the difficulties of actually sitting down and working on a project or hobby. Or the difficulties of finding the motivation to sit and write a post for the blog that can be interesting or fun.

The blog shouldn’t just be a place for me to sit and type out my thoughts but it should be a little corner of the internet for all the readers to sit and spend five or ten minutes to read or comment that brightens up their day. I’m not saying I’m guaranteed to do that, but if I can do that, it makes it special.

I shouldn’t just do it for myself as a quaint sort of therapy. It should be for you people. It isn’t about becoming famous or anything. If I’m destined for that, then fair enough. I’m not going to try. I enjoy what I do and if it becomes popular then so be it.

It’s people today who think they’re funny and go on the TV. The people from the backstreets of comedy who stand on the TV or sit behind a quiz show desk like Mock the Week and pretend to be funny. Who are these people and why are they invading my TV? Instead of trying to squeeze out the unfunniest people in the UK onto our stages and TV, why can’t we sit back and enjoy our legends and our favourites who are underrated? But again the counter argument would be, “What are we going to do when all these ‘legends’ die, become unfunny, or just want to shy away from the public? What are we supposed to do then? We’d have such an unfunny world!”

I say, we sit back and watch as new comedians and comediennes develop into their own way. It is us, the general public, who push and push and push and therefore we now have a whole bunch of just average and below comedians/comediennes who are generally all the same. They stand up on stage and rattle off a billion jokes per minute. So fast, you don’t even have time to laugh, and if you did, you wouldn’t even bother it’s so horrible. Comedy these days is all the same. There are some very special comedy acts though, that are still about. Some new, and some original, with some great ideas. I’m thinking of the League of Gentlemen. It’s original but new (at the time). A series of different sketches all brought together by a common denominator. A little town called Royston Vasey. Genius!

But ladies and gentleman, maybe I am a fool. I hear you cry at your screens, “You aren’t looking in the right places! You haven’t been watching the right things! This is all wrong!” My dears, please, calm down. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place, maybe I’m desperately trying to grab onto the last of our comic geniuses without moving on with the times. Maybe we should all just move on with the times and let those ol’ comic geniuses rest but not forgot them and instead embrace the current comedy. But still, if I tried to do that, I’d still remark that they are just all the same.

My little possums! I call upon thou, and thou, and thou over there. We need something new. We need something different. We need a new take on things. We need a new format. We need another step up in comedy. We need something radical. Something that little bit more. Something genius. And it better be flaming well good!