Much debate and discussion about Brexit – variously described as a disaster or an opportunity depending on perspective and with purported experts lining up on both sides, so what chance the ordinary punter of making any sense of the damn thing? An area that interests me is culture and how varied the people of Europe […]
I have never been woke or trendy. I don’t even remember being down with the kids, when I was a kid and so last week, I felt very current and modern when I was required to wear a dress for a commercial casting. Comics of a certain age who happen to be pale, male and […]
My life is a simple one, in a professional sense of the word, anyway. I make people laugh in return for money. An unusual transaction and not an essential one, like being a surgeon – but there is a demand for laughs and since I have jokes and stories… But this does not mean my […]
The way that live comedy has developed – gigs are on-line nowadays for comics to fight over in public – putting their name down and hoping – and often for gigs which pay less than they did 20 years ago… My favourite alert of late was – “Ipswich – on-stage 8.50. 20 minutes. £80. Ideally, […]
Bit of a landmark for team Holland today with my twins, Sam and Harry marking 20 years on planet earth. This is Motorola and Ericsson to the anyone who remembers my old stand-up routine. “Nokia (Tom) – he’s hands free now… obviously.” I remember doing that routine so clearly at The Comedy Store and elsewhere […]
Dinner last evening with one of my oldest comedy mates. Not a funny man like me? This sounds terribly arrogant and also rude? But what I mean is, he is not a comedian. He is a sound man and in more ways than one. As well as a sound engineer, Graham is in charge of […]
