Not much written in the past few weeks mainly because my time spent typing has been taken up with trying desperately to produce a vaguely amusing play for the forthcoming ADAMSCON in Blackpool.
Not that I don't enjoy it, but it is becoming harder and harder to satisfy the entertainment desires of the convention attendees without going back over some old ground.
Of course the level of humour remains the same; very low with the odd intellectual joke thrown in to keep the geeks happy.
I have abandoned the rhyming couplet Sir Roger plays as after about 10 of them it was difficult surprising the audience and the jokes got repetitive. The Space Opera, Western, Super-hero and Musical genres have all been covered, so that left pretty much nothing left to explore.
So I hope that the people who watch the play appreciate how bloody difficult it is to try to cater for their demanding tastes and endless thirst for comedic entertainment on a saturday night!
What they will also be enjoying is our own home made version of QI. Yes there are already 4 volunteers willing to take part and I get the dubious honour of taking the role of the fantastic Stephen Fry.
Just doing the research for the mini QI we are doing makes one appreciate how much Mr Fry wraps his braincells around. Granted he has the benefit of the autocue but when you are looking into a subject there are so many tangents that the panellists may go off one has to keep a handle on all of them to some extent.
So if you are reading this Mr F, my compliments on your intellectual wrestling with the subjects to which you expose your panellists.
And for my part I hope that Clive, Mark, Sarah and Stevie know an awful lot about 14th century Latvian ceramics and the rise and fall of the Westphalian nobility in the late 18th century otherwise it could be quite a dull event!
Friday 26 February 2010
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