From my perspective, this year has been about two things thus far: crushing celebrity deaths, and improvised comedy. Anyone who either knows me or has read around this website will know that my main focus for the last few years has been on improvised comedy, and developing The Same Faces as a group and a brand (whilst also doing my best to keep...
MAJOR SPOILER WARNING: Do not read this if you haven't seen The Force Awakens. Seriously, there's going to be so many spoilers in this post. No kidding, I literally write out the plot at one point, so I say again: DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE. Still here? Ok... you've been warned. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Ret...
It is claimed that the blank page is the thing writers fear most; that starting a project is the most difficult part. That is - SPECTACULARLY - not my problem. As I sit typing this, I currently have many projects quite happily begun, but woefully unfinished. Many of them are quite good, as the artistry of that last sentence really ought to reveal. I regul...
THIS POST CONTAINS *MAJOR* SPOILERS – DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THE HIMYM FINALE YET. Throughout my life, I have seen relatively few finale episodes for sitcoms. Those that I have (Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, The Office, etc) have been fairly typical in their desire to tie up all the loose threads, move the characters on in their lives (...
This weekend, I organised two nights of Leicester Comedy Festival preview shows in Northampton. This included the first full airing of my new show, Tom Young’s Got Issues; I had mixed results... If you’re not a comedian, it’s really difficult to explain to you all the problems that writing and performing a new show presents, but here’s the main o...
It’s that time again. Today, I received my confirmation email from Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival, asking me to formally register my show for next year. That means I’ve now got five months to put the new show together, and I’ll try to use this blog to keep you up-to-date with how it’s going. Ahh, but where to start? Well, the first thing t...
Last week, I had one of the best compèring gigs of my career. It was at my own monthly night in Northampton, which, considering it’s August, had an unexpectedly full audience. I always try to do new material at this gig – partially to spare my regular punters from hearing repeats, and partially to force myself to write more. However, due to having ...