The Sickest You've Ever Been on Stage?

My very first set, which I do have on YouTube and I may be brave enough to share one day, I was fighting a fever and a nasty sore throat. But I got through the set, got an encouraging amount of laughs, and I couldn't speak for two days straight afterwards.

I know that a lot of professionals really have to bite the bullet and there are stories abound of singers excreting all manner of bodily fluids in the name of the dollars and pounds they are being paid to perform.

What's the sickest you've ever been while performing?

I made a joke about your mum,

Was that while I was getting sick from plowing yours?

You stink at farming

I know, look what my seed grew into.

Did a gig once when I had proper flu, not just a bad cold, and about 10 minutes into a 20 minute set I started feeling really dizzy and the whole thing started to feel like an out-of-body experience.

Somehow I managed to finish my set, although even straight afterwards I had no real memory of how it'd gone or what I'd done.

I was living in London at the time and I managed to get the tube home where I stayed in bed for nigh on 24 hours sweating out the fever.

At one point I was having so many feverish thoughts running through my head I got up and wrote them down, believing them to be comedy gold, however when I looked at them in a more lucid state I realised it was all complete and utter gibberish.

I can only imagine that the whole experience was like a bad acid trip, not something I care to repeat any time soon.

Confess Tony you sold those feverish, gibberish, thoughts to Micheal Macintyre

Quote: Tony Cowards @ 3rd July 2014, 10:20 AM BST

At one point I was having so many feverish thoughts running through my head I got up and wrote them down, believing them to be comedy gold, however when I looked at them in a more lucid state I realised it was all complete and utter gibberish.

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And thus was born Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.

damn your example is better than mine Nogget

begrudringly booyah

Sorry, I wouldn't have posted that if I'd noticed you'd already done the gag.

Haha, both of those made me laugh, but I think you've hit on something Nogget, this can be the only answer as to how Noel Fielding's show was written.

Quote: Nogget @ 3rd July 2014, 12:47 PM BST

Sorry, I wouldn't have posted that if I'd noticed you'd already done the gag.

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don't be silly the setup was obvious, you got the better punchline

I shall fall on my razor sharp wit in defeat

Quote: Nogget @ 3rd July 2014, 12:15 PM BST

And thus was born Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.

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