Does everybody live in Reading?
Writing Goals for 2009 Page 5
Quote: Graham Bandage @ December 31 2008, 10:37 AM GMTDoes everybody live in Reading?
'Live' is probably the wrong word. 'Exist' or 'survive' are probably better expressions. 
Also, can I just say again I don't live in Reading and I'm not from Reading. I just lived there for a few years a long time ago.
Yeah, but when Reading gets into your soul...
Quote: Graham Bandage @ December 31 2008, 10:49 AM GMTYeah, but when Reading gets into your soul...
...it slowly corrodes until you're just an empty shell who shuffles along, starting punch-ups at closing time 'down town' and who frequents a sinister theatre shaped like a fifty pence piece. And then you visit the Oracle to have the juice sucked out of your eyes...
I went to Reading University. Nobody taught me comedy.
Obviously.
Quote: Griff @ December 31 2008, 11:01 AM GMTDolly are you 100% sure that the fighty persons you describe, ie the ones who are always publicly pissing in the street that leads from Broad Street to the Riverside, are frequent theatre-goers?
The theatre-goers are turned into mindlessly violent yobs by the depressing concrete bleakness of The Hexagon and its surrounds.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ December 31 2008, 11:09 AM GMT
The theatre-goers are turned into mindlessly violent yobs by the depressing concrete bleakness of The Hexagon and its surrounds.
It was nicer where I lived.
Quote: Griff @ December 31 2008, 11:14 AM GMTAnd, to be fair, by having to watch the shit that's usually on at the Hexagon, like The Barron Knights or An Evening With Derek "Psychic Ghost Hunter" Acorah.
Lol. It's quite a good venue for watching comedy though. And I knew the girl who named it.
Quote: Marc P @ December 31 2008, 11:08 AM GMTI went to Reading University. Nobody taught me comedy.
They might have had comedy courses back in the day though; I remember (male) uni students used to come and streak at our school for a laugh. Oh, how we laughed...
Quote: Griff @ December 31 2008, 11:17 AM GMTHowever did she come up with such an original name for a hexagonal theatre in Reading?
Genius. I wonder what some of the other suggestions were?
I just had a rejection email from Private Eye.
So I plan to crack that one in 2009.
And get something on the radio.
Quote: bigfella @ December 31 2008, 12:22 PM GMTI just had a rejection email from Private Eye.
So I plan to crack that one in 2009.
And get something on the radio.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you send to Private Eye and how did you submit?
Sorry, didn't mean to vanish. Didn't reply sooner due to being in Edinburgh over Hogmanay, and not getting to a computer a lot. I guess leaving the town for major events like this tells you my feeling on the delightful Reading!
Yes, I'm the Gill who ran the Coopers gig, which is sadly now no more. (If anyone knows of a pub with a function room, do let me know!)
Tuesdays - I have no idea of the morning TV (honest!), but the credit-crunch struck Evening Post dropped the regular article I used to write on Tuesday mornings. I can make up for it by selling a few 118 gags each week. So there's really no excuse. Until I think of one.
Oh, and whoever mentioned Reading Uni courses in comedy - there are indeed, and this term's is "Getting Confident with Comedy". For those of you living in buildings that pretty, they cunningly hide stuff like this from you on the London Road campus, in Continuing Education. They wouldn't want you to know there are fun courses around. So don't tell the undergrads!
And checking in, I wrote 8 gags yesterday, so that's a start...