How do you know you made it?

Let's face it most of us on this site are clawing at that slippery ladder called fame. Hungry, desperate relentless.

Writers, standups, actors even trolls. We're all desperate for a lick of that sweet cherry called success.

So how do you know you made it? Is it 5 seconds on the BBC or your first YouTube clip with double figures?

Sootyj's approval list is.

1 Vic Reeves showing him his cock on Shooting Stars.
2 Singing a song about drugs with Elmo on Sesame Street.
3 Knighting the queen.
4 Spit roasting Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street.
5 Beating up Russel Crowe.
6 His hideous dangerwank autopsy photos being sold to the highest bidder.

Beat that lot you rebels!

Seriously, that is a great question. Success means different things to different people.

Definitely the dangerwank.

Why is Sesame Street on there twice ? Do you just really want to be on Sesame Street ?

1.) I buy Four Poofs & a Piano & they follow me everywhere singing strange little songs snippets that vaguely relate to the people I'm talking to at the time.

2.) After My Sitcom goes global they invent the Nobel prize for Comedy

3.) David Bussell Calls me by my first name.

Quote: Nat Wicks @ August 5 2010, 8:44 PM BST

Definitely the dangerwank.

Why is Sesame Street on there twice ? Do you just really want to be on Sesame Street ?

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Seriously is there any greater sign of success than Sesame Street guest spot?

I even have my own costume.

I'm going to be "Big Turd"

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ August 5 2010, 8:44 PM BST

1.) I buy Four Poofs & a Piano & they follow me everywhere singing strange little songs snippets that vaguely relate to the people I'm talking to at the time.

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I thought they did that anyway?

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ August 5 2010, 8:44 PM BST

3.) David Bussell Calls me by my first name.

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Quote: sootyj @ August 5 2010, 8:48 PM BST

I thought they did that anyway?

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Yeah.. but the songs are are rarely relevant

I think we are misled about the nature of success. Ultimately, we all want to be happy, contented, satisfied...those sorts of things. But these aren't the sorts of qualities which are easy to measure. Instead, we are presented with Rich Lists, where the hundred richest people are listed as some sort of aspirational totem; or we marvel at the list of credits awarded to those in the creative industries. There's no Happiness List. The happiest person in Britain is completely anonymous.

Jeez who mentioned the H word?

I don't want to be happy, I want to be succesful.

Happiness is for bunny rabbits and the retarded.

Quote: Nogget @ August 5 2010, 9:38 PM BST

I think we are misled about the nature of success. Ultimately, we all want to be happy, contented, satisfied...those sorts of things. But these aren't the sorts of qualities which are easy to measure. Instead, we are presented with Rich Lists, where the hundred richest people are listed as some sort of aspirational totem; or we marvel at the list of credits awarded to those in the creative industries. There's no Happiness List. The happiest person in Britain is completely anonymous.

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Deep, maaaaan.

Quote: sootyj @ August 5 2010, 9:41 PM BST

Jeez who mentioned the H word?

I don't want to be happy, I want to be succesful.

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You want success because you hope it will make you happy. By "happy", I mean any positive feeling, like satisfaction, joy, ecstasy... not clapping hands desperately to "Kum Bah Ya".

And that's just arrogant. Besides being serious in a silly thread is akin to keeping your pants on at an orgy.

Yeh your being decent, but what are you doing there in the first place?

Quote: sootyj @ August 5 2010, 9:46 PM BST

And that's just arrogant. Besides being serious in a silly thread is akin to keeping your pants on at an orgy.

Yeh your being decent, but what are you doing there in the first place?

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Getting a mental image for the eight hour wankathon you're going to enjoy when you get home.

Quote: sootyj @ August 5 2010, 9:41 PM BST

Happiness is for bunny rabbits and the retarded.

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Rubbish.

Bunny Rabbits are never happy. Thats why they are always staring at car headlights searching for the answers to life.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 5 2010, 9:49 PM BST

Getting a mental image for the eight hour wankathon you're going to enjoy when you get home.

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That is the single most selfish thing I've ever read.