Glenn Moore ranks the show titles of Glenn Moore
Published: Monday 25th July 2022
Another year, another stupid show title. It's become a personal tradition to have extremely convoluted, dumb names for shows each year of the Fringe.
I've had five in total, not including dozens I've rejected or had rejected on my behalf (my agent insisted it was not worth the alphabetised brochure joke to call my show Zaaaaaaaargh, It's Glenn Moore), and I've been delighted when comedians have suggested potential titles, all of which I want to use in the future (from Adam Kay's Glenn The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie That's A Moore-ay, to Ania Magliano's suggestion of Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore?).
But where do the past shows stand on the Moore chart? Let's take a look.
5) The Very Best Of Belinda Carlisle
I have nothing but regret for this one. What was just meant to be an absurd title for a show that at no point mentioned the 80s singer spiraled wildly out of control when not only was I warned legal action could be taken against me for promising such an event, but some grass dumped me in it and went to Belinda herself. Bad stuff all round.
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4) Glengarry Glen Glenn
The title of my 2016 debut was one I was really pleased with until I got to Edinburgh and found out surprisingly few people know what on earth Glengarry Glen Ross is.
People asked why the middle Glen was spelt with just the one 'n'. Why was there a Garry? That's before we even get to how quickly the show title dated when just months later it became grossly unfashionable to name anything after a Kevin Spacey film.
3) Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore
Similar fate as above on this one. I thought it was fairly apparent this was a reference to the incredibly famous Rose Royce song, until on maybe 11,000 occasions in Edinburgh people told me what a weird reference to the Take That song Love Ain't Here Anymore my show title was.
WHY WOULD I NAME MY SHOW AFTER THAT AND ALSO GET THE TITLE SLIGHTLY WRONG, HOW CARELESS DO YOU THINK I AM.
2) Glenn Glenn Glenn, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It
I liked this one - the highlight of my Fringe was not me getting nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, but instead getting to see Steve Coogan read it out in full when listing the nominees. The downside was the maybe dozen or so people who sincerely tried to correct me on the open goal I'd missed, by not simply calling it the more apt Moore, Moore, Moore, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It.
1) Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I'm Sixty Moore
I don't think I could have a title longer, or more cumbersome, than this. It's a title that makes sense on zero levels. It's difficult to even say, and from my own experience 10 seconds ago, it's a nightmare to type out in full. It's taken up so much of the word count in the Fringe brochure, I think my blurb just says "Glenn's new show." People ask what I did for months of lockdown. I tell them I wrote that. It's also, by quite some distance, my best show, so if you like my stuff, do come and see it.
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