Monday Monday

Yawn, crawled out of bed at 10am after David Isaac texted me telling me to get up as we have a meeting with Matt from Channel K about a sketch show we're working on.

So I got showered and dressed, optimistically put on shorts and a t-shirt. Silly move. Spent a few minutes with Maggie - who slept through again last night - and pottered off into town to meet David and Matt both at a lovely little coffee shop in the Northern Quarter, called Drip.

It's a nice place run by two women who I used to live next door to, the coffee is lush but the sandwiches... The sandwiches seem to have been made by someone who has no concept, whatsoever, of the the size and mechanics of the human mouth.

They're cut from thick Ciabatta sliced at acute angles which are then toasted to ensure the edges become razor sharp, making it impossible to bite into one without losing a lip.

We've got a brief to write a few things for the end of the week.

Last night I watched Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind - which I thought was excellent, if a little bit annoying.

I also watched one of The Last Word Monologues which Hugo Blick wrote for BBC1 recently. It was a big help actually. The one I watched last night was 29 minutes long, it was Bob Hoskins playing a hitman waiting for a victim. I worked it out that there were five different stories threaded throughout the monologue. I'd be interested to know if he plans each of these seperately, you know... six minutes a story... or if... I dunno. I'd have to plan them all seperately.

I think I'm starting to understand monologues now. I'm still interested to hear how he structures them. I'm calling him on Wednesday now at 9.30am.

Tonight I'm gigging at the Iguana Bar in Chorlton. It's an odd gig, it's run for years, God knows how, it's never a easy. I suppose it's testament to the love the punters and management have for Des Sharples the MC, and booker . Last time I was there someone threatened to batter me because I did a joke about ginger hair. The threat of physical violence can always add a certain frisson to a comedy show.

I think I've worked out what I need to do to my monologue. Shall I rewrite it or work on stuff for tonight??? I know I'll have a game of Call of Duty 4 and decide.