Today I am meeting with Hal Cuttenden – to advance the sitcom for BBCRadio 4 that I am writing – and yet perversely, Hal is somehow starring in. This is clearly an anomaly that I am...
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This really happened…
Sitting in my car at a service station on my way to a gig that pays the same money as it did 20 years ago I was feeling somewhat disconsolate. In show business there are...
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No night off…
With no gig last night, at 4pm yesterday I was planning to watch the football with my boys and then have a night in. My wife was taking photographs at a local school ball and...
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Going to the cinema…
Exciting morning for the Holland family – as Tom and his mum head in to Soho to watch a cast and crew screening of HOW I LIVE NOW – can’t imagine how exciting this must...
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All musicals have a core of dedicated fans – many of whom watch ‘their chosen’ show more than is normal, at least from an economic perspective. Billy Elliot has a legion of such devotees calling themselves the Billy Elliot Forum. Over the years of Tom doing the show, I encountered many such members and never felt......
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Driving to a gig last night in Walthamstow at Guffaw Comedy – a club I have never played – my head was full of other stuff. I knew that I was closing – I had an idea that I was doing longer than 20 minutes and that there was a rumour that a ‘special comedy......
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Calling all readers – my latest novel is free to anyone with a knidle or a tablet or even a smart phone. I hope you enjoy it. To get the book – follow this link – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/270620 and then plug in the following code – JU73C...
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There is much talk at present lamenting the standard of the British sit-com. I haven’t seen Ben Elton’s new effort – The Wright Way – but knowing Ben’s work and having read his books, I suspect it is better than the detractors are saying – who incidentally all seem far too celebratory and gleeful to......
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This morning I was bleary eyed – sorting out various bowls of various cereals – frying eggs to try and coincide with beige toast – all whilst keeping an ear on BBC Radio5. My boys and their breakfast squabbles are always louder than the radio but this morning, somehow my antennae latched on to a name. It......
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This Saturday was a great night – but it should have been better. Anthony Nolan is a charity that I have supported for many years. It is a very worthy cause with the simple aim to save people’s lives. Each year, they stage a ball in The Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane.......
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The Fan and the Fox