humour – Tom George

H is for Heckling

I’ve just seen a poster for a comedy night, which included the warning ‘No heckling’. I don’t know if this was a joke, but it made me think… At the comedy nights I’ve attended or watched on a screen, it seems to me that hecklers are almost always trying to add something to the show.Continue reading “H is for Heckling”

‘Isolate With Me’ – written and performed by Tom George

Tracy Ullman back on UK TV

Tracey Ullman was a ubiquitous British entertainer in the early 1980s who was so over-qualified that she managed to be a highly-rated TV comic and have a pop career on the side (which included a delicious cover of Kirsty Macoll’s “They Don’t Know”). But Tracey lost her place in British culture when she married anContinue reading “Tracy Ullman back on UK TV”

My Latest Hero

I was delighted to discover this guy recently – Reggie Watts, if it is possible to define him, is a surreal stand-up comedian and improvising musician, who flips hilariously from one genre and persona to another effortlessly. At one moment he is straight-facedly delivering what seems to be a science lecture or TED talk, butContinue reading “My Latest Hero”

The Grime Syndicate (a short story)

All the tea in all the world could never compete with the feeling I experienced some years ago in a single, solitary moment, which was seared in my memory for all time and now resides at the forefront of my consciousness. It happened when I was in the final year of my apprenticeship as aContinue reading “The Grime Syndicate (a short story)”