The Unstoppable Tim Vine

Our first 'proper' night at The Stoke pub comedy night, and I feel it was a veritable success. Sold out, plus a bit, so that's about 160 audients. I am knackered now - it takes a heck of a lot to run a gig, it seems. Much easier to just turn up, do 20min of jokes, and go home again. But it's worth it I reckon. We had Stuart Goldsmith, who was fab, and popular among the ladies, twould seem. Jenny Lockyer in the middle did some very sweet songs, and clearly went down well cos she sold all her CDs. Check out myspace page for some of her songs. They're the sort that are funny if you listen to the lyrics, but equally just nice to listen to. Aw.

And Tim Vine headlined - meant to do 20min, and he did well over an hour. So I had the dilemma of whether to flash a light at him to summon him off-stage, even though I wanted him to stay up there. So I did, but thankfully he ignored it. But he only ignored it cos I was shining my phone at him, which generally seems to be the modern way of luring an act off-stage. But of course Tim doesn't do the circuit much, so didn't know this. He expected an old-fashioned flash of the venue lights. Anyways, twas a fun one. I shall now sleep for a month, whereupon we'll do it all over again with some different acts.

And a quick plug - I'm on Radio 4 in half an hour, 6:30pm, on 28 Acts in 28 Minutes. I'm number 18. Also on it are Arthur Smith, Marcus Brigstocke, Jimmy Cricket, and 24 others. Or you can listen again on the Radio 4 website, if, as I presume, you read this blog at some other time than within half an hour of me posting it...