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The Angry Making Thing

Hey you. Do you like getting angry? Or are you a more patient human being than I could ever hope to be? Well lets put that patience to the absolute limits or make you get so angry you punch your own face, with my newly discovered ‘most angry making thing ever.’ What I’m about to […]

Professional Stand-Ins

When I arrived at the TV studio last night, they were in the middle of a rehearsal run through. Mark, Tim and Alex were all onstage but instead of the celebrity guests, there were two men, each of whom had a sticker on their chest stating which guest they were pretending to be. As questions […]

Warming Up

Some of you might have noted that the title of today’s blog is also the title of Richard Herring’s daily blog. This blog has nothing to do with Richard Herring or anything his face has done, its just that the title matches perfectly to what I’m doing today. That and hopefully loads of his blog […]

Sub-Standard

Adverts are generally full of lies. I know this. Its something I’ve been aware of for many years ever since I could read the tiny print on the bottom of the screen or the poster that said things like ‘please note this toy does not actually shoot web’ or ‘this pack of chewits is not […]

A Not Very Good Blog

I have a lot of things to blog about today but my brain is 100% not complying with what I want it to do. As you read, this is the 4th incarnation of today’s blogging attempt and as yet I’m already unhappy with it but laziness is insisting I keep typing this time otherwise it […]

Non-believers

Yesterday a 6 year old child told me that there was no way he could be scared of vampires as they didn’t exist. He then went on to explain to me and the entire audience at Comedy Club 4 Kids in Brighton, that monsters do not exist and that I am a ‘stupid’. Its very […]

Epic Transport Fail

It appears no matter what type of transport I invest in to get me to my gigs, they all have made a special effort these last few days to epicly fail me. Today, I need to get to Brighton. I’ve made the decision to get the train because trying to park in Brighton on a […]

An Open Letter To The Highways Agency

The Highways AgencyMiddle of the M1 (or if closed, by Junction 15 on the M4) October 2nd 2009 Dear Sir/Madam/Time Stealers/Bastards REF: Last Night’s Shitty Journey Home I am writing about a matter of a certain high degree of importance. I know everyone at the Highways Agency is busy working out exactly where to put […]

Weak Vegetarian

Its World Vegetarian Day today, which is the starting point of Vegetarian Awareness Month. What happens on days like this is that I spend a small amount of time feeling like I can lord it over everyone because I, me, Tiernan Samuel Douieb esquire, have never ever eaten meat or fish. This is true. Well […]

God Bothered

I live around the corner from the Rainbow Theatre, a building that since its construction has witnessed many incredible things. The walls could tell you many tales of old film screenings from when it was one of the largest cinema’s in London during the 1930’s. Then during the 60s it held music concerts from the […]