This is your Life
After devouring John O'Farrell's hilarious "May contain Nuts", Ihave just started on another of his book - "This is your life" which is about this bachelor who has always wanted to be famous and his extraordinary journey of how he bluffed and fumbled all his way to the top until he finds himself about to perform stand-up comedy in front of a packed theatre and live television. Except.. he has never ever performed anything before.
Here is one excerpt of his writing that shakes me with mirth:
"In 300 seconds' time I was supposed to be walking onto the stage with one of London's most famous theatre in front of two thousand specially invited guests. Here, I was to stand on my own under the glare of the lights and perform a brand new stand-up comedy routine, a performance which was, incidentally, being transmitted live on BBC1 to millions of homes across the country, who even now were glued to the spectacle of an all-night charity gala featuring dozens of theur favourite stars.
The prospect made me wonder what it would be like to be a librarian. That must be a nice job, I thought. Surrounded by books all day; warm and quiet, occasionally stamping the return date on a Catherine Cookson novel, smiling at the old lady and handing the book back to her. 'Due back on the twenty-fourth, Edna." Yes, I could live with that. There must be some stresses and personal pressures I supposed, having to stay late when there was 5 pence missing from the fines box or whatever, but I bet you don't often have to go out and perform a stand-up comedy routine live in front of millions of people. "
Here is one excerpt of his writing that shakes me with mirth:
"In 300 seconds' time I was supposed to be walking onto the stage with one of London's most famous theatre in front of two thousand specially invited guests. Here, I was to stand on my own under the glare of the lights and perform a brand new stand-up comedy routine, a performance which was, incidentally, being transmitted live on BBC1 to millions of homes across the country, who even now were glued to the spectacle of an all-night charity gala featuring dozens of theur favourite stars.
The prospect made me wonder what it would be like to be a librarian. That must be a nice job, I thought. Surrounded by books all day; warm and quiet, occasionally stamping the return date on a Catherine Cookson novel, smiling at the old lady and handing the book back to her. 'Due back on the twenty-fourth, Edna." Yes, I could live with that. There must be some stresses and personal pressures I supposed, having to stay late when there was 5 pence missing from the fines box or whatever, but I bet you don't often have to go out and perform a stand-up comedy routine live in front of millions of people. "
posted by Fiery at Sunday, September 17, 2006
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