22nd August

How many more of these do I need to do? My boss pointed out it was four months and three days until Christmas, so that suggests a lot. I am committing to continuing to do something pointless purely because I've already come this far with it. But I'm aware that this is low quality content. No-one reading this would subscribe to my Patreon.

Today was the day that they announce "the best joke of the Fringe" even though such a thing is clearly ridiculous. It's not a very good joke, but that's not the fault of the act in question who probably didn't write it in order for it to be scrutinised in minute detail by below-the-line commentators in broadsheet newspapers, before being declared terrible, symptomatic of the awful state of modern comedy and how none of us are a patch on Tommy Cooper. This has been the sequence of events in previous years anyway, I don't currently have the mental strength to put myself through it again to check.

If all the people who asked stand-up comedians to "tell me a joke" actually went out and saw some stand-up and gained a real sense of what it actually is, perhaps we'd start getting somewhere. Admittedly, the world probably has bigger issues right now.