Health Kicks with a Twist, Comedy Online & Short Stories with a Darker Theme
In surprise news, I produced a video that people actually watched. Believe me, no one could have been more taken aback by this turn of events than me. It turns out translating bollocks from Boris could possibly be a new career path for me. Sunday before last, and against my better judgement, I watched Boris Johnson’s address to the nation. It was more of a disaster than I could have ever imagined. I used to work in Corporate Relations and, in a way, it is quite impressive how awful his PR minders are. In brief, what Boris Johnson was saying was utter bollocks (technical term) and Boris committed the worst faux pas a con artist can ever make – it was obvious he didn’t believe a word of what he was saying either.
Last week also proved to be a far more productive week than any of the preceding weeks. (Not difficult when just staying awake during the day is considered by me to be a major achievement). Maybe it was because I finally got some semblance of a routine going. In a fit of optimism, I joined a sitcom writing course in the hope (along with almost every other stand up I know) that one day I might write an award-winning sitcom if only I could get a production company interested in running with the project.
As a rule, however, once I spent the obligatory hour on Zoom to do the course, I ended up doing more writing and working on my short stories. So much so I finished one and started another. The tone of this current story is much darker than the rest, as it’s based on the time I was kidnapped by an American taxi driver and driven to some woods. I appreciate that sounds more like a premise I might have borrowed from the opening of a CSI episode but it actually happened. Clearly, I survived but it will be interesting to see how the story turns out and if I ever actually publish it.
Meanwhile, Jen Brister and I continue to do an Instagram Live every Tuesday, indifferent to the general apathy that surrounds our online chats. In fact, this week sees the launch of MY Comedy Chats where I’ll be chatting to some of my favourite comics in the hope that we can entertain the public for 30 minutes or so with some light-hearted banter. If you fancy being on the guest list then just click on the following link: http://eepurl.com/b2Z9V9. For more information on the show itself head to www.maureenyounger.com/mycomedy.
This week also saw me do my first online comedy endeavour as part of the team for Board Game Smackdown which proved to be a lot of fun to take part in and, if the comments are anything to go by, to watch. (You should be able to watch it for a few more days via the link above).
I also was the happy recipient of another food parcel from my mate in Austria though this time it was one with a difference – a healthy food package. It turns out that my mate had watched the vlog I’d done with Jen Brister where Jen castigated my mate for sending me so much processed food that she was guilt tripped into sending me a lot of fruit and veg. Mind you, I make no claim to be an expert when it comes to fruit and veg. As I mention in the clip, once, at a very posh hotel, I ordered a pina colada (and no it was not the 80s) and then asked why there was lettuce in my drink, whereupon the waiter replied in the most deadpan fashion, ‘It’s mint, madam’. Nothing much has changed. If you watch the clip below I mistake carrot tops for herbs (sigh) and, in all honesty, I may have missed the point of the health aspect to all this. After all, I used the cauliflower to make cauliflower cheese and the strawberries to make strawberry milkshake using evaporated milk. But it’s a start in the right direction, surely?
