Category: Reviews
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e.phemera: The Trials And Triumphs Of Les Dawson
Retrospectives on comedians tend towards the melancholy, favouring to explore the dark or hidden side of their subject, even if that means making it all up. What we have here is an excellent, well-researched, tautly written biography of Les Dawson that doesn’t fall into that trap. Working through a timeline of his career, we are…
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Thought Vomit #169: ft. Bored? Then Board Game
I like board games. They are an excellent way to procrastinate when you should really be finishing a script, or proof-reading a manuscript. What’s more, they put you in a room with other people in an adversarial capacity, which any good writer should love to witness and absorb for their next project. But we’re not talking about…
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Thought Vomit #98: ft. The Phantom Menace
I don’t care what anyone else thinks, ever since I first saw it, I’ve thought The Phantom Menace is an excellent film in the Star Wars canon. And I’m amazed that it’s already ten years old. I watched it again this evening for the first time in a long time, and it’s still just as…
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Thought Vomit #96: ft. Prestidigitation
I wasn’t going to write anything about Derren Brown’s lottery shenanigans, but there are a few thoughts I want to vomit from my brain. I know it doesn’t need to be said, but at no point did the Bearded Satan predict the lottery numbers. What he did do though was make them appear in plain…
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Thought Vomit #87: ft. Pip Schofield In Joe’s Coat
Who is The Cube? What is The Body? Where is Phillip Schofield so damn likeable? Three simple questions that prove anything easy can be munched up by seven shades of man moron. And to be honest, this is the best Saturday night show I’ve seen in a decade. The Cube is just so damn nice.…
