7822/20763
It's good to get this affirmation, especially for a show that still has a little way to go yet. A later three and a half star review would suggest the second half is not as good as the first, which is currently true, though I think I should have ironed out the wrinkles by the end of this little run. So Right Bollock successfully sabotaged the show and lost me half a star at least, meaning the journalists played right into my cancerous bollock's hands (does he have hands?). Their patsy like stupidity was shown up tonight when RB gave a much better performance. The joke's on him -he was the one getting the bad reviews.
I absolutely know that this will be the strongest part of the show and very soon. People loved the bollock tonight, even though he is a murderous villain who tried to end my career and life.
Anyway, from audience and critic reaction it seems that this show that I've slowly been working up to over the last year, is a good one and tonight was a local one (St Albans) and a special one as Catie was coming, along with quite a few parents from school and Paulette, our personal trainer (and also friend) who helped me prepare for the half marathon.
I'd done OK for numbers with around about 350 people in - which left plenty of empty seats, but is a good number for me. There were also a lot of one-balled men in, which I suppose there always will be (as this is a show that will resonate), but weirdly tonight many of them had the same oncologist as me. And one guy had realised he had a problem as a result of seeing me on Gone Fishing. It's great to meet so many cancer survivors after the show and the material is really resonating with them.
Our friends from the village seemed to enjoy the show and the story of what Catie had to do with some anti-fungal cream. Catie is really the hero of the show, so I hope she enjoyed it. If only I could ask her.
Now I am on tour I am not just doing a gig here and there and this is a nice little run of six shows in five days, which means I can do what I did in the old days and learn from the previous day''s mistakes and improve. The second half still got away from me a little bit and I forgot some old bits and some new bits, but made up some new bits and I know this is going to be a very enjoyable show to do and it's not only making people laugh, but touching them (and not in the way that Right Bollock wants to).
Let's see how I feel by Monday though!
