In your moving tribute to George Carlin, you credit him with inspiring you to periodically start from scratch with your material. do you believe that that would benefit most comics? Would a Mitch Hedberg or a Steven Wright -- that is, a comic that does tight one-liners -- be able to do the same? Do you think it would benefit a new comic to start ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a young German man called Paul Wolfskehl. Spurned in love by his beautiful intended, he determined to kill himself ( Read more... )

The new Daniel Clowes book, Wilson, seems to be about beardy wordsmith/grump/auteur Daniel Kitson. Or am I just saying that because of the third panel on this one page?


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At the end of May and start of June, Daniel Kitson is bringing his theatre show to London. You should go. It is lovely. He's like a young bearded Alan Bennett, same deft use of wordery and memory, with a little more swearing and sweetness ( Read more... )

You can now book tickets for Kitson & Gav's three Open Air Theatre midnight storytelling shows.

They're on Saturday 20 June, Friday 24 July, and the [Edinburgh clashy] Saturday 29 August*. £12 each, but if you book all three it's £30.

* Dan clearly over his whole 'playing to a weekend crowd' thing if the audience are ( Read more... )

Stories for the Starlit Sky.

By Daniel Kitson and Gavin Osborn

Midnight. - Saturday 20th June, Friday 24th July [does not clash with Latitude, July16-19], Saturday 29th August [clashes with Edinburgh, Aug7-31]

Three separate stories. Told on three separate summer nights ( Read more... )