Everything's set for my London invasion. First London, then Stephen. It's a process. I get there May 11 (Sunday) and leave the 16th (Fryday). My hotel is right next to Hyde Park apparently
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The Ivy is lovely. I went with Sarah and totally pead on the floor.
Go to the Comedy Store and see the Comedy Store Players on a Sunday or Wednesday. The site will tell you who's playing that night, but frankly it doesn't matter, you'll cry with laughter regardless!
I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST THE COMEDY STORE AS WELL. Srsly. It's even better than QI. Sorry, did someone say something?
Also: YOU HAVEN'T CALLED ABOUT TICKETS? Do it, do it! This is your script, in numbered points:
1) I am an American. 2) I are flying to England just to see QI. 3) Repeat, just to see QI. 4) I know the website said not to call, but I applied for tickets 9867658685 times and am anxious. 5) Yes, I are already registered with the Applause Store. This is my zip code. 6) Why, yes, my name is Jeremy. Could I please have tickets for both the 12th and the 13th?7) Two, please. One for me and one for my friend [Sarah, who applied for those dates as well and really wants to go but wasn't contacted by you shitty people, argh argh
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P.S. You're staying in that hotel? Are you bringing your own personal valet as well? Sheesh!
I just took the tube from Heathrow to the center of London this morning, and really, it's so easy. You'd just need to make one change at Holbern. You need only take the train if you have an obscene amount of baggage which I'm sure your valet will be carrying. If you still insist, the train is not bad, but will be more expensive.
I don't know if you can get into the Groucho Club without being invited, but you could skulk around--there's not really much to see. Make reservations for the Ivy now if you haven't already; there is great demand and it's sometimes hard to book. It might be easier reserving lunch than dinner.
*rehearsing* Hello, my name is . . . (reads script) Jeremy, and I'd like to . . . drink clarified butter from Stephen's armpit? (reads script) Damn!
How can the Comedy Store be better than QI? Is there a Rich vs. Stephen Pillow Fight Night or something?
Hey, don't worry if you have coursework stuff to do. It'll be all good in da hood.
I wasn't planning on actually going inside the Groucho Club. Just survaillence. Or however it's spelled. And my hotel isn't that posh! Yes, so they have a Groom of the Stool service, but what hotel doesn't nowadays?
They're all very hip at the Applause Store. You can say that, and there will probably be a pause before they ask, "So . . . you want to see QI, is that it?"
I love QI (clearly), and it's lolarious, but the Comedy Store is ROFLol--I'm-going-to-fall-off-my-chair-with-teh-lulz--arious! QI is cut down to the best half hour out of 2 1/2 hours of recording, but the Comedy Store is two full hours of the best impro comedians in THE WORLD, I TELL YOU.
As I'm telling Erin, it would be totally stupid if you were to come here and I didn't get a chance to see you, just as it would have been totally stupid if I didn't get to see you while you were in Orlando. It's not so much the coursework as the professors giving me exasperated "SKIPPING AGAIN, SARAH?" talks. I'll deal.
Your hotel is so posh. I usually stay in a hostel, where you are lucky if the shower water is warm (or worse, if it isn't scaldingly-hot-with-no-way-to-change-the-temperature, as it was at one place), and if out of your eight roommates, none of them snores.
P.P.S. I didn't mean to say "I are" in point 5. I'm clearly delusional from not having been outside in the past 24 hours, having taken a car ride, a plane ride, a tube ride, a train ride, and then a bus ride just to get to my dorm.
The connection was very scratchy and all I could really hear of the guy was "We're no longer taking requests". He did say "cheers" when hanging up. What's there to cheer about now? Maybe I'll try again later. Too dejected to think straight. Everything's fucked.
Have emailed long and (I hope) heartstring-tugging email, to which I hope I successfully cc-ed you. He is--or claims to be--Busy McBusierson, so if he doesn't reply in due time, I'll message someone else. I've talked to them all in one capacity or another, and it isn't as though I'm asking something very demanding of them. They're flattered when they get visitors from far away and I know they won't stand for AS's idiocy.
The Ivy is lovely. I went with Sarah and totally pead on the floor.
Go to the Comedy Store and see the Comedy Store Players on a Sunday or Wednesday. The site will tell you who's playing that night, but frankly it doesn't matter, you'll cry with laughter regardless!
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I'll make sure to ask for the chicken marinated in SQUEE PEE.
Haven't thought about the Comedy Store. I'll see what's up with that then.
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Also: YOU HAVEN'T CALLED ABOUT TICKETS? Do it, do it! This is your script, in numbered points:
1) I am an American.
2) I are flying to England just to see QI.
3) Repeat, just to see QI.
4) I know the website said not to call, but I applied for tickets 9867658685 times and am anxious.
5) Yes, I are already registered with the Applause Store. This is my zip code.
6) Why, yes, my name is Jeremy. Could I please have tickets for both the 12th and the 13th?7) Two, please. One for me and one for my friend [Sarah, who applied for those dates as well and really wants to go but wasn't contacted by you shitty people, argh argh ( ... )
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I just took the tube from Heathrow to the center of London this morning, and really, it's so easy. You'd just need to make one change at Holbern. You need only take the train if you have an obscene amount of baggage which I'm sure your valet will be carrying. If you still insist, the train is not bad, but will be more expensive.
I don't know if you can get into the Groucho Club without being invited, but you could skulk around--there's not really much to see. Make reservations for the Ivy now if you haven't already; there is great demand and it's sometimes hard to book. It might be easier reserving lunch than dinner.
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How can the Comedy Store be better than QI? Is there a Rich vs. Stephen Pillow Fight Night or something?
Hey, don't worry if you have coursework stuff to do. It'll be all good in da hood.
I wasn't planning on actually going inside the Groucho Club. Just survaillence. Or however it's spelled. And my hotel isn't that posh! Yes, so they have a Groom of the Stool service, but what hotel doesn't nowadays?
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I love QI (clearly), and it's lolarious, but the Comedy Store is ROFLol--I'm-going-to-fall-off-my-chair-with-teh-lulz--arious! QI is cut down to the best half hour out of 2 1/2 hours of recording, but the Comedy Store is two full hours of the best impro comedians in THE WORLD, I TELL YOU.
As I'm telling Erin, it would be totally stupid if you were to come here and I didn't get a chance to see you, just as it would have been totally stupid if I didn't get to see you while you were in Orlando. It's not so much the coursework as the professors giving me exasperated "SKIPPING AGAIN, SARAH?" talks. I'll deal.
Your hotel is so posh. I usually stay in a hostel, where you are lucky if the shower water is warm (or worse, if it isn't scaldingly-hot-with-no-way-to-change-the-temperature, as it was at one place), and if out of your eight roommates, none of them snores.
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Yeah, we'll definitely try to gang rape Stephen see QI together. I'll call Applause tomorrow.
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Make sure your email address on the Applause Store website is correct. They'll probably email tickets to you while you're on the phone with them.
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FAIL
FAIL
A THOUSAND TIMES FAIL
The connection was very scratchy and all I could really hear of the guy was "We're no longer taking requests". He did say "cheers" when hanging up. What's there to cheer about now? Maybe I'll try again later. Too dejected to think straight. Everything's fucked.
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Have I mentioned how awesomesaucy you are? Have I? You are.
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