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2005: Nearly Gay
Nearly Gay saw me move to the Stand Comedy Club and present the first of a trio of story-telling shows in 2005. The show was an answer to an accusation of homophobia and a light-hearted look at the gay community from a straight man’s perspective. Starting with an unsettling onstage interaction with gay San Franciscan[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.2004: Freedumb
In 2004, Freedumb saw me collaborate with the comedienne Janice Phayre. Janice and I both thought writing a ‘parody of a political satire show’ was a good idea. It was not. The show featured the two of us playing a hapless couple bent on selling ‘freedom’ but making all the wrong choices. A one point[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.2002: Things I Like, I Lick
Things I Like, I Lick’ was my first complete storytelling show. It was the story of a run of bad luck I had at Melbourne Comedy Festival when I received an extremely serious groin injury that ended my entire trip early and sent me packing back to London broken, broke and broken-hearted. The show received[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.2001: Phil Nichol Is Stuck
In 2001 I returned to the Pleasance with Phil Nichol is Stuck, an hour of ‘improvised comedy’ that entailed me getting the audience onstage to perform on a large selection of instruments that I had assembled. Most of the show was improvised except for a running gag about Bear Awareness in the Canadian wilderness. Each[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1999: Phil Nichol (Is A Puppet)
The following year, 1999, was difficult one. Buoyed by the overwhelming success of the previous year and hoping to exploit the Time Out Comedy Award 1998 the producers decided to move my show to The Pleasance upstairs at a 9pm timeslot. This show was the most complex and intricate monologue show that I had yet[…..]
