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James Dowdeswell

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About Me

Currently writing and previewing two festival shows for Melbourne - No More Mr Nice Guy and James Dowdeswell Sticks His Nose - A Comedy About Wine. Could just combine the two and become drunk and aggressive!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The guy who gave me a parking ticket.

My Blog

Count Fuckula

In the second series of Extras, I was in the David Bowie episode and played the part of Count Fuckula. Not a real count. Very occasionally i get asked - how the hell did that happen. Well, her...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:19:00 GMT

Joe Calzaghe & I

I was on stage at Cardiff Jongleurs, dealing with a group of chippy lads who claimed to be in the army - they were clearly accountants on a stag do, been paintballing and got excited. Then out of the ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:00 GMT

'Comedian Stalking'

I did a gig in Weston Super Mare with Dominic Frisby and Dan Evans. We were lounging around in the bookers' orchard, scrumping apples until Dom suggested we record a podcast for his site. The web addr...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:47:00 GMT

Truly Bizarre Edinburgh Preview

Did a preview of my wine show last night. The night was sponsored by Wine Rack, but despite giving away FREE WINE, half the audience absconded. Turns out they were recovering alcoholics in rehab on a ...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:44:00 GMT

Wine, Withnail And I

The best display of wine drinking I've ever witnessed was from Bruce Robinson, the writer and director of Withnail And I. My favourite film of all time. And I met him, with my Mum. My Mum and I ha...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:17:00 GMT

Beer Festival

Yesterday I went to the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court. The Real Ale crowd are funny looking bunch. It was like drinking in Middle Earth. There were beards aplenty. There seems to be three...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:38:00 GMT