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Toby

I don’t check this page anymore, I’ve decamped to Facebook.

About Me

I run XS Malarkey Comedy Club, and am a stand-up comic and actor. I like DVDs and ice cream. I dislike The Daily Mail and Carol Vorderman.I have a website : www.tobyhadoke.com / so does my comedy club: www.xsmalarkey.com

My Interests

Dr Who, Shakespeare, Comedy, the politics of the day always fascinate me, especially with regards to racism and homophobia. As I'm neither black nor gay, I'm not sure why such bigotry makes me so very angry, so suspect I'm the epitome of the weedy, white liberal. Still, it's better than being a git.

I'd like to meet:

Ricardo Montalban

Music:

Any old thing really - except modern rubbish (unless it's catchy). Madness, The Specials, Pulp, Violent Femmes, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Tracy Chapman, The Neville Brothers (not the footballers), : I just don't really like that noisy thumpy stuff that idiots dance to or smug, dull people insist on putting on at parties to replace something everyone else knows and likes.

Movies:

12 Angry Men, LA Confidential, Quatermass II, Assault On Precinct 13 (the original), The Great Escape, The Untouchables, A Matter Of Life and Death etc etc

Television:

Doctor Who, Quatermass, The Prisoner, anything by Dennis Potter, Buffy, Angel, Firefly (Joss Whedon can do no wrong and should be canonised), Our Friends In The North, The West Wing, 24, Edge Of Darkness, Nightingales, The Office, League Of Gentlemen, Alan Partridge, Survivors, and don't forget Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (oh, and for a guilty pleasure: Ultimate Force, by far the funniest thing on TV)

Books:

1984, James Ellroy's stuff, The Long Firm, but mostly autobiographies or political memoirs (get me!).

Heroes:

Doctor Who (notice a pattern?): not one real's ever quite managed to come close.

My Blog

Moths Unleashed

Who'd have thunk it? I thought a profile in the august publication that is the South Manchester Reporter (replete with Peter Davidson and John Pertwee references - not to mention calling the show Mot...
Posted by Toby on Mon, 14 May 2007 10:03:00 PST

Moths 2007 Updates - all exciting and scary

Well, I haven't done much on this blog - keep an eye out though, because I'm going to start to do one. Hopefully it'll be on my website, but we're updating it now and trying to facilitate it so a ludd...
Posted by Toby on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:01:00 PST

Edinburgh Blog

For Edinburgh, I'm doing a blog on the esteemed comedy website Chortle (who have also given my show a coveted four star rating). You can find it here, and I update it most days.   http://forums.c...
Posted by Toby on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:54:00 PST

Spread the word ... !

Heavens To Betsy, theres' nothing like Edinburgh previews to make you compltely reasses what you're doing. Had a delightful one in Manchester (marred by a drunk harpy with the inability not to keep he...
Posted by Toby on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:35:00 PST

And so it begins...

Well, as I should be putting the finishing touches to my Edinburgh show, "Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf", I thought I'd add to my internet ramblings via this rather narcissistic past time. Oooh, read ...
Posted by Toby on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:44:00 PST

Book Club

I wrote a gushing eulogy of this night after I'd done it, but my computer went doolally, and I can't summon the strength or time to redo it all. Suffice to say, this brilliant, eclectic and delightful...
Posted by Toby on Tue, 23 May 2006 06:48:00 PST

Photos

Because I got some uncolicited reactions to my new profile picture, I've added a few more. They're all the result of a photo session I had with the wonderful, accomodating and knowledgeable Ian Fox (w...
Posted by Toby on Tue, 16 May 2006 05:18:00 PST

First Time

Right. I've finally done something to do with My Space. I don't really understand what it's all about, but there we go. So I'll start with some pluggage - My one man show MOTHS ATE MY DR WHO SCARF wil...
Posted by Toby on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:51:00 PST