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PBH

About Me

Pathetic old man guilty of the ultimate British sin: trying to be funny.
All right. The boast bits: Founder of the Free Fringe at Edinburgh, and still (despite others trying to stab me in the back) running it. Winner of Tap Water Award 2006; winner of Three Weeks Editors' Choice Award 2006; winner of Chortle awards 2007 for Innovation and for Best Off-Stage Contribution. Six CDs recorded and available through www.buckers.co.uk.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Comedians. The Man With The Cigar who says "c'mere son, I'm gonna make you a star". (The dream doesn't die with age). People who don't lie to Time Out magazine. Audience friends from Edinburgh, Cambridge and elsewhere.

My Blog

Curse you, Co-Operative Bank

The first verse of Blowing In The Wind, burned on the memory of everybody in my generation, goes:How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?How many seas must a white dove sail ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:57:00 GMT

Worst birthday ever, apart from Shakespeare's last one

We start in the early afternoon:I travel to Reading and the west a lot.  I buy boundary zone 6 to Reading tickets, since the stretch up to the LT boundary is covered by my Freedom Pass.  This has alwa...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:42:00 GMT

PBH's Annual Birthday: March 3rd

A one-man show extracted from bits of past years' one-man shows and miscellaneous shiteto celebrate PBH's birthday. 8pm Tuesday March 3rdupstairs at the Lamb Tavern, Leadenhall Market, London EC3V 1LR...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:03:00 GMT

bloody awful comperes

Picking on members of the audience is wrong.It's lazy; it's arrogant: it intrudes into their space; it alienates them.Do your research.  If you're there to greet your audience (which you should be) yo...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Waitrose vegetable crisps at £1.75 a packet

These crisps, a mixture of parsnip, carrot, sweet potato and (my favourite) beetroot, are an indulgence of mine; another thing to give up in retirement.  I never liked beetroot when it only came in vi...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Ebony and Irony

I suppose many others have noticed:that the redtops and others screaming for Harry Wales (Windsor?  Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg?) to be brutally punished by his military superiors (whatev...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:11:00 GMT

Get over it, Sam

At the 1996 Fringe, I shared a flat with Simon Dowd and Sam Ingles, who was trying to be a comedian at the time. A long time ago, as those of you of a mathematical bent will already have calculated.&n...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:24:00 GMT

I’m mad, I’m mad, ha ha

... and so are all my ilk. (I never thought I had an ilk, but I do.) Observe: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56494 Gee, Officer Krupkewe're down on our kneescos no-one wants a fellaw...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:42:00 GMT

The ugliest American

Did I imagine it on Channel 4 news on Tuesday? Covering the occupation of Bangkok airport by protesters against the government, with all the human rights issues involved in that.  And one frustra...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:36:00 GMT

Naomi Campbell and me

Well now, who has sympathy for Naomi Campbell? The things she said,  The disruption she caused.  The "How dare you tell me what my options are?"  The "Do you know who I am?" How many of...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:46:00 GMT