It will probably be out within the week. I am hoping to pop up to Edinburgh next weekend, so I better pull my finger out.
Below is part of a blog by Richard Herring, someone who can actually write interesting and funny blogs, unlike me. I added this section because it says something that I entirely agree with in a better way than I ever could.
Love Basil.
This is why I love the Internet as a broadcast medium, because we had plenty of time to discuss it all properly and in context without having to pander to some fictional listener without an attention span. But also it's not a big enough story to be covered in depth by a national broadcaster, yet there will be enough comedy fans (even ones who don't know who I am) who would be interested in hearing it. As TV and radio get dumber and more averse to risks and at the mercy of focus groups and pathetic images of their average viewer/listener, the Internet is getting smarter (and a lot dumber too at times) and taking chances and putting out the stuff that is interesting to the people who are creating it, in the hope that amongst the 4 billion people on the planet there might be a few thousand who want to tag along.
It's a wonderful and exciting freedom. Traditional broadcasters should be quaking in their shoes and doing something to counter this. But maybe they're already fucked. Why not go out with a bang though hey and produce some stuff you can actually be proud of rather than all the lowest common denominator shit you're peddling. At least then you can go to your death bed with a kind of dignity. It doesn't matter about viewing figures or audience share or column inches, do what is right. If just one executive at the BBC said, "Look, I know this might seem crazy, but let's not give Morden and Horden another great wadge of money to make a second series of their frankly shite programme, let's give it to Stewart Lee to make a second series of his Comedy Vehicle. It's just obviously a million times better and something we can be proud of, rather than ashamed and when we're old men and women, frail and looking back at our lives at least we can say, "I did something right and true and beautiful and prevented something ugly and embarrassing. It's not much. But it's something." Oh an while we're at it, let's give Richard Herring a show as well. He was always the funnier one, as everyone knows."
All right, spoiled it at the end there and I don't know where this strange digression came from. My brain is bewildered by the rollercoaster of Edinburgh.
I'm just saying it's nice to get involved with something that is smart and funny and where the people involved are excited and passionate about what they're doing, rather than looking dead behind the eyes as they do their best to deliver jokes that are beneath them, their rictus grins doing nothing but to betray their desire to be anywhere but where they are now.
I'm doing it again. Knocking TV whilst at the same time clearly still wanting to be on it. But that's OK, because that's the truth. I do love it and would love to do something if it could be on the right terms, but it seems increasingly likely that the Internet is the only place where that is likely to happen.
http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup