The festival is delighted to present the first guest blog of 2011 from the "three Messiahs of comedy", The Ginge the Geordie and the Geek:
Ginge: Boys, listen up. We’re writing a blog.
Ginge: Boys, listen up. We’re writing a blog.
Geek: About what?
Ginge: I dunno, our insane lives since, for some reason, we decided to spend every waking hour together for two and a half years in order to get people to laugh at us.
Geordie: When you put it like that it doesn’t seem such a great idea.
Ginge: So we’re gonna write something personal and heart felt, but we’re not gonna mention our show at the Tron theatre on March 27th.
Geek: Yeah that would be a cheap publicity trick!
Geordie: So what do we write?
PAUSE. THEY ALL THINK VERY VERY HARD…
Ginge: I’m just gonna start and see what happens.
Geek: But that’s madness!!!
Ginge: There comes a time in every comedian’s life where they have to step up to the blog.
Geordie: Be careful Ginge. May the comedy God be with you.
Geek: We’ll jump in and help if we can!
Ginge: So… it’s that time of year again folks. I’m writing this blog at 2am traveling back from doing a show in London. We’re in the Geordie’s tiny Daihatsu Charade with 42 props. two large flats, six shots of coffee each and a dream. I can’t wait to get back home though. My maw’ll be waiting with open arms.
Geek: My dad’s waiting for me.
Geordie: I just get a cuddle off a jakey and a swig of his Buckfast.
Ginge: Which is quite a difference from being on the BBC’s Dick and Dom show with Catherine Tate.
Geek: Which, by March, will probably be available to watch on BBC iplayer through a link on our website. Just thought I’d point that out.
Geordie: What a mad twelve months it’s been! Before the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival last year we didn’t even have clothes!
Geek: We had to do a photo shoot in just our y-fronts for the poster. Luckily both it and the Edinburgh festival show sold out though and so with money not being an obstacle, we got new ones from Primark for this year.
Ginge: And then we went on the world tour……performing to packed houses in
Preston, Newcastle and Nottingham - supporting Johnny Vegas in Nottingham was very surreal for a number of reasons.
Geek: We got to stay in top hotels.
Ginge: Like the Travelodge next to the red light district.
Geek: We even got to share a bed.
Geordie: I’ve got to admit that wasn’t one of my highlights.
Ginge: And then on to the bright lights of London. Showing the southerners how to have a laugh and shooting our pilot.
Geek: Are we gonna write anything meaningful?
Ginge: I’m not sure we have it in us to be honest. Best stick to the silly stuff.
Geordie: Aye, good idea. I don’t think this blog is gonna win us any awards for literature.
Ginge: So… after all that, it’s great to come back to perform our best of 2009/10 show to our home crowd. Especially at such a great venue like the Tron.
Geordie: Which is handy for me as I only live down the road.
Geek: You don’t live there, you squat in your girlfriend’s flat.
Ginge: And gets nagged 24/7 so he says.
Geordie: It’s the price I pay for following my dream and not paying rent apparently.
Ginge: Anyway, on that note, I’d just like to ask the kind readers to come and see our show to ease the burden on the Geordie’s girlfriend. In fact, you could say that by coming to our show, you’ll actually be helping save his relationship! Now that’s meaningful!!!
Help save the Geordie's relationship with his girlfriend and see The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek at the Tron Theatre on Sunday 27 March at 8pm. Click here for show information.
You can also find out more at www.gingegeordiegeek.com including the GGG blog.
