I can’t get attached to a rarepair that I haven’t seen literally ANY content for that would be. Too much.

⛵🎸🤘Can anyone believe this film premiered 10 years ago, Richard Curtis & Emma Freud 😱 Tom Brooke, Ike Hamilton, Will Adamsdale, Ralph Brown, Katherine Parkinson, Rhys Darby, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Surridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Tom Wisdom, Talulah Riley & Chris O’Dowd 🤩🙌 Styling: Joanna Johnston

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I'm staying at my parents' place right now, and this morning, I saw a package on their table. I've been ordering stuff to be delivered to their place lately, since I've been in transition with where I live and don't know where I'll be when things get delivered, but they've been in the same house since 1998. I'd already received the headphones and new laptop that I was expecting at their place this weekend, so I wondered what on Earth this new package could be.

Then I opened it up, and I remembered that time about one month ago when I couldn't sleep at 3 AM so I took out my phone and went on eBay:

The reason I ordered that in the middle of the night a month ago is that before going on eBay, I went on the list of Edinburgh Award winners, which I've now looked at so often I have it just about memorized, at least from 2000 onward.

Anyway, I was thinking about my quest to be an 00s comedy historian, and thought I'd work out how many of the Perrier (or whatever it's called in a given year)-winning shows I've seen or heard.

2000 - Rich Hall, Otis Lee Crenshaw

Don't know this one. I've heard Rich Hall, of course, on various Radio 4 things (he used to do The News Quiz a lot), and QI, and things like that. Pretty sure the only times I've heard his stand-up are on a few of those old mixed-bill Radio 4 things. It's never made me interested enough to seek out any more of it, but if I wanted to engage in completism about Perrier winners, this would be a thing to look up.

2001 - Matthew Holeness + Richard Ayoade + Alice Lowe, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead

Great sitcom. Would love to see the stage show. Please let me know if anyone's aware of it having been filmed, because I've never been able to find it.

2002 - Daniel Kitson, Something

One of the very few Kitson show's I've never heard, because as far as I can tell from my extremely extensive searching, recordings of it do not exist. If anyone knows where to find a recording of this, I'll let you name my first child.

2003 - Demetri Martin, If I...

This one I have seen. It's on YouTube in full, and I highly recommend it. It's Demetri Martin's first full show, has more of a structure and narrative than his later shows, which I think makes it my favourite Demetri Martin show, even though I like all his stuff.

2004 - Will Adamsdale, Jackson's Way

I used to mix this guy up with both Wil Anderson (very different guy with a fairly similar name) and Tom Basden (fairly similar guy with a very different name). I know the difference between those guys now but still know very little about this guy. Jackson's Way does not appear to have been filmed.

2005 - Laura Solon, Kopfraper's Syndrome

I know nothing whatsoever about this person, which I find odd. I've looked her up before and haven't found a lot. This show was apparently a character/sketch thing. Doesn't seem to have been filmed.

2006 - Phil Nichol, The Naked Racist

A video of this show was released on DVD and it's also on NextUp. I watched it a while ago and it's enormous fun. I don't think I can in good conscience recommend to it to anyone. I really really enjoyed watching it and I also think no one should ever see this thing.

2007 - Brendon Burns, So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now

So... this is the thing I decided at 3 AM to fix. The fact that I've seen or heard a lot of the Perrier-winning shows from the few years around the late 00s, but not this one. I looked at the list, saw a gap, Googled it, found that he'd released this show on DVD, and then a month later that DVD appeared on my parents' table.

I don't know much about Brendon Burns. I know he's Australian, and shows up in the clips of those 00s Edinburgh things that brought together various comedians (We Need Answers stage show, Mark Watson's marathons, Late 'n' Live). I know there was a fairly recent Chortle article about him crowdfunding his way back to rehab, so that's a pretty unfortunate position to see anyone in and I genuinely hope he ends up okay. And I know that, based on the title and the DVD cover, his 2007 Edinburgh show looks like it's probably fucking terrible. But I ordered it anyway, because I saw a chance to fill a gap in the Perrier-winning shows that I've seen.

2008 - David O'Doherty, Let's Comedy

This is available as an album on his Bandcamp page. I don't think it's as good as things he's made in later years, but it's still quite fucking good, I highly recommend this and also everything else David O'Doherty has ever done.

2009 - Tim Key, Slutcracker

I recently got to hear a recording of this and it was really lovely. I'm pretty sure it was sort of the beginning of the thing that Tim Key has perfected over the years. I enjoyed it a lot.

Well that's all the 00s show. There's then:

2010-2016

I've only seen one winning show from this era, and it's Bridget Christie's A Bic for Her. Well, I've seen her Netflix special called Stand Up for Her, which is pretty much that show. I watched it last year with my mother, and it was very very good. I highly recommend it.

2017 - Hannah Gadsby, Nannette; and John Robins, The Darkness of Robins

Both of these were filmed, I have seen both films, they're both brilliant. Two shows that are in the top few I've ever seen, I can absolutely see why they gave out two awards that year. I especially want to say that everyone talks about the ending of Nannette, and rightly so because it was a genuinely powerful and well-written ending, I re-watched it somewhat recently and thought it's unfortunate that people forget how very funny the first 45 minutes are as well. The whole thing's great.

2018 - Rose Matafeo, Horndog

She looked at the previous year, saw that if you're in a comedian/comedian couple that breaks up at the end of 2016 you can win an award for writing a show about that, and did an absolutely fantastic job of making her own. The video of this one is out there too, and is definitely recommended. She didn't go the same direction as John Robins (it actually isn't anything like Robins' show at all, I was not genuinely suggesting she'd copied anyone, just pointing out a mildly interesting trivia fact/parallel); this one was much cheerier and had multimedia and staged breakdowns and nostalgia and a big finale all kinds of different stuff that was enormous fun. Once again, highly recommended.

2019 - Jordan Brookes, I've Got Nothing

This show was sort of a combination, a "best of" from his previous few shows. So I see how it won, as it showcased all his best stuff at once. However, I don't think it was quite as good as those previous few shows, because they all had their own structure and conceits that got a bit lost when put together. I do recommend watching this one, but I really recommend watching all his stuff. A bunch of his shows are available to stream on NextUp, they're all very good, but if you watch the others then you can pretty much skip this one since you've seen a lot of the stuff in it anyway.

2022 - Sam Campbell, Comedy Show

It's on YouTube under a different name (Companion), but it's the same show. It's very very funny. I made a post months ago recommending it highly and knowing that probably no one on Tumblr will watch it. But it seems worth recommending again, now that everyone has fallen in love with him on Taskmaster. It's very very funny. I cannot emphasize that enough.

2023 - Ahir Shah, Ends

One of my favourite stand-up shows I've ever heard. Could not have deserved the win more. Now come on Alex, put him on Taskmaster like you did with last year's winner so everyone can fall in love with him too.

Okay, that's all of it. I also have a copy of the Al Murray Pub Landlord show that won in 1999, I started watching it ages ago but it was so shit that I could not get past the first few minutes. I'll try it again at some point, just for historical interest. But first, I will watch a different show that will probably be shit, by an Australian with an extremely aggressive DVD cover that I had delivered to my parents' house.

Outside of Adamsdale book cover concept art.

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“Four Lions” by Christopher Morris (2010) Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar in Tabernas desert. #Almeria

Time 16-May-2010 16:30 Day Sunday Where Cineworld - Huntingdon Screen 2 Price £6.75

Visited Edinburgh, saw some good things...

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True - Underbelly

Hadn’t seen a Breach show since The Beanfield and they’ve made a richer even more rigorous piece of political theatre.  There are times where it’s just mesmerising.   + I’m biased but Sophie Steer is a future Dame. More fucking power to the lot of you.

https://www.timeout.com/edinburgh/theatre/its-true-its-true-its-true-review

Beetlemania: Kafka For Kids - Pleasance

Some top comedy talent collaborating on this delightful, silly and super smart all ages show, including fringe hero Will Adamsdale. It’s a batshit brilliant concept, framing Kafka short stories in a show for kids that isn’t really going to plan and it’s pulled off with oodles of charm and hilarity.  I saw it with about 10 people in a 200 seat venue but it deserves a big audience and whether you have kids or not I’d highly recommend. Laughed a lot.

https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/103172-beetlemania-kafka-for-kids/

Blackthorn - Roundabout Summerhall

Charley Miles debut* play absolutely broke me.  A nearly love story set against the backdrop of a rural community’s decline.  It was the most accomplished show I saw at Roundabout this year with two beautifully observed performances by Charlotte Bate and Harry Egan, owning that space with proper craft. A real play, directed with great care; I adored it. 

*saw another show of her’s at Royal Welsh College earlier this year and she seems a writer with serious talent.

https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2018/blackthorn-review-summerhall-edinburgh-striking-sensitive-debut-play/

Bon 4 Bon - Dance Base

My wild card choice of the fringe: a 35 minute beauty of a show by Chang Dance Theater (4 brothers from Taiwan).  About family and memories and mango.  It’s lovely.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/19/bon-4-bon-review-dance-base-edinburgh-fringe-festival-chang-dance-theatre-taiwan

Những khu phố nóng nhất năm 2020 #thôngtin Redfin tiết lộ gần đây khu phố nóng nhất năm ngoái, nhưng đó là năm ngoái. Những khu phố nào sẽ là những khu vực nóng nhất trong năm nay? Redfin cũng có câu trả lời cho điều đó. Gần đây, Zulum đã dự đoán rằng Thị trường nhà ở miền Nam sẽ rất nóng trong năm nay và báo cáo của Redfin đã ủng hộ điều đó. Mặc dù 10 khu phố hàng đầu được dự đoán là nóng nhất nằm rải rác trên toàn quốc, một lượng lớn danh sách đầy đủ các khu phố nằm ở miền Nam. Để xác định khu phố nào sẽ nóng trong năm nay, Redfin đã xác định các khu phố có mức tăng trưởng lớn nhất trong năm khi liệt kê số lượt xem trang trên Redfin.com và nói chuyện với các đại lý về những khu vực đang nhận được sự quan tâm ngày càng tăng từ người mua nhà. Cụ thể hơn, quan điểm của công ty về các khu phố nóng nhất dựa trên sự tăng trưởng hàng năm về số lần xem trang trung bình của danh sách theo khu phố trên Redfin.com từ ngày 1 tháng 1 năm 2018 đến ngày 30 tháng 11 năm 2018 đến ngày 1 tháng 1 năm 2019 đến tháng 11 30, 2019, và về những hiểu biết về đại lý. Theo Redfin, các khu phố phải có ít nhất 50 danh sách trong cả năm 2018 và 2019 và 20 lượt xem trung bình cho mỗi danh sách để đưa ra danh sách. Công ty lưu ý rằng trong khi một số vùng lân cận trong danh sách có thể đáp ứng định nghĩa thông thường về nóng, thì họ vẫn đang có xu hướng trong số những người mua nhà. Phần lớn các khu phố nóng nhất có giá bán nhà trung bình dưới 500.000 đô la, và một nửa là ở Virginia, Florida, Bắc Carolina và Tennessee. Điều gì làm cho các khu phố được coi là giá cả phải chăng dựa trên giá bán nhà tương ứng. Bảy trong số 10 khu phố hàng đầu trong danh sách có giá bán trung bình dưới 500.000 đô la, trong khi ba khu vực giảm xuống dưới mức trung bình quốc gia năm 2019 là 279.900 đô la. Một nửa số khu phố có giá bán trung bình thấp hơn so với các thành phố lớn của họ, báo cáo cho biết. Cuộc khủng hoảng về khả năng chi trả đã khiến những người tìm kiếm nhà ở một gia đình tìm kiếm ở những khu vực mà họ có thể chưa xem xét trước đó, chuyên gia kinh tế trưởng của Redfin, Daryl Fairweather cho biết. Người Homebuyers tiếp tục bị bán ra khỏi Washington, D.C. và New York, vì vậy bạn có thể thấy rất nhiều người miền Bắc di chuyển đến phía đông nam, nhưng ngay cả những người ở xa như California đang di cư đến đó. Lý do Đông Nam được phổ biến? Theo Redfin, nhiều tập đoàn đang mở các trung tâm trong khu vực đó. Microsoft đang thiết lập cửa hàng ở Charlotte, một nhà máy của Volvo đang đến Charleston và người quản lý tiền BlackRock sẽ tới Atlanta. Nền kinh tế Hoa Kỳ nói chung đang hoạt động tốt hơn, vì vậy mọi người cảm thấy thoải mái hơn khi rời khỏi các trung tâm việc làm lớn nhất cho các trung tâm việc làm nhỏ, ông Fair Fairweather tiếp tục. Cộng Plus, phía đông nam đang trở nên đô thị hơn, với các nhà hàng và tiện nghi mới phục vụ cho những người trẻ tuổi. Vì vậy, không cần quảng cáo thêm, đây là 10 khu phố hấp dẫn nhất để xem trong năm 2020: Willowsford; Ashburn, Virginia (Washington, D.C. metro)Cảng Bal; Pháo đài Lauderdale, FloridaGỗ tự nhiên; Charlotte, Bắc CarolinaTây Arvada; Colorado (tàu điện ngầm Denver)Đồi núi cao; Arlington, Virginia (Washington, D.C. tàu điện ngầm)Adamsdale; Bắc Attleboro, Massachusetts (tàu điện ngầm Providence)Poplar Grove; Indianapolis Sườn Tây; Woodinville, Washington (tàu điện ngầm Seattle)Raleigh; Memphis, TennesseePhố cổ Rocklin; California (tàu điện ngầm Sacramento) Đọc phần còn lại của danh sách khu phố nóng nhất đây. [ad_2] Nguồn

REVIEW - Will Adamsdale: Facetime ****

It’s hard to be a modern father, when your own three-year-old son seems not only deeply unimpressed by all your attempts at parenting, but actually keen on usurping your position as patriarch. Will Adamsdale’s son appears to be doing just this, and it is to the evident bafflement and concern of Adamsdale, who rails at his own inability to provide a strong role model for his boy. In fact, he lacks a real ‘adult kit’ at all as he’s ‘technically shit, morally...fine, but nothing to write home about.’ Adamsdale compares himself unfavourably with his contemporaries who seem to have the drive or easy competence he lacks, be they old school mates like Bear Grylls, or his Polish neighbour, Leszek. 

The angst of Generation Xers, lacking the confidence and purpose of their parents, is not untrodden territory, nor is the idea that we’d perhaps be somewhat more capable adults if we weren’t babified by our devices. It is the sense of Adamsdale himself throughout this show then, that makes it as strong as it is. Belying his gently scruffy persona, Adamsdale is a master craftsman and the writing is tight and honed, with beautiful turns of phrase and the laughs are genuine and regular throughout. Perhaps the funniest material deals with his career since winning the Perrier Award. Here Adamsdale details the difficulties of trying to create new material as an artist when everyone around you seems to think you should just go back to that thing you did in 2004 - his American life-coach, Jackson. As he says, it’s clearly tempting but just ‘a bit two-dimensional’. This show, then, displays Adamsdale in all three dimensions, in all his incompetences and failings, but also in his loves and humanity.

Will Adamsdale: Power-hungry puppets ate my comedy career | Stage

Will Adamsdale: Power-hungry puppets ate my comedy career | Stage

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My reaction time is too slow to be a proper standup. It takes me about two weeks to come up with a decent riposte to a heckle. It turns out you can’t just email audience members what you should have said a fortnight after the event. Although sometimes at the fringe I probably could have – once I had eight people in. Or was it seven? It’s hard to tell in the dark.

How has it come to this?…

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“Outside of Adamsdale”

Part 2 to the horror graphic novel, “Strange Things Happen in Adamsdale”. Designs for a book cover/poster. What will happen to our main character off planet?

Adamsdale man photographed military operations https://t.co/01Xo5yKpto

Adamsdale man photographed military operations https://t.co/01Xo5yKpto

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