Warming Up

Come on, let’s not get hysterical. It’s not like Prince Phillip has ever killed anyone in a car crash…

Chris Evans (not that one. Or that one) have become businessmen by accident, due to our shared desire to bring non-commercial comedy to the public, only to discover it was borderline commercial and then becoming confused and trying to spend all the money on make less commercial comedy.

Luckily we retain a basic incompetence which will ensure we will never become billionaires. We’re in the midst of some negotiations with some rather nice proper business people and they made us an offer that we felt might be improved. As I was having my hair cut today I maximised my time like a proper businessman and replied to my emails. I contacted Chris and producer Ben to ask them if we should see if there was more wiggle room or just get moving asap as we were obviously going to say yes ultimately.

It was only when I got an email back saying one of the people we were negotiating with out was out of the office that I realised I had inadvertently replied to all the people from the company too.

Which I would say had rather revealed our hand.

All I could do was email them all again, laugh at my incompetence and say, “So is there any wiggle room?”

Luckily they are not pricks and I think enjoyed this mildly humiliating error and mildly improved their offer. 

So my brilliant double bluff worked.

We’re happy enough though (though I am sure we could have done better, but it was pointless now to try and argue). And given I am now the businessman in his suit and tie, that I once professed to despise, I am glad that I am a bad one. 

The only thing that I could have done worse was to then write a blog about it so everyone knows how useless we are. But if you’re replying to a message in a string of messages on your phone, make sure you click on the reply button on that actual message, rather than the main one. We’ve all learned a lesson here.

My daughter was getting her hair cut at the same time as me and when we met up afterwards I told her that her hair looked beautiful. She seemed to know this was the case, preening with pride. "What do you think of my haircut?" I asked.

“It’s terrible!” She replied, “Like a squirrel.”

I don’t know if my hair looked like a squirrel’s hair or if my hair looked like a squirrel, but I had been roundly dissed regardless. The ambiguity made it a better insult.

And more guests announced for the new series of RHLSTP and there’s some brilliant comics old and new

My favourite episode of series 2 of Relativity went out on Radio 4 today. You can catch up with the series so far here.

Thanks for all the lovely and 95% favourable comments about the show. It was a living Hell to write, but I’ve forgotten that and a now keen to do some more.

Remember you can catch up with series 1 of Relativity here