'I feel like a cheaper webcam whore'
• 'I wouldn't be allowed near TV in America because I'm over 30 and I don't have an eating disorder.' Katherine Ryan.
• Bobby Mair is to become the first comedian to broadcast his Edinburgh show on Periscope every day of the Fringe. Filthy Immigrant will go out on the Twitter-owned video streaming platform every night, along with real-time behind the scenes footage. He said: 'I feel like a less interesting, cheaper webcam whore'.
• Aspiring stand-up Jack Barry has become a football club owner. He purchased an Inner London Football League club which he promptly renamed Jack Barry St Germain and redesigned their shirts with his face on. 'I'm the owner, I'm the manager, I'm the oligarch,' he said of his purchase, which he hopes will boost his profile among the comedy fans. Revealing that the club cost him £300, Barry told Chortle: 'As adverts go it wasn't too bad. I think it's cheaper than advertising in the Fringe programme. Only problem is that the audience seeing it might not be quite the same ones. So far the team are third in the league after two wins, two losses and a draw. The league is on a break at the moment for Ramadan, we're hoping for a surge after the break. Last week we had a friendly and I played, making myself possibly the first player-owner in football history.' Certainly the only other example we can find is Roy Race of Melchester Rovers… Here's a film about Barry's venture:
• It's become a byword for the racist TV of the 1970s, but Love Thy Neighbour has an unlikely fan… Linford Christie. 'We thought it was fun and it was, I suppose, good banter,' he said of the show, which revolved around a suburban white couple 'coming to terms with' their black next-door neighbours.
• Dom Joly's most famous creation was the guy on his massive mobile phone yelling, for example, 'I'M ON A BOAT' when he was on a boat. Now he's filming the Trigger Happy TV revival, and Popbitch reports that 12 years on, the comedy hasn't moved on much - given that he was seen cycling through a Brighton park yelling: 'THIS IS A CYCLE PATH! I'M ON A BICYCLE!'
• Harry Enfield has declared himself a follower of the Tarvuism faith.
• Watch a comic piledrive a heckler. At a gig in California, a woman who had been giving comedians grief all night rushed on to the stage at the end of the night and put her head into the act's crotch (yep). The first bit of this video is a joke that explains the second bit, when it suddenly jumps to the moment she was on stage in the odd position:
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Published: 10 Jul 2015