February 19, 2007
VANITY NEWS!
VANITY NEWS & AN OLD KEN NUGGET
After my last post I’ve received a load of incredibly kind messages via my You Tube channel from people concerned about my dented self image. Now I’m worried that my posting that bit of hate mail just looked like a big compliment-fishing trip, which was not the case I SWEAR TO YOU!!! I’m as sensitive to criticism as anyone but I’m not so fragile that a few anonymous net trolls are going to destroy me! If it was a big gang, that would be another matter, but that’s why I stay off those really frightening comedy analysis sites.
That said, it was very heartening to have so many genuinely supportive messages and I really appreciated it. Jesus, I sound like Kylie. As I’ve said before on this site however, communicating via You Tube or message board or whatever is not something I enjoy so if I haven’t replied to a message you sent or comment you posted it’s nothing personal so don’t go suddenly turning troll on my arse! A letter and an SAE via my agent (address on introduction page of this site) does however GUARANTEE* a response, if that’s what you’re after.
As far as other news goes, still nothing to report on the radio/podcast front maddeningly. I think I’m on Comedy Shuffle this week but I’m not certain. There’s news to follow shortly about this BBC3 sketch show I did Rush Hour (still haven’t seen it though so no idea if it’s any good or not) and other random projects that have come along recently. Also Joe and I are working on a couple of potentially very exciting things that I will talk about when and if they progress sufficiently. Ooh! Mysterious!
As proof that I don’t ignore messages, here is Ken Korda’s South Bank Show/Omnibus style profile of Pat Sharp, which someone asked a few times if I could post. It was the first one of these we did for the 4th series of The Adam & Joe Show (the others were Handy Andy and Jenny Powell) so we were all a little nervous that it wasn’t going to be any good. I remember the first thing Pat said when we started taping was “Well Ken, I was born at a very early age…†and I thought, ‘we’re fucked!’ but in the end he did a great job, though not quite as good as Handy which is why this didn’t make it to the DVD. This is one of those things from our show that I can watch some days and think, ‘hey, that’s alright!’ then other days I think it’s not funny in the least. See whatchoo reckon!
*If for some reason you don’t get a reply and you decide to send me to jail, I am only able to serve a short term as I have children who need me to buy bad computer animated films for them. Speaking of which, Hoodwinked?!! Bottomraped more like! How the FUCK did I get suckered into that one? It’s like a Reboot Christmas special! Open Season?! That looked like a quality one but BY NO MEANS IS IT! I’m certainly not going anywhere near Barnyard or indeed The Reef! Have these fuckers absolutely no shame whatsoever? No wonder people haven’t a single qualm about using Bit Torrent if this is the crap you’re expected to fork out for (and as any parent will know, you always do eventually!) You see? I’m not afraid of dealing with the really dangerous political issues on this blog. Oh no. The Reef though! For fuck’s sake!!! How depressing must that have been to work on if you were a talented animator? Not that anyone gave a fuck how they felt because they were all in Korea. Yeah!? POLITICAL! You’d better watch out!
Next time on Adam Buxton’s blog: traffic wardens! They’re twats innit?!
Monster House however is the hooty mac!