Adam Buxton

RECOMMENDATIONS & MONTY BUGGERSHOP-HOOTY

Hey hey hey hey hey heyyyy! Hay? How are you? I’m alright. I’ve got a new video for you but first, some random recommendations.

I finally got round to seeing Four Lions the other night and it blew me away, literally! Ha ha. Why didn’t they get me to write it? For some reason part of me expected to feel the same way about this film as these confused Aussies. Instead I laughed right the way through as well as finding myself increasingly moved as it progressed. A brief scene in a hospital where the protagonist has to say a coded goodbye to his wife in front of a couple of police officers is making my throat hurt just thinking about it. The two leads Riz Ahmed and Fonejacker, Kayvan Novak are so amazingly likeable and convincing that the tricky business of achieving the right tone with this kind of subject matter is dealt with in the first few scenes and isn’t a problem thereafter, not for me at any rate. Good DVD extras too.

Also making me chuckle the last few days (and another party I’m late arriving at) is the Twitter feed of Fitty Cent. If he really writes these, and we’re lead to believe he really does, then he’s a kind of comedy genius and the rapping is a waste of his talents.

As far as my own ludicrous efforts go, apart form the usual array of potentially exciting projects that will almost certainly see me being crowned king of the world by the end of next year, I’ve been doing some videos for the BBC’s comedy website with me titting about in nature. The first is below and was shot during a camping expedition to Dartmoor with some pals including Garth Jennings. They should arrive with jarring regularity every few weeks now so you’d better get used to it.

If the march of my greying hair continues at its current zip, by the time I’ve finished making these (at the moment I’m signed up for 12 in all) I will be as white as Pip Schofield’s snowy peak. Now and then I catch myself imagining that in a while the white hairs in my beard will simply recede and my lower face will fade back to black, but then I remember, this is a one way trip isn’t it? A trick I could play on age would be to shave my beard off, but then I’d be confronted by the expanse of middle aged flesh beneath. Oh! The huge vanity! Anyway, I like having a beard. I’m pretty sure it forces people to respect me (though it didn’t work on the guy at BUG the other day whomst I overheard calling after his friend as he approached me for a picture “oh, are you off to get bummed by Adam Buxton?” Kids eh? Jeezuz!) Hope you like Country Man!