My life story?
All my grandparents died before I was born so as soon as I was old enough to speak I called the police. Then, like all kids, I grew and developed into a man, and I wondered why some of those other men had strangely attractive bumps. It was then that I failed to realise that I wanted to write comedy and became (as one high street printer put on 500 business cards even after endless proof corrections) a piano turner.
Resisting writing until 2004 was not easy. I forced myself to become happy with kith and kin even though I'd no idea what those were. After an attempt to fill a gaping educational hole with a-levels and a full seven weeks as a mature student at university, I had a couple of things published and thought that if I was going to write I'd like to make people laugh.
I've had material used at Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre, London and Edinburgh Festival shows), Brighton's Treason Show and a web site or two. The BBC have kindly accommodated some of my stuff at Comedy Soup and short-listed some of my sketches for Bearded Ladies. I sent them a sitcom pilot which got some encouraging feedback so now doing the re-write. I'm currently contributing to Channel 4's 4laughs website and have won a few competitions (one as half the writing partnership known as Able2) and people are saying nice things about what I do so yeah ... talk to me.
Website
midgetgems.wordpress.com/
Influences
People: Marx Bros, George W Bush, Tommy Cooper, Milligan, Sellers, Victor Borge, Paul Jennings,Ronnie Barker, Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, Marty Feldman, Josie Lawrence,Jim Tavare,Joe Pasquale, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Jimmy Cricket,Mel Brooks, Pythons, Marcel Marceau, etc. etc.
Shows/Films: Black Books, Frasier, Muppets,Room 101,Young Frankenstein, Galaxy Quest, I'm Sorry I haven't a clue, Nebulous, Goodies, Smack The Pony, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Have I got News For You etc., etc.
Members
http://midgetgems.wordpress.com/
Albums
http://midgetgems.wordpress.com/
Midgetgems's Interests
General
Writing
People/
Rwanda - Rwanda - Rwanda Cyani xxx/
Bodyboarding/
Real ale/
Good conversation
Music
Ethnic. Classical. Jazz. Just not Country & Western please
Hey Midgetgems. Yeah those 'audios' are failed videos. I'm still trying to get used to this myspace thing. I'm going to try and upload a few more. By the way I really like your easy as pi. It had me sniggering.
Hi midgetgems, the godfather of the early video comps, along with Grand Master Yeilding. It's nice to bump into so many familiar faces on here all of a sudden. And as for the toast, it was a natural phenomenon that I happened to catch on camera, happens just more regularly than a solar eclipse.
Hi Midgetgems, thanks for the comment (the cheques in the post!). I checked out some of the audio you've posted. The Court Martial is my favorite, some good characters, it would make a nice 'weebl and Bob' style animation.
