… and now specifically onto All in the Method. We were lucky enough to have Episodes 2 and 5 screened at LA Webfest in March. Looks like someone won an award….

Well done to Pete on that one! He did a great job. If you weren’t aware of our free All in the Method podcasts on itunes where Luke and I give a little insight into our workings as well as slag each other off and come up with random shit, please check that out, along with our LA Webfest special Episode 4  recorded in LA! Yeah!!! (Don’t forget to subscribe!)

And of course here is the episode featuring the wonderful Mr Glover if you need reminding:

Guys! Guys! Guys! It’s me! I’m here! It’s been a long time since I updated, and there’s been quite a lot going on, so I’m gonna be brief but I am splitting this post into 2 parts Firstly, we just released a K&K sketch – this one we actually showed during our live show in November, but it’s now online – Shakespeare on the toilet:

We also released this the other week which was also part of our live show – The Date:

In other news it also looks like we’ve got our Camden and Edinburgh Fringe dates confirmed and we’ll be previewing more sketches as well as doing some stand up open spots so stay tuned for more info on that…!

Hot on the heels of Episode 1, here’s Episode 2 of Against the Clock, with me in an even more humiliating cameo than before. You can only imagine how much that smelled…

If you like to see me in embarrassingly compromised positions, then check out this little 2 minute episode of new web series Against the Clock. It was written by that dirty son of a bitch, Luke Kaile, and stars him and Cristina Lark. Luke very kindly gave me a recurring cameo (well, he wanted it to be good, right?), presumably confident that I would embrace the degrading nature of the character wholeheartedly. Just wait till you see what I’m doing in episode 2…. urgh….

Here’s me as the bookshop manager in the first episode of the new Birds of a Feather series on ITV. In preparation for the role I took time out to actually work in a bookshop, eventually becoming manager a mere 7 years later. I hope you’ll agree that my preparation was worth it. I’m also expecting a call regarding my own spin off series any day now.

I believe you can watch the episode on a thing called the internet.

Merry Christmas!

Hi there! Thanks for coming down to the live show if you did! It went far better than we could’ve imagined and were very grateful to everyone’s support! Stay tuned for future live shows as we try and evolve it into something…. funny.

Now you may remember I’ve been involved in a couple of Hunka Wunda sketches, well here’s the latest one and if you check it out you’ll see it’s a pretty amazing piece of work with some quite incredible animation and special effects. Yours truly is doing the voiceover. Make sure you actually click on things otherwise it won’t cue the next video! Catch ya later!

I’m sure by the time you read this it’ll be too late, but we’re doing a live show at the Drayton Arms tonight. It’s a mix of sketches, solo stand up, and exclusive pre-recorded VTs, which is a work in progress if you like for our Edinburgh show next year. It’s called Kaile, Keeble & Kuntz, and here’s the poster:

It starts at 7.30, tickets are available here, although I’m sure you can get some on the door. The show also features the excellently funny Miranda Dawe.

Now if you were thinking how brilliant those cartoon versions of Luke and I are, they were created by another amazingly talented friend of mine, Jon Shortt, and these are actually taken from proper animated versions that form the titles of our new online sketch show, ‘hilariously’ titled the Kaile & Keeble/Keeble & Kaile sketch show. You see, the joke there is that we can’t agree on who’s name should go first, and in fact the first episode below is based on that very premise!

Oh hang on. You’re saying that if you have to explain a joke, it’s not that funny? Shit.

You may have just seen me in Episode 4 of Fool Brittania on ITV, freaking a guy out in a lift looking a bit like this:

Then you may have seen me trying to get a lady’s money for some fake charity looking like this:

If you didn’t see it of course, you can check it out on ITV player here for a few days. The Lecter scene is after about 4.45 and the chugger scene is about 14.37

Looks like they’re only showing one of each of these scenes, but we did a whole day in that lift doing each scene several times, and I seriously freaked out a lot of people in that Lecter mask. Most people actually legged it out the lift after I was wheeled in.

We also did a riot police scene, which was in Episode 2, but I didn’t actually say anything in that one, so I didn’t bother mentioning it.

There we are. Episode 1 of All in the Method screened last weekend at Raindance. It was so exciting it’s taken me this long to blog about it. Sort of. Doesn’t Luke look happy in that photo? It was great to be a part of it – a lot of people were very kind about our show. What was annoying though was how good some of the other web series were. Bastards. We made some new friends though, and I intend to suck up to them for my own gain from now on.

So you heard the news? Yes, it’s true. I will be in the new series of Birds of a Feather next year. Oh hang on, you mean the actual news is the fact that there is a new series next year, rather than the fact I’m in it? Got you. And yes, I suppose there is a chance I will be edited out isn’t there. Thanks for bringing that up. Let me start again: I did some filming on Birds of a Feather on Monday. There you go, then. That remains true, even if they do edit my line out.

Anyway, considering I had such a small part, they treated me like I was one of the regulars. Lovely people. Cast and crew. “Rich, that’s your car to take you to set.” Thank you. Oh, who’s this sharing the car with me? Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke is it? That’s fine.

I guess the title says it all really! Here’s the press release and here’s a video they asked us to do:

Thanks to everyone that’s wished us well, but I should clarify that we’re not nominated so can’t actually win anything! Great to be selected though! More news soon!

I just ate a piece of rum cake that was pretty boozy, and now I’m drunk. So drunk, apparently, that I just had to go back and retype “piece” which I’d spelt as “peace”. Anyway, I was on Hatty Ashdown’s radio show on Croydon Radio this Saturday just gone, co-hosted by Laura Carr. I was there to talk about All in the Method, which we filmed around Croydon, including in Matthews Yard – where the radio show is done! I had no idea about that. Luke was supposed to be on with me…. but he wasn’t.

It was a good laugh, Hatty and Laura were very nice, and we talked about a load of stuff I can’t remember. It was quite funny I think. I remember someone messaged in to ask if I ever got mistaken for Ade Edmondson. Laura Carr actually kicked me at one point. You can listen here, and I’m on after about 40 minutes until the end. If you listen at the start though, Hatty rather amusingly can’t pronounce Luke’s surname (from when she was still expecting him to be on the show… *ahem*).

Keep an eye out for Hatty’s sitcom on Sky Living, that she wrote: Give out Girls. Also, keep an eye out for what Laura’s up to stand up/etc wise.

Yes! Oh wait. Kind of, I suppose. I quite like it. Sorry, I didn’t really understand the question. Anyway, that David Bussell likes magic! Check him out in the latest Hunka Wunda installment above! And wait, who’s that handsome guy in the glasses? It’s Matthew Stott. OK, what about the bald guy in the glasses. That’s me, and basically what I’m trying to say is that I’m in it. Innit. And hang on…. Derren Brown has commented on the video? He’s famous isn’t he? Yes. He is.

In other news, that prolific bastard Luke Kaile has written the first two pilot episodes of a new comedy web series called Against the Clock. Luckily for everyone, he’s given me a recurring cameo as a weird neighbour who’s always doing something bizarre when Luke and his on screen girlfriend Cristina Lark burst in on him, in a “why doesn’t he lock the door” kind of a way. They were filmed a couple of weeks ago and are probably going to sit around for a bit as they’re going to be entered into a competition, and perhaps they’ll be released after that. I JUST DON’T KNOW. Ooh, sorry.

And in other, other news, Luke and I performed a couple of live sketches at the Actors Centre Comedy Fix a couple of weeks ago, which seemed to go down pretty well, and which probably means we’ll film them as part of our up and coming online sketch show, and we finally got round to doing another episode of our podcast, where we talk about a whole load of crap and bollocks in the hope that there is a smidgeon of comedy in there somewhere. Free download from iTunes! Talk to ya later!

Hello again. I’ve started getting involved with a new internet sketch show called Hunka Wunda produced by David Bussell & Matthew Stott. I’ve recorded a couple of voiceovers for them (including the one above) and have just appeared in one set for future release. This one was written by Madeleine Brettingham. Her and Stott have actually written for Mitchell & Webb, and Graham Linehan among others, so that’s jolly exciting.

In other news, Method 5 is out, and so is our first podcast!

Episode 5 concludes The Action Hero story (rather well we think/hope) and the podcast is basically Luke and I bantering about the screening we did (for Episodes 4 &5) as well as some random topics, and sharing some interviews from the screening. You can actually subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here, and listen direct on Soundcloud here:

More podcasts to come soon!

What with Bonnie Tyler coming in at a surprisingly high 19th, and haunting my thoughts with her age defying face, I thought I’d share this little Eurovision sketch that came out a couple of days ago, written by my friend Miranda Dawe, and featuring me as yet another bemused idiot.

Today Paul Jones, my good lady wife and I got back from spending a weekend in Norwich, where our short A Slightly Exaggerated Reenactment Of A Voicemail I Never Actually Left For Tom Lenk was screened on the final night of this year’s Norwich Film Festival. Although we weren’t nominated for anything it was nice to be selected, especially as we didn’t submit to many festivals, and we shot on even less of a budget than Method.

Anyway, believe it or not people actually laughed. I think we got one of the best responses that evening actually, although it probably helped being sandwiched between some pretty serious, dramatic works! If you’ve come here as a result of seeing the film, thanks for the great reaction!

I’ll probably upload it soon, although I almost don’t want to spoil the hype…

So I mentioned in my last post that we were doing some quick sketches as part of a new web sketch show. That’s right. Not content with writing and starring in our own sitcom, we’re also writing and starring in our sketch show. Well why not.

Whereas the last shooting schedule for Episodes 4 and 5 of All in the Method totalled about 38 hours, we shot 2 episodes of the new sketch show on Sunday in about… 6? A walk in the park, and we will certainly be filming more very soon.

Looking at that photo you would think that Luke has decided to crack my head open with a bit of wood. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t. More news on that soon!

I’ve just watched a 3rd cut of Episodes 4 and 5 of All in the Method and I like what I see. There’s just a few more notes to send to the editor (needs more of me, less of Luke etc), before some ambitious sound design and composition takes place. I think we’re looking at a screening mid-May, and hopefully by then we’ll be on the way to filming Episode 6…

Ooh, check out this interview that Luke and I did.

And what if I told you that Luke and I are also about to start filming a new web sketch show? What if I said it will consist of simple 3 minute sketches that we will bang out more quickly and regularly because they won’t take “fucking ages” to produce like Method or the Muzzle the Pig Presents… sketches? You really wouldn’t care? Fine.

In other news I’ve been watching the original 1970’s stop motion series of Paddington Bear. It is seriously cracking me up. That bear is a damn comedy genius. Check out 3.19 in this episode when he falls in the bath. We could seriously learn something.