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Friday Night is Dog Night

May 3, 2022

Friday night was an unusual scenario for me for three reasons. Firstly, I was in two TV shows broadcasting on the same night, on the same channel (BBC1). The first show was the new Tom Basden comedy starring Katherine Parkinson and Jim Howick, Here We Go (formally Pandemonium). The second was long running Lee Mack comedy, Not Going Out.

So the second unusual, and I dare I say it, interesting thing about this particular Friday night is that both characters I played had dogs. My character in Here We Go was actually credited as “Dog Owner”, and my Not Going Out character was a tree surgeon named Tom Taylor.

Now let’s get on to the third thing. I’ve been cut from a few things over the years – it’s just the way it sometimes goes – but never have I experienced what I did for Here We Go. Originally I was actually “Man On Phone” as my dialogue with Katherine and Jim is actually via speakerphone before they return my dog to me. When the producers asked me to come and do some additional ADR (an archery commentator, a radio DJ) they nervously informed me that they’d actually re-recorded my dialogue as I didn’t sound nasty enough. In fact, it is now Ed Kear who effectively plays my voice in the episode. Oh well, that’s another story for the podcast! You should be able to hear me as the archery commentator in Episode 4.

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Pandas, podcasts, and plenty of problems

June 21, 2013

Hello! First of all I’d just like to say thanks to all those who messaged me about seeing me on the telly in the Connected TV ad last night. Proper telly as well – BBC1 eh? If you haven’t seen me hanging out with the Panda (played by a very funny guy called Steve Marsh), you can watch it here. And by the way, I remember now how hard it was not to laugh when he knocked the table over with his massive arse. We did do it about 30 times though so I suppose it gets less funny after a while. He had to take that head off after every take too cos he was so hot. Poor bastard.

Anyway, some people may have noticed that Episode 4 of All in the Method went up a few weeks ago. Then it came down. Then went up again. I can’t even begin to go into detail about how long it took to decide on the final edit, and then we realised after uploading that the sound mix was wrong. Hence the re-upload. Anyway, Episode 5, the conclusion of the The Action Hero saga will be up hopefully in the next couple of days. No problems with that surely? Oh wait, we couldn’t read the hard drive the editor sent back. A slow wait for Dropbox transfer it is then….

So the third ‘P’ in that oh-so-clever title: Luke and I are doing some podcasts. Well, again, it’s taken us bloody ages, partly because I’ve been editing together interviews from the screening for the first release, and partly finding the time to meet up and actually record…. but hopefully we’ll manage that this weekend! Then once that one’s out the way (the “screening special”) we’ll do some hopefully semi-regular releases with some “special guests”.

Also… I played the lead (darling) in a sitcom pilot which seems like ages ago (it was ages ago – 2011?), which has kind of come to life again recently online with some extremely positive comments about the show and my performance – for which I’d like to say thank you so much to everyone! That is actually very kind. You can check out the full episode here, which may or may not turn into a web series….. we don’t know.

Anyway, if you’re actually reading this, I’ll be back soon with Method 5, podcasts… and other purile….. piss. I don’t know. See ya!