It’s been a long time since I did a review for The Nottingham Evening Post (as I still call it), and even longer since I went to Glee to see a live comedy show. I had already bagged the review of Richard Herring’s latest tour We’re All Going To Die last year and I had been really looking forward to it. He didn’t come to Nottingham during preview season last year, so this was a totally new show for me. The main tour is usually at the Playhouse so I wasn’t sure how a comedy club audience would cope with one of Herring’s themed shows, but thankfully it was full of fans of his work who knew what to expect.

Richard Herring deserves a bit of credit for being something of an innovator over the last few years, as he has opened up the possibilities of podcasting as a comedy medium. Ever since the Collings and Herrin podcast he has been exploring new avenues to getting work out there. This was a huge influence of the way I’m doing things with podcasts and using the Internet as a way of cutting out the middle man, the middle man being commissioning editors. I have all sorts of ideas running around my head that I hope to get out there this year that I will do a good job with and set them free over the World Wide Web to be enjoyed by whoever wants to enjoy what I throw out. The ‘telly’ version of The Sunday Alternative is something that I am currently trying to get off the ground, and if it works I might stop doing it on the radio to free up some time. Also at the end of next week I’ll be meeting a comedian friend to discuss plans for a series of comedy sketches that will be released on either YouTube or Funny or Die once a week.

I think I have hit on a pretty good system for financing these little projects, by relying on donations to make these things happen. In return I promise to put these things out for free, and to make no profit from it. The money isn’t as important to me as the end result of my creative endeavors being seen or heard.

One big disappointment has been the campaign on Indie Go Go to raise money for the documentary about The Sunday Alternative. There isn’t long to go and I have only made five pounds. I’m grateful to whoever donated it, but it means that the money for the documentary now has to come out of the blog donations instead. The knock on effect of this is that I might not be able to put on the free screenings of the finished film.

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