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California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.<p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2009/06/07/reminder-jonathan-invited-you-to-join-facebook-6253212/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2009-05-17:/2009/05/17/her-majesy-s-pleasure-seekers-6129571/bunstan2009-05-17T15:13:15+02:002009-05-17T15:13:15+02:00 <p>I have been working in Prison, teaching da yoof.</p> <p>Normally, I have found teaching da yoof, pretty cool, and I have a knack for reaching the hard-to-reach, cause once upon a time I was just like them, maybe not as desperate, but always messing about and getting into trouble, not because I wanted the trouble, but because I wanted the teacher to address the fact that his subject was boring, so he should motivate us, and make it relevant, instead of assuming we should all sit quietly and listen to him/her bore the arse off us all...it's a bit cheeky sounding, but why should we make his job easy for him, I want to learn, asking why is asking for help to focus...if he had made it relevant, we'd all be budding physicists or whatever, instead of getting out of there as fast as we could.</p> <p>Annnnywaaay, you get my point.</p> <p>So I'm teaching in the prison, and I've managed to play my usual game of headfuck with the clients - if they want something of me, like they want to know why they have to do this crappy maths excersise, I will provide an entertaining and motivating mantra, the likes of which have never been seen before, and they realise they are in the hands of a gypsy, and not some middle class judgemental, punish da yoof with maths monologue, delivered in standard monotone pentametre.</p> <p>In essence I laid this 'pon da yoof: (names have been changed to protect the innocent, da yoof speak in London Patois, despite being from Eltham and other non London boroughs, and my memory is not perfect so I have paraphrased)</p> <p>Client 1: Do ya like eating pussy boss?<br> Me: What do you think Rupert? I'm 36 years old, bud.<br> Client 2: Do ya boss, cause we fawt you liked eatin batty instead?<br> Me: hahaha cheers Sebastian, why mate? are you offering?</p> <p>They laugh, and the gay jokes stop there.</p> <p>Client 1: I can't be fucked today boss, why da fuck us boys need to do maffs anyways...babylon!!!! (he does the whippy-finger thing at me)</p> <p>A whole lot of refocussing occurs now, and I have to explain to them what "babylon" actually means, thereby prooving that I am not just a white boy who "done good at school", but actually have something to say, and thereby gets their attention again.</p> <p>That was some conversation, and I can't remember it all, but if a picture speaks a thousand words, that conversation would look something like this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/no_irish_no_blacks/3513638" title="no_irish_no_blacks"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/638/3513638_b76f293bcc_m.jpg" alt="cheers to the Ruthless Rap Assassins, by the way, for the inspiration for this picture." vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>Me: listen fellas, how long you got left inside? (answers vary from 27 months to 5 years) Ok so how much pussy do you think you could eat in that time? 5 Years is a whole lot of pussy if I'm not mistaken. Let me put it to you like this. You do the maths, you get a qualification, next time you get out, you stay out, instead of coming back in here for housebreaking or something stupid, and taking showers with all the other lads you were missing so much, yeah? (I do the whippy-finger thing back at him, and we laugh.) </p> <p>Life is Real fellas...you get me...if you have sex with a girl without a condom, chances are you're going to make a baby...you live your life like you're in the movies, robbin and stealin...chances are...you're going to wind up somewhere like this...so...motivate yourself...every time you think you're bored of maths...add up all the pussy you could eat in 5 years, think about it, think long and hard about the pussy boys...life is real...snoop doggy dogg better get himself a jobby job.</p> <p>"And after that, well the game was mine." Begbie<br> ie Yes, I am also laughing at my own vanity, it's not rampant ego-mania, but you do have to love yourself in this world.</p> <p>Dedicated to the memory of John Wright (Rest in Paisley) </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2009/05/17/her-majesy-s-pleasure-seekers-6129571/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2009-04-12:/2009/04/12/easter-weekend-newsround-5930172/bunstan2009-04-12T12:17:31+02:002009-04-12T12:17:31+02:00 <p>Dear Bloggers, Bloggettes and Blogvestuaries,</p> <p>LONG TIME NO SEE!!! NO HEAR FROM!!! NO BLOGGING!!!</p> <p>Yeah I know, but I've now got SOOOOO much to tell you. Right well, back in Feb, not a lot was going on except the comedy every week. Since then I've left my job, left Glasgow and moved. Again. Just when it was all going so well. Had a comedy club all of my own, I had a spot in the naked comedy show, too, during the Festival. Had to cancel, had to moove. I probably sound very flippant as is my wont, but it wasn't a proper happy experience, I was hoping Glasgow would be the place this Gypsy could settle down, but no - access denied. I got a very nice message from my best pal, who said you didn't leave Glasgow, Glasgow left you. Was quite emotional driving past the city limits for the last time.</p> <p>So. New Financial Year, Baby Jeebus joined the crucifiction party, on the left, one cross each and all that. And was born again, think that happens tommorow. Jeebus was a crazy coot, invented sex you know, quite a groovey cat really. Pity he couldn't invent a common language between genders.</p> <p>So no comedy for me for a while. Plans at this point are to get work, get flat, get money. Then start looking for gigs. Don't think I'll start a new comedy club this time, might write something instead.</p> <p>I was watching "Che" this morning, you know the movie about Che Guevara, I read the motorcycle diaries book about two years ago, my girlfriend at the time had it lying around the flat, so I read it, anyway I'm watching the film and it's not the movie with Benicio Del Toro ( how cool is Benny DT ), it's the older one, it's actually a documentary about his life, and then there's another documentary, same DVD, called tracing Che, where an Irish guy retraces his journey from the motorcycle diaries. So I loved Che Guevara from I was quite little, I remember tracing the now ubiquitous image of him in the beret in Art classes when I was 15 or 16, so feckin years ago, long before the fashion statement. </p> <p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Wk_--I-NQ-E/R_2nGPRd-_I/AAAAAAAAAJc/OgN6iSNIrLA/s400/Heroico1.jpg" alt="Ernesto Guevara - Viva El Che" title="Ernesto Guevara - Viva El Che"></p> <p>And I'm watching and I started to think what is it about him that I feel so fascinated by, maybe I should go travelling and start changing the world, live out all the impossible ideas I have in my head that I limit because of fear of sacrifice, or family or employment or the world's too stupid to accept, or whatever, where is my over-riding passion, where is my fire, what is my world vision, why don't I have a theory on all of this, and direct my efforts to doing something about it.</p> <p>Now I've done a lot of AHEM, smoked a lot of AHEM, and even partaken of some AHEM, so this is a common reoccurrence for me to have earth-shattering moments of clarity like this, I'm always looking for them. So it wasn't so much an epiphany, more of a reassurance, like a health-check. And I started thinking, I don't really need to do the travelling, alone, on a motorbike that WILL breakdown, necessitating I learn motorcycle maintenance and all of that shit, that'll just take too long. I am travelling, right now. I am living on someone else's floor, someone else's attic, using someone else's towels, and cooking someone else their food, so they have soup to go to work with and a nice dinner to come home too, to say thanks for putting me up while I find a job and find a flat. Che would be proud.</p> <p>I am doing something meaningful with my life, I teach folks in deprived areas, the folks noone else will teach, the underclass. I earn a lot less than I would in design, so I'm making sacrifices, daily, yearly, consciously, that other people simply don't, and even more so, I perform to people in the hope that they'll go away and think about the state of the world, and maybe make changes, not by shouting and being angry on stage, but by painting a picture that is at one and the same time truthful and honest and sometimes brutal, there is a war, women in the 3rd world are systematically raped by soldiers to warn their men (wtf???), missiles are bought and sold, instead of spending the money on xxx and x but at the same time you try to point out the beautiful and mysterious and that there is a way to find harmony and peace and beauty in your life, that isn't compromised to shit by working 9-5. I could do the shouting thing, but whispering is actually more effective (and therefore more pre-meditated and manipulative of me mwahahaha) to sucker donkey in with the carrot, hit the donkey with the stick, it does actually move, thus the journey is achieved, but they don't remember the stick, just the carrot.</p> <p>I would say cha-ching but it doesn't work quite like that, I'll never be the new bill hicks or billy connolly, but it's ok because we have a black president of the US today, things do change. Not saying that is ALL my own work, but.... hahahhahaha... it's nice to feel like you are on the right side. It's nice to tell myself I didn't sit around smoking pot complaining, I got off ma ayuss and did something. And in my daily life I don't go all self righteous on folks, I hung onto some gentler thread of consideration for other people thinking you get more bees with honey, respecting their right to life and their choices, and try to get something positive out of everyone I meet, (especially old ladies at bus stops - they're the ones we should target, the ones with their fingers on the button).</p> <p>"Life, la la la la la, Life is Life" - Opus<br> DISCUSS </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2009/04/12/easter-weekend-newsround-5930172/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2009-02-05:/2009/02/05/this-friday-6th-february-headliner-and-guest-comapre-comedy-baby-5515435/bunstan2009-02-05T21:02:39+01:002009-02-05T21:02:39+01:00 <p>Hey all, </p> <p>thanks to all those who helped make Friday night super dooper, Janey Godley came down stairs to say hello, and check out the talent...lot's of reasons to be talented and funny guys and gals - you too could make an appearance on River City, although I would want Roisin to be in my scenes too, I love Roisin, and I want to have her babies. </p> <p>Ok this friday looking for acts as always, folks, get in touch for 5s 10s and 20s, Viv Gee headlining this friday. </p> <p>best<br> J</p> <p>Also so far confirmed:- </p> <p>Stave Halcott<br> Andy Gallacher<br> Matt Finlayson<br> Brendan Walace (aka James O'Riordan)<br> Dee Custance<br> Kim Griffin </p> <p>This Friday night, Big Mark Davies comparing. </p> <p>Night all have a great weekend, whatever you are doing, and the Nike corporation add the proviso to "Just do it", so that's philosophical comedy advice pretty well rounded off soundly there! happy happy joy joy!</p> <p>This is Hubble from Alcatraz, out. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2009/02/05/this-friday-6th-february-headliner-and-guest-comapre-comedy-baby-5515435/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2009-01-29:/2009/01/29/check-out-my-facebook-profile-5467831/bunstan2009-01-29T10:18:01+01:002009-01-29T10:18:01+01:00 <span>facebook</span> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=671914713&k=43L66VVZVWXM5ADEXDW5PS"><img src="http://profile.ak.facebook.com/profile5/1504/28/s671914713_1241.jpg" alt="Jonathan Stanley" name="Jonathan Stanley"></a>Jonathan Stanley has:<br>211 friends<br>24 photos<br>1 note<br>52 wall posts<br>47 groupsCheck out my Facebook profile<br>Hi Blog.co.uk,<br><br>I set upa Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. 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FINE COMEDY PRESENTS, JAY LAFFERTY!!!!</p> <p>( I SAW JAY'S "ORGASM WARMUP" THIS WEEK, AND TRUST ME, IT HAS TO BE SEEN TO BELIEVED!!! )</p> <p>SO JAY HEADLINES THE BILL AT GRAMOFON - SEE HER AND 7 OTHER COMEDIANS, THAT'S 8 COMEDIANS, PLUS ME, FOR £5.OO ONLY, COURTESY OF D.A.M. FINE COMEDY.</p> <p>'A NEW COMEDY NIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, A PLACE TO JUST HANG OUT, CHILLAX AND SPEND SOME TIME,<br> SWIMMING IN LAKE COMEDICITY...'</p> <p>Thanks for Listening</p> <p>Jonathan</p> <p>____________________________________________________________<br> _______________DETAILS______________________________________<br> ____________________________________________________________</p> <p>D.A.M Fine Productions Presents 'D.A.M Fine Comedy'<br> at Gramofon Bistro, 7 King St, Glasgow G1 5QZ</p> <p>An Evening of Stand-Up Comedy featuring 6 new acts,<br> and one established Headline act, EVERY Friday, in the<br> heart of Glasgow's most Bohemian Quarter of Trongate.<br> Compered by Jon Stanley.</p> <p>Entry £5.00 on the door, show starts at 8.30pm, limited seating. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/12/03/d-a-m-fine-comedy-this-friday-jay-lafferty-5158415/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-24:/2008/11/24/d-a-m-fine-comedy-friday-21st-november-5095170/bunstan2008-11-24T01:12:01+01:002008-11-24T01:12:01+01:00 <p>by bunstan @ Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 - 21:15:55 </p> <p>This week's gig was amazing, the lineup was better on paper tho I have to apologise for two of the acts, who were in fact terrible. The first terrible act came when my opening act went on ina pair of handcuffs with his pal for charity. Now that's all well and good, but to then proceed to ask everyone in the audience what they do for a living cause you blatantly don't have any material is a bit waring on an audience, and was waring on Friday nights audience, very evidently. The handcuffed pal then got invited to tell a few jokes and it all descended into pish really, sorry Baz, but it did mate - don't do that again please.</p> <p>Next up was I thnk Michael Manley who was brilliant, spot on very funny, which was needed after the first act so the night was off again. Michael is now doing straight comedy too, he used to do a character act based on a sort of nerdy stalker. it was very funny, and I loved it, but, wha is excellent is that we now both have retired sex pest banter, the other day we happened to get onto the subject of porn for example, and I said I hadn't seen such and such a film/genre/whatever it was and he says, completey dry, you haven't seen such and such? What kind of sex pest are you? See, banter baby.</p> <p>Next up was Alan Endean, who's an Irish comic, still very clever and interesting act, have to get hime back to perform. Then, we had out incognito actor researching the role of a stand-up for the movie they're making in a couple of months - Joey Frisk. I kid you not, for an actor he was feckin good, mind you he should be he's in the movies, so. Anyway. Why was he so good, he was on fire, there was a daft wee lassie in the front row kept talking to her pals, saying random heckles and getting messages on her phone, which wouldnt' have been a problem if she'd gone upstairs or been quiet about it but she wasn't she was a bit tipsy and a bit silly, and Joey laid into her. So we had a happening on Friday night, it all went spectacular spectacular, the more Joey laid into her, the more the crowd got behind him, until at one point he threatened to throw a glass of water over her and the whole room erupted in agreement.</p> <p>Next however, we descended again, as Jeremy Miedzinski went on and slated Frisk, who'd just performed, for stealing a Bill Hicks line, and then sooking in with the girsl in the front row who'd been annoying everybody! Bad call on both counts, first of all cause I don't thnk it is a bill hicks line, it's more the sort of aside, millions of comedians hae used without thinking about it. Secondly, don't ingratiate yourself to the most rude person in the room, it pisses off the rest of the room - and it did - I had to get him off before his time, cause he was bombing badly, it reminded me of an episode of CSI New York when a comedian kills a better comedian, so he can steal the limelight.</p> <p>Scott Agnew was amazing, a wee bit off kilter tonight Scott did about forty minutes, giving the audience a blast of twenty or so minutes of new material, so he's just the best value comic you can get your hands on - any promoters out there want a top headliner on fire, get Scott.</p> <p>Come to DAM Fine comedy next week and see Keara Murphy, 4 established acts and two new ones - or stay in and be a boring old fart, your choice : ) </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/24/d-a-m-fine-comedy-friday-21st-november-5095170/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-13:/2008/11/13/d-a-m-fine-comedy-friday-14th-november-5032134/bunstan2008-11-13T23:04:55+01:002008-11-13T23:04:55+01:00 <p>HI FOLKS </p> <p>THIS FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER D.A.M. FINE COMEDY PRESENTS, AUSSIE MENTALLIST RO CAMPBELL!!!!<br> ( NOVEMBER BEING AUSSIE MENTALIST MONTH AND ALL, WE GOT US ANOTHER AUSSIE THIS WEEK!!! ) </p> <p>SO RO HEADLINES THE BILL AT GRAMOFON - SEE HIM AND SIX OTHER COMEDIANS, THAT'S 8 COMEDIANS,<br> FOR £3.OO ONLY, COURTESY OF D.A.M. FINE COMEDY. </p> <p>'A NEW COMEDY NIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, A PLACE TO JUST HANG OUT, CHILLAX AND SPEND SOME TIME,<br> SWIMMING IN LAKE COMEDICITY...' </p> <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/441/2960441_c5771c601d_m.jpg" alt="The Poster" title="Wigs Baby Wigs"><br> Hello folks<br> things are hotting up for Chrimble at Gramofon, after a belter of a gig on Friday 5th when Marcus Ryan flowed through a set and a half of comedy gold for a very receptive crowd, completely rocked the set - Now I told you we'd been out and about schmoozing, and got Des Clarke for you, but he has had to rebook, so the new date is now 12th December ladies and gentlemen, the 12th December, Des Clarke baby, oh yeah. Scott Agnew is back in December as well, so lot's of fun coming your frickin way with laser beams on!!! </p> <p>This Friday though, it's Ro Campbell, Ro is more your Aussie in the fine tradition of Aussie terrorist comedians I mean he will tear apart whatever morality you had left in this post modernist age, then put it back together, or I could just be talking crap, I don't know, the man's a friend of mine, he's a top great smashing etc headliner, you'll love him he's very funny, so, get your rrrrrrs down to Gramofon this Friday. </p> <p>Thanks for Listening </p> <p>Jonathan </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/13/d-a-m-fine-comedy-friday-14th-november-5032134/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-09:/2008/11/09/self-review-the-state-bar-8th-nov-5006351/bunstan2008-11-09T05:18:33+01:002008-11-09T05:18:33+01:00 <p>I played the State Bar tonight, let me tell you all about the State Bar The State Bar has been on the map a long time, and It had taken me 18 months to get a gig in there, seriously. I asked to get a spot there pretty much at the same time I started asking The Stand for gigs. In that time I have had a lot of gigs at The Stand, but noe in the State Bar, and I thought for a wee while somebody somewhere had it in for me or didn't like me or whatever didn't like my act or my comedy or something, I had no idea what, and couldn't get any answer back so I didn't know what to think. Anyways cut a long story short I went down to see the gig one night about six months ago, and spoke to the Compere, Chris Broomfield, who's a very established Comedian in Glasgow with radio appearances and all sorts of stuff, so he earns his living from Comedy, he's a professional Comedian.</p> <p>So I ask him about doing a spot, and he's like yeah sure and a couple of weeks later I got an email with a booking to do last night. Now considering this was away back in May I was a bit surprised to be getting a booking so far in advance. I'm saying that now, I suppose partly because I now run a weekly gig myself, and I'm finding it hard to get enough acts in, let alone booking them six months in advance! Turns out they only have four comedians on, two do ten minutes, and two do twenty, I was one of the ten minutters obviously, but I've done ten minutes lot's of times, so I was ready for that, no problem. </p> <p>So Chris the Ram, goes on gets the crowd rallied, he's a great compere, and introduces Daniel Webster, the first act, Dan does ten or so minutes and then there's a break. Danny I really like, he's very funny, but he's surreal, and I've talked about surreal comedy on this website many times, it's difficult to pull it off well, and tonight Dan had to work really hard because there was a fairly rowdy crowd sat right in the front table. Chris had had to spend a lot of attention on them himself, so backstage we're all comedians chatting away obviously identify this happening in front of us, because there is no backstage at the State Bar, you just stand at the bar and watch. So, they were a bit troublesome. We go for our collective fag break. I've just had a fag outside, I come in, and literally 1 sip of red bull, and its gone straight to my gut, and I've gone to the bogs to clear, cause I've had a bad gut for a couple of days, diarrhea the whole bit, and I'm not going to let this fuck<br> things up. So I'm in the bogs and there are two of the lads from the rowdy table and one says to the other I can't wait to see what Jimmy's going to do to the next cunt.</p> <p>So, that'll light a fire under your arse if you were ever in need of a little extra push as a comedian. So I'm back to the comedians corner, straight away and tell everybody what I’ve just heard in the loo, and we're all like ok yeah this'll be fun to watch. So Chris goes on and introduces, warms the crowd up beautifully, but then introduces me as a new act, and goes on to say how I'm going to do 5 maybe 10 minutes, and asks if they'll be nice to me. Which was very nice of him, that's his job as a compere you see? Sort the room out. So I go on and I'm firing away ok couple of punchy lines I’ve got but then I always settle into a story telling style about 30 seconds in, and as soon as I do these fuckers on the front table are heckling shouting go on then do something, and they’re all saying do something! So I grab the ringleader by the shirt and I'm reaching through his pals to get to him, and I says gonnae fucking shut it or I’ll kick your fucking cunt in big man, and all in a perfect Glaswegian accent, and the guy was flabbergasted everybody laughed it was brilliant, he apologised and give me his hand, and of course I shook it, and I'm like its cool big man, it's all fun mate, and everything was cool but they continued to chat to themselves and were a bit distracting you know, and I'm trying to banter them, but then<br> I stopped and I turned to everybody else in the room and said we could just sit and watch these fuckers couldn't we, fuck the comedy, this'll be like River City, you know, on crack, cause they were all shit faced so they loved all the attention and everybody else was laughing with me, so and this is the important bit, everybody was happy, and the table shut up a bit, enough for me to get through my set, and deliver the laughies, you know, that’s my job. I did quite well actually and got a big cheer woohoo, hurray for me. Had a big finish too so I did everything right in terms of ticking the boxes you know. Think I finished with haw haw haw whit man so I get everybody involved in that so that went<br> well.</p> <p>SO anyway, at the end, Chris said in his close to the audience let’s hear it again for John Stanley, he was only supposed to be the new guy and he was brilliant wasn't he. Hear that, I was brilliant. So at that point I'm already smiling like a basket of chips because I knew I'd done well and everybody enjoyed my set obviously, because I got good laughs, so that was enough for me, but then Susan Calman comes past, and said well done that was an excellent set, quite a revelation actually, well done. Gobsmacked. Susan won a BAFTA earlier this year. Uhu, that’s no small achievement right? Go and see her show by the way she’s on fire right now, her set was amazing.</p> <p>So, I think I can safely say that tonight was a landmark. Now that won't mean anything to you but it means something to me, I've been trying to get a handle on what sorts of thing to try to aim for, and doing the State Bar tonight was one of them, it was hard to get in, but when I finally did I was really ready for it, and now I really appreciate it, obviously, I mean you couldn't pay for better feedback than that, how nice is it to hear something like that. So. Ego massage aside, right, it's difficult to know what to aim for, you can't just blitz every news paper and say hey I'm a comedian I'm really funny, want to make me famous, it just doesn’t work like that, you can't just promote yourself endlessly, there's a queuing system, and besides, so what, what are they going to print? So they print events don’t they, there is a time and space element, fixed details to be discussed. </p> <p>There are lots of comedians trying to get open mic spots at a limited number of comedy nights, and you have to serve your apprenticeship, and if you are good, people will take notice, but they will wait for you to have earned certain stripes, before allowing you into their gig to, perform. That analogy works across the board, Radio, TV, everything, but there are other filters at work too, you won't get on with some people, so that acts like a kind of filter, some people are very selective about who they will work with. Rightly so, some comedians are a pain in the arse obviously, hence the old adage, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, which is also true. </p> <p>Anyway I digress, so yeah I've been trying to identify what these different stripes might be, so the performing at the Stand is definitely a landmark, getting ten minutes at the Stand is a landmark, doing the Fringe (twice), ditching the speedos was definitely a landmark, doing your own show at the fringe ( yet to come probably not in 2009, but never say never, costs too much money for me just now. Unless I'm clever of course, watch this space ok?) What else is there, oh podcast is probably one, but then there're others and it's getting to know what they are. I'm guessing that writing is a big part of it. Write a screenplay. See now we're back to writing again, I tried writing before when I was younger and my brain worked faster and fuck me it's hard. It is such hard mental work, it's killer; I'm petrified, I am seriously petrified of it, utterly daunting thing to try is writing for a living.</p> <p>So, yeah, writing hey, I can hear you thinking, you crazy comedy starved zombies, you want me to write something don’t you, I can hear you thinking it, yous are all maniacs by the way!</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/09/self-review-the-state-bar-8th-nov-5006351/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-09:/2008/11/09/review-friday-7th-5006350/bunstan2008-11-09T05:17:26+01:002008-11-09T15:28:56+01:00 <p>Friday was awesome...But what a nightmare to book it.<br> To cut a long story short people were cancelling on thursday night, and I was still booking acts on friday afternoon for that night. So it was murder and mayhem levels of stress underneath this calm exterior this last week.</p> <p>We made it though, the line up in the end was like this</p> <p>Jeff Brighton 10 minute opener<br> Chris Scoular 5 minute open spot<br> Jim Park 15 minutes</p> <p>INTERVAL</p> <p>Chris Henry 20 minutes<br> Headliner Marcus Ryan </p> <p>Jim Park by the way, is in that limbo between being a headliner and being a very, very competent comedian. He got fantastic compliments last night and was very strong right to the end. So he won't be in limbo much longer we hope.</p> <p>Now then here's the funky stuff - I have been beeing slightly sneaky and getting a lot of interest from my none to extendsive network of friends in the media and in comedy, asking questions, asking for favours etc. Working it basicaly, the net result of all that is that last night Laura Keenan came down to see us with an actor friend who is researchng the role of a stand-up comedian. Laura herself is a manager of...tbc </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/09/review-friday-7th-5006350/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-04:/2008/11/04/friday-7th-november-the-build-up-the-line-up-the-skin-up-4983535/bunstan2008-11-04T17:48:21+01:002008-11-04T17:48:21+01:00 <p>This week</p> <p>Marcus Ryan, Aussie powerhouse, like a house, a powerful house, filled with comedy, so powerful it could blast the stains out of your wash without Barry Scott even being consulted. </p> <p>This week show starts at 8.30 guys, come on down love to see you, lot's of freebies, tickets, dinners curly wurlies etc etc etc </p> <p> <a href="http://" title="Wigposter-2"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/441/2960441_c5771c601d_m.jpg" alt="Wigposter-2" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/04/friday-7th-november-the-build-up-the-line-up-the-skin-up-4983535/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-11-04:/2008/11/04/hell-o-weans-4983421/bunstan2008-11-04T17:27:00+01:002008-11-04T17:27:00+01:00 <p>oh we had Santa headlining, the King of the Pixies, but ... </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/11/04/hell-o-weans-4983421/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-22:/2008/10/22/scoty-winner-scott-agnew-to-headline-this-friday-4915406/bunstan2008-10-22T22:15:21+02:002008-10-22T22:15:21+02:00 <p>Hi this is the poster:<br> Come down and see some radical comedy baby:</p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=30804777724" title="Ice Cream and Jobbie Sauce"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/323/2924323_744bf174e6_m.jpg" alt="Ice Cream and Jobbie Sauce" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>Did I mention Scott Agnew is headlining this Friday!!!</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br> _____________________________________________________________<br> _______________PRESS RELEASE_________________________________<br> _____________________________________________________________</p> <p>D.A.M. Fine Comedy has launched a funky new Comedy Show called<br> "Ice Cream and Jobbie Sauce" every Friday at Gramofon Bistro.</p> <p>We would be very grateful for any help you can offer in<br> publicisingthe night to make sure it is a success, so I am very<br> hopeful that you are indeed willing and able to list our event<br> in your various media. As a thankyou we would like to offer you<br> a complimentary bottle of champagne and free entry to see the<br> show. Please do let us know in advance.</p> <p>The venue is located downstairs in Gramofon Bistro,<br> 7 King St Glasgow, G1 5QZ and starts at 9pm.</p> <p>D.A.M. Fine Comedy stands for "Downstairs At Mines". It's a<br> cosy wee room for 50 people, in the very swanky looking<br> cellar-bar of the restaurant, so there's a lovely atmosphere,<br> we're putting a bar in, we're building numbers up and aiming<br> to create a funky night, that offers something a bit different,<br> instead of competing directly with The Stand and Jongleurs.</p> <p>Significantly, we are developing a lot of very original,<br> interactive games for the crowd, so we are mixing up the format<br> to try to make the evening a lot more creatively challenging for<br> comedians, rewarding for punters and interesting for anyone who<br> cares to hold an opinion on such things; so we're hoping it'll<br> be something interesting enough that you'll come and visit for<br> it's own merit some day.</p> <p>We launched on Saturday 11th October with Keir McAllister<br> blowing the roof off the place, last night Friday the 17th,<br> Jay Lafferty headlined, we're getting bigger headliners because<br> of the interesting format. This Friday 24th October, we are<br> headlining with Scott Agnew, 2008 Winner of the Scottish<br> Comedian Of The Year Award, The SCOTY. </p> <p>So by all accounts it should do very well, and we can<br> guarantee a very good value interview for you, should you feel<br> this of interest to your publication.<br> ____________________________________________________________<br> ____________________________________________________________<br> _______________DETAILS______________________________________<br> ____________________________________________________________</p> <p>D.A.M Fine Comedy Presents "Ice Cream and Jobbie Sauce"<br> at Gramofon Bistro, 7 King St, Glasgow G1 5QZ</p> <p>A Funky New Evening of Stand-Up Comedy, EVERY Friday,<br> featuring 8 new acts, and one established Headline act,<br> compered by Jon Stanley.</p> <p>It's a new comedy show in the heart of Glasgow's most Bohemian<br> Quarter of Trongate.</p> <p>All press and Comedians to contact :<br> Jon Stanley<br> <a href="mailto:bunstan@hotmail.com">bunstan@hotmail.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.bunstanmcfunkstan.co.uk">www.bunstanmcfunkstan.co.uk</a></p> <p>Entry £3.00 on the door, show starts at 9, limited seating.<br> Comedians to arrive at 8pm please.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/22/scoty-winner-scott-agnew-to-headline-this-friday-4915406/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-21:/2008/10/21/d-a-m-fine-comedy-the-story-so-far-4906902/bunstan2008-10-21T13:35:21+02:002008-10-22T22:03:25+02:00 <p>So I have taken on the job of compering a Comedy Night.</p> <p>Saturday 11th was our Launch night, which went well, in the end, but I was honestly going to cancel to begin with because we had no punters, just comedians, so at the last minute we persuaded half a dozen people downstairs, and the restaranteurs and we did actually have a lovely gig, everyone enjoyed themselves, punters included. By the end of the two first rounds of younger comedians, it was time for Keir McAllister to blow the roof off what I like to call a small but intimately packed crowd. There was six folk, plus comedians, so plenty of room for improvement in the numbers, but for quality the crawd is brilliant.</p> <p>So we then decided to proceed, me and my restauranteur partners no galvanised into one homegenous, comedy consuming beast. However we have changed it to Friday nights, just to be on the safe side, as he already has a lot of music nights booked on saturdays. SO. Friday's it is.</p> <p>Last Friday, which was the 17th, the very beautiful and very talented Jay Lafferty headlined, ooh it was smash - numbers were low again though, but some lovely ladies from Dancehouse came to see us and it turned into a really lovely evening again, although I was a wreck cause I was stressing about numbers.</p> <p>So this week the fantastic Scott Agnew Headlines, Winner of the 2008 Scottish Comedian of the Year Awards.</p> <p>I think the words you are looking for are "Woohoo!" and "Fuck me good on ya!"</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/21/d-a-m-fine-comedy-the-story-so-far-4906902/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-11:/2008/10/11/comedy-tonight-at-gramofon-in-glasgow-4855574/bunstan2008-10-11T17:37:48+02:002008-10-15T21:45:05+02:00 <p>Tonight we launch the gig</p> <p>Wooohoo</p> <p>I'll post a review later on, but I might get very drunk instead, who knows. No I will I promise.</p> <p>In the meantime, here's the viral I made for it:</p> <br> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188094279396&map=1"><img src="http://widget-e4.slide.com/p1/144115188094279396/lt_t054_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188094279396&map=2"><img src="http://widget-e4.slide.com/p2/144115188094279396/lt_t054_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188094279396&map=F"><img src="http://widget-e4.slide.com/p4/144115188094279396/lt_t054_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0"></a> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/11/comedy-tonight-at-gramofon-in-glasgow-4855574/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-11:/2008/10/11/re-jonboy-how-did-your-date-go-4855458/bunstan2008-10-11T17:03:54+02:002008-10-13T09:36:57+02:00 <p>Now then now then now then</p> <p>Last night I had kind of a date, well that's inaccurate, I got invited to join a girl I met on the internet, and all her pals in Reflex "the 80s Bar"</p> <p>On the way there I got chatting to two girls outside a pub having a fag, I was literally asking for directions to Reflex the eighties bar, the bar with a slogan. Anyway and one of them is all over me. She invites me in and we have a drink and a chat, which, was nicee, then they conveniently disappeared again. How does this work? Is it a pheromone thing? Why is it that when you meet a girl, you never meet one, you always get three at the same time? </p> <p>So I texted ahead to my friend from the net and said I'm on my way you can't miss me I'm wearing pink tartan jeans. Which was fine, but I ended up dancing obviously and had a lovely kiss with her pal with the blonde hair. Which was nice of course, but again, where is the logic in this situation. How come if you're single and you meet a girl and you bring up the idea of the two of you going for a drink or something, they'll be all reluctant to come and meet you, and go all coy, but if you meet a girl, and tell her your on your way to meet another girl, or that you just met another girl, all of a sudden you are the most interesting bloke on the planet.</p> <p>I imagine this on a biological level being kind of similar to animals at the watering hole, lusting over each other, fighting over each other, having wild and crazy bitey sex, rarrrrr, I could dig all that. It's all the peacock mating stuff that gets on my tits. I have been watching When Women Rule he World and it's hilarious, but we are lost as a species you know that don't you?</p> <p>I am single, hear me roar.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slide.com/s/5EykHcw84z8kQZtydPAWUV-T8m315Ca4?referrer=hlnk"><img src="http://widget.slide.com/rdr/0/1/1/W/2000000143007a5/0/0/2qis1ND4_Hdgz3eZpYdKzf3b4zJz_vJfAwZ8S-nqfWfP9HoP96fwYXNhvZzTosZd7kgael2VUrmL2zwOFFAo9R5TGzQA4RCoURhn/bEodItomU1iE-f4PhiHOPjzJJ5qQE5H2GMmqmFs.jpg" border="0" alt="Host unlimited photos at slide.com for FREE!" title="Host unlimited photos at slide.com for FREE!"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/11/re-jonboy-how-did-your-date-go-4855458/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-10:/2008/10/10/in-the-gods-we-trust-4852051/bunstan2008-10-10T20:38:02+02:002008-10-10T20:41:29+02:00 <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/044/2883044_1f22f32dab_m.jpg" alt="DSC00039" vspace="5" hspace="5"></p> <p>I have these babies stuck to the dashboard of my car, like a plastic Jesus, only better, cause there's a pirate for luck, a buddha for peace, and a Ganesh for turning the wheel baby</p> <p>I've got a gig to run tommorrow night, I should stop this tomfoolery, but I'm not going to I've got kind of a date tonight suckers so I'm going out to meet some ladies</p> <p>I hope it doesn't turn out to be a shite night cause I've had loads of them and I really can't be rrrrrrrrsed anymore </p> <p>sorry ladies</p> <p>x </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/10/in-the-gods-we-trust-4852051/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-10-05:/2008/10/05/drouthy-s-bar-ayr-4825401/bunstan2008-10-05T19:59:10+02:002008-10-05T19:59:10+02:00 <p><img src="http://widget.slide.com/rdr/1/1/2/S/20000002104056e/1/83/bm9AAEf-0j9HZK6yPxLRBB_HKb-K8V8c.jpg" alt="" title=""></p> <p>This wig came from Greece baby, I went on wearing this at Drouthy's on Thursday scremin "If anybody asks, I'm fookin Oirish, right!?!"</p> <p>The I went into the Pal Le Guen, and did fifteen minutes baby.</p> <p>It wasn't the most packed house in the world, in fact Drouthy's looks a bit shabby when it's none too packed but hey, rock and roll, show goes on and all that, you want to make sure everybody has a great time no matter how many folk turn up, so.</p> <p>So I made this dedication to the wig, I hope you like it:</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/10/05/drouthy-s-bar-ayr-4825401/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-23:/2008/09/23/mobile-phone-fun-4769377/bunstan2008-09-23T19:24:19+02:002008-09-23T19:24:19+02:00 <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/973/2836973_e87281d7e0_m.jpg" alt="DSC00022" vspace="5" hspace="5"> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/23/mobile-phone-fun-4769377/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-21:/2008/09/22/the-comedy-rollercoaster-4760094/bunstan2008-09-22T00:52:36+02:002008-09-22T00:54:52+02:00 <p>Ok so quick recap.</p> <p>Since I quit performing in Speedos it's been going really well, got loads of great gigs under my belt now, and enough crapa ones to want to focus everything on the performmance on the night so I'm taking it really seriously you could say. And whereas before it was lucky good, now it's good good, you can tell the difference in the audience cheering, you can tell these things.</p> <p>So I'd say I'm still a baby comedian, but now i'm a consistently good baby comedian, and now that the competition is over and the Fringe is over, it's back to gigging a couple of times a month, if you're lucky.</p> <p>So, I am putting on my own night, again.</p> <p>This time I'm going to get a headliner, and for the rest run an open mic night. I've already sorted it out, just not put anything on the blog yet. So here goes</p> <p>FANTASTIC NEWS! - NEW COMEDY NIGHT HITS GLASGOW!<br> <img src="http://a347.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/61/m_bf55c9c6aa9da6e6ed2fdc9e32180fd2.jpg" alt="http://a347.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/61/m_bf55c9c6aa9da6e6ed2fdc9e32180fd2.jpg" title="DAM Fine Comedy"><br> Well actually it's a resurrection of an old night...(ahem)</p> <p>D.A.M. Fine Comedy presents:</p> <p>"Downstairs At Mines"</p> <p>At Gramophon 8pm Glasgow, tickets on door $5 sterling.</p> <p>Hosted by Jon Stanley</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/22/the-comedy-rollercoaster-4760094/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-15:/2008/09/15/the-semis-we-all-laughed-the-maharishi-laughed-the-loudest-4732900/bunstan2008-09-15T22:07:48+02:002008-09-15T22:07:48+02:00 <p>Well the Scoty was fab, all done and dusted now, the line up was amazing and for my money Rowan Campbell the mental Australianist should have won it because his was the strongest act I thought, he should have been; he's a headliner*, so. *Oh that's jargon for somebody who gets paid to do a set of tenty minutes or more on their own - when you headline in a comedy club, usually you're talking 20 minutes. If you see a show going on for longer, that's because you are paying to see a top comedian who is putting on the show himself, and will probably do an hour.</p> <p>Me I'm a baby comedian, I'll get 5 minute long open spots at comedy clubs, for no pay and very seldom, but most welcome, the odd free drink.</p> <p>Then you get your headliners. Then you get your insterstellar marvels like Ross Noble or Billy Connelly performing to command audiences anywhere in the world, or Ken Dodd who can do marathon 4 hour sets, and regularly does much longer ones.</p> <p>So step in to the shadow of that bulk.</p> <p>What kind of comedian would you be, if you were going to be a comedian?<br> Discuss.</p> <p>I got reviewed tho, you can read it for yourself, from <a href="http://www.janeygodley.co.uk/">Janey Godley</a> she wrote the following:</p> <p>> I enjoyed every set and having been a judge at the Sunday mail<br> > contest, I at least got my faith back into Scottish Comedy. as<br> > the Sunday mail contest was really hard work. </p> <p>> Jonathan Stanley- Very chatty and laid back, he had good call<br> > backs and nice style. Could be too laid back and some of his<br> > words were rather whispered, but he is very very good. </p> <p>She said "very", she said it twice! One is so fucking chuffed!</p> <p>Of Promoter Alan Anderson, who runs the event, we heard this:</p> <p>><br> ><br> ><br> > However let me not keep you hanging.<br> ><br> > Obie - Alright. </p> <p>> Chris Forbes - Rather good. Did all things correctly and funnily. </p> <p>> Tommy Mackay - Didn't hit the right notes. </p> <p>> Andy Vaughan - Worthy of a place in the Scottish Student Comedian of the Year Final. </p> <p>> Jonathon Stanley - Did himself proud. </p> <p>> Rowan Campbell - Exceptional. Loved the new topical stuff on US Vice presidential candidate. </p> <p>> Iain Stirling - Charmed the pants off the middle aged middle class wimmen of Giffnock. </p> <p>> Jeff O'Boyle - accomplished. </p> <p>> And the winner was.... Iain Stirling.</p> <p>Photos When I get them. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/15/the-semis-we-all-laughed-the-maharishi-laughed-the-loudest-4732900/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-11:/2008/09/11/scoty-semis-on-friday-13th-eastwood-park-theatre-giffnock-4712978/bunstan2008-09-11T13:30:40+02:002008-09-15T21:34:16+02:00 <p>A little INFO: tickets costing £7.00/£4.50 concs can be obtained by calling 0141 577 4970</p> <p>I am in the semis tommorrow. This is nice but I am nervous for lot's of reasons, firstly because I snuck thru on a technicality, and people always want to dig into that and ask questions and want the controversy. There wasn't any real controversy, the mic was fucked, so I got a second shot really.</p> <p>Thing is the competition is going to be even harder at the semis obviously, you're in to the next round, so I'll have to up my game, write some new stuff, get it all working and synched in. I'm lucky actually cause I was on at the Stand this Tuesday night and I rocked, so I should have every chance of rocking again tommorrow night shouldn't I. But I'm nervous. I am definitely nervous.</p> <p>More good news though, went into Gramofon last night to have my meeting with them, about running a new comedy night in their restaurant. Metting went really well, have chatted to the guy before, but this time I got to hear his whole life story and what an amazing bloke he is. No sarcasm intended the guy is amazing, he's done so many things with his life. Man after me own heart. He has paintings all over the walls, all by local artists all for sale. He has poetry nights, jazz nights, theatre nights, amazing, he's so into everything you know. So I'm goin to run with the existing title </p> <p>D.A.M. Fine Comedy </p> <p>DAM stands for downstairs at mines it's a whole smashing deal baby, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, no honest, yeah, oh yeah.</p> <p>Video should get posted by the production company, but you can have a look yourselves at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/HaHaComedyScotland">HaHaComedyScotland</a></p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/11/scoty-semis-on-friday-13th-eastwood-park-theatre-giffnock-4712978/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-06:/2008/09/06/scoty-heat-4-dunfermline-5th-september-4689847/bunstan2008-09-06T13:36:54+02:002008-09-06T13:57:53+02:00 <p>I just fluked a place in the semis, literally:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bumpervaluecomedy.co.uk/scoty_2008_dunfermline_review.htm">Review by HaHaComedy's Alan Anderson</a></p> <p>How flukesome is that, baby!</p> <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/093/2789093_6b273459f6_m.jpg" alt="32123" hspace="5" vspace="5"> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/06/scoty-heat-4-dunfermline-5th-september-4689847/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-09-03:/2008/09/03/scoty-dunfermline-friday-5th-september-4678957/bunstan2008-09-03T23:53:26+02:002008-09-03T23:56:47+02:00 <p>SCOTY stands for Scottish Comedian of the Year</p> <p>but it's a wee bit artificial to say that because it's not completely inclusive of every comedian, nor every scottish comedian, nor only scottish comedians. I live here so I'm allowed but you have to have been living in Scotland 6 months or more, and enter. That's it. Some people choose to enter, some choose not to. SOme people slag the whole competition process saying it's a poor way to get the best comedy. </p> <p>Me and most comedians I know are just glad to get the chance to perform, often in front of TV as well, so that adds an extra layer of stuff to learn etc and the whole thing is more ineresting. So we're just glad of the time on stage and are hapy to perform and hopefully give people a laugh. Haha.</p> <p>The SCOTY though is run by Ha Ha Comedy, which is run and owned by Alan Anderson, an man who's name strikes fear into the hearts and minds of the readers on the Scotish Comedy Forum, but he's actually a very cool cat, I get on with him very well, so this blog, is not so much an earnest and cutting review of the SCOTY so much, as erm a biased blog.</p> <p>I like the idea of a competition, that's why I went to the gong show down in Manchester. Loved it, great experience bombed, never doing speedos again I don't know what to say, I wanted to be able to tell my grand kids something before I died, that when I was alive, I really lived. And then pop a Werther's Original.</p> <p>Ah I repeat myself.</p> <p>Oh yes, was up Sauchiehall St the other night and met these two beauteous ladies promoting the Sea nightclub, yeah I know.</p> <p><img src="http://widget.slide.com/rdr/1/1/1/W/200000020a8e53e/1/214/RmyLq0Tr4T9IP1xtdWQL-b7x1Hln-UMZ.jpg" alt="" title=""> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/09/03/scoty-dunfermline-friday-5th-september-4678957/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-08-31:/2008/08/31/meadow-bar-edinburgh-30th-august-4661504/bunstan2008-08-31T13:29:07+02:002008-08-31T13:29:07+02:00 <p class="center"><img src="http://www.laughinghorsecomedy.co.uk/freefestival/FreeFrestivalLogo.gif" alt="http://www.laughinghorsecomedy.co.uk/freefestival/FreeFrestivalLogo.gif" title="http://www.laughinghorsecomedy.co.uk/freefestival/FreeFrestivalLogo.gif"></p> <p>Last night I did the Meadow Bar and rocked the set.</p> <p>The last wee while I have been rocking the set farily consistently.</p> <p>I am liking this I have to say, but I don't want to get all caught up in the ego massage, just trying to relate the actual experience, see last night the compere was a lady I know very well, and that was Keara Murphy, she runs a night in Edinburgh all year round called Absolute Beginners. Anyways, she hadn't seen my new act without the Speedos before and was really delighted to tell me I'd done really well etc etc gave me a big hug and all that.</p> <p>Now here's the thing, y'see when I came off stage, I just ambled away down the stairs to get a drink, and there was a lovely young lady I got talking too, and we're at the bar chatting away, and all of a sudden Keara comes down after she's introduced the next act, and that's when she gave me big hugs, and that's when the whole conversation with the birdey num num kind of died. Gutted. Feeling smug tho cause I'd a great gig last night, it was fucking lovely, I was ramping upi the pressure, my time was perfect.</p> <p>It's so much easier without the Speedo baby.</p> <p>I'll try and get a link to a review: </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/08/31/meadow-bar-edinburgh-30th-august-4661504/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-08-28:/2008/08/28/edinburgh-gig-last-night-4649643/bunstan2008-08-28T16:54:21+02:002008-08-28T21:37:29+02:00 <p>I had my 36th birthday yesterday</p> <p>I'm 36.</p> <p>it's just a number, one below 37, which is apparently the number everyone picks when you say pick a number from 0 to 100. Even cooler than that tho, 37 is Cool Hand Luke's Number in prison.</p> <p>So, I had a gig, drove up to the burgh on my birthday, had a few nice texts from chums and pals around the globe, reminding me that I have to remember to send my Dad a card as his birthday is next week and I always forget, despite having a handy reminder like a birthday every year.</p> <p>I would have liked to get loads of pressies, but I would settle for just being happy. In the last six months I split with my girlfriend ( she kept the cats ), had a pretty horrible grievance procedure at work, moved house, and all the usual crap folk have to deal with, maniac clients aside, but all at the same time so it was pretty grim the last wee while in the house of Bunstan.</p> <p>So last night I had a lot of that in my head, and was really worried about being funny, but I addressed it as soon as I went on, I made some incoherent blurb about being single again, and how the ladies are generally fuct in the head from the gentlemens' perspective, much as I love you in all your infinite guises, I do love female company, but yous are fuct in the head. Anyway so I got it out of my system and it was very funny, and I came off and had a choice word with my pal and comrade Daniel Webster, he'd been on a few comedians before me. So I gave Dan a lift home, then I drove home to Glasgow, and on the way I'm suddenly very very happy, that actually everything is ok, and I really believe it. And I mean BELIEVE it in a conscious way, not my usual happy go lucky way.</p> <p>So birthday was a success. But generally I'd prefer to be selfish, and not stay sober and drive etc. But get completely steamboats and make romantic overtures to Irish Gypsies in The Buff Club, which is what I did earlier in the week. but that's another story.</p> <p><img src="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4905/1travellerpa468x644ud5.jpg" alt="http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=119787" title="http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=119787"> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/08/28/edinburgh-gig-last-night-4649643/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-08-25:/2008/08/25/dates-for-comedy-4637033/bunstan2008-08-25T22:29:16+02:002008-08-28T16:36:43+02:00 <p>ok folks, at huge request, here it is ok, my gig dates as "Jon Stanley" for the next wee while, and I will keep this updated for ya:</p> <p>2008 - 27th Aug – meadow bar, Edinburgh<br> 2008 - 30th Aug – meadow bar, Edinburgh<br> 2008 - 05th Sep - Scottish Comedian of The Year Competition, Dunfermline<br> 2008 - 09th Sep - Red Raw The Stand Glasgow<br> 2008 - 06th Oct - Red Raw The Stand Glasgow<br> 2008 - 13th Oct - Absolute Beginners, Mercat Bar Edinburgh</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/08/25/dates-for-comedy-4637033/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk,2008-07-26:/2008/07/26/frog-aamp-bucket-comedy-club-4503131/bunstan2008-07-26T20:34:49+02:002008-07-26T22:01:44+02:00 <p><a href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/dsc00488crs/2688999" title="DSC00488crs"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/999/2688999_d9307b88f1_m.jpg" alt="DSC00488crs" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>I just did the Frog and Bucket </p> <p>60 quid of petrol to do five minutes for free.<br> Unless you get gonged off of course... </p> <p>I did it as Bunstan McFunkstan, so help me God, I am not doing it again, ever. </p> <p>But if you're going to try and land a UFO, then spectacular is the way to go. </p> <p>So after three days on the piss at a stag do, then one full day at work, and four hours driving to manchester, straight from work, I arrived, in time and was all set to go, sitting backstage. </p> <p>I go on last, cause I'm clever like that and I've phoned ahead to tell them I'm driving from Glasgow. </p> <p>So I'm introduced on stage and there's a bunch of teachers on the right giving me death stares straight away, but it's ok ish, i always leave a little bit of suspense, and then suddenly everyone laughs together, the punchline lifts everybody and I thought that was the idea - get biggest laughs you can right? </p> <p>So 3 minutes in I'm part way through bum reassurance therapy with the audience and i slipped up and addressed them as the beautiful people of glasgow, instead of manchester. Gong. </p> <p>I broke comedy law. </p> <p>I can hear you going "Ohhhhhh" across the interweb-ether just now. </p> <p>soon as I said glasgow that was me gonged off, and rightly so, hahhahahhah. Mmmmm I know. I know, I know I know! Shutup, it was a last wee shot of the demon speedo King. RIP Bunstan McFunkstan. I knew Him well.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://bunstanmcfunkstan.blog.co.uk/2008/07/26/frog-aamp-bucket-comedy-club-4503131/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>