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On amneisa, and errr stuff

Well that was a strange gig.  Did johnny armstrongs rubber chicken club night in picadilly circus (look at me, playing central london - my son the comedian).

Started well, first couple of jokes got a laugh.  And then somehow I completely forgot my set.  I wouldn’t mind if it was the new stuff, but it was my tried and tested material.

So I completely forgot everything, got through about 3 seconds by making silly noises, another 7 seconds (the longest 7 seconds  of my life) standing on stage saying nothing - desperately trying to remember where i was going with that material - before deciding to give that up as a bad idea and launch into the new material.

Which actually went down well.  QPR joke got a laugh (easy target admittedly), everything else seemed to go okay and of course pete loved me for doing a joke about eurovision.  The payofff line to 3 minutes worth of material got the kind of laughs I was expecting (very few).

So all in all, I’m counting this one as a draw.  Extremely irritated with myself for forgetting what I was doing, but pleasantly surprised that I managed to rescue this one, unlike say the exhibit or the laughing horse one.

I asked pete for a rating after the gig, and his concurred with mine.  6/10