For those of you who are too busy or too sensible to listen to me rambling at you for minutes on end, here is a brief written summation of the salient points.
Firstly, my attempts to restart David’s Daily Digital Dollop lasted for all of sixteen days. For those of you who followed that short-lived project I hope you enjoyed getting lost with me in piss filled underpasses, rifling through bags of sex toys, and groping sleeping men. I imagine that those of you who didn’t follow these adventures are now, after reading that last sentence, desperate to do so. You can subscribe to the David Eagle Podcast in all the usual podcast places.
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My intention is to podcast/blog on a regular basis, but a daily basis is probably a bit overkill. For those of you who think this is down to me being lazy, let me immediately poo poo such ideas and point out that my reasons are entirely noble. I am thinking of the environmental impact of a daily podcast. As valuable a service as listening to me getting lost in underpasses and rifling through bags of sex toys is, we’ve all got to make sacrifices for the good of the planet, and so I am rationing my blogs to maybe a couple a week. So just to be clear, this is a completely egoless, altruistic decision, and has got nothing to do with me being lazy. Glad that’s clarified.
However, I suppose I was also finding it rather difficult to keep up the exercise of blogging on a daily basis. When I successfully did this for the entirety of 2016, I wasn’t in a relationship for most of that time and I wasn’t trekking around the country every evening doing standup gigs. Come to think of it, perhaps the reason I wasn’t in a relationship was because I was spending most of my life with a microphone in my face commentating on every little thing that was going on.
I also think that the David’s Daily Digital Dollop project of 2016 was partly born out of fear of doing standup comedy. By setting myself a ridiculous, time consuming challenge, I could distract myself from the fact that I wasn’t venturing out to stand and talk in front of a room full of judging strangers. The fact that you all encouraged me by listening to me in your hundreds, and in some cases thousands, meant that I continued with the blogging rather than going out into the much bigger, scarier world and doing standup. So basically, what I’m saying is that due to your support, you have held my standup career back about two years. Thanks a lot, you bastards.
Fortunately, I did eventually gain the courage to go out and do standup. I’ve done seventy standup gigs in the last year, and have managed to win New Comedian Of The Year at 2018’s Nottingham Comedy Festival and this year’s Bath Comedy Festival. I am also excited to report that I have garnered a few exciting support gigs.
This Sunday in Sheffield I’m doing an opening spot for one of my favourite comedians, Tom Wrigglesworth. Sadly there are no more tickets available for this; such is my immense pulling power.
On the following Sunday, 19th May, I have another exciting gig. I am in Ilkley. And that’s not even the exciting bit. I’m supporting Boothby Graffoe. There may still be tickets for that here.
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And on the 5th September I’ll be in Stroud. So that’s exciting, isn’t it? No, hang on, there’s more. I’ll be supporting Reginald D Hunter. Tickets for that here.
I also have an entry in my standup diary for the 12th June marked “Hyde park gig.” Currently I have been given no further details about that, but I will spill the beans as soon as I know more. Actually, let’s not bother with the beans spilling; it seems a reckless environmental waste; I’ll just tell you about it here instead.
Another reason for putting a halt on the attempted David’s Daily Digital Dollop resurgence was because I had a number of projects that I was involved in that had deadlines, and I was in danger of not getting those done due to rifling through bags of sex toys and talking about groping men in their sleep. Don’t resist the urge; get involved, have a listen. One of these projects was an hour-long radio documentary I’ve produced, presented by The Young’uns for BBC Tees, all about our most recent theatre show The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff. Essentially we were given complete free-range to present and produce the whole thing ourselves without any intervention from anyone at the station. I’d like to think this is because the station manager had heard my Dollops and podcasts and instantly realised that I clearly needed no tutelage or input when it came to creating a work of radio genius, but it was probably more down to BBC budget cuts and not being able to afford a producer.
Sing A Song Of Freedom – The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff is available to listen to here.
I’ll be back in the next couple of days with another podcast. I have lots to tell you, including (don’t worry Dollopees, I haven’t forgotten) two stories about two harrowing journeys to and from standup gigs.
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