Last night I was interviewed about my comedy on BBC Radio 4. It was on their programme designed for blind people, In Touch. While other comedians are paying vast sums for PR people, I manage to circumvent all that and gain five minutes of air time on a national BBC radio station for free, and all I had to do was be blind for thirty-four years. I am clearly winning the game of life. I expect other comedians at my level will now be considering blinding themselves in order to take advantage of this opportunity, but it’s too late, I got in there first and it’s unlikely they’ll cover the subject of stand-up comedy for a good while now. The secret of comedy is indeed timing.
The interview was recorded the day before the broadcast and the introduction was done separate to me being in the studio. I was asked to send them a little biogg, in which I outlined my various comedy awards and mentioned that I’d just been nominated Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards. However, for some reason, it was announced on BBC Radio 4 just before my interview was played that I’d just been crowned Best Newcomer by the Chortle Awards. This, at the time of writing, untrue; the votes are still open.
On Monday I explained that the other comedians in the Best Newcomer category had gained Russian backing and that a vote for me would be an exercise in restoring our faith in our democratic system. I now present you with yet another reason to vote for me, and it is a second completely selfless motivation. The BBC is under threat enough as it is without having this journalistic inaccuracy about my Chortle Award win adding fuel to the fire and providing further reason for the anti-BBC brigade to call for the BBC to be shut down. However, if you all vote for me to win then in a week’s time I will have won, making the BBC’s claim accurate, thus protecting the journalistic integrity of the corporation and consequently helping to save this great British institution. So if you want to rescue both democracy and the BBC, then you know what needs doing. Vote here.
Then as a special treat for helping to save democracy and the BBC, you can listen to my BBC Radio 4 interview here.
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