Are you in the middle of a tour at the moment?
As a comic you’re always on the road. It’s like a constant tour but at the moment I have a football film to promote as well
Tell me about that
It’s called: Some People Don’t Get Football, I Don’t Get Those People. It’s on DVD and download at somepeoplefilms.com
So why IS football so important? And can you really not understand people who don’t ’get’ it? (Can you tell I’m one of them?)
Ha, that’s the point. Football isn’t all about winning. True fans understand that. It’s about identity and belonging.
I hear you ’identify with and belong’ to both Watford FC AND Hemel Hempstead Town
I’m a Hemel lad and you can’t take that out of me. WFC were the side to follow.
Will you be bringing WFC up when you do your gig here? Are we good stand-up material?
I’ll not be bringing up the football but Hemel might get the odd mention
What else are you going to talk about on the night?
I do like animals but pandas will get a bit of a pasting.
What have they done to deserve that?
They strike me as very ungrateful. We treat them like rock stars, fly them 1st class and they can’t be bothered to mate. I would.
They’re not keeping their end up. As it were. Talking of first class, I hear you travel about quite a lot gigging – Dubai, Thailand, Bahrain...
Bahrain was an in and out job (pandas take note!) It’s hot and I got told off for being naked in the gym changing room I should say I wasn’t just hanging around in there. I was going for a shower. Turns out they don’t like nudity out there.
Didn’t you do a gig naked once?
I did. I was told we would all be naked but they others used scarves to cover their bits. I wasn’t sent the memo :-( The room held 160 people ... We had a crowd of 6 :-(
Maybe if they’d known you were going to be naked... Have you recovered from that experience yet?
To be honest I think that’s what put them off. It was actually quite liberating. That said it won’t be happening at Watford...
- Eddy Brimson is at the Hellfire Comedy Club, Watford Colosseum, Rickmansworth Road, Watford on Thursday, October 31 at 7.30pm. Details: 0845 075 3993, watfordcolosseum.co.uk
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