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Loading ...I’m a Moran fan, I love his work on Black Books, and somehow I’m not surprised that he’s the poetry-reading-in-a-bar type.
What comedians do on a Friday night
By Will last year, at the start of November Add your comment below
So there we were, sitting in a private members club (as you do) at about midnight, when we noticed a man sitting on his own behind us. Sitting, chain-smoking, drinking, hunched, and … reading a book. It was one of those sights you don’t expect to see when the rest of the place is either dancing, or drinking, or dancing and drinking, or just drinking, or smoking, or smoking and dancing, or sitting and drinking, or talking.
I thought he looked a bit familiar, but my friend – an actress, and prone to overwhelming bouts of confidence – was convinced he’d be reading something like Hemmingway, or a book that at least suggested he was above the rest of us. Drinking, laughing, dancing and enjoying yourselves? Go to hell.
Nature called for me, so my friend seized on the poor bugger and demanded to know what he was reading and why. It was Dylan Moran, no less – and he was reading poetry. He looked a little worse for wear – crumpled and world weary, which is what his “act” is – and tottered out, book in hand, before I got back. Which is just as well, as I’d have genuflected, screamed his full name at the top of my voice and probably asked him if we could collaborate on an award-winning book on satire.
If you’ve never seen Moran live, you must. And before you do, just buy this.
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2 Responses to “What comedians do on a Friday night”
November 7th, 2009 at 2.31 pm
November 7th, 2009 at 6.53 pm
Smoking! My God.
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