Thursday 14th May 2009, 12:20

Any way the wind blows

I know I'm due a blog post about the rest of the wedding (since the Hello magazine deal fell through, there's nowhere else to report it), but a) I've been manic catching up on all the work I meant to do while on honeymoon, and b) I had to share this conversational nugget from yesterday...

After a daytime gig yesterday, in which I was basically there to plug my stand-up comedy wares to all who were there, one fella approached me afterwards. He waited two minutes while I finished a conversation with someone else (there were lots and lots of lovely people there, I should point out - all positive and supportive and nice), and when I was free he came up to me, I thought for a leaflet I was handing out. But no.

In the brief set of a few minutes ago, I had done a joke referencing rock band Queen. So he took me up on this...

HIM: One thought before you go. Who's Queen?

ME: Who's the Queen?

HIM: No. Who's Queen? You mentioned Queen there on that stage. Who's Queen?

ME: Oh. Well they're a band from the 70s.

HIM: Yes I have heard of them. But I might not have done. In which case, joke's lost on me. Don't get it. In which case I'm not going to book you.

ME: But you have heard of them?

HIM: Yeah, but I might not have done. In which case, you've wasted your time. I'm not bothered.

And off he walks.

Well he makes a good point. You can't take anything for granted. And at all future gigs I shall remove all and any cultural references, on the off-chance that the audience haven't heard of such up-and-coming new young people's bands like Queen, or that they have heard of them but just as easily might not have done, and then where would be? Joke's lost on them. Or would have been if they hadn't heard of them, even though they had. In which case I've wasted my time. To be honest it's just as well I didn't do my Beatles joke.

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