The Last Laughs
Today we'll record the last three of the eighteen comedy shows we've been staging at the City Halls in Glasgow. Sabotage at lunchtime will be followed by The Why Front at seven o'clock tonight and then Dance, Monkey Boys, Dance at half past nine.
I have to pay tribute to Margaret-Anne Docherty who has produced twelve of these shows across the week - each one with a different script. I spoke to her last night after another hilarious edition of The Why Front and you could tell she had about two minutes of sleep in the last six days. I mean, I told her a couple of my own jokes and she barely smiles so that must be down to lack of sleep.
I noticed the audience have come to recognise and cheer their favourite Why Front characters, including Auntie Sunbeam, the children's entertainer from the dark side who loves to share her bleak philosophy of life with the kids in her care.
Telling a story in which a dog called Sparky fails to save a little girl from falling down a mine shaft, Auntie Sunbeam tells the children: "dogs are like weans - it's not love they want from you, just their dinner."
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