Stand up and zombies

Well stand up is terrifying! Or rather waiting to do stand up is terrifying!

I finally took the plunge, thanks to my comedy pal Farrah Lawrence and spent 5 minutes trying to make strangers laugh at the Cavendish in Stockwell. 

Up until the moment I got called up, “Please welcome to the stage, Luke McQueen”

Interesting stage name…. thanks for that, I felt that my stomach was going to fall off and release the condor that was trapped within.

As soon as I stepped up on stage, however, something magical happened. I felt fine. I couldn’t see the audience very well and knew I just had 5 minutes before I could hide away again and go back to making Tom and Farrah laugh with funny faces and noises….. Simpletons. 

Although I have no memory of it now whatsoever , the video shows the audience all laughing in the right places and I seem to have said the right words so I couldn’t have asked for much more.

I’m sure I will do it again but I have no idea when. The Cavendish is just about the best place for a comedian to start though. It’s very friendly and a lot of the people watching are other comedians, so if you have that niggling thought that you might fancy it, I urge you to give it a go! I know plenty of you on my friends list who are funnier than me.

So after the rush of emotions from extreme tension and fear to relief and euphoria, a good night’s sleep was in order…… Wrong.

I then proceeded to head down to Whitstable at 3.30 in the morning, after approximately 1 hours sleep to pretend to be a zombie. We got make up and buckets of fake blood applied and spent 6 or so hours chasing cars and 1 survivor around the little harbour. Highlights included Tom’s impression of a dyslexic zombie, “BRIANS!” and thoroughly freaking out a guy in a van just starting work.

I arrived home in time to wash off the crusty corn syrup from my hair and face, and sleep for all of 1 ½ hours before working the evening shift at work. After sleeping off my exhaustion, I am now writing this blog and trying to remember if the past few days was actually a dream or not.

Thanks to everyone involved , especially Farrah for making me talk to people about semen, gay porn and religion.

Link to stand up in case somebody missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTQxsTckOE&feature=mh_lolz&list=FLW2ZCM3mGKYUJxe9v8wlULA