Acting In A Stage Play Is Like

It Was Julie Burchill Who Decreed That, Beyond A Certain Age, A Man Should Not Be Seen In A Leather Jacket.

Global Warming, The Ongoing Destruction Of The Planet, Third World Debt, The Uselessness Of The Railways, The Takeover By The Corporations, The Scary George Bush Person: All These Things Are Important And Should Be Animating Me Into Outrage. Yet Somehow They Do Not.

Comedy Ages Quicker Than Tragedy, To The Extent That We Can't Know If The 10 Commandments May Originally Have Been 10 Hilarious One-liners.

It Is More Interesting To Be Compared To Someone Famous, Because It Lets You Gauge What Perceptions People Have About Your Appearance.

Ninety-eight Per Cent Of Laughter Is Nothing To Do With Jokes, Which Do Not Deserve To Bear The Weight Of All The Funny Stuff In The World.