Sitting here, in this coffee shop on Lower Main- it’s called Coco Cha Chi, beyond comfy and tasty I’m thinking about the week to come. Since this sight has my name on it I won’t feel too conceited in filling it with what I’m up to….. Tomorrow is Comics at Work time, experimental comedic goodness. Heeltyd speeltyd should be a tagline for that infinitely silly, yet completely refreshing smouldering creative fuselage of a show. So when I’m done with this I’ll be fiddling with my bits that need attention, not as sexy as it sounds. My perception of the show has changed through the years, I woke up this afternoon thinking about how similar the platform is to publishing. A live printing press, spewing out hybrid surrealist agendas every Sunday- injecting silliness into the crook of collective ether’s elbow.

This affects the way I see my material too, a living piece of publishing. It sounds pretty obvious but it’s a sentiment that excites me, even if I don’t fully grasp it. We’re also wrapping up our documentary on South African comedy, with only Mark Sampson and myself left to interview. The exciting thing about this last flurry will be the conversation I’ll have with Sampson. He started comedy at the Armchair ten plus years ago, I run it now- a passing of the baton sort of conversation. Some time last week we shot some quickies for comedy central; short funny moments that pop up between shows.

We’ll be looking through all the material and deciding which to send up, the crazy thing about editing work you had no part in creating is that you have transpose your perception of funny to the artist’s intent. Something, in all my abject selfishness, am completely new to. It will be fun none the less.

Rustum August and myself produced and directed the Lampooning of Rob Van Vuuren that happened last week. The set looked fucking amazing- a special thanks to Gabbi Kannemeyer and Gino Fernandez for jumping in on the painting side. Another big ass kudos to Kevin from Mercury Live, I doubt there’s a harder working club owner in South Africa. The guy is as hands on as it gets, there’s a reason Mercury is as successful as it is, him. Hard working bastard, just brilliant. Support that venue, there’s true passion behind it.

There’s the update, come play with us on Sunday evening at Armchair if you’re free.