Thursday, 8 June 2006
Got a phone
call today asking if I was free tomorrow to spend a
day writing with Barry Humphries. Surely writers aren't
"asked" if they want to spend a day working
with Barry Humphries, aren't they just told where and
when to turn up? Anyway, the where is an office in Soho
and the when is 11am tomorrow morning. Not exactly sure
what the project is but I do know it's for his character
Dame Edna. I always associate Dame Edna with huge TV
comedy show stopping moments like when she would abort
her celebrity guests down trap doors on her shows or
like the other week when she appeared on a charity version
of blind date on TV and said to Roger Moore, "I
bet when you heard me clunking down those stairs you
thought it was Heather Mills McCarney didn't you?".
That line literally stopped the show with wave after
wave of laughter mixed with screams of disbelief. The
show had been very middle of the road until then and
once again Dame Edna left the host (this time Patrick
Kielty) utterly speechless. I read recently that she
(Edna) did it again on Sharon Osbourne's US TV chat
show when the Dame presented the X-Factor judge with
a gift of a purse made out of a kangaroo's scrotum.
Tomorrow promises to be an interesting day.
