Female Comedy Influences

I am now involved with a comedy sketch group and was thinking on my influences the other day.

Not a film watcher or a music listener, there was one thing my mother brought me up to appreciate fully and that was female sketch comedians (I far prefer them to female stand ups). So here's a very quick rundown of my major influences


Victoria Wood & Julie Walters
I get this disgustingly huge smile on my face when I watch these ladies perform together. Victoria Wood is an unmitigated genius and Julie Walters' physical comedy in every single sketch brings me to tears of joy. I've mentioned before that Two Soups is pretty much my favourite sketch of all time so I'll post something different by them. Gah! I love them!



Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders
The grand mistresses of the parody, French and Saunders were my first comedy gig at the Bristol Hippodrome in 2000. As I've mentioned and posted videos by French and Saunders before here's a live sketch from that very gig I went to see.


Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips (aka Smack the Pony)
This is one of my mum's favourite TV shows so it's got this incredibly nostalgic feel to it for me. It makes me so happy. These three sketches crack me up:


The ladies of Saturday Night Live
I can't leave this post without mentioning my favourite ladies from the longest-running sketch show ever, Saturday Night Live. To be a live sketch comedienne as a full time job means these ladies are the cream of the crop. And oh man, they're sickeningly inspiring.

Gilda Radner (1975-1980)



Amy Poehler & Tina Fey (2000-2008) - I wanted to show their Golden Globes opening because they're just genius together



Kristen Wiig (2005-2012)



Kate McKinnon (2012-present)
 

How To: Pikachu iPhone Charger

This post will show you how to make your iPhone charger plug into a Pikachu face!


Here's what you will need:

• your Apple charger plug (make sure it is long out of the socket and HANDLE WITH CARE)
• a yellow sharpie
• a black sharpie
• a red sharpie

 

Remember to handle the plug very carefully so you don't shock yourself.

Step One: Take the yellow sharpie and colour in the entire plug (except the back!)

 Step Two: Mark in the position and size of the eyes using the black sharpie.

 Step Three: Add the nose down from the eyes, it's an upside down triangle. Then mark in the mouth, it's like a flattened 3. Mine is all a little wonky, I'm sure yours will be better!

Step Four: Add in cheeks using the red sharpie. They're a little smaller than the eyes and diagonally down and outwards from them. As a finishing touch I added the white in Pikachu's eyes. I'd suggest using white nail polish to put a white dot on, or Tipex!

Et voila. Mine looks all mucky and weird because I tried to spray it with a sealer after I'd finished. Don't do that, all the black ran down and he looked like Horrific Hallowe'en Pikachu.

Writer's Room - THE UPDATE

I originally wrote this post when I was sharing a house with two other people and basically kept 95% of my belongings in one awful room.

Well, now I've sort of got my shit together and live in a lovely flat; have done for almost a year now. So as a nice comeback to this blog I thought I'd update you all on my surroundings.

The Bed

Same bedding, just been made. Oh and my landlady is nice so the bed ISN'T a broken mess that gives me back issues. Tidy!

The Desk

Again, same PC/desk components, I just have a lot more room to play around with now. Plus, lookit! Nice carpeting rather than freezing cold floorboards! I love my little flat.

The Bookshelf

Still don't have even a tenth of my books here, but this is where I keep them. And yes, I still pile a bunch of crap on top of and in front of the books. But I'm getting better. I intend to sand down these bookcases and paint them a mint green soon!


Storage Areas

What? WHAT?! There's no crap shoved here there and everywhere it'll fit? Everything is relatively neatly organised in storage cupboards? Well, shiiii.

 

Yay for proper storage!

DVD/Game Collection

 

 Me and the boyfriend merged our collections and organised them semi-neatly on some shelves! Note Blade and Hulky on top there :D

Clothes

I have two wardrobes now and I love them. There's SPACE IN FRONT OF THEM as well. Yay! Still not the most neatly organised I know. Planning to go through and give lots away to charity because I really don't wear the majority of it. Note to self: stop assigning all belongings sentimental value.

"Dresser"

 

And instead of keeping my cosmetics and toiletries scattered haphazardly around my room I now scatter them haphazardly on the windowsill in my bathroom. I love my bathroom. Look at the tiles!


There you have it, a little update. A cleaner working area means better focus and more work gets done. I'm so happy now.