Comedy Ladder Position: 19=
Points: 18
Hartley started stand-up as a way to get out of reading his poetry to of hundreds of people in Budapest, winter 2001. His first UK gig was the next summer in a heat of BBC Talent, by which time he still hadn't realized that reading out his act from bits of paper didn't look very professional.
His second gig was at the Comedy Store 'King Gong' show, where he dressed up as an old man and walked very slowly onstage to Eminem's 'Lose Yourself'. Even with these time wasting mechanisms in place he only lasted twelve seconds. He has been back and made four minutes, though he acknowledges that this was probably more due to confusion on his part over when to start his act, which people found quite funny.
Since then he has embarrassed both himself and other people at The Laughing Horse and Amused Moose competitions, done unexpectedly quite well at So You Think You're Funny and York, and been booed off by the Comedy Terrorist. He has also paid twenty-seven pounds fifty to travel to London on National Express for a meeting with Iain Morriss at Channel Four, so that they could tell him they quite liked his script but weren't going to make it into a television program. He's quite proud of that - a full-price ticket is over thirty pounds.
He ran his own club in Cheltenham for a while and now he runs his own club in Taipei, and it's doing quite well thank-you very much. He's back gigging in the UK regularly and is happy to report that after over two hundred and ninety seven performances, some people find him funny. And there's usually one woman peeing herself.
Sensodyne is kryptonite to someone like me.
The horror! Oh the horror!
You might want to read the manual.
You can do it!
At a gig in Taiwan. Costco is an enormous American warehouse-style supermarket catering to ex-pats. Please note that 60 Taiwanese dollars = 1pound.
I'm going to make my fortune from this, and then, rather ironically, I won't need it anymore.
He's still there.
How I lost it again.
How I made it as a world-famous comedian.
This has been going on for weeks now.
The correct method explored.
“Brilliant take on the public information film - really liked the close up shots of each area after the awkward pause. I think you could almost take it one step further and have text up on the screen describing the area of the body as well as the voiceover just before the close of the finger pointing. I also think that the ending isnt quite as strong as the rest of the sketch. But a fun concept and well executed” (C4_Commi...)
Come on kids!
Now how do I post it online?
That's not normal.
It's not the first time this has happened.
Who knew?
Don't even go there.
Not the best of the recent new hires.
His interview with Eminem has subsequently been cancelled.
Some things are a bit tricky to get your head round.
Welcome to Hartley FM.
This is a dangerous one!
They never liked him anyway.
Some things are a bit tricky to get your head round.
Some programmes really would benefit from this kind of thing.
No more skulking around in the bushes.
“Nicely done, good voices. I was expecting a little more at the end I must confess. But playing it a second time I quite like the big build up for such a redundant pay off.” (4Laughs_...)
If you're old, you need to listen.
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