Friday, March 18, 2011

When you sign up to do a comedy festival show you have to trust that, come festival time in April your germ of an idea will have sprouted into a fully ripened, plump new show. Of course it's the sobering combination of opening night deadline and seeing your show cast in stone in the festival program that keeps you awake at night in cold sweats actually writing the damn thing! Without peak moments a career can feel like working on a Hyundai production line. For every working stand-up comedian, nailing a comedy festival show is their Everest. No matter how many times you've done it before, you still might die. James Keating in True Story. Tenzing not included.

http://www.comedyfestival.co.nz/auckland/show/true-story