Still struggling to find the right five minutes to settle on but I tried Bannockburn again last night, with a twist; based it around an interaction with an english chap I met on holiday, a cockney to be precise.
The cockney accent thing went well and will probably stay, to some extent. I’d decided to do that just before going on stage so that was quite a brave/stupid thing to do. I didn’t hold the accent all the way through so that let it down.
I like the joke but it doesn’t get the response it could and I need to find a way to make it work. I am genuinely surprised that Scottish audiences don’t know that the battle of Bannockburn was in 1314 though…. which means you have to work a lot harder for the laugh than you thought you would have to…. I guess it would be different in Stirling ;-)
I tried a bit of audience interaction and had my thunder stolen by an old guy heckler….. asked him if he and his wife were teachers….. and he points to his drink and says ‘Whyte & Mackay,’ I tried to come up with something but chose to give him his moment….. which was better than saying something rubbish and angry. Janey Godley dealt with him very well later on so I felt like she’d done my job for me.
Next gig is Dublin…. going to try and do some Dublin based material but we’ll see how the planning for that goes!
Tip of the hat to comedy course colleague Kenny ‘Jack McKenzie’ Gow who did really well for his second performance.
