The Reverend Roland Browning

Hello there

Little curio video for you today, which I've long assumed I would never make public because I thought it was so rubbish.

I still do really, but quite by chance I came across it the other night (not like that) and it really made me laugh.  It might have been tiredness or something but I was giggling at it loads.  Perhaps mostly because of how unprepared it all was.

Back in the olden days, during the P&G Emergency Broadcast shows at Kings Place, we went through a period of trying to put in some characters.  One was a character that Ed had done at university, but this one was a character I'd thought of the night before.

In a nutshell, as Ed and I were putting the final running order together, I came up with a character who was a vicar who had been in an accident so he was really erratic.  He also couldn't remember any of the stuff he believed in, so was trying to learn the Bible from scratch during a service (whilst struggling to believe any of it).  That was the premise, and it was making Ed laugh when I was improvising it.  Which seemed to be enough for me to consider it worth a go the following evening. So I put some tape markers in a Bible, wrote some bullet points, and decided that I needed to be wearing padding (I think this was because I'd put a pillow up my shirt when I was improvising it).  

This is the most unprepared I ever was on a stage.  When you hear about people drying and not being able to remember their act and stuff, I always sneered because I thought any comic worth their salt would be able to talk their way out of it.  Doing a character, and that really should be in parenthesis, doing a 'character', it is far harder to talk your way out of it.

I will accept criticism for this as it really wasn't great.  At the very beginning I was trying to fix my radio mic to the new shirt, I can't quite make out all of what Ed says, and at the end I never gave that money back.  I think it was over twenty quid as well. Which probably should have gone into a compensation fund for the audience who had to sit through it.

It might make you laugh at least once though. I reckon it will.  Once.

Hope your week is all going to plan - it is aaaaages ago when I'm uploading this.  Imagine if I die and THIS is my last post.  Actually that's really funny.  Fingers crossed.

Much love from here to you

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