Year ago, in what seems like another lifetime I entertained the idea of running for public office in my home state of Idaho. I'm serious. Nothing as lofty as a state representative (though I wasn't…

I've lived in England for going on 20 years. I've pretty much been to every part of the cold, wet island in the North Atlantic. From Scotland to Wales to Ireland. My wife is a Londoner, my adopted…

America has a new president and vice president. Thank Christ. Are they going to do a better job than the last shit-show? Well when the bar's that low aside from throwing a kegger for a bunch of…

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and all the others are killing books. These box sets are the new crack and like crack after awhile quality of the product becomes less and less an issue. Movies are a…

I've refrained from keeping any regularity in what some might interpret as a blog going because I felt I had too much to say and not enough at the same time. Yeah I don't get it either but now it's…

On the 23rd of July I'm flying back to Minneapolis for a week to work Acme Comedy Club for the first time in 5 years. Acme is a club I first started working over 25 years ago so I'm no stranger to…

For my friends in the USA there's a thing over here in the UK called Payment Protection Insurance and as it turns out many banks added this on to their customers accounts without them asking and now…

One of the great things about stand-up comedy being my job for the last 30 years is the down time. It’s also a curse. As a comic you can’t help but thing about comedy constantly which begs the…

So it's been almost four years since my London born wife and I adopted a little boy. He’s about to turn 6 and as I look into his young, bright eyes and find comfort from the way he’s always…

Big chunk of time has passed since I last posted anything and for good reason, I've been writing a book about becoming a father. I'm amazed I was able to write such a thing let alone the fact that it…