Jongleurs

Do you get your heartbeat up a bit doing stuff? Stand-up.

I mean, I perform at Jonglers, which is a quite... quite a nerve-wracking experience at the best of times and my heart rate tends to go up to about 150 when i'm doing that so that's that tends to be my exercise for the

week it'll be interesting to see how many extra calories you burn as a stand-up because you forget that most people switch off at five o'clock and then they sort of wind up being a bit generous there maybe like six o'clock if you've had a very hard day um but you know some people switch off and even as a stand-up you're naturally you're up and about and even if you're just walking and thinking and preparing to do

stuff festival people always tend to lose weight no matter how much booze they walk down and no matter how many deep fried whatever's they eat they tend to be lighter by the end of the festival than they started already put on weight did he yeah that's pretty impressive i think i mean certainly i remember from my first show that's possibly because you spend an hour uh every day with a heart rate running between 120 and 150 which does tend to uh yeah make you lose weight and a few hours on the toilet there's something

Yes.

Um, one person was doing an open spot for Jongleurs, Battersea, and they said to me, "I...

You...

I've, I've, I've rehearsed my set and I, I've timed it and I'm going over it again today." And I'm like, "Okay, so now you're going, 'This is exactly what I'm gonna do word for word.' I'm going over that." Well, you're less likely to be present if all you're doing is going, "These are the exact words.

But because it...

But so in the, in the late '80s, early '90s, improv was the huge thing, and I remember going to Jongleurs and, and there was all-

Yeah

... that sort of stuff going on as well.