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Imagine this… As I lie here, drifting off to sleep I imagine a time in the future when I am delivering a TED talk. The man on the stage (me) is sat quietly on a stool, with the screen behind me displaying an image of the Crazy/Genius symbol. The image begins to...

In their TV sketch show, ‘That Mitchell and Webb Look’, they go elegantly meta by shooting a scene of the pair having a ‘private chat’, only to reveal that the chat is scripted, word for word. It is only about a minute long, and whatever I write cannot do it justice....

Misdirection is used in magic, and jokes. Something going one way, and then another, or a joke with a magic tractor that went up a hill and turned into a field. Magic and jokes both use 'misdirection'. Something is going one way, then goes another - like the magic...

Beatles song ‘Paperback Writer’ is Meta Brian G. McHale, US academic and literary theorist, says with The Beatles Paperback writer’s release in 1966 “meta ‘arrived’ in our lives”. For me it was about 30 years later, and yet probably my first memorable ‘meta’...

When I was in Australia in 1995 I remember being in a surf shop where, it turns out, ‘bearded clam’ t-shirts could have sat nicely next to Frankie Boyle’s range of Parched Spaniel yoga pants. Two guys were in the shop, looking at a Mambo t-shirt ‘Map-o-Tassi’ printed...

When Les Dawson was interviewed on ‘Parkinson’ (a TV chat show), he said the following jokes. Talking first about one of the places he used to do shows, it was “...a club so bad they didn't laugh if they liked you, they let you live.” It is this second one that...

We went to see Jerry Sadowitz’s show in Newport 8th May 2019. In terms of content, he should be publicised by riots on the streets of every town he visits. His show hammers everyone, and I mean everyone. There are literally (and I mean literally) no survivors. This is...

Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch... ...man, now that’s a woman with a giant pair of bollocks. Myself and Elisa were about to attend a music concert (Passenger) at Cardiff’s ‘Wales Millenium Centre’ when in hallways I saw Germaine Greer walking by. In a...

This is a letter I wrote to Rhys from Goldie Lookin Chain when their gig at Cardiff’s Pride event was cancelled. ---- Dear Rhys, I was recently shocked to read the news in Wales Online about Goldie Lookin Chain being cancelled from Cardiff's Pride parade end August....