Diary – 4 November 2006
I’ve been doing a stupid amount of travelling recently. I’ve been doing a stupid amount of travelling recently. First to Dublin to appear on The Late Late Show, the world’s longest running chat show. It’s a televisual extravaganza; Ireland’s answer to Parkinson, Question Time and Trisha all rolled into one. I was the final guest, and when I arrived at the studio the previous ‘act’ was already being interviewed by the host. He was a convicted paedophile. Fortunately he had found a new purpose in life: giving advice to parents on how to keep their children safe from people like him. I felt the comedy gods were testing me: ‘Follow that, funny man!’ I did my best but the blue-rinsed audience was in an understandably sombre mood.