Years ago I went to the Comedy Store
and saw a live version of 'Whose line is it anyway?' with unknowns (well, jobbing actors and comedians). I was very close to hysteria - real, full on hysteria - tears pouring down my cheeks, inability to breathe properly and people staring at me. When they asked for suggestions from the audience for a Sherlock Holmes mystery I shouted out, "Sherlock Holmes and the case of the rubber chicken" then almost expired from self-induced hilarity. They did it and I was very close to passing out.

Thank god for my (then) youthful pelvic floor muscles - not even a little bit of pee escaped.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 12:27, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

A few years ago
I went to see Bottom 2 live, Eddie Izzard, Ardal O'Hanlon and Ben Elton in the same week. My chuckle muscles haven't been the same since.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 11 Nov 2009, 12:47, Reply)

You can keep Ben Elton
but the rest would have finished me off - I'd have been a pool of sweat and pee - even watching Bottom which revolts me and makes me laugh in equal measure!


BTW when you phoned back the other evening we were on the underground.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:15, Reply)

Ah, figured that might have been the case.
Ben Elton i can take or leave sometimes but that night he was on form.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:30, Reply)