i am currently recovering from the edinburgh festival like a general convalesing on his farm. the war is over. some battles lost that shouldve been won. some victories that relied more on luck and the weather than skill and guile. but all in all i have done my best and held the hill. advanced in some areas that i will improve upon when i return.

   this why i shouldnt have read my reviews from this year. they were for the most part good but there was a couple that you would have thought that i was supposed to be curing cancer instead of doing this show that is wasting everyones time and in essence killing all the little bald children in the ward because i didnt apply my talents to what im good at. im not trying to imply that im with holding the cure for cancer but if i had, i would put stipulations on who gets it.

  now im aware that cirrosis will take many more reviewers than cancer ever could and perhaps that is why there is no cure for it. almost every medical student has been in some sort of production at the fringe and most have had the misfortune of getting bad reviews. what i suggest is that the reviewers employ some restaint for a couple years until the doctor heads get it sorted.

 barring that. can we not just cure it in private and watch the scibes yellow and die like aging paper. then rate the deaths.

 im not being bitter here. i got 6 four star reviews (and a couple of 2 stars that no one told me about until i checked). im not too upset about the two who didnt like me. over the past year doug stanhope did a my space announcement saying that i was the best stand up in the uk. stewart lee, after seeing my preview, told me that he thought i was doing better work than bill hicks. i know it sounds concieted to say things like this about yourself but i just do it to ask the question of what those two bad reviewers think they know about humour that these two comedy legends dont?

  my problem with reviews this year is of the ones ive read there is a  real vendetta against acts who's material also works on the circuit. it seems like you lose a star for it but if your doing something confessional that ,at a jongleurs,would get you touched in the all the places your uncle didnt. all of a sudden its more worthy. 

   ive talked to a couple of circuit acts that arent ever coming back to edinburgh and thats a shame because the festival is dying. its only attracting one kind of punter and narrowing the kind of act that is willing to perform there wont rectify that.

  maybe its death is a good thing. the whole thing seems a bit expensive and pointless to the average person. it would be nice perform in front of a more diverse audience. the other part of me says dont change a thing because regardless of everything, i had a blast.