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Sometimes I feel the comedy industry would be a lot healthier if it maintained some perspective.
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As you probably know, this week almost the entire comedy community travels to Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010. You also probably know that this month-long festival is the jewel in the comedy crown, where careers are made, stars are found and everybody gets drunk. So I thought I'd reveal ten surprising nuggets about the Fringe that you may not know.
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Who's the biggest name in comedy? Michael McIntyre? Alan Carr? Jonathan Ross? Well, it's none of these. There's one man bigger than them all. One man who towers above them, pulling the strings and controlling comedy on TV every week. He is the Man Behind the Curtain. He is Addison Cresswell.
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The other week I was taking a break from surfing for gratuitous pornography and discovered online search engine Ask Jeeves had conducted a survey of the nation's comedy tastes, the results of which I found infinitely more offensive than anything my usual web browsing trawls up.
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So this year's Oscars have been announced and the ceremony will be presented by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin - the first time since 1986 there's been more than one host. One's a stand-up comedian turned actor, the other an actor who's currently one of the funniest men on TV thanks to his brilliant turn in 30 Rock. This got me thinking, dear reader, about the relationship that comedy has with Hollywood. To be more specific, comedians who have become successful A List actors and those who have died on their arse.
