The popular writer and performer is coming to Leyburn as part of Swalefest
“I’m an observational writer – I look at things going on around me, and I think about them, and I get them on to paper. I’m not one who has a notebook with him all the time. Mind you, as the years roll by, maybe I’d better think about getting one, just in case.” Some writers don’t really like deadlines. Andy seems to relish them.
For Dead Donkey, Andy was partnered with other class act writers, like Nick Revell and Guy Jenkin, and he can now reveal that the show will be returning, early next year, but not on TV. “We’re going to be doing a full stage version, and we’ll be re-uniting as many of the old team as we can,” he says, “listen out for developments”.
He’s a little cautious when discussing the disappearance of certain shows from the airwaves, programmes like Mock the Week. “There’s always been a sensitivity about certain topics, and social media these days does mean that it is much easier to create a tidal wave of outrage. I have the feeling that, in five years’ time, we’ll be looking back and saying ‘Early 2020s? Now that was a weird time!’.”
For his Swaledale show, he’ll be giving the audiences a first half of reminiscence and revelation, and, after the interval, he’ll be taking questions from the audience. “It works like this. We put a bucket at the front of the stage – I’m not kidding you – and there’ll be paper and pencils for everyone. You write down your question, and I’ll answer as many as I can. Believe me, it seems to work.”
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