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Ian Pickering
'The Missing Pimp' - Monday 24th July, 2000
OK, - I'll start with the false start (that self-effacing target lives and breathes and works like a charm past, present and future). Having been absolutely sure that I was due out at Lamond on a Saturday, I arrive at London Waterloo at 9:20am on the 22nd, only to have my ticket repeatedly spat out of the machine at the Eurostar check-in. In true North-east fashion, I complain loudly and expletively before a very kind lady points out: "This ticket is for Monday, Sir!" The Sir doesn't help.
Anyway, at least today I know exactly how to start my journey, which everyone expects me to fuck up, and apart from a heavy metal clock in my bag being mistaken for a knife (a square knife which tells the time perhaps) by the man on the X-ray machine, I manage to arrive at Angouleme on the right train at the right time, free from harm and disaster. I immediately phone the Pimps at the house ("Lamond") and am stunned, shocked and truly overwhelmed to hear from Joe that Liam, Chris and Dave have set out to pick me up already. Sure enough they arrive as soon as I put the phone down, just after a teenage French boy has asked me if a denim jacket outside the phone booth is mine and, once I tell him it
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Being a fan of Victoria Wood isn’t exactly a niche interest, I know, but I have adored her work since I was much too young to understand any of it. My first exposure would probably have been a then brand-new Channel 4 repeating her first sketch show, with Julie Walters, imaginatively titled Wood and Walters, originally screened on ITV.
I’ve always been drawn to funny women rather than male comedians. When I was small, comics on TV had teeth like popcorn-encrusted harmonicas, and cheap suits, and heavily hairsprayed combovers. They tended to be bigoted, obsessed with the Second World War, and, worst of all, devastatingly unfunny.
The ‘alternative comedy’ scene arrived just in time, right as I was becoming interested in my ability to make people laugh as a device for both attracting attention and deflecting it, and I devoured shows like Saturday Live and Comic Strip Presents… (my Irish nana was fairly laissez-faire about bedtime at the weekend and I knew how to behave and not get excitable). Victoria Wood was, in a way, the bridge spanning the two universes. Fairly traditional in approach, but with modern values; skewering old tropes, but delivering the fatal blow through a tea cosy.
Her work was all about women, and I preferred being around women. As a gay ch
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TV-am
British national box broadcaster (1983–1992)
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