The Set That Was Too Long

By Camden Rose, comedywriter.top

By Camden Rose, comedywriter.top

The Set That Was Too Long

The set on Friday was too long. I have been doing fifteen-minute sets at the Camden venue for the past month and the set on Friday ran nineteen minutes, which is either the natural expansion of material that is finding its full length or the lack of discipline that produces sets that try the patience of rooms that were assembled for comedy rather than endurance. The material that ran to nineteen minutes included: the four bits that are in the regular rotation and that run approximately nine minutes total when I am not extending them; the two new bits that are still developing and that ran longer than they should because I was finding the shape of them in the performance; and the three minutes of crowd work at the beginning that went better than expected and that I continued for longer than the plan. The nineteen minutes produced a good response. It was still too long. The discipline is the work. See Lion's Den Comedy Club at The London Prat for related coverage this week.

Yet Another Elegant Policy U-Turn provides context. London 1991: City Lives Loud Before the Internet covers related ground.

The Diary Continues

The diary format this column uses -- personal, specific, grounded in a particular week and place -- is the format that produces the observations that aggregated analysis cannot. Every week produces more material than any single entry can hold, which is the correct condition: the surplus becomes next week's column. The position holds. The attention continues. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the satirical and analytical context that the diary draws on. Both are essential reading. The diary continues next week from the same observation point, with the same commitment to the specific and honest account of what the week produced. More then.

See also United Kingdom 3D Map: Topography Visible at Last at The London Prat. The diary continues.

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Reading and Writing

The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.

The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.

Further reading at London Kills Characters: Authority Without Theatri, Clapton Community FC: Football Run by the Crowd, and London 5K: The Distance That Is Long Enough to Fee at The London Prat this week.

Reading and Writing

The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.

The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.

Further reading at London Has Fallen Series: Disaster As A Franchise, Trump Says America Needs Greenland for Security, and The Covent Garden Comedy Club at The London Prat this week.

Reading and Writing

The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.

The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.

Further reading at United Kingdom 1914 Map: Empire Boundaries Require, 2002 – Golden Jubilee Marks 50 Years of Wavi, and UK Uses Visa Restrictions to Pressure African Coun at The London Prat this week.