David Sedaris, memoirist, funny funny man, was doing a reading at our local Barnes & Noble and we thought we'd go along with Katie, who was in town. Seems like about four thousand other locals had the same idea.
This is a 4 storey bookstore and the reading was up the top. Each storey had TV monitors set up because the top storey, where we crammed ourselves, was overflowing and standing room only to the extent that people just stood in the book aisles craning to either see the man in the flesh at a podium about 50 metres away, or a TV screen about 10 metres away. The people sitting down in front of the podium must have been there since midday.
Not the best conditions, but Sedaris read a short story and the entire building literally shook with laughter, and then we climbed our way out of there and had some tapas and lots of red wine. We relentlessly grilled a very jetlagged Katie for news from home:
- What was everyone making of Mr Rudd?
- What's happening with the Opposition?
- When is everyone in Sydney moving back to Melbourne?
- What's happening with the property market?
- Have you watched Underbelly?
- Has it been raining?
- Are people getting excited about the Olympics?
- Has there been much attention on the US primaries?
- Do people prefer Hillary or Obama?
- Have we told you how we are the reasons why Peter Russell Clarke's career has been revived?
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You've seen the Peter Russel Clarke bloopers on You Tube then???
Have we seen them? We UNEARTHED them! We were having dinner with some other Aussies and talking about minor celebs from the 80s and 'whatever happened to X' and Peter Russell Clarke's name came up, and we couldn't remember his catchphase on the TV ads. So Andrew looked him up on Youtube found those crazy outtakes (which had less than 100 views at this stage) and emailed them to us all , including a mate from home who worked at The Age. The journo at The Age ran a story on them and the rest is history. Next thing we hear him interviewed on JJJ and find out he now has a regular spot?
It was our dinner party nostalgic moment that revived his career...
We were also talking about Kamahl, the two guys from the Curiosity Show and Simon Townsend. But no Youtube joy for them...
Hahaha, I read a thread on the internet about the bloopers in January this year....I need to know when you discovered these bloopers.
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