mostly david ephgrave

Today I was deeply surprised to find out one of my jokes had made it into The Telegraph’s list of 20 Funniest One-liners from the Edinburgh Fringe . STOP PRESS. It’s fair to say I’ve never had this level of coverage for something I’ve written myself, even if it’s just a few words, and it’s a hugely encouraging prelude to my Edinburgh run. I know these lists are arbitrary but there’s still a tiny sense of accreditation about the whole thing, particularly for someone who in his darker, less confident moments questions if he’s even a comedian at all; today, in a small way, a member of the national press said I was, and that’s a small achievement. Why is someone else confirming you’re a thing so important? My problem is I’ve always been a bit of a ‘Jack of all trades’ type, with the secret assumption this makes me a master of none; I’m an actor / musician - which sounds like a compromise - who’s wormed his way into writers’ groups and runs a comedy club by accide...

Rather intriguingly, one of my tweets about last night’s Strictly Come Dancing semi-final was included in The Telegraph’s Strictly Liveblog (which you take a peek at here ). I’m amongst illustrious company, including Gaby Roslin and ex-Strictly contestant Denise van Outen; I’ve either finally achieved fame, or small-scale notoriety. It was nice to be included. I sometimes worry that I tweet too much about Strictly; I know Twitter shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but I don’t want to clutter up people’s feeds with uninteresting content. That said, I follow plenty of people who tweet frequently about programmes I don't watch, such as The X Factor or The Apprentice -  and can easily filter the inapplicable out. As it goes, the tweet that was included wasn’t exactly my funniest work; if I’d realised that the UK broadsheets scoured the SCD hashtag I would have tried a little harder.      It turns out that it wasn’t jus...