See below for a short conversation - recorded verbatim - that took place today while distributing Mostly Comedy posters around town. NEWSAGENT: "So, who've you got on this month?" ME: “James Acaster.” NEWSAGENT: (after a moment's thought): "...no." Hitchin likes to keep you in your place. I mentioned he’d been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award a record five times, but this didn’t placate the unimpressed vendor of news. Telling her he’d done plenty of television - including Have I Got News For You - provoked a shrug, though she did concede “I’d probably recognise his face.” Pointing to his picture on the poster to an unwavering expression was the final nail in the coffin of our chat; I may as well said he’d just completed a summer season in Rhyl for the lack of reaction the whole thing got. This only goes to show you how the impressiveness of a man’s achievements can vary accord...
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