tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:40:00 +0000http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)Blogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-2763197388503523404Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:00 +00002008-06-20T20:40:00.354+01:00 My Edinburgh Festival tickets are now on sale.Go to The Stand or phone they direct: 0131 558 7272 This is what they have to say about my show:"The minute Jo Caulfield hits the stage you know you're in for a good time. She's sharp-witted, delightfully bitchy and according to The Scotsman 'incapable of doing a bad show'. Oh and as an extra bonus Jo promises to write 5 minutes of new material each http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/06/go-see-this-show.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-8968489251379712557Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:59:00 +00002008-06-01T14:47:49.644+01:00Read the articles and tell me what you think... This is from the Sunday Herald. And this is from The Times. I'm really looking forward to this years Festival. I've been working through new material most nights and I'm confident this is going to be my best show yet. It's coming together quite strongly. I'm calling it 'Jo Caulfield : Two-Faced Bitch?' The basic premise is every review I've hadhttp://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/06/edinburgh-festival-vs-edinburgh-comedy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-2357739311418683027Sat, 24 May 2008 17:36:00 +00002008-05-24T18:42:33.527+01:00The Most Annoying Pop Moments (BBC3) Most Annoying TV… We Love To Hate (BBC3) You might have seen me on one of these shows recently? The first one, “The Most Annoying Pop Moments” is billed as “…a light-hearted countdown of those memorable moments in pop that have annoyed and enthralled us in equal measure”. While the second one, “The Most Annoying TV… We Love To Hate” is billed as “…a http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/05/i-think-your-fab-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-1046171144507506899Thu, 08 May 2008 13:23:00 +00002008-05-08T14:25:30.951+01:00My friend Simon sent me a Christian wristband. He did it for a joke I hasten to add. He’s not religious. Or mental. Anyway it’s a bright yellow plastic wristband with ‘What would JC do?” embossed on it. Do you get it? JC = Jesus Christ. But it could also mean Jo Caulfield. Look, I never said it was a funny joke! I mean, Simon’s not a professional comedian or anything. He works in telesales. http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/05/what-would-jc-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-3914662720961479673Thu, 01 May 2008 16:41:00 +00002008-05-01T17:42:26.664+01:00A friend told me a story about trying to throw away his old fridge. He said every night he’d put the old fridge out with his rubbish but the dustbin man wouldn’t take it. He would empty the bin and take away the plastic bags but he wouldn’t touch the old fridge. So my friend bought a small chain and a cheap padlock, chained the old fridge to his fence and two hours later it was gone. He said, http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/05/crimewatch-uk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-5502874808828826192Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:55:00 +00002008-04-29T17:58:35.702+01:00This happened about two weeks ago; it crystallises a problem I so often come across as a female comic. I was asked if I wanted to take part in an advert to launch ‘The National Year of Reading’. It’s a campaign run jointly by The National Literacy Trust and the Government to encourage people in Britain to read more. How could anyone not want to encourage people to read more? They were making a http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/04/national-year-of-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-4969443201321751737Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:29:00 +00002008-04-26T18:47:33.170+01:00I found this old Q & A thing I did with GaydarNation.com. If you've never been to Comedy Camp you should go. Its a great club. I've been doing a set there every Tuesday for the last 4 weeks (don't let that put you off). Building up new material for the Edinburgh Festival. I'll write something about that next week... GaydarNation Q & A Top circuit comedian and Graham Norton script writer Jo http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2008/04/dot-cotton-and-rita-hayworth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-3786983929643821699Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:53:00 +00002007-11-04T20:01:34.878ZI did this interview last month for a local Harrowgate paper. I was doing a gig there, the radio show was starting and I was trying to sell my CD. (Still am) Anyway, there's a couple of jokes in the interview and a couple of thoughts on being a stand-up comedian. (BTW the bit about being "well-known" - I think they were confussing me with someone else!) I saw you at Rawhide Comedy Club in http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/11/stuff-about-being-comedian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-801652285651387729Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:00 +00002007-10-17T16:48:24.449+01:00I have been flashed twice in my life. The first time was when I was 17 at the Acropolis in Greece, which is odd as there’s already a lot of statues of naked men. Why put yourself up against stiff opposition? (Pardon the pun) The second time was earlier this year in Scotland. We were having a small driving holiday and we stopped in Stirling. There’s a lovely park there called King’s Park and http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/10/flasher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-4971524007353735858Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:23:00 +00002007-10-17T16:26:48.175+01:00Wednesday 17th October 2007 LONDON (Reuters) - Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed on Tuesday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary. A new study conducted by evolutionary biologist Ralf Sommerfeld, at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, suggests people believe gossip even if there’s evidence to the contrary. http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/10/gossip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-5171188130438299197Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:31:00 +00002007-09-13T16:38:50.150+01:00Every couple of weeks I appear on BBC2's topical comedy show "Mock The Week". I prepare a whole stack of topical jokes and some of them don't make the final edit. Here's some I did on the last show... Unlikely Lines From The Final ‘Harry Potter’ Book: And at last after many many years ... JK Rowling finally smiled. And so he looked back on his journey - the orphan boy raised by an uncaring http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/09/mock-week-jokes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-2112543943851136623Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:21:00 +00002007-07-25T17:34:47.361+01:00The Edinburgh Festival starts next week and I'll be writing a weekly blog for Chortle (the best comedy website: www.chortle.co.uk - check it out). My first post is advice for people taking shows to the Festival for the first time... NAMING YOUR SHOW Always a pain in the arse (wish I’d thought of that as a title). Round about January you have to come up with a title for a show you won’t actually http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/07/advice-for-virgins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-7824589097172988421Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:09:00 +00002007-07-02T21:29:42.105+01:00I’ve been doing a bit of research on stress and anger management techniques… Apparently meditation is a good way to relieve stress ... but where in London is it quiet enough for you to sit stony faced, in absolute silence ...apart from at the recording of Titty Titty Bang Bang? Whenever I get angry I take out all my frustration on a punchbag I've set up in the bedroom ... well ... I say http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/07/lines-from-my-new-radio-series-show-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-5891096567101738858Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:34:00 +00002007-06-15T21:41:51.421+01:00V/O: Ladies and Gentlemen it’s time to huddle up close to the wireless, and get busy with that angry letter to Offcom – because yes, its Miss Allied Carpets 1996 - it’s that Jo Caulfield again. JO: Sorry I’m a little bit late. But there was an old woman having difficulty crossing the road and I had to stop and …laugh at her outfit. I'm so excited, it's like Christmas, I'm like Madonna in an http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/06/lines-from-my-new-radio-series-show-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-4040453205617232273Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:33:00 +00002007-06-05T21:39:18.605+01:00It’s hot in here, isn’t it? I’m sweating like Judy Finnegan at a wine tasting. I’ve just registered with Friends Reunited or as I call it Stalking for agrophobics. Not to get in touch with anyone. I just like to check that none of my old school friends are having a better life than me. Of course they’re not. If they were doing well they'd have enough friends to not need friends reunited! It’shttp://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/06/lines-from-my-new-radio-series-show-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-2130437191965311438Thu, 17 May 2007 15:34:00 +00002007-05-17T16:53:12.048+01:00My new radio series starts on Tuesday 5th June (Radio 4, 6.30pm) so I thought I'd put up some of the lines from the first recording as a taster. Better still let's turn this into a competition: Some of the lines are in the show, some got dropped because they didn't get a big enough laugh on the night, and some we were told by the lawyers, "You're not allowed to say that, take it out or we'll be http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2007/05/line-from-my-new-radio-series-show-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-116342571909994710Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:45:00 +00002007-02-20T10:56:00.520ZBBC.CO.UK Cambridgeshire Review: Jo Caulfield at the Junction By Jan Gilbert Sparkling one-liners, keen observational humour, and easy banter with the audience... Jan Gilbert gives Jo Caulfield's stand-up show a 'don't miss' rating! There can't be many comedians who can lay claim to an 80-minute set of pure comedy gold, but Jo Caulfield – the writer behind Graham Norton's comic diatribes – is http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2006/11/my-latest-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-115644588469577704Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:54:00 +00002006-10-16T00:49:17.176+01:00You ever buy a book from one of the big internet sites like Amazon? It's fantastic. You can buy anything from Amazon. I used it last month. They offered to match me with what I wanted, so I asked for something cheap, trashy and lightweight – imagine my surprise when Abi Titmuss turned up. The other great thing about Amazon is when you buy a book they tell you what "other customers who bought http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2006/08/buying-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-115583572852206920Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:25:00 +00002006-08-17T18:28:48.530+01:00One week on from the 10th and Heathrow is slowly getting back to normal. But it was reassuring to see Britain’s airlines reacting so swiftly. Within minutes of the security levels being raised… BA cancelled all domestic flights. Virgin cancelled all carry-on luggage. And Easy Jet cancelled all fresh sandwiches. A spokesman for British Airways said, all passengers will face at least a 4 hour http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2006/08/heathrow-airport.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32584425.post-115540669260959138Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:07:00 +00002006-08-12T19:54:26.820+01:00So I finally got one of these things set up. (Thanks to Richard. He also did the website by the way.) Anyway, to test it out I'm putting up this article I wrote for Time Out magazine. After that I'm aiming to keep this thing updated at least once every... week? Fortnight? Okay, week. Me on tour... I’ve just started my first national tour so I’m living out of my suitcase. Or I would be if I http://www.jocaulfield.com/blog/2006/08/first-blog-first-tour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jo Caulfield)