Adam Robertson spoke with comedian and star of Two Doors Down Kieran Hodgson about the 10 things that changed his life.
KERRY Shale is a voice actor and when I was a kid I had little stories on cassette tape on a little tape player I’d have on my bed. Whenever I went to sleep, I would listen to these and for some reason Kerry Shale did loads of Roald Dahl and Betsy Byars.
It was six months of rehearsals at weekends and you did singing and dancing and comedy sketches. These were scripts that had been around 50 years. We were given this as kids, I was 10 or 11 and was Julius Caesar in the Ancient Rome sketch. I sang Jupiter to my friend in the playground and he said: “That’s just the rugby music, what are you doing that for?"Playing the violin, playing the piano, composing music and then writing a comedy show about classical music. It remains my kind of music. I enjoy many other varieties but I don’t feel that sense of ownership and it was a great gift my parents gave that the house was filled with whatever music you might like.
My wounded pride on that day has stayed with me and reminds me to this day not to get ahead of myself – and Daniel Kelly was a great head boy.THIS was the sketch group I formed when I finished university with my friends Joe and Joe and Tom. There were four of us but only three appeared on stage. I was quite chaotic as a writer and those three had such talent and such clever, strategic brains about how to approach comedy.
Sometimes I have to say not to be quite so abrupt with criticism. When you come off stage after a preview, all you want to hear is how great it was and then get notes a couple of days later. With all advice, you have to know when to ignore it but it’s invaluable to know it’s agenda-less. People knew that story and were interested to see a take on it, I wasn’t starting from something obscure. I owe him a debt for providing such a rich and fertile territory for me to make a show out of. Maybe I’ve done better or worse things but that turned my career around.THIS seemed like a big change before I did it and when I did do it, it turned out to be incredibly easy and minor. I’d always imagined I’d be crying myself to sleep at night, desperate for a steak or a burger.
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