Alien or chestnut? Neither; its my current Twitter background. © Magnus Andersson
Apparently that's not even a question in 2009 and I cant help feeling that me signing up so long after the initial buzz makes me a bit 2000-and-late...ahem.
The wonderful Stephen Fry was of course the reason for me signing up, especially after the huge furore over a Daily Heil article last week, but I actually got contacted by a real celebrity - yes! - only on my second day on Twitter.
The night before I had gone to comedian Lee Hurst's club in Bethnal Green to have some fun but unfortunately for me (and to everybody else's delight) we had to sit at the table right at the front. Never a good thing in a packed house.
Lee came on and started his first routine, picking people in the front row to ask a few questions about them. He got to me and it was very innocent to begin with:
- What's your name?
- Magnus.
- Where are you from, Magnus?
- Sweden.
- Aha! Thanks for your help with the Germans.
- Eh...
- So what do you do for a living, Magnus?
- I'm a photographer.
- Tell us what you have photographed recently.
At this stage my mind went blank. It was Friday night and I had put all thoughts of work behind me so I tried to remember what my last job had been that day. Think, think, think, I was telling myself. A whole room plus Lee Hurst was waiting for my answer and then it came to me, yes, I had been at a school which had held a huge celebration for their 50th anniversary, dancing and singing, etc.
But I didn't say all that. Instead, the only thing that came out was:
- School children.
Not the ideal answer in a comedy club. The whole room erupted and Lee had the rest of his first set written for him by me. I'm sure you can figure out how I was labelled for the rest of the night: Swedish...phototgrapher...school children. Arrgh!
Anyway, that experience ended up being one of my first tweets. The day after, Lee himself had found me on Twitter and sent me a message, saying that he'd hoped to see me at the club again! Nice. But I might sit at the back next time and claim to be a mute.
Anyway, if you're on Twitter, seek me out and give me a tweet here.
2 comments:
Fy fan vad jobbigt!!
Jag skrattade så mycket när jag läste detta så nu har jag ont i magen och kan inte äta fruktost!
Hela min dag är förstörd, jag kan inte tänka på annat, jag ser och hör det framför mig...Eh, school children liksom?
Jag hade nog råkat ut för detsamma tror jag. Var det inte vi som pratade om att man skulle ha ett lager med passande oneliners?
Där skulle du haft nåt sånt för att rädda situationen!!
:)
ytterligare en som skrattar pa min bekostnad, typiskt!
Post a Comment