I\u2019m a lucky stiff with my Dick.\u00a0\u00a0 What a cast I have.<\/p>\n
Last Thursday we had a Press Day in LA for whoever was around and able.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a riot.<\/p>\n
At the last minute it was almost cancelled because the last of the trampy teenage vampire trilogy was throwing a junket, but we shifted times and lured some of the press away from their feeding frenzy on teenage flesh amongst shark-infested waiters at The Four Seasons.\u00a0 They would join me, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, Russell Brand and Sophie Winkelman for a few hours in ID PR\u2019s lovely new offices on Hollywood.<\/p>\n
We got lucky with Hurricane Sandy as she blew Billy back from fishing in Mexico to LA, instead of a cold, dark apartment with no power in NY.\u00a0 That\u2019s where Tracey is, Jane was here but working on her TV show, Jim is in London filming and Tim has gone missing.\u00a0 Not quite sure where he is, but he\u2019s not responding to emails.\u00a0 I expect he\u2019s in some movie in Africa.\u00a0 I hope so, as we missed him.<\/p>\n
Not that the banter ever stopped.\u00a0 First up was a Nerdist Podcast with Eddie, Billy, Sophie and me, which seemed to have no formal beginning and threatened never to end. \u00a0Eddie and Billy simply continued their stream of consciousness conversation that they were in the middle of as they walked into the Conference room.\u00a0 Sophie had never done a Press junket before and she was a little shy. They are usually awful events, but this one was a total blast, and she was smart enough to stay fairly quiet in the first Podcast as the two greatest conversational comedians of our day exchanged random thoughts about, well, everything.\u00a0 I too kept mum.\u00a0 There was no way to stop this.<\/p>\n
After an hour several svelte young ladies entered the room and attempted to give meaningful looks to Chris Hardwick, the host, who looked gleeful and quite unable to understand signals to wind up. By then it was also on video as a crew came in and began shooting, so that the Dick Dialogues, which will do so much to rival Plato\u2019s, will also be a Vodcast.\u00a0 Did I make that word up? \u00a0I think so.\u00a0 But then I thought I had made up Ass Reading<\/em>, only to stare in disbelief as someone showed me on Google that Sylvester Stallone\u2019s mother is an Ass Reader.\u00a0 What does she call herself?\u00a0\u00a0 A Rumpologist.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I couldn\u2019t have made that up.\u00a0 Which only goes to show something, but I\u2019m not sure what.<\/p>\n After the Podcast we were chopped up into various groupings: me, Billy and Sophie, then me, Eddie and Sophie.\u00a0 It felt like a strange wife swapping party.\u00a0\u00a0 Or a Manwich as Sophie wittily observed.\u00a0 In the dark of the TV interview room she became her charming and funny self, though off camera Eddie bullied her mercilessly about her in-laws.\u00a0 He also revealed his upcoming trip to Katmandu, where he will do stand-up (I kid you not) France (same, but in French) Berlin (in German) and Moscow(dear God not in Russian surely Eddie?)<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not about language\u201d he said, \u201conly the references change when you change country.\u201d\u00a0 Quite, but you still have to learn them.<\/p>\n After an hour or two Russell joined us, all beads and beard and tats and shiny black hair, long spikey limbs and a massive grin.\u00a0 He really is a charming man.\u00a0 Eddie admitted that he was envious of Russell\u2019s loquacity.\u00a0 \u201cHis vocabulary is enormous,\u201d he said with not a nod to innuendo.\u00a0\u00a0 (Oo missus, said my inner Frankie Howerd.)\u00a0 He kept popping into offices being charming and right to the point \u201cSo you\u2019re a Gay Lady I hear, I like Gay Ladies, oy \u2018ow come you have kids, whose are they, where did the sperm come from then?\u201d\u00a0 He is like a highly intelligent ten year old, shameless, and irresistible.\u00a0 I was familiar with some of his methods of direct questioning as I was on his show and watched him in action.\u00a0 Believe me the questions from the audience made me blush.\u00a0 \u201cI got a crick in my neck from giving my boyfriend a blowjob\u201d was one he didn\u2019t use.<\/p>\n So the day was hilarious.\u00a0 You could hear the laughter all over ID PR.\u00a0 In a conference room they were playing What About Dick?<\/em><\/strong> from whence journalists emerged with smiles, and occasionally with fulsome praise, which is always reassuring this early.\u00a0 As Chris Hardwick kindly wrote afterwards:\u00a0 \u201cToday was almost illegal amounts of fun. Thank you for your time and generosity, Eric! Hugs, high-fives, platonic cheek kisses followed by 3-second-too-long-stares.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And as for Lucky Stiff?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Well by an odd coincidence on Sunday I sang the title song to this Indie film of a show by Lynn Ahrens and Steven Flaherty.\u00a0 It\u2019s a tiny budget and they asked me to sing it, and since I love them, I agreed.\u00a0 I wrote the Treatment for their Musical Seussical <\/em><\/strong>and even played The Cat in The Hat at the first Investors Read-thru and at their feet I have learned much that is hidden about the Musical.<\/p>\n As I emailed Lynn in Hamburg \u201cWhat are the odds of working on Dick<\/em><\/strong> and Lucky Stiff?<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re working on Rocky<\/em>\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n \u201cPerhaps you should call it Cocky<\/em>\u201d I suggested.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget to make your preparations for Dick Day<\/em> <\/strong>now.\u00a0 November 13th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Cards, inappropriate gifts, parties, chocolate.\u00a0 A single entendre like this only comes around once in a Blue Movie…. 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