It’s the ultimate question currently facing mankind, a gargantuan question of morals and continence with such ramifications for humanity that it’s set the scholars and wise men of the globe into increasingly heated debates, which will no doubt leave them at loggerheads for years to come.
So what is this biblical, neigh apocalyptic question that’s on the lips of every thinking man in the modern world I hear you ask? Well if you’re very sure you can take it, here goes, but remember - with great power comes great responsibility:
**Can a TV comedian cross the boundaries of light entertainment on the goggle box and be taken seriously in the infamously harsh and critical world of serious London theatre?**
It’s quite a poser, I think you’ll agree vehemently. So to try and find an answer to the question that has flummoxed the worlds top minds, I have put together three case studies that should be able to tip the scales one way or tuther as granny would say.
Case Study 1 – Rob Mitchell in Fat Pig
The first of these three proactive comedians to take the tentative steps into live action theatre is Rob Mitchell who plays the drug toting, mother debasing looser Jeremy in the (in my opinion) hilarious Peep Show. I think the rules state that I’m allowed to give my opinions as this is not currently election time.
This production of FAT PIG sees Robs character falling in love with a Jolly FAT Bird (so many rules broken there) only to find that his so called friends mock him viscously.
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If you’re anything like me and there’s really nothing to suggest that you would be, but if you are anything like me you will be a telly addict for the find-some-talent-make-a-buck TV shows on ITV. The most recent of these which has super glued me to my television set in recent weeks is the now infamous Britain’s Got Talent in which the plucky Ant and Dec travel the length and breadth of the country in search of the aforementioned talent in a noble quest to make amends for all the talent that goes undiscovered in Britain each year. (The country is currently in the grip of a horrendous ‘Talent Crunch’ running at a massive 75% undiscovered talent in July alone! The stats speak for themselves!)
But when these quality pieces of televisual entertainment reach climax then go to sleep, our lives seem a little less worth living and a burning feeling begins in the stomach then moves to the forefinger (something like hunger but not quite starvation). Who or what can fill this cavernous void that’s been etched into my blackened heart?
