I had a dream the other night I can't quite shake.
Dreamed that there was a new reality series started on TV and I was asked to be a part of it because a "friend" on Facebook was a talent coordinator. The idea of the show was to take a famous stand-up comic, or a comic actor and team them up with a regular person and train them to be funny. It was kinda like "Biggest Loser" but for comics. So the mentor really competes against the other mentors for charity. The mentors were like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David and Garry Shandling. My mentor was Ricky Gervais and I couldn't have been more happy. Yet, somehow in this dream I knew this could never happen as a show in real life. So Ricky is working with me, showing me his writing process and I eventually go onstage and perform my material and I kill. The crowd really digs my stuff! Then, later in the dressing room Ricky comes in and says, "You were awful. Completely mental. Nothing worked. You're a sorry comic and your jokes are shit!" But he said shit, like "Shite!" Anyway, my great happy dream turned into a load of bollocks and Ricky Gervais said, "Oh, and the laughs you got? Yeah? We told the audience to laugh and applaud at everything you did, sorry mate." It was like a horrible prank. I was in tears. I woke up and felt awful about it, but later thought that might really be a good idea for a TV series. If I could only sell it! Now watch, this will be another idea of mine stolen! Thought you might like to hear Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington talk about Thanksgiving. It's in 4 parts and very funny!
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