Television lag-time
Added 2018-06-26 10:47:25 +0000 UTCI just did a set on Tonightly with Tom Ballard, which was a lot of fun. The show is recorded ‘as live’, which means I now get to wait on jetlagged tenterhooks for an hour or so until it airs and then I get one or three of three things on social media.
1) nobody says anything on social media.
This is okay, though sinking without a trace after doing something on television is a mixed blessing; or
2) I get lots of positive feedback, and only a little bit of negative feedback, which would be lovely (and unusual with the trend for people to get angry at people Being Visible While Female); and/or
3) The shit hits the fan. Lots of angry people saying lots of angry things. I feel sad and stupid until one of my friends tells me to stop reading twitter and then I stop reading twitter until I sneakily go back on twitter like a moth with a flame addiction.
This third one is always possible, particularly when you’re doing some more provocative jokes, which to be fair, I definitely do.
I tend to think the targets of the jokes are pretty clear to anyone that isn’t deliberately trying to misunderstand them for the purposes of Being Importantly Outraged Online.
Of course, I would think that, given that I am inside my head, so I know who the targets of the jokes are; (tonight I think it was predators, murderers, hypocrisy, and myself). But then, in the same way, your voice always sounds deeper and more melodious in your head, and it’s not til you hear it recorded back at you (in this analogy, ‘your voice on an answering machine’ is ‘people’s reactions online’) that you realise you sound like a squeaky buffoon.
Not you specifically. I’m sure you have a lovely voice.
Anyway, it was a lovely night, with some lovely people in the audience, and then I left to go to sleep because I’m so jetlagged that I feel like my head is a marshmallow balloon in a cloud made of bread.
Fingers crossed for shit staying out of ceiling based cooling equipment.
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