People think that perfect love is impossible but I am telling you a true story from my life to show it is possible. “Something happened in the last year which reminded me of a story that happened to me starting when I was 15 and it’s a perfect love story and it would not fit within stand-up but it would fit within theatre. “Well,” replied Nathan, “last year Steve Bennet said: Nathan Cassidy will make you slightly happier for an hour or so… So I am ‘an attractive man’ who will ‘make you slightly happier’…” “It says here,” I said, “that you have a distinctive stand-up style. I won it for a play called A Cure For The Common Cold at the Leatherhead Theatre.” “When did you win the Michael Caine Award?” I asked. You think everything is a ruse to get you along to an empty room.” “ONE-MAN THEATRE SHOW FROM THE WINNER OF THE SIR MICHAEL CAINE NEW WRITING AWARD.” I turned over the flyer and read out loud: The headline pitch read: FOR THE PERFECT LOVE STORY YOU HAVE TO GO TO RIDICULOUS LENGTHS. The title of the show is Nathan Cassidy: Watch This. Love & the winner of Sir Michael Caine’s Award “I am doing a third show in Edinburgh,” said Nathan, “but it’s a theatre show.” “I would prefer £250 in a brown envelope,” I said. Genuinely, I swear on my… I swear on your life and Steve Bennett’s life that a £5,000 cash prize will be given to the winner on the day. The Rat Pack are spending £250 on a massive poster. “So, basically, I am going to turn up at the Three Sisters to judge this MC Awards show and there will be an empty room as you attempt to win a Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award…” “People thought it was a fake show,” he told me, “but it was just pre-advertising for this year’s Fringe show… Bruce Dessau (comedy critic and Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards judge) covered it a couple of times but, when I asked if he wanted to come to the O2 show, he didn’t reply.” Nathan’s 2017 was even more sold out in 2016Īt the Edinburgh Fringe in August last year, Nathan put up a poster for a fake tour – Nathan Cassidy: The Man in The Arena – with all the dates sold out throughout October/November 2017, except for a performance at the O2 Arena on 4th November 2017. “Are you going to fill it? I got free tickets to see Rod Stewart because he couldn’t fill it. “Do I? Which bit of it? The main auditorium?” “Well, I’m doing the O2 Arena on 4th November, as you know.” “You appear to have sold out the O2 Arena in October and November,” I observed. “This poster,” I said, “says the show is sold out on 14th August, but you’re not doing it on the 14th – You’re doing the MC Awards.” AS GOOD AS Bill Hicks doesn’t really do it for me.” It’s – The Buxton Fringe sends out about ten reviewers to review all the shows. It’s an official quote from the Buxton Fringe. “ Having seen Bill Hicks, I can honestly say he’s as good as him. “What do you think of this other quote?” Nathan asked me. I read: The entire second row is pissed… and there are only two rows (Steve Bennett, Chortle) Nathan Cassidy’s sold-out O2 gigs on right “How,” I asked, “do you prove you’re a good MC in a final? Will there be a physical line-up? Will they stand there and say: And now… some fake act who isn’t there?” We can’t reveal the line-up at this stage.” Thousands of auditions and this is the Grand Final. Are you free? Steve Bennett of Chortle has pencilled himself in. We have a spare slot on the judging panel. “We have scoured the world,” Nathan told me. It said: Cassidy is an attractive man (Fringe Guru 2012).Īt the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012, Nathan was nominated for an increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award. Is this just leading me towards an empty room?
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