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Kevin Shepherd: Comics die in hot cars – Free Show!
Saturday 5th to Saturday 26th August 2006
A FREE, live, comedy documentary shot in Kevin's car. Join Kevin and friends as they live the dream. Each show will include a different Star From The Car performing a live set.
Each year thousands of comics travel thousands of miles in pursuit of their dream and ultimate goal, to make people laugh. Hovering a fair few rungs below the household names, the plight of these talented comedians is little known. Now, thanks to a dodgy camera borrowed from a university, in his trusty diesel Rover, Kevin Shepherd has managed to catch these unsung heroes in their natural habitat.
Stars from the car include:
Jimmy Carr, Al Pitcher, Rufus Hound, Hal Cruttenden, Aaron Counter,
Papa CJ, Dan Willis, Pommy Johnson, Janice Phayre,
Dougie Dunlop, Rob Deb, Shelly Cooper, Mike Belgrave,
David Ward, Martin Davis, Peter Dominic, Pam Ford,
Mike Manera, Steve Parry……
The IntroThe Intro from my Edinburgh comedy festival show, |
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The StarI would like to introduce you to the true star of Kevin Shepherd: Comics Die in Hot Cars a luminary without whom none of the show would be possible. I give you the real star of the show. |
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The CameraEveryone I have told about the show has had their own idea of what they think the show should be about. The most common criticism is that how can you catch candid moments on the camera when the very presence of a camera means that the comedian will play up for the camera. My response to this is that if you travel with enough comedians you will see that they will play up to anyone, if the camera wasn't there they would play up anyway. In the next section you will see various reactions to the show and the camera and I will concede that if you look quite closely you may see in one of the clips evidence of someone playing up just a little. |
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The JobOnce I started driving around the country, word soon spread that I had a car and I wasn't afraid to use it and before long people started to phone me. For the first time in my comedy career I was popular in the end I was receiving calls every day. Admittedly 98% of the people that called didn't even ask if I was a frikin comedian. I'd learnt my first valuable lesson. In the comedy world it's not what you know, but who you drive. |
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The Bitches Part 1Comedy is a very competitive business and some comic's progress at Mach 4 while others seam to go at a snails pace, so inevitably people often become jealous and very bitchy. Sometimes people do have the courage to say something nasty to a persons face on one journey I managed to capture it and do you know what it was the dullest tape I've got. In the next clip we will meet Jay Sodagar now Jay is a little rotund, so for two hours we called Jay fat and he told us to fuck off. Now I want to show you these clip's just so you can get a taste of what it's like, in order to make it palatable though, I have sped it up so we all sound like evil chipmunks. |
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The Bitches Part 2Now despite this being very dull and shear purgatory to watch and edit, it was all worth while as we passed a service station, something we do on pretty much every single trip. This particular one was a Moto service station. |
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The GigsI have had many jobs ranging from tomato picker to working in Homebase and at every single one of the interviews I was told. Every day is different every day is a new challenge. Bollocks, it never happened two weeks in same shit different day. With comedy no one promised it and it happened, which is why sometimes it goes wrong. Every single day like Forrest gumps chocolates you never know what you are going to get. |
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The RisksAs a comic you do plenty of driving at night and it can be very dangerous. I decided to do bit of research on the Internet and managed to find an AA Study of night-time accident and it made deeply depressing reading. What follows the fruits of my research is Martin Davis and Pam Ford demonstrating the right way and wrong way to keep your driver alert and awake at night. |
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The Star From The CarEach of the live versions of Kevin Shepherd: Comics Die in Hot Cars had a real 3D comedian performing a set. This is the video used to bring them on. |
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The RandomAnd now we come to the penultimate section of clips, they are called the random. The reason for this is they are just random bits I thought were quite nice, and despite my best efforts I could not crowbar them into the show any other way. |
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The Last DriveAfter setting out to make this show, at the end I still had plenty of questions, what did the future hold? Am I destined to spend the rest of my life eating Ginster's pasties? What are the long-term affects of combing red bull and pro plus? In order to answer these questions I needed someone who was performing at the top end of the circuit performing A grade gigs only. And it looked like I wasn't going to have the opportunity. Until at a preview in Camden I met Jimmy Carr who very kindly agreed to be filmed. I have combined this last trip with the credits for the people whose goodwill and co-operation have made this entire show possible, and meant that for at least 27 and a half minutes you were either interested or entertained. |
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The Exit MusicExactly what it says on the tin. Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV |