Dan Atkinson: wrongly believes the Ang Lee Hulk film was superior
I met Dan at the King’s Head in Crouch End, a pub that houses one of the oldest Comedy Clubs in Britain. I haven’t seen him perform live yet, but I can’t wait to. If he has half the energy and enthusiasm he displayed in the interview I’m sure he’s got to be pretty great. The interview is available at Den of Geek here. No bonus questions this time, I’m afraid.
Our chat took an interesting turn when he brought up his extensive graphic novel collection. As something of a collector myself, and a big fan of a number of the titles Dan mentions, I had to hold back on talking to him about them and concentrate on my more generic stand-up related questions. Once the interview finished we did gang up a little on the woman from Avalon, Dan’s management company, when she dared suggest it might be a bit pretentious to call them anything but comics.
Dan mentions he could bore me for hours with an on the craft of comedy and his comedy manifesto, so I offered to take him up on the challenge next year. If there’s one thing I don’t think I do enough of, it’s transcribing ridiculously long interviews.
After the two of them left, my friend Dave, who’d been patiently waiting at a nearby table came over for a couple of drinks. He was terrified of the chalk board art behind me on the wall, of a creepy hand reaching toward a blood-filled nut. I can see his point.
