This is a extract from a interview Me and K did with Ross Nobel after we broke in backstage after one of his shows, It was research for a project we were doing create a completely new form of theatre (that was a bit rubbish) Their is not much hear really becaus the taperecord was useless and he didn't really wan the two of us asking him rubbish question after having been on stage for a hour and a half.

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Ross: so you are doing this performance and you are going to video them

K: yeah we are going to video them

E: The concept is we want to have much more audience participation but building up into different levels start of talking to the audience and them bringing them on stage

K: yeah we want to break down the forth wall

Ross: and your going to do this yourselves

K: yeah

Ross: who else have you looked at in terms of um

K: well we went to a comedy gig and we met anagram man and he was awful have you seen him

Ross: yeah yeah

E: he like read his jokes from paper

K: plus he didn't really interact with the audience at all

E: his main job was to make all the other comedians look good

K: but they didn't really interact with the audience only to take the piss and they all picked on this one guy who was admittedly drunk but they turned the whole room against him and I thought that just created a negative atmosphere

Ross: yeah there is no point me going on stage and taking the piss out of people what I tend to do is flatter people like when I saw your red coat I thought wow that is amazing and like when I picked on that tall guy I wasn't putting him down for being tall I was saying hey isn't it great to be that tall because in reality he could beat the living shits out of me.

E: so flattery is the way forward for us

Ross: yes most defiantly, you are not going to win the audience my putting them down and if you don't win the audience then no one is going to pay to watch your gig again. I have people come up to me in the street and just shout hey Ross its me electric man do remember and I like um.. yeah. I have told a load of electrician jokes but everyone is different because I relate it to them so they feel like they are the only one.

[Then the taperecording was so bad we could not hear anymore.]

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