Homepage News Reviews - Acts - Shows - Screen - Radio - Books - Clubs Interviews Awards 2006 Edinburgh 2005 - Reviews - Blog - Previews Features Archive Awards 2005 Edinburgh 2004: - Previews - Shows - Diary Guestbook Forum © Emporium Of Mirth 2004 Editor: Lauren Murphy Reporters: Fiona Wilkie Natalie Joanne	Emporium of Mirth The Actor Kevin Eldon Given that you have wide ranging experience in many comedy acting and straight acting roles, what kind of roles are you looking to fulfill in the future? Lunatics, inadequates, obsessives and blokes kissing ladies with big bazoomas please What current comedies / projects are you working on? The one's you might see/hear me in are a new animation: I am Not an Animal written by Peter Baynham. It’s GOOD. Also small parts in a film called Piccadilly Jim, An episode of a new sit com called Last Chancers and another one called Green Wing. They'll all be out sooner or later. Do you have any writing projects on the go at the moment, and if so what are they about? Got my own thing possibly planned in a possible might be happening wait and see don't talk about it fingers crossed blimey is that the time I’ll have the cod kind of way. Who are your favourite comedy writers / performers? Bailey, Lock, Munnery, Lee, Hegley, Reeves, Mortimer, Baynham, Morris, Linehan. What are your general thoughts about comedy and advice to aspiring newcomers who wish to perform and write comedy? I wouldn't really presume to offer advice. Be funny. Sorry, not much use. With the up-coming release of Big Train on DVD, and prevalent copies of your past comedy creations readily available on the internet, How do you feel about the constant pouring over of your past creations? How do you feel this affects current projects or where you wish to take your career in the future? Constant pourings over my past creations? What, by a handful of comedy fetishists (gawd bless em)? Doesn't bother me. Everyone needs a past-time. What I've done in the past only affects what's happening now or in the future from the point of view that people doing the hiring have more chance of knowing who I am in terms of performance. And that's positive. Given that you have contributed to numerous comedy shows, do you have any aspirations to do any solo comedy work for TV or Radio in the future? See above Quick fire questions Recommendations Ones to watch telly: 15 stories high, stage Journey's End Ones to avoid Now let's not get negative. Favorite websites? www.chincilla.com Best Heckle you've heard (where and when) Up the Creek, 1993 (I was doing the gig): You're rubbish. Worst reply to heckle (where and when) Up the Creek 1993: No I'm not, you are. E-mail Interview by Jo RSS  Printable version	Visit our Siamese Twin Sister Site!