Hal Cruttenden - Stand Up, Writer, Actor

Having spent nearly three weeks in very hot countries, I really am going to diet. I’ve been doing comedy gigs in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Cyprus, with only about four days in London and I’ve realised that it really is time for me to get thinner. Being tubby in heat is horrible. I sweat [...]

Saturday was the last night of ‘Orwell A Celebration’. I have not felt so sad about the end of a job for a very long time. Acting is such a precarious profession that I am very unlikely to play such a great part again, and one which is so suitable (ie. chubby, jolly man prone [...]

I realise this is a common theme of my blogs. I’m absolutely bloody shattered, conked out, finished, Gordon Browned. I’ve just done a rather ordinary matinee performance, where I sweated so badly in my woollen suit that within five minutes I looked like I’d been swimming in it. I’m so excited imagining what it will [...]