Hal Cruttenden - Stand Up, Writer, Actor

The Edinburgh Festival finished on Monday and, after believing I would be constantly posting from up there, I actually only published one blog during the whole thing. Sorry about that.
Overall, it was worth the financial pain and separation from the family. The stand up show came together very well (Four stars in ‘The Scotsman’,) and [...]

Despite the fact that I spent virtually all my week at the Montreal ‘Just For Laughs ‘Festival walking round my room learning lines for my play, or frantically writing sketches for Omid’s BBC show, I actually did really enjoy myself. The shows were fantastic as ever and I think I really did myself justice [...]

On Sunday night a drunk driver smashed into mine and Dawn’s parked cars outside our house. Dawn’s car is a write off and they’ve yet to check out whether mine is salvageable. Whenever these things happen I realise that despite being liberal on many criminal justice issues, when I’m personally affected by crime I becoming [...]

I don’t understand why finding a title for my Edinburgh show is so hard. I was settled on ‘Tiny Rage Tour’ and then my manager, Ian, had reservations about it and then everybody else started explaining that they’d had reservations about it all along. It’s been a month of going slowly mad trying to [...]