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I've been reading Are you Dave Gorman? by Danny Wallace and Dave Gorman. I saw the BBC show they made together back in the spring of 2001 (re-shown from 27th June 2002) and really enjoyed it. Thus when the book of their strange story (they had a bet about meeting 54 other people called Dave Gorman) came out, I made my brother buy it for me. It looks like this...
Front - Dave Gorman / Back - Danny Wallace
...or like this:
The new front cover with Dave and Danny
...and it's very funny. For more info about their adventures, visit:
w w w . D a v e G o r m a n . c o m Click on this DG Logo for a real treat.
After seeing Dave do his Better World show in Aylesbury I sent him the following e-mail:
Hi Dave.
I was at the Better World show you did in Aylesbury on the 22nd and really enjoyed it. I laughed in all the right places, which is a good sign I think.
Afterwards I hung about, hoping to get you to autograph my copy of AYDG? but was dragged off by my cold ex-girlfriend because she wanted to get to bed. Her bed, not mine. Without me. Anyway, it means I missed the opportunity to have me picture taken with you in a 'meeting a Dave Gorman' style, which was a disappointment. And all because you were probably unwinding in the lavish (i.e. like a lav) artistes changing rooms which I know the Civic Centre boasts.
So, can you take the attached scan of the frontispiece of AYDG? (I've voted for you on the WH.Smiths site by the way. I felt a bit guilty about it afterwards. I mean, I've not read any of the other travel books listed and they could all be better than yours. I just don't know) and sign it for me. You could either print it, sign it, scan it in and send it back, or if that sounds like too much hard work in this instant-gratification age of electronics, just load it into any handy paint-n-draw application your Mac has (and I'm guessing by your sideburns you have an Apple) to digitally sign it and mail it.
It'd be really appreciated. I'll be the envy of all the other docu-comedian signature collectors I know.
Keep up the good work
Paul Smith
A few days later, he replied:
hope the attached picture is okay. Both Dan and I have signed it.
You were wrong about the Mac.
cheers,
Dave
Which just goes to show what a top bloke he is. And Danny too, 'course.
Continuing with the Dave Gorman theme, I joined up for a dumb thing on the www.ReadDaveGorman.com site. As a part of this they wanted me to send a picture of myself with the book, to prove that I had indeed, 'Read Dave Gorman'. Below are the shots I offered them. They went with the bottom one.
In June 2002 I went to watch Dave record his new series at TV Centre, but things didn't go 100% to plan...
Hi Dave
I came to see your recording at TV Centre on Tuesday and I'd like to say how much I enjoyed the show.
That is, I'd like to, but I can't. Even though I'd taken the day off work to be there and my little gang had arrived in what I thought was plenty of time (about 6.15) we were right at the front of the queue when a man with a clipboard told us all the seats had gone. Gutted? I felt like that bloke in Hannibal.
Sure, we were offered priority tickets to see the ALL NEW Harry Hill show on another night, but frankly I have quite enough Badgers in my life already.
So, instead we took the tube back into town, had a consolation pizza in Leicester Square (picture link), met some happy Koreans, speculated on all the models who seem to have made their home in Soho and then went for a walk by the river (pic link).
Fun though this was, all in all I'd rather have seen you doing your docucomedy thing. I'd paid for my Judith, my ex's train ticket (It was her birthday on Friday) and dragged my very poor friend Gavin along too. I felt guilty that I'd promised them an evening of entertainment and excitement and delivered nothing but disappointment. And pizza.
Please let me know if and when you're recording or have a live act again, as I hope my luck with seating allocations may have changed for the better,
Regards,
Dave replied:
I hope the pizza was good.
So I said:
I look forward to your future projects and the rebroadcast of The DG Collection. I'll have a blank video cassette ready this time.
The pizza was satisfactory, and surprisingly reasonable for a central London location.
I hope you're now having a well deserved rest. I'm trying to after cycling the 56 miles from London to Brighton last weekend for The British Heart Foundation and knackering myself [ PAGE ]. In a way you're to blame for that too. I'm not a naturally charitable person, but at the end of your Better World show you said, in essence: "Do things for charity. It'll make the world better". So when the opportunity to take part came up, I had your words in mind and took it. Maybe my efforts (£132 raised) will, in some small way, make the world a better place. So no apology sort this time.
Kind regards,
And that was that.
You may have seen this poster.And if you hadn't, you have now.
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