When his first solo indicate flopped,Kieran Hodgson feared he wasn’t fascinating enough to be a comedian. Then the disgraced cyclist gave his career a shot in the armYou’d beget a job imagining anyone less like Lance Armstrong than the comedian Kieran Hodgson. The Tour de France-conquering, cancer-defying drugs cheat was will-to-power in human form; the gentle-mannered comedian has already accepted, and aged only 27,that he can’t be the comedian he wants to be, because “I don’t think I beget the conviction”. Armstrong recognised no obstacle to his ambitions – not morality, and not the law. Hodgson,by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who, and because: I fear I beget this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant,and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, and a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer. And it was Armstrong who (according to the indicate) inspired teenage Hodgson to pursue a life in comedy. Is that dependable I ask him when we meet in the gentle after the fringe storm. “In my shows,” he says, “the personal stuff about me has to be dependable, or otherwise I would feel fraudulent doing it.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com