STAND-UP DAVE SPIKEY IS ABOUT TO EMBARK ON THE SECOND RUN OF DATES FOR HIS WORLD DON’T COME EASY TOUR.
It picks over his fascination with the English language and pokes fun at what he sees as its misuse. In this new edition of The Mouthcast, Spikey tells us how he feels the need for an Enigma machine to understand ‘text speak’, and what it is that the songs of Vanessa Williams and Phil Lynott have in common. Spikey first gained ‘household name’ status from his sympathetic portrayal of the hapless but loveable club compère Jerry St Clair in PHOENIX NIGHTS (co-written with Neil Fitzmaurice and Peter Kay, broadcast 2001 / 2002), and it’s there that the new edition of The Mouthcast begins…