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KARL SPAIN WANTS TO EAT A WOMAN*
Been getting a bit of flack over my interview with comedian Karl Spain in last Saturday’s Irish Times. “So mean to poor Karl Spain,” says one distraught fan. “He’s a lovely guy.” My friend Mark takes the opposite view. “Jesus, Butler,” he writes. “You could have gotten away with calling Karl Spain fat a few more times… ‘Fat-faced funnyman Karl Spain’… ‘Karl Spain Wants to Eat a Woman’… Something subtle like that…”
Listen here. I’m a big fan of Karl Spain and there was absolutely no offense intended or (I hope) taken by that interview. Besides, he’s a big enough man to stand up for himself. Ba dum kssht.
Read the interview here and make up you own mind.
(*allegedly)
May 26th, 2009.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
What about something less obvious.
“I understand you have a fondness for cake?”
May 26th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I met the chubby funster in a U-bahn station in Munich on the way to a match at the World Cup in ’06. And then again in Bari at the Italy game recently and he wouldn’t give me a Trapattoni t-shirt. that is all.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Are you gonna be in Rome tomorrow Adrian??
May 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
‘fraid not. hopefully thrown a bucket of fish heads in the office basement.
match should be good tv anyway…
May 28th, 2009 at 1:59 am
I wouldn’t say no if Karl Spain ate me