Comedian Wil Anderson is tired, and it's not just because he sets the alarm for 3:45am so he can make his breakfast radio shift on Triple J. As is Anderson's way of late, he not only has radio to contend with, but he's also planning a new show of standup, called Jagged Little Wil. "To be honest with you I could do with some sleep," Anderson admits. "I'm really at that point where I realise that about five days out from a show opening, that I now officially don't get to sleep again until about March. Actually Rip Van Winkle, when he went to sleep for a hundred years, it was basically so he could prepare for a Sydney Opera House season. So I wished I'd done that. But instead I followed the inspirational words of JOn Bon Jovi - 'I'll sleep when I'm dead'. Pretty much in any aspects of my life I like to follow the inspirational words of Jon Bon Jovi. Like I don't go to the doctor, I just rely on people's love to be 'Bad Medicine'."
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Wil Anderson story by Mark Neilsen
The thing is, he brings his busy schedule upon himslef doing all that he does. Not only is there radio and standup, but Anderson also works on ABC TV's The Glass House. Presently the show hasn't returned to air for 2003 so things are a bit more relaxed for Anderson, if you can say such a thing. But even though it's busy, the thing is Anderson loves all his jobs just too darn much to let one go.
"Well if I had some really shit jobs, I'd happily give them up. Don't get me wrong, I don't actually have any great love to have 15 different jobs, it's just that they're all really quite good jobs that I love doing. Like if I was a jizzlobber, I'd pretty easily give that up," Anderson says (and if you don't know what a jizzlobber is, you're too young). "I wouldn't just go, 'you know what, I just love the world of a jizzlobber so much that I'm just going to keep dedicating to that despite other various commitments'. But as it turns out, I get to do stuff that's really good fun and really hard to say I won't do that any more."
A major part of his working life for the next couple of weeks will be his new stand up show Jagged Little Wil. Anderson admits he's still fine tuning what will actually appear in the show. "I get the impression it might change a fair bit night to night in that I know I'll talk about what's happening in the world a fair bit at the moment with the war and all that sort of stuff, and that's going to be changing every day. It looks like that is all going to go completely pear shaped in the next week or so, so I imagine you'll hear a bit about that, and our good friends the Raelians, and a whole bunch of that sort of stuff," he says.
"I guess it's something a bit...not serious, like about a few more media things than maybe I have done in the last couple of years. The last couple of years they seemed to have been quite fun, light, funny shows, where as this one, just in feel at the moment
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