Will Self
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I never got a cartoon into the eye.
and he'd just go, oh, this is shit.
He once sent a batch of cartoons I'd sent to him back, and he'd written across the back of the envelope, no bloody good.
But, you know, I mean, it might sound trivial to people, but rejection's important.
It's important to experience rejection and experience it viscerally.
I'm grateful to Rushton Frere for that.
Do you ever hear that thing he did just before Cookie died with, what's the young chap?
I think my problem on Shooting Stars was I was working with some great comedians.
I think they were some of the best comedians.
It's the curse of the working class.
I mean, I was a drinker as well.
And I loved, for a few years, I loved Soho.
I'd been an early Soho person because the first friend I made at Oxford was the relief barman at the Colony Room Club.