Bonus Episode: Have beard, will age.

Here's a nice picture of me from Morgan Murphy's blog taken at the Dublin Festival July of this year. I look about twelve. Here's me on Sunday 9th November. I look about 43.

What's the happy medium? Just the stache?

Last week I gigged in Reading and was taken aback by an audience member I was chatting to referring to me as 'Rolf'. I've only had the beard for a short while so it took a moment to realize that he thought I looked like Rolf Harris. I usually get Woody Allen (although longtime readers will remember this and more bizarrely, this) or occasionally Harry Potter but this was my first time comparison with the titular host of Cartoon Club.

The reaction from the audience indicated a positive match and, clearly elated by this success, the punter (who I had already suggested looked like Patrick Moore from The Sky at Night- which elicited sympathetic aahs rather than laughter) pitched in with 'Jim Royle's younger brother'. Boom! Another direct strike for the Moore-alike. This emboldened a far more esoteric reference from another audience member: "You look like the bastard offspring of Bille-Jean King and Ben Elton." Fortunately, it got nothing. But it's not bad. For those of you who can't recall BJK. She's on the left. Elton's on the right. But that still doesn't account for the beard.

Luckily, the thunderous silence that met said reference duly silenced the rest of the audience and the lookalike carte blanche that I had worried aloud might be taking place was brought to an end.

All of which reminds me of an ommission I made in the last episode in which I rounded up a few loose comments. In response to the Brendan from Pappy's/Dolph Lungren lookalike post, Dan said...

Don't you think that in that picture Brendan looks like the talking head bust from Art Attack?

I think you're spot on, Dan but I've scanned google and can find no pictorial evidence to back this up? Can anyone help?