THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB EPISODE ONE – THE GREAT GATSBY

I was recently invited to join my hairless friend Martin Corrigan in a new video-podcast adventure, THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB, which is produced by LAFS, the London Arts Facilitation Society.

The show is described as follows:

Welcome to the BIG BALD BOOK CLUB, where two bald comedians talk about books… with no hair and no nonsense. (There may be some nonsense.) Martin (who prefers more pictures than words) hasn’t really read a lot, while Scott Manley Hadley has read more books than they ever had hairs.

Join Martin and Scott in the BBBC as they read – and sometimes re-read – some of the greatest, some of the baldest and (when schedules demand) some of the shortest books ever written.

Episode 1 (Webisode 1?) sees Martin and I discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald’s MASTERPIECE, The Great Gatsby, which I’ve blogged about re-reading here on TriumphOfTheNow.com both here (a decade ago) and here (a couple of months ago while prepping for this webisode).

The Great Gatsby: is it great? Is it Gatsby? Let’s find out together as Martin Corrigan reads and Scott Manley Hadley re-reads one of the “Great American Novels”. Everyone – in the BBBC, in the novel – has a very very very good time (if you ignore the ending of the novel)

I think/hope there will also be an audio only version for people, like me, who are millennial or older, but I’ll look into that. For now, please just close your eyes as you listen and let the light literary chat overwhelm you…

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scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD live

Here’s a video of me recently performing at the prestigious (it has a Wikipedia page) comedy night, Quantum Leopard. Listen to how much fun the crowd is having. You could have that much fun, too!

Forthcoming gigs include the following – there may/will be others:

15th May 2026, 7.30pm: Sunset Comedy, Harrow

23rd May 2026, 8.30pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at the Caxton Arms for the Brighton Fringe

30th May 2026, 3.30pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at the Caxton Arms for the Brighton Fringe

6th June 2026, 5pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at Barbertown, Droitwich for the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival

7th June 2026, 1.30pm: Competition at Hastings Comedy Festival

19th June 2026: Saltwater Comedy, Eastbourne

27th June 2026: Twinkles Cabaret, London

14th July 2026: Poole, Dorset

9th August – 14th August: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER at The Street, Edinburgh, part of PBH’s Free Fringe

22nd & 23rd August, 6.30pm: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER at Aces & Eights, part of the Camden Fringe

25th September: Worcester

5th November: Isle of Wight

14th November: Welwyn