I found out that he was not only a great stand up but also a lovely bloke to boot, he supported me along with the mighty Janice Connolly at one of my Bury warm ups and went down a storm, the rest as they say is history and Rod is now part of the tour.

The tour dates have started to sell out now which is great news so thanks to everyone for buying the tickets and showing your support, you can see which ones have gone in the tour section. I'm really pleased Manchester opera house as sold out because it's the nearest to where I live and Manchester is like a second home to me after Bolton. The last of the warm ups at Bury Met were by far the best ones I've done, the new ending went down a storm and the atmosphere on both nights was cracking. Thanks very much to Janice Connolly for helping me out and supporting me on the first night at Bury, a truly great woman and a crowd pleaser to boot. Like I said earlier Rod did the second night (people who were there have already been e mailing to see if he's on the tour) and is now my main support for the tour.
I've still got lot's of material which as not been used yet so I'll throw in the odd bit on the tour and see what happens, your letters and e mails have been very complementary and positive so here's to the 30th of October and a good tour.

For all my Southern friends who get in touch to find out if I'll be doing any dates darn sarf well your wait is now over, I'm going to be doing a one off show in High Wycombe in March next year, details will be posted in my next message.

As you may have seen on Sky one I had trials along with 40 odd others for The Match on Sky One. After two days of intense training, football, running, spewing my ring up and slipping Graham Taylor a few quid I was selected for the squad. I was more nervous at the selection than I've been for any stand up show and it was a great relief to be picked, the show starts this Monday 2nd of October and will be on Sky one every day up until the big game which will also be live on Sky One Sunday 9th October. Win or lose, substitute or dropped my next message will be after this show because they keep us locked up at a training camp at Newcastle football club for the entire week with no phones or more importantly.....no porn.

The writing for Max and Paddy's fitness DVD is coming along a treat and I canny wait to start filming it in the next couple of weeks. As you may or may not know I used to work in a gym and teach Boxercise classes so for me it's good to see if the old legs can still do the business and have a laugh at the same time. Max and Paddy the series is released on the 3rd of October and along with all the extras there will also be a teaser in there for the new fitness DVD.

Well with the Match, the fitness DVD and the tour starting soon along with all the P.A's I've been doing October, November and December are going to be very busy months that along with me filming a pilot for a new show on Channel 4 and the fact that I've just discovered Babe Cast on Sky plus things are going really well.

Until next weekish

If there's grass on the pitch

Paddy McGuinness