Ding dong the year 10 is dead.

Well it's the end of the big ten and i'm sure most people will be glad to see the ugly back of a year that brought snow, coalition nonsense cuts, rises, human and natural disasters.

From a personal point of view i've had a mixed year that seemed to stop and start far too often. I had a lot better reviews for my edinburgh show but a lower attendance. I think if there was some kind of comedy year report it would say i could do better, though i have started treating it like a 9-5, getting up and dressed and in the office (ironing room) by 9 in my suit (no trousers) and a giant bowl of coco pops, 8 coffees and a feather boa.

I am primed and ready for twothousandandelevenad and feeling driven not by the desire to be on mcintyre (rhymes) or to be the new face of a jaunty BBC 3 show (though i would welcome them with big fat sparkly open arms.) but to simply become good at my art, offering up an alternative to the polished slick industry standard currently available for those who like something more experimental. That and move out of my mum and dad's house so i can live in arty squalor with a weird poet and blues session musician arm wrestling over the last tin of beans and sausages decked out entirely in suade.

My plans for twothousandandelevenad are to put out an exciting hand stand up half animation project with the good people at evoarts early next year using the material from my last two shows, an make lots of little internety-you-tubious clips and try and become the big-ugly-tuneless-weird-toothless (hopefully not toothless)-step-cousin of bo burnham- or something i haven't thought it through and write an anecdote to the terrible world in the shape of an escapist edinburgh show about a time and a place where the world will be better, set on an island inside my head in the year three thousand.

I also plan to build something,

cook on average 200 meals over the year,

play 40 games of football,

drink 28 bottles of spiced rum,

get a middle name,

invent a thing,

become a wrestling commentator or a radio presenter,

buy at least 6 hats,

not fall over,

do better at stand up than my nemesis Terry Onion,

defeat terrible Peter.

I would like to thank anybody who has read any of my blogs this year - i've been told by Lord internet to update them at least monthly so i will so there.

If you would like to share any of your new years list of things to do, add me on face book and write on my wall and i can do a running commentary throughout the year or something.

you can find me at Facebook.com/joeypage or email joeypage@sky.com

Anyway. Merry christmas and happy new year.

Please keep supporting live comedy especially the exciting ones trying to do something different. Some of the recommended pedlars of nonsense and vendors of innovation are as follows.

Paul Foot, Tony Law, Josie Long, Andrew Lawence, Noel Fielding, Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee, Luke McQueen, Nick helm, Paul F Taylor, Sara Pascoe, Pappy's, Tim Key, Daniel Kitson, Sam Ashurst, Lee Kern, Tom Bell, John Gordillo and a few others i have forgotten to mention.

Au Revoir.

Le Page xx