Fringe or no Fringe that is the Festival

MY best friend and I from uni are planning to take on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I have noticed that everyone around us who aren't are all comically challenged. They all seem to have this obsession with 'PC' comments. Comedy is meant to mock and ridicule the idiosyncrasies and mannerisms of today's world. Being politically correct has lost what it was put in place for and so Niko and myself have decided to take 'PC' and throw it out the window and go back to what comedy is! 

Have you ever found something hilarious and everyone else who heard or saw it didn't laugh? I have many times. I want to enjoy a joke because it simply is a joke. There is no hurt in a joke unless you tried insult someone on purpose and use a façade to make it look like a joke. It on a basis like this that we want people to just accept a joke because it is funny. 

Political Correctness needs to be stopped when you cant call an Inuit an Eskimo any more! I mean what is wrong with the world. < This is the humour Niko and I create. Most of our jokes are off the bat and formed using  the local uni pub, a few drinks of coke, my smoking out back and the rest of the class. Jokes only work when people make things funny without even knowing it and someone noticing it. Such as the fact that 'I didn't realise you knew the hippopotamus club were at weight watchers'. Catch my drift? 

What I want to know is, will the fringe take on a duo who believe in making jokes because because they are funny and as far as they are concerned not offensive at any given length? I think they will but we wont enter the main fringe, simply because you have to pay to get a spot. We will do the FreeFringe and make a name for ourselves. Comedy is an age old trick we individually harness over the years. You laugh at adult jokes as a child because you know whatever the joke is, it is funny. Give it a couple of years and you suddenly understand it and think 'oh that is good!' then carry on as normal and find even funnier jokes. I think people need to remember to laugh a little, because let's be honest a laugh a day keeps the plastic surgeon away!

Losing Sleep Over Insomnia

Have you ever sat at home doing nothing till the wee hours of the morning, then the next morning seriously wish you hadn't? You along with many others feel the same. Yet 2/3 of the British population having insomnia or any other relative sleep disorders such as Nocturia (the need to have to wake up in the night to frequently urinate) or Sleep Apnea (during sleep may have small breaths or none at all and stop breathing). All forms of sleeping disorders not only damage sleep patterns but create a lesser ability to regain daily lost energy. In effect sleeping because you have to and leaving you as tired if not more so when you wake up than when you went to sleep. I am a sufferer of Insomnia and one of my best friends suffers from Sleep Apnea.
I am once again a statistic. I can be stereotyped as mentally ill, sleep depraved or even abnormal, yet I find it interesting that more than half of the British population are just like me or have any sleeping disorder generally. I have used Sleeping Pills, Calming Music, Normal Music, Rock Music, Kalms Natural Remedies and a variety of other things. I have suffered for over 4 years with this and they say that it is down to stress. I find that this happens even when I'm not stressed at all. With insomnia comes a general experienced problem; blending days. You can go for so long normally then one day you suddenly realise, what day is it? Day into day, week into week, and at it's worst month into month. The process is lethal and can kill people eventually. I'm so sleep depraved most mornings that when i wake up i have no time for breakfast or to even think have a got everything with me. This is just part of the behaviour that can kill anyone.
But let's be honest what would kill you faster; sleep deprecation, fast food or education? I have all 3 going on in my life day after day. I'm surprised I'm even still alive but once again one of the many mysteries of life. Another mystery to the fact i can't sleep is that when i get extremely bad at not being able to sleep - and mind i have only done this once - i will get someone so punch or hit me hard enough to knock me out. I wake up with a pounding headache but i got a good few solid hours of sleep, then the cycle slows down for a while. My only thought; just listen to either Ellie Goulding, The Secret Handshake and Pendulum. It helps me take my mind off of life. Try it!