Live! At The Royal Albert Apollo Palladium

Dylan Stallard


I said something profound and then listened really hard to the smartest man in my world tell me about being a farmhand autodidact I recommended something obscure and was offered a discount on laser hair removal along my beard line which I considered because it suggested

(outstanding 10/10)

a household free from blades outside of the kitchen I said something profound and then listened really intently to my manager’s intentions as we discussed performance and progression on a Tuesday during the war I recommended something obscure and saw the boiler decide

(not to be missed)

to freeze out its own heating element and run off with my ice tray who was already involved with my frozen steak cut chips which I did not consider duplicitous I said something profound and then really listened in on the conversation between mum and nan about the neighbour who was moved

(top of their game)

to another area of social housing without any children or ex-cons I recommended something obscure to my ex-chiropractor and she became leader of the free world for two presidential terms which I considered an act of conceptual magnanimity I said something profound and

(fresh and really funny)

then listened to something obscure recommended to me by someone I considered a comedy Guru Nanak of the Sikh faith as he really shit himself we all looked away I said something profound and then listened really hard to a man in drag tell me I’m not the messiah I’m a yes show me boy

(the future of satire)   

Live! At The Royal Albert Apollo Palladium
Read by Dylan Stallard

Dylan Stallard's work has appeared in Tears in the Fence, Confluence, and Litro. He is currently studying for an English and American Literature MA at the University of Kent.