'Max & Ivan’s The Wrestling in aid of Comic Relief' will take place at Indigo at the O2 this Sunday. For co-creator Max Olesker, it's been a long walk to the ring
This Sunday, a number of the UK’s very best comedians – including Alex Horne, Rosie Jones, Phil Wang and Ed Gamble – will converge in a wrestling ring and do battle, whilst some more of the UK’s very best comedians – including Joe Lycett, Aisling Bea, Nish Kumar, and Suzi Ruffell – will act as managers, commentators, and ring announcers, in front of a 1000+ crowd.
I’d like to take you back to a simpler time. The year? 2011. The place? London’s bustling Carnaby Street.
The run-up to the show immediately took on a life of its own, and my working life – already stretched hilariously thin – acquired an additional dimension. In amongst my – let’s be clear – full time job, there was a whirlwind of planning; coaxing comedians into agreeing to wrestle, sourcing costumes, designing entrances, and of course, training people to wrestle.
Having been informed of my plight by a colleague on a sister magazine, the gym had very kindly flung open their doors to me for one glorious hour. I’d never been in such a rarefied fitness haven before in my life. The lighting was soft, the interiors were lush – but all was irrelevant. We jogged through the gym until we arrived at the promised land; the matted area. There, in 58 minutes, we thrashed out the moves and techniques Humph needed to wrestle in his match. The show was saved.
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