Anthony Richardson Writes Stories That Are Funny, and Sometimes Melancholy

My name is Anthony Richardson. This is a picture of me trying to get the exact facial expression of the jolly Senagalese infantryman who fronts the French cocoa-based drink Banania:

These are all my short stories, and some of my poetry. I am a writer and stand up comedian. I’ve performed on stage and on TV throughout the UK, Australia and South Africa. My fiction has been published in various magazines, and recently I was shortlisted for the Franco British Council Short Story Prize.

The BBC said I have ‘Good Jokes, and a pretty face.’ They’ve also said that I am ‘Hilarious,’ that I am ‘Consistently funny,’ and that I am ‘Woefully Inconsistent’ (at different points in my career).

Please find on this site stories about a man on a date with a character from a French GCSE text book (‘Hexagone’); a man who has an affair with a common house spider (‘Tagmata’); a girl that communicates by free kicks (‘She had that funny way of talking’; and domestic violence amongst crockery (‘And jugs they beat their children but there’s nothing we can do’).

I hope you find my stories as consistently funny and woefully inconsistent as the British Broadcasting Corporation do.

Writing a novel

I’m writing a novel. I’ve been writing it for ages. It’s about a group of homeless people that live underground. They make TV. Leni has lived underground for a while. He’s 17 and a half. Neil has just come to live underground. Leni has been told by the others to give him a tour. Neil thinks Leni is mental. Leni doesn’t think of anything, but he does like TV

Here’s an extract, about 20,000 words in. Please let me know what you think.

it’s under week 9 – novel extract.