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.
