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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Hard for the Money by Kiernan Kelly Lynne Carol Mcginley Syd Kelly Kiernan Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Hard for the Money by Kiernan Kelly Lynne Carol Mcginley Syd Kelly Kiernan. Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Hard for the Money. Carol Lynne, Syd McGinley, Kiernan Kelly. Published by Torquere Press, 2009. Used - Softcover Condition: VERY GOOD. Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Hard for the Money. Kelly, Kiernan, McGinley, Syd, Lynne, Carol. Published by Torquere Press, 2009. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Paperback. Condition: Good. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Greg and Ford on the return of Still Game - and why they owe it all to a packet of crisps. Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill were once as close as two men could be - who haven't bought denim shirts, a two-man tent and headed for Brokeback Mountain. While they worked together on the likes of Chewin' The Fat and Still Game, the pair ate together, holidayed together with their families and lived out of each other's pockets and homes. But then in 2008 they fell off the mountain that was monumental success, in Scotland at least, when Hemphill decided he wanted out: out of their writing partnership, their production company, and in effect, out of each other's lives. The result was seismic; new BBC sitcoms were cancelled, the expected Still Game series was still born, and the pair didn't speak - except for business or legal reasons - until a few months ago. Today, however they're sitting in a comfy room of a swish Glasgow hotel talking about their return to Still Game in the form of a 21-night stage show at The Hydro in the city. And while they are not quite wearing matching stetsons again, metaphorically, the laughs are flying around like lightning bugs at a campfire. Cynics, however, will suggest the partnership is a marriage of convenience, with the minister being the agent who's pulled together The Hydro deal that will see them play to almost quarter of a million fans, grossing more than £10 million. "That's sh***," says Kiernan, straight-faced. "We didn't come back for the money. We wanted to see if people still wanted us." Hempill agrees: "Everything's fine between us. We're back in the right place. And if people understood our friendship they would know that it never did get that bad." For the next hour the pair reveal why this friendship was a third party so strong they simply had to reconnect. And surprisingly, a packet of Walker's beef crisps, "wi' the corrugated ridges", played a symbolic role. "Both of us hold receipts for payments from 1989 when we appeared in Blackfriars' pub [in Glasgow] doing stand-up, and we got a tenner," recalls Kiernan of their first awareness of each other. "Then Bruce Morton, who was my best man, introduced us. Not long after, me and Greg turned up at Morty's flat at the same time to celebrate his 40th. But as he opened the door, the chain was on, and he indicated he was 'indisposed'. So me and Greg decided to go to Cottiers bar for a pint." That was a defining moment in the relationship. "Greg offered me one of his crisps. But I'm no' disposed to taking somebody's crisps out of their poke - it's just something I don't like - I'd never take food off someone's plate, but something in my mind let me take one of these beef corrugated crisps." Hemphill wasn't aware of his new chum's minor OCD, but he did realise there was a connection. "We got on like a house on fire," he recalls. "And we talked about the comedy business of the time. We both loved Jewish humour, movies, American culture." The new pals, on paper, had little in common. Kiernan grew up in the east end of Glasgow in a single-parent family, living under a glass ceiling as close as the thin walls. "The careers teacher said to me: 'Kiernan, your options are plain and simple; the egg boxing plant, Marshall's Chunky Chicken, or you could try humphin' coal'." Hempill grew up, for the most part in Montreal, Canada, in a middle class family and attended a school that looked like the one in Glee. "My teacher at high school said I should do more acting," he recalls. Kiernan sped through a variety of jobs on leaving school, from warehouse worker to car exhaust recycler while Hemphill returned to Scotland to take an honours degree in theatre, film and television at Glasgow University - where Kiernan had once been a barman. Yet, while both loved the laughter business, they didn't become a comedy couple straight away. Kiernan formed a double act with John Paul Leach while Hemphill had two partners in the Trio Bros act. The pair did come together, so to speak, when they became involved in the sex industry. "I was running a call centre at the time which handled sex chat lines," Kiernan recalls, smiling. "Comedians and actors such as Bruce Morton, Stu Who? Jenny McCrindle and Greg all did stints." Hemphill grins as he recalls the unlikely world. "Our job was to monitor the calls to make sure the callers didn't exchange phone numbers, and phone each other independently. And make sure things 'didn't get too out of hand'. We were professional eavesdroppers." The pair's attempts to break into comedy saw them leap through several hoops; writing for other people, quiz shows for television. In 1994, Hemphill presented sports show Off The Ball and both worked on Channel Four's quiz show, Space Cadets, with Star Trek's captain, William Shatner. "We both enjoyed working with him," says Hemphill, grinning. "But every time he bent his head down to read the script we'd look at his head to see if we could see the weave." In 1995, the pair heard of The Comedy Unit's plans to pull together a team of performers to write and perform a new sketch series, Pulp Video. "TV shows were like the last helicopter out of Saigon," says Hemphill in dramatic voice. "We were all waving our passports in the air. We had to be on it." The likes of Jane McCarry (the future Isa in Still Game), Julie Wilson Nimmo ( the future Mrs Hemphill), Gavin Mitchell (the future Boaby the Barman in Still Game) were among the passport wavers. "The show was hugely populated, and it was tough," says Hemphill. "Everyone was fighting to stay in it, to get noticed. There was no camaraderie, we would all have slit each other's throats to get on that helicopter. Yet Ford and I were never in competition. I guess it was because we did different things." Kiernan concurs: "We were tight as a drum, bevvying together, and in each other's pockets," he says. "We formed a real big friendship. And during the run we wrote some sketches together." One of the sketches featured Hemphill and Mitchell playing two old men. "This sketch set something off in me," Kiernan recalls. "I remember going to director Ron Bain and saying I'd really like to play an old man in the show. I mentioned it to Greg and it was then we came up with the Still Game characters, Jack and Victor, with Gavin [Mitchell] playing Winston. Somehow, we knew we could write for these characters." They just knew that when Pulp Video was broadcast they would be in demand from every corner of Televisionland. "We were in the pub that night the show went out, assuming we were all ready to be stars and actually having this hypothetical conversation asking if EastEnders or Coronation Street offered us a part would we take it," says Kiernan. "We both said 'Naw!' We'd hang out for the big comedy stuff." Hemphill sums up what happened to Pulp Video. "Nobody watched it. It wasn't a bad show, but we'd figured Pulp would last four or five years. We thought we'd arrived but the journey had only just begun." The show didn't work, but the shared experience, even the pain of disappointment solidified the friendship. But Pulp Video gave them more; they believed they could go it alone. "We felt our stuff was the best in it," says Kiernan, being honest rather than arrogant. "We felt we could do our own show." Meanwhile, they were more skint than a clumsy schoolboy's knees. What to do? To paraphrase Dr Johnson, 'the thought of being hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully to come up with a play.' The comedy pair returned to the well that was their old men characters, developed during chats about Hemphill's uncle Sammy and Kiernan's uncle Barney. "We wrote it in ten days," says Kiernan of the play.
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