Born Annoying

Written and performed by Todd Pierce

Tech and tech design and additonal voices by Tom Fahey

Photography, design and graphics by Jo Ryan

Spesh thanks to:

Jo Ryan for coaching me through 50 or so lounge room performances, and about ten on holiday in Bali (sorry!)

Matt Young, for script and performance advice, and DUN DUN

Thomas Fahey for script and performance advice, coaching, collab and Chevy the Impala

Annoying Facts About the Show

• We really did find that cowboy hat on the ground after a Harry Styles concert.
• Though it’s never mentioned, The Mascot’s actual name is Mallic Binness
• Alec Guiness did win the Best Actor Oscar for Bridge on the River Kwai.
• And he did play Fagin in the 1948 version of Oliver Twist 
• And he performed and directed Twelfth Night at the Old Vic
• While it is true that luminol can detect semen, there is no such thing as a doohicky
• Vlad Dracul the Third was Volvode of Wallachia between the years 1448 and 1477, but over three different reigns
• He really was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• There is no evidence of Vlad the Impaler being fond of puppies.
• I wrote the Prime Minister’s Dick before the 2025 election. For the fringe run of this show, the leader of the opposition was a woman, whcih made the whole sketch not work, but it’s a man again now…but, for how long?
• The Impala really is a medium-sized woodland antelope from Africa. But they do not like to impale things.
• The Chevy Impala was not only built between 1957 and 1985. There was a resurgence in the 1990s
• The average lifespan for a Scotsman is considerably higher than 52 years. And I am ashamed.
• Mac MacTaggert really will travel through a wormhole, and two years will pass for him in those missing fifteen minutes. For his sake I hope he chooses to stay.