When you’re still on book and you’re a month out, here’s a hot tip: Go to Bali and listen to recordings of yourself beside the pool.

I’m writing this retrospectively after the show run. And out of order too as it turns out.

You have a choice. Get serious and learn your lines, or go on holiday for a week.

It’s a tough choice. So yeah, why not both? Read your lines on the plane, read your lines in your room, read your lines beside the pool, read your lines when you’re out for dinner…

Here’s a tip, cadets! Don’t run down to the pool straight after breakfast and ask your partner to help you read lines. If it is before noon it, will not end well.

But the show is called Born Annoying for a reason. As an annoying person, expect rejection.

Pre-record yourself reading your lines and listen along with noise cancelling headphones. You didn’t want to hear those other people anyway. Maybe it will soak into your head. I don’t know – I’m not a neurosurgeon.

It’s an annoying podcast featuring yourself. But you get to have a Bintang with a negroni chaser beside the pool.

A Bintang with negroni chaser beside the pool. Enjoy it, because while you’re on holiday in Bali..

You’re going to have to get real.