photo by: Laura Stevens
1.It's cool for you guys to address me as:"...Luke Monaghan, as that is my name. Mr. Monaghan could work though."
2. You could express my line of "work" as:
"...My line of work isn't really a line of work. I do quite a few different things, I write for websites, blogs and magazines. I produce and present online video content for brands as well as for my own internet tv channel TropicalTV. I also do a bit of stand-up comedy, where I do jokes about politics which makes 50-year-old men laugh."
3. TropicalTV was formed as a way to:
"...Put together some of my own talents, as well as a way of bringing in a few talented friends to give them a platform for theirs. Also through my journeys working in TV, Music and other things, I realized I had built up some great contacts and met great people, for instance one of my best friends and former colleagues Yemi Bamiro is an amazing director and writer, how could I not utilize his love for me and his amazing camera work for the benefit of TropicalTV?"
4. When I'm not creating comedy shorts, "moc-umentaries", it's likely to find me:
"...Masturbating or eating or working."
5. The feeling I felt after seeing I had been featured on allhiphop.com for dissing Diddy can be compared to:
"It was funny, it was our first major feature on a website or anything of that size. And the nature of it made it even funnier, like the headline 'DUDE DISSES DIDDY' and then my face, that is hilarity. I'm laughing now thinking about it! We have been featured on a fair few websites since then, but that has to be the most satisfying."
6. Comedy has been a part of my life for a very long time, in-fact I remember:
"...Getting away with being beaten up at school because I was the funny guy that people liked. I was the only white guy in my P.E class, and laughter was my form of defence. I did have two fights at school though and won both."
7. With Tropical TV gaining great exposure, and the work I've done for MTV, and possible to find me in 5 years doing:
"...I mean I'm working on thousands of great projects right now, TropicalTV will always be a priority to me, even if I write an Oscar winning comedy in the next 5 years, TropicalTV will still be around. The internet is the future, if we didn't have the internet I would probably be presenting a shit kids TV show or a lame music show. But the internet is allowing me to chill for a while not push anything, I'm just learning my craft, making money and having fun. But there is so much more to come, in 5 years your Mother would have heard of me."
8. In a recent trip to New York, I find the biggest distinction between the US & the UK is:
"...American peoples really funny accents. Shout out to my boys in New Jersey and my dudes in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Be back soon."
9. The one place I hope to have my sneakers land on is:
"...Myself."
10. Finally, I think sidashford.com is:
"...An awful website. Get a life you fool! ...I'm just kidding, keep doing your thing my dude, and lets hook up when I'm in the states, make art and shit."
Sid Ashford: Being one of the coolest guys I know, i'm happy Luke's a new homie of mines.. With his never-ending talents ranging from comedy to skilled writing, i'm sure his path is very well lit toward the gates of success. Whenever he returns to the US, i'll have to be there, and document it for the whole world to see us TAKEOVER! Check out Luke on Twitter, ATCN, and TropicalTv on Vimeo. Also TropicalTv is re-launching their revamped site TropicalTv.co.uk, which will be up this weekend! (Disclaimer): Due to your excitement from reading that last sentence, I know this next one will make you wet your pants :) I've recently created a promo ad for the launch of Tropicaltv.com revamped which WILL premiere this Friday.. Stay tuned, and all that good stuff. Peace.
