Genuinely unsure if their planned headliner pulled out and they had to scramble for a replacement or if they were wildly overselling Rob Beckett. I’m inclined to believe it was the former seeing as Beckett a) wasn’t in the headline slot and b) was announced with no more fanfare than anyone else on the bill.
Still, good night despite that. The opener, Laura Smyth was excellent, Lou Sanders was good fun, Beckett was at least able to offer some very local humour, and the headliner was Elliot Steel, Mark Steel’s son, who was actually pretty damn good.
He was. It wasn’t great. A whole load of “I can’t be bothered with climate change, I wash my yoghurt pots, what more do you want from me?”
He did have one good line where he asked people what they thought of Sunak and they booed, then he asked what they thought of Sadiq Khan and they booed, and he replied with “that’s a bit racist”.
At the Greenwich comedy festival. Just seen Celya AB and Fern Brady along with an Aussie I’d never heard of called Ray Badran, it’s been really good so far. Ivo Graham hosting, Stewart Lee still to come. Good stuff all around.
I got into the Norm scene shortly after he died. Many hours spent on YouTube catching up, I'd heard of him but that was about it. The level of love/admiration from his peers and friends was probably the best thing about the dive. The John Prine of comedy.
The missus and I got tickets for Basic Lee in Sheffield in March. About as far back as it's possible to be from him, but at least it's a smaller theatre than the last time.
[quote="Moot_Geeza"]I hope you've been putting lotto tickets on recently Kris. You're overdue a bit of luck. [/quote]
I was at the very back last year (speakers and amps behind me) but sat next to a couple
Of nice fellas that chatted during the interval ( I was on my own)
So Stewart started with about 20 minutes of topical stuff about tories and then did the bit someone else
Mentioned about commenting on t shirts. He then asked if anyone was on their own. As I was at the front I got excited and put my hand up and he did his little chat about to me and I agreed that indeed the best thing about going on your own was not having to compare notes after.
It was about half full (last year was rammed) and he didn’t seem in the best of moods. Basically said he’d done two shows today and had to write a jazz review after and wasn’t going to appear after to
Sign stuff and wound up about 15 mins earlier than last time but still a great show.
Seeing as the last Gervaise show I saw some of seemed to be basically things he thought he should have said on Twitter, and other incredibly lazy attempts at comedy, I think I'll give this one a miss.
I liked the first couple of Gervais stand ups but after that just didnt find them funny, not even pearl clutching or anything just wasn't landing.
I still like Chappelle but didnt realise he had a new one out, the last got a bit bogged down in the controversy, I dont especially care but it detracted from the actual routine for me.
I watched the Pete Holmes special over xmas and enjoyed that.
Re; Chapelle he's doubling down on that. He says he isn't but then does. Interestingly I'm sure he was claiming to be the best stand up but now he's claiming it's Chris Rock. It isn't. Rock is ok but he's nothing special.
American stand up is a bit odd.
There are a few comedians I really like but a lot of it feels off to me. I think the best of them tend to spend time here and it rubs off.
Bill Burr is top tier but spends a lot of time here and speaks highly of our comedy circuit.