Stand-up Comedy
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Now we're allowed out again I've been trying to catch up on some live Stand-up. I saw Seann Walsh absolutely smashing a show in Leeds earlier in the year, I'm going to see Dan Nightingale et al on Friday night and have booked tickets for Adam Rowe's new tour in February. Others I've seen fairly recently and would recommend are Justin Moorhouse, Jeff Innocent and Tez Ilyas.
Anyone else in to their live comedy? Got any recommendations?
Now we're allowed out again I've been trying to catch up on some live Stand-up. I saw Seann Walsh absolutely smashing a show in Leeds earlier in the year, I'm going to see Dan Nightingale et al on Friday night and have booked tickets for Adam Rowe's new tour in February. Others I've seen fairly recently and would recommend are Justin Moorhouse, Jeff Innocent and Tez Ilyas.
Anyone else in to their live comedy? Got any recommendations?
Not really stand-up, but saw Tim Minchin in Brighton on Monday night. He's still very good.
During lockdown went to a couple of 'Comedians Giving Lectures' filmings, which were alright as (a) free and (b) some OK material. Tez Ilyas was one of them, was pretty good. Saturday is Just The Tonic in Reading; line-up seems to keep changing, which doesn't really bother me.
During lockdown went to a couple of 'Comedians Giving Lectures' filmings, which were alright as (a) free and (b) some OK material. Tez Ilyas was one of them, was pretty good. Saturday is Just The Tonic in Reading; line-up seems to keep changing, which doesn't really bother me.
Booked to see Bill Bailey in March, seen him before at a small gig where he was working up new materiel but not seen one of his big shows live before.
John Bishop in May, not seen him live.
Think the last one we went to was Milton Jones who's very good live. Based around one liners but he has an overarching storyline to it so it's a lot better show than just a series of one liners.
Not really stand up but we've been in the audience for a few online recordings Mock The Week, Just a Minute, and The News Quiz which were all pretty good, much more material than ends up in the TV/Radio broadcast. I would definitely apply for tickets for live recordings if they were anywhere near me.
John Bishop in May, not seen him live.
Think the last one we went to was Milton Jones who's very good live. Based around one liners but he has an overarching storyline to it so it's a lot better show than just a series of one liners.
Not really stand up but we've been in the audience for a few online recordings Mock The Week, Just a Minute, and The News Quiz which were all pretty good, much more material than ends up in the TV/Radio broadcast. I would definitely apply for tickets for live recordings if they were anywhere near me.
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 27th October 14:59
Bikesalot said:
I saw Jason Manford at the London Palladium earlier this month, as part of his tour.
Very good.
I had tickets to warm-up gig for that in a 150-seater room but it got moved due to some covid situation or other. Gutted I couldn't make the re-scheduled date. I've seen Manford once before at a corporate and he absolutely hoofed it out of the park.Very good.
Tend to go to the Comedy Store in Leicester Square every few months and always have a good time. We went to a charity gig there before COVID and Russell Kane was on and he was amazing.
I do seriously wonder with the whole Cancel Culture/Woke movement going on how long it will be before all comedy is socially unacceptable, as at the end of the day it is taking the mickey out of someone.
I do seriously wonder with the whole Cancel Culture/Woke movement going on how long it will be before all comedy is socially unacceptable, as at the end of the day it is taking the mickey out of someone.
Joey Deacon said:
Tend to go to the Comedy Store in Leicester Square every few months and always have a good time. We went to a charity gig there before COVID and Russell Kane was on and he was amazing.
I do seriously wonder with the whole Cancel Culture/Woke movement going on how long it will be before all comedy is socially unacceptable, as at the end of the day it is taking the mickey out of someone.
I prefer the Comedy Store as well, always something on, big mix of acts including the old Whose Line crew, loads of new acts 90% of which are really good.I do seriously wonder with the whole Cancel Culture/Woke movement going on how long it will be before all comedy is socially unacceptable, as at the end of the day it is taking the mickey out of someone.
Largechris said:
I prefer the Comedy Store as well, always something on, big mix of acts including the old Whose Line crew, loads of new acts 90% of which are really good.
We went to another comedy club in London once as the Comedy Store was fully booked and it wasn't even close. It was in the massive basement of a hotel and had zero atmosphere, the compare felt like he had never done it before and there was an interval after each act to try and get you to buy more drinks.I agree with the 90% statement, even when I have never heard of the comedian before I have mostly enjoyed them. Strangely enough the biggest disappointment for me was Greg Davies who was on the same night as Russell Kane and was the reason I had booked. He literally came on stage saying he hadn't prepared anything and had a piece of A4 paper in his hand and proceeded to tell us funny things his mum had said (that were not funny). He did a brilliant impression of someone who just happened to be there and someone had dropped out so he was trying his best to fill in.
Paul Sinha was pretty good, seen him a couple of time now although his material was pretty similar even though it was two years apart.
Saw Stephen K. Amos at he Melbourne comedy festival a few years ago and he was literally the second least funny person I have ever seen after Eddie Izzard.
Bristol has a fantastic live comedy scene so we’ve been fortunate to see some brilliant acts, the big names often do work-in-progress shows in tiny venues which are often fewer than 100 people. Then they come back and perform to thousands in the big venues. We saw Russell Howard’s first ever gig and most of his early ones, I’ve seen pretty much everyone who’s ever been on Mock The Week and some who haven’t, (eg Rob Newman)
The best two comedians I’ve ever seen were Alun Cochrane in a room of about 200 people and Patrick Kielty in a room half that size. Keilty just turned up on stage holding a bottle of red wine and said “it’s Friday night Bristol, let’s get on it” and he was brilliant, a very humble show but incredibly funny. Cochrane’s show was just vry funny, his delivery is so precise and he’s a great story teller. Mark Thomas is always good in Bristol too, especially the shows based around the Arms trade, coca-cola and walking the Palestine wall, some social wrong he can get passionate about
Biggest let downs were Mickey “one joke” Flanagan and Ross Noble who didn’t really have a show just made odd noises and talked about nothing. Comedy is very personal though, I’m sure lots of people enjoyed those two shows far more than we did.
First comedy show I ever saw was Lee and Herring’s Fist of Fun age 16, which was brilliant. As sixth formers we thought it was the height of alternative culture, plus the fools behind the bar served us beer without ID’ing us!
The best two comedians I’ve ever seen were Alun Cochrane in a room of about 200 people and Patrick Kielty in a room half that size. Keilty just turned up on stage holding a bottle of red wine and said “it’s Friday night Bristol, let’s get on it” and he was brilliant, a very humble show but incredibly funny. Cochrane’s show was just vry funny, his delivery is so precise and he’s a great story teller. Mark Thomas is always good in Bristol too, especially the shows based around the Arms trade, coca-cola and walking the Palestine wall, some social wrong he can get passionate about
Biggest let downs were Mickey “one joke” Flanagan and Ross Noble who didn’t really have a show just made odd noises and talked about nothing. Comedy is very personal though, I’m sure lots of people enjoyed those two shows far more than we did.
First comedy show I ever saw was Lee and Herring’s Fist of Fun age 16, which was brilliant. As sixth formers we thought it was the height of alternative culture, plus the fools behind the bar served us beer without ID’ing us!
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I’ve seen Russell Howard at the Royal Albert Hall which was absolutely brilliant and Micky Flanagan in Birmingham which was good. Can’t wait to go to more now they’re back on!
I really want to see James Acaster live, he’s by far my favourite comedian. His two live shows you can buy on Vimeo for a tenner are very funny.
I really want to see James Acaster live, he’s by far my favourite comedian. His two live shows you can buy on Vimeo for a tenner are very funny.
Some of the best have been big names in smaller venues.... going back to stuff in the 90s and early 00s, like Jo Brand, Rich Hall, Hattie Hayridge at the comedy store in Piccadilly in the 90s. And some of the very best have probably been names I can't even remember, but they were certainly funny. A local girl, Liz Miele, I find funny too and I hope she goes on to bigger things.
More recently, fortunate to have seen people like Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Che, Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle in miniscule (like 100 people or less) venues - often secret pre tour new material try outs announced on short notice on instagram and first come first served, with no cameras allowed - and also to be present at the taping of the latter twos netflix specials...so i know the stuff that definitely didn't make the aired versions.
Big arena comedy doesn't quite have the same feel imho - smaller intimate stuff is certainly my preference.
More recently, fortunate to have seen people like Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Che, Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle in miniscule (like 100 people or less) venues - often secret pre tour new material try outs announced on short notice on instagram and first come first served, with no cameras allowed - and also to be present at the taping of the latter twos netflix specials...so i know the stuff that definitely didn't make the aired versions.
Big arena comedy doesn't quite have the same feel imho - smaller intimate stuff is certainly my preference.
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