Stand-up Comedy

[StevieBee]

Went to see Jimoein the other week in Colchester and would highly recommend.

[RizzoTheRat]

Largechris said:

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.

Used to go to the comedy store every few months, always a good night. Usually got a decent compare and then most nights you'd get one standup who was a bit st, one who was brilliant, and a couple of were pretty good. tony Slattery was surprisingly nice when my mate knocked his pint over in the pub afterwards

[Evoluzione]

MitchT said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Booked to see Bill Bailey in March, seen him before at a small gig where he was working up new material but not seen one of his big shows live before.

Seen him twice at Leeds Arena. Utterly brilliant!

Saw him there too, he was good, but his political agenda spoiled it a bit.

[V8covin]

Wacky Racer said:

Bernard Manning was the king of them all.

Spent many a good night in his Embassy club in the 70's.

I saw him when he was at his 'peak' and he was still st

[mfmman]

pablo said:

Ross Noble who didn’t really have a show just made odd noises and talked about nothing.

Was that on Sunday? We were booked but due to illness unable to go.

Have just booked Dara O'Briain (seen before, excellent) for next September and Josh Widdicombe for April (although that was 12 months away when I booked it as well)

[Condi]

sherman said:

If you like comedy you have to do the Fringe festival at least once in your life.

If you like comedy you should do the Fringe every year.

Best way to do it is to book some names but leave loads of space to go and grab some tickets to a pay what you want show. Quite often the funniest people are not the big names, but the guy doing his show to 50 people under a pub. Even this year there was some good stuff, although it was (sadly) very much a shadow of what is usually is. Hopefully next year will be back to normal.

[Dibble]

I saw Ed Byrne a couple of weeks ago. I’m not really a fan of him when I’ve seen him on Mock the Week, but he was excellent live, really engaging and properly funny.

Previously, I’ve seen Bill Bailey (excellent), Dara O’Briain (excellent), Rome’s Ranganthan (excellent), Greg Davies (excellent), Dave Gorman (excellent), The Mighty Boosh (weirdly excellent), Vic and Bob (likewise) and Stewart Francis (utterly ste). I think there are others I’ve seen, but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

I’d like to see Rich Hall and Reginald D Hunter.

[Cold]

Evoluzione said:

MitchT said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Booked to see Bill Bailey in March, seen him before at a small gig where he was working up new material but not seen one of his big shows live before.

Seen him twice at Leeds Arena. Utterly brilliant!

Saw him there too, he was good, but his political agenda spoiled it a bit.

Is he still prattling on about Brexit?

[RizzoTheRat]

Freakuk said:

I've seen Jimmy Carr years ago, far better live than on TV.

We went to a recording of Argumental (a mock the week style comedy show on Dave) years ago and from where we sat we could see the teleprompt. They had a section where everyone gets up and does a few minutes standup and Jimmy Car had his piece written out word for word on the teleprompt, while Marcus Brigstock had 4 of 5 lines of text just listing topics to cover. I can see why they call Jimmy Carr the hardest working man in comedy if he's planning stuff to that level of detail.

[coppernorks]

Are they worth the money though ?

40 mins of material, then a break, then 30 minutes of taking the piss of the front row ?

[sherman]

coppernorks said:

Are they worth the money though ?

40 mins of material, then a break, then 30 minutes of taking the piss of the front row ?

You dont go to comedy often do you.
Its usually an hour with no interval ime.

[anonymous-user]

mfmman said:

pablo said:

Ross Noble who didn’t really have a show just made odd noises and talked about nothing.

Was that on Sunday? We were booked but due to illness unable to go.

Have just booked Dara O'Briain (seen before, excellent) for next September and Josh Widdicombe for April (although that was 12 months away when I booked it as well)

It was a few years back now. To be fair, it was the last few dates of a long tour so he was visibly jaded and he had seemingly lost all passion for the show and it’s content so was on autopilot

[stogbandard]

Ok, maybe not strictly stand up but we went to see Clinton Baptiste (was on Phoenix Nights) at Corby. I was expecting him to me fairly mediocre, but he was hilarious.

Saw John Shuttleworth seven years ago at Stamford. Enjoyed that too.

[Chrishum]

Over the years I’ve seen lots of live comedy. Many moons ago we used to go to a local comedy night at least once a fortnight and got to see many acts who have gone on to become household names filling arenas etc.

There’s something infinitely better about seeing any stand up live in the room versus anything recorded. I’m off to see Chris Ramsey and Tim Minchin over two days this coming weekend and can’t bloody wait.

[abzmike]

Saw Katherine Ryan a couple of weeks ago in Aberdeen… second date on her tour and she seemed a bit undercooked, checking notes, funny but lots of material from chat shows. Her support guy though - Stephen Bailey - was properly funny, camp as Christmas but some great gags and banter with the audience.

[underwhelmist]

Stewart Lee is my favourite liberal metropolitan elite comedian, we've seen quite a few others including Richard Herring (not with SL, obviously), Romesh Ranganathan, Phil Jerrod (RIP, a very funny man), Tez Ilyas, Rob Newman, Chris Ramsey...

Mickey Flanagan at the NIA was a disappointment and I don't think it was due to the characterless, impersonal nature of the venue because Bill Bailey at the same venue was brilliant. My favourite shows have been at smalller venues like the Glee Club (Birmingham), Malvern Theatres etc.

We've had Mark Steele, Miles Jupp and Hal Cruttenden at our local festival over recent years. Hal Cruttenden was absolutely hilarious, one of the best stand-up shows I've seen.

[V8covin]

sherman said:

You dont go to comedy often do you.
Its usually an hour with no interval ime.

I haven't been for a couple of years but most comics I've seen do their own introductions and 2 halves either side of an interval without a support act....more money for them I guess

[Evoluzione]

Cold said:

Evoluzione said:

MitchT said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Booked to see Bill Bailey in March, seen him before at a small gig where he was working up new material but not seen one of his big shows live before.

Seen him twice at Leeds Arena. Utterly brilliant!

Saw him there too, he was good, but his political agenda spoiled it a bit.

Is he still prattling on about Brexit?

It could have been, but It's Pre-covid and I have a terrible memory so couldn't be specific, it's just the conclusion I came to then and have remembered it as political - roll eyes.

On a similar note we did enjoy Micky Flanagan who was similarly funny, but had a rather nasty undertone to him which I didn't like.
Probably just being over sensitive and over analysing perhaps.

[underwhelmist]

Evoluzione said:

It could have been, but It's Pre-covid and I have a terrible memory so couldn't be specific, it's just the conclusion I came to then and have remembered it as political - roll eyes.

On a similar note we did enjoy Micky Flanagan who was similarly funny, but had a rather nasty undertone to him which I didn't like.
Probably just being over sensitive and over analysing perhaps.

I really enjoyed Bill Bailey for the reasons you mention.
I really didn't enjoy Mickey Flanagan, again for the reasons you mention.
I suspect you'd probably better steer clear of Stewart Lee.

[Evoluzione]

underwhelmist said:

Evoluzione said:

It could have been, but It's Pre-covid and I have a terrible memory so couldn't be specific, it's just the conclusion I came to then and have remembered it as political - roll eyes.

On a similar note we did enjoy Micky Flanagan who was similarly funny, but had a rather nasty undertone to him which I didn't like.
Probably just being over sensitive and over analysing perhaps.

I really enjoyed Bill Bailey for the reasons you mention.
I really didn't enjoy Mickey Flanagan, again for the reasons you mention.
I suspect you'd probably better steer clear of Stewart Lee.

I would have to reacquaint myself with him to be sure, but yes, you cannot argue with taste or what someone derives from something or someone else
It's always argued and discussed (and i'm aware of not wanting to drag the OPs thread down to this) that there is a great gulf in between what we all class as acceptable humour. Recently (on here) it has been talked about and misunderstood that there is totally innocent humour and some which is not so, I would not argue either way and do enjoy something a bit edgy too

Edited by Evoluzione on Thursday 28th October 05:32