Went to the Union Chapel for a comedy gig on Saturday, where the line-up was far far better than the acoustics. It's lush for music, that church; comedy struggles. Audience banter relies on a relay system to be understood; the man at the back who offered self up to compere Maxwell as one from far away was not, as I thought, from Nepal but rather ( Read more... )

Whoop! You can now see 4 short board meetings from what the Grauniad have called the Alernative Comedy Memorial Society, huzzah huzzah. In which 3 hour long playground-for-comedy-and-experimentation shows are distilled into 5-7 minute sketches, with almost all the ACMS board (Tom Golding subbing in for his ex Sara Pascoe) and a proper sense of ( Read more... )

A thing! That will be both amazing and A REAL STRUGGLE. Mark Watson is to do another Long Show. For 25 hours, from 11pm on Thursday February 28 (after a full day's work, oh lordy) to midnight on March 1st at the Pleasance Theatre in London. For Comic Relief. Rather than just for reasons of fun, ego, and see-if-I-can. Though that too ( Read more... )

You know how you love giving money to charity, the film 'Hook' and lightly shambolic comedic endeavours? WELL. Next week, from Mon17-Wed19, there's a live re-enactment of the Spielberg classic, at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. In aid of GOSH (the hospital, not the comic shop). I am going on Monday. JOIN ME. This is what one of the run-throughs ( Read more... )

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Spoiled by BEING ABLE TO TALK TO MICHAEL LEGGE ALL MONTH, I am only now catching up on his Edfringe blogs.

Today I saw a cunt flyering his show while he had his pants round his ankles. If anyone punches him I will buy them a helicopter. Last night a woman sang me a description of her fucking awful show. If anyone punches her I will buy them a ( Read more... )

The Horne Section did ComedyClub4Kids at the weekend. I bloody love the Horne Section.


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Heh. Nice work, missus.

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And a selection of YouTube comments:

BaNdIToAnDrEaS
The uhh gibbon...umm...spunked on her leg...

MrKikicool
Fuck of you cunt
No efence

MrLenzi1
FAKE AND GAY

Might I take a moment of your time to introduce you to the writings, and indeed the brain, of Matthew Highton (hightonwordery)? Perchance, through copying and pasting one brief extract from an otherwise densely layered reminscence on time portals and acquiring peace:

I enjoy films. Exercise when I can. Socialise often. But occasionally something happens whereby ( Read more... )

In your moving tribute to George Carlin, you credit him with inspiring you to periodically start from scratch with your material. do you believe that that would benefit most comics? Would a Mitch Hedberg or a Steven Wright -- that is, a comic that does tight one-liners -- be able to do the same? Do you think it would benefit a new comic to start ( Read more... )