Which courses to cut?
OMFG WTF?The above article is pretty fucking painful reading. I know the Solent isn't exactly in the same league but this feels awkward, like watching your parents dance at a wedding. I can just see her getting bookings based on that degree. Maybe she could take an MSc in stripping
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Holy hell, those "highlights" were unfunny. The last one had some promise, but it was phrased very badly.
The whole article seemed a bit page-filler-y to me. I mean, if they have a degree course in stand-up there's got to be some woman who's the first woman to graduate from it. It's not like comedy is a closed guild - OK, the ratio of men to women isn't perfect, but it's not like a woman comedian is a hen's tooth or anything.
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But like I said, it's not really a great choice. I don't often hear comedy clubs complaining about the lack of good graduates on the circuit.
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True, but for me the delivery would have to be fucking amazing.
That said, I accept that taste in humour is very idiosyncratic, so I guess I'm not saying that I think she's a bad comic, just that she's not to my taste - even further than that, the reporter may well have picked those jokes from a wider selection, so I can't even know whether I'm saying that Hannah George's sense of humour doesn't click with mine or whether it's DAILY MAIL REPORTER's humour I'm objecting to. NB: Brave byline, DMR! Way to take responsibility for your journalism!
Yet again, though: "no-one likes a ginger"? When the fuck was that last funny? Culloden?
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