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Right. Given I'm going away tomorrow for a few days I REALLY need to be up-to-date with reviews or I'll have forgotten entirely what I saw by the time I got back *g*
To be honest I REALLY should have posted about the Comedy Store Players asap as it's always hard to remember exactly what they did and otherwise my reviews are a bit THEY WERE THE BEST EVER OH I LOVE JOSIE I LAUGHED SO MUCH MY SIDES HURT normally with a side order of mooning over Richard Vranch *sighs*
Anyway last monday I saw the Players at the Globe which is their best gig of the year (imho). I went with offline people N & K and seiyaharris and trumpeterofdoom and we were sitting (I know, sitting at the Globe, shocking! But tbh you have to be there so early to get a good spot for the Players sitting is far more sensible).
The Globe show follows their usual pattern of games so starting with a story (and the audience shouting DIE though I have to say there were a couple of suicides this time- stumbling over words and then giving up!) I can't entirely remember the title of the story but I do remember a long riff about Peter Rabbit and Peter the Great and Peter the Rabbit I think caused by Lee?
Oh I should say who was there! Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Neil Mullarkey, Andy Smart, Richard Vranch and Josei Lawrence ♥ so the central crew really and the very best of them. I can never tell if it's Paul's dress sense rubbing off on the rest of the guys or if they all really do think incredibly patterned/floral shirts are a good look... Josie looked gorgeous as always.
One of the best bits of the evening was the job guessing bit (Neil was trying to guess). We had "the independent adjudicator (that bit might be wrong) who seals the boxes in Deal or No Deal which is hosted by Anubis, God of the Dead, in Bedford" The task was made rather difficult by Neil not really having seen Deal or No Deal and also seemingly have no clue that Anubis is the (a?) god of the dead... still he got there in the end!
We had a rather lovely Jane Austen musical interlude (Pride of the Roast Aardvark- why is it Aardvarks always come up when comedy animal suggestions are need? it's always them or llamas!) in which Andy and Paul tried to get out of having big parts by being a cook & assistant and then ended up having to play the girls Neil was choosing between (Josie & Lee were his parents and I have to admit I can't entirely remember who Richard was and now I'm doubting all that casting hmmm... ) Neil proved once again that he'll try almost anything to get out of singing (and that the rest of them won't let him get away with that!)
And then at the end we had a Shakespeare play of course- MacDonald *rolls eyes* so lots of bad fast food puns and lots of stabbing people and Paul and Andy being the comedy people which was kind of brilliant because Paul went off on a riff about how a lot of the solely comic characters in Shakespeare talk absolute nonsense as we've lost most of the reference points for the humour. Then they all killed each other at the end- I think mostly to get out of finishing properly only that backfired because Josie did an epilogue speech ending with the fact that they were now going to jig ♥ Well it is customary at the Globe.
So yes, a good show all round and as always it just makes me want to see them more so a trip to the Comedy Store is obviously in order next time I have a free evening *pauses for laughter*
Then I got home and read various Players' tweets to Jim Sweeney and got all emo because I MISS him :-( and it's worst at the Globe because he was always such a stalwart at the Shakespeare play bit <3 I mean he's a pretty fab blogger and tweeter but every now and then it hits that we're never going to see him on stage again and I get a bit sad.
To be honest I REALLY should have posted about the Comedy Store Players asap as it's always hard to remember exactly what they did and otherwise my reviews are a bit THEY WERE THE BEST EVER OH I LOVE JOSIE I LAUGHED SO MUCH MY SIDES HURT normally with a side order of mooning over Richard Vranch *sighs*
Anyway last monday I saw the Players at the Globe which is their best gig of the year (imho). I went with offline people N & K and seiyaharris and trumpeterofdoom and we were sitting (I know, sitting at the Globe, shocking! But tbh you have to be there so early to get a good spot for the Players sitting is far more sensible).
The Globe show follows their usual pattern of games so starting with a story (and the audience shouting DIE though I have to say there were a couple of suicides this time- stumbling over words and then giving up!) I can't entirely remember the title of the story but I do remember a long riff about Peter Rabbit and Peter the Great and Peter the Rabbit I think caused by Lee?
Oh I should say who was there! Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Neil Mullarkey, Andy Smart, Richard Vranch and Josei Lawrence ♥ so the central crew really and the very best of them. I can never tell if it's Paul's dress sense rubbing off on the rest of the guys or if they all really do think incredibly patterned/floral shirts are a good look... Josie looked gorgeous as always.
One of the best bits of the evening was the job guessing bit (Neil was trying to guess). We had "the independent adjudicator (that bit might be wrong) who seals the boxes in Deal or No Deal which is hosted by Anubis, God of the Dead, in Bedford" The task was made rather difficult by Neil not really having seen Deal or No Deal and also seemingly have no clue that Anubis is the (a?) god of the dead... still he got there in the end!
We had a rather lovely Jane Austen musical interlude (Pride of the Roast Aardvark- why is it Aardvarks always come up when comedy animal suggestions are need? it's always them or llamas!) in which Andy and Paul tried to get out of having big parts by being a cook & assistant and then ended up having to play the girls Neil was choosing between (Josie & Lee were his parents and I have to admit I can't entirely remember who Richard was and now I'm doubting all that casting hmmm... ) Neil proved once again that he'll try almost anything to get out of singing (and that the rest of them won't let him get away with that!)
And then at the end we had a Shakespeare play of course- MacDonald *rolls eyes* so lots of bad fast food puns and lots of stabbing people and Paul and Andy being the comedy people which was kind of brilliant because Paul went off on a riff about how a lot of the solely comic characters in Shakespeare talk absolute nonsense as we've lost most of the reference points for the humour. Then they all killed each other at the end- I think mostly to get out of finishing properly only that backfired because Josie did an epilogue speech ending with the fact that they were now going to jig ♥ Well it is customary at the Globe.
So yes, a good show all round and as always it just makes me want to see them more so a trip to the Comedy Store is obviously in order next time I have a free evening *pauses for laughter*
Then I got home and read various Players' tweets to Jim Sweeney and got all emo because I MISS him :-( and it's worst at the Globe because he was always such a stalwart at the Shakespeare play bit <3 I mean he's a pretty fab blogger and tweeter but every now and then it hits that we're never going to see him on stage again and I get a bit sad.