Basically, if it’s your sort of thing, you’ll love it.

[diamond_geyser]

Next week, on Tuesday 8th, there begins The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society. At the New Red Lion Theatre in Islington. It looks set to be tremendous. On grounds of ethos, acts, and general spirit

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[shewho]

it is claiming to be on march 22nd, that facebook link. WHICH IS IT?

also - went past the new red lion on a bus yesterday. am now less confused. slightly.

[diamond_geyser]

Thankye. Have found a link to March 8th on there too. Definitely starts next Tuesday. Meaning if you're going to be there, but you won't see people until then, you can be all See You Next Tuesday at them. Yeah. It's funny cos it sounds like QUIM.

[p_dan_tic]

Goddess - I fear you'll be making me sit through another brigid christie set......

[diamond_geyser]

Dammit, I KNEW you'd huff at that. Bridge isn't necessarily doing all the shows. Can check with Thom for actual line-up. THE PUB HAS TOILETS AND A BAR YOU CAN RETREAT TO. Or, you know, watch her again. She's gotten GOOD this last year.

To give the rest of that Scotsman quote, for balance and then tangential huffing...

She just about succeeds with a series of superb, recurring Andrew Lloyd Webber scenarios but pretty much bombs with an equally convoluted routine about Nick Clegg. The question of how far Christie's self-sabotage is now a part of the persona she's forged for herself remains tantalisingly in the air.
Ava Vidal, likewise, is true to herself, opting to keep a career-boosting credit for Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow off her poster, and as a black, single mother of two, railing at a poor Guardian review as a betrayal of the newspaper's values.

Yes. Because it's The Guardian's fault you didn't make the reviewer laugh.

[p_dan_tic]

Hey I'm not saying I won't come, just that brigid christie trying new material out, doesn't strike me as comedy gold.

And good as she might have gotten - she was f*cking attrotious on the news quiz last month..... all "me and my husband" jokes...... unfunny and didn't work on a show about, y'know, the news

Same way Peter Buckley-Hill didn't put me off the book club y'know..... but I'd still moan if I went to something with him on the bill.....

[diamond_geyser]

Oh, the News Quiz should've booked A Ant. Shame.

Point.

Anf yes, double point. THERE WILL BE NO OTIS-REDDING-RUINING SONGS OF AARDVARK BESTIALITY HERE.

[perfectlyvague]

As discussed last week, colour me in with crayola.

[diamond_geyser]

Whoop whoop.

And cColour in your metaphorical self:

[perfectlyvague]

" incorporating the captain planet repertory theatre company' oh man.... Is Bucky o'hare doing a tight ten? I am so looking forward to this.

[diamond_geyser]

I'd be keen to hear the observational musings of Fido Dido. Once the golden boy of advertisising...