A live comedy thread

[Bob The Badger]

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

Thanks for the reply Bob. Jimmy Carr is particularly caring. He did so much good work for those poor people in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, investing his hard earned so that they might prosper. Even didn't tell anyone. Such is his wonderful selflessness.

You carry on paying his front row premium to enjoy his sometimes off colour humour, and enjoy your middle class self delusion (bit of Stewart Lee for you there). Perhaps also put this uncaring nobody on 'ignore' - I hate the idea of you feeling contempt for me.

 

You don't pay a premium for the front row at Hall for Cornwall mate, you just have to like comedy enough to book your tickets as soon as they go on sale. This isn't the west end. 

[ramit]

Standup comedy works best when close to true. 

Eddie had it down.

 

[Seaside Ram]

On 13/03/2024 at 09:56, Stive Pesley said:

This is more like it - by all means have a dig about how she is really not that funny. But mocking her disability is really low - even for i-ram 

Things funnier than watching Rosie Jones..... I'll start .

Standing on a Plug in the middle of the night .... 

[Bob The Badger]

On 17/03/2024 at 08:15, Seaside Ram said:

Things funnier than watching Rosie Jones..... I'll start .

Standing on a Plug in the middle of the night .... 

Humour is 100% subjective.

I saw Chris Rock live and barely smirked as he ranted about his wife, but a huge venue was in uproar.

I don't find her funny at all, but if she can fill the Appllo, some people clearly do.

[Bob The Badger]

I went to see Romesh Ranganathan last night at The Plymouth Pavilions. It's  a 75 minute drive and the worst comedy venue in the Western Hemisphere, but it was well worth it.

Never seen him live before, but he was great value, and there was rarely a smile off my face.

I didn't quite know what to expect as I haven't watched any of his sitcoms and have only seen him do a smattering of stand-up.

Opening up with a joke about being trolled on Twitter by Laurence Fox and his racist mates was brilliant, with a great use of the C word.

At one stage, Mrs Badger turned to me after he made one acerbic comment and said, 'That's you'. That's probably why I liked him so much. Athough, rather confusingly, it doesn't explain why she thought he was great too, when I seldom get more than an eye roll.

There were lots of jokes about hypocrisy (mainly his own), wanting to stay in and watch TV rather than socialise, and preferring his wife had swung with a couple at a party than drunkenly agreeing to go on holiday with them to Portugal, which he did.

He is the Victor Meldew of Sri Lankan comedy and I think a lot in t his group would like him.

Just not the fellas who lean slightly more to the right.

Not only would I go and see him again, I'd even drive to that **** hole, Plymouth to do so. Rare praise.

He did quite a long set, too, with no warm-up and an intermission.

I thought Tom Allen was brilliant and he may just about have shaded it.

9/10

James Acaster in two weeks.

[Anag Ram]

On 17/03/2024 at 08:15, Seaside Ram said:

Things funnier than watching Rosie Jones..... I'll start .

Standing on a Plug in the middle of the night .... 

I can’t imagine the determination needed to make it in comedy and comedy writing when you have a condition like cerebral palsy.

Rosie Jones seems to be very popular in the industry but she has perhaps been on too many programmes in a short space of time and that sometimes grates no matter who the entertainer is.

Like all comedy acts, she will divide opinion. 

 

[Crewton]

I used to love Arthur Smith's radio stuff, but I went to see him compere a night at a comedy club and every other word was 'f***' - it just wasn't funny. As my wife said "if I want to watch a bloke swearing all night I'd watch a Derby game on the telly with you".

[Bob The Badger]

Started the Matt Rife, Netflix special last night as I'd heard buzz around him and seen him do good crowd work. 

20 minutes in Mrs Badger suggested we watch something else and I was relieved because it was poor. 

He's got good presence and there's something about him that makes me think no he'll maybe go on to be really good. But his material was really weak. I honestly think I could have written better stuff.

He's very young to be doing a Special at 28, or maybe he's just much funnier for a younger crowd. 

[Bob The Badger]

Went to James Acaster last night.

I was expecting more crowd work with a show called 'Hecklers Welcome' but there was none until right at the end when a guy blind drunk asked him to sing his Kettering song.

There were lots of very clever callbacks and some sharp writing, but I was less than blown away. Not even close to Ranganathan or Tom Allen for me, but pretty enjoyable and glad I went.

7.5/10

[Kernow]

On 25/05/2024 at 12:31, Bob The Badger said:

Went to James Acaster last night.

I was expecting more crowd work with a show called 'Hecklers Welcome' but there was none until right at the end when a guy blind drunk asked him to sing his Kettering song.

There were lots of very clever callbacks and some sharp writing, but I was less than blown away. Not even close to Ranganathan or Tom Allen for me, but pretty enjoyable and glad I went.

7.5/10

I was there too. I've liked James Acaster for a long time, inadvertently watched him back in 2011 when he was warm-up for Milton Jones.

I was worried he might be a little too virtue signalling but I thought he was brilliant. He's an extremely clever comedian who links different parts of his show very well, the well-known Netflix special is genius.