Trachtenburg Slide Show Players: The Complicated Life
31/08/2007 … Low-fi comedy seems to be the fashion of the day, thanks to Josie Long and her ilk forging a new genre of sweetly amateurish humour far from the madding Jongleurs…
2007 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 31 August 2007
Fri 24 August 2007
Toby Whithouse – Original Review
24/08/2007 … As a newcomer to stand-up, Toby Whithouse has a noticeable lack of ambition to his set, from the very moment he takes to the stage and tells us, as so many acts…
Richard Sandling – Original Review
24/08/2007 … Tipped newcomer Richard Sandling, a big fella from Essex, gets cracking with some painfully bad pub-gag puns, told with a knowing cheesiness.
Thu 23 August 2007
Gar Murran – Original Review
23/08/2007 … Dubliner Gar Murran is perhaps still too new to know better, but he bases much of his set in the over-familiar world of daytime TV or how men always perform too…
Daniel Rigby – Original Review
23/08/2007 … Newbie Daniel Rigby has the air of a man trying to make a serious point, but forever allowing his mind to wander on to other, more surreal things.
Mon 13 August 2007
Ed Patrick – Original Review
13/08/2007 … Newbie Ed Patrick doesn't start his set that well, with a predicatble Rohypnol gag – but it soon emerges this is simply an appetiser for a much stronger joke.
Prince Abdi – Original Review
13/08/2007 … Relative newcomer Prince Abdi claims to be the only Somalian comic working in the UK, even if he brilliantly punctures his own unique-selling-point so as to fit…
Kerry Howard – Original Review
13/08/2007 … Rookie Kerry Howard starts strongly with a couple of quick knob gags, but it soon becomes clear that’s all she has.