Jerry Sadowitz is famously offensive, vulgar, obscene and provocative but he would have had to go into overdrive to give me a bigger shock than the price of a drink at the Komedia!  The place is probably not more expensive than other clubs, its just that I don’t go out very often and even then […]
Entries Tagged as 'Comedy'
The Capitol – also better than the O2?
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Capitol – also better than the O2? · Life
The Capitol in Horsham was not mentioned in that list of the 100 best music venues, and this is not about that anyway, but about one way in which many of the country’s bigger venues could learn a lesson from Horsham.
Coming attractions
July 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Coming attractions · Life
So much to look forward to all of a sudden. On top of the Spizzenergi 30th anniversary show, there is now a Spizzoil re-union because Pete Petrol is over from NZ for a while, and now there is the exciting news of Jerry Sadowitz coming to Brighton. I was only thinking about his the other […]
Tags: Comedy·Spizzenergi
News wipe
March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Charlie Brooker’s new programme, News Wipe, is like a 30-minute illustration of the phrase “many a true word is spoken in jest”.  Not the funniest thing I have seen all week though: that would have to be the bit in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle where the couple are sitting on the sofa flicking through the […]
Men At Work
September 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life, Politics
Loved the sketch about Tony Blair in this week’s Harry and Paul show (still available on BBC’s iPlayer). Not so much for what it said about Blair himself, which was nothing really, but for what it says about our perception of politicians.
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass · Life
My favourite quote for today comes from comedian Jim Jeffries, talking about performers who lose their temper with an audience. He says: Sometimes people throw things at the stage, even at good gigs. That’s why all comedy clubs have plastic glasses. The British aren’t really responsible enough to drink out of glasses; we’re the only […]
Amused to death
September 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
British comedy has had a bad week with the death of Ken Campbell following very soon after that of Geoffrey Perkins. If it was possible to measure such things objectively I think you would find the world is now several percentage points less funny than it was last week.
Tags: Comedy·Dr. Who·Obituaries
Humour
January 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
I am starting to get worried about my sense of humour. I now actually look forward to the ancient jokes on Soccer AM and this week was truly tickled by this: The other day I was hungry and all I had in the house was 24 pots of yoghurt, so I ate them all. How […]
The old ones *are* the best
December 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on The old ones *are* the best · Life
Why is it that I saw a clip of Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn this evening and had tears of laughter in my eyes? How many times must I have seen that sketch? I must have seen it half a dozen times this year alone but it still tickles me as much as the […]
Religious stereotyping
October 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
There is a story in this week’s Crawley Observer which I really can’t resist referring to. It starts off like this: Christians may not be known for their sense of humour – but that could all be about to change if one Horley preacher gets his way. Hello? I am not a Christian, but if […]
Tags: Comedy·Local Papers·Religion
