comedy
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Next Level Sketch and IMDp
Hello! Join me on a journey through time, as I write a rambling, diary-style blog post. Its intention is to remind whatever future version of me that might exist that these things happened. You’re welcome. Tuesday was the final Next Level Sketch of the year. I was not involved, as I was at an audition… Read more
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Review: Legs comedy present Logs, Soho Theatre
This review first appeared on Phoenix Remix I’ve seen Legs Comedy do Logs twice in one week. Does that make me a Logs ultra? The first time was a mere ten minutes of wood at ACMS. Tonight was the full, burning, forest of their hour long show at Soho Theatre, at the pleasingly wild time… Read more
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REVIEW: Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS), Signature Brew, Haggerston
Thom Tuck’s reign of terror is over. With the traditional ACMS host trapped in the midlands doing some acting, Joz Norris and [ok, other regular host] Siân Docksey have enacted a bloodless coup of London’s most pleasingly all-over-the-shop alternative comedy night. And what’s more, they are furiously pressing the big red reset button. They walk… Read more
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The Comedy Arcade – live at the Camden Fringe, Water Rats, Kings Cross, Sunday 8th August
Cor this is a late show! 9:30pm on a Sunday is when I’m usually cowering in existential terror of the week ahead. So it was nice, instead, to be at the Water Rats – historically, one of Kings Cross’ most “anything can happen” venues – to enjoy Vix Leyton and her Comedy Arcade. The Comedy… Read more
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Review: Weapons of Mass Hilarity, 2Northdown, Monday 16th August
“Where do you want to sit?” “The front”. Not the usual exchange when attending stand-up comedy, but this was a show with a difference. Weapons of Mass Hilarity showcases comics with links to the Middle East, and the friend I was with is British Iraqi. Of course she wanted to sit at the front and… Read more
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Review – Funny Femmes, 2Northdown, Sunday 15th August
The conveyor belt of straight white men never stops. I should know: I myself was made at the straight white man factory. Production is booming, and despite consumer feedback, many of my model think that a) we’re funny and b) people should listen to what we have to say. And so we are vacuum packed,… Read more
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