Thursday, June 28, 2007

3RD JULY -THE COUNTRY LIFE.

With the regular hosts gigging in Scotland, the show was left in the capable hands of Chris Ramsey. He introduced Don Moses, Carl Hutchinson, The Shameless sketch group, Nolbert Stump and Ric Wharton.

The competition was Farmer's Song book.
Songs whch would appeal to the farming community...

I love you just the way oo 'ar.
Hey, you, get off of my land.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

TUE. 26TH JUNE -SUPERHEROES.

Lee Teah, Paull Gerrard, Ging and Joby.


Cal took on the compere duties this week, he was annoyed because he'd just been barred from a myspace page that specialises in 'Your mother's so...' jokes. He told us the joke, which nearly approached high theatre, being the most elaborate 'kiddie fiddler' pun imaginable.

Paul Gerrard gave us another helping from his ever growing sack of 1-liners. Linda McCartney burgers? They must be out of date.

Ging the mirthiless was back again with his impressive stage presence and even more impressive lack of material. One week the competition may well be 'write Ging's act'... actualy that's not a bad idea.

Lee Teah gave us a day in his life, From breakfast in McDonalds to a night at the social, and finished off by expressing his admiration for Beyonce, with the best comedy use of 'Who's the Daddy?' we've ever heard.

Joby, young but ambitious (yes it does say 'The Joby Show.' on his T-shirt) finished off the show with a great set, especially considering he'd just come along to watch.

A short show this week, we simply finished with the competition- new super heroes. Ging and Rick Wharton joined us onstage to act out the efforts of Heart Attack Boy, 1970's Dead Racist Comedian Man, Everything Rhymes man and the Constantly Surprised Avenger to save the earth.

Monday, June 18, 2007

19TH JUNE - CRIME.

80's Luke and James Christopher. -No Camera this week, so apologies to the other guys.


We're coming into the Summer lull and the audience was small this week. Small but perfectly formed as all 5 of them stayed to the end of the show, gave us advice on how to drum up more business and comisserated with the Manchester acts for coming so far for such a small audience. 5 like that are worth a roomful of chatters and hecklers.

Among those travelling up to 50 miles per audience member was James Christopher of York, he actually invented this week's competition, Arnie's terminal put-downs. As the theme is crime, we wanted to celebrate that bad-guy eliminating machine; Heir Swartzenneger. James helped us come up with Arnie style 'death puns' based on occupations...

After shootting an evil a printer 'You have been erased'.

When sword fighting with an evil barber 'Would you like anymore off the top?'

And for an I.T. support officer, who's gun has just jammed, Arnie says 'Did you try turning it off and on again?' But Jame's tough guy image isn't perfect. Inspired to learn Kung-fu, his mum enrolled him for Judo, a purely defensive sport. He can't beat anone up unless they're also wearing a pyjama top with big lapels.

Then came the manchester guys. Kev Rook is going through a midlife crisis, but is there ever a time when it's OK to eat cereal from the box in your pants.

Richards Swan, who we last saw as part of the bizarre 'toothpaste experience' gave us a solo spot. It's the same act, minus the little guy who was even more weird. Brilliant surreal one liners, with a slow motion delivery (which is sometimes needed, as you have to think about some of these lines.)

80's Luke was here, and we learned the origin of his name - it's not that he makes 1980's references, it's because he likes an older lady. That and his Stevie Wonder impersonations are worth the entrance fee alone.

Chris tavener finished up with a notebook of new material, and ended with the best / most unfortunate fraudian slip. Half way between 'Thanks for coming out TO nIGHT / THIS eveing.' Chris finished his act with 'Thanks for coming to this shite.'

-Well, you can't win em all.

Monday, June 11, 2007

12TH JUNE - TRANSPORT

With The Shameless Films Sketch Troupe, David Blair, Don Moses(Not pictured but you all know Don.) Danny Case, Kate Fox and Don Barr.


A wonderful mixed bag of comedy this week - Stand up from Danny Case and David Blair; sketches from shameless; and a few comedy cocktails - Comedy and magic mixed by Don Moses - And stand up with a hint of music and a twist of poetry from Kate fox and Don Barr.

The competition was World's Worst Pilot imagine the worst possible message that could come over the tanoy while at 30,000 feet... We usually give you the winners but today here are some of the ones I've just found which we forgot to read out...

"The second engine's gone, we're going down. And I never wanted to be a pilot anyway, I wanted to be a lumberjack.."

"Big bird has just shat on the windscreen."

"Prepare for warp speed!"

5-June Rock n Roll

Some of the acts this week- Ben Davis; Steffan Peddie; Ging; Sean Mcloughlin.

Al introduced Ben Davis, who got the ball rolling with tales of his failing love life. He knew she was too posh for him when she sliced fruit onto her cereal. Steffan Peddie popped in to give us some new material. The fun of lying to kids - 'Horses eat people!' - then taking them to Heartlepool and seeing the amazement when they find out the story about them hanging the monkey was actually true!

In part two we saw first timer Brian Errick, a fine musician trying his hand at comedy songs for the first time. A promising start, though sometimes we couldn't quite make out the funny lyrics under the impressive guitar playing.
Next up was Ging the Mirthiless. Ging is still working on his unique approach to comedy, which today consisted of walking onstage, sitting down, having a fag, and waiting until the novelty wore off.

Sean McLoughlin stuck to the rock n roll theme and wondered where today's rock heros are. In the 60's was Keith Moon, we've got Jamie Theakston. Last up was was Jobie, possibly our youngest performer ever. He actually knows someone called 'Dirty Sanchez' and he lived up to the name - when someone suggested playing the dubious 'biscuit game' Sanchez had one question,'What Kind of biscuit?'

The competition was Rock n Roll animals. Pete's example was the Led Zep classic 'Whole Otter Love' - which didn't sound that good until he returned to the stage with the tune blaring and a picture of an otter, proving that the song was now ruined for all present. But inspired by such antics we had a bumper crop of top suggestions...

Aerosmith - Love in an alligator.
The Smiths - Shark lifters of the World / This Charming Manatee.
Simply Red - Holding back the ears.