Another great night! We hit 'em with the big guns first this time (Bash!) pro comic John Scott (No picture, as we can only post 5 and John doesn't need the publicity-see below if you must gaze on his Spanish/Celtic good looks.), followed by (Zap!) Student comedian of the year Donnachda O Connail. Both were trying out new material and treating us to some gems from their back catalogues. John (who's Spanish good looks often mean he's mistaken for the dancer.) had some more modern inconveniences which 'fair boil his pish' while Donnachda was back to exercise his 'conceptual humour' -he doesn't tell jokes he thinks about them.
Al compered this section and had his new flatmates in the audience, so had to drop his material about breaking in to his own house, throwing up and getting half way through making fried liver before passing out. (Hello if you're reading this guys- he's actually lovely.)
Pete introduced the next section and (eventually) the new, space themed material paid off with some nice stuff on the names of star wars characters.(Darths Maul, sideous, grevious- what's next? Darth Naughty?) The first act was magician Don Moses (see last week.) returning to try new stuff for his new comedy bow-string. Topics this week included the idiocy of water aerobics- surely there's a more beneficial exercise you could be doing in a SWIMMING pool. LLC regular Paul Gerrard was back with another set of finely crafted one-liners. He had new material based around the local pub, there are so many fights that... I'm not going to spoil the punchline, come and see him instead.
The competition, which we admit was knicked from an Eddie Izzard routine, was new settings for phasers- why is it always kill or stun? Al read 'em and Pete (as an enraged Klingon) acted 'em. Alternatives for Kirk suggested by the LLC crowd included; ice cream van nearby; orgasm; need for minstrels (the chocolates not the medieval wandering singers); the squits; tourettes and need for minstrels (the medieval wandering singers not the chocolate.) The surprise winner was 'ginger' which saw a bemused Pete briefly stop his charge to say 'Ooh, I'm ginger.'
The last section saw Rick Wharton, back again to stretch his developing funny muscles. He discussed the dangers of blokes straying into the world of hair salons, when we know we should stick to barbers. And we ended with Leroy- a camp ray of Rotheram sunshine. He and his possy had driven up for the day and he entertained us with tales of a Yorkshire version of 'Prison Break' and Rotherham's most famous sons- the chuckle brothers. (Don't knock them, 17 series.) A great end to a great night.
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it was my first experience of the dog and parrot comedy night last tuesday and i must say i throughly enjoyed my time there i laughed and it was refreshing i liked it so much im returning this tuesday to see its next line up good stuff m'dears x
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