Covers Night - 19th December

Featuring the excellent compering of Steph Peddie, the covers night was a roaring success, and we all enjoyed it immensely.

Ric Warton come onstage as Jack Dee, and admirably started the night with some of the moody bugger's one liners and complaints. Especially the routine about Cricket players being more inclined to hit the ball if they didn't have pads. Excellent.

Al Dawes followed, with a very ambitious tribute to Richard Pryor. Being middle class, and thus almost physically scared of the infamous N-word, he used a BBC editing technique - Pussy was replaced by Pinepple, Mother-f***er became Melon-farmer, Nigger was replaced by Noddy. I'm not sure anyone knew how this would go, but it was actually funny, absurd, cringeworthy and joyous. I'm still giggling now.

Carl Hutchinson arrived as Dennis Leary, and impressively had learnt some incredibly fast paced ranting verbatim. It missed the audience at times from a humour point of view, but as an acting exercise was strong work.

Pete Thompson's Emo Phillips was a real highlight. As Steph later commented, it was a perfect recreation. Not only was the impression spot on, so was the audiences response. When the real Emo appears, you get a 50-50 split of people crying with laughter, or just looking confused. Everything was right, the voice, the clothes, and the wig, along with some of Emo's classic material. A triumph.

Callum Cramb gave us some Lee Evans - at times you may think they were separated at birth. You can see why Cal has him as a hero, the two are very similar. He injected a huge amount of energy into proceedings, and as such, did as much as Evans can do.

Finally, Steph took a break from his excellent work as compere, to become the second white-brit-does-black-american-icon as he presented us with Eddie Murphy. Some very pretty work, and loads of energy. The moment he turned around and challenged us not to love his tight ass, you knew it was all good. And just to show he had more strings to his bow, he did some Robin Williams too.

We had great fun performing as our heroes, and the audience had a good old laugh as well. I just can't wait until we do it again next year. Have a Merry non-denominational winter festival period. And God Bless.