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Comedy Slices #22

 
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 It is that time of year again. Comic Relief Time. The time of year I dread. I am all for charitable causes, saving children and world peace, I want all that too.  I just also want an end to this faade of comedy. I will not be fobbed off with the cringe inducing attempts by soap stars and the like.  So in this week’s comedy slice of sour lemon I will be avoiding red noses (though hats off to Russell Brand’s and Mark Watson’s nights contributing some much needed comedy to the red nose cause.)

Saturday 2nd – Dave Has Mates  – Wilmington Arms – 5

Dave does have friends. This is not a fella who accepts friend requests from any randomer on the street (I’ve tried). He is selective, choosy, picking only the award winners to come under his friendship banner. This week top of his friends list is the character comedian Colm Holt (a the Writer’s Guild Gold Award Winner) and Tom Rosenthal (Johnny from C4’s Friday Night Dinner) and also an award winner (the Leicester Mercury Award.)  With Pat Cahill, Liam Williams, Phil Wang and Freya Slipper all joining the line-up to make an elective selective of friends of the highest comedian calibre. I think David Elms might be showing off.

Wednesday 6th – Comedian Dies In The Middle of a Joke – Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club – 7

Former Time Out Award winner Ross Sutherland puts on an interactive comedy play that reconstructs the last 5 mins of comedian Joe Pops Pooley’s life ending in his dramatic murder. The play is a loop of these last five minutes with the audience partaking in the fun playing different character in each loop (scripts and props included). With any night that has so much audience participation involved in the play the success of this play is sure to rely rather heavily who is taking part that night. To guarantee a night of hilarity I would recommend taking along a bunch friends, encouraging them to take seats at the front while you get the drinks in, then sneakily nab a table at the back for those who don’t want to take part. Nothing like setting your nearest and dearest up for a good chuckle.

Holly Hyde-Smith

It is that time of year again. Comic Relief Time. The time of year I dread. I am all for charitable causes, saving children and world peace, I want all that too.  I just also want an end to this faade of comedy. I will not be fobbed off with the cringe inducing attempts by soap stars and the like.  So in this week’s comedy slice of sour lemon I will be avoiding red noses (though hats off to Russell Brand’s and Mark Watson’s nights contributing some much needed comedy to the red nose cause.)
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> Saturday 2nd – Dave Has Mates  – Wilmington Arms – 5
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> Dave does have friends. This is not a fella who accepts friend requests from any randomer on the street (I’ve tried). He is selective, choosy, picking only the award winners to come under his friendship banner. This week top of his friends list is the character comedian Colm Holt (a the Writer’s Guild Gold Award Winner) and Tom Rosenthal (Johnny from C4’s Friday Night Dinner) and also an award winner (the Leicester Mercury Award.)  With Pat Cahill, Liam Williams, Phil Wang and Freya Slipper all joining the line-up to make an elective selective of friends of the highest comedian calibre. I think David Elms might be showing off.
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> Wednesday 6th – Comedian Dies In The Middle of a Joke – Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club – 7
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> Former Time Out Award winner Ross Sutherland puts on an interactive comedy play that reconstructs the last 5 mins of comedian Joe Pops Pooley’s life ending in his dramatic murder. The play is a loop of these last five minutes with the audience partaking in the fun playing different character in each loop (scripts and props included). With any night that has so much audience participation involved in the play the success of this play is sure to rely rather heavily who is taking part that night. To guarantee a night of hilarity I would recommend taking along a bunch friends, encouraging them to take seats at the front while you get the drinks in, then sneakily nab a table at the back for those who don’t want to take part. Nothing like setting your nearest and dearest up for a good chuckle.
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