Eddie Izzard’s sold out, maaannn….
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in Comedy, Oy vey! | 2 Comments »Time was I remember when Eddie Izzard was an up-and-coming name on London's comedy circuit. Whispers of him and his genius abounded, and if you were lucky you might get to see him in an intimate setting. Up till now, I've ...
Airplane! vs Withnail and I
Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Comedy, Films | 5 Comments »At last month's Rialto Film Club meeting, we all met to decide which films to show for the next six months. Most nominations within a category went by with the usual nodding heads, stroked chins and debate over whether to ...
Get a grip? Get a new presenter!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 Posted in Comedy, Television | 2 Comments »So Get A Grip heralds Ben Elton's return to stand-up comedy - with a funky female sidekick to act as a younger hipper person to his old-dad persona... So it's a bit of a shame that it hits off with a ...
A weekend of comedy
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in Comedy, Television | 3 Comments »So, as largely predicted, Comic Relief turned out to be more or less a dead duck, comedically speaking. I still don't see what's particularly funny about Little Britain - although it was vaguely amusing when Dennis Waterman sauntered onto the ...
Someone’s taken the comedy out of Comic Relief
Friday, March 16th, 2007 Posted in Comedy, Me me me me me, Online life, Pop Culture, Television, Work | No Comments »I've been watching a lot of Comic Relief programming this week. Forgive me if this sounds as if I'm sat on my sofa with a blanket wrapped around my lap smoking a pipe and shaking my cane at the teen ...
“you think I’m unemotional … I cried at the end of Terminator 2!”
Friday, May 26th, 2006 Posted in Comedy, Funny, Pop Culture, Television, Zeitgeist | No Comments »I have been caught massively enthusing about the genius that is Spaced - the finest sitcom a pop-culture/nerdy obsessed person could ever possibly hope to have. Complete with strong characters all round. It's so hip it hurts... Anyway, skip to the ...
Britain’s Comedy Capital is … Cardiff ?!
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 Posted in Cardiff, Comedy | 3 Comments »According to one of those nonsensical surveys commissioned by companise which lazy journalists pick up on to fill a slow news day, Cardiff people buy more comedy DVDs than anywhere else - at least according to Tesco's online DVD ...
