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  • Start date Oct 18, 2019
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Oct 19, 2019
  • #71
Thinking about booking Kerry Godliman at the glee club and Henning Wehn in Walsall early next year
 
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PurpleBin

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  • Oct 19, 2019
  • #72
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Thinking about booking Kerry Godliman at the glee club and Henning Wehn in Walsall early next year
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Really like Henning Wehn.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #73
PurpleBin said:
Really like Henning Wehn.
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I tried to get tickets earlier in the year but they had sold out so will talk to my wife in the morning about this one
 

Adge

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #74
Surprised no one has mentioned Frank Skinner. Had his day but his standup was decent-seen him a couple of times.
Peter Kay an absolute genius too.
Always liked Tommy Tiernan aswell but his stand up show was awful.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #75
Adge said:
Surprised no one has mentioned Frank Skinner. Had his day but his standup was decent-seen him a couple of times.
Peter Kay an absolute genius too.
Always liked Tommy Tiernan aswell but his stand up show was awful.
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Forgot about Frank Skinner, his stand up is brilliant
 
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lordsummerisle

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #76
Frank Skinner the best I've ever seen, twice, once in Lincoln about 93, next in Oxford just a couple of days after Diana died.

Said he'd list a fortune as just taken his investments out of flower shops and put it into land-mines.

Bill Bailey brilliant too, seen him loads, first time at The Belgrade about 98.

Stewart Lee is a genius, and really not as po-faced and right on as his detractors would have it.
 
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Sbarcher

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #77
Get up to the Edinburgh Fringe, too many great unknown stand ups to mention.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #78
Bit undrelated, but I remember someone on here saying how much they used to enjoy Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish. His new programme starts tomorrow night on Dave if they're interested. Looks more panel oriented than him just doing a show.
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 20, 2019
  • #79
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Bit undrelated, but I remember someone on here saying how much they used to enjoy Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish. His new programme starts tomorrow night on Dave if they're interested. Looks more panel oriented than him just doing a show.
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Yes, I am not convinced to be honest, but I do like him and will give it a go.
 

clint van damme

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #80
lordsummerisle said:
Frank Skinner the best I've ever seen, twice, once in Lincoln about 93, next in Oxford just a couple of days after Diana died.

Said he'd list a fortune as just taken his investments out of flower shops and put it into land-mines.

Bill Bailey brilliant too, seen him loads, first time at The Belgrade about 98.

Stewart Lee is a genius, and really not as po-faced and right on as his detractors would have it.
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saw Bill bailey a couple of times, very good. Some of the stuff he did early on in his career around 70s TV was brilliant.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #81
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Bit undrelated, but I remember someone on here saying how much they used to enjoy Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish. His new programme starts tomorrow night on Dave if they're interested. Looks more panel oriented than him just doing a show.
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He was good at the Warwick Arts Centre.
 

Otis

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #82
Just watching Tom Allen's stand-up on C4 and am finding him very amusing.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #83
Deleted member 5849 said:
shmmeee'll be delighted he says it'll be his (Izzard's, not shmmeee's) last tour for a while as he concentrates on politics after.
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We’re going to end up with Alan Sugar as PM and it’ll all be our own fault.
 

bringbackrattles

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #84
Billy Connelly was a stand up genius in his day, and I like another Scotch comedian now in Kevin Bridges. Funniest comic I've ever seen live was Ken Dodd, old time comic but his one liners were brilliant. Mickey Flanagan is funny too.
 

Malaka

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #85
I have seen:
Chubby Brown
Jimmy Carr
Chris Rock
Billy Connolly
Jonathon Pie (Not really a stand up)
Jim Jeffries
Funniest Jimmy Carr
Most Disappointing Billy Connolly
Had tickets for Ben Elton 23/10 but had to give them away (gutted)
 

skybluetony176

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #86
Otis said:
Just watching Tom Allen's stand-up on C4 and am finding him very amusing.
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Damn I forgot that was on. I’ll have to see if it’s on catch up.
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #87
Deleted member 5849 said:
He was good at the Warwick Arts Centre.
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Had tickets for that, but had an operation on my knee that day under general, and was on crutches, gutted I missed it.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #88
skybluetony176 said:
Damn I forgot that was on. I’ll have to see if it’s on catch up.
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It's on at 10pm tonight on 4seven (Freeview 47 unsurprisingly)
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #89
lordsummerisle said:
Had tickets for that, but had an operation on my knee that day under general, and was on crutches, gutted I missed it.
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A cursed gig that. My mate and his wife didn't go because his mum died, and my parents didn't because my Mum ended up in hospital.

Gave away a lot of free tickets!
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #90
Malaka said:
I have seen:
Chubby Brown
Jimmy Carr
Chris Rock
Billy Connolly
Jonathon Pie (Not really a stand up)
Jim Jeffries
Funniest Jimmy Carr
Most Disappointing Billy Connolly
Had tickets for Ben Elton 23/10 but had to give them away (gutted)
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Okay....

Seen.....

Paul Merton
Rowan Atkinson
Eddie Izzard
Rik Mayall
Ed Byrne
Jo Brand
Lee Hurst
Jimmy Carr


Think there are more, but cannot remember them off the top of my head.

Funniest, Rowan Atkinson.
 

vow

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  • Oct 21, 2019
  • #91
lordsummerisle said:
in Oxford just a couple of days after Diana died.

Said he'd list a fortune as just taken his investments out of flower shops and put it into land-mines.
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Superb gag!
 

ajsccfc

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  • Oct 22, 2019
  • #92
fellatio_Martinez said:
Gervais can be a a really funny stand up but he loses me a bit when he starts preaching about free speech and atheism. If he could restrain himself a bit he could be great.
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I wanted to like his most recent Netflix special but he spends a bizarre amount of time mocking people who've been a bit mean about him on Twitter, like Father Ted's acceptance speech come to life.
 
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fellatio_Martinez

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  • Oct 22, 2019
  • #93
ajsccfc said:
I wanted to like his most recent Netflix special but he spends a bizarre amount of time mocking people who've been a bit mean about him on Twitter, like Father Ted's acceptance speech come to life.
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It's pretty weak stuff. Anyone could go on Twitter and find people to make fun of. I think Twitter might be one of the main reasons his output has gone to shit.

He uses it to perpetuate the idea that everything he does is amazing with constant retweets of randomers praising his stuff. It's like his own little echo chamber.

I remember when he used to be ironically smug and self satisfied.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Oct 22, 2019
  • #94
I have heard from someone in the know , that Peter Kay is not as warm and friendly as you’d imagine

Also according to them Mickey Flanagan has no airs or graces and is really decent along with Micheal McIntyre who supposedly on the last night at any venue treats the backstage crew to drinks and takeaways , I don’t know if this is standard for acts . But I was genuinely surprised about peter Kay
 

fellatio_Martinez

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  • Oct 22, 2019
  • #95
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
I have heard from someone in the know , that Peter Kay is not as warm and friendly as you’d imagine

Also according to them Mickey Flanagan has no airs or graces and is really decent along with Micheal McIntyre who supposedly on the last night at any venue treats the backstage crew to drinks and takeaways , I don’t know if this is standard for acts . But I was genuinely surprised about peter Kay
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I've heard similar about Peter Kay. Apparently he's a pain to work with and just generally up himself.

Charlie Brooker used to write a TV column for a newspaper and he said that it's nearly always the case that people who appear overly nice on TV are arseholes in real life.
 

Otis

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  • Oct 22, 2019
  • #96
fellatio_Martinez said:
I've heard similar about Peter Kay. Apparently he's a pain to work with and just generally up himself.

Charlie Brooker used to write a TV column for a newspaper and he said that it's nearly always the case that people who appear overly nice on TV are arseholes in real life.
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Damn that Tom Hanks to hell.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 23, 2019
  • #97
fellatio_Martinez said:
I've heard similar about Peter Kay. Apparently he's a pain to work with and just generally up himself.

Charlie Brooker used to write a TV column for a newspaper and he said that it's nearly always the case that people who appear overly nice on TV are arseholes in real life.
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Peter Kay is seen as a plagiarist amongst comedians, basically his most successful work is co-written. Anything he's done without Neil Fitzmaurice / Dave Spikey has been pretty poor.
 

Ian1779

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  • Oct 25, 2019
  • #98
fellatio_Martinez said:
I've heard similar about Peter Kay. Apparently he's a pain to work with and just generally up himself.

Charlie Brooker used to write a TV column for a newspaper and he said that it's nearly always the case that people who appear overly nice on TV are arseholes in real life.
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I want Charlie Brooker to concentrate on making more Black Mirror episodes.
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Oct 25, 2019
  • #99
Ian1779 said:
I want Charlie Brooker to concentrate on making more Black Mirror episodes.
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There's somebody who is supposed to be genuinely nice

My daughter's boyfriend user to work at Endomol and said he was a lovely bloke.

Miss Screen and News Wipe though, and think last series of Black Mirror was a big dip in quality compared to previous.
 
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SkyblueBazza

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  • Oct 26, 2019
  • #100
lordsummerisle said:
There's somebody who is supposed to be genuinely nice

My daughter's boyfriend user to work at Endomol and said he was a lovely bloke.

Miss Screen and News Wipe though, and think last series of Black Mirror was a big dip in quality compared to previous.
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We can all be nice (though some choose to just be greedy) when the money is rolling in. When the chips are down however even the nice get nasty!

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SkyblueBazza

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • #101
So Ben Elton...very much to type, didn't disappoint & only got really over-political at the end. Was very funny on some serious life topics

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
 

SkyBlueDom26

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • #102
Frankie Boyle or Jimmy Carr for me.... Ricky Gervais is also brilliant and does lots of work with animal charities which is fantastic
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • #103
clint van damme said:
Jim Jeffries early stuff was very good

Saw Harry Hill once and he was excellent. Very irreverant humour which isn't everyone's cup of tea.
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Like it Clint...Jim Jefferies is quality, well, if you like brutal humour ! As you say especially earlier sets...got a bit more hit and miss (and preachy) more recently, still like though. Seen him three times live

Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand (I know he’s a cock but always liked a lot of his stand up), Kevin Hart. Old school, Eddie Murphy
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • #104
Went to see Romesh Ranganathan last week and he didn’t disappoint. Very polished performance as well, made it look effortless.
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • #105
skybluetony176 said:
Went to see Romesh Ranganathan last week and he didn’t disappoint. Very polished performance as well, made it look effortless.
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just saw his stand up on the comedy channel...very good !
 
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