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Someone gets offended by Frankie Boyle, shock horror!
guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/apr/09/offensive-comedy-frankie-boyle
and her blog post on the matter:
k3tten.blogspot.com/2010/04/punching-me-in-face-would-have-been.html
"One of the reasons that we wanted to see Frankie Boyle was that we have seen him on shows like Mock the Week and have loved his humour, how dry he is, how nasty he is"
So it's fine for him to be nasty, but only as long as he refrains from being nasty about anything to which you may have a personal connection?
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to be fair, she says she only said anything when he confronted her. But the fact she wrote a blog about it sort of contradicts that.
"I'm not someone to complain"
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"I quite liked him"
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"I tried not to make a scene"
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Just to remind everyone, tomorrow (or tonight now I guess) at 9pm is Channel 4's top 100 stand up program.
Who do you want to see and who don't you want to see in the list....
Stewart Lee and Sadowitz should be top 10 this year, they just keep getting better and better.Others that I'd like to see on the list this time around:
Richard Herring
Tim Key
Brendon Burns
Doug Stanhope
Louis CKThose who NEED to go (amongst many others):
Patrick Kielty
Paul Merton
Chubby Brown
Phil Jupitus
Jim Davidson
I'd also rather not see the usual Peter Kay/Billy Connolly twosome at the top of the list for once.If they put Michael McIntyre anywhere near the top then I might do a little cry.
Full list from the last show here:
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Saw this guy late night during the Fringe last year, tore the place up, quality!
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Stephen Wright
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i agree with buddha. i stumbled upon mitch hedberg stuff and loved it only to find he is dead already. shame that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zFQ9fOTSU
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Saw this guy late night during the Fringe last year, tore the place up, quality!
amazing:D
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Yup Daniel KItson is one funny fucker, saw him do his 'everyone one is either a nob or a cunt story' so funny and so true. Here's one of the few clips you can find of him on the tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f6GEmgjO0o
This vid is out of sinc. So close ya eyes and listen.
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Daniel Kitson is brilliant. Saw him loads back in the day doing his stand up and also his storytelling. Haven't seen him for ages though - anyone know what he's up to?
As for other recommendations - I recently saw Henning Wehn, German Comedy Ambassador to Great Britain and was really impressed. Had heard him on the radio and didn't think he was that good but it turned out to be an off day as live he was fantastic. If you get the chance check out the show he does with his yodelling friend - a really nice contrast.
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Tom Stade. Can't find any other decent material.
This delivery however I rate. The way he plays on stupidity. Genius.
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Just a heads up about the Greenwich comedy festival, quite a few good names on the bill.
http://www.greenwichcomedyfestival.co.uk/Greenwich_Comedy_Festival/Greenwich_Comedy_Festival_-_Home.html
Just booked tickets for Jerry Sadowitz and Bill Bailey there.Managed to grab a couple tickets for Doug Stanhope at Leicester Square Theatre in a couple months too, can't wait to catch him live. A couple of his sets are up on spotify if anyone fancies a listen, they are brilliant!
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Went to see Richard Herring doing Christ on a Bike (the second coming) last night. Absolutley fantastic so i'm making good on the promise I just made to the man in an email:
Atheism seems to be quite sexy at the moment and there’s a lot of bandwagon jumping going on with this whole Dawkins/Brian Cox/Monkey Cage thing, but as a lifelong atheist (who had to study philosophy at uni to better show everyone how just wrong they were!) I appreciated the more genuinely questioning, thoughtful and silly approach. It was more rewarding, profound and funny than anything I’ve come across on the subject in a very long time. I absolutely loved it.
So I just wanted to say thanks for a brilliant show and, as there weren’t that many people in last night, that you’ve got two new fans and three new regulars. I’ll be spreading the word according to Herring on the corners of the web I inhabit too.
Honestly can't recommend it highly enough. It was only £15 for second row seats booked the night before.
http://www.richardherring.com/coab/
This sums it up perfectly:
Christ on a Bike, Leicester Square Theatre/R
Those who doubt comedy’s ability to probe deeply should harken unto Herring. Herring: * * * *;By Dominic Cavendish 4:58PM GMT 22 Dec 2010
Philosophy bod AC Grayling is grandly unveiling a secular “bible” in 2011 wittily entitled “The Good Book”, “drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing”. I’m looking forward to its release, and even more so to the moment when a stand-up comedian comes out on stage and mercilessly pillories it. Religion is the itch that the wiser-than-thou men of comedy keep wanting to scratch these days, and while the result can be scabrously entertaining, an air of preachy repetition – not unlike that of a church catechism class – has begun to creep in.
Just before bible-bashing becomes so de rigueur as to turn offensively predictable, though, Richard Herring has brought a classier kind of sacrilege to London in the shape of “Christ on a Bike”. If you’re in any way God-fearing then this isn’t the show for you, including as it does a nit-picking dissection of the lesser known sub-clauses of the Ten Commandments (“God has to think on his feet, like Michael McIntyre”), such pearls of provocation as “I’ve shown that the New Testament is a load of s**t”, and the irreverent demand to know how many weeks of consuming Catholic communion wafers it would take “before you’d eaten an entire Jesus”.
The reason the evening should appeal to a constituency wider than just rabid atheists, though, is that Herring puts his compulsion to mock and interrogate Our Lord under the finely focused microscope of his own mirth too. This show is the resurrected incarnation of his debut touring vehicle of 2001 – compounding the puzzle at its centre: if Christ was such a fraud why does he obsess about him?
That abiding incredulity at his enduring fascination means that even when he’s sneering at faith and its touchstones, his burbling critique – which centres on a dream encounter involving a Tortoise and Hare style bike-race with the Son of God – is undercut with a sense of his own presumption, ignorance and fallibility. In ridiculing, for instance, how the Gospel according to Matthew lays out the genealogy of Christ back to Abraham, Herring also shows that he knows the entire thing off by heart. And the evening’s pay-off contains such a mood-altering confession of admiration that a spirit of profundity enters the room and walks among us. Verily I say unto you – those who doubt comedy’s ability to probe deeply should harken unto Herring. -
Genius, so many little asides that are just pearls
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I saw Kevin Bridges at the Edinburgh festival years ago. He was brilliant, really hilarious, delivered in an awesome deadpan style.
Mitch Hedberg, sadly no longer with us, is one of my all-time favourites.