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Tuesday night saw the much anticipated arrival of the Boffoonery show – a comedy fundraiser benefitting Britain’s historical codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. If the name’s not familiar, Bletchley Park is the site where British cryptanalyst Alan Turing – with the aid of his dedicated team – cracked the formidable German encryption codes being used on…
Another absolutely excellent weekend judders past and highlights how much fun it’s possible to have if you really put your mind to it. Friday night I went to The Bloomsbury Theatre to see a standup gig from Al Madrigal and Janeane Garofalo. Both were in excellent form, however the crowd was really fired up for…
Hmm, been doing a bit much waving around of opinions & reminiscing, and not enough recounting of what in the Dickens I’ve been up to lately, so here’s a roundup (in reverse chronological order). 29th : Night of 400 Billion Stars / Robin Ince & Friends – returning to the Bloomsbury (the scene of Ince’s…
As hinted previously in this blog, in February there are awards ceremonies to be found other than those centred around the US Film Industry. In this particular case, I’m talking about the Chortle Awards – awarded by UK Comedy portal Chortle.co.uk & sponsored by Fremantle Media – and as hoped by the staff here at…
The last 2 nights have seen me at a couple of comedy sessions – as usual, a testimony to my alertness & awareness… I was mainly looking for an opportunity to see Daniel Kitson without having to trek out into the middle of nowhere, and both gigs turned out to be multi-comic showcases of which…
The highly excellent UK comedy website Chortle are running their annual awards competition, and everyone’s favourite shock-haired piano playing genius Tim Minchin has made it to the shortlist in a couple of categories. Now, I’m not typically one to try to influence democracy (although there was that incident where I won Beard Of The Month…