The great Eddie Izzard…
Darth Vader: I will have the penne all’arrabbiata.
Canteen Worker: You’ll need a tray.
Darth Vader: Do you know who I am?
Canteen Worker: Do you know who I am?
Death Star Canteen
www.frankieboyle.com
Scots comic Frankie Boyle has a new-look website, and it’s pretty unusual, to say the least.
His Acidic Wit is combined with a series of unusual and slightly racy images comprising a “comic book” of Boyle’s career so far.
It’s well timed as the second half of this 2008 tour kicks off, and there’s some good advice [...]
Omid Djalili Review
Omid Djalili’s “No Agenda” show was broadcast on Friday night on Channel 4, and gives an interesting demonstration in the art of standup comedy.
It topped off a reasonable evening of comedy, but while Enfield, Whitehouse and Murray have what can clearly be described as jokes, Djalili’s material sits in the realm of ethnic-observational-social comedy - [...]
Toby Hadoke in Metro
[singlepic=18,320,240,,right]Mad Doctor Who fan and comedian/humourist Toby Hadoke has high hopes for this play Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, referring to a possible TV version in a recent edition of Metro.
The show took off at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, and soon moved from being a one man show to one that featured former [...]
How much does a standup comic get paid?
[singlepic=44,320,240,,right]Considering dipping my toe back into the standup scene, I decided to Google exactly how much I could expect to see once I’d begun to make a name for myself.
Interesting answer below, amended slightly from the source for relevance to the English language as spoken by us in England, not that odd American dialect…
I have [...]
GERMAN COMEDY?! Are you out of your minds?
Apparently, they have a laugh in Germany – and two of their number are here ON BRITISH SOIL at the Edinburgh Festival having a go at making us laugh.
Yes, and get this – the two bier-swilling Mein Kampf wielding lederhosen sausage munchers are suggesting we British have some sort of “racial stereotype” in mind when [...]
Not enough grassroots coverage
It has long-since been a major gripe here at Quintessential Comedy that younger comics and amateur talent rarely gets any coverage in local papers.
Were I to point the finger of blame at anyone, it would of course be the editors of the self same local papers.
Why is this? Is there no way that we can [...]
Stan Laurel Play
Now this is superb subject matter for a play, and it’s surprising no one has thought of it already.
Stan Laurel: Please Stand Up! is currently touring and stars Bob Kingdom - tonight it is on at Tewkesbury’s Roses Theatre.
Described as “funny and touching” the play explores Stan Jeefferson’s transformation into Stan Laurel, as well as [...]
Altitude Sickness
[singlepic=5,240,320,,right]…and so it continues, with a feature in The Guardian about Marcus Brigstocke’s comedy ski fest in the French Alpine town of Meribel.
Tragically, Brigstocke had spent £25,000 of his own money on the event before heavy snow forced him to fork out another £5,000 on snow melting equipment to rescue the marquee.
Did someone mention global [...]
Dara O’Briain on Tour
Despite not coming anywhere near the Quintessential Comedy HQ, we simply must mention the fact that Dara O’Briain is on tour.
He’s at St Albans on Tuesday, and from there moves on across the south of England and Wales, over to Northern Ireland, some more dates in the Midlands and then he manages to come north; [...]
