When: Tuesday 25th September
Where: Hammersmith Apollo
Why: It was free
Thanks to a little heads-up from the British Comedy Guide on
Twitter (@UKComedyNews), I followed a link to get audience tickets to Live at
the Apollo and that was basically that. Print out the thing, show up at the
place, queue for about 45 mins, just scrape in and score four seats in the
second back row. They were filming two shows that evening and although we got a
stern talking to at the start about not getting up and wandering around, I
think this was pretty much limited just to the few important people down at the
front, as upstairs we had a very cavalier attitude to getting up a strolling
around the aisles. Very restless bunch.
SHOW ONE featured Lee Nelson as the host (cockneyish,
annoying at first but you sort of get used to it), Stewart Francis (one liners
can be so exhausting after a while, but some of them were mildly entertaining),
and Paul Chowdhry (off of “What’s happening white people?” - very entertaining).
SHOW TWO featured Omid Djalili as the host (I love him but
every time a joke failed he shouted “This is funny shit!” then scuffled about
hoping they’d cut it out), Julian Clary (oh my actual god, came on in
inexplicable stilts, weird joke about breaking up with Rolf Harris, insulted an
Olympian, totally bombed and left the stage early. Is he having a nervous
breakdown?), and Reginald D. Hunter (thank GOD, a really good, professional,
funny one. Hilarious).
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| Ahh, the view from row Y |
There were a few general themes to the evening which made us
wonder if all the acts had been copying each other’s notes, including lots and
lots of stuff on racism and how it’s actually really funny, and Omid Djalili
doing exactly the same joke that Paul Chowdhry had done on doing the same accent
back to people (it’s a disease, I do it all the time and my brother used to do
it to our Irish priest although that might not have been by mistake).
I’ve just realised I completely forgot to even look out for
our episodes on telly. Not sure I’m that bothered about seeing them again to be
honest. Though it would be interesting to see how they manage to edit the
Julian Clary fiasco…
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