Watched it at the time, was good fun!
Went to two this weekend
First was Andy Zaltzman in the Limelight on Friday (The Zaltgeist tour). I meant to see him last time he was here at the Waterfront (2018 apparently, christ) but then completely forgot about it so this was my first time. Good fun, the standard political satire and stuff was fine but I really enjoyed the bits involving his laptop/props/stuffed penguin answering people’s questions.
Maybe the longest comedy set I’ve been to, he said it was supposed to be two 45 minute halves but both halves overran to an hour each. Could sense the staff looking nervous towards the end as their club night start time drew ever closer. He mentioned how in the 2018 show here someone had asked him to do a pun-run involving all 32 counties of Ireland and how it’s probably still on his laptop somewhere and then he kept getting asked to do it again so after putting it to an audience vote he ended up reluctantly digging it out and doing it again in place of the proper ending to the show, which he had no time left to do. I’ll have to see if he releases a special of this tour so I can find out how the show is actually supposed to end.
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Then Alison Spittle on Sunday doing a work in progress of her new show in the Black Box. Missed her last couple of headline shows here in the Limelight so only saw her for the first time a few months ago supporting Fern Brady in Ulster Hall. Was good to see her in a more intimate room which suits her better, new show is all about weight and is currently titled ‘Fat Bitch’ to some apparent pushback from the Edinburgh Fringe organisers. Mostly seemed pretty tight for a work in progress with not too much note-checking aside from at the end when she had to revisit a couple of bits she forgot to do earlier. A lot of fun and good value for a tenner.
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Yes I took a photo of my computer screen
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Stevie Martin has announced a UK tour, hopefully find someone to make the trip not seen anything live since Joe Pera a while back
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We’re going tonight!
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Ahhh enjoy! I’d go again if London wasn’t a pain in the arse to get to
Yeah, this was great.
They’ve added a one off date at the new Walthamstow venue in September as well
https://sohotheatre.com/events/adam-riches-and-john-kearns-are-ball-boe-2/
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Get well soon x
I see it’s now been renamed ‘Big’
Maybe one for the Theatre thread too
https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/soho-theatre-walthamstow-images
GF took her son to see Rich Hall yesterday. I had no idea he was still alive, let alone gigging, as to me he was a very 90s thing I remember. They had fun.
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Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival is coming up to Belfast (and Derry) for the first time at the end of this month, but I’ll be away at a stag in Galway for most of the weekend so I’ll miss most of it. Some of the shows are in the Lyric Theatre which is literally two minutes from my house so that would have been handy
There’s a show at the MAC at 9:30pm on the Sunday night though so I might make it to that if I’m back at a reasonable hour, decent lineup (Colin Murphy, David O’Doherty, Rich Hall, Chris Kent, Deirdre O’Kane)
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He was definitely on TV a lot through the 00s (QI, stand up, documentaries about America) but I suppose I haven’t seen him on anything recently now that you mention it
I had a ticket to see him play my tiny little backwater hometown in 2013 that I got cheap through my job at the time but then I got a new job and moved back to Belfast before it happened so had to pass my ticket on to a friend, might see him in a few weeks though (see post above which wasn’t meant to be a reply to you)
I saw that one night at the Fringe - thought it was awful 
Mind you, still going 14 years later, I must be wrong.
Went to Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s Kool Story Bro tonight.
Was excellent, good group. Thought we were getting Lara Ricote and Emma Sidi but got neither 
but the cast were great anyway. Little bit in love with Lola Rose Maxwell.
Northampton crowds suck though, they were rubbish
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Off to see Angelos Epithemous tomorrow. Seen him do his own show before but this is just part of a normal comedy night so interested to see what’ll be different
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Enjoyed John Kearns reveling in driving the audience into the ground on RHLSTP. Never known anyone so comfortable with silence.
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We went to see Natalie Palamides’ ‘Weer’ at the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow tonight.
I think some may have seen this when it was on at Edinburgh, and maybe at the Soho run, but if you haven’t seen it, do try and get a ticket for tomorrow night’s final performance (there are still some available). It’s astonishing stuff.
I think that some of the props and staging might have been expanded a bit, but either way, she manages to fill the huge new venue easily.
It’s a big, big space.
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