Comedy Shows

We've been going a bit crazy with the comedy shows lately, it's such a treat to be able to see these big British comedy acts (they've all been British so far).  In Oz I was always out of the loop, so by the time I found out there was something good on, all the tickets were already sold.  But I've found myself on some good mailing lists so now I can get the inside word.

So far we've been to see Ross Noble and Bill Bailey.  I've always wanted to see Ross Noble, I've liked seeing him on every panel show he manages to find himself on.  And yet his stand up was strangely disappointing.  It felt like we never really got past the introduction, it seemed like he'd only just stopped heckling the latecomers and then suddenly it was all over.  I guess that's just his style, and so when he's on a TV show the structure keeps him in line.  

Now Bill Bailey was really good, I wasn't so keen on him, I thought it would be all very high-brow and kind of boring, maybe some insightful commentary, but not what I would call funny.  OK so it probably was still kind of high brow, he did start off with a 10 minute section on the three leaders of the main political parties after all.  But it was definitely funny.  I also didn't appreciate how musical he was, apparently he has perfect pitch, which must be such an awesome innate ability to have.  So there was a lot of instrumentation and singing and dancing around the stage.  Then he finished with a really cool bike horn musical medley, which I imagine must be a standard thing for him, but having never seen him before, I really liked it.  I got to say his film clip for the West Country death metal song "Ripped Apart By Badgers" was also up there.  

Next up is Alan Davies, I'm curious to see how he goes.  I like him on QI, but then I'm not sure how funny he'll be by himself.  Perhaps he'll have the most structured story-line out of them all.