Written & Performed by Daniel Benoliel Directed by Tom Cornford “Waiting Like A Man’ was a brilliantly entertaining, witty and creative one-man comedy show – don’t wait to see this performance! Not to be missed!” Read the full Review: www.comedyblogedy.com/reviews or click here VENUE: Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John Street, London, EC1V 4NJ (nearest…
“I did one in Penzance where a woman stripped off into a swimsuit and started swimming around the stage, and when I asked her to explain herself she said ‘I want to be the mayor of Penzance’ before ‘swimming’ off.”Read the full interview at comedyblogedy.com/interviews or click here
Comedy Blogedy: Your love of magic seems to have started from your Paul Daniels magic set. Would you say that the tricks you performed when you were younger still influence the way you put your magic tricks together now?
Chris Cox: In some ways yes, the basics you learn of magic, are like the basics for anything, they underpin every thought you have after that. I think the thing which is more important than the tricks is the thinking behind them. A lot of my early inspiration came from Penn & Teller, I realise now loads of my thoughts and ideas come from their style. The simple fact a trick can just be a trick, that you’re job is to entertain and you don’t have to lie about that, or dress it up as something more. Magic is a fantastic form of entertainment, it’s unique in that it shows you the impossible, and that alone is enough to wow someone, you don’t then need to pretend you have any special powers on top of that.
June 2011 Comedy Blogedy: How did you get into comedy? James Acaster: It’s a long story but the short version is that my band split up and I decided I wanted to do something completely different so gave comedy a go. Itturned out to be a lot of fun. Comedy Blogedy: Do any specific people…
“When you do a gig and the audience laughs, you’re always thinking “What’s next? What’s next?” but when you do something on TV and you get a laugh, your brain just isn’t there.”
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“I think the challenge with satire is to keep it funny. At the moment I feel there are too many Stand-Up Comics, but of the Stand-Up Comics, there are too many who think that to have the right attitude is enough. I find jollity a rather underrated side of humour.” Read the full interview at…
“We’ve been everywhere! We went up to Inverness down to Bournemouth, to Belfast, Cardiff, Bristol… We had an amazing time but I’ve never been so tired in my life and I’ve never been more ready for a break…”
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“We want people to be entertained. We wanted to write the best toilet book we could – we didn’t have any aspirations to write War and Peace – we’re both pretty proud of how it is. It’s an entertaining book with a gag on every page and that’s what we wanted, because that’s the kind of thing…
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