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By: rARsh! » Blog Archive » Ha ha ha bonk

rARsh! » Blog Archive » Ha ha ha bonk — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:09:54 +0000

[...] It struck me that it’s curious how expectations differ when going out to be a band compared to a comedian. With a band, you’re generally hoping that most of the set will comprise songs you know and, presumably, like (why else would you be there?) with a smatter ditties from the latest album. With a comedian, you’d prefer not to hear a large amount of stuff you’ve already heard – Lyle posted on this point recently. [...]

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:12:20 +0000

John, his support was Martin ‘BigPig’ Mor, from Northern Ireland.

And yes, he was good – certainly a more impressive act than Frankie Boyle’s. Still bloody rude and sweary, of course, but that’s no bad thing.

By: Clair

Clair — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:45:09 +0000

I suspect that the MTW panel may be given prompts before the show, but I don’t think it’s scripted (at least, that certainly wasn’t the impression that I got when I went to see a recording).

But you do tend to find that if you’re at all interested in comedy, you start to see repeated material more and more, from all comedians…maybe if they haven’t got anything new to say, they shouldn’t say it? Just a personal gripe from someone who adores her comedy.

By: John Kelly

John Kelly — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:27:59 +0000

MTW – scripted or not it’s very funny. Also worth seeing is the DVD of a “not for tv version” plus uncensored shows that were broadcast

By: John Kelly

John Kelly — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:25:51 +0000

My son saw him in Hull and had similar comments. He said that the warm up was excellent but didn’t catch his name – did you?

By: Blue Witch

Blue Witch — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:52:58 +0000

But MTW is scripted (and not all by the panellists), no? If not, it always seems that way to me…