Simon Evans Comedy Roadshow

This was my appearance last Autumn on The Michael McIntyre Comedy Roadshow, recorded in front of a specially assembled hostile crowd at The Sunderland Empire…

Brighton Comedy Festival 2010 gala by Steve Bennett

…After the interval, the magnificent Simon Evans … with his aloof presence and precise, sardonic wit, dripping disdain from every perfectly pronounced word. And what words… his haughty vocabulary perfectly emphasizing such a perfectly smug, high-status position you’d think him worthy of leading the Conservative Party. An appearance on Mr McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and a …

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Cheggersgate!

Much as with the controversy over the plans to bury Hurricane Higgins in a giant mug, many feel the recent Cheggersgate scandal to be a storm in a tea cup. Up to a point, I’d agree. Certainly when I tweeted to the effect that I’d been blocked by Cheggers for politely pointing out to him …

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the impossibility of writing a sketch in the mind of someone awake

Self deluding comedian’s myth no. 43. That one will use the time spent ina hotel room away gigging to Get Some  Writing Done (subsection 2 – that writing a blog entry counts). There is a well observed tendency in hotel rooms to be self-destructive, self-debasing, self-basting. We all know we will enjoy writing more than …

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