Comedy

Andy Parsons, Concert Hall, 11/4/08.

Andy Parsons has a very distinctive tone of delivery, familiar to anyone who has heard him on the radio, which makes every statement sound something like an aggressive non sequitur waiting for it’s moment of laughter.

Fortunately most of what Parsons says gets that laughter, and more.

Pacing around the stage like a bald tiger puzzling its way through the world of current affairs he is supremely confident of his material.


 

Reading return for Parsons

Reading return for Parsons

Andy Parsons can honestly say he knows Reading rather well having run the town’s half-marathon back in 2001.

Puzzled comic Cochrane in town

Confused – that’s how stand-up Alun Cochrane generally feels.


 

Simply the 41st best

Simply the 41st best

STEWART Lee, once a comic partner to Richard Herring, is currently touring with his strangely titled show 41st Best Stand-Up Ever. The name came about after a countdown on television revealed that Stewart was the 41st best stand-up, as voted for by the British public.

The blood, sweat and tears behind the laughs

The blood, sweat and tears behind the laughs

IT’S BEEN almost five years since Jongleurs Comedy Club had its grand opening in Reading. Every weekend the club, which sits above Bar Risa in Friar Street, sees hundreds of happy revellers popping in to see stand-ups strut their funny stuff on stage before indulging in a bout of dancing till the small hours.


 

 

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