Current mood:	giggly
Current music:	'Just Like Blood LP' - Tom McRae

Is that a gig? Don't mind if I do...
Two to report on, actually... one that's done and one that's a possibility.

I was lucky enough to go with Rachel, her mother and her boyfriend Josh to see Jack Dee - for free, no less! - at the Hammersmith Apollo; it was another one of the 'Live at the Apollo' series so, thanks to the presence of cameras, there's an outside chance my grinning mug might be on TV in the near future...
But that's not the point. Jack was fantastic, as I'd hoped, and splendidly insulting as usual; the other comedians who were there were also for the most part really entertaining.
Jason Manford was pretty good in a Peter Kay kind of manner, although hopefully once he really gets out there he'll be able to break past this admittedly lazy comparison.
Russell Howard was also good, some of his material I'd recognised from 'Mock the Week' but in all honesty it'd be rather naive not to expect a degree of repetition; his routine about the origin of the phrase 'wouldn't say boo to a goose' was beautifully surreal, and his story about the racist on the Tube was wonderful.
Jimmy Carr was something of a disappointment; too much reliance on one-liners, and while it's his smug persona that fuels a lot of his humour, this time it was too much. I think the word 'complacent' sums it up.
Which leaves Alan Carr... without wishing to sound like I'm trying to put the local boy (he's originally from Northampton) upon a pedestal, he was probably the funniest person there, if only for his bizarre mime about how he looks when he fights ('like a cross between Riverdance and a doogy paddle'). Fantastically obscene.

The gig that I'm hoping to get to is in a couple of weeks: Jeffrey Lewis is going to be performing in Ashford on the 18th. Having heard some of his stuff over the summer (cheers Tom if you're reading this ^_^ ) I'd really like to hear him live... so hopefully that'll be a goer, all being well project wise.

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Liz