Standup Comedy UK

I did a couple of spots since my last post: Five minutes at We Are Funny Project – it was going OK, and I was scoring laughs, but I tried too much new material in one go and ended my set by completely blanking on the punchline for a new bit. 15 minutes at a … Read more

It’s been a busy couple of months for me as far as stand-up is concerned, and I feel like I’ve improved in a relatively short space of time, which is exactly the opposite of what I expected so soon after lockdown. The catalyst has been doing a bunch of Sam Rhode’s pop-up gigs around south … Read more

Since I posted about my mediocre performance at We Are Funny a few weeks ago things have been a bit of a rollercoaster. But one of those small, underwhelming rollercoasters you get in old seaside towns. The night after that WAF gig, I had a 15 minute spot at a pop-up pub gig in Wimbledon, … Read more

I’m slowly building up some momentum again now that live comedy in London has bounced back, but I’ve not done a huge amount recently. I did lots of family stuff during the school holidays, so only really had time to do one gig at a pop-up comedy night organised by Sam Rhodes in a bar … Read more

The week after my last spot at Beat the Blackout I did another one at Sam Rhodes Comedy Explosion, which was back for a one-off trial at its old venue at The Rocksteady in Dalston. Comedy Explosion is a good old fashioned bar-show, which means Sam hijacks a section of a public bar for a … Read more

Apart from my car crash effort at a South Coast Comedian of the Year heat in September, I haven’t done any standup spots since March 2020. So when I entered Beat the Blackout at Up The Creek in Greenwich this week, it’s fair to say I wasn’t feeling entirely confident, given that I was a … Read more

A quick update – Sam Rhodes has announced that he’s running his Comedy Explosion open mic gig at the Rocksteady in Dalson as a one-off trial night on June 10th. If things go well, it could return as a regular weekly gig. In this context “going well” means people showing up and spending money at … Read more

It looks like clubs are getting ready to open again. This week I got an email from Beat the Blackout in Greenwich to let me know they were starting to book spots for their Thursday night gong-show, starting on May 27th and I was able to grab one for myself on June 3rd. Hopefully I’ll … Read more

I know it’s been a while since I updated, and that’s because I really haven’t had much to write about. The only gig I’ve done in the past 12 months was a disasterous appearance in the South Coast Comedian of the Year competition around August. I was supposed to do this much earlier in 2020, … Read more

Well this is all a bit of a bollocks, isn’t it? I was just starting to feel like I was making a bit of progress in standup and then the whole thing got shut down. I shouldn’t complain. I have a day job which, for now, seems fairly stable even under lockdown, so I don’t … Read more