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Bob Slayer launches comedy night with Viz co-founder Simon Donald
16th October 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Since the return of classic panel show Shooting Stars, host Bob Mortimer has commented that 'comedy feels serious now.' I'm inclined to agree with him. Although extremely funny, shows such as Mock The Week do, to quote Bob, have a 'spirit of competition and cynicism' and a sense of continual one-upmanship among contestants, reminiscent of the sophisticated style of comedy my parents would chortle away the evenings to on Radio...
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Miss London, the ‘Miss Dynamite of Comedy’, wins Funny Women Final 2009
23rd September 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Satirical impressionist, and host of the Funny Women 2009 finals, Jan Ravens, wryly remarked at the start of the evening: “It’s not a competition of course, we don’t like to be competitive do we girls, competitive in a cooperative way perhaps…” No, of course we don’t, unless we’re enjoying a hearty, harmless game of lacrosse or netball, but to send up yet another stereotype of women, if this year’s finals...
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A stellar mix of comediennes to perform at the 2009 Funny Women Final
18th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It can't have been easy to select from the plethora of comedy talent that the Funny Women competition attracted this year, but after two of the strongest semi-finals in the seven year history of the competition, the 12 finalists have been announced who will go through to the final at the world-famous Comedy Store on September 21st.
The Awards has seen a far more diverse mix of performances this year with... -
Bank holiday celebrations at Notting Hill Carnival and The Jazz Club
1st September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Despite the fact the Notting Hill Carnival has become one of the most internationally celebrated festivals since it began in 1964, I've never actually been as people's responses to it have often been more dismissive than jubilant, with people complaining of being commandeered along the streets by policemen on horses while nearly passing out owing to a claustrophobic meltdown. And the pick-pocketers.. world class I always hear, the finest you'll...
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Laughing Cows Comedy Night ushers in Laughing Calves
10th August 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
"Funnily enough", if you type 'Funny Women' into a search engine, you'll find more material debating whether women can actually be funny or not, than a glossary of the funniest women in the world popping up. Although I realise, with that dreadful opening pun, I'm not exactly helping women's case much here either. In all seriousness though, the world of comedy is still a very male-dominated one, with Nica Burns,...
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Charlotte Browne
Charlotte hails from the Georgian city of Bath, a beautiful but at times stifling place to grow up in. Tired of seeing the same old faces every time she went out (and, equally, they were probably a bit sick of seeing hers every Friday night too) she moved to London to pursue her dream of becoming a famous script writer. This goal is yet to be achieved but to distract herself from this failure she writes the occasional article for women's magazines, plays drums to vent rage and presents an irreverant and nonsensical show on hospital radio at The Royal London Hospital, where she gets to meet some lovely patients. Probably at her happiest dancing around the kitchen to Chic with a cleared surface to work with, she loves most genres of music but particularly stuff from the '70s as she reckons it was one of the most exciting and eclectic decades for music ever
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