Yes, the accolades are rolling in for Robin and the Book Club. Guardian - Comedy Awards 2005 and The Time Out Comedy Awards
This week we were entertained by, not necessarily in this order, Robin Ince, Martin White - who played some old favourites, the Backstreet Boys, Toxic by Britney, and one of his own compositions.
The Trap - who did one of my favourite skits from their Edinburgh show where they do a routine, then do it backwards and it suddenly becomes funny. Howard Read, Joanna Neary - whose jazz singer was excellent. Natalie Haynes - who decided to punish us for not sticking up for her the month before when an American comedian used his routine to attack her and her love of Diagnosis Murder. She's right we should of heckled him. Personally I thought the guy looked too scary, so didn't dare speak up. So anyway no Diagnosis Murder books this week. Gutted.
Chris Neil - did a recap on Jodie Marsh's autobiography and blog, which since Ali was there for the first time was handy, as it got her up to speed. Tim Key - doing some 'poetry,' some of which was about the Mr. Men and I seem to remember it ending rather violently with one of them dead with a spade in his head. Poor Mr. Bump. Interesting. And Peter Buckley-Hill. Josie Long.
Michael Legge - standing in for Johnny Candon, whose on his honeymoon, and one guy whose name I missed, but who I am sure will be back next month as he fit in so perfectly. Ok his opener of sticking fork handles up his nose using a hammer, did make for squeamish viewing. (Actually I didn't find it that bad. All those years of ER viewing paid off.) But it was his brilliantly read "mills and boon" style sex scene, his own work, that bought the house down. The little actions he did as he went along added to the story telling. And the game of Snap that followed as Robin read from the sexed up Highlander novel by Karen Marie Moning and we shouted at any similarities was great stuff.
Thoroughly enjoyable evening again.
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