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Posted 17 November 2008
I was at a comedy club in Crouch End last week, Thursday night as is my wont at the moment. (I love ?As is my wont? ? I think it?s ye olde Englishe for,?That?s how I roll?anyways..) it was a great night , downstairs at the Kings head ? quite a lot of lairy people ?LENNY HENRY! WHAT YOU DOIN? ROUN? THESE ENDZ??, said by a skinny white guy with acne?I wanted to say ?A)working and B) Get your own culture ,dickhead..? but I was too polite. Similarly I was at training the other day and heard an Asian guy say to his mate ??Yeah, man, that?s when I started to get RENK man?? ?I?m really sorry, but that is Jamaican patois, right there ? it?s derived from Rank , as in Stank , as in Facety , as in Fiesty ?what is going on? How come everyone under a certain age is speaking in Jamaican patois? Just throwing it into the conversation. Maybe there?s been a Jamaicanisation of the UK while I was doing my degree ? I haven?t been watching a lot of TV in the last few years, but I don?t? remember Trevor Macdonald saying, ?And now the Raatid Headlines!? I?ll know for sure that Jamaicans are the alpha species when we get a Prime Minister that looks like me, standing in front of ten downing street and saying ? Yu si me? Ah ME RUN TINGS NOW!?
So I?m at this club and it?s new comedy night, and there?s some good people on ; This guy called Henry Packer (?) was good , he was the compere ? spoke in an RP accent so you might have thought
-?University educated, posh bloke? and switched off ,but no , he had comedy chops and built to a nice crescendo that drew? the work he?d done with the audience involving a Braziling trilling noise you make with your tongue and a series of wrong guesses as to what people did for a living.? Then an Aussie comic came on (Can?t remember your name, sorry) and did a blinding set about Airport security in Australia which had me on the floor. Then we had a young guy who was just starting out, but had some nice stuff about demanding his two pence change from a guy ? because of the ?principle of the thing? and then we had a grumpy looking ,chubby man who wanted to talk about his gayness , but not in a funny way.
This guy just wanted to talk about gay sex in the most graphic terms possible, on stage, in front of people ?he set out to shock, but the audience wanted to laugh. I felt for the guy ?he was obviously angry about something and wanted to communicate; unfortunately ? he wasn?t. I think this country has done well by Gay comics over the years, and I think there?s room for a dour , miserable , insult-y , graphic guy ? but this bloke was more interested in being rude than doing well crafted material.
Ah well. I tried to like him.
The set?s going pretty well- we?re cutting like crazy and there?s been some re ordering, but we?re doing ok.? Roll on Thursday ? hope my voice holds out?
Len.
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