Queens Hall
14 Nov

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A barrage of varying acts was presented to an enthusiastic – if inexperienced – crowd at the Queens Hall on Saturday, all in the name of a good cause, with proceeds going to the Centre for Health and Wellbeing.
Across three sections, the audience were subjected to ten acts of every style.

Kicking of the night with a set which clearly resonated with the parents in the crowd, compere Jojo Sutherland held court on family life and motherhood, making the audience squirm with her descriptions of everything from infidelity to the discovery and subsequent regifting of a sixteen year old’s pornography stash.

While opener John Gavin suffered from a lack of originality (not helped that his material on parenting mirrored Sutherland’s), circuit favourites Tiernan Douieb, who delighted with a taboo-busting piece on his own diabetes, and the ineffable Patrick Monahan, whose gift for audience banter is among the best in the business, ensured that the audience remained enthused.

In the second part of proceedings, the traditionally wry observations on Scottish life by native stalwarts Kieran McAlister and Graham Thomas contrasted sharply with the downright confusing set of veteran Charlie Chuck. Wandering out on stage and beginning with a speech on pastry purchasing that was repeated some five times, Chuck appeared to be set on getting himself booed off stage. Overrunning his allotted time by a significant margin, even observing to the audience that he couldn’t understand what the flashing light at the back of the theatre meant, any amusing parts of his set were quickly replaced by a distinct sense of befuddlement, amplified by the presence of a significant part of the crowd who confessed to never having seen a comedy night before.

Striding onto stage armed with the recently published list of BNP members, The Stand’s resident compere Rick Molland ensured that we received a politically charged end to proceedings.  While we may laughed harder at certain parts of Saturday’s show than at others, we could be certain of two things: that all was for a good cause, and where we may obtain the address of Nicholas “Handbag theft is worse than rape” Erikssen.
 

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