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Every time a bell rings, a kitten dies
Dec. 10th, 2009 12:45 pmTuesday, we went to Lost Treasures of the Black Heart, a comedy club em-ceed by over-enthusiastic indie girl Josie Long (she likes Bis and charity shops, like it's still 1997). Josie Long is an antidote to the edgy comedy (i.e. jokes about rape) of the modern comedy scene but also counteracts the bland mainstreaming of Michael McIntyre et al. She rambles on like a less annoying Daniel Kitson and tells stories about irritating Australian buffoons who like to pretend Kate Moss once gave them £20,000 for not selling a contraversial photograph of her - this brings out the English person in everyone. The edgiest she gets is offering a swastika bag (bought in Bombay) as a prize "that you can't actually carry around".
She introduces her comedy chums - Dobby! who sings a song about dating a Knightmare fan, a Welsh geek who does science comedy about not being able to travel faster than the speed of light, and a man who works in a comic shop but is more Clarence the Angel than Jeff Albertson. After the break are Robin Ince (the poor man's Stewart Lee, although I imagine he thinks that he's actually the poor man's Bill Hicks), a Jarvis lookalike who drones on about how Dr Who like, sucks, and Quatermass was the best thing, like, ever. Finally it's Eric Axle, a man who has memorised some facts about British Prime Ministers, melons and Air Supply, and then gets people to ask him questions about said factoids. He reminds me of Dr Phlox.
Basically, it's comedy for geeks who like free cake.
She introduces her comedy chums - Dobby! who sings a song about dating a Knightmare fan, a Welsh geek who does science comedy about not being able to travel faster than the speed of light, and a man who works in a comic shop but is more Clarence the Angel than Jeff Albertson. After the break are Robin Ince (the poor man's Stewart Lee, although I imagine he thinks that he's actually the poor man's Bill Hicks), a Jarvis lookalike who drones on about how Dr Who like, sucks, and Quatermass was the best thing, like, ever. Finally it's Eric Axle, a man who has memorised some facts about British Prime Ministers, melons and Air Supply, and then gets people to ask him questions about said factoids. He reminds me of Dr Phlox.
Basically, it's comedy for geeks who like free cake.
