Monday, 29 April 2013

Support Your Local Comedy Festival

It's been the Colchester Comedy Festival - hooray - but it took me a bit too long to get into it - boo. They had a pretty good line up, but a mixture of other commitments and laziness meant that I didn't get there until Richard Herring, a few days before the end.

I went along to that there New Comedian of the Year competition - one of the heats and the final.  It was in the old bus station waiting room, which had been turned into a rather tasty little venue.  I don't remember it being half as nice when it was an actual bus station. Toilets were a bit weird, with everyone relying on a radar key tied to a walking stick; queues a plenty.

Congrats to Ben Clover, a most worthy winner, not least because he did a different set in the final to the heats. Feel I should drop mentions at Ed Hedges and maybe Mark Sidcox whose party popper joke was one of the funniest things I've heard in ages.

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