Your turn, Exceedingly Handsome Funny Man!
So, it was Danny Bhoy's turn today, and I was quite looking forward to it. He's always been very amusing when I've seen him non-live, and of course it doesn't hurt that he's unnecessarily good-looking as well.
The show started with a fabulous bagpipe gag, the only real visual effect of the evening. It was actually quite fascinating to compare the more produced and tech-savvy Little Britain performance to the Danny Bhoy straight-up 'man on stage' set-up.
Not being a cricket enthusiast some of the material just didn't click with my interests (and certainly me being about to marry an Englishman I see it as my wifely duty to stoically ignore any mention of the Ashes), and oddly enough I don't burst with national pride at the mention of Aussies as exceptional drinkers, but the show was still very good, and a lot of it broke through the "fantastic" barrier, which Little Britain really only did once (when improvisation took over the paint shop sketch). I will never watch Question Time with the same apathy again.
...Who am I kidding, as if I watch Question Time anyway!
The only problem was the show felt quite short - probably not so when you're just on your own talking on stage for an hour, but I could have done with a few more non-cricket jokes at the end.
Random audience observations:
Simone, Sarah, Nik and guy-who-took-over-epee-et-al-but-whose-name-I-can't-remember, we saw you.
And the two guys in Children of Bodom shirts, I saw you, too. Are you Finnish or just morose for the fun of it?
Heckler Guy: if you're going to heckle, maybe think of something else to say than just "tell us an Aussie joke", when the poor man's been doing them for an hour already.