Four Days Behind

With all the other exciting events that have been taking place and that I've been reporting, I actually have a backlog of events from the past week to report.

The first of these should be a note on Sunday - Chrissi and I went to Teddington to see the recording of this week's show Comedy World Cup. I hadn't seen the show before - it's essentially a quiz show but about comedy - and it wasn't too bad. One of the main draws is that it was presented by David Tennant, and for Carisa's benefit, I will point out this meant that we were within 100m of him for well over two hours.

The show was quite entertaining - while I will avoid any spoilers as to who wins (oh no, the tension!) - I was surprised that Alan Carr was much funnier than I expected; Kevin Bridges was much quieter than expected, and Micky Flanagan has a superb laugh and seems to laugh at everything. Clive Anderson was also amusing - and his knowledge of Monty Python was impressive!

What was curious was the token older comedian (maybe this isn't how it works, but they had Nicholas Parsons on last week) - this week it was Stan Baldwin - and so much of his comedy seemed very dated. He was funny in parts, but made several jokes not just for shock value, but ones that just wouldn't be acceptable nowadays - or at least not funny.

Overall though it was entertaining. Will have to watch the show this Friday and see if we can see ourselves in any of the crowd shots!