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Oct. 2nd, 2007 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shark_hatArdal O'Hanlon, on Saturday, was very acceptably funny; all fairly standard stuff. He was sold out. On the Monday night, with the place half-empty, the gig was amazing. Such is life. It was a post-Edinburgh tour- Russell Kane compering, Steve Williams, Simon Brodkin, Andrew Maxwell.
Kane had a tricky job, getting some volume out of a thin crowd, and did it well- non-scary banter, bendy physical stuff. Williams was OK, not very memorable.
I'd seen Brodkin as another character, but not as Lee Nelson. Cor, thinking on your feet in character as a dim wide boy... it was impressive, scary (my No Front Row policy validated again) and very funny. The bit where he's trying to chat up a girl in the audience, when suddenly her dad piped up from the circle- oof.
My god, Andrew Maxwell's good. It was just... I don't know, I just had the feeling of watching somebody in total command and right in the zone. In complete control of the audience- confident enough to go along with funnny heckles as well as putting them down (control by asking a ton of questions is a cunning one.) His material was good but not sublime, but his total knowledge that you would laugh your head off was enough to make it true. Most I've laughed for ages.
Kane had a tricky job, getting some volume out of a thin crowd, and did it well- non-scary banter, bendy physical stuff. Williams was OK, not very memorable.
I'd seen Brodkin as another character, but not as Lee Nelson. Cor, thinking on your feet in character as a dim wide boy... it was impressive, scary (my No Front Row policy validated again) and very funny. The bit where he's trying to chat up a girl in the audience, when suddenly her dad piped up from the circle- oof.
My god, Andrew Maxwell's good. It was just... I don't know, I just had the feeling of watching somebody in total command and right in the zone. In complete control of the audience- confident enough to go along with funnny heckles as well as putting them down (control by asking a ton of questions is a cunning one.) His material was good but not sublime, but his total knowledge that you would laugh your head off was enough to make it true. Most I've laughed for ages.
