It was certainly an action packed evening at Black Bo’s Comedy Club last night. It would probably best be described as “like a bad night in Baghdad”.
It was a shame because most of the audience were totally up for the comedy and really enjoying the evening…
However there were a few twats who just wouldn’t shut upall night.
At one point there was something of an uprising as a few of the audience who were wanting to listen to the comedy starting having a pop at the idiots, and it all kicked off.
There did seem a genuine possibility that it all might explode in a flurry of violence, but thankfully this didn’t come to pass.
Things came to a head during Viv Gee’s headline set…It was such a shame really, as most people there were very much enjoying performance and were desperate for her to be allowed to perform without interruption.
At the start of the evening there were a couple of low-level gits (characterised by chatting between themselves at length while the acts were on, and getting up in the middle of sets to go for a fag).
After I admonished one of them gently for talking all through a comic’s set, a couple of high-level gits got involved and got fairly aggressive and threatening with yours truly…
It was slightly unnerving that one of the aggressors had a bottle of HP sauce in his pocket. I sensed that this had the potential to be a highly effective improvised weapon.
It would have been vaguely ironic for me to be beaten to death by a HP sauce carrying thug, as HP Sauce is one of my most favouritest things ever.
They just got progressively got more and more vocal and annoying as Viv’s set went on, and sadly she had to cut it short as it just became farcical trying to compete with the dickheads.
After the show finished, the heated arguments continued…
The comic contingent eventually decided to head to Bannerman’s for a respite pint.
Of course, having a night like this represents an inherent danger in having a free gig in a bar.
It does make you question whether it is worth the grief.
You can still get incidents like this in pay-to-get-in comedy clubs, but it’s a little less likely as the audience have at least all made some financial commitment to the evening.
Ah well, at least my new “linesman” joke got a big laugh.
It’s funny how new words just appear out of the ether.
I don’t think I’ve previously heard the term “mis-spoke” used.
(Hillary Clinton yesterday used this term to describe the seemingly blatant lie that she came under sniper attack when she arrived for a visit in Kosovo 10 years ago ; the video suggested there was nothing going off at all)
Of course, at comedy clubs up and down the land, you know that comics will be paraphrasing their material with stuff like “I’m telling the truth here…I’m definitely not mis-spoking…no siree…!”
The same thing happened when someone once said at an inquiry they they weren’t telling lies, they were merely being “economical with the truth”.
An expression still widely used in a jokey sarcastic way.
And since John Reid said that the Home Office was not “fit for purpose”…that’s become the hip way to say that something is basically a load of old shite.
I prefer calling things a load of old shite to be honest.
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