Author: Nick Mould
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Southampton Film Week: Steamboat Bill Jr. with live theatre organ
The experience of the cinema is one becoming increasingly redundant in modern times. Why pay an unreasonable ticket price to sit through an hour of advertising preceding 90+ minutes of Hollywood banality – when there’s the option of remaining comfortable at home away from noisy popcorn munches with a Netflix stream of your choosing? Fortunately I was […]
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Alec Dent wins Chortle Student Comedian Competition Heat at Glen Bar
Solent University student Alec Dent won last night’s Southampton Chortle Student Comedian Competition heat held at Glen Bar in the Glen Eyre student halls of residence. Sam Jenkins-Shaw of Southampton University also performed in the heats as well as Solent students Andy Field, Sam Marrow, Kieran Murphy and Darryl Edge. Clips of all the participant’s sets can […]
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Radio 4: Richard Herring’s Objective
It is ironic that prior to the BBC iPlayer recording of the ‘Wheelchair’ episode of the second series of Radio 4’s Richard Herring’s Objective runs an advert for Life’s Too Short. For Richard Herring manages to actually achieve what Ricky Gervais claims to do — well-crafted, intelligent comedy on the subject of disability, as opposed […]
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Life’s Too Short: Fails to Reach Previous Heights
In one of the promotions for Life’s Too Short, Ricky Gervais laconically states: “Watch it. It’s like a cross between The Office and Extras.” From watching episode 1 this seems like a pretty accurate description, though that’s not to say that it’s as good as either previous sitcom. Life’s Too Short is not much more […]
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The Pajama Men: The Last Stand to Reason
A pin that gets dropped on the floor; the psychotic ghost of a teenage girl; a magician with superhuman card-shuffling abilities; and a pair of camp bandits who prance their way to escape. Above are just a few of the characters played by The Pajama Men in their live show The Last Stand to Reason, […]
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Martin Chidgey: “I Want to Be a Professional Comedian”
Comedian Martin Chidgey is somewhat of a cult figure to a select few in Southampton, but he’s gathering a few followers elsewhere and may well spread across the country. To others, he may well be the worst comedian they will ever see. Martin’s rather unorthodox approach to stand-up involves him going on stage wearing dark glasses with […]
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Chickens: Not Much to Crow About
Though I only found what I saw of The Inbetweeners moderately amusing at best, the premise of actors and writers Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet’s Channel 4 comedy showcase pilot Chickens intrigued me. Mainly because period comedy, when done right (Dad’s Army, Ripping Yarns, Blackadder) is often excellent, but the show’s set up has a […]
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Comedy Profile: Louis C.K.
Often Brits have a perception of American stand-ups as being more crude, degenerate and less sophisticated than our own comedians. While it’s hard to deny that such low brow comics exist across the Atlantic (Cars 2 star Larry the Cable Guy for one), given that the USA has a larger population and a greater amount […]
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Fishbone at Talking Heads 28.04.11
The band rapper Ice-T described as “not funk, not rock, not reggae, but some whole other shit”
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Before Rebecca Black there was…
The EDGE delve into the dustbin of vinyl history to previous misguided awful music a la Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’
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Warning: This programme by Frankie Boyle contains scenes that viewers above the age of 14 will find really boring
The last week of 2010 saw the final episode of what must surely be a condender for the bottom spot in any ranking of TV programmes of that year. Despite Frankie Boyle’s decision to refer to a pain killing drug in his first solo TV show, there is no relief to the casualty that is […]