THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | DECEMBER 2010
NIGHTS OUT Funny
Camden Rock Fridays – Every Friday Highlight Comedy Club and Club NME @ Koko 11 East Yard, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AB. (Ticket price: £12)
Monkey Business Comedy Club - 26th Dec Henry Ginsberg + Laura London + Fin Carew + Lawrence Boal – 8.45pm. 97 Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, London NW3 4RL (£10.50 Adults, £8.50 Concessions)
Pear Shaped Comedy Club London – Every Wednesday @ The Fitzroy Tavern.
16a Charlotte Street, London W1T 2LY. (Adults £5, Concessions £4)
London’s Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2010 @ Leicester Square Theatre – Finals – 12th December. Covent Garden, 5 Leicester Place, Holborn, WC2H 7BP. (Tickets from £6)
Pirate Night at Ahoy There Comedy @ The Old Ship W6 – Stuart Black + Jessica Fostekew + Tyson Boyce + Paul Duncan McGarrity + Bobby Carroll – 15th December, 8pm. 25 Upper Mall, London W6 9TD. (Adults £6, Concessions £3)
ABSOLUTELY FREE COMEDY NIGHT @ The Queen’s Head – 1st December – 29th December, 8pm. The Queen’s Head, 15 Denman Street, W1D 7HN. (FREE)
Jim Jefferies ‘ALCOHOLOCAUST’ @ Leicester Square Theatre – 16th December – 23rd December, 9.45pm. 6 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BX. (Tickets £15 - £20)
Comedy Night Christmas Special @ Scream Lounge – 29th December, 8pm.
20 Southend, Croydon, London CR0 1DN. (FREE)
The Bowery Comedy Bin @ The Bowery – 27th December, 8pm. 36 – 39 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1EP. (FREE)
Big Night Out Comedy Club @ Kingsway Hall – 24th December, 7.45pm. 66 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5BX. (Tickets from £9.99)
The Comedy Store Players @ The Comedy Store – 29th December, 8pm. 1a Oxendon Street, Piccadilly, London SW1Y 4EE. (Tickets £17)
TIME OUT’S CHRISTMAS CRACKER LIVE Monday 6th December - Featuring Stephen K Amos, Milton Jones, Rufus Hound, Tim Key, Seann Walsh & hosted by Jarred Christmas - 7.30pm London’s Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 7ES Ticket prices: £20 / £15
www.timeout.com/live
How would you describe yourself to someone who hadn’t heard of you? About me as a person? Moody. I’m a moody guy. But as a stand-up I personally prefer myself as a storyteller, but I think most people would say I was a smut-peddler.
How old were you during your first ever show, and how did it go? I did two performances when I was 17 and then I didn’t do it again until I was 23. The first one went very well. The second show I ever did went so badly. You know, I was a kid. And I looked like a kid – I didn’t look like a man telling jokes.
When you say it went bad, do you mean heckling, booing or silence? Someone said ‘Go back to school’, which sounds so innocuous and like such a noth- ing type of statement but it really cut into me that I wasn’t ready to do it. I know a lot of acts like Daniel Kitson or Ross Noble started when – I think they were 14 or something like that so I know people can start that young but it wasn’t for me though.
Being that which defines us most in out upbringing – who was your favou- rite superhero?
At this point there was some heavy (albeit fairly one-sided) conversation about super heroes that – while entertaining and infor- mative – was sadly too much to fit into this article. Check out the
www.guestlist.net in- terviews page to watch the video interview.
Apart from the infamous occasion in Manchester, have you had much trouble with audience members? If there was one joke that was universal for making people want to punch you in the head, then I wouldn’t tell it. But it’s a dif- ferent joke for each person. That’s why it’s easy to do a joke about AIDS but not easy to do a joke about cancer. Because every- body knows someone who died of cancer. The only difference between that [the Manchester] night and any other night was that that guy didn’t signpost he was going to hit me. Usually they’ll stand up and shout or something and then you can get ready. But if you just run up and hit you can punch anybody. It’s the whole reason JFK didn’t duck. If he knew what was gonna happen…
How would you say Nationalities dif- fer as audiences?
I think funny’s funny across the world. I personally don’t have to vary my jokes from country to country. Religious material doesn’t go over as well in the UK as it does in America and you’d think it would be the other way round but that’s the reason it doesn’t go over as well. Because religious material done in the UK – most British people will be like, “Yeah we all know there’s no God. We’re up with that. We’re not stupid.” But in America they’ve had god shoved down their throat so much that if they are atheist they’re usually like, “Yeah!”
Britain’s got the shit weather, which is great for stand up comedy, America’s got the population that someone’s going to show up, but in Australia people are like, “No, I’m outside drinking a beer and cooking sausages. Why would I do that?” Comedy in London just dies in the summer. We should just write off July every year. If the Sun’s out you cunts aren’t going in anywhere.
Jim Jefferies is performing in London’s Leicester Square Theatre – you can buy tickets at
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com and has a DVD out of Alcoholocaust.
JIM
COMEDY 17 JEFFERIES
Possibly the most famous bi polar australian comic - Jim Jefferies has his own HBO show in the US and has done sellout shows all over world. We caught up with him in Cambridge before a show.
Fin Carew
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