Ed Aczel goes back to that very first gig, which he approached with 'complete lack of organisation and total lack respect for the comedians art'
Prior to taking his excellent Reasonable Man show to Soho Theatre this weekend, Stuart Goldsmith recalls his first ever gig.
It's Stratford-upon-Avon, 1994, and he's a teenage street performer ...
This week, Pete Firman plays the pretty-big-really Bloomsbury Theatre, but let's hear about that first ever gig in 1988.
Venue: the Firman family home. Crowd: tough, especially Uncle Denis ...
To mark Al Murray's big London show next week at Hammersmith Apollo, his new book out and a DVD, the real Al Murray spoke to London is Funny about his Pub Landlord character's debut outing (never confused).
It was back in 1994, Harry Hill was involved, and it gets a little gruesome.
He's been taking his debonair, urbane comedy songs around the circuit since 1981, but how did it all start for Earl Okin? And how the hell is Paul McCartney involved in all of this?
Ahead of his appearance at the marvellous My First Gig comedy club on Feb 10, the Hardest Working Man in Comedy (TM) Robin Ince regales the story of gig #1 back in 1990 – including his Rik Mayall obsession, tech-ing for Eddie Izzard and boozing with Jo Brand.
