The other week I did a gig at Downstairs at the King’s Head on the Thursday night. This is one the best open mic nights in London that you can do, as it usually gets a good audience, and there is an opportunity to eventually progress to weekend gigs there. I had a fairly goodContinue reading “Lift it off the page”
Category Archives: Comedy
How to win a comedy competition
Last week on Thursday, after writing a blog entry about creative rejection, I went to put myself up for the ultimate creative rejection – a comedy competition. I’m not sure why I keep entering them, but for some reason I do. I’ve done okay in a few in the past, sometimes progressing to the next round,Continue reading “How to win a comedy competition”
They just weren’t ready for you yet
Last night I sent an article, I had written a while ago and just edited, to an online women’s magazine and got an email back just a few hours later to say it hadn’t been accepted. This is the same website that I applied to work for about a year ago and was not successful,Continue reading “They just weren’t ready for you yet”
Date with a Tory
On Friday, I did my first half an hour show as part of Laugh or Cry Presents Cruel Brittania, and I invited a date. I had met this person the week before at a friend’s birthday and we had some pretty good chemistry. Mainly because, well, he’s a Tory Brexiteer and I’m a Labour Remainer.Continue reading “Date with a Tory”
How to write a comedy show
The longest set I’ve done is 20 minutes, but next week Friday the 16th of September, I am doing a half an hour work in progress at Laugh and Cry at The Lion and Unicorn Pub in Kentish Town. But how to do it? Should I treat it like long set, just doing more jokes than usual,Continue reading “How to write a comedy show”
Date at the Tate
On Saturday I was on my way to do Shaggers at Leicester Square Theatre when I got a message from a guy I’ve been talking to from Tinder asking to meet up that evening. I did initially invite him to the gig, although I’m quite glad he didn’t come now… He suggested we meet atContinue reading “Date at the Tate”
Living the Single Life
Just over three months’ ago, my boyfriend of one and a half years came over and said he wanted to break up with me. My response was ‘yeah I think that’s probably a good idea’. It hadn’t been working well for a while but we had been carrying on anyway, because it’s hard when youContinue reading “Living the Single Life”
Man Up
On Tuesday I did a gig dressed as a man in a night called Gender Bender. The line-up consisted of women playing the parts of men, with a token man on the night – Hollie Would (who regularly performs stand-up dressed as a woman). Charley Harrison, who organised and MCed the gig in a suitableContinue reading “Man Up”
Lost my Mojo
I feel like Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me. It just disappeared. Perhaps a fellow evil comedian stole it. Or perhaps I just got bored. The problem with comedy is repetition. You have to tell a joke a certain amount of times to get good at telling it, and by the time you’veContinue reading “Lost my Mojo”
Oops I Did it Again….Forgot to Press Record
Welcome to 2015, where everyone is obsessed with selfies, ‘food porn’, videos, pics from a night out; too busy trying to capture the perfect moment to upload to the internet, that they forget to enjoy their lives. But as a comedian, recording yourself or having someone take photos of you while on stage isn’t justContinue reading “Oops I Did it Again….Forgot to Press Record”
Carmen Ali aka April Fiasco 