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Belinda Blanchard. The Tunnel Club. 20/07/1986.
"I can’t remember how I first came across The Tunnel Club – probably through Roland Muldoon. It was only a short motorcycle ride away for me but not easy to get to otherwise, yet was usually full.
I had some of my best and worst gigs there. I could never understand why Malcolm wanted me on the bill, I always felt like the odd one out, the least talented, yet I did that club about 10 times all in all so I must have been doing something right even if I was only there to make the other acts look good. Sometimes I died on my arse other times I stormed it.
When you stormed the Tunnel Club, you’d stormed the best place to be, the important thing was to not be pretentious or take it seriously.
I was getting some acting work at the same time, and also started college, and after about seven years the whole scene was changing when Friday Night Live started on telly. I just got tired of the sexism and wasn’t emotionally strong enough at the time, nor ambitious enough, to aim my act at the new Channel Four producers at the back of the pub rooms in Islington.
I was doing more comic poems and was not a gag merchant and was never going to get that sort of show. Once a reviewer said I was a cross between Victoria Wood and an oversexed Pam Ayres which was about right. And my proudest moment at the Tunnel Club was one night when I stormed it, and I was followed on by Jerry Sadowitz who I absolutely adored, and he told everyone I was the funniest woman in London. Later, I came third under a different name in a London wide alternative Saturday Night Live competition, that Keith Allen ran (Les Bubb was the winner). Keith didn’t want anyone from the regular circuit showing up so I figured he’d never seen me anyway. When I came third he promised me I could work for him. He kept his promise. When a role in one of his films fell through, he hired me to babysit his kids Lily and Alfie Allen.
The Tunnel Club worked best because and only because of Malcolm Hardee. Most weeks would see Malcolm pissing in his beer mug, or someone else’s. But Chris Lynham was a massive favourite. And Keith Allen being Jonathan Ross’s Filofax was an act you wouldn’t have seen anywhere else. Except for all the other places he might have done it. The Swede (a Swedish bloke who did these mad dances) was a regular heckle target. So much so that on nights he wasn’t on, and a really crap act appeared, the audience would shout “Bring on the Swede!”. Another night I was in the audience with two mates, and one of them heckled Chris Lynham one Christmas Eve. Chris Lynham walked over tables and chairs to get to him and broke his elbow, but he was so drunk he didn’t realise it. Once Chris Lynham did a completely different act of jazz songs. Some bloke stood up and shouted out, “I fucking hate jazz” and he walked out. I also fucking hate jazz and love how a favourite phrase from that time comes not from an act, but from a member of the audience.
I was aware that there weren’t many women around at the time, but at the same time I just saw it as useful; I could get some gigs easier by being the token woman. But I never felt a particular affinity to the women any more than I did to some of the men although what Jo Brand was doing really affected me. I thought she was absolutely wonderful. She genuinely did not give a fuck (so it appeared) whereas I cared too much. I remember once Malcolm had come off stage having pissed in his beer mug and he had introduced me, and as I came on, he whispered “You’ll be alright!” And that night I really was. But on the occasions I wasn’t, he’d introduce the next act by saying “Oi Oi! We’ve got another poet on now” and the bottles would come flying."
©Belinda Blanchard 2015
Amogh is an upcoming stand up comedian. He has been performing regularly for a year at Amateur Stand Up gigs and has been a regular at the comedy store since a few months.
He is a writer at Weirdass comedy is known for getting beaten up by Tanmay.
His standard joke is the stand up joke of his girlfriend telling him that he does stand up all the time. ( OH HAI )
Amoghambo.
PS- Mogh means love in Konkani. ( OH HAI )
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Headlined at The Comic Strip 2007...All 3 Friday movies, Wayan's Brothers TV Show, Boomerang, Little Nicky, The Boondocks & a hundred more projects.
Street Performer stood in the highstreet at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012.
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Headlined at The Comic Strip 2007...Iago from Disney's Alladin, The Aristocrats, Problem Child, Family Guy, Saturday Night Live.
Thomas Smith probeert even wat nieuw materiaal uit. Volgend jaar dik in orde belooft hij. Maar toch even snel wat schrappen.
Sorry ... not funny. Maybe, just an itsy bitsy tiny little bit. But not good enough. Then again, he was still drunk from a familydinner earlier that day ... can explain many things. Let's see next time.
from video taken at a Stand Up Comedy "heat"
(not far from the Buckingham Pallace in London)
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"We women have a huge advantage against men: we do not have to shave! True? Yes, till we get 50." - But then...
Convidados pelo comediante Diego Castro (foto), outros sete humoristas de Ponta Grossa, Tibagi, Castro, Curitiba e Araucária levaram ao público o 1º Festival Humor Mix - Comédia S/A. O stand up comedy (modalidade humorística em que o ator sobe ao palco sem personagem e conta suas experiências cotidianas) predominou durante as duas horas de apresentação no auditório B do Cine Teatro Ópera. Cerca de 120 pessoas assistiram à apresentação, que conseguiu 'esquentar' a plateia, indo de piadas escatológicas, de sexo, gênero e outras, trazendo principalmente identificações locais, como o time do Operário, a loja Keima, a casa noturna Magic e vários bairros ponta-grossenses.
Foto: Eduardo Godoy