Overview
- 8pm to 12pm, Tuesday, 10th Nov 2009
- At The Old Blue Last in London’s fashionable Shoreditch, capacity about 100.
- About 12 or so comics all from the site, many of them having never been on stage before, doing 5 minute sets
- I’ll be the compere – and when I get bored of introducing people, I’ll get Sickipedia coder Paul Curry to do this too
- Also we’ll have B3ta regulars Joel Veitch (rathergood.com) & David Stevenson (B3ta newsletter co-writer) doing 5 min sets.
- It’s free to get in and there’s a bar should you wish to drink
- The address is 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch EC2A 3ES. Nearest tube is Old Street. Linky to Google maps
- Facebook event here
The line up
Justincider – “I live in Plumstead, South East London. Married/divorced 3 times. Been on the site for two and a half years. I’ve been writing my own stuff for about 18 months.”
Aspen – “I make up all my own jokes and I started adding them to Sicki over a year ago. I was pleasantly surprised to find that people quite like my efforts, and I soon had the bug. As I watched my jokes spreading over the internet and popping up in magazines like Zoo, I decided to turn my attention to thinking of my joke-writing as a means to earn income. So far this is progressing well (Two of my jokes are in Reader’s Digest this month) and my joke-writing has progressed from being a bug to an obsession.”
Joel Veitch – “My wife has been suggesting I should do something like this, so YES!”
Mushy Bees – Mushy is promising us some poetry. He’s a very glamorous transvestite and we’re hoping he’s buying a sparkly new dress for the occasion.
Tricyclic Looper – “I suppose ‘lawyer’ would be as descriptive a description as I’d be comfortable with – I guess as long as my real name doesn’t get out it would be okay.”
Jethro-gdc – “I am Kenyan – not your typical black man in London and I’m happy to take the piss.”
David Stevenson – Newsletter co-writer Dave is probably in part why this event is happening. He’s been taking himself off to open mic nights recently and his reports back have made me more interested in live comedy.
Richard Tyrone Jones – “I’m 29, I live in Archway, and I’m a spoken word promoter and marriage counsellor. I don’t really want to reveal any more as it might spoil it.”
Wylis – “29, Leeds but am Cumbrian and proud. Been on a few tv quiz shows including University Challenge and Eggheads.”
Michael Areola, “I’m known throughout comedy clubs in Manchester for my very graphic content.”
Les, “It’s rare that I get a chance to get onstage and do my songs about chavs and paedophiles without having to be escorted out of the venue by a member of security.”
David Webb, “I do a bit of stand up and recently went for an audition for a new BBC3 show – was all going well – got down to the final 3 till I busted out a couple of Ian Huntley jokes.”
Rob Bull, “I work in the City as a recruitment consultant, was the first person out of everyone I know to discover Sickipedia.”
Mike Coates, “I’m 22 and am an IT Project Manager. I like drinking and watching football. My approach to work is don’t work hard, work smart. It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow.”
Dale Smith, “I’m 28 and work doing Customer Relations for a TV company. My friends have always said I should try try my hand at doing stand up. I know that if i was to perform, there’d be a few people desperate to be there but I’d be more comfortable trying it in a room full of strangers (Stuart Lubbock’s last words too I think).”
Ian Parsonson – “I’m 28, live in London and I’m a Flash developer. I did stand up only once before at a school talent thing when i was 17 and told a joke that made everyone think I was gay. Ive been planning to have another go for years so I’m looking forward to another chance to embarrass myself.”
Fles – one of the mods on Sickipedia, “Has anyone prepared a placard so that some jokes can be censored by ‘This joke cannot be told due to copyright infringement’? It seems a few of my colleagues will be attending purely in order to heckle me.”
In more detail
Had an email from a guy called Russ Tannen who works as the ents manager for the Old Blue Last pub in Shoreditch. He mentioned that he was a fan of Sickipedia and asked if we fancied putting on a comedy night?
My first reaction was “God no, I didn’t start this stupid website to put on comedy nights in Shoreditch” but then thinking about it a bit I figured that it would be really interesting to stick the jokers from the site on stage and see what happens. Will people who can craft a gag on a web page be able to get on stage? Will some of the jokes be even tell-able without everyone feeling embarrassed and awkward?
So I stuck a message on the Sickipedia forums and asked people to get in touch. What’s going to happen? God knows but I’m looking forward to it.
