Just after Christmas I discovered a shop called Cex; it’s a second
hand DVD shop and one I shouldn't visit very often as I could spend a lot of
money as there are bargains everywhere.
With just under 2 months to go to finish the challenge and
limited funds I thought I’d be economical and creative with how I saw some
comedians. So I took a visit to Cex and discovered they have a lot of stand-up
comedy DVD’s with prices starting at 20p! I picked out 7 comedians that I hadn’t
seen do stand-up comedy before and spent the grand total of £5.55. And to make
things even better a colleague of mine loves comedy and is going on maternity leave
in the next few weeks, so I’m going to give them to her to laugh the countdown
to her due date.
The first comedian I watched was Omid Djalili. I was aware
of him and randomly saw him in the Prince of Persia film but hadn’t seen his
stand up. I watched it in two parts and surprisingly the second half was better.
The first half was mainly about terrorists and religion and the second half he
would every so often he would say; everything up until now is shit, the show
starts now.’ Then it would get better!
The second comedian I watched over the weekend was Dara O
Briain’s, again I’d seen clips of him in Mock of the Week but hadn’t really
seen anything with him in. I don’t know whether the challenge has made me
harder to laugh as I’ve been watching a lot of comedians, but I didn’t laugh
much. The ending was funny and I was impressed with how he remembered people he
spoke to in the audience in the first few minutes, at the end of the show.
I’ll be watching the other DVD’s throughout the rest of
August, so will be interesting to see which ones tickle my funny bone.
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