On 06/11/2010 03:25 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked > "what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy?" > and I had no clue. > > I said I hoped that someone on the list would. Will I be disappointed? > > [The definition of "London" has been clarified to be "tube accessible", ie > "not 20 miles out middle of nowhere". Is this the point where some joker > tells me that Epping isn't nowhere, it's the centre of the universe, and has > comedians second to none?]
I got out of the habit of watching live stand-up almost ten years ago. But as I walked past the Comedy Store a few weeks ago I noticed that a good two-thirds of the names on the "this week's shows" board were people who I remembered from when I was a frequent visitor to clubs. The Banana Cabaret (upstairs at the Bedford in Balham[1]) was always reckoned to be on of the best local clubs. Big names still appear there occasionally. Chortle (http://chortle.co.uk/) is a good place to find out what's going on where. Cheers, Dave... [1] It's a great club even if the walk home is more than five minutes :)
