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Dead Cat Bounce
Deborah Frances White
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Deirdre O'Kane
Del Strain
Delete The Banjax
Demetri Martin
Demitris Deech
Denis Norden
Dermot Carmody
Dermot McMorrow
Dermot Whelan
Des Bishop
Des Clarke
Des McLean
Des Sharples
Diane Morgan
Diane Spencer
Dick Gregory
Doc Brown
Doktor CocaColaMcDonalds
Dom Carroll
Dom Irrera
Dom Joly
Dominic Cross
Dominic Elliot Spencer
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Dominic Holland
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Don Biswas
Don Dube
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Donna McPhail
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Dr Brown
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| Theatre: 2005: Appeared in the Edinburgh production of The Odd Couple The Odd Couple |
| Theatre: 2004: Appeared in the Edniburgh and West End productions of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest |
| Theatre: 2003: Appeared in 12 Angry Men at Edinburgh Fringe 12 Angry Men |
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![]() You know you’ve got a strong bill when Sean Lock’s on – and not even headlining… and so it is with the penultimate night of the Ealing Comedy Festival, with a couple of real treats in the line-up. We start, though, rather more modestly. Compering, Dave Johns does a reasonable job of getting the audience’s attention – as well you might hope after 21 years in the business – exploiting the north-south divide with plenty of jokes comparing this well-to-do West London suburb and his native Newcastle. However, other bits of his once-topical material are showing their age, rather like watching re-runs on the digital channel that bears his name. Jokes about Michael Jackson and Gary Glitter, the trapped Chilean miners and – bafflingly – one particular interview Daniel Craig did on taking up the role of James Bond in around 2005. He’s jaunty enough to put the tent in a good mood, though, and his banter is quick-witted. Mark Maier’s gentle observational shtick is a little lost in the big space. Much of his routine is on the level of a quietly amusing conversation about his family life, and the big stage demands more fireworks, or at least stronger punchlines, than this. His entertaining closing section, about having to undergo a speed awareness course, ups the ante as accelerates his writing to match the subject matter – which finally raises the level above the inconsequential. Steve Best, on the other hand, doesn’t hold back. Whether the question was asked or not, he is the 21st Century’s answer to Russ Abbott – a balding middle-aged man who leaves his dignity in the dressing room to embark on a daft, prop-heavy whirlwind of groanworthy ‘dad gags’. None are particularly good, and his verbal ‘no I didn’t/yes I did’ flip-flopping can grate before too long, but the devil-may-care energy he invests in this nonsense is infectious, and he easily gets the sold-out marquee chuckling at his oddball exploits. You probably wouldn’t want to live with this gag-a-second livewire, but 15 minutes or so a blast. After the first interval, the superlative Sean Lock. He looks deceptively normal in his sharp grey suit – but his genius is in taking universal observational comedy and giving it an inspired twist of surreal logic to take the audience into strange new realms. That anchor in the real world, however tenuous, means that even when he gets extremely fanciful – such as in his fantastic routine imagining Madonna as a terrifying, robot sexual predator – the bizarreness seems strangely credible. It’s impossible to find fault in a set that’s so imaginative, witty and smartly written – not to mention delivered with a sort of distracted insouciance that all this weirdness is perfectly reasonable conjecture. Only one man could continue in this vein, and that’s eccentric headliner Milton Jones, here with an almost entirely brand new collection of obtuse one-liners. His set threatened to be derailed by the one idiot among 999 decent punters, barking out his own semi-coherent punchlines that he must, in his own head, have thought smarter than Jones’s beautifully-crafted work. But the Mock The Week regular is more than skilled enough to deal with such an irritant without fully breaking his detached persona – ‘I’ll deal with this one,’ he says calmly when the rest of the crowd turn on the heckler – and we have more respect for him for doing as he promised. Then back to those demented, quick gags that we love. |
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Friday 19th November 2010 Glee Club Birmingham. Top performance, very laid back delivery, cracking stories highly engaging. Brilliant comedian, nice one fella Lee Wickstead, November 2010 |
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Cracking set in High Wycombe last night. Got very surreal with the hecklers, but very well handled. Paul Roff, November 2010 |
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Ghastly. A poor excuse for a comedian. northern doesn't mean 'boorish'. Riera, May 2010 |
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Witout a doubt one of the funniest people on this planet. Paul Sinha, November 2009 |
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The funniest most witty comic I have seen in a very long time... Paul Jacobs, August 2009 |
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Don't talk rubbish, the last two comments on this page are from idiot's... I have seen Dave at the Comedy Store in London three or four times and he is one of the champions of stand up comedy. He is sublime, a genuinely great comic. Inventive and hilarious. and if you don't see that, you are dead. Jay, November 2008 |
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Rubbish. My Nan is funnier. Birmingham set was literally the worst minutes of my comedy-watching life. I felt suicidal near the end. Peter Jackson, September 2008 |
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A disappointing headliner with little material, he proceeded to flirt with women sat near the front and apologised for a set that fell flat in Birmingham last night. Rich, May 2008 |
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Where can I see Dave Johns next?
| 00:00~00:00 - Thursday 23rd May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Manchester Frog And Bucket |
| Prices: | £9 (£6 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Mick Ferry, Ray Bradshaw, Steve Royle |
| Info: | Plus Kiri Pritchard-Mclean |
| 20:00 - Thursday 23rd May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Manchester Frog And Bucket |
| Prices: | £9 (£6 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Ray Bradshaw, Steve Royle, Mick Ferry (MC) |
| Info: | Plus: Kiri Pritchard-Mclean |
| 20:00 - Thursday 23rd May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Manchester Frog And Bucket |
| Prices: | £16 (£8 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Phil Ellis, Steve Royle, Mick Ferry (MC) |
| 20:00 - Friday 24th May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Preston Frog & Bucket |
| Prices: | £13 (£7 concs) |
| Comics: | Chris Stokes, Dave Johns, Paul Tonkinson, Andrew Ryan (MC) |
| 20:00 - Friday 24th May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Manchester Frog And Bucket |
| Prices: | £17 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Phil Ellis, Steve Royle, Mick Ferry (MC) |
| 20:00 - Saturday 25th May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Preston Frog & Bucket |
| Prices: | £15 (£8 concs) |
| Comics: | Chris Stokes, Dave Johns, Paul Tonkinson, Andrew Ryan (MC) |
| 20:00 - Saturday 25th May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Manchester Frog And Bucket |
| Prices: | £17 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Phil Ellis, Steve Royle, Mick Ferry (MC) |
| 20:00 - Thursday 30th May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £18 (£13 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Hal Cruttenden, Josh Howie, Stuart Goldsmith |
| 19:30 - Friday 31st May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £20 |
| Comics: | Carl Donnelly, Ian Stone, Josh Howie, Markus Birdman, Dave Johns (MC) |
| 19:00 - Friday 31st May, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £15 (£10 concs) |
| Comics: | Carl Donnelly, Ian Stone, Josh Howie, Markus Birdman, Dave Johns (MC) |
| 23:00 - Saturday 1st Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £18 (£13 concs) |
| Comics: | Carl Donnelly, Hal Cruttenden, Josh Howie, Markus Birdman, Dave Johns (MC) |
| 19:30 - Saturday 1st Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £22.50 |
| Comics: | Carl Donnelly, Hal Cruttenden, Josh Howie, Markus Birdman, Dave Johns (MC) |
| 20:00 - Wednesday 12th Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Store |
| Prices: | £17 (£12 conc) |
| Info: | With Phill Jupitus, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson, Suki Webster, Dave Johns, Pippa Evans |
| Show: | The Comedy Store Players |
| 20:00 - Friday 14th Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Carnival Leicester Square |
| Prices: | From £12 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Ian Stone, Pete Jonas |
| Info: | Plus: Bryan Lacey |
| 20:00 - Saturday 15th Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Comedy Carnival Clapham Grand |
| Prices: | From £14 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Pete Jonas |
| 20:00 - Saturday 29th Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Nottingham Just the Tonic |
| Prices: | £10 (£6 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Jim Smallman, Rob Rouse |
| Info: | Plus: John Hastings |
Recommended| 20:30~22:30 - Friday 5th Jul, '13 | |
| Venue: | Electric Mouse Palmers Green |
| Prices: | £12 (£9 advance) |
| Comics: | Adam Bloom, Carey Marx, Dave Johns, Gary Colman (MC) |
| 21:00 - Friday 30th Aug, '13 | |
| Venue: | Birmingham Jongleurs |
| Prices: | From £12 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Mandy Knight |
| Info: | Plus: Jonny Awsum |
| 21:00 - Saturday 31st Aug, '13 | |
| Venue: | Birmingham Jongleurs |
| Prices: | From £12 |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Mandy Knight |
| Info: | Plus: Jonny Awsum |
| 20:00 - Friday 25th Oct, '13 | |
| Venue: | Leicester Just The Tonic |
| Prices: | £9 (£6.50 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Eric Lampaert, Paul McCaffrey |
| Info: | Plus: Darrell Martin |
| 20:00 - Saturday 26th Oct, '13 | |
| Venue: | Leicester Just The Tonic |
| Prices: | £12.50 (£8 concs) |
| Comics: | Dave Johns, Eric Lampaert, Paul McCaffrey |
| Info: | Plus: Darrell Martin |

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