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Radio: 2003:
The House Of Milton Jones, Radio 4 series
 
Stand Up: 2004:
Edinburgh Show: A Rough Guide to Milton Jones
A Rough Guide to Milton Jones
Stand Up: 2003:
Time Out comedy award winner for best performance
Stand Up: 1997:
Nominated for the Perrier.
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Stand Up: 1996:
Winner of Perrier best newcomer award
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Milton's Paradise Jones at the Brighton Comedy Festival
Live Review
Brighton Dome

Milton's Paradise Jones at the Brighton Comedy Festival

Milton Jones is one show in which I can abandon my reviewers’ notebook and pen. Not just because it can be a barrier to simply sitting back and enjoying the top-drawer material, but what on earth can I write? He did an daft joke that seems silly, but is actually highly inventive. Then another. Then another. Then another.

For that’s all you get with this gifted one-line merchant. In Milton’s Paradise Jones, he’s tried to dress it up a bit for the sake of theatre, but it’s really just daft gags all the way.

Talking of dressing up, that’s how he starts. In cloth cap and reflective waistcoat (it’s for a joke, obviously), he appears as his grandfather – one of many, given that ‘my other grandfather…’ has become something of an unlikely catchphrase.

Not that it’s much of a character, just a way of delivering some typically leftfield punchlines in a slightly wobblier timbre, and an excuse to wheel on a tartan shopping trolley that contains some of Jones’s props.

Yes, prop comedy. In this day and age. But in these capable hands, a box of detergent becomes a beautiful visual pun with not a hint of the desperation that once did for the whole genre. That’s how good he is.

The ‘character’ is soon discarded, and Jones, in vivid orange floral shirt, continues to yomp through the wonderfully deranged gags. Many involve wordplay, of course, but they also play with ideas, the subtle twisting of meanings and intent ensuring these are rarely mere puns. As evidence, the beginning of his flipchart-based routine gets laughs without words at all.

Another set piece involves a phoney slide show of his supposed round-the-world trip, which imposes a structure of sorts on all the airport and geography jokes Jones has in his sizeable repertoire.

To add a touch of fluidity to the otherwise rigid gag-gag-gag pattern, Jones isn’t afraid to banter with the audience, either, using some of the standard ‘what’s your name/job?’ questions to springboard into gags. Yet he also sets up running jokes with ome punters to add an air of spontaneity to the night. The Brighton audience prove remarkably frisky, but he parries their spirited backchat with verve – which isn’t always the strong suit of master joke craftsmen like him. Precision-engineered one-liners and audience rapport is a rare, but deadly, combination.

A small handful of the more easily memorised jokes will no doubt be cracked around watercoolers the morning after any Milton Jones gig; but there are far more wonderful gags here than you could ever hope to remember, so just relax and admire the dedicated workmanship that’s gone into them.

Date of live review: Saturday 17th Oct, '09
Review by Steve Bennett
Milton Jones: Caught In A Rabbit's Headlights
Milton Jones: Caught In A Rabbit's Headlights

Show - Tour - Friday 28th Sep, '07 -
Milton Jones : Original Review
Milton Jones : Original Review

Thursday 1st Feb, '07 -
Malcolm Hardee Charity Cabaret 2007
Malcolm Hardee Charity Cabaret 2007

Show - Misc live shows - Sunday 28th Jan, '07 -
BBC Comedy Presents... September 2008
BBC Comedy Presents... September 2008

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Saw him tonight at the Wycombe Town Hall, absolutely brilliant, I was in stitches. He is so underrated it hurts.

Ian, November 2009


Brilliant. Not much more to say about this guy.

Rhys Nicklin, September 2009


The Almighty God Of Pun!

Jonavon, September 2009


Saw Milton Jones at a under-18s night in Ipswich at Halloween was absolutely brilliant. He hardly had to say anything to make everyone laugh. I couldnt understand why its hilarious when he starts a joke "a friend of mine died yesterday" or something equally serious but you cant help laughing. The crowd didnt want him to leave at the end! If he doesn't become a huge star in the next few years it will be a crime... 10/10!

Matt Tasker, November 2008


Oh My God! We saw Milton last night as part of the BBC Presents tour at the Liverpool Comedy Festival and he totally usurped Richard Herring, who was headlining. What an array of one-liners! I was waiting for the standard to drop, but gladly it never happened. Poor old Mr Herring could not step up to the plate afterwards and ended his set being heckled, duly laying the blame at the feet of the one and only Milton Jones for being so damn good! Take a bow Sir, and get back to Liverpool in the nearest future!

Darren & Carla Smith, Liverpool 2009, June 2008


Wonderful. Headlined for me in Basingstoke recently at short notice. Audience loved him so much no one wanted to go home - even the guy in the front row who 'out-weirded' him. Thanks, Milton

Nessie Flange, February 2008


Watching Milton is like watching atoms collide. Atom one comes along (the setup) and gets hit at great speed - but with perfect comic timing - by Atom 2 (a brilliant punchline you weren't expecting!). Genius.

Mark, October 2007


Awesome

BCF, May 2007


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Where can I see Milton Jones next?

Where can I see Milton Jones next?

21:00 - Saturday 20th Mar, '10
Venue: Banana Cabaret
Prices: £16 (£13 concs)
Comics: John Mann, John Robins, Michael Smiley, Milton Jones
Show starts: 21:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:00~22:00 - Saturday 20th Mar, '10
Venue: Cafe de Paris
Prices: £35
Comics: Milton Jones
Info: Wam Bam Club with Cabaret Rouge, Cirque de la Rouge, Milton Jones, Kitty Bang Bang, Mr B the Gentlemen Rhymer, Oh Signorina, Lady Alex
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:00 - Sunday 21st Mar, '10
Venue: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Prices: £10 and £15
Comics: Chris Cox, Holly Walsh, Lee Nelson, Milton Jones
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:45 - Thursday 25th Mar, '10
Venue: Hideaway Streatham
Prices: £8
Comics: Milton Jones, Sean Meo, Meryl O'Rourke (MC)
Show starts: 20:45 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:30 - Friday 26th Mar, '10
Venue: Trailfinders Sports Club
Prices: £12
Comics: Henning Wehn, John Fothergill, Milton Jones
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:30 - Friday 26th Mar, '10
Venue: 99 Club Leicester Square
Prices: £20 (2-for-1 with this listing)
Comics: Milton Jones, Pippa Evans, Will Smith, Mowten (MC)
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
19:30 - Saturday 27th Mar, '10
Venue: Chuckle Club
Prices: £12
Comics: Adam Bloom, Edward Aczel, Milton Jones, Eugene Cheese (MC)
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:30 - Saturday 27th Mar, '10
Venue: Amused Moose Soho
Prices: £9 + £1 membership
Comics: Lee Nelson, Mark Dolan, Matt Rudge, Milton Jones, Stephen Carlin
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
20:00 - Friday 2nd Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Carnival West End
Prices: £12
Comics: Jarred Christmas, Lee Nelson, Milton Jones, Simon Brodkin, Chris Martin (MC)
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
21:00 - Thursday 8th Apr, '10
Venue: Roar With Laughter Colliers Wood
Prices: £8 (£7 concs)
Comics: Imran Yusuf, Magnus Betner, Milton Jones, Rachel Anderson
Show starts: 21:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
20:00 - Saturday 10th Apr, '10
Venue: Crack Comedy Club Soho
Prices: £14 (£13 advance, £8 concs)
Comics: Jack Whitehall, Matt Kirshen, Milton Jones, Erich McElroy (MC)
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:30 - Saturday 10th Apr, '10
Venue: Amused Moose Soho
Prices: £9 + £1 membership
Comics: Holly Walsh, Junior Simpson, Mark Dolan, Milton Jones
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:00 - Thursday 22nd Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Store
Prices: £18
Comics: Ben Norris, Milton Jones, Pete Johansson, Roger Monkhouse
Info: Plus Philberto
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
00:00 - Friday 23rd Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Store
Prices: £18
Comics: Milton Jones, Pete Johansson, Roger Monkhouse, Ben Norris (MC)
Show starts: 00:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:00 - Friday 23rd Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Store
Prices: £20
Comics: Ben Norris, Milton Jones, Pete Johansson, Roger Monkhouse
Info: Plus Philberto
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
00:00 - Saturday 24th Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Store
Prices: £18
Comics: Ben Norris, Milton Jones, Pete Johansson, Roger Monkhouse
Info: Plus Philberto
Show starts: 00:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
20:00 - Saturday 24th Apr, '10
Venue: Comedy Store
Prices: £20
Comics: Ben Norris, Milton Jones, Pete Johansson, Roger Monkhouse
Info: Plus Philberto
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
21:40 - Friday 30th Apr, '10
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Prices: Adult - £14.00
Comics: Lloyd Langford, Milton Jones
Show starts: 21:40 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
23:30~03:00 - Friday 30th Apr, '10
Venue: Everyman Screen on the Green
Prices: £9 to £16
Comics: Milton Jones, Drew Barr (MC)
Info: Comic Strip Live. Plus Gavin Osborn, The Noise Next Door and music from Tankus The Henge
Show starts: 23:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
21:40 - Saturday 1st May, '10
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Prices: Adult - £15.00
Comics: Lloyd Langford, Milton Jones, Owen O'Neill
Show starts: 21:40 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Recommended
19:00~20:00 - Friday 14th May, '10
Venue: Udderbelly South Bank
Prices: £15 (£13 concs)
Comics: Milton Jones
Show starts: 19:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
21:00 - Saturday 15th May, '10
Venue: Hampstead Comedy Club
Prices: £9.50 (£8 concs)
Comics: Ben Norris, Milton Jones, Paul Ricketts, Rachel Anderson, Ivor Dembina (MC)
Show starts: 21:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
19:30 - Wednesday 19th May, '10
Venue: Metra Nightclub
Prices: Call for prices
Comics: Milton Jones, Paul Kerensa
Info: Pentecost Festival. Christian comedy festival, also with Paul Savage
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)