Gittins To Know You

David Earl, disconcerting Kev on the small screen in Ricky Gervais’ TV series ‘Derek’, and Brian Gittins, intentionally shambolic compere, on the Sticky Mike’s stage.

Gittins’ surreal and seemingly structureless meanderings (delivered while wearing an animal snood; go figure) set the scene for what was to follow at this monthly mix of both old hands and newer have-a-gos. If you like your comedy more Mortimer than Monkhouse (The Bob Scale, if you will) then this night is for you. Even the heckles were head-scratchers, leaving performer as well as audience equally perplexed.

As always with comedy, but perhaps particularly so when it’s absurdist, you pays your money and you takes your chances.

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, 12 March 2015

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